Human Resource Management: Concept, Functions, Workforce Planning, Recruitment, and Selection

This report provides an overview of Human Resource Management, including its concept and functions. It discusses the importance of workforce planning and how it helps in recruiting and selecting talent for Netflix. The report also includes two job descriptions posted on Netflix and evaluates the advantages and limitations of different recruitment and selection approaches.

Human Resource
Management

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................4
1. Concept of HRM & purpose of HRM in context of Netflix. ..................................................4
2. Explain different key functions of HRM and how it will achieve their business objectives. .5
3. Concept of workforce planning and how effective workforce planning help in recruiting as
well as selecting talent for Netflix. .............................................................................................6
4. Difference between selection & recruitment along with their approaches. ............................6
5. Two job descriptions posted on Netflix and critically evaluate its advantages as well as
limitations of using various recruitment & selection approaches. ..............................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REEFRENCE.................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Human Resource Management define as an essential technique adopted by the management
team of the organisation so they can select, recruit, manage & develop employees for the
accomplishment of organisational goals. In this report, Netflix is chosen as the base organisation
which is an American media service provider, headquarter is located in California. The company
was founded by Reed Hastings & Marc Randolph in 1997 (Ariss and Sidani, 2016). This report
includes discussion about the concept of human resource, main purpose as well as function of
human resource management. Along with this, description of the concept of workforce planning
are included in this report. In addition to this, difference between recruitment and selection are
also going to be included.
Main Body
1. Concept of HRM & purpose of HRM in context of Netflix.
Human Resource Management is one of the most essential tool adopted by the
management team of the deal with the employees and staff members of the organisation in an
effective manner. it refers to a procedure with the assistance of all the managers and help
employees work in an appropriate and significant manner (Andersén, 2019). In reference to
Netflix, it has been said that managers of the business entity use HRM so that they can
effectively use their workforce for the attainment of organisational goals and objectives. It is
very essential for the management of a company to use the employees in an effective and
appropriate manner so they can fulfil their job roles and attain their pre define task and
objectives.
Purpose of HRM: For keeping high confidence of personnel within the company: In the present context of
Netflix, it is said that managers of the business entity encourage their staff members on a
continuous basis so they feel satisfied and perform their work effectively and
appropriately. For this, management team in the company can provide benefits, perks,
incentives as well as monetary and non-monetary benefits to the employees as per their
performance. This will assist in performing their task in a positive manner and retain
them for a longer period of time duration.
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 To maintain sufficient manpower stock: In reference to Netflix, it is said that main
purpose of HR manager is to maintain sufficient amount of staff members within the
workplace whenever it is required (Armstrong and Taylor, 2020). Along with this, it is
also necessary for the HR manager to identify the current & required staff members
within the business entity. This will assist them in managing right people at right time at
right place.
2. Explain different key functions of HRM and how it will achieve their business objectives.
Functions of HRM:
It has been said that the functions of HRM is generally distributed into two main kinds
which comprises of managerial as well as operative functions. Both of these functions are going
to be discussed as follows: Managerial functions: It refers to the HRM function where management team of Netflix
organise, plan, direct, staff as well as control all the functions of the business operations
in an effective way (Becker and Smidt, , 2016). For this, manager in Human resource
department of the company start their activities by planning and organising all the
activities in an appropriate manner. Once all the resources are being arranged by the
manager, it is required by them to staff their company with capable and skilled staff
members. Furthermore, management of the company direct and provide guidance to the
staff members so they can perform all their functionality according to the requirement.
 Operative functions: In the present context of Netflix, operative function of HR manager
has to make development of employees, encourage and procure their staff members so
they can attain all their pre-defined objectives within given time period. it is essential for
the management team to retain their capable staff members and ensure their growth and
development by giving them training & development sessions.
With the help of effective HRM function, managers in the company can easily attain their goals
and objectives. Managerial as well as operational function of HRM assist in developing
strategies and policies for the accomplishing of all the business objectives in an effective
manner. For attaining organisational goals and objectives it is very necessary for the managers to
provide training and development sessions to their staff members so that they can increase their
efficiency and productivity in a more effective manner.
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3. Concept of workforce planning and how effective workforce planning help in recruiting as
well as selecting talent for Netflix.
Workforce planning refers to a process used by large number of business organisations in
order to identify their existing as well as desired human resource requirements (Brunstein, 2016).
The main aim behind conducting workforce planning is to hire or select best as well as capable
staff members for the right job role at right time as well as right place. This as a result assist
them in order to perform their task effectively and attain their goals and objectives within given
time frame and in appropriate manner. in the present concept of Netflix, it is said that the human
resource manager conduct workforce planning on a regular basis so they can attain their task
with the help of skilled and capable staff members. By doing effective and appropriate workforce
planning managers can easily hire, select and recruit skilled, capable and knowledgeable staff
members who assist them in attaining their goals and objectives within limited time frame.
It can be identified that effective workforce planning, managers of Netflix can easily
