Human Resource Management

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK1.............................................................................................................................................1
The purposes and functions of HRM which are applied in planning and recruiting workforce 1
Examine different approaches of recruitment and selection and its strengths and weaknesses..3
TASK2 ............................................................................................................................................4
Benefits provided to employer and employee by different HRM practices...........................4
Analyse HRM practices to increase profits and productivity of organisation with its
effectiveness...........................................................................................................................6
TASK3.............................................................................................................................................7
Importance of relationships with employee in influencing HRM decision-making..............7
Examine crucial elements of legislation for employee and its impact on HRM decision-
making....................................................................................................................................8
TASK4...........................................................................................................................................10
Using relevant examples, explain application of HRM practices in context of organisation10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management (HRM) is process that involves recruiting, selection,
orientation, training and development, managing salaries or wages, motivating employees, etc.
As a department in business it manages all factors related to employee and is important to ensure
that organisational objectives are achieved. These are 'Chocolate Presence and Microsoft'
organisation which will be studied in this report. The purpose and functions of HRM which are
applicable to staff planning and selection of best candidate for organisation will be studied.
There are different approaches of recruitment and selection that have respective strengths and
weaknesses will also be included (Lu and et.al., 2015). Benefits of HRM practises for employer
and employee both and its effectiveness to increase profits and productivity of organisation.
Importance and impact of employee relations, employee legislation in influencing HRM
decisions. With the help of example, application of HRM practices related to work context in
organisation will be examine.
TASK1
The purposes and functions of HRM which are applied in planning and recruiting workforce
Human Resource Management is practice of recruitment, selection, development and
management of employee in organisation. HR department of any company is responsible for
planning and executing efforts to maintain relationship and policies for employee to achieve
organisational objectives (Albrecht and et. al., 2015).
Purpose of HRM: It is to manage various needs of employee from financial assistance
such as issues on the basis of salaries, reward and bonuses to matters related to legal affairs. Its
main purpose is to achieve organisational objectives by increasing productivity of workforce.
Other purposes of Chocolate Presence HRM which are applied in recruitment and selection
process:
Staffing Needs: HRM are mainly known for recruiting employees to fulfil staffing needs
of organisation. This includes identifying job duties and specifications to determine skills and
knowledge required to fill positions. This will ensures selection of a multitalented candidate for
Chocolate Presence who works with motivation to improve productivity of organisation (Bratton
and Gold, 2017).
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Benefits Programs: Developing and implementing programs which provides training and
development benefits to employee is great method of retention and improving productivity.
HRM of Chocolate Presence ensures that proper research is conducted before organising such
programs so that it will assist organisation to increase workforce of skilled labour and achieve
organisational objectives.
Functions of HRM: It includes all functions related to pre-employment and during
employment which are responsibility of Chocolate Presence HRM. Different functions of HRM
which relates to recruitment and selection process:
Employee recruitment, selection and orientation: It is basic function of HRM which
purpose is to bring pool of candidates and help organisation to select skilled personnel.
Chocolate Presence HRM ensures that selected candidate is provided proper orientation so that
there is no confusion related to duties and responsibilities plus it's important to achieve
organisational objectives (Collings, Wood, and Szamosi, 2018).
Performance Management: Monitoring and analysing employee performance is one of
the function of HRM. Its main purpose is to ensures criteria to record performance of employees
to analyse and give proper training to reduce gaps in efficiency. It is important to find out
effectiveness of training and development programs so that organisational objectives can be
achieved.
Training and development: It is duty of Chocolate Presence's HRM to provide training to
every employee of organisation and ensures development in respective areas. Purpose is to
acquire new skills and knowledge to perform job effectively and efficiently. It is important for
organisation because provide skills to work with full productivity to achieve objectives. It also
prepare employ for higher positions in hierarchical level which serves as career planning.
Helmreich and Merritt, 2017)
Compensation and Benefits: This functions is to determine adequate and equal
competitive salary packages to every employee and provide monetary or non-monetary perks. It
is importance for Chocolate Presence because it motivate staff to put efforts to achieve
organisational objectives and retain employees. It also attract skilled candidates in recruitment
and selection process to assist HRM in its functions.
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