Human Resource Management - Chocolate Presence Assignment

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT.......................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK1.............................................................................................................................................3
a. Purpose of HR functions and its importance to the organisation.......................................3
b. Strength and weakness of current selection methods.........................................................5
c. Evaluation of two potential improvements for chocolate presence....................................6
TASK2.............................................................................................................................................6
a. Person specification for the role.........................................................................................6
b. Advantages and disadvantages of current methods of advertising.....................................9
c. Recommendation for job vacancy advertisements...........................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
TASK3...........................................................................................................................................11
a. Benefits of graduates training schemes and internship to both organisation and employees
..............................................................................................................................................11
b. Flexible Working arrangements and their benefits .........................................................12
c. Evaluation of Motivation theories for workforce.............................................................12
TASK4...........................................................................................................................................14
a. Employee engagement and its link with employee relation in Microsoft........................14
b. Evaluation of key approaches to engage workers and the manner it improves
communication at the workplace..........................................................................................14
c. Important aspects of UK employment legislations...........................................................15
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................16
REFERENCE.................................................................................................................................17

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is the act of recruitment, selection, training, compensation,
performance appraisal, etc. to the people working in the organisation (Moutinho and Vargas-
Sanchez, 2018). The HR department of the organisation plays a vital role in enhancing the
development of the employee performance by identifying and satisfying their needs and
demands. In this report, organisation which is to be considered is Chocolate Presence, that
operates business at small level. This company is expanding its business operations in North
Yorkshire that renders the customised and tailor made chocolates as per the requirements of the
customers. This report will explain the purpose and function of HRM and the different HRM
practices which can be applied in the work related context. Along with this, to engage workers
and improve communication at workplace, a number of approaches are highlighted. Furthermore,
some important aspects of employment legislations of UK are also elaborated.
TASK1
a. Purpose of HR functions and its importance to the organisation.
Human resource management considered as an important function of an organisation,
which handles all the aspect related to workforce planning, employee engagement, development
of skills and knowledge of workers and more (Omotayo, 2015). This function is related with
proper recruitment, training and management of manpower in an organisation. It is the
responsibility of HRM department to provide timely and relevant guidelines for better
performance of workforce. It also includes providing a motivated and safe environment to
employees to improve their work performance. For better efficiency of workforce every
organisation has to perform HR function, irrespective of its size or sector. Even medium or
small size organisation like Chocolate presence (a niche company focusing on a particular
product), are needed to perform HR function to improve the quality of their workforce which
will ultimately results in better quality product and increases sales quantum and profitability of
organisation. HRM perform a large number of functions which can be categorised as operative
(related with operation like recruitment and selection, training, etc.), managerial (like planning,
organising, etc.) and advisory (advice to top management or departmental head).

Main functions and purpose of HRM :
Planning
This function includes anticipating or determining the hiring need of organisation and
proper description or planning about the sources of recruitment to meet the current and future
requirement of hiring new employees for organisation (Paillé and. et. al., 2014). The main
purpose of planning function for Chocolate presence is to provide quality and skilled employees
which are considered as most valuable asset for an organisation. Proper planning avoids shortage
and surplus of workforce i.e. providing a balance between demand and supply of employees and
helps in achieving timely goals. The present company is going to make use of proper planning as
by providing timely incentives and number of benefits to workers, for motivating them to do best
output for enhancement of customer experience. Hence, such planning reduce the risk of
uncertainty and employee have improved their efficiency.
Recruitment and selection
It is one of the most important function on which the quality of employee or workforce
depends. This include attracting, screening and selecting most suitable and qualified individual
for a particular job. Main purpose of recruitment and selection process in Chocolate presence is
to attract the qualified applicants and to reduce cost of employing an incompetent or unquantified
employee (Omotayo, 2015). Management of present company can make changes regarding with
the hiring process like giving equal employment to candidates, by ensuring that any type of bias
could not occur. This would provide opportunities to eligible candidates to work in this company
and give more contribution in enhancement of business growth.
Reward
This function includes rewarding an employee for their efficient work. Reward not only
includes salary but it also includes other incentives in form of growth opportunities, status,
recomposition and a well satisfying work conditions or atmosphere. In Chocolate presence, the
main purpose of reward function is to motivate their employees to work with more efficiency for
timely achievement of goals.
Performance management
This function include timely performance analysis or review, conducted by manager or
head to review the performance or effectiveness of an employee (Ployhart and. et. al., 2014).