Role and Purpose of HR Functions in Microsoft

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO1..................................................................................................................................................1
P1Role and purpose of HR functions.....................................................................................1
P2Strength and Weakness of the current selection method....................................................2
LO2..................................................................................................................................................3
P3. Benefits of different HRM practices................................................................................3
P4. Effectiveness of different HRM practices........................................................................5
LO3..................................................................................................................................................6
P5 Employee engagement and its importance in Microsoft...................................................6
P6 Influence of the key elements of UK employment legislation on decision making of HR9
LO4................................................................................................................................................11
P7. Person specification for Receptionist.............................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
HRM helps the company to gain competitive advantage and improve or maximize the
performance of the employee (Noe. and et.al., 2017). This project reveals the purpose of the HR
function a the strength and weakness of the current selection method used by the company and
evaluate the selection process which can be use to make improvement in selection process.
This also includes the creation of Job Specification for the specific role and discuss
about the advantage and disadvantage of current method of advertising job in the company and it
would be recommended for the advertisement of the job vacancy. Report will lay emphasis on
Microsoft as an organization. It is an American multinational organization which has been
headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Company is being engaged in manufacturing license,
support and sell computer software. The CEO of Microsoft is Satya Nadella. Company was
founded by Paul Allen and Bill Gates. Report will highlight the function and purpose for further
growth. It will also explain strength and weakness of current selection method. (Bratton and
Gold, 2017)
LO1
P1Role and purpose of HR functions
Human resource management (HRM) is the strategic approach to the effective
management of a people in a company(Human resource management,2019).
Managerial function
 Planning: It is the major function of HR as this department is responsible to making clear
plan for the development of business. This function can help Chocola Fantastica in
planning about human resources which can increase the operational efficiency of
organization.
 Controlling: HR has to control over the people so that they can work better in the firm. It
is also one of the major function in human resource department of Chocola Fantastica. It
can help company in controlling the activities of each department working in
organization.
Operative function
 Training and development- Training and development is the indispensable function of the
HR management. where its main purpose to improve the current and future performance
of the employee by increasing the ability and skill of the employee in Chocola Fantastica
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by providing proper training to the employee in the particular subject. The role of training
and development is to improve the quality of product. It is important for the Chocaola
Fantastica as by providing the training that increase the ability and skill and they work
with full efficiency towards their work. Purpose is to help the organization come out from
the current problem of staff turnover
Advisory function
 Recruiting and selection : Recruiting is the process of screening, captivating, selecting the
potential and qualified candidates based on the objective of the particular job. The main
purpose of this function is to attract the qualified candidates for the Chocola Fantastica
organization. Recruitment and selection is very important to the organization because it
reduce the cost of mistake and improve the quality of the product. The role is to helps the
organisation to overcome from the staff turnover as it select the qualified and skill
employees which reduce the staff turnover of the organisation as the company facing.
 Performance management: Performance management is also one of the major function of
the HR function as its responsibility of the Human resource management to monitor over
the employees performance. The main purpose of this function is it keep an eye on the
staff members of Chocola Fantastica whether they performing well or not, if in case they
are not performing well according to the standard performance then they are providing
the training to improve their performance on the basis of standard performance and
improve the product quality. It is also very important function for the organisation as it
monitor all the activity and performance of the workers so that if any issue is their
relating to the performance it can be rectify and the role of company to retain the
employees.
 Reward Management : Reward is also one of the HR function which can support the
organization in reducing the problem of employee turnover. The purpose of reward
management is to motivate the employees to perform better which also solves the
problem of low quality of products which is arising Employee not think over the turn off
from the company. That helps in raising the productivity of the Chocola Fantastica.
Best fit approach: this model pays attention on effective coordination or alignment between
company strategy and HR strategies. HR has to ensure that company’s goal is fulfilled without
compromising employees needs.
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