Human Resource Management : Solved Assignment

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Purpose and Scope of Human Resource Management ..........................................................1
P2 Strengths and weaknesses of recruitment and selection approaches......................................2
M1 Functions of HRM provide talent to fulfil business objectives.............................................3
M2: Strengths and weaknesses of approaches to recruitment and selection...............................4
D1: Critical evaluation of strengths and weaknesses of approaches to recruitment and selection
......................................................................................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
P3: Effectiveness of key elements of Human Resource Management........................................4
P4 Effectiveness of different HRM practices in terms of raising organisational profit and
productivity..................................................................................................................................6
M3: Methods used in HRM practices..........................................................................................7
D2: Critical evaluation of HRM practices...................................................................................7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
P5 Importance of Employee Relations........................................................................................7
P 6 Key elements of employment legislation and its impact on HRM decision-making ...........8
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................8
P7. HRM practices in work- related context................................................................................8
(a): Job specification....................................................................................................................8
(b): CV.......................................................................................................................................10
(c): Notes for Interview .............................................................................................................11
(d): Offer letter...........................................................................................................................11
M4: Key aspects of employee relations and employment legislation........................................12
D3: Critical evaluation of employee relations and application of HRM practices....................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Human Resource Management (HRM) is a process of management of the employees
working in an organization. The process involves recruiting, hiring, deploying and managing the
employees. The human resource department make policies, implement and oversee them. The
HR manager has responsibilities of staffing, employee compensation/benefits and assigning
work. The chosen company in this report is ASOS, which is located in London, UK. ASOS is an
online fashion and cosmetic retailer. It has 850 brands in clothing and accessories segment and
delivers its products over 200 countries (Alfes and et. al., 2013). This report covers purpose and
scope, key elements, external and internal factors and practices in HRM. It consists of various
HRM practices that are used within an organisation are covered in the report.
TASK 1
P1 Purpose and Scope of Human Resource Management
Human resources planning: It is a process of identification of the job position vacant in
the office, to determine whether company has excess staff or shortage of staff, planning to deal
with excess or shortage problems. There is various purpose which are mentioned below:
Job analysis design: The analysis is done to know details about every jobs in the
company. This helps the company in determining the requirement of jobs and assessing the job
of existing employees.
Recruitment and selection: After determining the jobs requirement, the company gives
advertisement in the newspapers and on various sites inviting the candidates to apply. The
company then receive applications, conduct interviews and recruit the suitable candidate for the
job (Armstrong and Taylor, 2014).
Workforce planning: It is said to be continual process that can be used to align the
requirement and priorities of an organisation with those of their employee to ensure it can meet
their rules and regulation more effectively within an organisation.
Orientation and induction: The company conduct an induction program for the selected
candidates in order to provide them the information about background of the company,
organizational culture, code of conduct etc.
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