Human Resource Management Assignment - Microsoft
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HUMAN RESOURCEMANAGEMENT
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1PART 1............................................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1a) Purpose and importance of HR function with its current problem and further growthmeasures.......................................................................................................................................1(b) Strengths and weakness of current selection method taken by Chocolate presence..............3(c) Two potential improvements that can be undertaken by Chocolate presence for improvingselection process..........................................................................................................................4TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5(a) person specification for receptionist at Chocolate presence...................................................5(b) Advantage and disadvantage of current method of advertising job internally and externally......................................................................................................................................................6(c) Recommend suitable placing of the job advertisement for the vacancy of receptionist andjustify...........................................................................................................................................7PART 2............................................................................................................................................8TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8(a) Evaluate the benefits of graduate training schemes and internship programs of Microsoftfor the organisation and employee's.............................................................................................8(b) Identify the flexible working environment and its benefits for Microsoft and employee's...9(c) How Microsoft motivates its employees through designing different job roles..................10TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................11(a) What is employee engagement and why it is important for Microsoft's employeerelationship.................................................................................................................................11(b) Evaluate key approaches of engaging workers and how they improve communicationwithin firm.................................................................................................................................12(c) Impact of UK's employment legislation and their influence on HR decision making onrecruitment, training and development measures within the firm.............................................13CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................15
INTRODUCTIONIn an organisation, human resource management is the department that helpsthe organisation to carry out suitable business operations and activities within the firm oran enterprise. It is a practice of managing the employees or work force, in general withinan organisational setting (Wright, 2018). An organisation is required to maintainsuitable strategies and policies within an enterprise to meet the organisationalobjectives. The present report's first part will cover the operations and HRM functionswithin a Chocolate firm, Chocolate presence and the second part of this report is doneon Microsoft.The report aims to define the purpose and importance of HR functions within anorganisation. Besides this, suitable strength and weakness of the selection process ofthe firm and potential improvements are been suggested. Other than this, suitable jobdescription and person specification is been presented with a proper job advertisement.Other than this, the improvement in employee performance and development usingtraining process is evaluated with assessment of importance employee engagementmeasures have within selected companies.MAIN BODYPART 1TASK 1a) Purpose and importance of HR function with its current problem and further growthmeasuresThe HR functions plays a very crucial role in the management of businessactivities which are performing within an enterprise like Chocolate presence. This willhelp in improving the quality of chocolate based products and services that are offeredby the firm (Bratton and Gold, 2017). Some major purposes of HR and its suitableimportance are as follows:Carrying out recruitment process: This is the major and foremost importanttask of a HR department within an organisation. The HR functions or objectivesthat are taken within the organisation will help in carrying out of selection processfor highly skilled and effective employees by Chocolate presence. The HR1
department of Chocolate presence plays an important role in improving workforce and getting new employees by the means of advertisements, candidatesource and conducting interviews to hire suitable work force. It is important forthe firm to have a suitable and skilled workforce.Providing security at Job: As per the occupational safety Act, 1970 and Healthand Safety at workplace act, 1974, employer like Chocolate presence is liable toprovide appropriate safe environment to its work force. It makes the organisationto reduce the chances of workplace injury and working within fatal conditions.This is also essential in order to manage and maintain the compensations relatedclaims and set up appropriate policies to be followed by selected chocolatemanufacturing enterprise.Allocating suitable benefits and compensation: This is an important functionthat is required to be taken in consideration by the selected chocolate firm. Thecompensation is been provided in case of any loss or injury to an employee.Besides this, it will help in placing compensation structure and increasingcompetitive payments. Suitable payroll is been taken in consideration that willhelp in providing effective benefits to employees in need. It is important tomaintain employee satisfaction level, loyalty towards firm and reduce employeeturnaround at Chocolate presence.Following different labour laws: As per the norms, different labour laws arerequired to be followed by the organisation in order to facilitate employeeretention within firm (Bailey and et.al., 2018). It is also important to mitigate anysort of indifference and conflict at work place. This will improve the overallperformance and work environment at Chocolate presence.Training and development: This is another important aspect of an HRdepartment within the firm. Training the existing as well as the new recruits willhelp the chocolate firm to increase efficiency of their workers and maintainprofitability of the organisation within the market. It is important in order to sustainoverall functionality of the enterprise. The suitable training to the recruitedemployees about the gift and chocolate making will improve the performance ofChocolate presence.2
At present, Chocolate presence is facing the issue of reduction in quality of someproduct and increasing employee turnover. To tackle these issues, suitable recruitmentpolicies and measures can be follow under future plans of the firm for developmentpurpose. Formulation of appropriate policies helps firm in satisfying employees which inturn results in improving efficiency and reducing turnover of employees.(b) Strengths and weakness of current selection method taken by Chocolate presenceThe selection process of Chocolate presence is very basic and involves theassessment of a candidate using online or by own assessment test of EnglishComprehension and maths, required to be passed out with 50% score. Following it, aninterview process is been carried out including the informal chat of 15 minutes. This is avery general method of selection and can be considered to be taken by the firm, asthere is no specific HR executive. However, this selection process is been questionedfor its fairness. This process has certain strengths and weaknesses which are required to beconsidered by the management of Chocolate presence to improve their selectionprocess. Some major strengths and weaknesses of this selection process are asfollows:Strengths:The skill's assessment using evaluation process involving EnglishComprehensive and maths helps the management of organisation to identify andaccess the basic language and calculative knowledge of a candidate. The 15 minute informal interaction with the potential candidates will help themanagement of organisation to identify the behavioural qualities and mindset of acandidate within the organisation that will help in suitable planning of theirtraining measures within selected chocolate enterprise.Weaknesses:The present selection process does not provide the effective and properknowledge about their skills for chocolate or dessert making. This may lead thefirm to recruit non feasible and inappropriate employee.3
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