Human Resource Management in Sainsbury

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
PART- 1...........................................................................................................................................1
1. Purpose, function of Human resource management in Sainsbury..........................................1
2.Strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection.....................2
3.The benefits of different HRM practices in Sainsbury for both the employer and employee. 4
4. Effectiveness of different HRM practices in terms of raising organisation profitability and
productivity.................................................................................................................................5
PART-2 ...........................................................................................................................................6
1. Job description........................................................................................................................6
2. Job specification......................................................................................................................7
3. Job offer letter.........................................................................................................................8
4. Evaluation of process and rationale for conducting appropriate HR practices.......................8
5. Approach and effectiveness of employees relation and engagement......................................8
6. Key aspect of employment legislation ...................................................................................9
7. Evaluation of employees relation and legislation in decision-making process and meeting
business objectives....................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Human resource manager plays an significant role in managing the employees of the
company so that the desired objectives can be achieved in the best possible manner. It recruits,
retained and motivate employees to work hard for growth and expansion of firm so that it can
gain competitive advantages in external environment. This report is about Sainsbury which is
second largest supermarket chain in United Kingdom that have around 16.0% of market share
and continuously working for delivering services to range of customers. Vision and mission of
Sainsbury is to “ build strong brand heritage and reputation through offering innovative and
consistent valuable products and services to customers. Moreover, it has contain detailed
pertaining to purpose of HR functions, key roles and responsibilities, its significance in retaining
the talented individual within the firm. At last, it has job description, specification, offer letter
and evaluation and rationale process that has been used by HR while performing its task so that
company can achieve its objectives.
MAIN BODY
PART- 1
1. Purpose, function of Human resource management in Sainsbury
The main purpose of HR manager in the firm is to hire and retained talented individuals
in the organization so that qualitative services can be rendered to customers within limited time
frame. Its purpose is to motivate employees to make optimum utilization of their existing skills,
capabilities and knowledge for growth and develop of firm. So, it can be stated that main
purpose of HR is to resolve key issues present in the workplace, maximize the overall company
performance through investing in the right people (Michael, 2019). Therefore, the several
functions that has been performed by the HR manager of Sainsbury can be illustrated in detailed
as follows:
 Employees hiring and selection: The major function of HR of Sainsbury is to hire and
select right individual at right place so that all task can be completed simultaneously. It
invites application, take interview or test in order to hire or select potential candidate that
have capabilities to work for growth and development of organization.
 Planning for training and development: The second function that has been completed
by HR manager is planning and organizing of training and development program for
overall growth and expansion of business. So, it ensures that proper guidance, training
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and development opportunities are provided to individual so that their existing skills and
capabilities can be enhanced to maximum extend (Anwar and Abdullah, 2021).
 Deciding compensation and other benefits: Moreover, it has been identified that HR
manager of Sainsbury also responsible for deciding appropriate compensation benefits
that needs to be provided to employees for their hard work and determination in the firm.
Furthermore, it also determined other benefits that needs to be provided to employees so
that it is motivated to work for expansion of firm in external environment.
 Employees performance management: It is also one of the function that has been
performed by the manager in which it ensures that all employees effectively complete
their respective task and responsibilities. Likewise, the manager continuous monitor the
actual performance of employees and find alternative method that could be used to
improve the same so that company can retained competitive advantages in retail sector of
UK (Ahammad, Glaister and Gomes, 2020).
2.Strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection
The recruitment is an simple procedure about adequate human resource management of
an organization and designing business activity. It is the procedure of making efforts in order to
inspire different candidates to apply for the current vacant position or predictable job opening
within the establishment (Coller, Cordero and Echavarren, 2018). For each and every
organization, recruitment procedure is very important and crucial part for the progress of the
establishment. In order to do recruitments within the organization, various methods has been
taken place such as screen, source, shortlist along with selection of resources as per the
requirements and job specification of the vacant position. With the help of whole recruitment
process, the human resource managers are able to select the correct and appropriate candidate
for making and expanded training and skilled resources within the organization. Sainsbury
utilises both mediums of doing recruitment and selection of candidates i.e. internal as well as
external. Each method have its own demerits and benefits that can be availed by the firm in time
to time manner.
Internal recruitment is an activity given to the employees of the organization who have
worked fro the business from past large duration of time. Such employees pays their attention
towards advertising the organization through job postings and referral staff. The job posting is
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