Importance of Employee Relations in LV=

This report discusses the purpose and functions of HRM in LV=, including recruitment and selection, training and development, and ensuring legal compliance. It also explores the strengths and weaknesses of recruitment and selection approaches. Additionally, it highlights the learning and development opportunities provided by LV= to its employees and the benefits for both the employer and employees. The report emphasizes the importance of employee relations in LV= and the role of leadership in maintaining effective employee relations. It also covers key elements of UK legislation and provides a review of CVs for job applicants.

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MANAGEMENT
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
LO 1 ................................................................................................................................................3
a) Purpose and Functions of HRM..............................................................................................3
b) Assessment of Functions in Relation to Workforce Planning and Providing Importance to
Organisation As Whole ..............................................................................................................4
c) Strengths and weaknesses of approaches for recruitment and selection process....................5
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................6
a) Learning and Development Opportunities Provided to LV= Company to Their Employees 6
b) Benefits Provided to Both Employer and Employees............................................................7
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................8
a) Employee Relations and Importance to LV=..........................................................................8
b) Role of leadership in maintaining effective employee relations.............................................9
c) Key Elements of UK Legislation............................................................................................9
LO 4...............................................................................................................................................11
a) Person Specification..............................................................................................................11
b) Review of CV of Three Job Applicants for the Post of Personal Assistant..........................13
c) Six Competency Based Questions for Selection for Personal Assistant Post.......................13
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15
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INTRODUCTION
An association comprise numerous divisions who perform various exercises however
with normal intention is to accomplish business targets and objectives inside explicit time frame
(Alfes and et. al., 2013). The principle job behind achievement of an organization is endeavours
of individuals. In this manner, they are the most important resources of ventures. Bringing labour
into workforce, giving them advantages and make them ready to work as needs be are altogether
done by human asset the board of a firm. HRM performs different exercises like staffing,
arranging, controlling and planning the associations. These procedures help organizations to pick
up profitability of labourers just as exceptional yield on venture. So as to perceive significance of
HRM in associations like LV= following report has been made. This organization was founded
in the year 1854 and is headquartered in Paris France. This task involves principle elements
of the executives alongside reason in present organization. It likewise depicts job of chiefs in
improving gainfulness and profitability of association.
LO 1
a) Purpose and Functions of HRM
The primary capacity of human asset the executives in an endeavour are to enlist best
skilled people in workforce. HR supervisors consistently take part in arranging work
environment which expresses that a group having required aptitudes and capacities to work as
per organization's longing.. With the assistance of these labourers, bosses become ready to
accomplish business objectives and destinations on schedule. Alongside this, administrators used
to give fundamental preparing projects to workers to make them progressively able. Some
significant elements of the board in an association like LV = can depict as underneath:
Functions of HRM:
Recruitment and Selection: As expressed prior HRM utilizes numerous strategies for enrolment
and choice to satisfy opportunity of an organization (Banfield, Kay and Royles, 2018). In setting
with, LV= Company, its directors utilize online strategy to enrol representatives who comprises
powerful information of client support.
Training and Development: HR administrators of LV= give fundamental preparing projects to
new people as well as existing specialists too. This organization is known for its thriving at UK
commercial centre, so such kind of projects help in improving aptitudes of representatives. This
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would make them ready to give client assistance just as to take a shot at new strategies with full
efficiencies.
Pay and Benefits: This firm is likewise encourages labourers with remuneration and
advantages. It incorporates adaptable working hours, easygoing leave, life-term protection and so
forth so representatives can work with energy. This would help organization to get their
maintenances (Bratton and Gold, 2017).
Guaranteeing Legal Compliance: Along with giving pay, HR directors of LV= illuminate
enrolment specialists about terms and states of working association and privileges of them in
organization.
Execution Appraisal: In request to make representatives upbeat and create work fulfilment in
them, bosses of LV= give execution examinations. It incorporates additional reward, occasion
trips, motivating force and so forth which acknowledge labourers for their exhibition.
