Importance of HRM Practices in Organizational Context

Human Resource
Management

INTRODUCTION
Human resource department also known as HRM team is a functional unit of an organisation
which manages the workforce of the entity and bring in excellent staff in the entity from various
places. The HRM unit of company are responsible for many different tasks what is the most
important responsibility they hold is recruiting and selecting (Al Shobaki and et. al., 2017). The
selected organisation for this report is Sainsbury which is the second largest supermarket chain in
the UK. Organisation was established in 1869 by John James Sainsbury and headquartered in
London, UK. Sainsbury only operates in UK through its numerous supermarket stores and other
forecourt shops, convenience shop and hypermarkets. In the beginning the report covers various
functions of HRM unit and purposes behind those functions. Moving forward the strong point
and drawbacks of different sources of recruitment and selection are evaluated. The positive
factors of different HRM practices which are conducted in the company are explained any
relation with employee and employer along with in terms of raising organisational profit and
productivity. Moreover, importance of employee relation are analysed along with evaluating
major factors of employment legislation. Furthermore, different HRM practices are performed in
work-related context.
TASK 1
P1 Examining the function and purposes of HRM in organisational context
Human resource Management
HRM is a functional unit available in all large organisation as they are very important and
essential department. The HRM unit of the organisation are responsible for finding, screening,
recruiting, selecting, training and administrating the workforce of company. Human resource
department Sainsbury various functions and their respective purposes. These functions and
purposes are describe below in next section (Analoui, 2017).
Functions of HRM department:
Recruitment and selection
The major and most essential functions of HRM unit of things very is to attract and develops a
pool of suitable candidates while recruiting them and select most potential applicant from the
bundle created in the recruitment process. Recruitment and selection at two different activities

which undertakes after one another that is first the HR manager will create a pool of suitable
applications while recruiting them and then select most potential candidates from the developed
bundle. Recruiting and selecting are basically the process their first applications are attracted
towards the organisation for applying for a particular job role and then after screening them
appropriative selection is done.
 Purpose- As highlighted and described the recruitment and selection function is
performed to attract and bring in the most effective and excellent staff in the organisation.
Therefore the purpose of this function is to manage the human resource need of
Sainsbury potentially for the smooth running and functioning of the organisation.
Training and development
Another most important function of HRM unit Sainsbury is training and development of the
workforce. Training and development refers to the skill updating and enhancement according to
the current trends and the needs of the company (Bratton and Gold, 2017). Once employees are
recruited now they need to be introduced to the operations of the entity for bringing the best out
of them and making them perform in most potential way. Therefore training and development is
an essential function which is performed by human resource department of Sainsbury.
 Purpose- The staff or workforce who are new to the organisation and the existing people
all are needed to be trained for various purposes an enhancement of their motivation
level. Therefore, the purpose of training and development is very clear that is to keep the
staff active and willingly perform the job roles in the most potential manner along with
updating and productivity of company.
P2 Explaining the strengths and weaknesses of Recruitment and selection
approaches
Recruitment
This is a process of developing a bundle of candidates by attracting them towards the available
job post. Basically recruiting refers to spreading word in the marketplace about the vacant
position and attracting correct efficient candidates. Recruitment process is a positive process as
all people are welcomed by HRM department in the organisation.
Approaches of recruitment