recruit and select best workforce for their organisation ( Delery and Gupta, 2016). Workforce
planning help in identifying the current requirement of employees within the workplace and this
will aid managers in developing recruiting and selection strategy. By developing workforce
planning, requirements and needs within the personal will be identified and then the managers
develop strategies and policies in order to hire, select or recruit best and most suitable staff
members for the business entity.
4. Difference between selection & recruitment along with their approaches.
Recruitment and selection are determined as the two main methods through which company
effectively find outs best suitable candidate for the businesses and then they selects them
according to the core requirement of the company. Both methods have range of approaches
which are used by businesses as per the situations. Difference between recruitment and
selection methods and there approaches are clearly specified below in detailed manner:
Recruitment Selection
This is basically determined as the effective
method through which company develops
effective relations among the employers and
applicants.
The main objective is to encourage pool
On the other hand, selection is considered as
the process through which manager of the
company picks up most suitable employee for
the organisation according to Job Description.
Here, the main objective is to reject non
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number of candidates towards the job.
This process is determined as simplest one
(Guest, Panayotopoulou and Chytiri, 2017).
Recruitment is mainly taken as positive
approach or method as it motivates candidates
to apply for the job post.
Recruitment is cost effective method as in this
all candidates goes through the screening
process in order to help manager in getting
basic overview about applicant and its
compatibility with the company.
Employee referral, Virtual reality, social
media, Mobile recruitment etc. are some of
the approaches that are commonly used for
the recruitment.
skilled or eligible candidate so that they can
easily find out best suitable employee for their
company.
This one is acknowledged as the most
complicated as compared to recruitment.
Whereas, selection is determined as negative
approach or method as it rejects candidates on
the basis of their skills, knowledge and
experience. This simply develops sense of
negativity among candidates.
It is determined as the most expensive method
as in this business manager gives huge time to
each and every candidate in order to check
that whether their skills match with the
company or not. This whole procedure
consumes lots of time as well as money of
organisation.
On the other hand, different approaches of
selection methods are presentation, interview,
aptitude test, group discussion etc.
On the basis of overall description provided on recruitment and selection process it can be
said that both of them are highly important for the company (Kehoe and Han, 2020). This is so
because, it provides lots of options to the manager of the company among which they can easily
select more talented candidate and attain their organisational goals and objectives in quicker
manner in order to attain success. In addition to this, it can be further said that business
organisation can easily bring fresh talent with these methods in the company that day by day
improves business performance and contributes in executing organisational work in timely
manner.
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5. Two job descriptions posted on Netflix and critically evaluate its advantages as well as
limitations of using various recruitment & selection approaches.
Job description: It refers a written document includes detail information about the job role
which includes roles, duties and responsibilities need to be performed by the person in an
effective manner.
Job Description
Company Name Netflix
Title of the Job Marketing Manager
Location of the Job United Kingdom
Reporting person Head of Department
Roles, duties & responsibilities  Examination of trends and requirements of
customers in order to produce services.
 Effective decision making skill so they can take
decision within limited time frame after analysing
all the requirements and need of customers.
Working Hours 10.00 am to 6:00 pm
Salary 6000 Pound per month
Working Facilities for staff members Healthy, positive, safe and secure working atmosphere for
the staff members. Benefits and incentives as per the
performance of employees.
Job Description
Company Name Netflix
Title Human Resource Manager
Location United Kingdom
Reporting person Top management authority of the organisation (CEO)
Roles, duties and responsibilities  Provide skilled and capable candidate to the
organisation who assist them in performing their
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job role in an effective manner.
 Create healthy and positive working atmosphere
and reduce conflicts and disputes arise within the
workplace within given time frame.
 Develop effective strategies and policies for
motivating staff members working in the
company.
Working Hours 9.30 am to 6:00 pm
Salary 9000 Pound per month
Working Facilities for employees Create positive environment, basic facilities and reduce
conflicts and disputes within given time frame and
provide benefits to encourage them on a regular basis.
Advantages and limitation of recruitment and selection approaches:
Recruitment: In context of recruitment approaches advantages of social media, mobile
recruitment, virtual method is that it is less costly and help in attracting large number of skilled
and capable staff members for the organisation (Moore and Jennings, .2017). On the other hand,
limitation of this approach is that it is time consuming and requires proper knowledge and
expertise in the field so they will be able to hire best and most suitable staff member.
Selection: Similarly in case of selection approach, presentation, interview, group discussion are
the method which is time consuming but on the other hand help in selecting best and most
capable staff member for the business entity. It requires highly skilled expertise HR manager
who can effectively take decision whether to hire the candidate or not.
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CONCLUSION
With the help of above mentioned report, it is identified that human resource management is
one of the most essential element which assist in developing organisation in an effective manner.
It has also been concluded that purpose as well as function of HRM assist in attaining goals &
objectives of company in an effective manner. Also, different recruitment & selection
approaches assist in hiring best and most suitable candidate for the organisation. With the help
in workforce planning, best and desirable candidate for the organisation will be adopted by the
management team of the organisation by using appropriate recruitment and selection approach.
Apart from this, job description is also developed in this report which includes the requirements
of job role within Netflix.
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REEFRENCE
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