HRM Practices for Organisational Profit and Productivity

Human Resource
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
SECTION 1......................................................................................................................................3
An overview of the organisation...........................................................................................3
An explanation of the purpose of the HR functions and the key roles and responsibilities of
the HR functions to your chosen organisation.......................................................................3
Critically evaluate the strengths and weakness of different HRM practices within your chosen
organisation for both the employer and employee.................................................................5
An assessment of the approach to workforce planning and resourcing, recruitment and
selection, development and training, performance management...........................................6
Explain the benefits of different HRM practices with reference to raising organisational profit
and productivity......................................................................................................................8
Analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of employee relations and employee engagement..9
“Employer of choice’............................................................................................................9
Identify the key areas of employment legislation ...............................................................10
Critical evaluation of HRM practices that have influenced the decision making with concert
examples for the chosen organisation...................................................................................11
SECTION 2....................................................................................................................................12
The design of a job specification for one of a number of given positions in the organisation.
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CV:......................................................................................................................................12
PERSON Specification: ......................................................................................................13
A job offer to the selected candidate...................................................................................14
An evaluation of the process and the rationale for conducting appropriate HR practices. 15
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................17
REFERENCE.................................................................................................................................18

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is regraded as organisation function that is aimed at
maximisation of employee performance in order to achieve laid mission and vision of
organisation. HR department in a organisation is responsible for recruitment of new employees
and then retaining them for long term in the organisation. HR managers are performing the
function of identification of employee capability and then application of models such as 360
degree feedback to further plan the training programs for employees. Present report is based on
ASDA and the organisation change that is bout to improve their store layouts and online channel
of sales to evolve with the shopping habits of their target market. For this there is assessment of
the main HR functions of a organisation (Armstrong, and Taylor, 2020). There is evaluation of
the main purpose of Human resource. There is assessment of approaches of workforce planning,
resourcing. There is discussion of benefits of HRM & effectiveness of employer relations,
employee engagement. There are areas of employee legislation that have to be analysed & its
impact has to be evaluated.
SECTION 1
An overview of the organisation
ASDA is a subsidiary of Walmart since 1999. the organisation has 604 retail outlets out
of which 196 are supermarkets. ASDA is having a large format of superstores that is dealing in
large variety of products ranging from clothes to furniture, groceries. The competitive strategy
of ASDA is prioritizing on maintaining the price leadership position as part of Big Four U.K
grocery brands (Collings, Wood and Szamosi, 2018). They are also working towards increasing
the nutritional value of private labelled products.
An explanation of the purpose of the HR functions and the key roles and responsibilities of the
HR functions to your chosen organisation
Human resource management is concern with utilisation of available human resource
by performing functions such as planning, organisation and directing employees along with
monitoring their performance. There is also focus on following of functions such as
compensation, development in order to accomplish laid objectives.

Nature of HRM:
 HRM functions are followed in all organisations.
 Main focus is on utilising the existing potential of employees and enhance their personal
development. The objective is to work towards motivating the workforce so that they are able to
perform, their job responsibilities according to their competence level.
Scope of strategic HRM :
 HRM deals with manpower planning, procurement process, compensation policies etc.
 The objective is to maintain industrial relations with all consultancies and labour union
relations
Purpose HRM functions: The main objective of HR management is manage workforce
requirements and enhance employee efficiency to work towards achievement of organisations
goals (Haddock-Millar, Sanyal, and Müller-Camen, 2016). There are some specific functions
that have to be performed in ASDA in order to implement their new change of integration of
online sales channel as mentioned below:
 Job analysis & Design: For describing the job details that is experience, qualification,
knowledge, skill set, ability there is need to define details of each task that will be
changed or newly implemented. Such as there will be a separate department to handle t
eh social media functions for online marketing in ASDA. According to that job
description has to be prepared in order to hire employees.
 Training & development: In this function of HRM there is focus in providing the right
training to existing or newly hired employees if they are lacking the specific skills to
perform their job responsibilities. In ASDA if there will be involvement of existing
employees in new job roles of online sales channel then there has to be specific training
programs that have to be prepared to train them according to required skill set.
 Recruitment & selection: For achievement of specific organizations goals there is need
to create pool of resources that can help in hiring of employees according to requirement.
This function helps in selection of employee according to specific job requirements.
 Performance management: This function helps in managing employee performance
according to pre decided standards. It helps in facilitating HR managers of ASDA to