Importance of Human Resource Management in Achieving Competitive Advantages - A Case Study of Waitrose

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

INTRODUCTION
 Human resource management is the strategic approach of the firm which
effectively management employees of the organization to achieve competitive
advantages.
 It is specially design to maximize the efficiency of the employees through
proper training and their development.
 This report will take Waitrose company for this case study. It is a British
retailer multinational company. This report will analyses purpose and the
functions of HRM in the company and it will also explain the approaches of
recruitment and selection method.
 This report will cover how HRM works and why it is important for the
company to achieve their objectives and goals.

P1- purpose and functions of the Human
Resource Management
 HRM plays important role in the company to gain competitive advantages
(Aklamanu, Degbey and Tarba., 2016).
 This department provide skilful employees to the Waitrose company, so they
can gain competitive advantages in the retail market.
 There are two approaches of the HRM which define their functions are soft and
hart approaches
Hard HRM
 In the hart approaches HR manager of the Waitrose company treat
employees simply as their resources like they are machine.
 This approach has strong like with the corporate business planning , in this they
analyse what resource their company need and how they will get those
resources and how much it will be cost.
 HR also focus on the workforce according to the companies need.
 They hire new employees if they are needed, and they also fire employees
according to the companies labour turnover.

To be Continued...
Soft approaches
 In the soft approaches HR treat their employees as a most important resource of
the company to take competitive advantages (Bratton and Gold., 2017).
 They also motivate employees through the reward system, so they give their
best to achieve rewards and stay motivated.
 HRM focus on the long term goals of the company and plan according to it.
Purpose of HRM
 Purpose of the HRM to recruit skillful employees and right people for the
available job in the Waitrose company.
 They focus to recruit employees on the right time, place and people to make
their workforce strong.