Human Resource Management and Outcomes

This assignment delves into the crucial relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and organizational success. It examines various HRM practices, including talent acquisition, training and development, performance management, and compensation, and analyzes their impact on key organizational outcomes such as employee satisfaction, productivity, and overall performance. The assignment draws upon academic research and meta-analyses to provide evidence-based insights into the effectiveness of different HRM strategies.

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

INTRODUCTION
HR manager is only responsible to give appropriate environment the employees in a firm.
Kingfisher plc. Provides good quality electrical product to the customers. HRM practices help to
increase the firm performance in the market. Manager should give valuable policies to an
employees in a firm to maintain relationship between the employees. Involvement of employee
in decision making system is more important to maintain employee relation. This report includes
HR purpose and functions, HRM decision making system, strength and weaknesses of different
approaches of recruitment and selection. By providing open environment, plans and policies,
incentives, bonus etc. these all are the factors help to increase overall performance and also help
to maintain employee relation in an entity.
TASK 1
P1 Function and purpose of HRM applicable for workforce planning
HRM is the most important part of the company. They manage and handle entire
organization activities. It provides different, effective, plans and policies to the employee in an
entity. By giving good environment and policies to an employee it helps to maintain effective
relationship. Main purpose of the HRM to manage and provide higher performance of the
company in the market. HR manager has a responsibility to provide employment legalisation to
the employee for the protection and security of an employee in the firm. Kingfisher Plc. Provide
Do it yourself and home improvement products to the customers. It is the third biggest retailer in
UK and it provides good quality electrical products to the customers. Based on the consumer
need they provide products and services to increase the overall performance and also help to
satisfy the client needs (Bloom and et.al., 2012). HR manager has a responsibility to provide
effective and efficient services in the company. HR manager of Kingfisher Plc. Has a
responsibility to manage and control entire entity.
Main objective of HRM is to give plans, policies to the employees and give effective
training to innovate a product to get desired target. Some of the functions of the HRM in
kingfisher Plc. As follows:
Managerial functions: in this type of HRM function the concentrate on the management of the
entire organization. They provide appropriate and effective policies to the employee to get higher
performance in an industry. This function of HRM has different and effective factors such as
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planning, organizing, directing and controlling the company in the market. It manage and handle
whole firm effectively. For effective and appropriate elements of managerial function as follows: Planning: HR manger is responsible to give training and development to an employee.
HR manager finds out the current needs and future need to enhance the employee and
entity performance in the market (Buller and McEvoy, 2012). They also plan effective
policies that help to maintain employee relation in a company. Organizing: They organize the events and task that is given by the director. It helps to
increase the employee efficiency in the firm and that helps to get higher pefrmance. By
providing different events and plans to an employee it helps to maintain employee
relation in a firm. Directing: HR manager of Kingfisher plc. Provide appropriate and effective guidelines,
instructions to an employee to innovate a products and services. They also provide
instructions and ways to innovate a product in an entity (Hwang and Ng, 2013).
 Controlling: After creating planning, organizing and directing they check the employee
performance and compare with the actual plans. If they are not able to get desired target
then they need to provide additional training and development to the employee to get
higher performance in the market (Chang, Gong and Peng, 2012).
Operative functions: HR manger of kingfisher plc. Has a responsibility to manage and provide
operational activities to the employee to get desired objective in the industry. In includes
different type so operations of the employee such as training and development, plans, policies,
salary, wages, welfare and maintenance etc. these all are the operational activities of the
employee in the company that is provided by the HR manager. It incudes four elements such as
recruitment and selection, training job design and analysis, personal record etc.
Advisory functions: HR manager maintains relationship between employees by giving
environment and policies to them. Manager take advise from the top level management to give
appropriate and effective plans, policies to the employee to increase overall performance of an
entity in the market. They develop only those plans and policies which help to maintain
employee relation and also help to increase efficiency in the company (Cogin, 2012).
Best practise strategy claims that many bundles of HR activities that gives a way to compete
with the other businesses. It helps to maintain relationship between the HR practices and firm
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performance. Best fit approach helps to implement new and effective HR policies that gives
more profit to the firm. Strategy includes planning, activities and objective of a firm.
Main purpose of the HRM is to provide appropriate and effective policies to the employees to
main relationship and manage entire firm activities.
