Purpose and Function of HRM in TESCO

Human Resource
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................4
P1 Purpose and Function of HRM..........................................................................................4
P2 Strength and weaknesses of different approaches for recruitment and selection..............5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
P3 : Benefits of HRM practices for employee and employer both.........................................7
P4: Evaluate effectiveness of HRM practises in organisational profit & productivity..........9
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................1
P5 Importance of employee relations in respect to influencing HRM decision- making......1
P6 Key elements of employment legislation and the impact it has upon HRM decision-
making....................................................................................................................................2
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................3
P7 Application of HRM practices in a work related context..................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Human resources are workforce of a organisation who are performing the functions
according to laid objectives. For the purpose of managing the human resource requirements there
has to be focus on the functions of recruitment, electioneer, training, development of employees.
Human resource management is a critical function that is used for managing of employees so
that talented workforce can be retain for longer time period. TESCO is a British multinational
grocery brand that is having its headquarters in England, UK (Delery and Roumpi, 2017). They
are one of the third largest retail brand across world by their gross revenues and is ninth largest
in the world. They are having presence across seven countries that includes Europe, Asia,
Hungary, Iceland and Thailand. Present report is according to analysis of the importance of
purpose and functions of human resource management, along with the strength and weakness of
opportunities, employee relations and further there is application of HRM practises in the
organisation.
TASK 1
P1 Purpose and Function of HRM
Human resources functions is concern with the utilisation of present human resources in
organisation by performing all the necessary functions such as planning, organisation, directing
& controlling the different functions to accomplish the laid objectives of organisation.
Some of the functions performed In TESCO are mentioned below:
Training and development: It is the primary function that is performed by the human
resource department where the emphasis on enhancing the employees skills by providing them
required training to perform the assigned job duties. In TESCO Human resource department is
working towards improvement of skills and competence of employees by organising timely on
the job and off the job training initiatives.
Recruitment & selection: It is responsibility of the HR managers to select employees
according to the vacancies. In TESCO there is hiring and selection of candidates according to the
available vacant position that can assist them in
Managing employee relation: In TESCO human resources department is working
towards enhancing the overall productivity of employees by working towards managing positive

employee relations. It assists employees in having a positive mind set while they are working
towards their assigned roles.
Purpose of human resource management:
Performance appraisal- It is regarded as the main purpose of human resource
department where there is focus on performance appraisal to evaluate employee performance
(Nankervis and et.al 2019). For this Human resource department has to maintain and record the
contribution made by each employee individually towards their assigned roles. In TESCO timely
performance appraisal assists in having a motivated workforce who is contributing according to
assigned roles.
Staffing needs- Human resource department main function is to ensure that all the
staffing needs of different functional departments are timely fulfilled. Human resource
department of TESCO is responsible to identify the staffing requirement of different areas of
operations both front office, in stores and back office departments from where
Law compliance- There has to be following of all the legislation and laws that can assist
TESCO in having proper compliance policies in the organisation. When there will be proper and
timely compliance then it will lead to proper adherence towards creation of a healthy workplace
environment (Pham and et.al 2020).
P2 Strength and weaknesses of different approaches for recruitment and selection
Recruitment is a Human resource function that is concern with creation of talent pool is
that applicants can be invited to apply for various job roles. There are two basic sources of
recruitment along with its associated strength & weakness as mentioned below:
Internal sources of recruitment consist of filling vacancies in organisation by using of
internal sources such as transfer, promotion internally in the organisation. The vacancy can be
filled by application of process for internal recruitment of employees. This method is very
helpful in saving of lot of time and efforts.
Strengths of Internal Recruitments:
Saving of time: in TESCO application internal recruitment sources leads to saving of
time for HR managers as they are already having awareness regarding the past performance
status of employees, performance that can lead towards filling of all the vacant positions in the
minimum time period.