Reason for HRM
Since human asset the executives performs different exercises and capacities in ventures
be that as it may, principle reason behind all these is to augment profitability of labourers. Gifted
and high qualifies labourer’s assistance in improving gainfulness of organization just as
accomplish set objectives inside restricted time frame.
b) Assessment of Functions in Relation to Workforce Planning and Providing Importance to
Organisation As Whole
The functions which are provided above plays very important role in the growth and
development of an organisations such as LV=. Along with this, it also ensures about effective
running of the organisation as well. It is because with the help of these functions, it will be
possible for an organisation to know about the ways to keep their employees retained in the
company for a long period of time (Brewster, 2017). These functions also help in workforce
planning as such as by training and development, which provides the employees with an
increment in their skills and knowledge. Likewise, compensation and benefits also helps in
workforce planning as payment provided to them for their services is also importance and this
payment is also impacts upon their decision to be in or out the organisations. In this way, the
functions of HRM are important and relates to workforce planning and it also provides value to
an organisation as such the proper implementation of these functions will provide the company
with positive results as such when employees retain in an organisation for a long period of time,
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it impacts upon the overall cost of production of the organisation and along with this, it also
impacts upon the reduction in training and development programs of organisations and hence
providing them value as well.
c) Strengths and weaknesses of approaches for recruitment and selection process
Human asset the board conducts different strategies to enlist high gifted and qualified
specialists in LV= by worried on its destinations for example to give great client assistance. In
setting with enrolment which expresses a procedure of contracting people through inward and
outside assets, they utilized the two strategies for satisfying opportunities in associations. Some
significant points of interest and disservices of these procedures can be portrayed as:-
External source: This procedure incorporates notice method for enlisting applicants in firm. HR
directors, hence, used to make work detail, survey design and so forth system for enlistment
(Brewster, Brookes and Gollan, 2015). Alongside this, they use grounds interviews, work trades,
and online techniques and so on for looking through best competitors.
Strength Weaknesses
This procedure helps in giving a rundown of
intrigued contender for a particular situation in
a firm. These candidates have had all
eligibilities required to satisfy opening.
External strategy helps organizations to get
people having new and creative ideas.
The fundamental shortcoming of outer
wellspring of enrolment is that it requires part
of capital and time.
It requires a long technique like screening
resumes of different applicants, lawful checks
of them and more for enlistment.
Internal source: It involves administrators to enrol people from inside an endeavour. In this
administration used to move occupation of workers by giving advancements or downgrades to
them.
Strength Weaknesses
 Through this procedure, administrators
can give work fulfilment in
representatives just as brings their
assurance up.
 It produces rivalry among individuals
of firms which effects on their
connection as well.
 Employees expect a lot of when they
get new position from association
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 Getting new positions in organization
persuade labourers to work with full
eagerness
which at some point unrealistic to give
by supervisors.
Sources of Selection strategy in LV= Company: Managers of this firm uses interior and
outside methods for enlistment as per prerequisite of employments. They utilize online method
likewise which requires numerous documentation like posting work necessities on web-based
interfaces, in papers and so on. However, this strategy needs much time for further choice
strategies (Budhwar and Debrah, 2013).
LO 2
a) Learning and Development Opportunities Provided to LV= Company to Their Employees
Today the quick improvement of innovation and development has constrained organizations to
adjust its framework just as authoritative culture. So as to pick up rivalry, firms like LV= look
for new way, thoughts and imaginative answers for their creation. With this help, they have to
present differing society whose commitment help the board to accomplish wanted objectives and
goals. However, to oversee decent varieties in an organization is a troublesome assignment for
human asset the executives. In this manner, HRM practices help the executives to defeat from
this trouble s well as oversee workers in a superior way (Chelladurai and Kerwin, 2017).
Alongside this, these practices in firms are utilized recognize needs all things considered and
give benefits appropriately. It causes them to make due in organization and do work in a
legitimate way. Besides, these methodologies are helpful for representatives as well as for
workers as well. Advantages of such strategy in LV= firm can be clarified as:-
Employee’s Benefits
Training and Development: The best piece of HRM rehearses in an undertaking is to give
preparing and advancement program to workers. For this procedure, administrators right off the
bat dissect qualities and shortcomings of every person. Alongside this, as indicated by their
needs, they give such projects. It causes them in decreasing their capacities just as creates
capacities, inspirations and information of them. HR chiefs of LV= Company by and large give
hands on preparing to labourers according to request of working framework.
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Asset of Information: Since to increase upper hand a firm needs to make modifications in its
framework which requests labourers to receive the equivalent in an appropriate manner.
