Human Resource Management - P1 Explain Nature and Purpose

Human Resource
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................4
P1. Explain nature and purpose of HRM in workforce planning................................................4
P2. Explain the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches of recruitment and selection.
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TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
P3. Benefits of HRM practices within an organisation for both the employer and employee....7
P4. Evaluate effectiveness of various HRM practices for raising organisational profit and
productivity.................................................................................................................................8
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
P5. Analyse the importance of employee relations in respect to influencing HRM decision-
making.........................................................................................................................................9
P6. Identify the key elements of employment legislation and their impact upon HRM
decision- making.......................................................................................................................10
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................11
P7. Application of HRM practices............................................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Human Resource Management is a tool of recruiting, selecting, managing and developing
employees in an organisation. Their main motive is to focus on the performance of employees
within organisation and ensure effective work practices in the organisation. The HR department
plays a very important role in every organisation. In this present report, managers of Tesco use
human resource practices in their organisation which increase the effectiveness of their business.
Tesco is one of the biggest multinational retail industries in which it includes groceries and
general merchandising in all over the world and along with this its headquarters in England
(Stone, 2013). This report contains nature and purpose of HRM in workforce planning, strengths
and weaknesses of various approaches of recruitment and selection. Along with this, it also
include practices of HRM in context of employer and employee, Importance of employees
relations in decision making. And at last, this report says about the key elements of employment
legislation and their impact upon HRM decision- making.
TASK 1
P1. Explain nature and purpose of HRM in workforce planning
Human resource management is a part of general management in which they deals with
the resources in an organisation. HRM means to use the human resources in effective manner
and to manage employee or their activities in a working place. In this present report, Tesco, a
business entity which has been chosen, uses HRM practices to increase the overall performance
of their organisation.
Workforce planning: It means to analyse a current and future need of human resources
in an organisation for performing business activities effectively. Along with this, their main
objective is to select right person at right time for the job as, in order to achieving organisational
goal and objective (Bučiūnienė and Kazlauskaitė, 2012).
Purpose of HRM in workforce planning is stated as under:
 Considering people as a resource: In order to create competitive advantage Tesco
mainly focuses on internal sources of Human Resource Management. According to HR
department they considered people as a resources for business perspective. In Tesco, the
role of HR department is to enhance overall performance of an employee as well as to
maintain the relationship with others. With reference to this, Tesco work for managing
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