Benefits of Employee Relations in HRM Decision-Making

Human Resource
Management

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................1
The purpose & functions of HRM applicable to workforce planning....................................1
Strength & weakness of different approaches to recruitment and selection..........................3
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................4
Benefit of HRM practices for both employer and employee.................................................4
The effectiveness of HRM practices in relations to increasing organisational profit............5
Task 3 ..............................................................................................................................................6
Benefits of employee relation influencing HRM decision-making........................................6
Employment legislation and its outcome on HRM decision-making.....................................6
Task 4 ..............................................................................................................................................7
The application of HRM practices .......................................................................................7
Conclusion ......................................................................................................................................9
References .....................................................................................................................................11

Introduction
Human resource management is defined as the process of managing, training and
improving performance of human resource in the organisation, it is strategic approach towards
effective management of availability of skilled human resource at the right place at the right
time. Human resource management is the process involving hiring, training, compensating and
motivating employees towards achieving goals and objectives. In this report Marks & Spencer is
taken as the base company. It is one of the top multinational retail company dealing in selling
clothing, home and food products, presently having more than 900 stores across united
kingdom . Company was founded in 1884 by Michael Mark and Thomas Spencer. This report
covers functions and purpose of HRM with strength and weaknesses of different methods of
recruitment and selection also proper evaluation of organisation's approach to HRM activity like
workforce planning, development and training, also performance management and reward
system. In addition to this different methods used in HRM practices and their effectiveness and
benefits for both employer and employee is highlighted above. Furthermore important feature of
employee relations management and employment legislation and how applications of HRM
influence the decision making also highlighted in the above report.
Task 1
The purpose & functions of HRM applicable to workforce planning.
Marks and Spencer company is one of the top multinational retail company founded in
1884 by Michael marks and Thomas Spencer, company dealing in clothing and food products
having more than 700 stores across united kingdom and around 350 across the world (Alvehus,
2018).
Mission: The mission statement of Marks and Spencer is to produce quality products and
services accessible to all.
Purpose: The core purpose of company is to inspire millions of consumers visiting their store,
the purpose of the company is simple to enhance lives. Everyday.
Core business objectives: The core objective of the company is to maintain their leadership
position in clothing and food section, by continuously providing superior quality and value added
products (Chang and Chin, 2018).
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The human resource department helps in placing right people at the right job and
enhancing the performance of employees with proper training and development. Human resource
department is necessary to carefully define various roles and responsibilities in order to
implement various policies. In context to the chosen company the various functions that are
needed to be performed by the human resource manager are highlighted below:
Planning: The top most function of human resource manager is planning, the HR
department needs carefully make plans for recruiting and selecting skilled candidate, what type
of training needs to be provided. In context to Marks and Spencer, this function allows company
to ensure that each and every vacant space is filled with skilled and qualified candidate, and also
allow company to focus on enhancing performance of employees (Gravili and Fait, 2016).
Training and development: The another function of human resource department is to
provide proper training to its employees to enhance their performance. Human resource
department of Marks and Spencer ensure that each and every employee is provided with required
training as per the requirement to enhance their productivity and performance.
Compensation and benefits: Another function of human resource manager is to ensure
that employees are getting their salary on time and fairly and also other benefits are given to
them according to their performance. In respect to the chosen firm, human resource department
of the company ensure that each and every employee is paid timely and fairly, also given other
bonus and benefits as per their performance.
The purpose of human resource management are:
Employee relations: The main purpose of human resource management is to ensure that
relationship between employee and employer is good and positive also employees are satisfied
with their role in the organisation. In context to the Marks and Spencer, the company focus on
maintaining good relationship between employer and the management by satisfying their needs
effectively (Greenwood and Van Buren, 2017).
Maintaining performance and compensation: The human resource department evaluates
the performance of its employees regularly and ensures that proper compensation is provided to
them. In context to Marks & Spencer, human resources that each and every employees is given
faire compensation and their performance is properly evaluated continuously.
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