Benefits of HRM Practices for Organizational Profit and Productivity

Recruitment Process

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
TASK 1......................................................................................................................................3
P1 Explanation of the purpose and the functions of HRM, applicable to workforce planning
and resourcing an organization..............................................................................................3
P2 Strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection.............5
TASK2.......................................................................................................................................6
P3 Explain the benefits of different HRM practices within an Organization for both the
employer and employee.........................................................................................................6
P4 Evaluate the effectiveness of different HRM practices in terms of raising Organizational
profit and productivity............................................................................................................7
TASK3.......................................................................................................................................8
P5 Analyze the importance of employee relations in respect to influencing HRM decision
making....................................................................................................................................8
P6 Identify the key elements of employment legislation and the impact it has upon HRM
decision making.....................................................................................................................9
TASK4.....................................................................................................................................10
P7 Illustrate the application of HRM practices in a work-related context, using specific
examples...............................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Recruitment is the process of hiring the competitive individuals on the vacant post
within the organisation. Importantpart of an organisation as it helps in identifying the abilities
and capabilities of the workforce within the organisation for performing different tasks and
activities. This is directly associated with productivity and profitability of the organisation as
employee are the key of success for company.it includes attracting shortlisting selecting and
appointing the suitable candidate for the jobs within the organisation and choosing the
individuals for different roles. The process of hiring includes job analysis, sourcing,
screening and selection (Mahood and Rane, 2017). In this report the chosen organisation will
be ASDA. It is a British multinational supermarket retailer. Companies operating in business
globally where it has more than 631 outlets in UK, company also employed 165000
employees.The beginning of this report consist of explanation of the purpose and functions of
human resources management and their applicability to the workforce planning and
resourcing within the organisation it also included the strength and weaknesses of different
approaches of recruitment and selection for an organisation. There is also explanation about
the different practices of HRM for the organisation as well as employee and employer buy
with the evolution evaluation of these practices. In the middle of the report there will be
analysis of employee relationship as well as their influence on human resources management
decision. The end of the report is consist of identification of the key elements which have
their impact on human resources decision making as well as application of human resources
practices within the organisation.
TASK 1
P1 Explanation of the purpose and the functions of HRM, applicable to workforce planning
and resourcing an organization.
Human resources management is an internal part of organisation which is directly
related to the management of human resources within the organisation. It includes various
functions related to human resources which are recruitment planning selecting placement
orientation job analysis and many more. This all will help up the organisation in maintaining
its human resources as well as doing a proper workforce planning and sourcing in
organisation. In context of ASDA, company also following proper human resources
management where it recruit a separate human resources manager who identify the needs of
workforce and use proper resource in method within the organisation for improving the

productivity and increasing profitability with the help of competitive employees. The main
purpose of human resources department within the organisation discussed below:
Recruitment:
Recruitment is the first step towards the workforce planning within the organisation.
the method of identifying attracting selecting interviewing hiring and retaining the workers is
called recruitment, indirectly involved identifying the potential candidates who can perform
the task on some specific jobs within the organisation. It is an important purpose in a
workforce planning in the sourcing because human resources are the important part of an
organisation and proper recruitment will ensure the effectiveness of workforce within the
organisation. The proper recruitment can be considered as hiring the adequate candidates who
have potential ability and skills for performing specific jobs within the organisation.In
context of ASDA, company also use its human resources management department for
recruiting the adequate professionals within the organisation. For hiring employees in there
organisation human resources department of ASDA properly identify the requirements of the
job and the job specifications and requirements to market for inviting the applications of
interested candidates. They also identify the candidates who applied for the job according to
their skills, abilities and qualifications. This all willfacilitate ASDA in recruiting the proper
individuals who can perform job effectively and bring productivity within the
organisation(Kushnirovich, Raijman and Barak‐Bianco, 2019).
Training & Development:
Purpose of formation of human resources management in an organisation for
developing the workforce as well as resources planning includes the training and
development function of human resources management. This is because training and
development is an important an integral part of the management for increasing the
productivity skills abilities and competitiveness within the employees for performing their
job more effectively and identifying different tasks with the time limit for giving competitive
advantage to the organisation where they are working. Training and development is a process
of increasing the skills of employees to perform their job and increase the competitiveness
within the market where company is trading.ASDA also perform specific training and
development programs to increase the skills of its HRM department of ASDA,perform
various task within the organisation which are also include training programs. These training
programs are specially designed for increasing skills of employees while working on the job