Human Resource Management

This assignment examines various aspects of Human Resource Management (HRM) using case studies of Woodhill College and Tesco. It covers topics like workforce planning, recruitment, training, and employee relations, analyzing their strengths and weaknesses. The assignment also explores the importance of good employee relations and the influence of employment legislation on HR decision-making.

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Purpose of workforce planning and the role of the HR. manager with regards workforce
planning and resourcing for Wood hill College..........................................................................1
1.2 Strengths and Weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection.................2
M1 and M2 How the functions of HRM provide talent and skills to get desired objectives......3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
A) Job advertisement of teacher vacancies in Woodhill college................................................3
B) Suitable platforms to place the advertisement.......................................................................4
C) Job description for computer teacher.....................................................................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
A) Difference between training and development......................................................................6
B) Training needs are identified and the methods of training used by Tesco.............................7
D) Effectiveness of Tesco training and development practice in terms of delivering a return of
investment...................................................................................................................................8
TASK 4 ...........................................................................................................................................8
A) Analysis on the importance for ITV to maintain good employee relation and how it
influences their HR decision making(300).................................................................................8
B) Key elements in the employment legislation and how it influence ITV's HR decision
making(160)................................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is a process when they are managed the whole organization
and their structured. This is an operation in companies to determine the employee performance
that meet the objective and goals of company (Nickson and 2018). There are many processes
done by the Human Resource Management (HRM) such as recruiting process, provide induction,
proper skills' development program. It also includes the benefits, performance Employee safety,
encouraging, appraisal, maintaining relationship between the employees. In this Report, they will
determine the planning and role of the manager for Wood hill College. Explain the different type
of selection process has some weakness and strength of the college. As per report, they are
identified the role of manager and what are the task performed in the Human management.
TASK 1
1.1 purpose of workforce planning and the role of HR manager in workforce planning and
resourcing for Woodhill College
The organization will hire HR. manager because they will change the environment and
workforce planning is beneficial for business planning. The manager will solve the problem
related workforce issues and predict future issues (Nel and et.al 2018). A talented manager will
provide the project staffing, develop proper job classes and create an effective company
environment. Woodhill College has talented manager to managed the whole HR. department
because they are implementing new ideas, practices on the project issues. All the duties are based
on the size of organization. There are some duties for planning the workforce as follows:
Start a skill development training for the employee
Collection of data are stored in the database to analysis the business operation for each
department.
Hiring the talented people.
Creating a strategic planning for the development.
Maintain the work culture and timing.
Determine the critical job titles and classified job role.
Workforce planning is the same when to create the strategy that would be manage the
whole system. The wood hill college are focus on the skill development program because
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training for the employee is very important for the growth of organization. HR. manager has
been planning the strategies for the business purpose.
Nowadays, the new technology has been spread around the world and many technologies
are launched in day by day in which HR (Stredwick and et.al 2017). manager collects the data
and maintain the dynamic workplace. Workforce planning is very essential part business process
for organization.
1.2 Strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection
Recruiting process is a method of company to (HRM) Human resource Management can
control the overall process. They are planning for performance, appraisal, career planning, design
job, promotion etc. Recruiting is a process when the applicants are applied for the job
(McDermott and et.al 2017). Internal hiring process is that when they will provide the job
opportunity for the internal employee that has already part of the organization. They are giving a
chance to change the job profile and can be move from another profile. They are noticed that
when the current employee taking a fast decision and reducing the budget. It also promotes the
employee and support the moral duties and their efficiency (Boella and 2017). Sometimes, they
have unmanaged internal hiring process so that it is very tough for HR. management to control
the other process.
The internal recruitment process depend upon the planning, consistent performance,
strong management. The process has some rules and policies as the unclear rules creating a lot of
tension and issues in the organization (Knowles and et.al 2017). Internal employees is reviewed
and applicants are not suitable for the post than the organization advertise externally and has to
decide to hire the fresh applicant. There are many methods of external recruiting process. First is
base level, when they will hire from the school and university to provide the optimistic
recruitment sources. External applicants has high quality professional degree, employees
referrals are required.
There are different sources of the external recruitment process. The most important
source of hiring process is Advertisement. Many universities and colleges has good source of
recruiting because they will provide the good placement services and campus facility (Marler
and 2017). Placement consultancy, employment exchanges are external source of recruitment.
Internal and External process are used for the hiring purpose. They have both features
strength and weakness as well. Quick decision is the strong point of internal recruitment process
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because they are giving a direct promotion by the management scheme policy. Internal
employees are already doing work on the same business so that it is very easy for taking quick
decision and used them (Jones and et.al 2017). Management promotes the working employee to
participate in the internal hiring process.
M1 and M2 How the functions of HRM provide talent and skills to get desired objectives
In HRM, there are different type of functions that are helpful enough to make sure that
proper management is done for workers. Main focus is made of developing strong interaction
with workers so that they are able to perform their set of roles in effective manner. Further, they
also make sure that appropriate steps are taken in which health environment is provided in which
all the laws are followed for the betterment of workers requirements(Baum and 2016.). Apart
from this, they are also provided with bonus and incentives to motivate employees. Further, there
are activities planned by HR in order to raise the involvement of workers.
