HRM Strategies and Organizational Outcomes

This assignment delves into the theoretical foundations and practical applications of strategic human resource management (SHRM). It explores how SHRM influences organizational performance through various mediating mechanisms, with a focus on high-performance HR practices. The assignment also covers the relationship between corporate strategy and HRM, the role of human capital in firm performance, and the impact of SHRM on employee attitudes and behaviors.

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PART 1: TASK 1.............................................................................................................................1
P1. Purpose of workforce planning and role of HR manager with regard to same.....................1
P 2Strengths and weakness of different selection and recruitment process................................3
TASK 2.......................................................................................................................................5
HRM practices in work related context (P 7)..............................................................................5
a)..................................................................................................................................................5
b).................................................................................................................................................5
c) .................................................................................................................................................6
TASK 2.......................................................................................................................................8
P3. Benefits of HRM practises for both employee and employer in TESCO.............................8
P4. Evaluate effective HRM practises for raising profit and productivity in TESCO................9
PART 2..........................................................................................................................................10
TASK 3.....................................................................................................................................10
P5. Importance of employee relation which helps in decision making at ITV.........................10
P6. Key elements of employment legislation and its impact on decision making....................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is an important part in both private and public
organisations. It helps in managing humans in company along with it human resource department
helps in maximizing performance of employee to attain strategic objective. This is generally
concern to management of person with in organisation, framing and focusing on policies and on
system too (Purce,2014). The department of human resource is highly responsible for employee
benefits, training and development lessons, recruitment process. Performance appraisal apart
from it they are also concern with industrial relation and organisational change. This department
requires to follow and apply government on their company. Human resource management has
many movement in it. They passes information and culture among employee and creating better
understanding in employee and employer.
In this report, Woodhill College and Tesco has been studies with respected case study
where Woodhil college is an educational condition that provides high quality and holistic
eduction. This study will examine functions and purpose of HRM along with strengths and
weaknesses of different recruitment and selection approaches in the context of prescribe college.
It is showcasing the role of HRM in workplace of given institution which is cited in second part.
Other side this report has study of Tesco with largest retailing company in UK they are dealing
with various types of product and services to their customers.
PART 1: TASK 1
P1. Purpose of workforce planning and role of HR manager with regard to same
Workforce planning is a process to confirm the right numbers of person with appropriate
skills are employed in suitable place at the rights time to offer and deliver company's long term
and short term objective. The planning of work force covers so many types of activities like
flexible working, succession planning, job framing (CHUANG and Liao,2010). It has relation
with strategic goals of business and considered as an important part of planning process. It helps
in managing and hiring right personalities whom have sound skills and capabilities which
provides help in order to attain objective and desired goals of organisation in very effective
manner. In Woodhill collage, the human resource management defined suitable plans and
policies or gives assistance in order to manage communication between other departments within
working area. In the context of Woodhill college, Human resource management are playing
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sound role in order to sorting issues and roadblock which may be arises in an organisation. HR
department providing innovating and creative ideas and thoughts to the firm that increase the
possibility to participate in some activities. On the other side of coin, department of HR manage,
maintain and framing the policies or plans for Woodhill collage. The cited institution's HR
workforce are helps in planning for hiring best staff member. Collage use their HR process
which is beneficial for their continuous development and growth.
Functions of HRM:
 Staffing: It is very important methods because it can be said that the HR Practices are
being form step of Staffing but it is crucial too (Wright and McMahan ,2011). It helps in
assigning right person at rights place on right time which provides suitable information in
order to get best outcome. Manager of HR department in Woodhill is responsible for
maintaining and enhancing performance of their employees with completing their wishes
and needs. This procedure helps in working level and correctness of their employees by
suitable job profile. It helps in arranging the suitable business operation and functions.
