Human Resource Management in PRACTICE

UNIT 3
HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT IN PRACTICE

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction .......................................................................................................... 3
Task1: LO1 ............................................................................................................ 3
Task2: LO2............................................................................................................. 6
Task3: LO3............................................................................................................. 9
Task4: LO4........................................................................................................... 13
Conclusion........................................................................................................... 17
References........................................................................................................... 19
APPENDIX 1.......................................................................................................... 21

Introduction
Human resource management has evolved as an effective function of achieving
business sustainability in the modern era. The theme of the report lies in projecting a
distinctive overview on the aspects of human resource management concerning their
implementation in the nominated organisations. An assessment of the utilities with a
fragmentation of the operational credentials in Microsoft and Say it with chocolate has been
considered as an integral aspect of the report. The development of the contemporary
functions of operation along with a critical apprehension of the implications on employer and
employee has been considered as a tentative bias of regulating the influences of HRM in
contemporary business activity.
Task1: LO1
P1: Functions of HRM applicable to workforce planning and resourcing
a)Purpose of HR function, current problems and future plans
Say it with chocolate is said to be immensely enhancing organisation which is located
in North Yorkshire. It is mainly deal with chocolate based greeting cards across the united
kingdom. They are dealing with chocolate manufacturing team, finance and marketing team
and distribution division of the company. For every type of organization, the human
resources act as one of the most crucial assets that they contain that help to carry out an
effective management. With emphasis laid on the important roles carried out by the HR of a
given company, the company is able to meet their long term success. This acts as one of the
important initiation methods that lead to carry out an effective degree of coordination thereby
collaborating with each department effectively. The HRM carries out various functions that
help the organization develop further thereby meeting the main requirements of the
employees with focus on carrying out an effective employee satisfaction management.
Further focus is laid by them upon maintain a suitable development of the workplace
environment thereby fulfilling the needs of the company that would help them to meet their
targets duly. Further focus is laid on incorporating the various available human resources
that seek to widen the company’s assets further thereby enhancing the organizational entity
within the industrial sector (Marchington et al. 2016).
Taking the example of the company named “Say it with Chocolate”, it is evident that
they are a rapidly expanding organization placed in North Yorkshire an tends to focus on

improving their operational, information technology, finance and marketing team greatly
thereby emphasising on an effective packaging and distribution. The organization’s
management structure tends to focus on an increasing on their roles thereby empathising on
an ever increasing working force. By implementing the assessment test, they have greatly
been beneficial to deal with the various issues and operations individually by placing
responsibilities for each duly. The main purpose of HRM is to identifying company goals and
matches with competencies of workers which are required to reach with desired goals and
targets. It will help in developing link between human resource management and whole
strategic plan of an organisation.
In current time period, company workforce is expanding and it is complex for
company owner is to manage and control the enhancement in the number of workers. In
addition to this, customers said that “Say it with chocolate” are complaining about reduction
in quality of firm goods and services.
b) Roles and responsibilities of HRO
Various roles are allocated to the HR of the organization thereby seeking to develop
an effective management within. They have further emphasis on an effective completion of
the job roles thereby carrying out an effective and significant financial success with emphasis
on their financial entity. Some of the important job roles that are allocated to the human
resource officer of the company include an effective completion of the entire selection and
recruitment process followed by deliver y of an effective worker motivation (Banfield et al.
2018). They further seek to adopt various strategic human resource management thereby
emphasising on the roles of the human resource officers greatly. They further are responsible
to carry out an effective coordination amongst the employees working within thereby
developing the communication and cooperation process within, further focus is laid on
carrying out an effective management within thereby seeking to widen their magnitude relate
to the organizational productivity. With emphasis laid on widening the magnitude of
organisational performance, the company tends to fulfil their main aspects that pertain to the
development of a suitable commitment within. The HR officers are further responsible to
carry out an effective task management capacity within thereby emphasising on development
of an effective conflict mitigation which seeks to widen the effectiveness of the roles of the
human resource officers further.

In the context of Say it with chocolate , the HR manager officer is conduct training
and development programmes in the firm which assist in improving their employees skills
and knowledge. Such training sessions will be arranged as per the requirement and need of
company customers. The main responsibility of HR officer is to ensure that all the workers
are working their own work for gaining desired goals. This is required for human resource
manager is to make positive relation with their employees that assist in maintaining trust
within an organisation. Along with this, it will help company in retaining their buyers by
providing them attractive and unique products with quality based.
P2: Strengths, Weaknesses in different approaches of recruitment
a)Benefits and constraints of current selection measures and other approaches
“Say it with chocolate” has adopted an effective assessment test within the company
thereby carrying out an effective interview process and managing the entire recruitment
process further. By adapting to various methods, the organization is able to focus on carrying
out an effective reviewing of their prevailing financial entity thereby widening their share of
strengths and weakness greatly. With emphasis laid on the important features, focus is laid on
developing the organizational functioning thereby emphasising on carrying out a greater
improvement within their overall company. This has added onto the company’s competency
level and increased capacities thereby seeking to improve the sustainability within, in a
uniform manner (Nasriyah et al. 2016).
A major disadvantage that has been noted on their selection process includes it is time
consuming and expensive in nature. With emphasis on the various aspects relating to their
unreliability, focus is laid determining their skills level. The fear of exposure is further
prevalent thereby displaying their process, which acts as a major disadvantage for “say it with
chocolate’. Various complaints have been faced within the company in terms of their
selection methods. The company has greatly been able to widen their reliability, which
further adds onto their benefit followed by the assessment tests that they carry out.
Current selection
methods
Advantages Disadvantages
Testing This will help in analysing skills
and communication level of the
people.
There are certain numerical
information and data which
are creating complexities
while choosing appropriate
candidates.

Work sample It gives unbiased results so
worker does not in close
observation.
It is mainly interrupted with
any specific time without
directly effect on possible
outcomes.
Structure interview A respondents example is much
required and its results can be
used while making statements.
Representatives are mainly
focused on selecting best
option solution to
questioner.
b)Scopes and approaches for improvisation
With emphasis laid on the weakness that the company currently experiences, there has
been an improvement in the understanding of the major areas that have entitled them to
improve each section thereby adding onto their advantage (Bratton and Gold, 2017). By
adapting to an effective and intricate method of interviewing, the company is able to focus on
their major developments. With emphasis upon their interview method, which lasts a short
duration of around 15 minutes, a questioning method is carried out followed by an informal
chat. This has become a disadvantage to their part. “Say it with chocolate” has therefore
focused on carrying out a detailed interview thereby focusing on each valuable asset to widen
their possible chances of development further. By carrying out an assessment test, they have
further put focus on conducing of a fair interview thereby completing the tests suitably
thereby choosing the most efficient applicants (Sharma and Goyal, 2015). The incapable
applicants get a much low chance in this case, where the selection is solely carried out with
the key aim of carrying out a thorough initiation of the details within the interview. With
focus laid on a much detailed and open ended interview process The company is able to
locate a detailed insight based on the behavioural trends thereby emphasising on the
applicants that come for the interview by incorporating all the potential human resources
effectively within.
Task2: LO2
P3: Benefits of HRM practices to employee and employers
a)Person Specification for job role
Aspects Desired elements
Professional Skills  Effective skills of Communication