P2 Strength and weaknesses of various approaches of recruitment and selection
Recruitment and selection has different approaches to hire a candidate or employee in an
entity. By following this types of approaches and strategies to select an employee in the company
that provide higher performance of the firm in the market. This approach help to hire this
employee who has the capability to enhance the firm productivity and also help to get higher
profit in an industry. There are different types of approaches and strategies of recruitment and
selection. In this type of selection methods there are two types of approaches that is internal and
external (Dries, 2013). Both has different characteristics and rules to select an employee ion the
company. By using these strategies firm can get knowledgable person or employee (Manvi and
Shyam, 2014).
HR manager can easily get the employee and also take appropriate decision for an entity.
Kingfisher plc. Has good employee in the firm and they also have good and appropriate
knowledge to get higher performance in the market. This company product different and
innovative products to the customer to increase productivity in the world. They also provide
appropriate, effective training and development to the employee to innovate a product to increase
their performance in an industry (Vaccaro and et.al., 2012). By this method of the recruitment
and selection they can easily get good and knowledgable employee in an entity. It has many
strength and weaknesses as describe below:
strength
Improve decision making system
Main strength of the recruitment and selection is the HR manger can easily take the
decisions of the employee who has the good and effective capability to increase their
performance in the market. By appointing directly and provide appropriate promotion by the top
level management is one of the best policy to take effective decisions for an entity. Sourcing in
this approach provide higher decision making system to the company and also help to increase
their efficiency in the firm (Dul and et.al., 2012). HR manager of the kingfisher Plc. Follows
different types of methods and approaches to select an employee in an entity. By following this
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type of approaches they can easily get good employee in the firm and they will give higher
performance in the market.
Increase efficiency
There are two types of sourcing approaches of the recruitment and selection which is
internal and external. Both has different types of methods and characteristic to select an
employee in the company. Firm can easily get good and knowledgeable employee to enhance
their performance in an industry. Kingfisher Plc. Follows different types of recruitment and
selection methods to get effective and knowledgable employee in an entity. Both sourcing
provide efficiency to the firm during the procedure (Ellison and Boyd, 2013).
Weaknesses
Time consuming
Internal sourcing is not time consuming but the external sourcing is very time consuming
because company need to organize different types of job fairs in other companies or in campus.
Entity needs to conduct job fairs, job mela etc. in the market to get knowledgable employee fort
the company (Beloglazov, Abawajy and Buyya, 2012). To conduct job mela and fairs they need
additional finance. They also need to promote their particular jobs positions. This process takes
a long time in the industry. Kingfisher Plc. Follows external sourcing to select an employee for
the firm (Shin, Taylor and Seo, 2012).
Expensive
External sourcing is very expensive because the company need to conduct different and
attractive job fairs for the candidates in the market. They also need to provide appropriate
facilities in the job fair. To organize this type of job fairs firm need additional money. Job fair
can be organize in colleges and consultancy to hire a good employee for the entity (Hom and
et.al., 2012).
Internal and external recruitment
Internal and external recruitment has different types of criteria to hire an employee in the
company. By applying this kind of approaches to hire an employee it will give higher
performance in the market. Internal sourcing is the process to conduct appropriate interview in
the company. HR manager has a responsibility to select the criteria for the p;articular job and
then they will call to the candidates who are eligible for the specific job. This process will do
through the emails, portals and internal post. External sourcing is that in which the firm need to
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conduct an interview outside such as job mela and job fairs etc. these all are the effective ways to
select the employee in an entity. By following these types of methods it helps to increase a sales
revenue in a market. Good and knowledgable employee has a capability to innovate a product in
the industry and this will give more profit to an entity (Hülsheger and et.al., 2013).
TASK 3
P5. Value of employee relation with respect to causing HRM decision making
Employee relation must be maintained in the company. It helps to increase the firm
performance and also help to increase the efficiency between the employees. HR manager is
responsible to maintain relation in an entity. To maintain employee relation in the firm HR
manager has a responsibility to provide open environment, plans, policies to an employee so that
they can easily work together to get higher performance of an entity in the industry. Sometimes
in kingfisher Plc. Few employees not getting that much salary according to their performance so
this factor affects the employee relation (Renwick, Redman and Maguire, 2013). The HR
manager has a responsibility to provide appropriate and efficient salary to the employee to
maintain employee relation and also help to motivate an employee in a company.
They also need to give extra offers, salary and bonus to motivate an employee it helps to
increase a level of profit in a market. HR manager needs to take appropriate decision for the
employee to maintain relationship between the employees (Johnson, Schnatterly and Hill, 2013).