Some are as:
◦ Selection
◦ work analysis
◦ designing
◦ recruitment Compensation: There are so many types of activities and functions which gives supports
in order to gaining rewards by Woodhill collage for giving their best performance. The
main function framing and arranging compensating plans and policies which involves
rewards, promotion, incentives, pensions and appraisal according to employee's
promotion with in organisation. The duty of HR manager is to collect the views of
employees that helps in arranging and applying sound management process in the
workforce. Management of employees: Proper management helps in improving the level of
productivity of staff members hence it is very important part for every organisation. It
provides assistance in order to examine different issues and problem at work station to
human resource manager (Meredith, 2011). Through the HRM manager can develop the
change according to their demands and needs of work place and manager always doing
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alteration with latest trend in effective manner to their HR process. When the changes are
done it is important to examine macro environment that directly affect the business
operation.
 Employee relation management: The human resource of Woodhill college employee
relation is prominent things which maintain and manage all activities. It helps in making
communication relation among employees and employer through which people can easily
solve their issues and problem. Sound relation are always profitable for every
organisation so the manager of Woodhil trying to make goods relations and also reduces
conflicts in between employees. It helps in developing and increasing the performance
and productivity of work.
Purpose of HRM:
The prominent objective of Woodhill collage in human resource management is to apply
different types of activities for retaining workers and and offers them best opportunity to
participate in organisational activity. An educational institution helps in appraisal and incentive
system for maintaining quality of job of workers.
P 2Strengths and weakness of different selection and recruitment process
HR manager are doing the process of recruitment and selection and hiring those persons
whom have ability to attain organizational and personal goal. Those individual will assigned
whom are capable to handle their job position and work load. Other side recruitment is the
process of capturing eyes of capable candidates and helps in identifying and analysing them
according to the demand of institution (Jiang, Lepak, 2012). After completion of recruitment
process, selection procedure will start where all suitable person are selected and have their
position. Entire human resource department has responsibility for this process. Apart form this,
Every process has some strengths and weaknesses which helps in preforming their task and
maintains working ability as well.
Strengths of recruitment weakness of recruitment
 Attracts new talent: through
recruitment process Woodhill will
capturing those persons whom have
sound talent for doing any job.
 Inefficiencies: it is very general
weakness or recruitment process. As
recruiter gives more time in order to
search and on recruiting tool which are
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 Gives chance to fresher: recruitment
helps to those who have minimum and
fresher in their organisation. They helps
in enhancing the number of employee
in Woodhil college.
 Talent comes in hub: recruitment
process are always having new persons
or talents in hub form them HR
manager will choose suitable person.
not leading to sound quality person.
 Pitfalls of internal recruitment: when
firm uses internal recruitment they will
get narrow ideas cause they tend to be
promoted with in the employed
organisation. It reduces the chance for
external persons.
 Drawbacks of external recruitment: this
type of recruitment are time consuming
and more expensive then internal
recruitment
Strengths of selection Weakness of Selections
 Involvement of managers: the process
of selection cannot be completed with
out involvement of manager if the firm.
Hence the HR department of Woodhill
having talk and involvement of their
HR manager whom can select suitable
candidates forb their institution.
 Growth of company: selection of sound
person will provide helps in attaining
objective with effective manner which
aid in growth of the company or
institution.
 Select best person: through this process
Woodhill collage will recruit the
suitable person whom are providing
help for cited institution. With the helps
of them company will achieve their
target with defined time and
 Long process: the process of selections
is very long. Management will take
time in order to chose any person for
their firm. Woodhill collage always
looks for those persons whom are able
to make their students knowledge and
not creates any harm to collage's
esteem.
 Drawback of internal selection:
selection process can generate from
internal environment where suitable
persons are choosing form their own
institution but it drive to lack of
innovation and lead to lack ideas as
firm will not have more new things and
ideas.
 Problems of external selection: when
firm attracts person out side from their
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performance in sound manner. firm it will take more money and time
too.
In regards of strength and weaknesses, manager of HR department of Woodhill needs to
prepare suitable business strategy for having suitable employees.
Strength and weaknesses of selection and recruitment process:
Internal process: External process:
Advantage of Internal recruitment
 Helping in boosting morales of their
employee.
 Consuming less cost.
 It creates competition among
employees.
Advantages of external recruitment:
 Generation of new ideas and
innovation.
 Having larger options of suitable
employees.
 Able to attract pool of knowledge
Disadvantages of Internal recruitment
 Limited source of employment.
 Effect productivity of other employees. Lack of innovation.
Disadvantages of external recruitment:
 Time consuming
 higher costing or investment.
