Importance of Human Resource Practices in Achieving Organisational Goals: A Case Study of Unilever

Individual report

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
TASK ..............................................................................................................................................3
Human resource practices...........................................................................................................3
Importance of human resource practices.....................................................................................4
Contribution of human resource practices in strategic management and achieving
organisational goals at local and international level...................................................................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES:...............................................................................................................................7
Books and Journals:....................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Every organisation knows the importance of human resource practices and that's why
they make a separate department which takes care of al functions of human resource. Human
resources practices include many functions related to the human resource such as surveys,
recruitment and selection, compensations and benefits, training and development, employee
retention, and health and safety (Saks and Gruman, 2017). It is very necessary for an
organisation that they need to understand the importance of human resource functions as it helps
in achievement of organisational goals and objective. In this context, Unilever is undertaken
which is the UK based organisation that run their business at international level. It is the
multinational company which deals in consumers goods. This report will be discussing the
importance of human resource by giving examples.
MAIN BODY
TASK
Human resource practices
Human resource practices includes all those activities which are necessary for a HR
manager to conduct in order to improve the performances of employees. Human resource
practices are including many important function that are necessary to perform, such as training
and development, recruitment and selection, performance appraisal, compensations and benefits,
etc. This is identifying by companies that day by day the importance of human resource practices
is increasing due to many factors that include competition, dynamic nature of business
environment, etc. That's why it becomes very necessary for all organisations to improve their
human resource practices (Banerjee, 2017). Unilever is the multinational organisation that needs
high quality and talented employees so that they can run their business every well in the
international market. Due to their international trade, the competition is more increasing as it
includes many other companies that comes from different nation. In the case of Unilever, it is
identifying that they have many competitors in the national as well as international market. In
now-a-days, it is also identified that employees turnover ratio is increasing due to dissatisfaction
of employees, better opportunities, etc. Due to this, challenges of Unilever's HR manager are
increasing at a fast speed. So that's why it is very important for Unilever that they should
understand the importance of human resource practices.