Purpose of Human Resource Management - Sainsbury
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HUMAN RESOURCEMANAGEMENT
Table of ContentsIntroduction......................................................................................................................................3Task 1...............................................................................................................................................4(1) Organization overview..........................................................................................................4(2)Key roles and responsibilities of HR function and its purpose..............................................4(2) Approaches of HR functions along with their strengths and weaknesses- ...........................6(4)Effectiveness of employee relations and employee engagement, the benefits of flexibleworking conditions and the importance of employee's relations to influence the HRM decisionmaking.........................................................................................................................................8(5)Key areas of employee legislation where organization needs to work. ....................................9TASK 2..........................................................................................................................................101. Job Specification for HR manager........................................................................................102.CV..........................................................................................................................................113.Interview notes.......................................................................................................................134.Offer letter..............................................................................................................................135. Process of recruitment...........................................................................................................146. Rationale for HR practices....................................................................................................15CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................15REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16
IntroductionHuman Resource Management is the strategic approach of managing the people within anorganization and improve their efficiency so that they can meet out Organizational goals andobjectives. It involves process of recruitment and selection, training and development,performance appraisal and rewards, benefits and compensation of the employees. Report willfocus on Sainsbury. It is the second largest chain of supermarket in UK. The main purpose ofHuman Resource management is to achieve organization's success through people. The report willhighlight on the purpose and key responsibilities of HR function, approaches of HRM activities,key areas of employment legislation, job specification format and many other related activities. Task 1(1) Organization overviewThe organization being chosen is Sainsbury Plc- Sainsbury Plc is a British organization, in retail sector of business. The organization is asupermarket and a largest retailer in grocery products. It was founded in 1869, by John JamesSainsbury in Holborn, London, United Kingdom. Consisting its headquarters in 33 Holborn,London, EC1, United Kingdom, Sainsbury has 1,415 shops in UK and 186,900 employeesworking in it. Sainsbury currently is the second largest supermarket chain in United Kingdom.,comprising of 16.9% of total market share in supermarket sector. (2) Key roles and responsibilities of HR function and its purposeHuman resource management is the practice of recruiting, selecting, training and managingthe employees of an organization in order to generate the desired outputs from them to meet thetargets that results to growth of the company. There are variety of ways to approach managementof HR in a business. The two main approaches are described below- Hard HR- Hard HR involves treatment of employees simply as resource of theorganization, just like machinery and building. The concept is based on the identification of workneeds of the business and accordingly recruit and manage the employees. There is very short-termchange in the employee’s numbers and there is minimum communication from top to bottom levelof hierarchy. Hard HR involves only the required amount being paid for the staff and ignore all the
extra benefits apart from the work. This approach consists judging staff which may be good or badrather than improving or motivating them. Hard HR follows autocratic leadership style. Soft HR- This Approach of HRM involves treating the employees as most important partof the organization. In this approach the employees are treated as individuals and their needs arebeing planned out and the activities such as motivation, rewards etc., are conducted. This approachon long term workforce planning and it consists the stronger two communications between themanagement and employees. Payment system is based on the performance of the employees andvarious other benefits are being provided to them for their welfare. The appraisal system in thisapproach focusses on training and development of employee's needs. Soft HR follows democraticleadership style as it involves participation of employees in decision making of the company(Paauwe and Boon, 2018). The following are the important roles that HR department plays for the organization and theirpurpose- 1.Recruitment- The role of HR department is to recruit employees for Sainsbury. Thisinvolves Hiring and Selecting the right people and assigning them at the right placeaccording to their skills and abilities in order to provide success to Sainsbury company. HRmanager recruits and interviews the employees and administers their performance throughvarious psychological tests. Purpose for this role is that it helps Sainsbury to get skilled andefficient workforce that can implement the company's objectives through their efficientproductivity and performance. Also Sainsbury has been the second largest supermarketchain, as this position is being achieved by the skilled manpower of its 186,900 employees.Thus, the recruitment of best employees plays in important role in success of businessorganization (Sanders and Yang, 2016).2.Training and Development- This role of HR function focusses on the training of newemployees and the development of the existing ones of Sainsbury company. Training insimple words is a process where employees are being made learn different techniques toperform their tasks. This process is carried out within the company premises or outside it.Training makes the employees learn their tasks and areas of performance, whereasdevelopment involves training and upgrading the existing employees. Purpose of training
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