Importance of Employee Relations in HRM Decision Making

Human Resource Management

Table of Content
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
An introduction to the chosen organisation including mission statement, purpose and core
business objectives. .....................................................................................................................3
P1 Explain the purpose and functions of HRM, applicable to workforce planning and
resourcing an organisation...........................................................................................................3
P2 Explain the Strength and weakness of different approaches to recruitment and selection.....4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P3 Explain the benefits of different HRM practices within H&M for both employer and
employee......................................................................................................................................6
P4 Evaluate the effectiveness of different HRM practices in terms of raising organisational
profit and productivity.................................................................................................................8
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
P5 Analyse 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.........................................................................................................................10
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................11
P7 Illustrate the application of HRM practices in a work-related context, using specific
examples....................................................................................................................................11
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

Introduction
Human Resource management is a practices of recruiting, selecting, training, inducting,
appraising performance and developing policies for employees. The main aim of Human
resource management is to coordinate with staff members to achieve organisational goals and
objectives of company (Garg et. al., 2021). In this project the Chosen organisation is H&M, it is
a clothing retail company which provides clothes for women, teenagers, children and men. The
company was founded in 1947 and headquarter is situated in Sweden. The project covers roles,
responsibilities and purpose of Human resource management. There are various benefits of
Human resource management practices within H&M. It also includes employee relations and
employee legislation that affect HRM decision making in H&M and a rationale for the
application of specific HRM practices is also covered in this project.
TASK 1
An introduction to the chosen organisation including mission statement, purpose and core
business objectives.
The purpose of H&M is to provide best Fashion and quality products at affordable price
to their customer. H&M Mission statement is to create positive change and improve the living
conditions of people and communities by investing in them with their innovative ideas (Ansari,
Farrukh and Raza, 2021). The objective of organisation is to make their business sustainable by
offering their customers more sustainable clothes.
P1 Explain the purpose and functions of HRM, applicable to workforce planning and resourcing
an organisation.
Human resource Management is an department which helps to manage the employees so
that they can accomplish their task with effective performance.
Purpose of Human Resource Management
 Hire right employees-
The main role of human resource management is to hire right candidate for vacant job
position. They are responsible to schedule interviews, coordinate hiring efforts and on boarding
new candidates (Shanock and et. al., 2019). Through workforce planning process H&M can
identify current and future personnel needs, they can also explore cost effective method to recruit
right employees for the job role.

 Policy Update-
For successful Work force planning and resourcing human resource management have to
update the policies or examined policies in a year (Cheng and Hackett, 2021). It is a job of
Human resource management to update and make changes in policies when they are no longer
serving H&M or the employees of organisation.
Roles and Responsibility of Human Resource Management
 Recruitment-
It is a responsibility of Human resource management to recruit personnel for job position.
They have to plan and organise a campaign for recruiting right candidate according to the
required job description. With the help of Work force planning H&M can identify how many
employees are required in the organisation. This function helps H&M in workforce planning and
to plan for new job positions and hire a suitable candidate that helps in meeting business
objectives.
 Performance appraisal-
For motivating employees, performance appraisal is the best way to encourage them for
work and give their best output. The HR must provide feedback on their work as it gives clear
view what they are delivering to H&M. Through workforce planning HR manager of H&M can
identify the skill imbalances of employees early and helps in improving the performances
through which they can achieve the objective of company (Agarwal, 2021).
P2 Explain the Strength and weakness of different approaches to recruitment and selection.
Recruitment
Recruitment generally means seeking out suitable employee for vacant job position. It
includes entire hiring process starts from inception to recruit integration into organisation. There
are two types of recruitment through which H&M can recruit employees they are internal
recruitment and external recruitment.
Internal Recruitment-
Internal recruitment is the process to fill vacant job positions with their current staff
members. They hire employees from other department or teams instead of hiring candidate from
outside the organisation. There are various methods of internal recruitment they are employee
referrals, promotion or transfers.
 Strength of Internal Recruitment