Importance of Employee Relations in HRM Decision Making

Human resource
management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Explain the purpose and the functions of HRM, applicable to workforce planning and
resourcing an organisation..........................................................................................................1
P2 Explain the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection.
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TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
P3 Explain the benefits of different HRM practices within an organisation for both the
employer and employee..............................................................................................................4
P4 Evaluate the effectiveness of different HRM practices in terms of raising organisational
profit and productivity.................................................................................................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
P5 Analyse the importance of employee relations in respect to influencing HRM decision
making.........................................................................................................................................6
P6 Identify the key elements of employment legislation and the impact it has upon HRM
decision making..........................................................................................................................7
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
P7 Illustrate the application of HRM practices in a work-related context, using specific
examples......................................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is refers to the practising people's better management so
that company can achieve effective performance. It helps the company to know about how the
work force is working and how it can effectively meet goals and objectives of the organization.
In this report the company Rio Tinto (Stewart, and Brown, 2019) group selected, company is
multinational and worlds second largest metals and mining corporation. The organisation was
founded in 1873. the company produce iron ore, copper, diamonds, gold and uranium. In this
report the main functions and purpose of HRM is included, also strength and weakness of
different approaches to requirement and selection. Also explained importance of different human
resource practices in the organisation to both employee and employer, evaluation of different
HRM practices in the terms of rising profit and productivity. Furthermore, it also explain the
importance of employees relation in respect to influencing the decision making of HRM, key
elements of employment legislation and its impact on HRM. In the last various applications of
HRM practices is included.
TASK 1
P1 Explain the purpose and the functions of HRM, applicable to workforce planning and
resourcing an organisation.
Human resource management performs various functions like job design, hiring right candidates,
providing proper training and so on. In the context of Rio Tinto (Nankervis, and et. al., 2019)The
main purpose of human resource management is to achieve organizational goals with the help of
proper hiring of right candidates who can perform well in the organization as well as proper
interaction within the organization and between all employees. The functions and purpose of
human resource management is explained below:- Job design and analysis:- It means describing all the responsibilities that must be
followed and all the duties of the job. While selecting the candidates it is necessary for
the organization to first identify the candidate who can perfectly do the job and then
selecting the employee. Job analysis means telling full information to candidates of the
job like whether any experience is required or which skills are necessary so that only
those candidates apply for the respective job and it also becomes easy for the Rio Tinto
to hiring people.
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 Employee hiring and selection:- There are many candidates who applies for the job and
among those people right candidate is chosen. In the context of Rio Tinto before the
process of selection, recruitment is done which means among all the people who has
applied, right one is hired. Compensation:- Attracting employees is very much important for the Rio Tinto and the
best way to attract them is by providing benefits to employees so that they work with
more efficiency and don't think of switching to another job. The management should give
fair salary to all employees and certain benefits to them regarding the work they are
doing. Relation between employees:- In an organization, there should be proper relation
between all employees so that it becomes easy for Rio Tinto (Armstrong, and Taylor,
2020) to achieve goals. In an organization, work environment should be good and
everyone should cooperate with each other. Employee satisfaction:- The main purpose of team is to provide satisfaction to all
employees. If an employee would not be satisfied by the Rio Tinto then they will not
work properly and will not like to stay for a longer period of time. In an Rio Tinto, it is
necessary that employees should feel like they are working in an organization where all
of them are treated as a family and at the same time they are also getting a satisfaction
from the work they are doing for the company. Performance appraisal:- It means evaluating the whole performance of employees and
according to that particular performance the company decides whether the employee
should get promotion, termination and so on but the management team has to evaluate it
properly and in a legal manner. Law compliance:- It is the main responsibility of the team to ensure that employees are
getting a safe treatment from the company. Rio Tinto (Collings,and et. al., 2018) makes
all the rules according to the laws and ensures that everything is done in a legal manner.
 Staffing needs:- Human resource department of Rio Tinto certain responsibilities while
recruiting the candidates. There are many needs which are required while assigning jobs
to candidates. The team is also responsible to provide promotion to employees by
evaluating their performance. Staffing needs are considered for existing employees as
well as for new candidates who are hired.
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