Functions and aim of Human resource management

Human Resource
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
A)Functions and aim of Human resource management.........................................................3
Strength and weaknesses of several recruitment and selection methods...............................5
B) The strengths and weakness of different approaches to selection.....................................6
C) Potential improvement:.....................................................................................................7
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................8
A) Person specification for role of receptionist......................................................................8
B) Advantages and disadvantages of current methods of advertising for jobs......................9
C) Recommendation to Chocolate Presence for advertising for receptionist vacancy........10
TASK 3 .........................................................................................................................................10
A) The benefits of different HRM practices for employee and employer...........................10
B) How Microsoft encourages its workers through the way it designs its job roles............12
Define the role of HRM practices in increasing the profitability and performance of the
business.................................................................................................................................13
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................14
A)Analyse the importance of employee relations in respect to influencing HRM decision
making..................................................................................................................................14
B) Key approaches to engaging workers as discussed in Summit and how to improve
communication in Microsoft................................................................................................15
C) Determine the key components of employment governance and its effect on decision
making of HRM....................................................................................................................15
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................18
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management plays a crucial part in any kind of organisation as it is
responsible for the growth of the business. The primary aim of HRM is manage people and the
workplace culture and environment. Besides this, in every kind of organisation HR do various
activities like recruitment, hiring, training, development programs and many others. Moreover,
HRM plays a vital role in maintaining the relationship employer and employees. It is necessary
for HR manager to recruit talented candidates in their organisation in order to enhance their
performance and become successful. According to the brief in this report, there are two
organisations will be taken which are “Chocolate Presence” and “Microsoft”. So through this
report, it will be understand that what is the goal and functions of HRM, strength and weakness
of different approaches to recruitment and selection, benefits of different HRM practices and
their effectiveness on the organisation. Moreover, how the employees relations and employees
legislation impact on the HRM decision making(Human Resource Management (HRM):
Definition & Functions. 2019).
TASK 1
A)Functions and aim of Human resource management
HRM in the organisation is liable for recruiting, hiring, positioning and training and
development of the workers employed in an organisation. Human resource department have vital
role in the organisation as it enables the employee's of the organisation to work towards aim of
the business in an effective way. Every firm has it on set of rules and regulation that are to be
followed by the workers so that the objectives of the organisation can be attained(Human
Resource Management. 2018). The manager of the company Chocolate presence has defined
different set of practices, quality of work and has also established a relationship between the
various departments of the firm in order to run their business. Some functions of human resource
departments are mentioned beneath :
Function of HRM:
Training and development – It is the most essential function for every organisation as it
involves providing guidance and training to the workers to improve their skills and capabilities to
perform the tasks(Training and Development. 2019). The manager of the Chocolate presence
must provides training and development sessions to their employee's on a daily basis so that it

would increase their skills and enhance their knowledge so that the working of the workers can
be enhanced in a proper manner(Cascio and Wayne 2015).
Recruitment and selection- This is the core function of HRM in which they are
focussing on hiring the most suitable candidates with the required amount of ability and
knowledge to perform the tasks. The HR manager of the Chocolate Presence must ensure that the
candidate which they have hired is highly skilled and is placed at right position in regard of
carrying a standard of work. The manager must focus on hiring the right person at right place on
right time.
Purpose :
Performance appraisal :The HR manager is accountable for determining the execution
of worker so that they can find the reasons behind the variances in performance gap in order to
bring required changes. The HR manager of chocolate presence must examine the executions of
employees regularly so that the employer will be able to identify the performance gap between
actual or anticipated and then correct those to better efficiency.
Law compliance : The manager of the organisation must consider all the rules and
regulation enforced by the government in order to obviate any judicial compliance. The HR
manager of the Chocolate presence must ensure that the company as well as workers are
performing all their operation considering all the rules and legislation so that they can avoid
faults.
Problems faced by the organisation and the role of HRM in resolving them :
Relationship with Employee's : This is the major problems which is faced by the
organisation due to which the relation between the employees and organisation has lead to
increased level of the conflicts so resolve this situation the business as considered the HR who
focuses more on the delegation of proper authority and responsibilities so that the employees in
the organisation feel free to perform their job activities.
Budgeting : This is the main problem which is faced by the organisation as allocation of
the budget in the business is the main concern if it is not done in a proper way the organisation
may undergo difficulties which can lead to the complexity in their working to resolve this the
department of HRM has been established which focuses on the allocation of the funds in such a
manner so that the business can perform their activity with the sufficient budget and resources.

