Human Resource Management in Aldi : Report
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Human Resource Management in Aldi : Report
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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1P1. Purpose and functions of HRM........................................................................................1P2. Weaknesses and strengths of different approaches of recruitment and selection............2TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4P3. Benefits to employers and employees from the practices of HRM..................................4P4. Effectiveness of HRM practices in raising profits and productivity of organisation.......5TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5P5. Importance of employee relations in influencing decision making process of enterprise5P6. Key elements of employment legislation.........................................................................6TASK 4............................................................................................................................................8P7. Application of HRM practices.........................................................................................8CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTIONHRM (Human resource management) is a function which helps manager in managing theprocess of recruitment or selection of employees. It includes the management of staff membersand their activities at workplace. It is the responsibility of human resource manager of enterpriseto hire right candidates for performing jobs in an organisation. It involves performanceevaluation of workers, making compensation packages and maintaining healthy working relationwith subordinates (Armstrong and Taylor, 2014). As employees play an important role andcontribute a lot in the success of firm so, it is the responsibility of every manager to maintainstrong relations with them. ALDI is selected in the present report which is a global leadingdiscount retailer in grocery items. At present, company is offering services to its customersthrough more than 10000 stores in 70 countries. With reference to this firm, functions and mainpurpose of human resource management will be discussed. Along with that, effectiveness ofHRM practices and its effect on other activities of organisation are given in this essay as well. TASK 1P1. Purpose and functions of HRMMain purpose of HRM is to effectively utilise all resources, talents or skills of workers ofan enterprise for the attainment of objectives. Activities of this concept helps in ensuring thateach and every worker in organisation is satisfied with the offered wage by organisation (Bloomand Van Reenen, 2011). It is used by the managers for hiring right candidates for the right job. Itensures development of workers and promote organisational culture. This will help the managerof ALDI in complying with legal rules while making policies for workers. Other than this, HRMhelps in making policies to attract a large number of skilled candidates and recruit right quantityand quality of people.Functions of HRMStaffing: For increasing the effectiveness of activities of enterprise, there should beskilled workers in organisation. Human resource department helps in recruiting skilledworkers by performing staffing function that includes the job analysis, human resourceplanning as well as recruitment or selection. All these functions help manager of ALDI inselecting the best candidate from large number of applicants (Functions of HRM, 2017).1
Benefits and compensation: It is the responsibility of manager of human resourcedepartment to make compensation packages for workers and pay them according to theirwork (Boxall and Purcell, 2011). Compensation package of employees include pay,benefits (both financial and non-financial) and other rewards. By compensating workersin a fair way, managers of ALDI can increase their level of satisfaction.Human resource planning: It is a process conforming that firm has required number ofemployees at workplace in order to accomplish their roles and responsibilities. Health and safety: Under this, employer ensures that working conditions should be safeand free from risk so that accidents would not occur at the workplace. As workers are animportant or valuable assets of firm, managers of ALDI should make sure that proper andsafe conditions should be maintained. All these not only increase the productivity oforganisation but also provide various benefits to the firm in long run. Labour and employee relations: Maintaining good or healthy working relations withworkers is one of the important functions of human resource management. This can bedone by treating or compensating staff members in a fair and transparent way.Human resource development: This function includes conducting training programmesfor individuals or workers in order to enhance their skills. This helps the workers for theircareer planning (CHUANG and Liao, 2010). Training programmes are conducted by themanager in order to give information to workers about performing their current jobs andgiving them information about their future roles and responsibilities.ALDI can increase the productivity or effectiveness of their business operations byperforming all these functions.P2. Weaknesses and strengths of different approaches of recruitment and selectionRecruitment is a process of hiring skilled candidates for performing various jobs in theenterprise. ALDI can use two approaches of recruitment for filling the vacancies in organisationwhich are: Internal source of recruitment: Under this approach of recruitment, manager giveschance or opportunity to existing employees for getting a higher position in the organisation. Inthis, employees get information about the vacancy and then give a chance to show their skills orcapabilities. It is one of the time saving approaches of recruitment.2
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