Human Resource Management Functions and Priorities

Human Resource Management
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Executive Summary
Human resource management is considered as significant field of the organization.
Change is another aspect which is faced by every firm. The employees are biggest asset and
therefore the efforts are developed by the HR executives. The report is a brief synopsis of the HR
functions and priorities that an employee must be aware in an enterprise. These are defined so
that both internal and external tasks of the organizations are enabled to carry out the work. In the
period of change, there are various modifications that the company and employees went through.
But, still these are enforced with the help of policies and program that enabled the HR
professionals to go with that change. This report is a medium that provided the platform to study
these aspects with the B&Q Company.
Table of Contents
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INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
METHODOLOGY..........................................................................................................................4
FINDINGS ......................................................................................................................................4
Role and priorities of the HR function.........................................................................................4
Different internal and external influences....................................................................................7
Changes envisaged for B&Q Company over the next three years and its impact on structure of
the HR function in the future.......................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
RECOMMENDATIONS...............................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12
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INTRODUCTION
Human Resource Management (HRM) has been emerged as a most crucial facet in the
21st century. In an order to take initiatives in an organization for better working, various
initiatives have been taken from the side of human resource department (Sims, 2007). It has been
considered that there are various functions and operations that contribute to enhance the
productivity of the firm are from the side of the personnel. This is the reason company is now
hiring HR professionals who deal in effective management of the working so that they can be
taken into right direction to achieve the success. With the help of this report, the efforts are made
to present the role of HR functions, its impact on internal and external influences in the company
and the brief aspect of change management. This has been made in context to B&Q Company of
the UK and its HR initiatives.
METHODOLOGY
There are two methods which can be used for collecting information. For the current
research, secondary research method has been undertaken. Human resource has been considered
as one of the most vital department of the organization. Every company has its own set of norms
which is followed to manage the manpower. Secondary data collection method has been used to
know about the manpower management of B&Q. Various sources such as online articles, books,
journals on different perspective of organizational management have been taken by researchers
to analyze the present study on the human resource management at B&Q Company.
FINDINGS
Role and priorities of the HR function
According to the given statement, it has been analyzed that approximately 4 out of 10 HR
functions saw themselves as a single HR team with expertise and that only 27% saw themselves
as using ‘The Ulrich Model’. This has been seen in the business function of B&Q Company. To
give more light on the above statement, given below points have been detailed. These points are
the role and priorities of HR functions of the B&Q Company:
 Attract and retain “enterprise contributors”: As analyzed from the data that has been
collected from the surveys from HR and line managers, there is need for employees to
work and improve their performance (Snell and Bohlander, 2012). There is need for HR
team to look at the conventional performance. Employees should not consider the aspect
of thinking that employees are not desired to put their efforts in organization.
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