Effectiveness of Elements of the Human Resource Management - Report

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Purpose and functions of HRM..............................................................................................1
P2 Strengths and weaknesses various approaches to recruitment selection...............................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
P3 Benefits of different HRM practices......................................................................................5
P4 Effectiveness of various HRM practices................................................................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
P5 Importance of employee relations..........................................................................................7
P6 Key elements of employment legislation...............................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTION
Human resource management refers to formal system which is devised for management
of individuals in an business firm. The main objective of HRM is to enhance productivity or
development of firm through optimizing effectiveness of staff members. Main focus of HR is
concerned with people management with in firm, focus on rules and policies as well as on
systems. It is the responsibility of human resource management to recruitment, development,
rewarding, training, performance appraisal and many others (Andreeva and Kianto, 2012). ALDI
is a chain of supermarkets with over 1000 stores in around 20 countries and its estimated
turnover is more than €50 billion. Under this mention report discuss regrading scope and purpose
of Human Resource Management in context of resourcing business firm with skills and talent.
Effectiveness of elements of the human resource management will be mention in given report.
There will be discussion regarding advantages of various practices of human resource
management in an organisation.
TASK 1
P1 Purpose and functions of HRM
Human resource management is a broad concept which is used through an organisation. It
is a process of developing and recruiting of staff members in order to make business firm more
valuable. HRM activities consist conducting planning, job analysis, hire right individual for job,
training, induction, pay roll and many others. There are some of the functions of HRM given
below as above:
Maintain better working conditions- It is a responsibility of human resource
management to give better working situations to staff members so that the can perform in a better
manner. The manager of ALDI company motivates its employees (Armstrong, 2010).
Training and development- Both are indispensable HRM functions. It is attempt to
improve future or present performance level of staff members through enhancing their ability as
well as knowledge.
Employee relation- Workers are main pillars of company and it is a broad concept. If
the employee relation will be good then in this case working environment will be good and they
all work together in order to achieve aims and objectives with in specific time period.
'Best Fit' approach vs 'Best Practice'
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Best practice Best fit
It leads to the high motivation. This kind of strategy is helpful in
accomplishing competitive advantage.
It is group of the HR policies which consist
reward system.
It advocates reward system of company which
should be straight to strategy of firm.
Hard and soft models of HRM
Soft model refers to emphasized person and also their trust, self- direction, behaviour and
placed commitment at centre of strategic approach to the people (Batt and Colvin, 2011). Under
this, staff members treats most necessary resource in business and source of the competitive
benefits. Main focus of Human Resource Management in requirement of workers, motivation,
roles etc.
In Hard models, manager treats its workers simply as main resource of business such as
buildings and machinery. There is a main focus of hard models of HRM is to determine
workforce requirements of business and hire or manage.
Workforce planning
Types of labour market:
Type of firm Type of labour power market
Independent primary Subordinate primary
Core Lien employees, salaried
workers of technical as well as
professional fields.
Production staff members
which get organized by
competitive with trade unions.
Periphery Craft Secondary
Those staff members which
have high skills are under this.
Those workers which are with
low skills, fear from job
security comes under this.
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