TASK 2
A) Job advertisement of teacher vacancies in Woodhill college
Career Opportunity
Woodhill College invites applications for the post of lecturer for
Computer Science
Post Qualifications/Experience
Computer Lecturer Qualification- Masters degree on relevant
subject are more preferable while Horns
Degree holders can also apply
Experience – Minimum 2-3 years.
Age- Minimum 25 years and Maximum 35
years.
Interested candidates can be contact on this number: 7896542103 and
also come in the college from 11.00 AM to 1.00 PM along with the
appropriate copy of the email, 2 passport size photographs, CV within
one week from this publication of this advertisement, application forms
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can be easily done from the website.
Woodhill College, East London, 1, ABC Road.
www.Woodhillcollege.com, 0800-457896
B) Suitable platforms to place the advertisement
Different type of techniques are applied so that companies are able to hire skills
candidates. With this respect, management of Woodhill College is required to make use of
various platforms where employees who can support the firm to grow in positive direction can be
hired. They have the option for making use of newspapers on which advertisements can be
posted so that individuals who go through them can get to know about the vacancies. It is the
responsibility of HR manager to make sure that appropriate steps are taken so that as per the
requirements employees are hired. With this respect, below given are some of the platform on
which employees suitable for the firm can be hired:
Newspaper: In a country, there are many newspaper companies that are helpful enough to
deliver information to individuals. Apart from this, the total cost that are included for posting
advertisement on newspaper is low and so that cited college will be able to inform regarding the
vacancies. More specifically, there are benefits like wide audience, targeted, digital, engaging,
affordable, etc.
Social media: This is considered to be the best platform that can make the college to reach
out people in effective manner. With changes in time, there are various advancements that are
has taken place and all these are helped companies to have direct interaction with people.
However, it is important that social media contains all the required information through which
more and people understand the needs and apply accordingly.
Job portals: There are different type of websites that can also be used by Woodhill College
in order to connect with people who are in search of job. However, there are certain set of skills
that are required so that as per vacant post individuals are able to fit in for the same. All such
type of benefits make the business to search individuals who will be best suitable for the vacant
post (Jones, 2017). There are benefits like audience, target market, it’s cost effective, etc. Apart
from this, individuals can also search for jobs in accordance with the key works or for the area in
which they prefer to get a job.
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From the above given platforms Woodhill College can get individuals who possess skills
that are needed to fit for the job. The needs and requirements or expectations that management
have will also be met in positive manner. It is important that selection of individuals for the
vacant post should be done carefully. In situations when these are not done properly, then it can
cause serious issue for the firm as loss. Complete process for recruitment and selection is a
lengthy process and when these are not done properly, then it affects the firm. Apart from this,
some of the benefits that firm get through advertisement are higher efficiency, interactive
audience and wider range of connectivity.
C) Job description for computer teacher
Job title Computer faculty
Skills
 Technical skills
 inter-personal and communication
skills
 understand the concept of DBMS
 knowledge in advanced and updated
software
 time management skills
 Know the concept of computers
languages such as Java, C, C++
Experience
required
 2+ year experience in computer field
Roles and
responsibilities
 Plan lessons and assignments
 work in a team to develop the
curriculum for a degree involve a series
of course
 conduct research and experiments to
enhance their knowledge in the
computer field
 participate in different formative
evaluation of the faculty
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 prepare efficient notes and assignments
 helps to the students and determine the
educational goals
 get desired objectives of the college and
give contribution to the work
TASK 3
3.1 Explain the difference between training and development
There are two different process that are co-related to each other.
Training Development
1. Training is a short term process that is used
for the skill development.
2. Training will provide the limited scope for
specific job (Kehoe, 2018).
1. Development is a long term process because
they are used for the personal growth and can
be enhanced their skills.
2. Development is a process to enhance their
skills in large areas and improve the
knowledge for related specific project.
3. Training will include some quality of
productivity, security, health and safety,
organization work culture that improve the
capabilities.
4. TESCO is offered to employees to improve
the performance of business.
They will provide online job training and
second is offline job training.
3. The main aim is to improve the employee
performance and increase the quality of
empolyee that are both organizational and
personal growth.
4. It will provide the development program that
would improve the quality of employees. It
will provide an offer to employee so that they
improve the performance and skills. They are
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offline program in the organization conference
room.
5. Training is provided to workers when
management identifies the areas in which
development is required to b made. The main
aim of structure in training is achieving the
goal of business profit and maintain the growth
of organization.
5. Through training management of the firm
are able to identify the development aspects of
workers and they are supported accordingly
(Cooke, 2018). It increases the motivational
role towards tasks that are performed by
employee.
