Human Resource Management Assignment - North Yorkshire
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Human Resource Management Assignment - North Yorkshire
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3a) Purpose of HR function and its importance to the organization and problems and futureplans for further growth of company..........................................................................................3b) Strengths and weaknesses of the current selection methods used by the organization .........4c) Potential improvements that could be made by Chocolate Presence to enhance its selectionprocess.........................................................................................................................................5TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6a) Person specification for the role..............................................................................................6b) Advantages and disadvantages of the current methods of advertising jobs in theorganization.................................................................................................................................6c) Recommending and placing importance of job advert for receptionist vacancy....................8TASK3 ..........................................................................................................................................9a) Benefits of training schemes and internships to the organisation and employees..................9b) Flexible working arrangements and their evaluation............................................................10c) Motivational ways followed by Microsoft by designing job roles.......................................11TASK4...........................................................................................................................................12a) Explain employee engagement and its importance in effective employee relation..............12b) Key approaches to engaged workers and improving communication at workplace.............13c) Key elements of employment legislation and their influence on HR decision.....................14CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................15REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16
INTRODUCTIONHuman resource management is the art of managing the manpower within a businessorganization. This department is designed to enhance the performance of employees within thecompany. With the help of this, firm can gain the competitive advantage among the rivals. In thisassignment, there are two companies which are taken to show the applications of human resourcemanagement. The company in which task 1 and 2 included is chocolate presence which is basedin North Yorkshire in UK and the company in which task 3 and 4 included is Microsoft which isan American company based in Washington. In this report, purpose and scope of HRM and theeffectiveness of key elements of HRM is discussed. It will further elaborate about effectivenessof key elements of human resources management in company. Apart from that, internal andexternal factors that affect HRM decision-making is discussed. In the end, human resourcemanagement practices are also applied in a work related context.TASK 1a) Purpose of HR function and its importance to the organization and problems and future plansfor further growth of company.Purpose of HR functionStaffing:It is one of the main purpose of HR function. Staffing denotes the hiring of eligiblecandidates for a specific position in a company. As per the scenario of chocolate presence,staffing plays an important role in resolving the issues of company. It helps the company inrecruiting the right candidate for a specific job role. This will assist the company in increasing itsquality of items (Baker, 2014).Compensation and performance management:Compensation management is the art of attracting the best employees in the organization.Performance of those employees should also be managed properly so that issues of chocolatepresence will be resolved. When the best employee within the company are selected this willenhance the quality of their chocolate. This results in reducing the employee turn over within thecompany.Importance of HR functionStrategic management:
HR is liable in managing the human resources within the company. In case of Chocolatepresence, the company is facing an issue of reduction in the quality of chocolate. This ishappened somehow due to the mismanagement of resources in the company (Beach and Lipshitz,2017). Strategic management will help the company to resolve the issues which are occurring inthe quality of product. Wages and Salaries:Chocolate presence is facing an issue of employee turn over. There could be somereasons of wages and salaries among the employees. HR manager has the responsibility in thecompany to have discussion with the employees. The issues related with wages and salariesshould be resolved with the help of communication of HR with the employees. Thus employeeturnover in the company can be reduced.The company is facing many issues related with the employees such as employeeturnover, quality of items and the issue of fairness of the test conducted by company to selectcandidates. These are several issues which company is facing. To overcome these issuescompany should talk with the employees so that it can find out reason by which employees areleaving (Beare and et. al.,2018). HR manager has the responsibility to talk with administrationabout the issues of employees. This issue can be resolved by increasing the wages and salaries ofemployees. When employees will work with their full potential in company, the quality of items willalso get improved. Thus company can gain competitive advantage in future. To resolve anotherissue in the fair selection process of candidates, HR manager should interface in selectionprocess. The officials of company should provide all the details about the fair procedure ofselection of candidates. This will increase faith among candidates and thus issue of employeeturnover will also be reduced.b) Strengths and weaknesses of the current selection methods used by the organizationThe company is using ability and aptitude test method to select the candidates. In thisselection method, company has created a test of English comprehension and Maths (Bennett,2017). They have set a passing criteria of 50% for both of these test. The candidate whichachieves that criteria will be called for an interview process. Interview conducted by thecompany is a 15 minutes informal chat. This selection method have some strength and weaknessalso which are stated as below:
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