Human Resource Management: Purpose, Function, and Practices

Human resource management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Explaining purpose and function of HRM, applicable to workforce planning and
resourcing within organisation...............................................................................................3
P2 Explain the strength and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection. 4
P3 Explain the benefits of different HRM practices within an organisation for emplyer and
employees...............................................................................................................................6
P4 Evaluate the effectiveness of different HRM practices in terms of raising organisational
profit and productivity............................................................................................................6
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
P5 Analyse the importance of employee relations with respect to influencing HRM decision-
making....................................................................................................................................7
P6 Identification of key elements of employment legislation and its influence of HRM
decision making .....................................................................................................................8
P7 Illustrate the application of HRM practices in work-related context, using specific
examples...............................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Hospitality industry refers to a broad term within service industry where delivering of
various services depends on quality of services delivering to their consumers. Human resource
management refers to the management function which involves planning, organisation, directing
and c0ontrolling within organisation. Purpose of HRM is to ensure about the objective of an
organisation and its employee. Burger King is the chosen hospitality organisation that delivers
their service to consumer. There is need to improve the human resources practices to attract large
number of customer base. In this, report there is discussion about human resource management
and work force planning. There is also explanation and the function of HRM which is applicable
to workforce planning for the selected organisation. There is also discussion about the strengths
and weaknesses of various approaches which are used in recruitment and selection. There is also
discussion about benefits of HRM practices within organisation for employer and employee
both. There is also evaluation of effectiveness of HRM practices to raise organisational
productivity and profit (Ringle, 2020).
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
P1 Explaining purpose and function of HRM, applicable to workforce planning and resourcing
within organisation
Workforce planning refers to the process of analysing, forecasting and planning of
workforce supply and demand, determining target talent management intervention and assessing
gaps to get ensure that Burger king has the right people with right skill at right time. It is
regarding strategic objectives. There are six stage of workforce planning which includes
Strategic direction, supply analysis, demand analysis, gap analysis, solution implementation,
monitoring progress.
Strategic direction- This can help to understand the key mission goal and objective of the
Burger King that is set by the leaders to achieve by workforce needs.
Supply analysis- It helps to get the current workforce within organisation and helps to
understand how it project over time.
Demand analysis- It helps to understand current and future workforce requirement within
organisation (Uddin, 2018).

Gap analysis- It allows to understand the gap between demand and supply and its impact
on the delivery of services within Burger King.
Solution Implementation- It helps to provide intervention to the identified gap between
demand and supply for improving the effectiveness of the Burger King.
Monitoring progress- This step is to monitor the performance of the solution which si
used to fill the gap of the demand and supply within organisation, this can help to improve the
solution to maximise the effect.
Function of the human resource management is to find, hire and motivate and maintain
the workforce within organization. HRM deals with hiring, training, development, compensation,
communication and motivation with administration. Human resource management ensures about
the satisfaction of employees with maximum contribution for achieving organisational
objectives. There are some of the main function of HRM which includes managerial function,
operative function and advisory function. Human resource management of Burger King focuses
on the hiring best employee for the right place to delivering of better services to their customer
for their better experience (Cherif, 2020).
Assessing how functions of HRM can provide talent and skills to fulfil business objectives
Through operative function which includes recruitment and selection, job analysis and
designing, performance appraisal, training and development, wages and salary administration
etc. are helpful to fulfil the talent and skills which can help to fulfil the business objectives.
Advisory function allows to sharing of information and advice to top management who is
responsible for making personnel program, policies and procedures. Managerial function
includes human resource planning, organising, directing and controlling. Through this, Burger
King is able to focus on their employee for their professional improvement in delivery of
services.
P2 Explain the strength and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection
Recruitment- There are two approaches of recruitment which includes internal and
external recruitment. Internal recruitment is the procedure where organisation find out and
recruit their employees. Whereas, internal recruitment involves many procedures like
promotions, freelance, transfer etc. External recruitment refers to selection of candidates outside
form the organisation. There are many type of recruitment which includes employee referrals,
advertisements, direct employment etc. Each recruitment process have their strength and