Human Resource Management in Posh Nosh Limited

Human Resource
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
1.1 Difference between Human Resource Management and Personnel Management...............3
1.2 Functions of Human Resource Management........................................................................4
1.3 Roles and responsibilities of a line manager in Human resource management....................5
1.4 Impact of the legal and regulatory framework on human resource management...............6
TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................6
2.1 Analyses the reasons of Human resource planning and why it is important for organisation
.....................................................................................................................................................6
2. 2 Process of human resource planning. What stages are involved in it..................................7
2.3 Compare the recruitment and selection process in two organisations..................................8
2.4 Effectiveness of recruitment and process in both organisation.............................................9
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................10
3.1 Assess the link between motivational theory and reward...................................................10
3.2 Evaluate the process of job evaluation and other factors determining pay.........................10
3.3 Assess the effectiveness of reward systems in different contexts.......................................11
3.4 Examine the methods organisations use to monitor employee performance......................12
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................13
4.1 Reasons for cessation of employment with an organisation-..............................................13
4.2 Employment exist procedure of different companies-.......................................................13
4.3 Impact of legal and regulatory framework on employment cessation arrangements-.......14
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................15
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is basically defined as the management and administration
of human resource in an organisation, for the effective management of different functions &
activities and coordination among different departments so as to achieve organisation's goals and
objective (Boxall and Purcell, 2011). It is carried out to increase performance of employees in an
organisation. This study is based on the Posh Nosh Limited which is a small medium enterprise
operating in London. It has appointed an HR for the various HR activities in the organisation.
The aim of the study is to find out the role of HR department and identification of key issues. It
will help in understanding the difference between personnel and human resource management,
and how the employees are recruited in an organisation. Employee retention, motivation
techniques and various mechanism for cessation of employees are also analysed in the study.
This study will be helpful in understanding why HR planning is needed in an organisation and
what is the importance of it. Through this several selection and recruitment techniques of
company, and how their employees are different from other companies is also examined in the
study which will eventually help in growth and better management of operations in the company.
TASK 1
1.1 Difference between Human Resource Management and Personnel Management
Human resource management is the process of hiring and developing employees so that
they became able to work efficiently and effectively in the organisation (Bratton and Gold,
2012). It includes job analysis ,identifying personnel need , recruiting the right person at the right
place at the right time ,induction ,training ,providing benefits and incentives ,evaluating the
performance of the employees (Berman and et.al., 2012).
Personnel management is the planning, organising, compensation and maintain the
employees so that they can contribute in achieving the organization's goals. It is an
administrative function at operational level.
Human Resource Management Personnel management
 It is an modern approach for retaining
the employees.
 It is an traditional approach for
maintaining the employees.

 It assumes that employees are the
valuable resources for achieving the
desired result (Storey, 2014).
 It focus on acquiring ,training ,
maintaining ,controlling and motivating
the employees for doing the work
effectively and efficiently.
 It is conducted at all three level
 It focuses on efficiency and
effectiveness, productivity and
participation of the employees.
 In this ,decision are taken collectively
after considering all employees.
 It is pro active in nature.
 It assumes employees are input for
achieving the desired result.
 It focus on employees development
and their welfare or benefits and
maintains labour relation.
 It is conducted at operational or lower
level (Berman and et.al., 2012))
 It focus on the employees satisfaction
and increasing the production.
 In this decision are taken by the top
level management.
 It is reactive in nature.
1.2 Functions of Human Resource Management
Human resource management performs many task in an organisation for achieving the
organisation's goals (Sparrow, Brewster and Chung, 2016). For achieve the Posh nosh 's goal ,a
HR plays very crucial roles .A HR have to perform following functions-
1. Human resource planning- It is the process of determination and ensuring that
organisation have right no. of people at the right place at the right time or have adequate
number of employees or not for performing the functions which will help in achieving the
organisation 's goals and provide satisfaction to the employees (Wright and McMahan,
2011). Basically it involves staffing and employees development.
2. Job analysis- In this HR collects information related to the specific job and prepare job
description like job responsibility ,skills and experience for performing the job , and
material etc (Huselid and Becker, 2011).
3. Staffing- Staffing includes recruitment and selection of human resource for an
organisation. Recruitment is the process to invite the application from the candidates for