Human Resource Management - Tesco Assignment

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1 ...........................................................................................................................................1
P1 The purpose and functions of HRM applicable to workforce planning and resourcing. . 1
P2 The strength and weakness of different approaches to recruitment and selection. ..........3
TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................5
Covered in booklet.................................................................................................................5
TASK 3 ...........................................................................................................................................5
P5 Analyse the importance of employee relation in respect to influencing HRM decision-
making....................................................................................................................................5
P6 The key elements of employment legislation and the impact it has upon HRM decision-
making....................................................................................................................................6
TASK 4 ...........................................................................................................................................7
P7 The application of HRM practices in the work-related context........................................7
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Human-Resource management is concerned with making plans for managing the
workforce working in a company. It is related with making necessary changes in the functions of
the organisation, so that goals of the firm are achieved in systematic manner. Major purpose of
the human resource management is to increase the performance of the workforce and appraise
them for the better work done. This will help in the achievement of organisational and individual
goals in the best possible manner. Organisation chosen for this report is TESCO which is the
multinational groceries retailer. Its headquarter is located in United Kingdom (Bagenstos, 2013).
The topics which will be covered in this report are aim and role of human-resource management,
strength and weaknesses of various approaches of recruitment and selection. Benefits of different
HRM practices, importance of employee relation and the application of human-resource
management practices in the organisation.
TASK 1
P1 The purpose and functions of HRM applicable to workforce planning and resourcing.
Human Resource management is concerned with managing the individuals working in
the organisation. This is generally done by training and motivating the employees, so that short
term goals are achieved in appropriate manner. One of the major function of HRM is to render
training to the workforce for increasing their performance. It is essential for the Human-Resource
manager of TESCO to evaluate and analyse the need of its workforce, in order to achieve the
competitive advantage. The workforce of the firm are provided training programmes so that their
overall efficiency is increased. The motive of the organisation is to fulfill the needs and demands
of its expected customer's (Belbin, 2012. This can only be done by encouraging and training the
employees in the systematic manner. The major functions of human-resource management are
discussed below-
Functions of Human-Resource management
Training and development- This method is generally used to improve the current set
of skills of the employees working in the organisation. The major motive behind this is to
increase their performance. With the help of various training programmes employee of TESCO
will be able to improve their skills and knowledge in the best possible manner. As their practical
knowledge will be increased and they will be able to give better output in the organisation. It is
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the duty of the manager of TESCO to provide training programmes for its employees on regular
basis, so that their motivated to perform better.
Recruitment and selection- It is necessary for the manager of TESCO to hire and select
best candidates for its organisation, so that resources can be used in the best possible manner.
This function is generally conducted after knowing the requirement of the organisation. This
means candidates are hired in TESCO on the basis of current situations and future predictions. If
the manager of TESCO is able to analyse the requirement in the organisation than best and
deserving candidate can be selected (Bloom and et. al., 2012).
Purpose of Human-Resource management
Maintaining effective employee relationship- One of the main purpose of human-
resource management is to improve and maintain proper relationship with the workforce. This is
because it can lead to reduction in conflicts and disputes in the internal environment of TESCO.
If the management of TESCO is successful in doing this than workforce will be able to perform
better and the chances of error will be reduced. This can be done by involving the workforce in
the decision-making process. This will increase their morale and ability to perform better in the
future.
Training and development- It is related with training the employees for completing the
task in the effective manner. This is can be done done for increasing the sale and profitability of
the firm. As if the employees are properly trained than they will be able to complete the assigned
task within limited period of time. This is because their skills will be improved and chances of
disputes will be reduced (Boxall and Purcell, 2011).
The functions of human resource management can be performed by using the hard and
soft approach depending upon the requirement of current situation. As per the soft approach need
and demand of each and every individual is taken into consideration because they are treated as
the valuable asset for the organisation. While according to the hard approach employees needs
are not taken into consideration. Manager of TESCO can make use of the soft approach because
by using this overall performance of the firm and employees can be increased in the systematic
manner. Soft approach can also lead to increase in sale and profitability of TESCO in the
systematic and desirable manner.
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