Recruitment Process.

Recruitment Process

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1..........................................................................................................................................3
P1. Purpose and function of HRM ...........................................................................................3
P2. Strength and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection.................5
TASK 2..........................................................................................................................................8
P3. Benefits of Human resource practices within an organisation............................................8
P4 Effectiveness of different HRM practices for raising organisational productivity and
profit..........................................................................................................................................9
TASK 3........................................................................................................................................11
P5 Significance of employee relations in influencing decision making process....................11
P6 Key elements of employment legislation and its impact on decision making of HRM....12
TASK 4........................................................................................................................................13
P7 Application of HRM practices in organisational context..................................................13
CONCLUSION............................................................................................................................16
REFERENCES ..........................................................................................................................17

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is the accumulation of several practices in which business is
trying to put control and management measures in order to provide management assistance to
employee of the organisation. Human resource is pertained to high responsibility of executing
plans and implementing in so as to get their business objective achieved in a proper way.
Similarly this department is having significant role of recruiting candidates those are having apt
skills and capabilities so as to prepare path of business success. This report is prepared in order
to recognise all the concepts regarding recruitment and selection which are utilised by
Sainsbury’s. Sainsbury’s is one of the biggest supermarket chains which are dealing in clothing,
home wares, electrical items and many more. The company is keeping more than 120000
employees in which they are catering in all over UK with Scotland, Ireland, Belfast and North
east United States. This report involves elaboration of HR functions and their strength and
weakness within process of recruitment and selection. Along with this this report involves
benefits of employee relations within business and role of HRM practices in goal achievement
for overall business. (Onk and Joseph, 2017)
TASK 1
P1. Purpose and function of HRM
Human resource management is the procedure which includes numerous dimensions of
business such as recruitment, selection, orientation, induction, training and development and
many more. Human resource department is playing very crucial role in managing workforce so
as to takeout maximum benefits form their skills and accomplish goals and objectives of the
company. Sainsbury’s is having their operation in various countries and they are indulged in
supermarket chains. Within the business HR department is playing effective role and they are
establishing their interrelationship with other departments in order to provide high product
satisfaction to customer. HR manager of Sainsbury’s is requisite to execute various functions so
as to provide desirable output to the company. These functions are described as under:
 Recruitment & Selection: This is one of the significant functions so as to provide
assurance to the business in providing appropriate employee ate right designation and
vacant position. This is beneficial for the business as these candidates works as catalyst

in achieving overall objectives. Within this HR manager of Sainsbury’s is recruiting
capable employees and managing recruitment process in such a way that operational
efficacy can be enhanced and quality can be improvised.
 Training & Development: This is other prominent function of HR department so as to
provide training and development within organisational functions in order to enhance
employee and business efficacy as well. In this employees are getting full support over
leadership from their leaders and leader is taking different sessions of employees in
order to enhance their skills. These programmes are assisting the employees in
increasing their skills and capabilities so as to provide support to the company in market
change situation. In the context of Sainsbury’s HR manager is planning for various
training sessions in order to provide development to business and employee as well.
(Obedgiu, 2017)
Purpose:-
The major purpose of human resource management is to provide assurance to the
business operation of performing functions in a better way by which performance and
productivity can be improvised. With the help of highly effective human resource team
additional competitive edge can be received by the business and this is the reason that high
sustainability can be achieved by the business. In the context of Sainsbury’s human resource
manager is having following main purpose:
 Law compliances: The main function of human resource manager is to provide legal
framework to the business functions and ensure that all the required legal formalities has
been followed. These implications are essential for the business as this is helpful in
protecting the business form any law suits and to execute obeyed business functions.
Within this function HR manager of Sainsbury’s is requisite to acquire thorough
knowledge of all required laws and legal framework and this is helpful for them in
enhancing overall business efficacy and productiveness.
 Performance appraisal: The human resource department of the business is maintaining
records of individual and team performance of employees as by this gap within
performance can be removed. In this context HR manager of Sainsbury’s is preparing a