Functions and Purpose of HRM in Workforce Planning and Resourcing

Human Resource
Management

Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Task 1..........................................................................................................................................................3
P1 what are the functions and purpose of HRM applicable to workforce planning and resourcing in the
company?................................................................................................................................................3
P2 what are the strength and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection.........4
Task 2..........................................................................................................................................................6
P3 what are the benefits of different HRM practices within and company for both the employer and
employees...............................................................................................................................................6
P4 evaluate the effectiveness of different HRM practices in terms of raising organizational profitability
and productivity......................................................................................................................................7
Task 3..........................................................................................................................................................7
P5 Analyses the importance of employees relation in respect to influencing human resource
management decision.............................................................................................................................7
P6 identify the key elements of employment legislation and the impact it has upon human resource
management decision making.................................................................................................................8
Task 4..........................................................................................................................................................9
P7 illustrate the application of Human Resource Management practices in the work-related context
using specific example.............................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................................11
References.................................................................................................................................................12

Introduction
Human Resource means the process of managing the people in the organization so that
the firm can utilize their resources properly. It is the kind of the practice which helps in
managing the staff of the organization. When the employees contribute their skills and
knowledge in the company to attain their personal and organizational goals. The main role of the
Human Resource Department is to heir the people and to manage them in an effective manner so
that they all together attain the objective of the company. The department use to heir, motivate
and maintain the employees in the organization (Nzanywayingoma. and Yang, 2019). This report is
discussed about the purpose and functions of Human Resource management. The strengths and
weaknesses of different approaches used to recruit and select the staff. The benefits of this
department in the organization. The role of department in enhancing the productivity and
profitability of the organization. Further, the report is being discussed about the employment
legislation and its impact on the decisions of the HRM.
Task 1
P1 what are the functions and purpose of HRM applicable to workforce planning and
resourcing in the company?
Human Resource Department plays an important role in managing the affairs of the
company which includes job analysis and staffing, organizing and utilization of resources and
work force and many other things (McAbee, Landis and Burke, 2017). Asda is the retail store dealing
in retail business in UK. The company has provided the online platform so that their customers
can access to their store from remote areas.
Mission of Asda
The main mission of the company is to become the trusted company in the United
Kingdom as well as all over the world.
Purpose and main objective of the Asda
 The main purpose of the organization is to provide better services to their customers so
that they can be satisfied with their services and products which help them to enhance
their business.
 Raise the quality of the brand in the minds of their customers.
The human resource department The Human Resource Department stands for the people
working in an organisation their main aim is to do effective and efficient management of the
employees of the company their main functions are related with selection, recruitment, staffing
and managing the affairs of the workforce so that they can take the organisation objective in an
effective manner (Jebb, Parrigon and Woo, 2017). The main functions of Asda are explained below:

Recruitment and selection: The main function of human resource manager is to hire the new
candidates so that they can effectively work which helps them to attain the objective of the
company (Guo and et. al., 2017).
. The Asda use to heir the new employees by screening, selecting and recruiting a suitable
candidate with all required skills and knowledge.
Job design and analysis: The managers of Asda used to identify the duties and
responsibilities of the employees which need to be performed. They used to determine the skills
and capabilities which are required to perform the specific task which helps the department to
identify and select the candidates for an organisation. For this, the department used to draught
the job design and assigns the job to respective employees.
Training and development: the department used to give an accurate training and development
program for harnessing the overall productivity of the employees (Brönnimann and et. al., 2020).
Every candidate is required to provide a proper training so that they can perform in an effective
manner which enhances the productivity of the organisation.
Compensation and Benefits: Human Resource Department of Asda used to determine the
adequate rewards for the employees which helps the company to motivate Their employees so
that they can work in an better way. This helps the company to manage their transparency in the
organisation which helps them to generate the positive image in the market.
Managing employee Relation: Employees are ji backbone of the organisation. Asda used to
maintain good and healthy relations with their employees which leaves the company to make
better working environment for them. This helps them to work together to attend the common
objective of the firm.
Purpose of Asda
The main purpose of Human Resource Management is to manage the task of the
company which enhance the working and functioning of an organisation in an effective manner.
Another main purpose of Human Resource Management is planning so that the company can
manage the good and healthy relation with their work force (Khan, Rao-Nicholson, Akhtar and He,
2017). This can be done by providing them fair and equitable Raman narrations and motivating
them to achieve the common objective of the company.
Workforce planning at Asda
Human Resource Department uses to manage the employees while predicting the current
and future demands of their labor and examine the source from where they can manage and
fulfill the demands. The department also determines the future requirements of the candidates
and resource from where that department can fulfill the vacant post. Asda use to hire the labor
with the help of internal and external market. The managers of Asda use to focus on the external
labor in which the used to hire an innovative and skilled workforce whenever they required.
P2 what are the strength and weaknesses of different approaches to
recruitment and selection.
Recruitment and selection are the primary functions of the Human Resource Department
at Asda. The manager's office use to hire their candidates mostly with the external force.
Recruitment process
Recruitment means hiring the new candidates to fill the vacant post it is the process
which begins with the identifying the task force gap in preparing the job description and their