Managing People: Importance of HRM Policies and Challenges Faced

This presentation discusses the role of Human Resource Management (HRM) in managing people and achieving organizational goals. It explores the importance of HRM policies, such as recruitment and selection, training and development, and their impact on employee satisfaction and legal liabilities. The presentation also highlights the challenges faced by managers in implementing HRM policies and how internal and external factors influence HRM processes. The case of Morrison's supermarket chain is used as an example throughout the presentation.

Managing People

Table Of Content
 Introduction
 Overview of Company
 Discussion about Human Resource Management
 Human Resource Management Policies
 Importance of HRM policies
 Challenges faced by managers
 HRM processes& functions are influenced by internal and external factors
 Recommendations
 Conclusion

Introduction
 Human Resource in an organisation plays very essential role as they assist in accomplishing business
objectives in an effective manner and within given time frame. HRM refers to a procedure which includes
planning, selection, organising, recruiting as well as selecting right person at the right time at right place.
This as a result aid them in attaining business goals and objectives. defined as the process of planning,
recruiting and selecting the right candidate for business organisation so that organisation goals can be
accomplished.

Overview of Company
Morrison’s is chosen as the base organisation in this report which is a considered as fourth largest
supermarket chain at the marketplace of UK. The company was introduced in the year 1899 by William
Morrison and the headquarter is located in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The company deals in
various food and beverage products, Books, Magazines, Clothing and many other products (Ferrari and
et. al., 2018). William Morrison started their business as a butter and egg merchant in the Rowson
Market. In 1958 Morrison’s open a small shop which is the first service store.

Discussion about Human Resource
Management
 Human Resource Management define as the most essential department within a company as it will
assist in how an individual need to work in order to accomplish the goals and objectives of the
company. The main aim of HRM is to recruit, select as well as hire capable and right person at the
right place and at the right time according to the need and requirement of the company. This will aid
them in accomplishing their organisational goals and objectives of the business entity in an effective
manner (Chakraborty and Upadhyay, 2018). Along with this, it has also been said that the role of HR
manager mainly falls in three main areas which includes employee compensation & benefits, staffing
as well as designing work.

Human Resource Management Policies
HRM is one of the most essential as well as crucial department within an organisation where
managers are required to conduct ample number of work so that they can accomplish
organisational goals and objectives in an effective manner (Budhwar and Mellahi, 2018). These
HR policies work according to the needs and requirement of the company. Some of the most
essential HR policies are going to be discussed as follows which need to be implemented by the
manager of Morrison’s.

Cont…
Recruitment & selection: These are the most essential policies of HRM where manager need
to understand that it is very important to hire best, potential and most suitable candidate for
the job position so that they can assist them in attaining their organisational goals in an
effective manner.
Advantage: The major advantage behind recruiting and selecting candidates according to the
policies and requirements, ample number of opportunities can easily be grab by the
company.
Disadvantage: If HR manager is unable to hire best and most suitable candidate within the
organisation as per the needs and requirements of company this will affect their
productivity.

Cont…
Training & Development: For every business organisation it is very essential to provide
training and development sessions, it is said that training and development program is quite
essential in order to enhance the knowledge and understanding if there is any sort of change
implemented at the workplace.
Advantage: It aid in enhancing their efficiency and skill which leads to accomplish their
objectives in an effective manner.
Disadvantage: It is most expensive as well as time consuming process which might affect the
overall revenue of the company.

Importance of HRM policies
HRM policies are very necessary as well as crucial in an organisation as it help in attaining
organisational goals and objectives in an effective way. Some of the key essential importance of
HRM policies are going to be discussed as follows:
Security against Legal Liabilities: HRM policies aid an organisation in various ways as it assists
them in performing all the work in a legal manner so they can gain positive results (Zhao, 2018).
Employee Satisfaction: It has been said that an organisation can be successful only if the staff
members of the company are satisfied and company perform in an appropriate manner.

Challenges faced at the time of
implementing the HRM policies
In the present context of Morrison’s management team of the company face ample number of
problems which are going to be mentioned as follows:
Managers need to modify all these strategies in order to implement HRM policies which requires lot
of money, time and efforts. Therefore, it is one of the most time consuming activity which is not
an easy task for the management team (Brewster, 2017).
Along with this, managers need to change their working style in order to implement HRM policies
in an effective manner. all the laws and regulations need to be adopted by the HR manager so
they create healthy and positive working environment,

HRM processes & functions are
influenced by internal and external
factors
Human Resource processes plays an important role as it help in recruiting effective and talented
employees for the company which in turn assist in increasing productivity as well as profitability
of the organization. There are various internal and external factors that has effect on the function
and human resource management processes. One of the main external factor is technology that
effect on productivity of the organization also. Nowadays, Technology is changing rapidly and
people are more preferable and attract towards new and innovative technology.

Recommendation
HRM play very essential as well as crucial role in the accomplishment of organisational goals and
objectives of the company within given time frame and in a systematic manner. There are some
recommendations which need to be followed by the managers of Morrison’s when they develop
any sort of HRM policies. Some of the essential recommendation given to the management
team of Morrison’s are as follows:
• It is very essential for the Human Resource manager of the company to provide full guidance
and information about ant sort of changes takes places at the organisation so that they can
prepare themselves to adopt it in an effective manner.

Conclusion
 From the above PPT is has been concluded that it has been concluded that HRM play very essential
role in the attainment of goals and objectives of the company in an effective manner. Along with this,
with the aid of effective HRM policies managers can guide and direct their staff members so they can
perform all their work in more appropriate and efficient manner. In addition to this, it will aid them
in order to retain their best and most suitable staff member so that they enhance their overall
productivity and performance in an appropriate manner.

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