Benefits of HRM Practices for Ella's Kitchen

This article discusses the benefits of different HRM practices within Ella's Kitchen for both the employer and employee. It explores how HRM practices can raise profit and productivity.

Human Resource
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................1
P1: Explain the purpose and the functions of HRM, applicable to functions workforce
planning and resourcing at Ella's Kitchen...................................................................................1
P2. Explain the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection
for the chosen organization.........................................................................................................3
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................6
P3. Explain the benefits of different HRM practices within the organization chosen of your
choice for both the employer and employee...............................................................................6
P4: Evaluate the effectiveness of different HRM practices in terms of raising Ella's Kitchen
profit and productivity................................................................................................................7
Task 3...............................................................................................................................................8
P5. Analyse the importance of employee relations with respect to influencing HRM decision
making for the chosen organization............................................................................................8
P6. Identify the key elements of employment legislation and the impact it has upon HRM
decision making for the chosen organization..............................................................................9
Task 4.............................................................................................................................................10
P7: Illustrate the application of HRM practices in a work-related context,using specific
examples....................................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
People working in an organisation are regarded as the valuable resource this is because it
is the people whose efforts helps a company to achieve their target and goals. So every
organisation wants to maximise and utilise their efforts. Therefore, human resource management
in an organisation has function to manage and arrange employees to achieve strategical business
goals. Ella's kitchen is retail company that manufacture and supply organic baby product in
various supermarket. In order to recruit and retain the talent, HR manager need to formulate
HRM practices (Macke, and Genari, 2019). Therefore, following report is focus on the function
of the HRM and its scope in context to chosen organisation. Moreover, report also highlights the
key benefits of HRM practices for both employee and Ella's Kitchen. It has been found there are
certain labour law that a HR manager need to be noted while taking any decision.
Task 1
P1: Explain the purpose and the functions of HRM, applicable to functions workforce planning
and resourcing at Ella's Kitchen
Ella's kitchen is the leading manufacture and supplier of the organic baby product in the
various international supermarket. In recent phase of time Ella's Kitchen is flourishing as the
healthiest baby product brand around the world. Despite employing only 62 employees they are
doing tremendous job just because of their HRM practices. Human resource management in a
organisation tends to manage and control the human activity so that maximum output can be
seized.
Purpose of HRM at Ella's Kitchen
The main aim of adopting HRM practices in organisation to similitude employees action
in accordance to the strategical goals of the employer. HRM practices assist Ella's Kitchen in
exchanging information and policies to the new employees and the primary purpose of HRM at
Ella's Kitchen is to make sure they have adequate task fore for manufacturing organic baby.
Moreover, Human resource management actions are ideal method to construct employee
satisfaction.
Function of Human resource at Ella's Kitchen
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Human resource personnel at Ella's Kitchen perform managerial and operational duty for
accomplishing the set goals. Following are the some crucial functions that HR personnel of Ella's
kitchen perform in their routine working-
 At Ella's kitchen, recruitment & selection of employees are the primary functions of HR
manager because it is the duty of HR manager to provide adequate workforce for smooth
organisational working (Carnevale, and Hatak, 2020).
 At Ella's Kitchen, new joined employee should be trained in the direction of the human
resource, thus it is responsibilities of the HR department to build every skills and give
knowledge that will help the new hire to counter the future challenges.
 In day to day business decisions, HRM department is obliged to merge and appreciate the
different employment legislations so that business operations can achieve sustainability in
functioning.
 It is primary duty of the HR department to frame compensation and reward system.
Employees working in organisation are looking for a handsome salary; hence, a sound
compensation system could be used as acquisition and retention strategy of the HR
function. An organisation that has firm relationship with their employees tends to achieve more
effective performance; thus, it is responsibility of HR department to work on the
physical, social and mental and behavioural delineate of the employee to build a strong
bonding with employees (Ren, Tang and Jackson, 2018).
