Recruitment Process in HRM

RECRUITMENT PROCESS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO 1................................................................................................................................................3
Purpose and Scope of Human Resource Management ...............................................................3
Functions of HRM.......................................................................................................................4
Different Approaches to Recruitment and Selection...................................................................6
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................7
Benefits of HRM practices...........................................................................................................7
Effectiveness of HRM practices..................................................................................................9
LO 3...............................................................................................................................................10
Impact of Employees Relation in HRM decision-making.........................................................10
Employment litigation Impact on HRM decision-making.........................................................11
LO 4...............................................................................................................................................13
Application of HRM Practices...................................................................................................13
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................16
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................17

INTRODUCTION
Human Resource Management or HRM is mainly a strategic approach to manage the
people effectively in any company or organization in order to help the company to gain the
competitive advantage. It mainly lays emphasis on the welfare of the organization by
safeguarding the employees by improving their performance (Khan and et.al., 2019). It provides
all the benefits to the employees including the recruitment, training, development, managing
rewards etc. So, its main purpose is to enhance the progress of the organizations by making the
proper use of the people along with benefiting them and marinating their relations (Collings,
Wood and Szamosi, 2018).
HRM also organizes various training programs and regular performance evaluations in order to
enhance the productivity. Marks and Spencer (M&S) is the company chosen to evaluate its
Human Resource Department and its practices. It was founded by Michael Marks and Thomas
Spencer in Leeds in 1884 (Toms and Zhang, 2016). It is multinational retailer headquartered in
London, England which deals in selling clothes, home products, food products and many more.
It is facing a rapid success with approx. 80,000 employees working and giving it an overall
turnover of £10,181.9M with a net profit of £27.4M as noted in 2020. The total value of the
company’s share is £2.18bn (Marks & Spencer, 2020).
The report below will describe the purpose and scope of HRM in M&S on the basis of
resourcing and planning the workforce along with mentioning the strengths and weaknesses of
different approaches in order to recruit and select the employees to achieve organization’s
different objectives. The main elements of HRM will be highlighted by evaluating the benefits of
its different practices and its effectiveness in order to enhance the profit and productivity. It will
also analyse the benefits of employee relations in decision-making of HR along with discussing
the elements of employee legislation and its impact. The report will be finalized by analysing the
implementation of HRM practices in the Marks & Spencer using specific examples.
LO 1
Purpose and Scope of Human Resource Management
HRM mainly deals in coordinating with people of M&S to achieve certain organizational
goals along with fulfilling the needs of the employees and ensuring that all of them are satisfied
and maintain good relations with each other at the workplace (Priyadarshini, 2020). HRM of
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M&S does all these by making the justified use of people, processes and the technologies which
are implemented in the organization’s internal environment. It builds strong relations with all the
departments as it focusses on recruiting the employees which are the main source of productivity
in all the departments. It also keeps a tab on the performance of the employees of Marks &
Spencer so that it can change the roles according to their skills and talents.
Functions of HRM
HRM performs many functions for the welfare of organizations including the hiring,
motivating, maintaining the workforce to gain the commitment of the main resources but there
are some major functions which are as follows:
1. Managerial Functions
Planning: This is the main function of HRM to analyse the number and the type of employees to
achieve the goals of the organization (Ramgoolam, 2019). The planning in M&S also includes
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Illustration 1: Functions of Human Resource Management
Source: Human Resource Management, 2020.