HRM decisions directly affects the employee relation in a firm because they only provide
services and policies to them. Some of the benefits to maintain employee relation as follows:
 Higher performance
 Increment in productivity
 Increased efficiency
These all are the benefits of effective employee relation in a company. HR manager should also
involve employee in decision making. Employee involvement is one of the best factor that help
to maintain employee relation in an entity. By involving workers in the decision making process
they feel motivated and they will give more contribution to get higher performance of a firm in
an industry. They also have a right to provide their own ideas and suggestions to the
management for the particular problem. It helps to maintain employee relation in the company
(Kehoe and Wright, 2013).
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HR manager needs to main employee relation to get desired target. Kingfisher Plc.
Follows various approaches to involve employee in decision making process. It gives higher
performance to the firm and also help to maintain relationship between an employee. They also
need to give training to the employees to produce new product. Manager also provide incentives
and bonus depends on their employee performance (Purce, 2014).
Manager needs to include employees in decision making it helps to increase a knowledge and
skill in the employees. It also helps to increase the communication skills. By providing effective
and open environment to the employees so that every employee can give their thoughts and
suggestion for the valuable decisions. Manager should involve each employee in decision
making so that it helps to maintain relationship between the employees. Manager should consider
employees ideas and ten take effective decisions that it gives more motivation to an employee.
P6 key element of employment legislation and impact on HRM decision making
Employment legislation provide higher security and protection to the employee in an
entity. Employment legislation gives protection and security to an employee. Kingfisher Plc.
Follows various acts and laws that help to increase efficiency between the management and an
employee. Government provides different types po employment legislation that help to increase
their overall company performance in an industry. There are different types of employment
legislation laws such as labour law, sex discrimination law and race relation law etc. These all
are the laws that is followed by the kingfisher Plc. These policies and laws provide protection
and security to an employee (Marshall and Farahbakhsh, 2013).
Employment legislation help to protect an employee in an entity. HR manager need to
give free environment and policies to an employee. To maintain employee relation and increase
the employee efficiency in an entity manager need to provide appropriate and good policies to
the employees. Employment law consists different types of things which help to increase their
efficiency in the firm. Some of the things which includes in employment law such as
employment discrimination, labour relation, immigration, minimum wages and social security.
Different types of laws provides various security and protection to the employee in the company.
Kingfisher Plc. Provides effective and appropriate employment laws which helps to
increase the company performance in the industry. It also provides plans and policies to enhance
their own performance in the company (Prior and et.al., 2012). There are different types of
employment laws which provide higher protection and security to an employee in an entity.
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Some of the employment laws as follows:
 Disability discrimination act: this act provide the appropriate and effective facility to
employee or a person who has disabilities. It created it unlawful to discriminate against
people in respect to their disabilities in a relation to the employment, the provision of
services and education.
 Sex discrimination act: in this act they provide the protection and higher security to men
and women from the discrimination on the ground of sex or marital status.
These all are the laws of employment which provide higher security to the employee in
an entity. It gives more benefit to the employees as well to the company (Dezsö and Ross,
2012). By providing policies to the employee it gives more benefit to the company to increase a
sales revenue. It helps to increase their performance in the industry. They need to decided which
acts and laws helpful for the employee. They also have to take decision according to the current
situation of an employee in the firm. HRM decision making process directly affects the
employee performance and also affects the firm overall performance in an industry (Ng and
Feldman, 2012). They need to take appropriate and effective decision for an employee to
maintain employee relation in an entity. To maintain employee relation in the firm HR manager
need to provide open environment, plans, policies and additional services to the employee. Some
of the benefits of the employment laws in kingfisher Plc as follows:
 Increased efficiency
 Employee motivation
 higher protection and security
 higher performance
These all are the benefits of employment laws in the company. Effective policies helps to
maintain employee relation in an organization. Kingfisher Plc. Provides different types of
employment laws to the employee to maintain employee relation and also help to increase their
efficiency in the company. HR manager of this firm provides effective plans for an employee
security. They also need to provide appropriate and good additional policies which help to
increase their performance in an industry. HRM decision-making directly affects the employee
performance and also affects the firm overall performance in the market (Park and Shaw, 2013).