(Source- Functions of HRM, 2018)
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Illustration 1: Functions of HRM. 2018

Workforce Planning and Resources applicable to Ella's Kitchen
Workplace planning is all about analysing, predicting and planning of the workforce
demand and supply and inclined talent management practices in HRM operations so that
organisation can ensure that they have right working people. In context of Ella's Kitchen,
workforce planning can be done by examining the type of labour market which organisation can
adopt to meet supply and demand of the desired workforce (Boon and et. al., 2018). In context of
Ella's kitchen, labour market is divided into two types i.e. internal and external labour market.
Internal labour market is an ideal choice for the workforce planning. In internal labour market,
job gap is filled by promoting and transferring existing employee to a higher position.
Scope of HRM practices at Ella's Kitchen
In respect of Ella's Kitchen they have wide range of scope of the HRM practices. Scope
of the HRM illuminates the activities that comes in the HR department functioning. Following
are the scope of HRM at Ella's Kitchen-
 Human resource planning by using the best fit, which a contingencies approach strategies
of the management to counterpart the actions of the human resource in accordance to the
organisational circumstances.
 Hard & soft management approaches helps in effectively management of people working
at the Ella's kitchen. In hard HRM, manager adopt traditional HRM practices which focus
on hiring the workforce when needed and manage the force as a manager want. While
soft HRM is regarded as giving more value to employees and treat them as vital resource
of Ella's Kitchen (Chams and García-Blandón, 2019).
P2. Explain the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection for
the chosen organization.
As a developing company,Ella's Kitchen need an adequate number of people whose
contribution can help Ella's Kitchen to attain desired goals.
Recruitment
Recruitment process is an elementary process begins with identification of the vacant job
to inspiring the potential candidate to apply for the present and forecasted job opening. Thus,
Ella's Kitchen use both internal and external approach of the recruitment to hire the right
candidate.
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 Internal recruitment
Internal recruitment is an approach, where HR manager look for internal labour market to
fill up the vacant job. Internal recruitment can be done by recruiting the existing employees.
 Promotion – It is an uphold process of recruitment in which existing employee is
promoted to higher position to fill the higher vacant job. Promotion are based on
individual performance, skills, knowledge and work experience (Zaid, Jaaron and Bon,
2018).
 Transfer – Transfer is an approach that changes the job assignment and department.
Transfer is a ideal choice to fill the vacant job quickly.
Strength of internal recruitment
 It has been found that an employee who is hired with internal approach is more
successful throughout the Ella's kitchen journey.
 Internal recruiting provide ease to HR manger of Ella's Kitchen to fill up the job quickly
and in less time without incurring much money in hiring. Internal recruiting support Ella's kitchen to retain their prospective talented employees by
ensuring them future growth and development, thus internal recruitment can be seen as
HR strategy for employee retention (Choi, 2019).
Weakness of internal recruitment
 However, many critics argued that internal approach can demotivate the peer employees
when they are not promoted despite putting same efforts, hence chances of conflict Internal recruiting restricted the Ella's opportunity to hire the latent, fresh and creative
candidate.
 External recruitment
External recruitment is an approach in which HR personnel of Ella's kitchen look for
external labour market or invite outsider applicant to fill up the vacant vacancy. Ways to recruit
a candidate for Ella's Kitchen are-
 Job fair- In job fair, mass number of eligible candidate gather to grab job
opportunity. Job fairs support Ella's Kitchen to acquire the quality candidate with
adequate skills.
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 Walk-in applicant- Ella's kitchen can make use of the print and social media to invite
many interested for direct walking to fill the job quickly. One of the benefit of walk-in
applicant is interpersonal selection of a candidate.
Strength of external recruitment
 External recruiting approach fascinates Ella's kitchen to introduce new face, new ideas
and young and enthusiasm employee.
 Through external recruiting, Ella's Kitchen can ensure huge availability of the eligible
candidates.
Weakness of external recruitment
 For external approach, Ella's Kitchen need to invest lot of time and money. The huge draw back of this approach is enlisting an unskilled employee over a skilled
and productive employee (Tang and et.al, 2018).
