Report on Purpose and Functions of HRM

Human Resource Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
LO1 purpose and scope of Human Resource Management in terms of resourcing BA with
talent and skills appropriate to fulfil business objectives.......................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
LO2 effectiveness of the key elements of Human Resource Management in an organisation6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
LO3 Internal and external factors that affect Human Resource Management decisionmaking,
including employment legislation..........................................................................................9
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................11
LO4 Human Resource Management practices in a work.....................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management (HRM) is the process of managing employees in company.
The duty of this department is to maximise employee’s performance in service of an employers
strategic objectives. The primary work HR department is to develop policies and system,
employee recruitment, training and development, performance appraisal and rewarding. The
company is largest supermarket in UK. This company is the largest grocery retailer and an early
adopter of self-service retailing in UK.This report explains about the purpose and functions of
HRM, strengths and weaknesses of different approaches of recruitment, benefits of different
HRM practices for employer and employee, effectiveness of HRM practices in terms of raising
organisational profit, importance of employee relations which influence HRM decision making
and application of HRM practices at workplace along with various related concepts.
TASK 1
LO1 purpose and scope of Human Resource Management in terms of resourcing BA with talent
and skills appropriate to fulfil business objectives.
Human resource management is coordination of organisations employees to achieve
specific objectives, fulfil staff needs and maintain employee relation in company. HRM
accomplishes all these things by effectual use of people, processes and technology that focuses

on internal part of organisation rather than external environment. This company is the big
organisation which also uses all these practice to manage their employees. It is very necessary
that HRM department works properly so they can motivate and guide their employees and solve
their problems. There are many function of HRM department in company are: Recruitment: The main function of HR department is to recruit employees in company
because they are the workforce of the company on which activities of organisation
depends. This company also successful because of the devoted employees of the
company. The HR department of this company Follows the procedure to appoint the
employees which is advertise job postings, source candidates, screen application, conduct
preliminary interviews and coordinate hiring efforts with managers whom are responsible
for making final selection of candidates. Safety: Another important factor on which HR department has to focus is that the safety
of employees at workplace. It is the big company and lots of employees are working there
so its is the duty of the HR to maintain the safety of employees otherwise they have to
bear the legal actions. As per, occupational and Health Act of 1970, employers and all the
companies has the duty to provide safe working environment for employees. It is the
function of the HR department to provide safety training to employees and maintain
federally mandated logs for work[place injury and fatality reporting. They also
responsible to manage the company's workers compensation issues.
 Employee relation: It is the duty of the HR department to maintain healthy employee’s
relation in company. It is necessary because whole working of company depends upon
the performance and if relation between employees is not good then it will affect the
whole organisation. HR department of Sans bury maintains the employee and employer
relation through measuring job satisfaction, employee engagement and resolving
workplace conflict. For the purpose of motivating them and maintaining healthy
relations, it is required that compensation should be provided as per norms and review
timely.
There are two sources of recruitment adopted by Sans bury to appoint an employee which
are:
 Internal sources