Human Resource Management| Tesco Plc

Human resource
management

INTRODUCTION
HRM is consider as an important activity of hiring, recruiting and managing employees
within the company. Mainly, it help workers in making them valuable by improving their
performance. As it deals with human relation in company that starts from recruitment to
employee relation. This will directly enhance the overall productivity of employees (Cascio,
2015). In this, manager of business organization play a crucial role in managing workers
activities by providing them better guidance and motivation to do something for attaining set
goals and objectives. Current report is based on Tesco, is a British multinational retail company
operate their business in UK for attaining success. Company has around 450000 workers who
perform for organization and its activities to accomplished set targets. Report is going to describe
purpose and function of HRM that used in managing employees activities. Various recruitment
along with its strength and weakness is also mentioned in this project. Along with this,
importance of employees relation in discussed that influence entire HRM decision making within
the company.
TASK 1
P1 Purpose and the function of HRM application to workforce planning and resourcing
HRM is refers to the strategic approach that used by company to managing their people
so that they help them in attaining agonistic advantage. Mainly, it is design to exploit the
performance of workers in order to accomplish set strategic objectives in stipulate time frame. In
this context, the main focus of HRM is to recruit right person for right job. This will positively
impact on enhancing the performance company and its employees. In this regards there are some
appropriate approaches of HRM implement by Tesco to attain their strategic objectives:
Hard and soft model of HRM:
Soft HRM is one of the effective approach of HRM as it is people focused and high
commitment. In this, the main focus of company to identify need of employees, their training,
development, motivation, strategic integration and many more (Chukwuka, 2015). All these are
may help in improving workers abilities to do something well for achieving set goals. Whereas,
hard model is relates to strategic fit and place that is based in performance management. It is task
focused and low commitment through which manager of business organization can easily attain
strategic goals and objectives.
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