Human Resource Management - Tesco Assignment

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT.......................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1.Explain the purpose and functions of HRM, applicable to workforce planning and
resourcing an organisation......................................................................................................1
P2.Explain strength and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection . 2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
P3.Explain the benefits of different HRM practices within an organisation for both the
employer and employee..........................................................................................................4
P4 Evaluate the effectiveness of different HRM practices in terms of raising organisational
profit and productivity............................................................................................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
P5 Significance of employee relations in respect to influencing HRM decision making......6
P6 Key elements of employment legislation and the impact it has upon HRM decision making
................................................................................................................................................7
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................7
P7 Illustrate the application of HRM practices in a work-related context, using specific
examples.................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is a management practice of managing the personnel of an
organisations to gain an effective competitive advantage. It is a process of recruiting, selecting,
transmission of training and development and providing orientation to the staff of a business to
achieve the long term vision of the firm. In this report, the chosen association is Tesco PLC. It is
one of the biggest grocery retailer and a multinational company . This company serves shoppers
a little better every day. In this respective report, the areas which the firm is going to focus are
different functions and practices of human resource management, strength and weaknesses of
recruitment and selection and employee relations. At last it describes about the significance of
employee relations and legislation over decision making.
TASK 1
P1.Explain the purpose and functions of HRM, applicable to workforce planning and resourcing
an organisation.
Human resource management includes hiring and evolution of worker so that these can
be proved more valuable to the organisation. The company needs to establish this in order to
identify the right candidate for the right job and to deal with the jobs and the job holders so that
there is an increment in their productivity and effectiveness to work within the organisation.
The HR manager of Tesco must focus on different functions which are as follows :
 Training and development programmes : In order to make them aware about the
working environment and making them familiar to the workplace so that to increase the
skills and performance of the employee's (Noe, and et. al., 2017). The HR manager of
Tesco needs to focus more on this function as this will lead the employees to increase
their level to perform.
 Recruitment and selection : This is the core function of the HR manager. This will helps
them in screening the person and selecting the right person at right time with the required
skills to perform a particular task. By proper recruitment and selection process the HR
manager of Tesco may have highly skilled labour who can increase the profitability and
productivity.
 Compensation and benefits : The HR manager of Tesco is required to have good
compensations and benefits policies which can drive the personnel to work in the
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