Importance of Relations with Workers

Recruitment
Process

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is a strategic approach which deals with management of
people within a particular organization (Chams and García-Blandón, 2019). It helps the
managers to recruit and select efficient workers who can be extremely beneficial for the
company. They can increase the overall efficiency, effectiveness and the productivity level
easily. Also it deals with identifying the grievances and issues of employees and solving them
effectively and efficiently so that there is no problem faced by them while doing their various
tasks. It is the role of HR managers to oversee that the workers are allocated tasks according to
their various skills and capabilities. Also they need to ensure that they are working to achieve
their own goals and objectives as well as organization’s as their ideas are helpful for the firm.
For this report, Asda has been selected. It is a company dealing in groceries and other essential
consumer items. In this assignment, focus will be made on purpose and scope of HRM, its
effectiveness, different factors which affect it and the application of its practices in a work-
related context.
TASK 1
P1: Purpose and functions of HRM
The purpose of HRM in Asda is as follows-
 Maximization of productivity- HRM focuses on maximization of productivity within an
organization (Delery and Gupta, 2016). In the context of Asda, it makes its focus on
increasing it so that workforce planning and resourcing can be carried out without any
problems.
 Optimization of effectiveness- HRM also focuses on optimizing the overall
effectiveness of the staff of an organization. For Asda, it is important because it helps in
workforce planning and resourcing.
Functions of HRM-
 Planning- HR department needs to plan for the workforce within an organization. It
needs to make plans for the future course of action. In Asda, the HR department makes
plans for long-term future.
 Recruitment and Selection- HR department of any organization has to identify the
available vacancies within an organization and must facilitate recruitment and selection
on the posts so that talented people can be inducted in the company which can be useful
for its processes. This process is carried out in Asda also.
 Training and Development- It is the role of HR department of an enterprise to provide
the required training and development to the newly-recruited staff as well as old staff. In

Asda, regular training is provided to the staff so that their shortcomings can be analyzed
and improvements can be suggested to them.
 Performance Appraisal- The HR department needs to regularly evaluate the overall
performance of workers within an organization (Delery and Roumpi, 2017). The HR
department of Asda focuses on evaluating its workers’ performance and therefore takes
the necessary actions so that the performance can be rewarded as suitable according to
the metrics set. Rewards, incentives, bonuses and extra benefits can be given to those
workers who are better performers. For workers not performing to standards however
have to be given instructions to improve their working pattern so that the goals and
objectives set by the company for the future can be met and efficiency can be increased.
P2: Strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection
There are different approaches which can be adopted for recruitment and selection. These
approaches are as follows-
Recruitment approaches-
 Internal sources- Using this approach, the HR department of a company can make its
focus on recruiting through internal sources (Gill and et.al., 2018). The HR department of
Asda can use this approach in order to recruit using the references of its existing staff. In
this way they can save on the costs of recruitment as well as can recruit efficient
candidates for the organization.
 External sources- Using this approach, the HR department of an organization can focus
on recruiting through the external sources (Guest, 2017). The HR department of Asda can
make use of it so that they can advertise for the right candidates who can be highly useful
in raising its overall efficiency and effectiveness level. Thus it is a good method for the
firm.
Selection approaches-
 Interview- This is the most common approach which is used for selection. Using it, the
HR managers can effectively identify the various characteristics of a candidate’s
personality quite easily. Therefore, the managers of Asda can adopt it so that they are
able to screen the candidates properly without any problems. It also evaluates a
candidate’s communication skills and helps in knowing more about the personality,
likes/dislikes, expectations, type of work which can be performed etc. which helps in
making the right decision.
 Taking tests- By taking tests, multiple aspects of personality of a candidate can be
identified easily without any problems. Asda’s HR managers can take tests to check the
IQ level and other personality parameters of a candidate to see the suitability. The one
who is most suitable can be selected by the company for the job vacancy which it has.