Human Resource Management: Functions, Purpose, and Practices at British Airways

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

INTRODUCTION
• The concept of human resource management is referred to as the
highly effective procedure to manage the company's staff properly
associated with the business. Each global operating company operates
with an experienced human resource officer who is responsible for
conducting the organizational operations properly. The present part of
the report would include the main functions as well as the purpose of
the human resource department within the boundaries of an
organisation.

Purpose and function of HRM
 Human resource management is denoted as the backbone of every
business company. The function assists in companies through
furnishing each resource that all are needed for the smooth running of
organizational activities. The main aim behind the hiring of a human
resource officer is that his major responsibility is to enhance the
performance of businesses to achieve their goal expectedly. There are
different main functions of HRM that are highly essential to have the
effective planning of a company's workforce .

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 The purpose of HRM which apply to the workforce planning at British
Airways are mentioned below:
 The major purpose of HRM is to manage the company's staff in an
effective way which ultimately contributes to the flawless operations of
a company.
 The department of HRM also aims at practising effective planning that
leads to the development of strong decisions. The planning is related to
the successful maintenance of healthy employee relations as well as the
successful attainment of organizational goals at British Airways.

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 The different functions of human resource management at British Airways are listed below:
 Recruitment & selection: Recruitment denotes the most essential task which a department of human
resource functions so to have sound personnel within the organisation
 Training & Development: It is very important to train the workforce and develop their skills
effectively from time to time so that can work according to the market demand.
 Maintaining workforce relationships: Developing and maintaining the proper relations among the
workforce staff of the company is extremely important to have a healthy working condition.

Functions of HRM in providing skills and
talent
 Talent and skills is an important matter of concern by the HRM to have
effective performance in an organisation like British Airways. Skills assists
department to treat their workforce as the highest valuable assets to them &
they feel connected with the business as well. On the other hand, the aspect of
talent is fully different from that of skills where the employees are targeted to
attain the targets successfully with higher profits. In companies like British
Airways, the highest important thing is skills that improve their market
recognition & attainment of competitive advantage for organisational
sustainability as well as growth.