 Longer procedure.
TASK 2
HRM practices in work related context (P 7)
a)
Advertisement for job
Teacher for Secondary School Teacher for Woodhill College
Darwin
The institution is seeking out innovative, creative and eligible employees for the job role of
teacher for secondary school whim can join it as a faculty of English with in co-educational
school. The candidates should be hard working and innovative person and must have sound
knowledge of specific and related filed.
This opportunity have relation with teaching facilities for class 7-12 class students who are
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goods in extra activities of the school. Interested applicant needs to be inspiring and pleasant
personality with sound English communication skills.
Suitable candidates can apply and submit their resume on the mentioned email adders.
Timing-10:00AM- 5:00AM
Email:
HR Director
Calvin George
b)
Any organisation use advertisement for recruit and select suitable candidates. The advertisement
have certain specification regarding jobs and those ads are located on different media as
newspaper, social media, print media, templates, electronic media, sites and internet. They can
also promote ads in order to searching talent other side skilled persons can manage and handle
work that are related to their job profile in sufficient manner. Advertisement provide helps in
defining their best match of candidates that fits to the company.
c)
Job Description
Woodhill college
c/c De Villebois Mareuil Dr, Woodhill Golf Estate.
Trumpeter's, Pretoria,
0076, South Africa
Date: 8th JANUARY, 2018
Time: 9:00Am
Work Profile: English Teacher
Place: South Africa
Wage: 54,000 Rand -160,154 Rand
Summary of Jobs
Woodhill collage needs skilled, capable candidates who are able to communicates in fluent
English and specialised in some particular filed with sound rank. Candidates should be
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organised and have cordial attribute.
Qualifications
Interested must be graduated and post graduated in specialised subject.
 Sound communication skill majorly in English.
 Excellency in speaking.
 Basic knowledge of computer. minimum 5 years of experience is required.
Job Description
candidates needs to be more professional in their specialised filed of subject. Woodhill collage
will prefer those persons whom are experience in sector of teaching or educational institutions
in a reputed collage.
Person Specification
Name: Mrs Calvin George
Address: Pretoriuspark, Emfuleni Road,
0151, south Africa
Email:
Mobile Number:
Carrier Objectives: To analyse skills and knowledge in order to be a part of a developed
educational institution which helps in enhancing the ability and capabilities.
Qualification of Academics:
 Graduation in Commerces
 Master in HR and finance
Experience:
5 years experience in teaching sector at Menlo park High School
Competencies:
 expert in computer skills
 managerial skills
 punctuality
 hard working
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 leadership traits
 creative and innovative
Declaration:
I declared that all the above information are correct and true to my knowledge.
Signature:
Woodhill College
c/c De Villebois Mareuil Dr, Woodhill Golf Estate.
Trumpeter's, Pretoria,
0076, South Africa
Mrs. Calvin George
Pretorius park, Emfuleni Road,
0151, South Africa
Greetings,
it is true that the applicant like you is major and special for working in such institution like
Woodhill collage. This is to inform you that you has been shortlisted for the job profile of
teacher at higher class as expert in finance. The knowledge and ability you have will be
important for an enterprise. After all discussion the joining date that are determine will be 15th
January 2018 and offered pay scale will be 55,000 rand per annum witch will be fixed.
All required attachment of document will be on your email.
Revert as soon as possible after accept the letter.
Sincerely
Calvin George
HR manager
Woodhill College
TASK 2
P3. Benefits of HRM practises for both employee and employer in TESCO.
Human resource management is very important that helps in building sound relations,
enhancing productivity and increasing performance of employees with in the organisation.
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TESCO has so many types of activities which are used to keeps their employee and employer
happy or satisfied. Sound coordination helps on attaining the objective of organisation. There are
various benefits of HRM for both employee and authorities (Guest ,2011). Firm has build up
some types of practices for development of employee to increase their productivity and
sufficiency of their working style. Some of practises are:
Hiring and training: The human resource management has responsibilities to select and
hire suitable employee for their company. They needs to frame policies and plans for hiring right
persons. After choosing suitable candidates, the department will conduct their training and
learning lesson through which candidates will enhance their work skill and productivity
according in style of the company. Training lessons helps in increasing their skill of working so
that they will perform well in the organisation. TESCO offers training to people which they
hired in perfect way to use they skills in better manner.