Accordingly, HR practices causes the executives to arrange meetings opportune in organization
with representatives to reveal to them what changes will go on identified with their work with
legitimate correspondence. It helps labourers to embrace the progressions and work through most
recent strategies in activities (Ehrnrooth and Björkman, 2012).
Employer’s Benefits
Improve competencies of Organization: When directors used to take gatherings with
labourers in an endeavour so as to pass on messages about change the board then they will get
effectively the responsibility of workers and hold them in longer timeframe. This system helps in
increasing exceptional yield on speculation just as return incomes as well.
Authoritative Culture: As workforce of LV= comprises different culture, in this way, it
encourages managers to get different new thoughts and sentiments. Such inventive thoughts help
firms in creating innovative items with the goal that they can increase high fulfilment of clients
in a productive manner.
b) Benefits Provided to Both Employer and Employees
HRM practises in an undertaking include preparing and advancement, execution
examination framework, enrolment and so on. Alongside this, best practice among them is to
plan procedures which are productive for workers in satisfying their needs in like manner. These
methodologies are demonstrated to be viable if labourers can work with full duty just as in
required way. So as to gauge qualities and shortcomings of each related individuals, directors
used to give preparing and improvement program to them too. These projects are valuable to all
sort of firms including retail organizations like LV=. The significant point of retail firms is to
give high client care which can be increased through high capable workforce (Friedman, 2017).
In this manner, these preparation projects cause labourers to get ready to give best
administrations to clients just as addition their maintenance with organization items for longer
period. Some significant adequacy of practices of HRM in LV= can be depicted as:-
Improvement in Abilities and Skills of Employee
HR directors consistently take part in giving advantages to workers. They give
exceptional preparing to improve their capacities and aptitudes just as make them ready to
confront new difficulties of working framework. Alongside this, administrators sort out exercises
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like picnics, yoga, gatherings and more to diminish feeling of anxiety of labourers. They give
occasion visit bundles and perform evaluation framework to them likewise which help in
offering freshness to their psyches.
As far as Return on Investment
Preparing project like hands on method encourages representatives to learn while
working in an organization. This system is advantageous to new labourers of LV= in
understanding condition of organization just as to work in like manner. Accordingly, it is useful
for organization to raise efficiency of workers and upgrade development of business too.
As with the help of this improvements made in the organisation’s working, it will help in
providing the company with improved performance of organisation and with good profits with
low cost and employees will be provided with high salary and wages ad job satisfaction along
with rewards and incentives also.
LO 3
a) Employee Relations and Importance to LV=
Workers are the most important piece of a wide range of organizations whether they are
managing in assembling and retailing parts. Commitment of labourers in accomplishment of
progress can't be ignored as these people consistently bolster associations to accomplish their
objectives just as remain with them in all conditions. Along these lines, it is an obligation of
human asset the board to give them all advantages (Ganopoulos and et. al., 2013). For expanding
efficiency of labourers HR chiefs ought to keep up representative connection with manager in
sufficient way so they can help in achievement of business targets. Relationship among
individuals assumes a significant job in basic leadership procedure of human asset supervisors.
On the off chance that HR division has got accomplishment in keeping up great connection
among representatives, at that point they can take legitimate choice in regards to working
methodology and hierarchical culture of endeavours. In any case, on the off chance that they
neglect to deal with the equivalent, at that point it will emerge clashes and worker resistivity
inside business also. Alongside this, effect of labourers relations on activities of organization
including LV= can be depicted as:-
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In huge organizations like LV=, taking activities in change the board is absurd by a
person. Thus, HR chiefs need to talk about changes with representatives and speaks with them in
a legitimate manner. This would help in getting surveys and feelings on execution of changes.
`Include labourers in basic leadership methodology help the executives to raise spirit of
them just as persuade to buckle down.
Good relations among labourers and representatives with the board help organizations to
dispose of odds of contentions.
Along with this, HR group can without much of a stretch recognize needs and necessities
of labourers for achieving an errand. This will help them in defining strategies and as per
workers.