Selection process
Selection is an elimination or sorting process in which candidate are being accessed,
screened and evaluated in respect to the job specification and requirement. Selection of candidate
can be done by-
 Interview: An interview is structured conversation among the interviewer and
interviewee. In interview, interview with set question try to access the behavioural,
cognitive, personality approach of the candidate.
 Event hiring- in event hiring, on the job selection is meant and offer letter also provided
on the same time.
Strength of Selection method
 Selection method help Ella's Kitchen HR manager to obtain supplementary information
about the candidate.
 Selection method helps to screen out the right potential talent that suit the job profile
from equally qualified candidate.
Weakness of Selection method
 The foremost draw back of selection method is bias in selecting potential candidate over
an unskilled and wrong candidate.
 However, critics argue that Ella's Kitchen depends on the subjective evaluation in
selection of candidate (Cooke, 2018). (Gill, 2018).
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Task 2
P3. Explain the benefits of different HRM practices within the organization chosen of your
choice for both the employer and employee.
Successful HRM practice is being associated with numerous benefits not only to Ella's
Kitchen, but are also beneficial to employees.
Benefits to Ella's Kitchen
Human resource is consider to be an vital resource of a firm,in case of shortage of desired
working people, organisational operations could hamper. So, Recruitment and selection process
supports Ella's Kitchen to have a sufficient task force to operate daily operations. More the
number of working people there are more chances of rise in production and profitability (Shen
and Zhang, 2019).
Training to employees can be termed as the strategical HR decision for making best use
of the employee to get more organisational output. Training & development plan of the Ella's
Kitchen also provide them benefits in form of employee loyalty and a source of motivation for
the future growth. Although, it has been found that Training & development can also be used as
retention strategy of the talent management department.
Flexibility in working tends to deliver happy faces at the workplace, workplace flexibility
provide more job satisfaction to employees and this will raise the standard of organisational
performance. In order to build a flexible organisational structure, Ella's kitchen can opt for the
Handy flexible organisation structure in which Ella's Kitchen drop out the hierarchical structure
which control the activity of the people (Järlström, Saru and Vanhala, 2018). Moreover, effective
HRM practices support the Ella's Kitchen to control and reduce the employee turnover ratio.
Reward strategy can be used as a leading factor for reducing the employee turnover ratio.
Benefits to employees
HRM practices revolves around the people working at the Ella's Kitchen. Internal
recruitment helps the employee to adopt performance adaptability in order to get to the higher
position only because of their performance and contribution to Ella's Kitchen goals. Tlalent
management department of the HRM provides training, knowledge, skills and development plan
that help an individual to ensure its personal and professional growth while working at the Ella's
Kitchen. When a employee have all essential skills and knowledge, their standard of
performance is increase and they are heading to one step closer to get reward for their
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outstanding contribution. Handy Workplace flexibility provide balance to personal and
professional life of the employee, hence flexibility in working gives more job satisfaction to
employee.
P4: Evaluate the effectiveness of different HRM practices in terms of raising Ella's Kitchen profit
and productivity
Human resource at the Ella's Kitchen centred to sustain a better relationship between
employee and the firm. The power connection among the employee and organisation because of
different HRM practices tends to increase profit margin and standard of the performance in
following manner-
Effectiveness of HRM practice for raising profit of Ella's Kitchen
HRM practices are being inclined with utilisation of the people working at the Ella's
Kitchen, when HR manager have proper control of the every human resource efforts, this would
support them to reach their goals efficiently by earning more profit. Although, it is the people
who run a business, when Ella's Kitchen have sufficient number of working people, the margin
of profit ultimately raise. Recruitment help Ella's Kitchen to acquire fresh idea into the firm to
gain better organisational output (Kim and et.al, 2019). Training helps a employee to have all
essentials skills that would help an individual to counter future channel, hence business slowly
eliminating the future profit earning barriers. It has been found that effective HRM practices
tends to reduce the employee turnover ratio. Hence, when employee turnover ratio are low, there
is no need for Ella's Kitchen for incurring cost in hiring and training of the new candidate.
