Human Resource Management: Effectiveness of HR Policies and Practices

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Human Resource Management
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Introduction
Human Resource Management plays a vital role in the management of the company.
Department of HR involves in the management decision as well as practices in the workforce,
which directly influenced the people or human resource (Bratton and Gold, 2017). It could be
considered as the main aspect of evolving individuals to get the best out of them and refining
their work for better performance at the workplace (Bailey et. al., 2018). The main role of
human resource management is to design, implement, as well as maintain the strategies to
manage the employees for proper business performance which also cover the policy of
development. The HR also involves evaluating the people those who are operating in the
company or business (Brewster, Chung and Sparrow, 2016).
Moreover, Human Resource Management is a sequence of actions that is one of the essential
aspects of any existing companies. It has clear intentions that are to be trained by other staffs
in order to get an expected set of goals for the organization. HRM is a mean of motivating the
employees, working in an organization, response to the grievances, training, the process of
recruitment and selection (Albrecht et. al., 2015). In the recent scenario, the HR department
greatly influenced the management of the organization by implementing various strategies.
They are the main key of success in an organization such as HR of Microsoft play a vital role
in their organization, their work starts from the process of recruitment to the management of
the whole organization that made the company more effective and able to compete in a
competitive market (Brewster, 2017).
In the following part, there will be a detailed discussion on the effectiveness of the HR policy
which helps the company to grow in a competitive market as well as the factors which greatly
influenced the practiced of HR within the workplace

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The effectiveness of HR policies and Practices
HRM policies are the rules and regulations or procedures which helps an organization to
achieve its goals effectively. HRM policies are designed in such a manner that maximum
utilization of the resource is there in order to have a competitive advantage. As most of the
population are aware that business or companies do work in a dynamic environment which
requires constant monitoring and support by which companies are ready for the changes
which are going to happen in near future (Paille et. al., 2014). It analyse the needs and
requirement of the future and molds its policies accordingly. Flexibility is one of the key
parameters which are required in this dynamic surroundings, it helps the business to have first
mover advantage. HRM is one of the critical segments of an organization and its policies and
procedures decide the success of an organization. If HRM policies are flexible enough then
companies are able to do the planning and control can be done effectively which gives the
organizations added advantage from the competition and by moving early changes in to the
system helps the companies to capture the market without any hustle and if there is proper
palling companies can utilize the resources effectively (Pfeffer, 2014).
Microsoft
Microsoft is one of the global giants in the software industry across overseas. It has expertise
in development, manufacturing, Licenses and holds a huge range of products and services
majorly focusing on computers. It is based out of USA and its headquarters are in the USA
only. In Microsoft, Mission and visions are aligned in such a manner that it helps and guide
all its employees and businesses associated with it to utilize their full capabilities in achieving
better results (Ulrich and Dulebohn, 2015). The Prime reason for taking up this company is
due to skills, capabilities, knowledge, and expertise in their field that companies goals are

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achieved without hustle. Therefore, to justify effective HRM policy and process can help
companies in delivering strategies effectively and have the added competitive advantage. In
this report, we would be seeing how human resource policies help Microsoft in achieving
effectively (Raza and Tariq, 2016).
To understand this concept, there is need to understand that businesses do work in a dynamic
environment which involves many factors associated to it i.e. innovation, competition,
technological advancement and so on which plays a vital role in the success of the
organization. At times, companies have to amend its policies and procedure just to cater the
need of the hour. From Microsoft viewpoint, the knowledge of the employees should be
increased at any cost as they are the major reasons for the success of the company in addition
to it if the company is required to hire new resources it should do so that overall business
could be benefited out of it (Mullins, Brandes and Dharwadkar, 2016). Most of the
individuals are aware that the resources of the companies are limited hence to utilize them
properly makes the responsibilities of HRM more complicated. In most of the organization
people aspect is considered as one of the biggest asset for the companies and same thing is
being taken by the Microsoft in different manner from the competition as they hire the best
resource available into their company and that is the main reason that they are able to deliver
the best products in the market throughout so many years. The Microsoft believes that its five
business segments provide the best potential to cater to the needs of its customers/ clients.
Therefore it can be referred to as the company’s strategies are based on mission and vision to
achieve the desired results (Kampkotter and Sliwka, 2016).
There are few policies which help the organization to take or manage strategies effectively:
 Recruitment