Role of HR Manager in Woodhill College | Report
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This report is on "human resource management at Woodhill College". The present report explains the role played by the HR managers and the key purpose of HRM workforce planning within Woodhill College. This report is made with an aim to get a proper understanding of different approaches to recruitment and selection along with some of strengths and weaknesses. Further, it also covers explanations regarding the importance of training and development within an organization. Apart from this, it also helps in understanding the significance of employee relations and its effects on decisions linked with HR practices. Management of human resources also supports the accomplishment of goals and objectives of the businesses.
Role of HR Manager in Woodhill College | Report
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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................................................................1TASK 1...........................................................................................................................................................................1A.) Explaining the purpose of workforce planning and role of HR manager at Woodhill College..........................1B.) Explaining the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to the recruitment and selection..................2C.) Assessing the ways in which functions of HRM can provide talent and skills for achieving the objectives ofbusiness.....................................................................................................................................................................2D.) Evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of the different approaches to recruitment and selection .................3E.) Critically evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection ...........4TASK 2...........................................................................................................................................................................4A.) Job advertisement for the role.............................................................................................................................4B.) Identifying suitable platforms for placing an advertisement...............................................................................5C.) Preparing job specification and person specification..........................................................................................5D.) Rationale for the application of specific HRM practices....................................................................................7TASK 3...........................................................................................................................................................................7A. ) Explaining the difference between training and development...........................................................................7B. ) Explaining changes in expectations of customers affected the Tesco and its needs to train the staff................8C. ) List of training methods carried out by Tesco....................................................................................................9D. )Describe how training needs are identified ......................................................................................................10E. ) Evaluating the benefits for Tesco and the employees in providing the programmes of training.....................10F. ) Indicating the extent which training has achieved return on investment..........................................................11G.) Types of approaches to flexibility which are adopted by Tesco for the expansion of business.......................11TASK 4.........................................................................................................................................................................11A.) Analysing the significance of ITV for maintaining good employee relations ad influence of it on the HRdecisions..................................................................................................................................................................11B.) Identifying the key elements in the employment legislation and its influence on the ITV's HR decisions......12C. ) Evaluating the key aspects of employee relation management and employment legislation which affect HRMdecision-making in ITV...........................................................................................................................................12D. )Critically evaluate employee relations and application of HRM practices at ITV and influence of it in thedecision-making of HR...........................................................................................................................................13CONCLUSION.............................................................................................................................................................14REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................................................15
INTRODUCTIONHuman resource management can be termed as a procedure of managing employees in anappropriate manner at the workplace. It involves various functions such as recruitment andselection, rewarding, training and development etc. Along with this, management of humanresources also supports in accomplishment of goals and objectives of the businesses. Everyorganisation is required to manage their resources in an appropriate manner to maintain theirposition in the competitive market (Ali, 2013). Present report explains the role played by HRmanager and the key purpose of workforce planning within Woodhill College. This report ismade with an aim to get proper understanding of different approaches to recruitment andselection along with some of strengths and weaknesses. Further, it also covers explanationregarding the importance of training and development within an organisation. Apart from this, italso helps in understanding the significance of employee relations and its effects on decisionslinked with HR practises. TASK 1A.) Explaining the purpose of workforce planning and role of HR manager at Woodhill CollegeWorkforce planning can be defined as a process which is implemented by firms inidentifying the future requirement and need of employees. At Woodhill College, the HR managerplays an important role in workforce planning. The different purposes of workforce planning andalong with the role of HR manager at Woodhill College are discussed below as:Recruiting- At Woodhill College, HR manager carries out the workforce planning to gaininformation about what type of people should be recruited to fill the vacant position in thecollege. It involves identifying the information regarding what skills set and the knowledgewhich is required within employees (Armstrong and Taylor, 2014). Retaining employees- HR manager at Woodhill College must ensure to retain efficientemployees. It is essential to retain highly trained and skilled employees along with givingtraining to the new employees. Further, the stated firm also provides some benefits in terms offinancial or non-financial to retain its employees. Training and development- The aim of workforce planning is to provide appropriate training toemployees for enhancing the skills and knowledge. HR manager of Woodhill College plays animportant role in terms of employee development as training sessions at regular intervals results
in making workers more effective and efficient towards their job. Thus, it can be said thattraining and development program can help the selected college to retain people for a long periodof time (Aswathappa, 2013). Forecasting and assessment- The main aim behind the workforce planning at Woodhill Collegeis to make sure that there are adequate number of employees stays in organisation along withappropriate experience, knowledge and skills which can help in achieving objectives effectively.B.) Explaining the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to the recruitment andselectionRecruitment can be termed as a procedure of inviting candidates with an objective to fillthe vacant post which is available within the organisation. Further, selection is a process ofchoosing efficient and most qualified candidate for the vacant post. There are certain strengthsand weaknesses of approaches to recruitment and selection at Woodhill College. In context of approaches to recruitment and selection, there is a procedure of internalsourcing in which employees are transferred from one department to other. This results in fillingthe vacancy by a person who is already working in the organisation. One of the major strength ofthis approach is that here employees are not provided with additional training sessions and thishelps in saving cost of the organisation. On the other hand, some weakness of this approach isthat it internal recruitment does not result in bringing up of ideas and strategies within theorganization (Bamberger, Biron and Meshoulam, 2014). Furthermore, the external approaches of recruitment includes carrying out recruitmentwith the help of various sources that to be found outside the business. For example,advertisement, campus recruitment and employees references etc. can be termed as someexternal approaches for recruitment and selection. Major strength of the above mentionedapproach is that it gives opportunities for selecting required and more effective candidates whohave appropriate experience. Apart from this, weakness of this approach can be termed as itscost. The approach of recruitment is very high and also consumes lots of time. C.) Assessing the ways in which functions of HRM can provide talent and skills for achievingthe objectives of businessFunctions of HRM include recruitment, selection along with training and developmentwhich plays an important role in achieving objectives of business. With the help of proper
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