Managing and Leading Human Resources of SONY corporation : Report

Managing and Leading
Human Resources

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Explain purpose and functions of HRM that applicable to workforce planning and
resourcing....................................................................................................................................1
P2 Strengths and weaknesses of different approaches for recruitment and selections...............3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
P3 Explain the benefits of different HRM practices within an organisation for employer and
employee.....................................................................................................................................4
P4 Effectiveness of various HRM practices to raise organizational profit and productivity......5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
P5 Importance of employee relations which are influencing HRM decision making for the
SONY..........................................................................................................................................6
P6 Elements of employee legislation and its influence on decision making process.................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Human Resource Management (HRM) refers to the concept in which include process of
recruiting and selecting right person for specifics job. It generally refers to HR department which
play an important role in managing people within an organisation. In this includes various
functions or activities so that predetermined goals or objectives can be achieved (Alfes, 2013).
This report is based on SONY Corporation as it is a Japanese multinational conglomerate
corporation and situated in Tokyo. This company is dealing with several products and services
such as electronic items like AV,IT & communications, Video games, Motion pictures, Music
and financial services. In this report cover various functions of HRM and strengths or
weaknesses of recruitment and selections process. It define benefits of HRM practices for
employees and employers and evaluation of those practices for profits. Importance of employee
relations and key elements of employment legislation also will discuss here.
TASK 1
P1 Explain purpose and functions of HRM that applicable to workforce planning and resourcing
Human resource management consider various functions and activities which must be
perform within an organisation. HR department provide learning sessions as well as training to
employees for enhancing their skills, knowledge and abilities so that they can perform in well
manner for accomplishing pre-defined goals or objectives (Batt, 2012). Here are some purpose of
human resource management within SONY Corporation which support in managing people and
their performance level to achieve particular task such as:
Employees:- They are key personnels of every organisation to get success. They are
responsible for performing any tasks or work and achieve certain goals or targets. HR manager
of Sony corporation play an important role in maintaining relations among employees by
ensuring their requirement and needs. They provide various training and development sessions to
poor performers as per their needs which will support in getting best results or outcomes through
superb performance. Manager also focus on resolving any kinds of problems or issues of
employees for managing the relations in effective and efficient manner.
Organisation:- In this, HR department is responsible for creating better working
environment as they recruit and select best suitable candidates for particular job within the firm.
They ensure about vacant positions in the company and find best persons with high qualified,
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