Human Resource Management: Roles, Responsibilities, and Practices in Sainsbury

Human resource management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Purpose and roles and responsibilities of HR function................................................................3
Strengths and weakness of different approaches of organization...............................................4
Effectiveness and approaches of different HRM practices in Sainsburry.................................5
Identification of the key areas of employment legislation within which the organization should
work.............................................................................................................................................7
Application of HRM practices using examples..........................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is sector of organization that looks for recruiting, fifing and
managing the staff. HRM also focuses on the purpose of people within business and assure the
best work best in organization at all time (Ahammad, Glaister and Gomes, 2020). Sainsbury is
second largest chain of supermarket includes some product groceries, clothes, beauty products
and many more, which was founded by John James Sainsbury. The company is divided into
three splits supermarkets, Argos and Banks. This report assess of purpose and the key roles and
responsibilities of HR function and also evaluate the strengths and weakness of different in
recruitment and selection. The report states about the benefits of HRM practices within employer
and employee and different effectiveness practices of organization profit. Also, analysing the
internal and external that affect the human resource management decision-making with
employment legislation and applying the HRM practices to work related.
Purpose and roles and responsibilities of HR function
Following purpose of HR function of Sainsbury-
Performance appraisal:- In Sainsburry HR identify the performance of employee on basis of
completion of task goals or objective (Argote and Hora, 2017). HR is also responsible for
making performance of employee and keep them motivating for work and make them to stay
with organization.
Employee relationship:- HR have to maintain the relationship with employee. Sainsburry
organization HR process focus on giving benefits as rewards, promotion, bonus and proper
training just to make relation better.
Solving problem:- HR helps in solving conflicts of employee in Sainsburry as it is a
multinational supermarket they can face many challenges and HR revolving plays vital role in
accepting the situation.
People need:- Sainsbury make sure about the right position of employee at right place. HR
department have main focused on recruiting and selecting the employee with some skills and
knowledge.
Roles and responsibilities of human resource function-
Training and development:-Sainsburry HR department helps employee in developing their skills
and knowledge according to company requirements.

Hiring and selection:- The brand image of company also helps in attracting the candidates for
applying and doing job in organization. As more and more people are selected with best right
working position.
Planning:- HR planning is must important for Sainsburry organization which helps them in
achieving goals and spelled out the competitive market (Crossan and et. al., 2017). Basically, it is
mandatory for HR team to focus on growth of organization and identifies the requirement of
future goals.
Workplace safety:- Many safety rules and regulation are created by Sainsburry for employee
benefits and always make sure about providing the better environment at workplace.
Strengths and weakness of different approaches of organization
Recruitment- It is process which helps organization in finding the best candidates while by
offering the job applicants. By using this method the right person will get selected for Sainsburry
company which helps them in developing their organization in competitive market. The
followings source recruitment used-
Internal sources: In this process hiring is done only within the organization with transfer or
promotion. Sainsbury has more strengths in doing internal components as it reduce cost and save
the time and also believe in employee with more creative.
External sources: It is process which is done campus, social links or through some agencies for
organization. Weakness can be created more due to consuming more time and used more
resources. Selecting more creative candidates can be strengths of Sainsbury.
Selection- This process can be done after the applicants is being approved for candidates, and
they are being selected for organization (Delery and Gupta, 2016). Sainsburry HR team identify
the right people for company to be need and fill the vacant job. Selection process can be done
through-
Interview- This is conducting for checking the capabilities of candidates and their qualification.
It can strength for company in choosing right person for vacant job in Sainsbury.
Group discussion- Sainsburry selected their employee with good knowledge and confident
employee as they give one topic to group and ask for discussion. Strengths can be make for
company in saving time and weakness can be selecting more people.