Functions and Purpose of Human Resource Management

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

Contents
INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1.................................................................................................................................................3
P1: Functions and purpose of Human Resource Management...........................................................3
P2: Strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection........................4
TASK 2.................................................................................................................................................6
P3: Benefits of HRM practices for both employee and employer......................................................6
P4: Effectiveness of different human resource management practices..............................................7
TASK 3.................................................................................................................................................9
P5: Importance of employee relation in respect to influencing HRM decision making.....................9
P6: Key components of employment legislation and its impact on HRM decision making...............9
TASK 4...............................................................................................................................................10
P7: Application of Human Resource Management practices in work-related context.....................10
CONCLUSION...................................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES....................................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
There are different departments in an organisation such as operation, human resource,
finance and sales department which performs different functions from each other in order to
achieve desired goals and objectives. Among such departments, the roles and responsibilities
of Human Resource department are discussed under this report. The manager of HR
department plays a valuable role in fulfilling the requirements of Human Resource in an
organisation. The present assignment is based on B&M which is a retail industry deals in
providing wide range of grocery products to the people of United Kingdom. The project
explaining the purpose and functions of HRM along with different approaches of recruitment
and selection in addition with their strengths and weaknesses. The importance of employee
relation and contribution of various HRM practices in achieving productivity and profitability
of company are also discussed under this report. The government legislations related with
employment has been also covered under this report (Armstrong and Taylor, 2014).
TASK 1
P1: Functions and purpose of Human Resource Management
Human resource management plays an important role as compared to other
departments of an organisation in achieving desired goals and objectives through providing
skilled and knowledgeable workforce to an organisation. Their roles start from the
recruitment process and continues till the employees gives maximum contribution in
achieving desired target of an organisation. It means HR management are wholly liable to
develop the personality of employees and makes them more effective through adopting
various HRM practices in order to give profitable outcome to company. HRM of B&M
performs different functions which are as follows:
Recruitment and selection: The roles and responsibilities of HR starts with recruiting
skilled and qualified candidates for an organisation with an expectation of gaining maximum
support from them in achieving competitive advantage. Recruitment can be done through
inviting qualified candidates to apply for the vacant job position offered by an organisation.
After passing all recruitment process, selection is the final stage in which an appointment
letter has been given to candidates (Flamholtz, 2012).
Orientation: It is a practice which is done with an aim of maintains good relation
with new candidates and defined company’s vision, mission and objectives towards them

with the purpose of motivating them to work hard and perform their roles and responsibilities
in profitable manner.
Creating healthy work environment: Collecting feedbacks and asking suggestions
will bring motivation and self-confidence among employees of B&M due to which the
working environment will be healthier. Supporting employees at every step help manager in
creating good atmosphere at workplace.
Managing employee relation: HR managers of B&M are held responsible to conduct
some interactive programs with the purpose of establishing good relations with new
employees so as to gain maximum support from them in near future.
Training and development: It is such a HRM practices which is essential for HR
management to adopt on regular basis in order to enhance the potential and capabilities of
employees of B&M so as to achieve maximum possible result (Huselid and Becker, 2011).
P2: Strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection
Recruitment and selection are two important activities which are done after each
other. At first, recruitment process can be done through inviting eligible candidates to apply
for the vacant job position offered by an organisation and after passing all stages of
recruitment process, the HR Manager make selections on the basis of their performance in
recruitment process and their qualification. Both are further described as under:
Recruitment: It is the process of inviting skilled and qualified candidates through
giving an advertisement on newspapers, pamphlets, company’s website etc. in order to attract
large number of applicants. There are mainly two approaches of recruitment which are as
follows along with their strengths and weaknesses:
Internal approach: It is the process of identifying more skilled and knowledgeable
employees among existing ones and provides them opportunity to get higher position in
company (Renwick, Redman and Maguire, 2013). It can be done in the form of promotion,
extension of services etc. It has some strengths and weaknesses too which are as follows:
Strengths Weaknesses
 Promoted employees are very much
aware of the working environment
thus takes minimum to adjust.
 No changes in working procedure due
to restrictions on entry of new
candidates having new and innovative