Importance of Employee Relations in HRM Decision-Making

Table of Content
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INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1....................................................................................................................................................3
P 1 Purpose and the functions of HRM..............................................................................................3
P 2 Strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection.........................4
TASK 2....................................................................................................................................................5
P 3 Benefits of different HRM for employer and employee..............................................................5
P 4 Effectiveness of different HRM practices....................................................................................6
TASK 3....................................................................................................................................................7
P 5 Importance of employee relations in respect to influencing HRM decision-making...................7
P 6 Key elements of employment legislation.....................................................................................8
TASK 4....................................................................................................................................................9
P 7 Application of HRM practices in a work-related context............................................................9
CONCLUSION.......................................................................................................................................10
REFERENCE..........................................................................................................................................11
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INTRODUCTION
Today every business organisation is competing with rival firms in same industry to
capture maximum share of market. Aldi is one of leading companies in retail sector in United
Kingdom as well as all over world. To maintain its standard and image among customer, its
employees play a vital role as they are responsible for all types of operations and activities of
business (Lamond and Zheng, 2010). So human resource management is very important part
of company and has several functions to help in gaining maximum profit and revenue in long
term. Some of them are recruitment, selection, training, development, maintaining work
condition and establishing a healthy relationship among employees at workplace. In
following report, weakness and strength of approaches will be discussed. There are different
HRM practices which benefit to both employer an employees of company A proper human
resource management helps in capturing a huge target market through maximising customer
satisfaction and employee productivity in future (Beer, Boselie and Brewster, 2015)As
workers have major impact on crucial decisions of firm, they must have good relationship to
give their fullest efforts at work.
TASK 1
P 1 Purpose and the functions of HRM
Purpose-One of major purpose of human resource management is that it makes sure
if employees are making efforts to contribute in company’s success in future. This utilises
capabilities of workers so that maximum productivity can be gained and quality of products
can be improved (Uysal, 2014). As Aldi wants to open a new branch in Wembley, it has to
select some efficient employees so that right person can be placed at right place to do suitable
tasks. Another purpose of human resource management is to satisfy employees through
rewards and promotion to higher designation which motivate to work harder for firm in
future. It is used by company to improve existing performance of human resource and uplift
standard of company. Aldi uses HRM to retain currant employees by fulfilling their
individual goals and considerable compensation to them. As employees can foster or hinder
sales and quality of product, they are made more efficient by regular training and
development programmes. To provide occupational safety, HRM is needed so that accidental
incidents can be avoided through recruiting skilled and well-trained people at company
especially in new outlet in Wembley.
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Functions-There are many different functions of human resource management which
are important foe Aldi to accomplish its objectives and goals of profit maximisation and
revenue generating (Giauque, Anderfuhren and Varone, 2013). One of major functions is
recruitment and selection in which Human resource manager uses to hire most suitable
candidate for company’s betterment and its brand. Through this function, company can fulfil
number of vacant positions and maintain productivity of firm. A better employee will deliver
positive support to make customer satisfied. Another function of human resource
management of Aldi is orientation in which company assigns roles ad duties to employees so
that they can be clear about what they should do to contribute in firm competency. Another
function of HRM is that manager tries to keep a healthy and friendly atmosphere at
workplace so that no employee feels inferior in comparison to others. If there is a conflict is
found superiors make effort t resolve it as soon as possible and maintain the decorum of
workplace. Last but not least function of HRM is training and development which helps in
sharpening existing skills of employees and make them more efficient to improve product
quality in long term and retain all current clients as well as attract new consumers. Thus,
human resource management is one of most basic system for company to run business
smoothly.
P 2 Strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection
Being a one of leading firm in retail market, Aldi uses different approaches in
recruitment and selection to get most suitable candidate for company (Costen, 2012). A
proper staffing in firm can lead to improved performance of product among customers in long
term. Along with many benefits of these aspects, there are some weak points which can harm
progress of business organisation as followings.
Strength-As new people have fresh views and idea which can be used by company to
modify and improving its existing policies and system. So, Aldi recruits’ new talent which
can add value to organisation in future (Van , 2010). Another positive point of recruitment
and selections application is that it provides better training programmes which help in
uplifting productivity of employees and their performance. Internal and external recruitment
and selection approaches are effective to attract many talented candidates so that company
can grow with more rapid rare in long term. Online process to recruit is mostly used now a
day as it is cost effective and fast to get a skilled person across the world. Another strength of
these both approaches is that external recruitment bring new and different sight to compete in
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