Recruitment Process: Use, Functions, Benefits, and Limitations

This document discusses the use and functions of Human Resource Management in workforce planning. It also analyzes the benefits and limitations of various recruitment and selection processes. Additionally, it examines different HRM practices that are beneficial for both employers and employees.

Recruitment
Process

INTRODUCTION
The recruitment process is described as the ability of managers for typically targeting and
attracting qualified candidates by encouraging maximum job seekers to apply for the vacancy in
business. It is very essential for an organisation as to restrict the over burden of its workers by
delegating the task into more workforce. The organisation selected for this project is Aston Martin
Lagonda Global Holdings as being British independent manufacturer of luxury sports cars and grand
tourers. It was founded by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford in 1913, with its Chief Executive
Officer as Andy Palmer at 1st October, 2014. This project determines the use and function of Human
Resource Management which are applied in workforce planning (Alam, 2019). It further analyse
benefits and limitations for recruitment and selection process. The project also examines different
HRM practices that are beneficial for both employer and employees with importance of HRM
practices that are useful in raising organisational profits and productivity. Additionally, it analyse the
importance of employee relations and the key elements of legislations for HRM decision-making
procedure. This project also explains the HRM practices with its illustration for business activities.
TASK 1
P1. Determine the use and functions of Human Resource Management which are
applied in workforce planning
Aston Martin:- The Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings as being British independent
manufacturer of luxury sports cars and grand tourers. It was founded by Lionel Martin and Robert
Bamford in 1913, with its Chief Executive Officer as Andy Palmer at 1st October, 2014. This
organisation is public limited company with its ISIN number as GB00BFXZC448PILA. It is
headquartered in Gaydon, England, United Kingdom. It is branded company with its various brands
that are Aston Martin, Lagonda, etc., and have revenue of US $ 997.3 million in 2019. It further has a
unique website for its company as www.astonmartin.com, www.astonmartinlagonda.com.
Human Resource Management:- It is described as formal system devised for management
of people within an organisation by delegating work in accordance with capability of employees.
Managers of Aston Martin focus on hiring maximum workers as to split the task into various roles
and responsibility to complete the specific task with specialisation (Brands and Fernandez-Mateo,
2015).
Purpose of HRM:- The main purpose of Human Resource Management in an organisation is
to manufacture products and services with differentiated quality as to meet the requirements of
customers. The managers of Aston Martin focus on producing qualitative and luxurious sports cars

that leads end-users to drive it with comfort and enjoy driving. Some of the purpose of HRM is
explained as under:-
 Employee Compensation:- It is the main duty and responsibility of managers is to provide
good compensation rates to their employees which encourage them to give their best efforts
while performing their task. The managers of Aston Martin are beneficial as their workforce
is motivated in completing their task within particular duration as to achieve individual and
organisational goals. These rewards are further categorised as monetary and non-monetary
pleasure of bonus, incentives, promotion and performance appraisal.
 Improve productivity:- The managers of a company directs and control actions of business
activities by identifying errors and develop strategic decision making procedure to minimise
mistakes (Buxton, 2014). Managers of Aston Martin are advantageous as they improve
productivity by manufacturing sports cars with superior quality at least-cost effective price. It
attracts customers to pay high amount for specialised products in achieving high level of
satisfaction.
Functions of HRM:- The functions of Human Resource Manager are described on the basis
of business activities for making and boosting energy of its workers to complete the task at particular
time period. Managers of Aston Martin focus on these functions as to meet its desired target by
developing customer relationship management for sustaining in global market.
 Planning:- The managers of Aston Martin focus on developing strategic decision making
procedure through innovative ideas with creative thinking skills. It results in attracting large
number of customers for purchasing it through specialised designing and features of sports
car.
 Organising:- Managers of Aston Martin execute their plan effectively in order to produce the
car as per the desired objective. This leads manager to emphasize leaders for providing
training and development programs to its workers as to increase and update their skills which
restrict errors.
 Staffing:- The managers of Aston Martin analyse vacancy in business and further develop the
recruitment and selection process as to hire more workers to fill the vacancy inside the
business. It further staffs the new candidate by describing the job role and responsibility with
its efforts towards business for achieving goals and objectives.
 Directing:- Managers of Aston Martin direct its leaders to perform the task within systematic
manner. The leader of Aston Martin further guides its workers to complete the task as per
instruction by developing employee relation to complete their task with engagement and
involvement at specified period (Fumasoli and Goastellec, 2015).