Accordingly, the executives of ALDI Company have utilized numerous strategies to keep
up connection of workers like bartering and discussion. Through aggregate bartering, HR
directors used to take sentiment and perspectives on labourers on a specific point and as
indicated by their criticism they decide (Gheiratmand and et. al., 2015). This strategy helps in
creating sentiments of equity and similarly significant like different people in workers which gets
their efficiency organizations. Alongside this, for seeing needs of individuals, HR director has
chosen a delegate of every office who advises them about requests regarding labourers. In
addition, on normal premise bosses used to specialist these agents about how to produce sound
and neighbourly relations among workers. It likewise advances viable worker connection in a
substance for their improvement and development.
b) Role of leadership in maintaining effective employee relations
Leadership refers to the process or power with the help of which an individual have the
ability to make other people to do what the leader wants from them to do. Leadership plays an
important role in maintaining effective and good relations in between the employees of an
organisation. It is an individual who not only cares about the needs of organisations but also
about the need of employees as well. By interacting with the employees, it is made possible to
know about their needs and demands, the type of working conditions they want at the workplace
so that the needed improvements could be made in the working environment of the company.
Along with this, the consideration about the requirements of company as well. So it is important
for the leaders of LV= to consider the requirements of both the employees and the organisations
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as well along with maintaining proper balance in between them so that the growth and
development of the organisation could be fostered (Gomes and et. al., 2012).
c) Key Elements of UK Legislation
So as to give equity in labourers and shield them from mortification, Government of UK
has made worker enactments. It incorporates structure and direction for association which states
privileges of representatives. For dispensing with separations happen based on sex, age, sex,
rank, shading and nationality and so on from working environment, administrative bodies has
made compulsory for organisations to go along their business with work enactment. These
guidelines ordinarily sway on basic leadership procedure of human asset the executives. Along
these lines, HR chiefs are required to mindful existing and new representatives at the hour of
enlistment and determination about their privileges in organization including examinations,
expulsions and lay-offs methodology. These enactment impacts on basic leadership process in
following manners:-
Employee enactments has caused obligatory for organizations to give sound and safe
workplace to labourers. They much utilized well-being types of gear and safety measures to
verify individuals who are working in their working environments. In the event that they didn't
do as such, at that point government can take fundamental activities against them (Guest, Paauwe
and Wright, 2012).
HR administrators need to give fundamental preparing and improvement projects to
existing and new labourers so as to make them ready to work in an ideal way. At the hour of
enrolment, they should involves new labourers about terms and states of big business, pay scales,
evaluation period just as give them inductive preparing to at any rate multi month. These projects
help selection representatives to get comfortable with new working association.
Such guidelines sway on CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) of firms.
Representative enactments incorporate different laws and guidelines so as to make
correspondence among labourers just as shield them from all kind of segregations and
provocation. Such laws incorporate Employment Rights, Minimum Wage Act, Sex
Discrimination Act, and Equal Pay Act and so on. All demonstrations have distinctive
significance however has same reason for example to create correspondence among individuals
in businesses.
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Sex Discrimination Act 1984: This demonstration has builds up so as to shield labourers from
shamefulness which happen based on their sex, conjugal status, sexual direction and individual
IDs. It likewise protects workers from provocation and mortifications which incorporate
improper conduct with them by someone else (Harrison and Lock, 2017). In the event that any
such movement has done in office that make people uneasy and unreliable while working then its
duty of HR the executives to make a move against these. Alongside this, whenever hassled
people believe that no move has made then they can hold up objection in administrative bodies.
As of now, LV= has 7000 stores in different nations in which a large number of individuals are
working. Aside from enormous working association, its administration consistently attempt to
give uniformity among labourers.
The Employment Right Act: This law guard representatives from out of line rejections,
overwhelming outstanding task at hand and excess. It fortifies the privilege of labourers to get
adaptable working hours and parental leave in work environment. As expressed in Section 86 of
this Act, it is amendable for all endeavours to pull out period to workers with legitimate
explanation before end. Any firm can't end a specialist without explicit reason in the event that
they do, at that point will be legitimately punished by government. Segment 135 Act incorporate
repetition instalment that gives the privilege to remuneration to a worker. A worker can request
pay if his activity gets out of date. This excess instalment can be determined on premise of
workers involvement in an organization just as his age likewise matters in the equivalent.
