Human Resource Management Practices at Yo Sushi: A Comprehensive Analysis

Human Resource Management

Table of Contents
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................4
1.0 Introduction................................................................................................................................4
2.0....................................................................................................................................................4
3.0....................................................................................................................................................4
3.1....................................................................................................................................................5
3.2....................................................................................................................................................6
4.0....................................................................................................................................................7
Task 2 a, 2 b, 2 c..............................................................................................................................8
1.0 Introduction................................................................................................................................8
2.0 Evaluation of the benefits and effectiveness of HRM practices................................................9
2.1....................................................................................................................................................9
2.2....................................................................................................................................................9
2.3....................................................................................................................................................9
2.4....................................................................................................................................................9
3.0 Evaluation of Employee Relations and Engagement...............................................................11
3.1..................................................................................................................................................11
3.2..................................................................................................................................................11
3.3..................................................................................................................................................11
4.1..................................................................................................................................................12
4.2..................................................................................................................................................12
4.3..................................................................................................................................................12
4.4..................................................................................................................................................12
4.5..................................................................................................................................................13

5.0 Illustrate the application of HRM practices in a work-related context using specific examples.
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6.0 Conclusion...............................................................................................................................18
Reference List................................................................................................................................19

Task 1
1.0 Introduction
This project report highlights the importance of Human Resource Management in an
organization. To have an in depth understanding of this, an organization is chosen and focus is
made on the purpose and functions of Human Resource Management. The organization chosen
here is ‘Yo Sushi’. This part of the project report will give an overview of Yo Sushi. In order to
understand the purpose and functions of HRM, the approaches to recruitment and selection, and
the strengths and weaknesses of the said approaches is discussed in details.
2.0 Overview of organization
Yo! Sushi is a private restaurant chain, with its headquarters at Soho, London, United Kingdom.
It has around a 100 restaurants worldwide. Sushi is the main delicacy of this restaurant, which
attracts customers from around the world. Yo! Sushi is basically the organization that owns,
franchises and operates conveyor belt sushi restaurants. Its global appearance is primarily
focused in the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States, Middle East and Australia. The
company has a net worth soaring as high as 80 million Euros and also has around 1800
employees across the globe. It was founded in 1997 by Simon Woodroffe (yo.co.uk, 2018).
3.0 Purpose and function of HRM in the organization
The main purpose of the Human Resource Management in Yo! Sushi is to improve the overall
performance of the employees as much as possible and bring it to their conscience that they are a
part of the family of Yo! Sushi. In order to make this possible they have to ensure that numerous
performance related benefits and skill development training is made available to them. To sum
up, HRM is required to deal with the management of the activities of the employees from the
time of joining to the time of retirement. Even though the HRM of the company is required to
perform numerous functions, here is a list of the major functions performed by them:

 Recruitment and Selection- recruitment is the procedure of searching,
examining and selecting the employees that are fit to work in the company (Roth
et al., 2016). The candidates, who fit into the job criteria, are chosen to work.
Recruitment and selection is particularly important because it can help Yo! Sushi
in being cost effective as firing and re-hiring the employees is an expensive affair.
 Orientation- after choosing the employees fit for the various jobs, the next step
of HRM is to help the employees to fit into the environment of Yo! Sushi. In the
orientation program, the employees are acquainted with the objectives and short
and long term goals that the company seeks to achieve. This serves as a
motivation for the employees to work harder.
 Managing employee relations- employees form the basis of any organization.
Managing good relations with the employees is very essential as it has a deep
impact on the behaviour and output of the workers
 Training and development- this indispensible function of HRM in Yo! Sushi
aims to improve the future or current performance of employees by enhancing
their abilities through skill development programs and education.
3.1 Approaches to recruitment and selection
There are two basic approaches followed in Yo! Sushi are listed below.
 Internal approach: internal recruiting involves recruiting from within the company. It
involves transfer of employees from one department to the other. If the overall
performance of an employee is impressive, then he is promoted to a higher job position
(Perlmutter, 2017). If special skills are needed for a post, then the employees are trained
accordingly. Internal method includes the following:
- Internal advertisement
- Promotions
- Giving temporary contracts to employees
- Retired employees can be given a part time job or the position of a freelancer

 External approach: this method is generally used to fill in positions. Employing
employees externally gives a chance to the fresh talent to unleash its creativity and
innovative ideas (Atkinson and Storey, 2016). The sources of external recruitment
include:
- recruitment agencies
- job portals
- advertisement in newspapers and magazines
- campus recruitment
- direct walk in
- website
- internal employee referrals
3.2 Strengths and weakness of approaches
 Internal approach: Strengths:
- The process of selection becomes much more convenient and quick as the option is
restricted to a less number of candidates.
- It involves lower costs as there is no need to pay the fees of recruiters or advertisements.
- Promoting employees internally serves as a motivation for the employees to work harder
as their hard work would be recognized and rewarded.
- The employees get a homely environment and the management is well acquainted with
skill set and the capabilities of the candidates.
- There is no need to provide the employees with an orientation program as they are well
aware of the goals and objectives of the company (Kerzner and Kerzner, 2017). Weakness:
- The HRM might discriminate among the employees. There could be a possibility of
favoritism. This might resent some of the employees who feel they have been deliberately
deprived of promotion.
- New innovative and creative ideas cannot be welcomed.