These all are the benefits of employment legislation in the firm. It will help to maintain
relationship with the management in an entity. By providing this legislation to
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employees they also feel secure and protected. Manager has a responsibility to provide
effective, efficient policies and services to an employee so that they can give more
contribute to achieve the desired goal (Strohmeier and Kabst, 2014). To get desired
objective of an entity the manager need to provide open environment, effective policies,
plans, incentives, bonus and employment legislation etc. These all are the facilities that
must be provided by the manager to maintain employee relation and also help to increase
performance of a company in the industry.
TASK 4
P7 The application of HRM practise in work related context
Job title HR assistant
Roles and responsibilities Effective employee relation
Recruitment and selection
HR administration
Supportive and capable
auditing
Effective hiring process of application
Management skills
Skills Communication skills
Technical and management skills
Time management skills
Goals and on-boarding
inter-personal and intra-personal skills
Experience required 2-3 years experience in HR area
CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Tom
Email-Id: [e-mail]
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Contact number: 8795624510
Objective: Through HR assistant position I want to enhance my inter-personal and intra-
personal personal skills and also want to provide contribution to get higher performance of the
firm in an industry.
Academic qualification
1. IIN university B.B.M.
2. Golentry college MBA(Human resource)
Area of expertise
 HR processes
 Administration
 Controlling
 Monitoring
 Good time management skills
Skills
 technical and communication skills
 management skills
 organized and proactive skills
 create good relationship
Professional
German(intermediate)
work experience
Company name, location
Human resource management
Responsible for assisting in all the stages of the HRM practices and staff scheduling.
Duties and responsibilities
 Managing records
 HR administration and controlling
 Effective employee relation
Personal details
Name: Tom
Gender: Male
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nationality: Indian
Address: lulia gardens
I hereby declare that the details furnished above is true and correct to the best knowledge
and belief.
Notes based on the selection criteria
Criteria Notes
Relevant knowledge and ICT YES
Experience and skills YES
Presentation YES
Attitude YES
Strong inter-personal skills NO
Able to communicate YES
Knowledge of software NO
Financial ability NO
Strong personal management YES
Set of interview questions
 How does your academic and professional background relate to the HR assistant?
 Please tell about the responsibilities of HR assistant?
 Please tell us about the involvement with different organization personnel as HR
assistant?
 Do you know what are the good qualities of HR assistant?
 Do you know what is the essential in the nature of HR assistant job?
 Please tell us the technologies which is used in the HR assistant job?
 Can you tell me what sources are common for head hunting in HR?
 Do you think you will be able to perform you duties and responsibility well as HR
assistant?
 What are the financial expertise as HR assistant?
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 Do you know what is the basic function and purpose of HR in the organization?
 How will you benefit us as HR assistant?
 Tell us why should we hire you as a HR assistant?
 What value you will add to the HR assistant job once you selected?
 Describe you client service abilities and relevant intra-personal skills?
 Do you know prior recruitment experience in HR?
Job offer letter
Mr. Luies
Golentry gardens
London
United kingdom
Dear Tom,
Kingfisher Plc. Company pleased to offer you at the position of HR assistant. You experience
and intra-personal skills will be more efficient and effective for this job. As we discussed,
joining data will be the 30 November 2017. Your starting salary will be the $45,000 per year.
Kingfisher Plc. Provides effective and flexible plan and policy which helpful for the employee in
an entity.
If you want to join this company, then accept this job offer letter, please sign the second copy of
this letter and give it to me for the convenience when we received your acknowledgement then
we will provide you the employee reference book and employment plan.
We look forward to welcoming you at the kingfisher Plc. Firm group.
Sincerely,
Mr. luies
director, HR management
Kingfisher Plc.
Evaluation of the process and the rationale for conducting appropriate HR practices
HR practices help to increase the efficiency of the firm in the industry. By following
different types of HRM practices kingfisher Plc can get good employee and also get higher
performance in the market. Recruitment and selection, training and development provides higher
performance and also help to increase productivity in the market.
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CONCLUSION
It can be concluded from the above report that HR manager has a responsibility to
provide open and appropriate environment to the employees to increase their performance in the
market. They also need to provide plans and policies to the employees so that they increase a
sales revenue of a firm. Kingfisher plc. Provides good quality electrical products to the
customers in the market. Company should give product based on the client needs. To maintain
employee relation HR manager need to provide appropriate policies to an employee in the firm.
Involvement of the employee in decision making is one of the best factors that will give more
enhancement to the firm.
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