 Controlling:- The managers of Aston Martin control the actions being performed by its
workers as to minimise the possibility of errors that might delay in accomplishment of
success.
Workforce Planning:- This is defined as the procedure through which managers of a
company focus on the current situation of company as to forecast the strategy for vision, mission and
objectives of company for future goal. The managers of Aston Martin implement this as to analyse the
task being done today will lead company to sustain in perfect competition market at future period.
 The managers of Aston Martin further focus on its physical and mental labour that are active
in their performance and leads to co-ordinate with inactive workers for completing their target
at specified time.
 Managers of Aston Martin emphasize on their skilled labours to develop good relations with
unskilled workers for recognising them their mistakes in order to restrict at future. This
creates opportunity for growth and stability of business to complete its task at specified time.
 The managers of Aston Martin focus on both productive and unproductive workforce by
encouraging the active workers through monetary and non-monetary rewards. It leads to build
team morale of employees that encourage and inspire the whole team to give their high level
of efforts for achieving benefits.
P2. Analyse the benefits and limitations for various recruitment and selection process
Recruitment:- The recruitment is defined as process through which managers invites
application for vacancy in business in order to select a candidate as it increase capability of
workforce. Managers of Aston Martin implement this as to hire new person within business that
improve productivity which result in goal accomplishment efficiently.
Internal Source:- It is described as the ability of managers to select person from inside the business
through promotion and transfer (Harris, 2015). Managers of Aston Martin do this as to encourage and
motivate workers for giving their best to achieve performance appraisal.
 Benefits:- The managers of Aston Martin are beneficial as it motivate workers for giving
their high level of efforts as to achieve individual and organisational goals.
 Limitations:- Managers of Aston Martin are adversely affected as it develops the possibility
of conflicts, jealousy and partiality among workers which demoralise them.
External Source:- This refers as the ability of managers to hire and select new candidate from
outside the business by creating job opportunity for unemployed in country. Managers of Aston
Martin focus on this as to select new talents with specialised skills that are capable in performing their
best actions for goal achievement.

 Benefits:- The managers of Aston Martin are advantageous as they increase capability of
workforce by hiring more employees as to complete their task within particular duration.
 Limitations:- Managers of Aston Martin are disadvantageous as this process result in high
cost and more time consumption which delay in achievement of success.
Selection:- It is the process through which managers of company select new candidate as to
delegate the business activities into large number of workers. Managers of Aston Martin implement
this as to develop good employee relation among workers which leads to co-ordinate with each other
for achieving specific target (Hosain, Ullah and Khudri, 2016).
Advert for the role:- This is described as the procedure through which manager develops an
advertisements for collecting and gathering large number of applications through desired and
interested candidates. Managers of Aston Martin use this as to hire and select person from outside the
business as to sustain in perfect competition market by developing its competitive strategies.
 Benefits:- The managers of Aston Martin are helpful as they receive high applicants and
select the best person in accordance with job vacancy.
 Limitations:- Managers of Aston Martin are unhelpful as they have to bear high cost in
selecting the candidate and providing training and development to improve its skills which
also result in time wastage (Jones, Renton and Thorpe, 2016).
Offer Letter:- It is the last procedure of selection as to hire person in business and interact with its
managers, leaders and sub-ordinate to develop good employee relation for completing its goal.
Managers of Aston Martin implement this as to provide job letter to new candidate by selecting it to
improve productivity of company.
 Benefits:- Managers of Aston Martin are valuable as the candidate give its best efforts
towards company by being motivated to achieve individual and organisational goals.
 Limitations:- The managers of Aston Martin are invaluable as the new person is not highly
qualified and lacks in giving its best performance for company which delay in achieving
target at specified duration.
TASK 2
P3. Examine different HRM practices that are beneficial for both employer and
employees
HRM Practices:- The Human Resource Management practices focus on developing policies
and procedures with effectives system that influence employees behaviour, attitudes and performance
to complete task effectively. Managers of Aston Martin emphasize leaders to provide good business

