Importance of Employee Relations in HRM Decision-Making

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
PART 1............................................................................................................................................3
1) An overview of the organisation........................................................................................3
2) Explanation and assessment on the purpose of the HR function and the key roles and
responsibilities of the HR function. .......................................................................................4
3) Explain, assess and critically evaluate the approaches to workforce aspects. Also explain
and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches. ..........................................5
4)Analyse and evaluate the importance of employees’ relations in respect to influencing HRM
decision-making. ...................................................................................................................7
5) Identify the key areas of employment legislation within which the organisation must work.
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PART 2 ...........................................................................................................................................9
1)The design of a job specification for one of a number of given positions in the organization.
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2) Curriculum vitae-1...........................................................................................................10
3) Preparation notes for interview........................................................................................12
4) Job offer Letter.................................................................................................................13
5) Document and explain complete process of recruitment...................................................1
6) Evaluation of this process and principle for implementing HRM practices......................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is basically an approach for effective management in an
organisation in order to attain target goals and objectives. It is developed for enhancing the
performance of employees so that strategic objectives of he employees could be achieved. It is
basically a process of selecting, recruiting, providing assistance, praising the performance of
employees and maintain a healthy relationship with employees (Noe and et.al., 2017). The
following report is based on Marks and Spenser which is a multinational retailing organisation
situated in London. It was founded by Michael Marks and Thomas Spencer in the year 1884.It is
a fast fashion retailing organisation that supplies high quality of clothing, home and food
products. The following report is going to cover number of aspects of human resource
management in an organisation. Purpose and responsibilities of HR function will be covered.
Strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection will be discussed.
Furthermore, internal and external factors that affect Human Resource Management decision-
making, including employment legislation will be covered. At last, Human Resource
Management practices in a work-related context will be implemented.
PART 1
1) An overview of the organisation.
Marks and Spenser is a multinational organisation in London which was established by
Michael Marks and Thomas Spencer in the year 1884. The organisation is specialised in
supplying high quality of clothes, food products and home products. It has a global business with
around 977 stores across different locations in UK (About Marks and Spenser, 2019). Out of
which 615 stores are exclusive only for selling food products. It is one of the most leading
retailer in United Kingdom. Through constant creativity and innovation they make their products
unique from the other retailing organisation and delight their customers in different parts of the
world. They work with their suppliers in a close manner in order to bring innovations in their
products. The core purpose of the Marks and Spenser is to connect large number of customers
with them and expand the business at a large extent. The brand has been developed by
considering the core values of service, quality, trust and innovation. Aim of the organisation is
to develop a sustainable business by the means of constant and profitable growth and to meet the
criteria and demands of their service users.

2) Explanation and assessment on the purpose of the HR function and the key roles and
responsibilities of the HR function.
Human resource management is a approach to selecting, recruitment and managing
stakeholders and staff members in a particular organisation. Respective department has the key
responsibility of bringing right candidates in the organisation, provide them assistance and
training, mange performance and solving issues and conflicts of employees (Mondy and
Martocchio, 2016). Core function of the HRM is to deliver the information about policies and
rules to the staff members and motivate them to work efficiently with their overall potential in
order to achieve target goals and objectives. It helps in enhancing overall development and
success of organisation and to develop a positive and healthy culture for the employees. HRM
plays a major role in Marks and Spenser by encouraging and motivating employees to achieve
target goals and objectives.
Purpose of HRM
Desired purpose of human resource management is discussed here.
 Staffing: The main purpose of Human resource management is to recruit and selected
skilled and talented employees within the organisation which is to provide best of the
employees in order to achieve target goals and objectives. Respective department conduct
screening of applications of different candidates and then select one right candidate from
that pool.
 Relationship with employees: Purpose of HRM is to develop and mange a healthy
relationship with the employees (Bratton and Gold, 2017). They conduct number of
activities in order to build communication with the employees and to fulfil their
requirements.
 Organisational culture:HRM department of Marks and Spenser have a purpose of
creating and developing a healthy environment an culture. It is responsible for creating a
friendly business environment by solving issues and conflicts of the employees.
Roles and Responsibilities:
 Recruitment and training: The key responsibility of the HR function is to recruit and
train new employees within the organisation. This particular function generally involves
promoting vacancies, hiring and interviewing candidates and keeping the time aside
which is require to train the employees.