Human Resource Management: Purpose, Functions, and Effectiveness

Human resource
employee induction
manual part-1

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Purpose and function of human resource management..........................................................3
P2 strengths and weakness of recruitment and selection approaches..........................................5
TASK2.............................................................................................................................................7
P3 Benefits of HRM practices.....................................................................................................7
P4 Evaluate the effectiveness of HRM practices.........................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is defined as the systematic process that consist various functions
like developing effective policies and planning, hire appropriate employees, provide them work
related training that enhance their performance and efficiency, develop effective employee
relation as well as motivate organisational employees through appraising their performance that
inspire them to contribute in achieving organisational goals and objectives efficiently. Basically,
HRM is the systematic strategic approach that is responsible managing organisational employees
properly for the purpose of gaining sustainable competitive advantages (Abner, Kim and Perry,
2017). In the organisation HRM department is formulated that perform various functions like
firing employees, managing them and fire un productive employees as well. In this report the
chosen organisation is Sainsbury with is the second largest supermarket chain establishes in the
year of 1869 by John James Sainsbury. The headquarter of respective organisation is situated in
London, England, UK. 14,28 shops are operated by the organisation in different locations. The
report consists function as well as purposes of HRM, different HRM practices are discussed.
Various strengths as well as weaknesses of the process of selection and recruitment is mentioned.
Along with that, benefits of HRM process for employee and employer is described in this project
report.
TASK 1
P1 Purpose and function of human resource management
As the HRM process consists various activities and functions such as managing employees
and motivating them to perform in well-defined manner. Proper execution of HRM process help
the Sainsbury to achieve all goals and objectives efficiently. HR managers of organisation
perform various functions like developing planning, organize all resources, fulfil organisational
staffing requirements as well as provides training and development opportunities to employees
for the purpose of increasing employee performance and productivity. The department of human
resource management department is liable for recruiting suitable employees for organisational
vacant positions (Adamovic, 2018). First of all HR managers of Sainsbury organisation analyse
organisational vacant job positioning and recruit employees according to job requirements than
training is provided to them that for completing the defined work properly. Different purpose as
well as functions of human resource management are defined below:

Purpose of Human resource management:
Manage employee performance and provide training: HRM department of Sainsbury,
provide various information related to organisation in induction programme that is conducted
after selection process. Appropriate training is provided to employees for the purpose of
enhancing their skills and capabilities to perform defined task more efficiently. Managing the
Performance of employees is the most important objective of human resource management
department of Sainsbury.
Recruit appropriate employees: The purpose or objective of HRM department is to recruit
appropriate employees form different internal and external sources. Managers of Sainsbury
analyse the requirement of employees within organisation and fill the position with suitable
candidate who perform all functions efficient, training is provided to them and ensure their
proper management so, organisational objectives are achieved.
Enhance employee engagement as well as morale: In HRM department of Sainsbury
different organisational policies and programmes are formulates for the purpose of enhancing the
rate of employee engagement and boost their morale to complete defined task in appropriate
manner (Alzyoud, 2018). There are various career development opportunities, performance
appraisal, financial benefits and rewords are provides to employees by the HRM department
Functions of HRM department:
Operational functions: By the HRM department of Sainsbury HR manager perform various
operations functions in order to conduct all business operations properly and ensure smooth
running as well. As the functions includes hiring appropriate and suitable candidate for the right
position, provide training as well as career development opportunities to employees and motivate
and inspire employees through providing financial as well as non-financial benefits (Doll, 2018).
Effective employee relation facilitates the organisation to retain skilled and experienced
employees for long period of time that enhance proficiency of overall organisation.
Managerial functions: There are different managerial functions are performed by the HRM
department of Sainsbury organisation. In managerial functions various activities are conducted
such as prepare organisational planning that contains goals and methods to achieve them
efficiently, allocate all resource in different department according to requirement, hire suitable
employees and manage their performance as well as provide them guidance and lead towards
attaining organisational goals and objectives. Managerial functions are defined below: