HRM Practices in Workforce Planning and Selection

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
(a) Purpose of workforce planning and role of HR manager......................................................1
(b) Strengths and weakness of various approaches of recruitment and selection.......................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
HRM practices in work related context......................................................................................3
a) Job Advertisement ..................................................................................................................3
b) Different Channels of Advertisement ....................................................................................3
c) Person Specification and Job Description...............................................................................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
(a) Difference between training and development......................................................................5
B) Identification of training and needs and its methods used by TESCO..................................6
C) Systematic Approach to training and development...............................................................8
d) Effectiveness of Tesco’s training and development practice..................................................8
TASK 4...........................................................................................................................................9
a) Analysis on importance for ITV to maintain good employee relations..................................9
b) Components of employment legislation and how this influences HR decision making of
ITV............................................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Concept of human resource management is the one which assists and guides manager in
the process of recruitment and selection of employees. Human resource manager organises
various functions and activities related with workers of company such as training and
development, orientation, motivation, compensation and their appraisal. One of the major
benefits of this concept is that it helps enterprise in retaining employees for a long time period
which provides competitive advantage to firm. Woodhill College and Tesco are taken in the
present study. Woodhill College is an education institution which offers different types of
educational courses to its students and Tesco is a British multinational grocery retailer. Role of
human resource manager in an enterprise and various approaches of recruitment and selection
with its strengths and weakness are all given in this report. Further, differentiation between
training and development with benefits of training to enterprise are also mentioned here. In
addition to this, major elements of employment legislations which affect the process of human
resource management are detailed.
TASK 1
(a) Purpose of workforce planning and role of HR manager
Workforce planning
It provides opportunity to the management of Wood hill college regarding development
of effective strategies. It helps in identification of the needs and priorities of different department
of college. It helps in recruiting, staffing etc.
Workforce planning refers to the process of acquiring, managing and retaining the skilled
workers which help and support enterprise in achieving its end goals and results. In context of
Woodhill College, concept of HRM defines the adequate plans and also helps in maintaining
effective communication among all departments which increase effectiveness of business
activities.
Workforce planning is a continuous process which is used by firms to align the needs of
enterprise with those of its workforce in order to meet with regulatory, legislative and production
requirements of firm. This is known as one of the major functions of human resource
management and this consists an systematic analysis what a company require to need in terms of
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its knowledge, skills, experience and size to achieve its objectives related with workforce. Role a
manager in Woodhill can be understood by following points: Figurehead role of manager: Manager is the one who performs duties such as signing
legal documents, welcoming official visitors and many more. Duties of a manager under
an interpersonal role includes undertake relevant communication, take decisions related
with functioning of business and many more. Leadership role of a manager: All managers of enterprise perform a leadership role. He
is the one who brings and maintains coordination among various departments in case of
any kind of change. This consists hire, offer training and encourage employees to
perform well.
 Monitor role of manager: Manager is the one who collects a large amount of information
by examining various functions executed by firm. Further, he monitors all business
operations and take relevant decisions.
Manager play a big role as he is the one which ensure effective management of all business
operations and help firm in achieve its set goals and objectives in an effective manner. Manager
is the one which allocate resources to employees so they can perform their job roles and
responsibilities and further he is the one that that guide and encourage workers to work well.
Purpose of workforce planning
 Defining job roles and responsibilities: Workforce planning helps in defining the roles
and responsibilities to each and every individual which is working in wood hill college. It
also helps in determination of the staffing needs of each department.
 Increase efficiency in human resources: Workforce planning includes the activities
related to preparation of training programmes. It provides the opportunity regarding
improvement of their skills.
 Improvement in allocation of resources: Determination of resources and staffing level
helps in effective allocation of the resources to the different department according to their
requirements.
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