Purpose and Functions of HRM in Chocola Fantastica and Microsoft

Human Resource
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1. Purpose and functions of HRM.............................................................................................1
P2. Strengths and weaknesses of various selection approaches..................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
P3. Benefits of various HRM practices that are used in company...............................................4
P4. Evaluation of effectiveness of the HRM practices for raising profit and productivity of
entity. ..........................................................................................................................................7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
P5. Importance of employee relations to influence HRM decision making................................7
P6. Various employment legislations and impacts they have on decision making by HRM......9
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................10
P7. Application of various HRM practices in context to work relations..................................10
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
The human resource management refers to hiring, recruiting and deploying in their
practices. The organisation should manage employees so that performance of their workers can
be increased. With this, goals and objective of an organisation can be enhanced. In this,
development, effective communication, training and resolving conflicts can help in goals of the
organisation (Altman, Larsen and Buchanan, 2018). To understand human resource management,
Chocola Fantastica and Microsoft are considered in the report. Chocola Fantastica is tailor-made
chocolate based company which offers greeting cards addition to presents in the UK. It has small
team which is specialised in designing and creating gift orders. On other side, Microsoft is
popularise as multinational technology organisation which develops, manufactures, sells and
licenses computer software, personal computers and many other services. The report highlights
about purpose of HR functions and approaches of selection. It further evaluates effectiveness of
various HRM practices to improve profits and productivity of firm. Further, it identifies
employment legislations and their influences of decisions of human resource managers. At last,
various practices are applied within work contexts.
TASK 1
P1. Purpose and functions of HRM
a) Purpose of HR function along with importance to the company.
Human resource management refers to process that develops along with manages
organisational human elements after considering their total knowledge, creative abilities,
aptitudes, potentials and talents to contribute in business objectives (Armstrong and Taylor,
2020). In enterprise premise, employees are important assets so it is very crucial to manage them
in effective manner. HR function is one of department of Chocola Fantastica that is charged with
searching, screening, selecting, monitoring, administering and controlling programs. The key
functions of human resource managers in the entity are to work in with compliance of labour
legislations, hiring and training, handling performance issues and compensations. In case with
the organisation, following are some of the functions with purpose and importance that are
performed by human resource managers:
Recruitment and selection: This is among essential functions of HR in which managers
recruits candidates from distinct sources and then makes effective selection decisions. The main
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