Human Resource Management

Human Resource
Management

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Human resource department is associated with managing human capital within an
organisation and the major role of this department is to bring higher contribution of employees
and to provide them such comfort zone within workplace so that they can retain there for longer
duration of time. This report is providing various aspects in relation to understand human
resource department and their functions along with their role in organisational success.

Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.............................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
A) Examine how strategies were changed by the firm......................................................4
B) Analyse the impact of environmental factors on culture and HR plan.........................6
C) Organisation's model of employment and organisational levers used to create values.7
D) Using Storey's 27 points of difference between HRM and personnel management as a
benchmark..............................................................................................................................9
D) Analyse the job design strategies....................................................................................12
F) State hiring and firing process.........................................................................................13
G) Use appropriate corporate examples and literature to justify your stand........................14
H) Recommendation to employers regarding HRM practices to ensure that the organisation
performance is high..............................................................................................................15
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................16
REFERENCE.................................................................................................................................17

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is the process of managing and supervising different
activities that are being performed by HR Department and ensures the control over all the
activities so that they can be carried effectively (Zehir and et. al., 2016). Every function of
organization needs to be carried on with a proper strategy and like that Human resource
department is also responsible for framing strategies that are important in managing and
developing the individual’s standard of the organization. Human resource department is
integrated part of business associated with various other departments and are assigned with
various roles of planning, directing, controlling, and organising. The current report is based on
Royal Mail which is a multinational postal service and courier company established in the year
1516 by the British Government based out of UK. It offers various services such as letter post,
parcel service, EMS, delivery, freight forwarding and third-party logistics. It has various
subsidiaries as part of it i.e. Parcelforce worldwide, general logistics system etc. It is also a
listed company as a constituent of FTSE 100 Index. The report is aimed at providing the
different insights for roles and activities carried by Human Resource department and multiple
practices of managing the same.
MAIN BODY
A) Examine how strategies were changed by the firm
Bringing efficiency out of employee is the key aim of HR department. Succession of these
duties and working effectiveness assists in maintaining the healthy relations within business
environment, it helps in producing the positive work culture and acts as a morale booster
resulting in enhance efficiency of employees (Vanhala and Ritala, 2016). Human resource
management is responsible in analysing and keeping track of employee needs and try to
enhance their performance by motivating the employees in appropriate manner and provide
them with justified positive attitude so that overall contributions of employee can be brought to
optimum level. They are also responsible for enhancing the values and providing employees
with relevant training for their job position. Below given are some of the key measures through