Human Resource Management: Functions, Recruitment, Benefits and Practices

3 - Human Resource
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PART 1............................................................................................................................................1
TASK 1...................................................................................................................................1
P1 Purpose and the functions of Human Resource Management which are applicable to
workforce planning and resourcing an organisation. ...................................................1
P2 Explain the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and
selection........................................................................................................................2
TASK 2...................................................................................................................................4
P3 Explain the benefits of different HRM practices within an organisation for both the
employer and employee................................................................................................4
P4 Practices of Human Resource Management which leads to the increase in profitability
and productivity of organisation...................................................................................5
PART 2............................................................................................................................................6
TASK 3...................................................................................................................................6
P5 Importance of employee relations in order to influencing the decision making process
of HRM.........................................................................................................................6
P6 Important element of employment legislation with their impact on HRM ...........6
TASK 4...................................................................................................................................7
P7 Application of several practices of HRM in a work related context with the help of
example.........................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
References:.......................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Human Resource management can be defined as a department who is responsible for all
human related activities of an organisation. Their main focus is on hiring the best candidate for
their organisation, so that they can achieve the organisational goals and objectives in an effective
and efficient manner. It is found a huge challenge for human resource management to select best
one from a sea of applicants. They adopt various techniques as well in order to retain their
employees such as motivation and providing training. The below mentioned report is based on
Tesco which is a UK based retailing company. Human Resource management plays an important
role in creating the values of employees at workplace so that employees can give their best
towards the organisation. The main purpose of making this report is to know about the purpose
and functions of Human Resource management. Recruitment has been found as the most
important function of HRM, the pros and cons of recruitment are also analysed in this report.
PART 1
TASK 1
P1 Purpose and the functions of Human Resource Management which are applicable to
workforce planning and resourcing an organisation.
Human Resource Management (HRM)
Human Resource Management is created with the aim of hiring the best employees for
the organisation for a long period of time. It performs various actions in order to develop the
skills and abilities of employees (Alfes and et. al., 2019). They also perform various activities so
that they can increase the value generation capacity of employees which leads to the creation of
values of organisation. Recruitment, managing, developing, training, selecting, hiring are the
some major functions of Human Resource management.
Purpose of Human Resource Management
The most important purpose of human resource management of Tesco are explained
below:
 The human resource management provide various facilities to their employees so that the
organisation can achieve the goals and targets in an effective and efficient manner. It also
include the facility of training as it is very important in the aspect of changing
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environment. Managing employees in an organisation is very essential as they are
considered as the important resource of the organisation.
 Human Resource management is useful in analysing the gap between the current laws
and regulation and the activities of organisation (Alqahtani 2021). It is very necessary for
every organisation to maintain some important laws properly time to time at workplace.
Equal Pay Act 1963, Age discrimination Act 1967 are the examples of laws which comes
under human resource management.
 In order to removing the gap of communication, proper channel of communication is
required. The human resource manger of Tesco will maintain diverse workplace (Fatima
2021). It leads to the creation of good and positive working environment under which the
employees can share the ideas.
The function of Human Resource Management in Tesco
In order to achieving the goals and objectives of organisation, the human resource management
is required to follow mentioned functions:
 Human Resource Management analyse the goals of all departments and then it offers the
enough human resource in order to achieve the goals and targets of organisation in an
effective and efficient manner.
 Human Resource Management is also performs the function of retaining the employees
through various attractive compensation plans so that the employees can stay in the same
organisation for a long duration of time period.
 It also perform the function of providing support and feedback to their employees which
result in the improvement of their work performance along with the motivation.
 Human Resource Management also performs the function of removing the conflicts
which arise at the workplace.
P2 Explain the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection.
For the purpose of selecting best candidate from a sea of applicants, there are various
approaches of recruitment has been used by the human resource management. Some of examples
of such approaches include arranging campus recruitment, considering employee referrals,
giving promotion to the best employees, having selection parameters, conducting interviews of
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