Importance of HRM in Workforce Planning and Resourcing

Human Resource
Management

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Assess the purpose & functions of HRM essential to workforce planning & resourcing.1
P2. Assess the essential strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and
selection of HRM...................................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
P3. Discuss the benefits of different HRM practices inside a organization for both employer
and employee..........................................................................................................................4
P4. Analyze the effectiveness of different HRM practices inside an organization for both
employer and employee..........................................................................................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
P5. Assess the importance of employee relations which influences HRM decision making.5
P6. Assess the essential elements of the employment legislation and the different impact it
has upon the HRM decision making......................................................................................6
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................7
P7. Explain the application of HRM practices in the organization........................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9

Introduction
The term human resource management is defined as process of evaluating and analysing the
availability of workforce in the organisation and according to the needs hiring skilled and
talented workforce to carried business objectives effectively and efficiently. It involves hiring
workforce, compensating them and to enhance their performance continuously providing them
required training. For this report Community Integrated Care is taken into consideration. The
Community Integrated Care is the largest health and social care charities which is continuously
working towards supporting communities with learning disabilities, mental health, autism and
dementia and so on. The organisation was founded in 1988 employing more than 6000
employees. This report highlights various roles and functions of HRM suitable for workforce
planning along with strength and weakness of various approaches also the benefits of various
HRM practices and its effectiveness to enhance profitability is also highlighted in this report. In
addition to this benefits of employee relation influencing human resource decision making and
important element of employment legislation along with the application of human resource
practices in also explained in this report.
TASK 1
P1 Assess the purpose & functions of HRM essential to workforce planning & resourcing
There are number of functions carried out by the business organization for the smooth
functioning of the work and out of which one of the most essential strategic function is the
human resource function, it is responsible for handling and managing the workforce of the
organization effectively through providing them required training enhancing their skills and
performance. For this report Community Integrated Care is taken into consideration. It was
founded in 1988 supporting communities with various needs such as learning disabilities, mental
health, autism and dementia (Irum and Yadav, 2019). Organisation has effective human resource
department handling more than 6000 workforce. The present pandemic COVID 19 has largely
effected many organisation, in order to deal with the pandemic organisation has formed a
response team to evaluate how the pandemic will affect its workers, during the lockdown the
workers were asked to work remotely. The has effectively enhanced their recruitment process
employing more than 1296 new candidates providing them 3D virtual training programme, also
providing flexibility in working. In order to deal with the present pandemic the organisation
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needs to effectively restructuring and strengthening their HR department through applying
various aspects, functions roles of human resource management of the organisation as discussed
below:
The purpose and functions of HRM suitable to employees planning in relation to
Community Integrated Care is highlighted below:
Functions:
Recruitments and selection: One of the most essential function of human resource
management is recruitment and selection, recruitment is the process of identifying and attracting
them to apply for the available position whereas the selection involves selecting the most suitable
candidate out the pool of candidate applied (Kooij and Boon, 2018). In case of Community
Integrated Care, in order to deal with the current pandemic organization has hired large number
of candidates.
Training management: Another function of the human resource management is to train
their employees to improve their skills and to enhance their overall performance; it is the
responsibility of the human resource manager to continuously provide training to their
employees. In context to Community Integrated Care, 3D virtual training program is provided to
their new workforce, so that they can easily work remotely.
Purpose
Enhancing productivity: The main purpose of the human resource management is to
enhance the overall productivity of the organisation through providing required training to
employees, trained employees will work without any error, offering better results which lead to
enhancing the overall productivity of the organisation. In case of chosen organisation, manager
needs to ensure that workforce is working towards enhancing the overall productivity.
Improving workforce satisfaction: Another purpose is improving workforce satisfaction
through providing them rewards and benefits. In case of Community Integrated Care, where due
to the current pandemic employees are working remotely, it is easy for them to be de-motivated,
and management needs to ensure that employees are given rewards and benefits and required
essentials in order to improve their satisfaction ( Lanke, 2018).
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