Current problems and plans for future growth of Chocolate Presence
the business of chocolate presence is facing a problem of increased rate of labour
turnover due to their strict rules and regulation. This leads to increase rate of turnover as the
employees within the business does not works in a continuous manner they also needs the
environment where the familiarity is maintained.
The business suppose to have higher growth in the near future by enhancing and
increasing their methods of selection of the candidate. To grow in the near future the business
also decides to conduct test and interview very all the question are related to the job and proper
training and development to the staff will also increase the future position of the business.
Strength and weaknesses of several recruitment and selection methods.
These factors plays a vital role in organisation as these factors enables the organisation to
hire the most suitable candidate with required skills and abilities for the works so that the desired
outcomes of the organisation can be achieved in most significant manner. Recruitment and
selection process in the organisation is answerable for the employment of workers in the
association(The Importance of Training and Development in the Workplace. 2019).
Recruitment : The process of recruitment is concerned with inviting the applicants to apply for
the job with the skills and knowledge which have be enlisted with the help of advertising about
the particular job(Armstrong and Taylor, 2014). This procedure yield to situate originative
promotion for empty place that promote latent campaigner to go for job in the organisation.
There are various recruitment approaches such as :
Internal Recruitment- It is the process of recruiting the candidates within the
organisation rather then recruiting the outside talent. This process of recruitment will help the
chocolate presence in hiring the existing talents within the firm who are aware of the working
procedure of the organisation and would reduce their cost of training and development of new
talents. Some capability and imperfections of this approach are :
Strength Weaknesses
 Internal approach will help the firm in
boosting the morale of existing
employee's and will also help in
reducing the cost of hiring new talents.
 This approach limit and restrict the
process of polling a fresh talent into a
business and also provides less job
suitability.

External recruitment- It is the process considered to be the essential one as it involves
hiring of new and fresh talent from outside the organisation with the help of putting
advertisements about the vacant position available within the business (DeCenzo, Robbins, and
Verhulst, 2016). This process also focuses on conducting special research for appointing the
fresh talents. It also consist of some strength and weaknesses :
Strength Weaknesses
 The strength of this recruitment method
is that it which allow new blood to join
the organisation with new skills and
knowledge.
 External recruitment is one which
consumes more time and cost and also
have high employee turnover rate.
B) The strengths and weakness of different approaches to selection.
Selection is refers to as the process of selecting the most suitable candidates on the basis
of their skills and knowledge required to perform the particular job. To select the candidate there
are number of selection methods which can be adopted by the company(Albrecht and et. al.,
2015). in this the candidate are selected on the basis of different different criteria which have
been fixed by the human resource of the company. This process plays a crucial role in the
business as this involves selecting of the candidate who would perform in the business and will
lead the firm to the higher level. Following are the methods of selection used within the business
of Chocolate presence:
Interview: this methods is done between the interviewer and the interviewee where the
interviewer ask a series of question to the candidate sitting in front of him. Face to face
conversation is done within this interview method. This method is utilise by the company of the
Chocolate presence in an informal manner where the chat is done for at least 10 to 15 minutes.
Strengths
 In this the easy evaluation about one's knowledge based on his skills can be determined.
 The vacant position is fulfilled in a successful manner as the question are not
unnecessary all the question are based as per the requirement of the job only.