Human Resource Management Practices in ASDA

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO1..................................................................................................................................................1
P1 Purpose and functions of HRM, applicable to workforce planning in an organisation.. .1
LO2..................................................................................................................................................3
P3 Benefits of HR practices to employer and employee's......................................................3
P4.Effects of HRM practices..................................................................................................5
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................6
P5 Importance of employee relation in respect to influencing HRM decision-making.........6
P6 Elements of employee legislation and their impact on decision making of HRM............7
P7 Application of HRM practices..........................................................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCE:................................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is a process which focuses on recruitment, management
and providing guidelines to the manpower of company (Albrecht and et.al., 2015). Present report
is based on ASDA company which is a supermarket retailer selling grocery, general merchandise
and financial services. Its revenue is around 21,666 million euro. Further report contains
functions and purpose of HRM which are useful for workforce planning, different methods of
HRM practices and how it is used to raise organisational profits. Report also explains strengths
and weakness of recruitment and selection process and employee relation which influence HR
decisions.
LO1
P1 Purpose and functions of HRM, applicable to workforce planning in an organisation.
HR deals with the concern related to the staff of company in terms of safety, performance,
hiring, motivation, training and development.
There are 2 functions of HRM:
 managerial function (planning, organising)
 operative function (training and development, performance appraisal)
Planning: This function is one of the primary function where goals and objective are set
and policies are laid down to achieve these goals (Bailey and et.al., 2018). It is an important
process to link business strategies and its operations. The purpose of planning is to cope with the
change associated with external environment, recruitment of talented employee, human resource
development, uncertainty reduction and proper utilization of resources. Proper workforce
planning will help ASDA to achieve its goal efficiently and effectively.
Organising: Once the objectives are defined and plans are developed, organization must
design the structure to carry various operations. Organisation group employees to perform their
activities and responsibilities. The purpose of organizing is to allocate right person at right place
at right time with right skills so that everyone know its responsibilities and obstacles are
removed. This function is important and beneficial for ASDA to well define jobs, clarify
authority and maintain coordination between employees.
Training and development: Employees acquire new skills and knowledge to perform
their job effectively. It helps employees to perform higher level responsibilities (Berman and
et.al., 2019). The main purpose of training and development in ASDA is to improve quality of
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workforce, enhance employee growth, assist them to learn new methods and technologies,
linkage between corporate goals and business strategies and employee retention.
Performance appraisal: Employees of an organization are evaluated as per their
performance. This function helps in finding out if the employees of an organization are moving
towards the goals and objective. Organization evaluates whether employees need improvement or
not. The main purpose of this function is to analyses performance of employees and arrange
training session accordingly so that performance of workers can be improved. Furthermore, its
purpose is to promote the right person by evaluating their performance. Performance appraisal is
beneficial for ASDA to evaluate the weakness of the employees and provides clarity of
expectation and actual result. It helps the management of ASDA company to place the right
employee as per their skills in particular area and promote or demote the employees on the basis
of the results (Bou‐Llusar and et.al., 2016).
P2 Strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection.
Recruitment: It creates job for large number of employees. It establishes relationship
between employer and the applicant.
There are 2 sources of recruitment:
 Internal recruitment
 External recruitment
Internal recruitment: It can be done through promotions and transfers. ASDA company
may also allow existing employees to switch from temporary or part-time position to permanent
or full-time positions.
 The strength or advantage of internal recruitment, it is cost-effective, can boost employee
morale, people are familiar to the business. It also helps to retain talented employees and
reduce employee turnover and keep them motivated to work hard and give their best
(Bratton and Gold., 2017).
 The weakness or disadvantage is that hiring candidates from within the organization limit
the number of potential new candidates and additionally miss out the fresh ideas and
perspective and workplace conflicts may arise.
External recruitment: It is a process of searching pool of employees outside the
company to fill the vacant position and see if there are any sufficient skilled and qualified
candidates available to perform the job. ASDA uses external source of recruitment through
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