environment for its workforce to breathe and perform their task with dedication to achieve specified
target.
Some of the HRM practices are mentioned below as:-
 Good atmosphere:- The main function of manager is to provide good atmosphere for its
workforce as to complete task by developing good employee relations (Kanth, 2015).
Managers of Aston Martin focus on the behaviour of employees as to identify their attitudes
while performing actions which result in achieving target at particular duration.
 Performance linked bonus:- It is the process through which managers of company analyse
the performance of employees in order to give minimum wages for their survival. Managers
of Aston Martin further encourage workers by providing them monetary rewards such as
bonus, incentives, degrees, certificates, etc.
 Fair evaluation system:- The main duty and responsibility of managers is to treat every
employee equally by providing everyone equal wages. The managers of Aston Martin does
not differentiate in gender bias for male and female, as to provide wages equally for similar
actions performed (Poorani and Thiyagarajan, 2015).
Reward Management:- It is the process through which managers give rewards to employers
and employees for motivating them to give their best efforts for business always which leads company
to sustain in global market. The main aim for managers of Aston Martin is to encourage individuals
through monetary and non-monetary rewards as to complete their task efficiently. It creates
opportunity for growth and stability of business to sustain in perfect competition market.
 Benefits for employers:- The employers of business are classified as top-level managers
which includes entrepreneurs, directors, leaders, etc. It is the ability of employers who
develop strategic decision making procedure through their innovative ideas as to compete
with rivalries by producing specialised product. Managers of Aston Martin implement this as
to motivate employers for achieving individual and organisational goals by gaining paid
leaves, vacations, promotion, medical claims, etc.
 Benefits for employees:- The employees of an enterprise are described as the workers who
perform their actions as per the guidance of employers to complete specific action. The
managers of Aston Martin implement this as to encourage and boost energy of workers for
achieving rewards such as bonus, incentives, insurance, children education, etc.
P4. Describe the importance of HRM practices useful for raising organisational profits
and productivity
Performance Management:- This is defined as managers of an organisation evaluate the
actions being performed by its workers for identifying errors. It further compares the task from

previous to current action and with its sub-ordinates. They also analyse the need to change leadership
style as to make workers for completing their task within particular duration for meeting the
requirement of customers (Setyawan, Arini and Akhlis, 2017). Managers of Aston Martin focus on
performance management as to achieve goals and objectives of business efficiently for competing
with its rivalries through developing competitive strategies.
The importance of HRM practices for performance management is shown as under:-
 Management By Objective (MBO):- The managers of Aston Martin focus on achieving its
business objectives with proper quality and time management as to meet the needs, desire and
wants of customers. It further aims to develop customer relationship management as to
analyse the change in taste and preference of buyers with their expected feature in products.
 360-Degree Feedback:- It is a system of process in which employees receive confidential,
anonymous feedback from managers, peers and direct reports. The managers of Aston Martin
focus on providing training and development programs through which employees are self-
aware about their mistakes and the method to solve effectively for achieving goal at particular
duration (Sikorski, 2017).
There are two types of reward system which are as follows:-
 Tangible rewards:- Managers of Aston Martin focus on encouraging workers by giving them
tangible rewards on their good and best efforts towards business which leads to achieve goal.
This is given for the efforts of workers that lead company to ascertain high sale and profits in
perfect competition market. These rewards are described as bonus, incentives, degrees,
certificates, etc.
 Intangible rewards:- The managers of Aston Martin are profitable as they motivate
employees through providing them intangible rewards which are not been touch as they are
only expressed in emotions. These rewards are categorised as promotion, transfer,
performance appraisal, etc.
TASK 3
P5. Analyse the importance of employee relations for influencing HRM decision-
making procedure
Employee relations:- It is most important for an organisation to develop employee relation as
to complete their task within particular duration through collaboration of managers, leaders and
workers. It plays very vital role in goal accomplishment as the workers co-ordinate with each other for
achieving specified target. Managers of Aston Martin are beneficial as they build employee