Conflict management: The department of human resource solves all kind of issues and
problem which may happened in between employees. Conflict resolution is very important for an
organisation cause conflict make work harder and creates hurdle in their problem. Employee
cannot work properly if they have conflicts. Through the conflict managements company will
short the disagreement among employee and employers which bring the effective and
productivity in the performance of their work capabilities.
Builds good relation: HRM practises helps in framing sound relation in company.
Through human resource effective relation can be build up among employee and employer by
which they can work with coordination in an organisation. Having coordination and operation
between every one provides help in attaining their objective in effective manner (Berman et. al.,
2012).
Information resource: Sound relation flows proper information between departments
and different level f organisation in correct ways. Passing of information in each department
help in framing cordial relation with every one that helps on effective work completion.
Feedback: The department of HR will take feedback from time to time that helps them
to improve their policies and plans according to situations and needs of their employees. Proper
application helps in bringing effective performance. Through feedback management have
chance to improve their knowledge of plan and policies. These feedback taken form both sides
the employee and employers.
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Differences between training and development:
Basis Training Development
Meaning It is a process of enhancing
knowledge and skills of
workers.
Process which provide
learning and growth.
Orientation Job oriented Career oriented
Duration It has shorter term process and
fixed duration
Long term but life long
applications.
Focus Concentrating on technical
skills
It keeps eyes on human ideas
or logical.
Level of trainees Training is generally for
supervisor and labour staffs.
It is for managerial level.
Scope It has narrow scope. It is having wider scope
Objective/ effects Through it employee are
performing in better manner
Confirms over all development
Describe how training needs are identified and the methods of training used by Tesco.
Employee of needs to have some basic skills while entering in the company. Other side
company will defined or determine the needs of training to their employees. For it every firm has
their own process which helps them in order to identify the needs of training. Steps are taken as:
 Company needs to determined and rephrase their business objective.
 After it, looking out to worker's ability and work efficiency.
 Separate those employee whom are need some particular skills or also those whom are
suppose to perform specific project.
 Arranging orientations
 Conducting or providing suitable training program. Taking reviews or feedbacks.
Explain the benefits for Tesco and the employees in having a systematic approach to training
and development
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Systematic Approach to training is sound tool which ensures continuous, optimal
working at every level of company. Some advantages are: Organised Approached: it is concentrated on company and helps in maximise profits or
returns. It is in systematic manner. Clarity and responsibility: transparency of ideas or information are happen through this
systematic approach. Recognition of needs: it is framed with flexibility which can be adaptive by employee. Hands on Design:it is having strict frame which provide best suitable design.
P4. Evaluate effective HRM practises for raising profit and productivity in TESCO.
TESCO is using various ways to improving their productivity and profit of organisation
as every organisation needs to have more profit in each year (Harzing and Pinnington,2010).
HRM has importance to motivate their employee to get more productivity in an very prefect way.
Evaluation of HRM practises are as:
High performing employee: The HR manager tend to motivate employees for increase
the entire performance level of company. For it they will create innovative environment at work
place that makes employees more productive and track their working as they are doing in very
right direction to have their pre determine objective on time.
Effective direction: If manager are flowing in the right direction then employee's
performance will flow in same direction. Right direction of employee provide helps to them in
order to reduce the wastage of time and they will more effectively. Sound direction helps in
every department to get higher profit and productivity in prefect frame (Chelladurai and
Kerwin,2017).
Communication: This is the core thing in every company. The communication style
needs to be prefect that helps in passing and sharing the information to each and every person
who are working the firm. Interaction among worker and employer provides them knowledge of
a condition in which they are working and taking most suitable action and motivate them to work
in proper manner.
Effective rewards: Sound performance of the worker always aid to company in order to
attain organisational objective. When ever employee get demotivated in the firm then it needed
to motivate them with effective and sound reward. A reward will play a sound role cause
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motivation is key in context to compete the assigned work. The rewards can be come in any form
as bonus, financial support, incentive or can be a holiday package etc.
