Importance of Employee Relations in HRM Decision Making

Human Resource

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1. Purpose and functions of HRM.............................................................................................3
P2. Strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection.................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P3. Benefits of different HRM practices for both employee and employer................................6
P4. Effectiveness of different HRM practices in relation of raising organisational profit and
productivity.................................................................................................................................7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
P5. Importance of employee relations in terms of influencing HRM decision making..............8
P6. Key elements of employment legislation and its influence on HRM decision making........9
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................10
P7. Application of HRM practices using specific examples.....................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is the essential managerial concept that tends to focus on
effective recruitment, selection, induction, performance appraisal and many more and also
comply with several labour laws. In this, the department itself is responsible for effective
development and overseeing the prominent policies which tends to govern workforce and also
helpful in effective development of relationship among them (Azari, Ozger and Cavdar, 2019). It
leads to depict he prominent objectives including the societal which undertake human and social
needs, organisational consider offer effective training and recruitment of employees and personal
depicts the effective opportunity for career development and maintain employee satisfaction. To
carry forward the study, TESCO is considered which is the British multinational supermarket
store situated in England, UK and also become the third largest retailer in world. For this, the
report tends to cover several functions and purpose of HRM and also depict effective practices to
increase profitability and productivity. For this, it also leads to depict the significance of
employee relations and prominent elements of employee legislations that impact the decision
making of HR manager.
TASK 1
P1. Purpose and functions of HRM
HRM is the combination of three basic elements which include human that represent the
prominent skilled manpower, resources represent inadequacy of availability and lastly
management depict the effective use of limited amount of resources.
Purpose of HRM
 The prominent purpose is to ensure the effective working of manpower in company and
also tends to identify that no single post is vacant in the company. Along with this, they also tens to perform prominent roles regarding the effective
consultant in company and also tends to resolve significant conflicts within stipulated
period of time and also tends to carry prominent activities of company in smooth way.
Best fit vs Best practice
Best Fit Best Practice
This approach is also termed as contingency This practices depicts prominent bundles of

model and also assert that there is no universal
way of doing other things that might get
unsuccessful within the organisation. This
approach is quite effective in terms of opting
prominent policies to match with ideal
practices of business objectives.
HR activities that effectively support the
prominent enhancement for the organisational
performance in terms of reaching for
competitive advantage considering the size and
location of company.
Functions of HRM Workforce planning: It is the prominent function of HR manager in terms of determining
and forecasting the effective plans for manpower considering the supply and demand of
employees which is helpful in terms of identifying the any deviation. It also tends to
overlook and examine the effective talent in the company in terms of ensuring that
organisation has prominent manpower with effective skills for prominent job (Collings,
Mellahi and Cascio, 2019). In terms of TESCO, it is the effective process which is
helpful in regard of managing individuals of company by identifying their competencies
and skills.
 Employee relations: It is the basic function of HR department in terms of maintaining the
prominent relationship as it is useful in terms of improving the overall performance of
employees that leads to boost morale of workforce. Along with this, it is the
responsibility of HR manager to maintain terms in company and employees as well (El-
Kassar and Singh, 2019). In context of TESCO, they tends to develop and maintain
prominent relation with their employees by suitably sharing their issues and also offer
solutions to them. Hence, employee relations should maintain suitable terms with
employees considering healthy working conditions.
P2. Strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection
Recruitment: It is the essential process which is helpful in recruiting new and skilled employees
in the company. It also tends to undertake effective selection and attraction of candidates in
terms of performing particular job role for company (Khalik, Asbar and Elihami, 2020). The HR
manager of TESCO perform it to recruit skilled and competent candidates to perform prominent
roles and responsibilities.
Approaches: