Benefits of HRM Practices for Employer and Employee

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1.................................................................................................................................................3
P1: Explain the purpose and the functions of HRM, applicable to workforce planning and
resourcing an organisation...............................................................................................................3
P2: Explain the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection.. .4
TASK 2.................................................................................................................................................6
P3: Explain the benefits of different HRM practices within an organisation for both the employer
and employee. .................................................................................................................................6
P4: Evaluate the effectiveness of different HRM practices in terms of raising organisational
profit and productivity.....................................................................................................................7
TASK 3 ................................................................................................................................................8
P5 : Analyse the importance of employee relations in respect to influencing HRM decision-
making.............................................................................................................................................8
P6 : Identify the key elements of employment legislation and the impact it has upon HRM
decision-making...............................................................................................................................9
TASK 4 ..............................................................................................................................................11
P7 Illustrate the application of HRM Practices in a work related context using specific examples
........................................................................................................................................................11
CONCLUSION..................................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES...................................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
The human resource of an organisation is the real asset of any company. The human
resource management is a kind of process in which the company recruits people and bring
organisation and employees together to achieve objectives of the organisation. The HR manager has
a key responsibility of managing the work force of the organisation to achieve the organisational
goal in most effective and efficient manner. The Human resource management of an organisation is
responsible for its employee's job satisfaction, employee's job retention so that the talent of the
company stays within the organisation. The respectable organisation chosen for this report is
Debenhams, a multinational company which is operating in United Kingdom. It has the retail
departmental stores in more than 178 locations and franchise in different countries. This report deals
in the purpose and function of HRM in workforce planning, the recruitment and selection
approaches and benefits and effectiveness of HRM practices. Further it will deal with the employee
relations and different employment legislations and their impact on HRM decision making and at
the end with HRM practices with work related context.
TASK 1
P1: Explain the purpose and the functions of HRM, applicable to workforce planning and
resourcing an organisation.
The human resource management focuses on the recruitment, selection and management of
the employees in an organisation. It mainly plan and organise the workforce of the organisation so
that the organisational goals are achieved in the most effective and efficient manner. The HRM is
delegated with a task of finding the quality people for the organisation (Adla and et.al., 2019).
The workforce planning is the process of planning the recruitment of the people in an
organisation to ensure that the right candidate is selected at right time with right skills to achieve
organisational goals.
According to Edwin Flippo, Human resource management is the planning, organising,
controlling, directing of the development, procurement, integration, maintenance, compensation and
separation of the human resource to that end where the organisational, individual and social goals
are achieved.
According to Decenzo and Robbins, HRM is mainly concerned with a people's dimension in
the management. As every company is made of people, developing their skills, acquiring their
service, motivating the staff so that higher level of performance is given and at last ensuring that
they will continue to maintain the commitment so that goals and objectives of the company are
achieved.

The features of HRM are-
 This is the major part of management discipline as it helps in managing the staff of the
business efficiently in order to increase their productivity to achieve targets and goals of the
company.
 It is mainly concerned with the people as HRM relates to human capital or aspect and its
management.
 The HRM is worked towards the achievement of objectives of the company as it provides
various techniques and tools to manage the staff effectively.
 It is a continuous process as it starts from the point when an organisation is established and
it ends at the time of winding up of the firm. It is in operation daily as it is an on going
process.
The main purpose of HRM in any organisation are -
 The main purpose of HRM is to recruit the right person in the organisation. Debenhams
ensure that the HRM selects the correct person with requisite skills so that the organisational
goals are achieved.
 The second main purpose is it manages the workforce of the organisation and tries to create
coordination between them so that organisational goals are achieved effectively.
 The HRM seeks to improve the organisational performance and ensures that effective
communication channel is directed to all employees to solve their queries for efficient
running of the business (Brewster, 2017).
 It helps in effectively recruiting and selecting the workforce which is best for the company
as it manages the recruitment process.
 HRM focuses on training and development of the workforce so that they can effectively
contribute to organisational goals and also it will help in developing the career of the staff.
The functions of HRM in workforce planning and resourcing-
HRM plays a very pervasion role in the success of the organisation. The main functions
which HRM plays are- Recruitment and selection- The HRM scrutinise and select the qualified and skilled
candidates according to the job profile so that quality human resource is recruited to achieve
the organisational goal. The main purpose of this function is that potential candidate is
selected for the organisation who can contribute to its success. The HRM of Debenhams
ensures skilled and potential employees are selected to achieve the objectives of company.
 Performance management- The HRM not only monitor the performance of the employees
but also helps in improving the performance of the employees so that there is no hurdle in
the smooth running of the business (Delery and Gupta, 2016). The main purpose of this