P1 Purpose and the Functions of HRM

Human Resource Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Purpose and the functions of HRM..................................................................................1
P2 Strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection..............3
P3 Benefits of different HRM practices for both the employer and employee.....................4
P4 Effectiveness of different HRM practices in terms of raise profit and productivity........5
TASK 2...........................................................................................................................................6
P5 Importance of employee relations in respect to influencing HRM decision making........6
P6 Key elements of employment legislation and the impact upon HRM decision making. .7
P7 Illustrate the application of HRM......................................................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management refers to a formal system which manages the employees
within in a firm. The HR professionals plays vital role to attain the goals and objectives of the
organization through managing their responsibilities such as staffing, employee compensation ,
training and development, employee engagement to encourage the employees and enhance the
productivity of the firm (Anderson, 2013).
Morrisons is one of the leading supermarket chain in the United Kingdom which was
founded by William Morrison in the year, 1889. Its headquarter is situated in Bradford, West
Yorkshire, England. The company deals in food and drink, clothing, books, magazines, CDs and
DVDs. Hence, the report incorporates purpose and functions, strength and weaknesses, benefits
of different HRM practices for employer and employee. Moreover, it also comprises of HRM
practices to raise the profit and productivity, employee relations, and applications of HRM.
TASK 1
P1 Purpose and the functions of HRM
Human resource management (HRM) is a term which is used to manage a formal system
of an organization. Workforce planning is a continual process which are to be used for aligning
needs and priorities of company. It is helpful in ensuring effectiveness of workforce to meet
regulatory, service and production requirements, legislatives and organisational objectives as
well. Morrisons is a retailing supermarket company that needs to align its staff to maintain the
operation in efficient way. To accomplish the objectives of the firm they needs human resources
that carry out the entire operations to complete the task. Thus, the HR manager has core
responsibility for recruitment and selection of employees as well as manage their benefits which
can help to stay in the organisation for a long time. Through managing the employees, the
organization can attain their standard goals and objectives (Aswathappa, 2013).
Purpose of HRM
There are several roles and responsibilities within organisation that performed by HR
department as they develop different policies, norms and regulation to achieve particular goals.
As Morrisons need to develop strategic management polices that can attain the target in a
systematic manner. Thus, the manager needs to maintain a positive environment at workplace
where people can work in a effective way and reflects in the increased productivity and
performance of the organisation. There are some major purposes of HRM that are defined below:
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 Optimistic environment - An HR assigns the works to the employee according to their
skills and qualification so that they can carry out the task effectively. This establishes a
positive environment at Morrisons and raise the productivity of employees which results
in increasing profit (Brewster and Hegewisch, 2017).
 Laws - The government of the UK has established laws for the benefit of employees such
as wages, equality, working hours and so on. These legislations are followed by
Morrisons in order to maintain the work and productivity. In addition, the managers also
develops some policies for the firm that has to be followed by organization. These
policies can be related to hiring, selecting and terminating an employee.
Functions of the HRM
There are several functions of HRM that are as follows -
 Training and development - This is one of the core function of manager at Morrisons.
The company need to organize training and development sessions for the new and
existing employees so that freshers can learn the system of the organisation that
motivates to work in the new environment. On the other hand, the existing employees can
learn new techniques and tools which can increase their efficiency to work. Recruitment and selections - Morrisons is a retail supermarket that's why it need skilled
employees to carry out the operations. The managers has the responsibility to recruit the
workforce when it is required for the organization.
(Source 1: Basic function of HRM, 2018)
 Managing employee relations: It is a major function that considered by human resource
management as they focus on creating and maintaining healthy relationship among
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Illustration 1: Basic function of HRM