Importance of Employee Relations in HRM Decision-Making

Human Resource
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Purpose and functions of HRM, applicable to workforce planning and resourcing an
organisation............................................................................................................................3
Strengths and weaknesses of various approaches of recruitment and selection.....................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
Benefits of various HRM practices in context of both employees and employers................7
Effectiveness of different HRM practices in terms of raising organisational profit and
productivity.............................................................................................................................8
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
Importance of employee relations in respect to influencing HRM decision-making.............9
Key elements of employment legislation and the impact it has upon HRM decision-making10
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................10
Application of HRM practices in a work-related context, using specific examples............10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is an essential function that focus on the performance
appraisal, recruitment, selection, training, induction, orientation and so on in compliance with
labour laws such as minimum wage act, equality act and many more. This department is
accountable for overseeing and developing suitable policies which are useful for workers to
develop healthy relations with them (Hitka and et. al., 2018). HR department has several
objectives like societal which relates with social and human requirements, organisational that
undertake offering training and hire talented workforce, functional depict that several resources
are properly allocated and personal represent the opportunity for the growth of career and
maintain employee satisfaction. The report is based on Next PLC which is a British multinational
clothing, footwear and home products retailer, headquarter in England, UK. Furthermore, the
report is going to cover several functions and purpose of HRM by considering various HRM
practices and their effectiveness in terms of enhancing organisational productivity and
profitability.
TASK 1
Purpose and functions of HRM, applicable to workforce planning and resourcing an organisation
Company Overview:
Next PLC is a multinational clothing retailer that offer wide range of qualitative products.
Company has around 700 stores and also become the largest clothing retailer by sales in UK, and
founded by Joseph Hepworth in Leeds.
Mission statement:
The mission of company is to remain persistent with the help of their business tactics and
adapt changes on regular basis in terms of surviving in dynamic business environment. It depicts
the objectives and values which are being served by company itself.
Objectives:
 Launch quality products with wide range as it is useful to attract large numbers of
customers.
 Enhancement in their sales as it is useful to increase profitability and decrease their prices
to make products available at affordable prices.
Meaning of HRM:

HRM is the combination of three basic elements in which human represent the
knowledgeable workforce, resources describe the shortage in availability of products and
management depict the optimum utilization of available resources.
Purpose of HRM:
 The main purpose of this department is to recruit fresh talent with suitable skills and
knowledge with the help of workforce planning to fulfil vacant job post by developing
goals, analyse gap, take corrective action, implement and monitor to carry forward
company in smooth manner.
 HR department also make sure that the workforce of company is properly trained and
continuously improve their knowledge and skills. They also make sure that no post is
vacant within the company.
Functions of HRM:
 Training and development: This function is useful to enhance overall presentation, skills
and knowledge of employees as it leads to make employees perform better and achieve
productivity for company (Fei and Aun, 2019). In terms of Next PLC, this process is
helpful to motivate their workforce and respective company prefer on-the-job training to
train their manpower by motivating them because by this employees, feel confident to
perform their assigned task. Hence, the HR manager of Next PLC conduct workforce
planning on the basis of suitable skills and capabilities to organize training and
development program for its workforce.
 Recruitment and selection: It is the basic function of HR department as it leads to
analyze the need of job by defining the requirements of suitable position and also
advertise for the job post. It is important for company as it helps in meet business
objectives by hiring talented candidates as the success of company depends on the quality
of their staff members (El-Ghalayini, 2017). In this context, the HR manager of Next
PLC give advertisement with required skills and experience and focus on hiring skilled
candidates with fresh ideas as it leads to save time and cost for organizing training and
development programs. Hence, the HR manager of Next PLC effectively undertake the
concept of workforce planning to hire talented and skilled candidates by properly
forecasting the needs of employees.
Approaches of HRM: