Benefits of Graduate Training Schemes and Internships at Microsoft

HUMAN
RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................3
a) Purpose of human resource functions with its importance to the organization..................3
b) Strengths and weaknesses of selection method used by the organization.........................5
c) Evaluating improvements required in selection process....................................................6
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................7
a) Benefits of graduate training schemes and internships offered by Microsoft....................7
b) Benefits of flexible working arrangement for staff to both Microsoft and its employees. 8
c) Evaluation of way Microsoft motivates its worker by designing its job roles...................9
LO 3...............................................................................................................................................10
a) Employee engagement and its importance in effective employee relations in Microsoft10
b) Key approaches to engage workers and the way it improves communication in Microsoft10
c) Key elements of UK employment legislation and its influence on HR decision-making11
LO 4...............................................................................................................................................12
a) Person specification for the job role.................................................................................12
b) Methods of job advertising with their advantages and disadvantages.............................13
c) Recommendations for implementing job advertisement methods...................................14
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................15
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management (HRM) can be defined as a strategic approach which
allows an organization in effective management of people that helps the business in gaining
competitive advantage (Amberg and McGaughey, 2019). In order to achieve targeted objectives
of the business, HRM play a vital role by performing several functions which majorly comprises
strategic management, workforce planning and employment, policy formulation, reward
management and risk management. Present report consist of four sections in which first two
sections are based on Chocola Fantastica that is based in South Wales, company deals in tailor-
made chocolate based greeting cards and presents offered across UK. Third and Fourth section of
the present report is based on Microsoft that is headquartered in Redmond, Washington,
company develops licenses, supports, manufactures and sells personal computer, consumer
electronics, computer software and related services. This report consist of purpose and scope of
HRM in resourcing an organization with appropriate skills and talents required to fulfil
objectives of a business. Further this study evaluates the effectiveness of HRM's key elements in
an organization. This report also involves an analysis of internal and external factors influencing
decision making of HRM including employment legislation. Lastly, this report includes an
application of HRM practices in a work related context.
LO 1
a) Purpose of human resource functions with its importance to the organization
The major purpose of human resource management is to manage number of needs of the
employees working with the company. HR department manages all the sort of issues that are
from financial to legal matters in order to maximise efficiency of the organization. Chocola
Fantastica needs to determine purpose of HR functions in order to perform them in a significant
manner (Berman and et.al., 2019).
Purpose of HR functions
 Staffing Needs: One of the major purpose of HR function is staffing needs, this involves
the responsibility of recruitment of employees at the time of requirement that is being
identified by their job duties and required skills for the same.
 Compensation: This is the most essential purpose for which HRM works. It helps in
providing fair payment to its employees by evaluating and making necessary changes to

the organization's pay structure through researching compensation trends with aiming at
providing employees with industry acceptable pay (Buckley and et.al., 2019).
 Performance appraisal: This department play a vital role in every organization as it
involves conjunction with every individual department managers for evaluating
performance of employee. The major objective of performance appraisal is to perform
equitable practices for the same must be considered by the company on the basis for
promotion, termination and retention that can influence legal actions if these are being
practices and executes in an improper manner.
 Law Compliance: In order to prevent any unlawful activity, an organization must
understand and execute all the activities according to rules and regulations by the
legislation. Health systems, equality and fair wages must be provided according to the
rules that are being formed by the government (Chams and García-Blandó, 2019).
Functions of Human resource management
There are majorly three functions of HRM that are applicable to workforce planning and
resourcing these are recruitment, selection and training and development, execution of these
functions can help the organization in its further future growth. These are the functions which are
essential to execute in a significant manner by Chocola Fantastica in order to being effective in
performance of operations in the organization.
 Recruitment: It is the most essential function of HRM as it is a process of finding and
attracting the most potential human resources for the purpose of filling up the required
vacancies in an organization (Kanki, Anca and Chidester, 2019). Chocola Fantastica
needs to perform this process in a more effective manner in order to achieve desired
objectives of the organization by identifying the vacancies and filling them with effective
resources by determining their specifications, that will help the company in identifying
the most effective candidate for the vacancy by performing this function of HRM. There
are several problems which can be faced by Chocola Fantastica in recruitment involves
attracting the right candidates, engaging qualified employees and ensuring a good
candidate experience. By recruiting an effective workforce, Chocola Fantastica can
increase its productivity with the help of an efficient workforce which can be recruited
for the future growth.