Updating skills of employees: Company will arrange the training lesson for their
employee in order to improve the skills of employees and bring effectiveness and sufficiency to
their working (Bratton and Gold,2012). Updating skills by learning and developing lessons make
worker's capabilities more sound. Training is the thing which employee opts to change in
condition and doing work accordingly.
Individual and team goals: Organisation generally plans for goals and objective of firm
but along with it they also make decision which is related with individual's aim. If worker having
their objective complete with their hard work that provide motivation for having their goals too.
Individuals works more effective way that improve their performance level and they can bring
effectiveness in their working style.
PART 2
TASK 3
P5. Importance of employee relation which helps in decision making at ITV.
Relations of employee needs to be in right manner in an organisation that help to bring in
good relation among employer and workers. Having sound relation in between person whom are
working together can be productive and helps in achieving the objective of the organisation.
Effective relation helps in reducing conflicts. Some other importance are as:
Share work with others: ITV is concern to their employees like if person will feel of
high work load then over him or her them the team of HRM will helps them by sharing their load
with their colleague in other side manager will them too by defining the task which is assigned to
them in simple terms. Such thing make coordination and creates harmony in between employees.
ITV share work with other so that task will be competed on time.
Reduces conflict: Sound relation helps in reducing the problem of employee and
enhance the productive of the organisation and also helps in growing long in market place
(Brewster and Hegewisch , 2017).
P6. Key elements of employment legislation and its impact on decision making.
In Human Resource department,there are numbers of laws, rules and regulations which framed in
favour of employees because these formulated for protecting worker and their employment.
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Generally laws and legislation must be made for the employees benefits as it helps them to feel
more safe and secure towards job and also motivate for performing effective task or work to
accomplish organisational goals and objectives. In every firm, HR department requires to
consider that laws in order to make effective decisions regarding business operations and its
performance. It is the responsibility of every organisation to follow all these rules and
regulations that helps in running the business in sufficient manner and create healthy working
environment as well as support in building relations among them.
Although, Trade union and EU have framed various legal laws and legislation as well as
rules and regulations that helps to employees betterment or it will for their welfare in order to
provides them safety from exploitation and any hazards while performing task (Boxall and
Purcell,2011). ITV company generally consider all these laws and regulations to provide
employees equality and diversity at the work station. So it is must to followed those legislation
an policies within the firm that helps to the organisation for making HR decisions towards
employees benefits. There are some laws and regulations which the system of judiciary are
considered and these are as follows:
Equal pay act: This act was framed in the parliaments of the UK as it was made for
providing justice and equality to the women whom are working within the firm. This act is
related to wages allotments in commercial industry. Rights should be same for all employees
whether they are male or female who are working within the firm. Company do not have rights
to do discrimination on any basis such as colour, age, religions and gender etc.
Working hour act: In this act, it described that employees can be work in any
organisation that make use their employees till limit of working time which have been fix by the
governmental body which is 48 hours per weak.
Minimum wage: This act was made for provide fair amount of the wage among
employees who are working within the organisation. It was coined for reducing the exploitation
of the labour. In this stated that a minimum fixed amount will be payable to all the workers
according to their work performance.
Rights of employees: In such act, it was made for the purpose of giving some rights to
those public whom are working in the industry. So every individual have some rights such as
health security, minimum wage rights and many more while performing any task within
organisation (Armstrong and Taylor ,2014).
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Disability and discrimination act: This act was made for the purpose of treating fairly as
well as with equality and more respect in work place as they will not feel any insult or sympathy
within an organisation. This act is for protecting the dignity of the disable person it help in
saving their lives from any harassment and humiliation.
In today's condition, Equal pay act and right of employee needs to be implemented in every
organisation along with ITV cause pay with equality helps in boosting morale of employee and
force them to work in better manner. Other side Rights of employees helps workers in order to
facing harassment in the organisation. This act provides protection to employee in working
place.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that Human resource is very important for
every organisation. It helps in managing the work force in company. This report are keeping
lights on purpose and function of the HRM with their strengths and weakness. Some benefits are
also there which is come up with practises of HRM and effectiveness will bi given for the same.
Employee relation are very important in an organisation that is covered in report too.
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