Importance of Employee Relations in Influencing HR Decisions

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1 ..........................................................................................................................................3
P1 Purpose and functions of Human resource manager which are applicable for workforce
planning and resourcing in Marks and Spencer ....................................................................3
P2 Determine strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection.4
TASK 2...........................................................................................................................................7
Determine different benefits of human resource management practices for both employee and
employer in Marks and Spencer ...........................................................................................7
P4 Determine different human resource management practices for increasing organisational
profit and productivity...........................................................................................................8
TASK 3 ........................................................................................................................................10
P5 Determine importance of employee relations for influencing human resource decisions10
P6 Determine elements of employment legislation and impact on HRM decision- making11
TASK 4 ........................................................................................................................................12
P7 Determine application of Human resource management practise followed in workplace 12
CONCLUSION.............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is an important element, to determine manage and recruit
workforce management in the organisation. Human resource management deals with managing
the human capital in an organisation to achieve organisational goals and objectives. It is the role
of human resource manger to recruit talent candidates in an organisation. Human resource
manger recruits, hires and train the workforce to achieve work productivity. As human capital is
an important asset for the organisation so it becomes crucial workforce development. Human
resource manager performs different function to implement strategic plans and objectives set by
top level management. Marks and Spencer is an multinational retailer dealing in clothings, food
industry, banking services and develops in order to save electrical energy, capturing large share
of market with stores in 57 countries (Anderson, 2015). This report covers functions of human
resource management,strengths and weakness of different approaches to recruitment, benefit of
different human resource management practices, effectiveness of human resource management
practices to organisational profit, importance of employee relations in respect to influence HRM
decision, application of HRM practices
TASK 1
P1 Purpose and functions of Human resource manager which are applicable for workforce
planning and resourcing in Marks and Spencer
Human resource management involves different functions for coordination efforts of human
capital to achieve organisational objectives. Human resource management functions are carried
by human resource manger for recruiting, maintaining, developing the human workforce to carry
business functions. Human resource manager in Marks and Spencer performs different functions
to achieve organisational objectives (Bowen, 2016).
Purpose
The purpose of human resource management is to manage and coordinate the work
efficiencies of human workforce. Different purpose of human resource management in
workforce planning and resources are discussed below:
Employee recruitment: The major purpose of the human resource management is to retain
employee in the organisation. Retaining employee in the organisation is an important function.
Human resource manager in Marks and Spencer hires and recruits employee are highly skilled

and efficient to achieve the productivity at work. Human resource manger screens from the list
of different candidates and selects candidates that matches with the job profile (Bratton, J. ed.,
2020).
Positive working environment: Human resource management helps to promote positive
working environment in the organisation. It manages the workforce diversity in the organisation
to develop an sense of discipline and ethical working environment. Human resource manger in
Marks and Spencer maintains workplace environment to maintain positive working
environment.
Employee motivation: Human resource management promotes employee motivation to
achieve productivity and efficiency at work. Human resource manager renders different financial
and non financial incentive to the employees to encourage and motivate employee to achieve
work efficiencies.
Functions
Human resource management performs different functions of achieving organisational
objectives. Different functions of human resource management are stated below:
Staffing: Staffing is recruiting the right person for right job position. Human resource
management helps in staffing and retaining employees in the organisation. Staffing is an
important element to retain talented employees in the organisation. Marks and Spencer retains
highly skilled and efficient employees so achieve work efficiencies. It formulates strategic plans
and policies to achieve organisational objectives and the major functions of human resource
manager to implement to strategic plans and policies and assigns job roles to employees
(Bringezu and Bleischwitz, eds., 2017).
Training and development: To fulfil the standards of the job performance, human resource
manager in Marks and Spencer render training and development programmes to employee to
increase the productivity of employees. Training and development are given to new joinees,
employees assigned to new project, or to the employees who does not achieves the work
standards.
P2 Determine strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection
Recruitment
Recruitment is the process selecting and hiring the desired candidates whose skills and
knowledge matchers with the job requirements offered by the company. In marks and Spencer,