Importance of Employee Relations in Influencing HRM Decision Making

Human Resource
Management
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK1.............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Discuss the purpose and functions of HRM, applicable on resources and workforce
planning of an organisation. ..................................................................................................3
P2 Discuss the strength & weakness of recruitment and selection approaches. ...................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P3 Discuss benefits of HRM practices within an organisation for employees & employers.6
P4 Evaluate effectiveness of different types HRM practice..................................................7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
P5 Importance of employee relation in respect to influencing HRM decision making.........8
P6 identify the key elements of employment legislation........................................................9
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................10
P7 Application of HRM practices .......................................................................................10
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13
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INTRODUCTION
Human resource management refers to a process of recruiting, selecting & firing peoples
in an organisation (Armstrong and Taylor 2020). Main role of HRM is to attract more candidates
towards organisation and select a right person for a right job from all available applicants. By
organising training and development programmes for employees it helps in developing their
skills and knowledge. In achievement of organisation goals HR of an organisation play very
essential role. This report helps in understand human resource management in a better way.
Marks and Spencer is an multinational retailer company headquarter in Landon, U.K. It
basically deals cloths, furniture, beauty products, food, wine & gifts etc. Top competitors of
selected company are John Lewis, Matalan Retail and Wilko. This report includes functions and
applications of human resource management, different approaches of selection and recruitment,
benefits of HRM practices for both employees and employers, importance of employee relation
in decision making, employment legislations and different applications of HRM practices.
TASK1
P1 Discuss the purpose and functions of HRM, applicable on resources and workforce planning
of an organisation.
Main purpose of human resource management is to enhancing efficiency and productivity
of an organisation. An effective HR of an organisation helps in achieving organisation goal by
providing training to their employees. In context of selected firm, its HRM department helps
organisation in managing its internal operations & workforce in a better way. And helps in
maintaining good environment in an organisation which enhance its brand image. These are
some functions and purpose of HRM which help HRM in managing its resources and workforce
are discuss below:
Purpose of HRM:
 Increase performance- Main purpose of human resource management is to increase
workers efficiency and productivity. In context of selected firm their HR provide training
and developments programmes for enhancing their workers performance. Marks Spencer
is an large organisation and its success is depend on their workforce productivity. So its
important to manage the performance of their employees by properly and guiding them
(Aronson 2019).
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 Organisation environment- Human resource management assist in creating a good
environment in an organisation. Image of any organisation is affected by its organisation
culture. In context of selected firm, its HR helps in building relationship between
employees and employers. Which motivates their employees and enhance their
productivity also. Selected firm use flat organisation structure which helps in direct
communication between their HRM department and workers. Which create a healthy
environment in an organisation.
Functions of HRM: In context of selected firm its human resource management play these
important function which helps in development of organisation.
 Recruitment- It refers to an process of attracting candidates for applying in an
organisation for an vacant position (Berman and et. al. 2019). In context of selected firm
it HR use E- recruitment method for hiring candidates for a particular job. This
recruitment process save organisation money and time as compare to physical
recruitment. Human resource management helps organisation in hiring best candidates
for organisation. HR of selected firm also use internal recruiting method for filling
available vacancy. It means workers who are already working with organisations are
promoted or transfers to another department for filling vacant post. This recruitment
method helps in retain their employees for long period in an organisation.
 Selection- It refers to an process of selecting best candidates from pool of applications in
organisation (Bishu and Headley, 2020). This function of HRM assist HR of chosen
company to select best and potential candidates who help in achieving organisational
goal. In context of selected firm its HR hire candidates through online mode and from
internal sources. Which reduces time and money required for selection process as
compare to physical selection process.
P2 Discuss the strength & weakness of recruitment and selection approaches.
Recruitment and selection are play an important role in an organisation development.
Selected firm human resource management department use different approaches which helps in
operating organisation activities successfully. These approaches helps organisation in decision
making for achieving organisational goal.
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