Human Resource Management: Purpose, Functions, and Practices

Human resource
management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1. Purpose and functions of HRM.............................................................................................1
M1. Assessment showing the ways functions of HRM can provide talent and skills to fulfil
business objectives.......................................................................................................................3
P2. Approaches of recruitment and selection..............................................................................3
M2. Evaluation of strength and weakness of recruitment and selection approaches...................5
D1. Critical evaluation of strength and weaknesses of recruitment and selection approaches. ..6
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P3. HRM practices.......................................................................................................................6
P4. Effectiveness of HRM practices to raise organisational productivity as well as profit.........6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
P5. Importance of employee relations.........................................................................................7
P6. Elements of employee legislations........................................................................................8
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................8
P7. Application of HRM practices...............................................................................................8
M5. Rationale for application of specific HRM practices.........................................................11
D3. Critical evaluation of employee relations and application of HRM practices. ..................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is said to the part of management procedures that makes
people specialised for working activities within organisation. In other words, it is said to
practices as well as policies that are required to cover aspects of human management. It involves
various roles as well as purposes that helps an entity to build better relationships with all the staff
members so to obtain maximum productivity and revenues within predetermined duration. To
gain understanding about human resource management, Airdri Group is selected. The
organisation is a popular hand dryer manufacturer that was established in 1974 by Peter Philips
as well as Peter Allen. The report explains purpose along with scope of HRM in relevance to
resourcing with talent and skills for fulfilling business objectives. Further, the report includes
HRM practices and benefits of them to employer and employee. It also analyses importance of
employee relations along with key elements of employment legislations and there impact on
decision making by human resource managers. At last, the report applies practices of HRM in
work related context.
TASK 1
P1. Purpose and functions of HRM.
Overview of organisation: Airdri Group is hand dryer manufacturer having headquarters
situated at Oxfordshire, UK. It was founded by Peter Allen together with Peter Philips. The
company is popular for manufacturing diverse as well as innovate hand dryers with unique size,
shapes and techniques. At present, it has employed around 180 employees so to execute the
operative activities to enjoy competitive advantages. It is one of independent business whose
estimated revenues are $ 19.9 million. The firm manufactures around 35000 hand dryers in a
year.
Human resource management: It is the concept that describes formal systems which are
framed for managing people at workplace. It includes policies as well as practices that are
needed to cover human aspects at organisation. It defines the ways business hires new manpower
as well as train them. In context to Airdri Group, Human resource management is important for
dealing with issues, managing performance, providing safety, wellness and training to
employees. It plays strategic duty of managing workplace culture, environment and manpower at
organisation.
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