Recruitment Process in HRM

RECRUITMENT PROCESS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
LO1..................................................................................................................................................3
Purpose and function of HRM....................................................................................................3
Approaches to recruitment & selection.......................................................................................4
LO2..................................................................................................................................................6
HRM practices in organization...................................................................................................6
Effectiveness of HRM practices.................................................................................................7
LO3..................................................................................................................................................9
Importance of employee relations...............................................................................................9
Key elements of employment legislation..................................................................................10
LO4................................................................................................................................................11
Application of HRM practices in a work-related context.........................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Recruitment process is one of key practices of the human resource management (HRM)
of a company. Basically, the main role of HRM in is to provide an effective workforce to the
company. In this dynamic world, no business can achieve its various final objectives without
contribution of best efforts of its workforce. This report discusses different practices and
methods of Sainsbury’s human resource department. Sainsbury is one of leading retail
organisations within the UK, headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Key purposes and
functions of the human resource management also has been discussed in this report. This report
covers benefits of HRM to employer employees as well. Impact employee relations and elements
of employment legislation on the decision-making of HRM also has been included in this report.
At the end, a job specification, CV and offer letter attached in the report in the terms of applying
HRM practices in the work-related context.
MAIN BODY
Purpose and function of HRM
HRM is concerned with managing people of the company which can involve training
them, motivating them and include hiring and firing of employees of company. It helps the
company in bridging the gap between employees performance and strategic objectives of the
company. Sainsbury is the second largest chain of supermarket in UK providing a wide variety
of products in segments such as groceries, clothing to home wares, electricals and many others.
The mission of the company is “To be the consumer's first choice for its products with high
quality of delivering services at competitive cost by working faster, simpler and together.”
Purpose and objective of this company is to provide its products at a fair price where it also
believes to maintain among its suppliers and distributors with no cut corners for short term gains
(Angelova, 2019).
Nature & scope of HRM
Nature and scope of human resource management is to bring people and organization
together so that goal of each other can be met. It deals with fulfilment of manpower needs of the
company, by discovering and retaining the talented workforce. In Sainsbury, management of

human resource is considered as most important function of skill development in the company as
it is associated with its people in order to gain competitive advantage over its competitors.
Purpose of HRM
Purpose of HRM is to maintain the coordination between the employees which helps in
achieving goal which are specific to the company by optimizing the effectiveness of its
employee as it provides employees with various benefits plan, deserved promotion, gifts,
excellence working environment, appraisal and many others (Hollis, 2017).
Sainsbury emphasizes more on the importance of HRM in workforce planning and
resourcing as it helps in developing an effective workforce. Through a number of HR practices
like effective training programs where employees can identify their job roles and responsibilities,
as well as contribute their efforts accordingly to meet business goals. Despite hiring and
selection, human resource management further aid in providing tools for identifying the
competencies needed in the workforce planning and resourcing such as managing reward and
performance management etc. with the strategic basis to retain talented workforce for longer
period.
Functions of HRM
HR managers of Sainsbury concerns more on successfully implementing the functions of
HRM such as people resourcing which is largely all about recruitment & selection of the
workforce. Under this process, they recruit employees who are suitable enough to meet the job
requirements either by internal or external hiring procedure. Similarly, managing performance
and reward are another main functions, where managers of respective firm constantly evaluates
on performance of each and every employee, in terms of way of providing services to customers
at its stores and reward them accordingly (Misir, 2020). HRM of Sainsbury also accounts to
human resource development where it constantly focuses on identifying training and
development of its employee’s to increase their knowledge, skills, abilities and education.
Managers of this firm also focuses on the major function of HRM that is building Employment
relationship which focuses on establishing relationship between employees and employers which
result in fewer chances of conflict, increases motivation, increase employee’s loyalty and many
others. It also includes Job design and Job analysis where the HR of the company is involved in
describing responsibilities and duties to its employees for proper functioning in the company. It