Managing People: HRM Policies & Challenges in Vodafone

This presentation discusses the importance of Human Resource Management (HRM) in managing people and achieving company goals. It provides an overview of Vodafone, explores the Harvard Model of HRM, discusses HRM policies and their importance, challenges in implementing the policies, and provides recommendations. The presentation concludes with the significance of HRM policies in protecting against legal liabilities, ensuring employee satisfaction, and supporting the strategic direction of the company.

Managing People

TABLE OF CONTENT
 Introduction
 Overview of Company
 Discussion on HRM
 HRM Policies & its importance
 Challenges to Implement the Policies
 Recommendation
 Conclusion
 References

INTRODUCTION
Human Resource Management is
defined as the process of planning,
recruiting and selecting the right
candidate for business organisation
so that organisation goals can be
accomplished. It is necessary
because it will give the idea that
how any of the work can be
managed in a systematic manner.

Harvard Model of HRM
It is one of the model which was
introduced by David Guest in 1997. It
is that types of model which carries six
different types of components. In
context of Vodafone, this can be the
model which will allows to decide that
how any of the HRM decision is
required to be taken so that each and
every work can be conducted in a
systematic manner.

Overview of Company
Vodafone is one of the company
which perform its business
activity in different part of the
world. They provide number of
services to their customers which
are completely related within the
telecommunication sector.

Discussion about HRM
Talking about Human Resource Management, it is one of the most important
department in any of the business organisation as it can easily guide that
how any of the work is needed to be do and who are those candidate who
can conduct this activity specifically. It is necessary to understand that
HRM department will need to hire the right candidate as per the
requirement of company so that they can contribute towards achieving the
goals of a company in specific manner.

HRM Policies
HRM is quite crucial department in a company
where they are needed to conduct different
types of work so that goals can be
accomplished. It is necessary to understand for
each and every HR manager that they must
comply with HR policies if they want to
achieve the milestone of a company because it
will directly guide that how any of the work is
needed to be done in a systematic manner (HR
POLICIES IN VODAFONE, 2015).

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Recruitment and selection: It is one of
the most important policies of HRM
where it is necessary for manager to
understand that they are needed to
hire only those candidate who are
capable of performing every single
work as per the requirement of a
company(HR POLICIES IN
VODAFONE, 2015)

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Training and Development: It is
said that training and
development program in any of
the company is very crucial
because it guides that how any of
the employees can adopt the
changes whenever there is the
requirement (HR POLICIES IN
VODAFONE, 2015).

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360 Degree Appraisals: It is crucial
for HR manager to understand
that they are needed to give
appraisals to their employees so
that they can perform much better
in future period of time.

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Employment Act: It is necessary to
understand for each and every HR
manager that their company must
comply with the policies related to
employment law. In any of the
organisation it is necessary that
employment law must be followed and if
in any of the circumstances it is not
being followed then legal actions can be
taken upon the company.

Importance of HRM policies
Protection against Legal Liabilities: For any of the company, it is necessary
to understand that HRM policies do guide business organisation that how
any of the work is needed to be done. In context of Vodafone, HR policies
can easily protect them from legal liabilities concerning claims of unfair
employment practices.

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Employee Satisfaction and Confidence: In any of the company, the HR
department is needed to understand that they can attain the success only in
that situation where company will be able to perform well.
Supporting the Strategic Direction: Whenever any of the company work in
the systematic manner by following the HR policies then in that situation
company will have the option to take better decision as per the requirement
of a situation.

Challenges to Implement the
Policies
Whenever this types of policies are
needed to be implemented
within the company then
organisation will require to
spend lots of money which will
not be an easy task.

Recommendation
It is can be easily recommanded in this situation, that whenever any of the
HRM policies are needed to be implemented within the company then in
that situation company is required to understand that what are necessary
ground which can help to accomplish the goals. Even there are number of
challenges which is needed to be faced and in order to overcome all of
them HRM department must ensure that they will guide every employees
that how they are required to work in any of the situation.

CONCLUSION
From the above presentation it can be concluded, that Human Resource
Management is one of the most important topic within the organisation
which help to guide that how any of the work is needed to be done and
who can be the one who can help to attain those goals. HRM policies are
very crucial for business organisation as it tell that how any of employees
is needed to be treated in the company.

Annual Report of Vodafone

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References
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Barrena-Martínez, J., López-Fernández, M. and Romero-Fernández, P. M.,
2019. Towards a configuration of socially responsible human resource
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Brewster, C., 2016. Comparative HRM. In Encyclopedia of Human Resource
Management. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.

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Vodafone Group Plc. 2019. [Online]. Available Through: <
https://www.vodafone.co.uk/>
HR POLICIES IN VODAFONE [Online]. Available Through: <
https://www.citehr.com/371101-hr-policies-vodafone.html>

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