engagement and involvement by motivating their workers to give their best for achieving individual
and organisational goals.
 Develop trust and faith:- The managers emphasize leaders to develop trust and faith among
its effective team by collaborating with them. This result in leaders to understand the
emotions and feelings of workers at various circumstances (Singh and Sharma, 2014).
Managers of Aston Martin are beneficial as they develop trust and faith with its employees for
sharing views and information.
 Improve motivation:- Managers of Aston Martin are advantageous as they develop
motivation among its workers through encouraging them to give their best while performing
business activities. It motivates workers to complete their task with the motive to achieve
individual and organisational goals of business.
 Restrict conflicts:- The managers of Aston Martin are profitable as their workers co-ordinate
with each other by helping one another to complete task collectively. It further results in
restricting the possibility of conflicts which also develop improve nature of employees by
respecting ethos, norms, values and beliefs of everyone (Weimann, 2016).
Importance of employee relations:-
 Able to achieve goals:- The managers of Aston Martin are advantageous as they are able to
develop good employee relations among their workers which result in building co-ordination
and leads to complete task within particular duration. It further leads to achieve goal
efficiently for competing with its competitors by developing its strength and opportunities for
controlling weakness and threats.
 Customer relationship management:- Managers of Aston Martin are beneficial in
developing customer relationship management as they are capable in meeting the
requirements of buyers. The main objective of managers is to identify change in taste and
preference of customer for producing specialised products as to fulfil their desire by providing
them high level of satisfaction.
P6. Demonstrate the key elements of employment legislation that impact business
Employee Legislations:- The employees legislations are described as the rules and
regulations imposed by government which are to be fulfilled by managers of company by providing
certain benefits to their workers. Managers of Aston Martin implement this employee legislation as to
perform their business activities by following the policies and procedure of government to sustain in
global market.
 Fair wages and hour:- It is the most important task for managers as they are bound to pay
minimum wages to their workers in accordance with hours performed. Managers of Aston

Martin analyse the activity done by an individual within a specific duration for providing
them compensation in order to survive their lifestyle with their basic requirements of food,
shelter and cloth.
 Equality among employees:- The managers of Aston Martin focus on treating every
employee with equality as to avoid the possibility of partiality and jealousy among workers
which decrease morale (Yates and Nonacs, 2016). It is essential for managers to follow this as
to build team morale which encourage workers to give their level of best effort towards
company for achieving success.
Some of the employee legislations are mentioned below as:-
 Equal Pay Act, 1970:- The managers of Aston Martin focus on providing equal
compensation to men and women for the same task been performed by its workers. This is
most important for managers to treat their employees equally by providing them similar
compensation for same task. It leads to develop competitive strategies of business for
sustaining in global market to compete with rivalries.
 Employment Rights Act, 1996:- Managers of Aston Martin are aware of the employment
rights as to treat employees equally and avoid the possibility of partiality, jealousy, etc. This
emphasizes managers of an organisation to focus on rights of their workers such as equal
compensation, restriction in partiality, etc. It encourages workers to perform their task
effectively in organisation that leads to achieve success efficiently.
 Employment Relation Act, 2000:- The managers of Aston Martin focus on this act as to
build good relations among its workers that leads to share views, information by
understanding emotions and feelings of each other. This result in building team morale and
motivate employees to give their high level of efforts in business to achieve individual and
organisational goals.
The key elements of employment legislations are as follows:-
 Collective agreements:- It is the procedure through which managers of Aston Martin
emphasize leaders to develop collaboration among workers that leads to complete specified
target collectively.
 Discipline:- The main aim for managers of Aston Martin is to direct and guide workers to
perform their task within systematic manner by following all instruction in order to
accomplish success efficiently.
The application of HRM practices in work-related context is as follows:- There are
various activities been performed by Human Resource Manager for improving the capability of its
workforce in order to complete task at particular duration. Managers of Aston Martin further

