Importance of Employee Relations in HRM Decision-Making

Human Resources Employee
Induction Manual
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.................................................................................................................................8
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...............................................................................................................................................10
P7 Illustrate the application of HRM practices in a work-related context, using specific examples 10
CONCLUSION...................................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES....................................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is defined as procedure that is related with managing
human beings of organisation in an effective and efficient manner. It is very essential to
manage people of organisation in proper manner so that goal and objectives can be attained
and achieved. The given organisation is based on Scottish Power which was founded in 1990
that is electricity generation, distribution, retailing and transmission industry. It focuses on
supplying electricity and gases to homes and businesses across United Kingdom. The main
aim of report is to discuss about scope and purpose of Human Resource Management in
terms of resourcing organisation with skills and talents appropriate to fulfils business
functions. It also highlights about effectiveness of key elements of HRM in business along
with internal and external factors affect which impact decision making. In work, some HRM
practices should be followed which are discussed in report.
TASK 1
P1 Explain the purpose and the functions of HRM, applicable to workforce planning and
resourcing an organisation
Human resource management is required in each and every field as it helps in
managing people of organisation in appropriate manner. This is essential for respective
organisation so that they can achieve their set goal and objectives. The main objective of HR
manager is to recruit and hire skilled and capable person for running business in proper way.
Some of the purpose and functions of HRM which are applicable to workforce planning and
resourcing in organisation are described below:
Purpose of HRM
Health and Safety- It is regarded as main purpose of HRM that is related with
managing and providing healthy environment to working force. These assist employees of
Scottish Power to work with freedom and achieve business goal and objectives. The HR
department has to look after various factors such as working condition, working hours and so
on so that they can work freely and safely without any problems.
Needs of Staffing- This is another purpose of HR department which analyses need of
staff in order to manage number of employees of organisation in proper manner. The HR

manager of Scottish Power analyse requirements of people in their business and accordingly
recruit and hire employees for better work performance.
Functions of HRM
Recruitment and Training- It is the most important functions of HRM in which
skilled and capable candidates are recruited and hired who can be part of given job profile.
Once candidates are selected they should be provided with proper training and development
programmes to improve their capabilities and skilled required for profile. The respective
organisation recruits and trained their employees in an effective and efficient manner so that
they can achieve business goal and objectives.
Developing Public Relations- It is the function of human resource management to
develop proper relationship with public for achievement of goal and objectives in an effective
and efficient manner. HRM is crucial for managing and making relationship with external
stakeholders like suppliers, customers and so on.
P2 Explain the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection.
Recruitment is defined as procedure in which applicants are invited for vacant
position or jobs in organisation. Similarly, selection is defined as process for choosing right
candidates among various applicants. The strengths and weaknesses of selection and
recruitment approach are described below:
Online Websites
It is type of approach that is related with inviting applications vacant positions with
assistance of online mode or sites. In this approach, organisation has to post advertisements at
online sites along with requirement of qualification, criteria of eligibility and so on. This lead
organisation to get various applicants and chose most suitable candidates for given profile.
The respective organisation use online sites for inviting applicants to fill vacant positions.
This approach has some strengths and weaknesses which are as follows:
Strengths Weaknesses
 It is beneficial method as it requires
less cost and time. The respective
organisation uses such method to
lower their cost.
 It is quick method where organisation
 There is more receiving of applicants
which lead to face issue of
complexity by organisation.
 Under this method, hacker can hack
sites that lead to waste time as well as