HRM Purpose, Functions, Recruitment Approaches, and Employee Relations in Tesco

Unit 3

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
P1 Determine HRM purpose & functions applicable to workforce planning and resourcing in
an organisation........................................................................................................................3
P2 Determine various approaches of recruitment & selection with its strengths and
weaknesses.............................................................................................................................5
P3 Explaining various benefits of HR practices in relevance with both employer & employee
................................................................................................................................................7
P4 Evaluate the effectiveness of different HRM practices in terms of raising organisational
profit and productivity............................................................................................................8
P5 Importance of employee relations with respect to orgasnitinal HR decision making process
................................................................................................................................................8
P6 Employment legislation & impact on HR decision making processes...........................10
P7 Illustration of application of HR parctices within work related context of organisation 10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES:.............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is useful for every organisation as it helps in workforce
planning, resourcing and bring rise in productivity of business. This help organisation in
managing various activities such as decision making, employee relations etc. There are several
functions involved in carrying out HR practices that include, recruitment, selection, training,
development and payroll etc. Organisations such as Tesco, a multinational retail corporation
dealing with groceries & general merchandise in UK and across different countries globally use
different approaches of HRM discussed in following assessment. The below report explains
various human resource management aspects including HR practices, methods, functions,
purpose, legislations and illustrations regarding recruitment & selection procedures.
MAIN BODY
P1 Determine HRM purpose & functions applicable to workforce planning and resourcing in an
organisation
Human resource management is process of monitoring as well as managing staff of
organisation. Also following process deals with retaining potential candidates or acquiring fresh
new talent for business to gain benefits if productivity & profitability in future. In context with
Tesco, HR managers mainly focus on recruiting talented individuals having knowledge about
latest trends in market or are having special or innovative skills. It is important for HR
department to create vision or mission statement of firm to do workforce planning as per set
goals objectives or standards.
Company overview
Tesco is a leading multinational retail platform dealing with groceries, general
merchandising mainly. Following organisation states third position in market industry
headquartered in England, UK. There are various HR practices adopted by Human resource
department of Tesco to maintain workforce such as regular training sessions, development
programs providing staff employees career opportunities. This help employees work in
corporation for a longer period of time.
Mission statement: This statement derives actual goals of organisation with completing
ultimate vision of firm. Purpose behind application of various HRM functions is to become a
people oriented organisation both domestically and at a global level (Vickers,2020).

Purpose: To provide best experiences to consumers in future by quality of customer
services in future with maintaining quantity & quality of company product or services.
Core objective/business motive: To improve quality performance of employees at
workplace with satisfying maximum customers in market industry.
Purpose of Human resource management
Build strong relationships: The main purpose behind establishing various activities of
HRM is top create an effective bond between employer & employee of organisation to help them
connect with company goals or objectives.
Work efficiency: In context with Tesco has been adopting various tools & techniques to
enhance work efficiency of existing workers. This include 360 degree performance appraisal,
rating scale methods, challenging task roles etc. to encourage employees effectively participate
in company operations as well as complete work on time.
Coordination of activities: Since employees are a crucial asset for an enterprise, main
purpose of HRM department is to coordinate with both staff workers and align their personal
goals with organisational outcomes resulting in actual profits in future (Hooi, 2019).
Since Tesco is a customer oriented firm fulfilling their daily basic needs, it mainly focus
on training its employees to become quick learners according to dynamic environment of
business. This can be established through fastening of delivery services by door step deliveries,
produce quality services such as after sale functions of product maintenance etc.
Functions of HRM
Human resource planning: The most important is human resource planning that
includes organizing employee activities as per their allotted job positions. In relation with Tesco,
a systematic procedure is followed by managers to do workforce planning through setting up
policies or guidelines with desirable time to be accomplished.
Recruitment & selection: This step includes function of attracting useful applicants
towards a particular position or job profile. Further, Tesco make several efforts to create an
impact of brand image on new employees or aspirants for a particular position. Those candidates
who have capability to perform desired skills in given time period are selected based on their
knowledge & experience.
Training & development: This is third function of HRM that deals with training new or
existing staff of organisation (Das and Kodwani, 2018). In relevance with Tesco, various