Workplace flexibility give more job satisfaction to employee, hence this approach helps to raise
profitability as a satisfied employee work with more loyalty and dignity to achieve set business
goals.
Effectiveness of HRM practices for raising productivity of Ella's Kitchen
HRM practices are used in context of Ella's Kitchen to maximise the productivity of the
firm. When Ella's Kitchen recruit or promote a latent and skilled candidate they would try to put
their best to fix their position in the firm. Moreover, training the employee is like nourishing the
productivity of the employees because an employee with all necessary skills can be fruitful or
deliver more result from their performance. HRM practices and its influence over the employee
turnover ratio also affect the business performance because high labour turnover ratio means
firm losing its experienced and talented employee (Macke and Genari, 2019). Workplace
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flexibility provide creativity and employees seek new measures to expands their performance.
Reward and performance are interlinked termed because higher the degree of reward and
motivation would result in rise of the employees performance.
Task 3
P5. Analyse the importance of employee relations with respect to influencing HRM decision
making for the chosen organization.
Employee relations
Employee relation is considered to be as a vital instrument to improve the employees
performance at the Ella's Kitchen. This is because a sound employee and employer relationship
can ensure smooth organisational goals accomplishment (Saeed and et.al, 2019). Thus, Ella's
Kitchen focused on the maintaining healthy employee relationship for enjoying many benefits
like more employee commitment and ideal source for motivating the taskforce easily. It has been
argued that sound employee relationship is subjected to the productivity and profitably prospect
also. Below are some important strategies used by the Ella's Kitchen for improving employee
relations and engagement are-
 Improve communication
Ella's Kitchen can ensure utmost employee engagement by active participation of an
employee in decision-making process. Moreover, effective communication can be ideal tool for
more employee engagement (Meyers and et. al, 2020). A clear and improved communication
system can ensure strong bond among the employee and employer. Ella's Kitchen should focus
on the open communication system that support an employee to present their thought, grievance,
idea. Improved communication system can be a ideal tool for Ella's Kitchen to ensure their
employees feel valuable.
 Offer career development opportunities
It has been ascertained that an organisation that focus on the employee engagement will
ended up as building motivating workforce with an essence of strong bonding. In context of
Ella's Kitchen, it must ensure career development opportunities for its employee with a purpose
to driving forces like motivation, employee engagement, relationship and retention of the
employees.
 Encourage healthy life balance-
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Studies shows that a company that has flexible working tends to have more happier
working people, workplace flexibility furnish a balance between personal and professional life.
Therefore, Ella's Kitchen should focus on on flexible working culture to deliver a healthy life
balance to employees. This approach can help to maintain healthy relationship with employees
(Nalla and Varalaxmi, 2018).
 Trade Union
Trade union at Ella's kitchen are also important factor in establishing sound relationship
with employees. Moreover, trade union also influence HRM decision making in may ways.
Trade union are a party or representative of the work whose role is to safe guards employees
rights. Trade union also raise voice on the behalf of a victim worker. Trade union are the worker
representative for Ella's Kitchen; therefore, for nourishing good employee relationship Ella's
Kitchen first need to maintain a healthy relationship with trade union for avoiding operations
disruptive situation (Robinson, 2018).
P6. Identify the key elements of employment legislation and the impact it has upon HRM
decision making for the chosen organization.
Employee legislation, laws, guidelines and regulations are various norms enacted by the
Government of UK to safeguard right of an individual working at Ella's Kitchen. Employee
legislations have dramatically impact on employee relation and performance thus, these
guidelines often influece HR manager decision making in many ways. Following are some
obligatory Employee legislations that HR manger should inclined-
 The Equal Pay Act
The equality act in compensation is one of the enormous guidelines in the employee
legislating enforced by the parliament of UK for protecting a worker from earning under wage
for their employment. Under this law Ella's Kitchen is responsible to pay equal wages to a same
level worker. It will be contraband if they make distinguish on pay-off based on the gender and
age (Papa and et.al, 2018).
 Data Protection Act
Data Protection Act enacted by the Government of UK for protecting the personal
information of the employees from getting unethically misused. In the shadow of this law Ella's
kitchen is legally restricted to not reveal the personal information of any employee to any third
party except the government bodies of UK.