3.2 Training needs are identified and the methods of training used by Tesco
The main objective of Tesco is to expand their business all around the world but
sometimes, many factors affect their business planning. There are many new store is open in new
location in which Tesco promotes their products to meet needs of customers. They must require a
technical skill for stores related post. Tesco will give an opportunity to all employees to improve
the quality and development. It helps to increase the organization’s performance and their
productivity. Tesco will provide an effective training program which is helpful for company’s
growth. They provide an open environment to the employee so that they can increase their
capabilities and suggestion.
There are many training programs are following by the Tesco Company as follows:
Manager provides an effective training are using different technologies like video,
multimedia support, web based training. With the help of internet, they can learn new
technologies that are already available on the internet. Interact with the clients to understand the
requirement of customer (Bolman, 2017). The Communication skill is very important that would
play an important role because with the help of these features easily determine the client problem
and then again not repeat the same situation. Group Discussion is the best technique to interact
with the manager and can asked related any issues. This is the best approach to find out the
solution.
C) Benefits for Tesco and the employee in having systematic approach to training and
development
Systematic approach can be play an important role of any training program because it is a
step by step approach that are helpful to understand the desired goal of organization. These
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approach are divided into different part such as analysis approach, design, development and
implementation (Soltis, 2018). All these elements are using for the development of project in
organization.
 Determine the employee requirement
 Identify the ability of employee
 Enhanced the design pattern
These are the important benefits for the systematic approach. HR. manager can handle all this
services and provide the effective training to the employee. They innovative their idea to the
company growth.
D) Effectiveness of Tesco training and development practice in terms of delivering a return of
investment
There are different type of training program used an organization for employee growth.
Manager will provide effective training program to help for the employee skills. The
organization will increase their profit growth with the help of employee because the employment
skill can participate an important role for the firms. They should provide the monthly training to
employee so that they will develop their skills. They will provide the interactive video they are
very helpful for the employee (Armstrong , 2017). To get higher profit they are applying new
strategies and approach so that to increase their productivity quality. They are using different
medium to promote their product on the market like social media marketing, Facebook, twitter
etc. social media is the biggest platform to increase the level of productivity to enhance their
quality of product. Most of the people are attracted to this platform to search the detail of
product.
TASK 4
A) Analysis on the importance for ITV to maintain good employee relation and how it influences
their HR decision making(300)
ITV is a commercial network channel that provide the television services to the customer. HR.
manager will provide efficient quality of performance and maintain the whole organization. They
are using different type of methods to collect the information to negotiation and maintain the
relationship between company and employee (Helmreich , 2017). They will provide the open
environment to shared their problem to their manager and understand the requirement of other
employee. Every employee has equal right to give their own suggestion for the company
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benefits. The organization can be understand the employee ideas and they will take a good
decision for the firm.
Collective Bargaining is the method to negotiate between two employees. Employee can
maintain the main objective to provide the company related main plan and policies to the
employee. There are various type of legislation are available to protected employee quality. They
will manage the employee performance and their capability to give a task to perform the
operation in the company (Kinicki , 2018). They will balance the scorecard of employee overall
performance and their skills. It also improves the relation between the employee so that each
employee discuss about the project in while each employee give their own suggestion to the
benefits for the organization. They are need to create own strategy planning to fixed the issues in
a proper manner because firstly employee understand the logically problem and then resolve it.
The manager will handle all the situation and can be check the details of employee through the
network platform (Locke ,2018). HR. manager is the talented person that would provide the best
approach to learn new ideas and can be implemented to their business. This is the best approach
to acquire in their effective ideas applied into the business process. Every company will provide
the best policies to their employee because this is very beneficial for the employee to follow all
company rules and regulation.
B) Key elements in the employment legislation and how it influence ITV's HR decision
making(160)
ITV can be promoting equal right to all the customer and that can doing effective work together.
Every company will provide all the facility to their employee because it is very required for
every organizational benefits. The main power will give to the HR. manager in which they will
handle each and every situation. They balanced the aggregate between the companies and
employee. They will provide some protection law for employee.
The organization is giving so many advantages to the employee and the employee take
benefits to explore their leadership quality that are helpful for both organizational and personal
growth. Equality is an act to promote the equal rights to the employee to express their feeling
towards the firm (Bamberge,2017). Employee can free to express their ideas and view point to
the organization. The company will understand the suggestion can be implemented to the
company profit. In this way, they earn a lot of profit. Data act can be promoted in which
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employee will secure the important data to the companies' hardware system. It is very important
to manage the whole data of company.
CONCLUSION
From the above report is focus on recruiting process, provide induction, proper skills'
development program. It also includes the benefits, performance Employee safety, encouraging,
appraisal, maintaining relationship between the employee. As per the above report is focus on
management of Woodhill College is required to make use of various platforms where employees
who can support the firm to grow in positive direction can be hired. From the above report is
focus on Tesco will give opportunity to all employee to improve the quality and development. It
helps to increase the organization performance their productivity. As per the above report is
focus on training program because it is a step by step approach that are helpful to understand the
desired goal of organization.
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