Human Resource Management - Sainsbury's Assignment
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Human Resource Management - Sainsbury's Assignment
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1P1 Purpose and Functions of HRM.............................................................................................1P2 Strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection..................2M1 Talent and Skills with functions of HRM.............................................................................5D1 Strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection, supportedby specific examples...................................................................................................................6TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6P3 Benefits of different HRM practices......................................................................................6HRM Practices............................................................................................................................6P4 Effectiveness of different HRM practices..............................................................................7M3 Methods of HRM practices...................................................................................................8TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9P5 Importance of employee relations in respect to influencing HRM decision making............9P6 Identify the key elements of employment legislation and the impact it has upon HRMdecision-making........................................................................................................................10M4 Key aspects of employee relations management and employment legislation that affectHRM decision-making..............................................................................................................11TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................12P7 Application of Human Resource Management in context to workplace.............................12M5 Rationale for the application of HRM practices.................................................................15CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................15REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16
INTRODUCTIONHuman resource refers to the personnel of the organisation. An individual who works forthe company can be termed as human resource. Human Resource Management is the approach oftraining and development of the employees to increase the effectiveness of the organisation. It isplanned to increase and motivate the performance of the members of the company. Efficacioususe of human resource management helps both the employer as well as the employee (Alfes, andet. al., 2013). It consists of four main activities: acquisition, development, motivation andmaintenance of the human resource. Sainsbury's is a public limited self-service retailing industryfounded in 1869, by John James Sainsbury and is the second largest chain of supermarkets in theUnited Kingdom. Its product are Hypermarkets/superstores, supermarket, convenience shop andforecourt shop. The industry's subsidiaries are : Sainsbury's Bank, Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd,Argos, Habitat, Nectar and Sainsbury's Local. Under this report scope, functions, key elementsof human resource management is discussed. It also includes effectiveness of human resourcemanagement practice enables at Sainbury's helps to achieve its goals and objectives. TASK 1P1 Purpose and Functions of HRMIt is the process of management of people is done formally within organization. Humanresource are the most important assets, without effectively manage this resource, a businesscannot be successful. To manage this important asset a Human resource Manager is required.The responsibilities of HRM falls into three categories:Defining work of people, benefits ofemployees and defining their work. The main purpose of HRM is to maximize the productivityof an organization by taking best of its employees. (Armstrong and Taylor 2014.). Purpose andfunctions of HRM is described here:PurposeHRM is responsible in making employees as an asset in the organization and it alsocreates job satisfaction to the employees. The life cycle of employees is leaded by HRM and itfacilitates the organization by hiring right employees for the post. It is responsible in making bestout of its employees so that they can work for the organisation effectively. A positiveenvironment is created by it and thus increase the efficiency of employees. As being a leading1
retailer, Sainsbury should ensure human resource management to be effective at work place.HRM at workplace makes efficient use of human resources to the organisation.2
FunctionsTo achieve the goals and objectives HRM of Sainsbury should perform followingfunctions.HR planning: The planning of human resource should be effective so that the employeescan work for the organization effectively. The planning includes increment in skills,knowledge and ability to work for Sainsbury.Recruitment and Selection: It is another main task of human resource manager. It has theresponsibility of recruitment and selection. The recruitment of candidates should be donewith proper skills required for Sainsbury so that it can move on the path of success.(Bamberger, Meshoulam and Biron, 2014.).Training and development: Training is the process to develop and increase the employeeperformance at workplace. HRM at Sainsbury focuses on employee development throughtraining.Compensation: The compensation is important for an employee in the form of incentivesand voluntary. The manager of Sainsbury should provide effective means ofcompensation that would be beneficial for the company and employees also.Employee relations: HRM at Sainsbury focuses on the maintenance of employeerelations. If it fails to manage good employee relations, the overall performance of thecompany will get deteriorated. M2 Strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selectionSainsbury is the second largest supermarket chain in the United Kingdom with thousandsof employee working there (Bos‐Nehles and et. al., 2013). Organization hires la huge number ofemployees every year that is why company must use different type of approaches whilerecruiting candidates.Recruitment: It is the process of alluring the candidates to apply for the job according totheir skills and capabilities. Large number of applicants means company has a better chance torecruit the best.Selection: A right number of candidates are selected in this process from a list ofcandidates (Bratton and Gold, 2017). This process is mainly taken by HR team and manager.Different types of approaches for recruitment are as follows, Internal Approach3
This approach inspire the employee to apply for the vacant jobs which are accessiblewithin the organization.Sainsburyemployee can apply for the different jobs within theorganizations if the person matches the requirements of the job. Different types of Internalapproaches are,1) Transfer:This is an essential process by which Sainsbury can motivate their employees andchange their perception of working easily. This is done by transferring the employees in differentdepartments of an organization.2) Promotion: When the employee are elevate to the upper level of the same position accordingto their competencies. It helps the Sainsbury to retain the old employee and decrease theemployee turnover. Besides this the productivity of the promoted employees also increases.Strengths WeaknessIt takes Short period of time as the candidatesare already available.It discourage the employees those who are notselected for the position.Employee turnover will decrease gradually asit motivates the employee to work harder andget the promotion.Level of biasness also increase as every onewill try to allure the management in differentways for the desirable results.External ApproachThis technique is used when the existingemployees are not suitable for the jobs orcompany wants to expand the diversity of the company (Brewster and Hegewisch, 2017).Sainsbury can use different approaches to attract the right candidate from the externalenvironment like,1.Advertisement: Company can give an ad on the newspaper or on the internet to attractthe right candidate for the vacant jobs.2.Campus recruitment: Company can attract and select the enthusiastic young candidatefrom the university or colleges. Junior level positions are fill through this approach.3.Agencies: Company can recruit the candidate through agencies. They have a widespreadcontacts and best candidate can be selected according to the requirements (Briscoe,Tarique and Schuler, 2012.).4
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