emphasize on these functions by hiring and selecting new candidates for building good employee
relations that leads to achieve individual and organisational goal efficiently for sustaining in
global market.
 Hiring:- The managers of Aston Martin analyse the vacancy in business that creates delay in
goal accomplishment. It further develops recruitment and selection process in business that
leads to select new candidates in business which improves efficiency in business and leads to
compete with its rivalries through developing competitive strategies.
 Training:- Managers of Aston Martin emphasize leaders to provide training and development
programs for its workforce that improve their skills, knowledge and behaviour in performing
task. It leads to increase specialisation in particular task that creates opportunity for business
to sustain in global market by updating knowledge and skills of workforce.
 Payroll:- The managers of Aston Martin focus on paying equal compensation to its workers
such as male and female for their similar activities been performed in business. This further
emphasizes managers for executing performance management of its labours through
analysing their action done within particular duration after training as compared to previous.
It results in providing monetary and non-monetary rewards for their effective and high
working natures through bonus, certificates, incentives, degrees, promotion, transfer, etc., that
leads to performance appraisal of candidate.
 Firing:- Aston Martin managers takes actions in firing various candidates of business that are
unproductive, inactive and unskilled. These are not able to give their best actions for business
which result in high expense as to pay compensation. Managers of Aston Martin also fire
those workers who perform their task illegally and lead to develop action of fraud in eyes of
government and organisational legislations by leaking the private communications.
 Employee benefits administration:- The managers of Aston Martin aims to take actions for
pertaining benefits to its employees for completing their task effectively. This result in
building team morale of workers by motivating them about their little efforts means a lot for
business success. Managers of Aston Martin further provide various benefits to employees
through facilitating them with two time meal a day, cloth and shelter to survive their
livelihood effectively.
TASK 4
P7. Explain the HRM practices with illustration for business activities
Process of Recruitment:- This is described as the process of inviting applications from
candidates who are willing to perform job in business by giving their best level of efforts. It is
essential for an organisation to hire and select new person by creating job opportunity which attract

large number of members to be employed for surviving their livelihood. Managers of Aston Martin
implement this as to select high skilled candidate from various applicants in order achieve goals
efficiently.
Job Analysis:- The managers of Aston Martin give detail of job vacancy on print and social
media as to welcome the applications from people. It is beneficial for managers as to select the best
applicant from the gathered applications which is suitable for job profile.
Job Description:- Managers of Aston Martin describe the required skills and qualifications
required in a candidate to be selected at particular job profile. The main purpose for managers is to fill
the vacancy in business by recruiting workers that leads to develop good employee relations which
result in goal achievement.
Job Title Team Leader
Job Purpose The main motive of an effective leader is to build good
employee relations that lead company to achieve success
efficiently with engagement and involvement for gaining
individual and organisational goals.
Job Duties The leader delegate work for workforce in accordance with
their ability to perform their task within particular duration.
Skills and Qualifications  Skills:- Team delegator, sympathetic, self-motivated, tolerance
and adjournable.
 Qualification:- Graduate or Post Graduate.
Personal Specification:- The managers of Aston Martin receives various applications and
then select the best candidate. The company is beneficial as it analyse the experience, skills,
behaviour and qualification of workers in order to select for job.
Curriculum Vitae:-
Tom Arora,
99, Crewe, England.
Email Id: [e-mail]
Career Objective:- The main aim is to utilise my talent and skills in completing your business task
effectively for achieving success efficiently with good employee relations.
Qualification:-
Master of Commerce in Human Resource Management from a popular university.
Work Experience:-

The work experience of being a teacher in an university for teaching students about Human Resource
Management.
Skills:-
Effective communication skills.
Hobbies and Interest:-
Playing cricket.
Competency Framework:- Managers of Aston Martin compares the task been performed by
an individual within particular duration to sustain in perfect competition market. It is the ability of
managers to analyse the work done by comparing it from previous action to current. The managers
further provide training and development programs for improving their skills, behaviour and attitudes
for developing good employee relations to co-ordinate with each other.
The Questionnaire represented as an illustration:-
Questionnaire
Q.1) Describe us about your profile? Ans.1) My name is Tom Arora and I live in
England with my parents as being a professor in
recognised university and able to develop good
employee relationship.
Q.2) Why are you interested to get employed
here?
Ans.2) My interest towards being employed in
this organisation as to maximise my
professional knowledge, skills and behaviour
with new experience.
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion it have been concluded that recruitment process plays vital role in
business as to fill the vacancy in business which mostly create delay in goal accomplishment. It is
most important for company as to hire new employees with specialised skills that leads to complete
within particular duration. This project determines the use and function of Human Resource
Management which are applied in workforce planning. It further analyse benefits and limitations for
recruitment and selection process. The project also examines different HRM practices that are
beneficial for both employer and employees with importance of HRM practices that are useful in
raising organisational profits and productivity. Apartly, it analyse the importance of employee
relations and the key elements of legislations for HRM decision-making procedure. This project also
explains the HRM practices with its illustration for business activities.