Human Resource Management of Mercedes-Benz Assignment

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1. Explaining purpose of the HR functions, their key role and responsibilities and role of HR
in acquisition of talent for meeting business objectives..............................................................1
2. Assessing workforce planning, recruitment and selection, performance management and
reward system of Mercedes-Benz...............................................................................................3
3. Various methods of HR practices...........................................................................................5
4. Approaches and effectiveness of employee relation and employee engagement with flexible
arrangements...............................................................................................................................6
5. Key aspects of employee legislation within organisation.......................................................6
6. Evaluation of employee relation and employee legislation to meet business objective.........7
7. Application of HRM practices in work-related context..........................................................8
8. Use of technological sources in improving recruitment and selection process....................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management can be defined as a strategic approach of managerial
activities fort the purpose of having effective management over the human resources of the
business organisation (Noe and et. al., 2017). Mercedes Benz is a global auto-mobile
manufacturing company that was founded in 1926. The company wants to bring technological
advancement in the business for making the organisation more effective in working. The given
study provides information about various practices used by the HR of Mercedes-Benz for
enabling the company to expand its business effectively. It shows various functions and purposes
of the HR and their role in acquisition of meeting the business objective. It also shows an
evaluation of effectiveness of some key elements of the HRM and an analysis of various factors
that affects the HRM decision making. Fuhrer, the study also provides a brief information about
various work related practices that can be used by HR.
TASK 1
1. Explaining purpose of the HR functions, their key role and responsibilities and role of HR in
acquisition of talent for meeting business objectives
Human resource management
Human resource management refers to a process of management in which they perform
their managerial activity for managing the human resources of the business (Cascio, 2015). This
function of management includes management of all the activities that is concerned with the
management of all the workforce of business organisation.
Functions of management
As Mercedes-Benz wants to adopt the latest technology in the business, its HR also need
to perform various functions as to help the company in successfully adoption of the latest
technology of the purpose of manufacturing auto-mobile. The key functions to be played by the
HR are as under:
 Recruiting: HR recruits the fresh talent into the business that have knowledge about the
latest technology adopted by the company. It helps managers in attracting maximum
talent for the company from all over the world.
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 Strategy for job satisfaction:Mercedes' HR managers also makes various plans and
strategies for providing job satisfaction to employees for the purpose of retaining them
with Mercedes for long time.
 Effective training:For the purpose of getting success in adoption of the latest
technology, they also provides effective training to the existing workforce for enabling
them to adopt the changes in the business.
Key Roles and responsibilities of HR of Mercedes-Benz
Due to the technological advancement purpose, the HR of Mercedes-Benz needs to play
numerous role within the business (DeCenzo, Robbins and Verhulst, 2016). Further, the
company has also provided various responsibilities to its HR so that it could attain a sustainable
success in the expansion. The key roles and responsibilities of the HR are as under:
 The key responsibility provided by the company to its HR is to recruit the best talent in
the business that are aware about all the latest technologies of the automobile industry.
 Further, they also play a role of motivator as to motivate its workforce to adopt the
technological changes made by the company.
 They also need to show the workers that how achievement of company's objectives can
help them in achieving their personal objectives. This role can help in fulfilling their
responsibility of convincing the workforce to adopt the changes.
Significance of HR in Mercedes-Benz in acquiring talent
For the purpose of achieving the objective of successfully adoption of the latest
technology, it is a significance of HR to recruit the right person at right position in the firm.
Following significant roles are played by HR:
 HR of Mercedes-Benz make strategies so that it could be able to attract the best talent
towards the company.
 They also develop their recruitment and selection procedure in such a way so that they
can efficiently identify the skill and knowledge of the candidate before offering the job
(Chelladurai and Kerwin, 2018).
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