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 Health & safety at the work Act of 1974
Under this law, Ella's Kitchen should ensure the good health of the employee. A healthy
and safe working environment tends to deliver more job satisfaction to employee. Moreover
under this act, Ella's kitchen is liable to give safety training to its to avoid any organisational
accidents. Moreover, HR personnel decision over the safety and healthy working environment
affect the employee relations also.
 Employment contract & Dismissal
employment contract is a type of contract in labour law where both employer and
employee give their consent over the duty and right. In context to Ella's Kitchen, both employee
and the firm can terminate the job. But there must be warning or preliminary information about
termination of job before a week or months (Reina and Scarozza, 2021).
Task 4
P7: Illustrate the application of HRM practices in a work-related context,using specific examples
Job specification of assistant HR manager at Ella's Kitchen
Job Specification
Essential Skills
 A candidate should should competed their masters in the Human Resource Management
 At least 4 Years work experience in HRM role in a Food manufacturing firm Understanding about the payroll and employee compensation system.
Desired Skills
 Candidate should be handsome, smart and between the age of 24-28.
 Must have good communication and written skills.
CV of the student for the post of the assistant HR manager at Ella's Kitchen
Curriculum Vitae
MR. X
Contact No.- 8448****
Email ID- [e-mail]
Academic qualification
 Graduation In BBA from the LMN University.
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 Masters in MBA in the HRM specification from QWE University
Work Experience
 Work as the part time HR executive at the XYZ Ltd company for 2 years.
 Working as the full time Assistant HR manager at PQR company (Since 2019-till now)
Objective
Young and energetic man with having all the essentials skills of the HRM practices in pocket
looking for opportunity to prove as the asset for a company by using prior past experience.
Skills
 Knowledge of human resource management system software
 Communication and written skills
Hobbies
 Listening music
Preparatory notes for the interview
For screening of the best candidate from the pool, HR manager of the Ella's kitchen need
to prepare interview notes for the interview. Below are some interview questions prepared for the
interview.
Q1. How do you manage conflict at the workplace
Q2. What type of management style you have used in your last organisation and did you
learn a new management style
Interview selection criteria adopted by the HR head of Ella's Kitchen for selecting the
candidate
For identification of the best latent talent candidate from the numerous applicant , HR
head use the following criteria to make judgement for candidate selection.
 Level of education of the applicant must be MBA in HRM
 Must have 4 years of work experience in HRM, given more priority to one who has
experience in food manufacturing industry.
 Having sound communication skills
 knowledge about how to use HRMS software
 Pleasant and young personality
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The above following criteria are used to pick out suitable candidate for the post of HR
assistant manager.
After selection an offer letter is being given to a selected candidate.
Offer letter
Ella's Kitchen Pvt. Ltd.
Leeds, UK
dear LMN,
We are grateful to inform you that you are being so impressive in the interview and we are
happy to found you for the post of HR Assistant Manager for full time. We would like to
appreciate if you join us by 1 March. Please attached your soft copies of the respective
document and also bring hard copy at the time of joining for cross verification.
Thanks!
Regards,
HR Manager
Evaluation of the process
The above mentioned process can be effective for Ella's Kitchen to fill the position of
Assistant HR manager. Moreover, it has found that framed recruitment & selection method also
reducing more cost because Ella's kitchen is using social media platform for attracting interested
applicant which is cheap and faster than other means of source. The selection process can also be
effective if HR head select candidate by taking behavioural, personality and rational test or a
type of simulation game to improve the recruitment and selection life-cycle.
CONCLUSION
As per above discussion it has been found that people working in a organisation is
consider to lifeblood of a firm and their utilisation, acquisition and retention is necessary so
HRM function helps management of the people. It has been analysed that HRM practices in an
organisation leverage equally benefits to both employer and employee and HRM practices also
helps in building sound relationship with the employees. It has been observed that there are
certain employment legislation that could influence HR manger decision making process on
daily basis.
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