Equity Act 2010: This is the most dominant act built up in 2010 which replaces every single
past law of work enactments. Through this law, UK government gets a lot of accomplishment in
taking out unlawful segregation, provocation and embarrassments from work environment of
associations. Correspondence Act gives different rights to representatives like equivalent open
doors for all individuals to land positions as indicated by their abilities and capabilities. In this
manner, HRM of LV= gives uniformity among labourers by giving equivalent pay rates based on
their occupations, adaptable working hours so as to diminish pressure and substantial remaining
task at hand weight (Lu, Zhu and Bao, 2015). Alongside this, for their maintenances
administrators give examinations like motivating forces, occasion visits, protection and benefits
conspire and so forth.
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LO 4
a) Person Specification
Person Specification is defined as the document with the help of which the required
skills, knowledge and competencies for an individual is provided in order to acquire a specific
post. So the following is the person specification for the post of Personal Assistant for LV=
organisation which have been provided as under:
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Post : Personal Assistant
Department: Finance Department
Key Evidence required:
(A): Application form, (I): Interview, (R): Role
Requirements
Skills
 Good research and logical skills are needed as the
candidate is required to collect different types of data in a
systematic way.
 Should be capable of arranging meetings, events and
could take notes at the time of seminars and meetings.
 Should know about handling of internal as well as
external contacts of the organisation such as attending
calls and other sources as well.
 Able to provide assistance in correction and production
of reports to complete required work in time.
 Capable to perform basic activities such as room
bookings, organising of ad hoc events, travel
arrangements, hotel & ticket booking, etc.
Education qualification
 Must have computer knowledge.
 Must have graduation or higher degree.
 Book meetings
 Administrative and assistant service to upper of
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Key task
department
 Co-ordination and formulation of meetings
 Answering work related to e-mails, posts and phone
calls.
 Interaction and connection with manpower of other
departments
b) Review of CV of Three Job Applicants for the Post of Personal Assistant
CV is the document with the help of which it is possible to know about the educational
history, experiences and other related information of an individual who wants to work in an
organisation (Marchington and et. al., 2016). In relation to LV=, the review of three job
applicants who had applied their CV for the post of Personal Assistant has been provided as
under:
CV of Job Applicant 1: This candidate is having the ability to prioritise workload in an
good and effective manner. In addition to this, it is also having high proficiency and also a good
learner. In the qualities and skills of this individual, it is included about its good communication
skills, high concentration level and also about its experiences received from fitness club on the
job role of personal trainer and fitness instructor. However, the following qualities, skills and
knowledge are not enough for the job role of Personal Assistant.
CV of Job Applicant 2: The next candidate possess skills to work as a administrative
support and is also having good communication skills. With this, the candidate is also good in
writing, screen calling and culinary skills as well. The candidate is also having working
experiences as Personal Assistant and Personal Secretary. So the specifications of this individual
is matching with the needs and requirements of this post.
CV of Applicant 3: The third candidate is also having god communication skills,
secretarial and PA skills which are essential for the vacant post and hence, this individual can
also be shortlisted for the vacant post in the organisation.
c) Six Competency Based Questions for Selection for Personal Assistant Post
Question 1: Tell me some factors to bring positive changes at workplace?
Question 2: Is there any situation faced by you when it was difficult to manage a client and you
achieved success in it?
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Question 3: Is there any instance when due to you PA Role, you past organisations have go
benefited?.
Question 4: How have you managed different priorities of work at the same time?
Question 5: Do you think you skills are sufficient to get this job role in the organisation?
Question 6: What was your experience in this job role?
The following are some important questions which are important for interviewer to ask
from an individual for getting the selection of right candidates for the post of Personal Assistant
in LV=.
CONCLUSION
From the above assignment, it has been concluded that HRM is an important approach
that helps organisation in hiring, selecting, recruiting and developing better ways of selecting and
better knowledgeable individuals to achieve the organisational goals. In this report, there are
many types of functions of HRM that helps LV= to operate their overall functions and proper
management of work. Along with this, there are various opportunities and learning abilities for
the development of better ways to have unique opportunities. By having specific knowledge,
candidates can accomplish their needs and demands within the granted organisation and able to
achieve their predetermined goals. Further discussion has been made on various types of
interview process to complete legal requirements that will help an organisation to overcome
government intervention and negative impacts of other factors.
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