HRM Practices: Impact on Workforce Planning, Recruitment, and Benefits

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of Human Resource Management (HRM) functions and practices, focusing on workforce planning, recruitment and selection, employee benefits, and employment legislation. It explores the purpose and functions of HRM, including recruitment and selection, job design and analysis, training and development, compensation and benefits, and employee relations, within the context of workforce planning at Asda. The report evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of internal and external recruitment approaches, as well as selection processes like interviews and online tests. Furthermore, it examines the benefits of HRM practices for both employers and employees, and the impact of employment legislation on HRM decision-making. Specific examples are used to illustrate the application of HRM practices in a work-related context, highlighting the importance of employee relations in influencing HRM decisions and raising organizational profitability and productivity. The document is contributed by a student and available on Desklib, a platform providing study tools for students.

Human Resource
Management

Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Task 1..........................................................................................................................................................3
P1 what are the functions and purpose of HRM applicable to workforce planning and resourcing in the
company?................................................................................................................................................3
P2 what are the strength and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection.........4
Task 2..........................................................................................................................................................6
P3 what are the benefits of different HRM practices within and company for both the employer and
employees...............................................................................................................................................6
P4 evaluate the effectiveness of different HRM practices in terms of raising organizational profitability
and productivity......................................................................................................................................7
Task 3..........................................................................................................................................................7
P5 Analyses the importance of employees relation in respect to influencing human resource
management decision.............................................................................................................................7
P6 identify the key elements of employment legislation and the impact it has upon human resource
management decision making.................................................................................................................8
Task 4..........................................................................................................................................................9
P7 illustrate the application of Human Resource Management practices in the work-related context
using specific example.............................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................................11
References.................................................................................................................................................12

Introduction
Human Resource means the process of managing the people in the organization so that
the firm can utilize their resources properly. It is the kind of the practice which helps in
managing the staff of the organization. When the employees contribute their skills and
knowledge in the company to attain their personal and organizational goals. The main role of the
Human Resource Department is to heir the people and to manage them in an effective manner so
that they all together attain the objective of the company. The department use to heir, motivate
and maintain the employees in the organization (Nzanywayingoma. and Yang, 2019). This report is
discussed about the purpose and functions of Human Resource management. The strengths and
weaknesses of different approaches used to recruit and select the staff. The benefits of this
department in the organization. The role of department in enhancing the productivity and
profitability of the organization. Further, the report is being discussed about the employment
legislation and its impact on the decisions of the HRM.
Task 1
P1 what are the functions and purpose of HRM applicable to workforce planning and
resourcing in the company?
Human Resource Department plays an important role in managing the affairs of the
company which includes job analysis and staffing, organizing and utilization of resources and
work force and many other things (McAbee, Landis and Burke, 2017). Asda is the retail store dealing
in retail business in UK. The company has provided the online platform so that their customers
can access to their store from remote areas.
Mission of Asda
The main mission of the company is to become the trusted company in the United
Kingdom as well as all over the world.
Purpose and main objective of the Asda
 The main purpose of the organization is to provide better services to their customers so
that they can be satisfied with their services and products which help them to enhance
their business.
 Raise the quality of the brand in the minds of their customers.
The human resource department The Human Resource Department stands for the people
working in an organisation their main aim is to do effective and efficient management of the
employees of the company their main functions are related with selection, recruitment, staffing
and managing the affairs of the workforce so that they can take the organisation objective in an
effective manner (Jebb, Parrigon and Woo, 2017). The main functions of Asda are explained below:

Recruitment and selection: The main function of human resource manager is to hire the new
candidates so that they can effectively work which helps them to attain the objective of the
company (Guo and et. al., 2017).
. The Asda use to heir the new employees by screening, selecting and recruiting a suitable
candidate with all required skills and knowledge.
Job design and analysis: The managers of Asda used to identify the duties and
responsibilities of the employees which need to be performed. They used to determine the skills
and capabilities which are required to perform the specific task which helps the department to
identify and select the candidates for an organisation. For this, the department used to draught
the job design and assigns the job to respective employees.
Training and development: the department used to give an accurate training and development
program for harnessing the overall productivity of the employees (Brönnimann and et. al., 2020).
Every candidate is required to provide a proper training so that they can perform in an effective
manner which enhances the productivity of the organisation.
Compensation and Benefits: Human Resource Department of Asda used to determine the
adequate rewards for the employees which helps the company to motivate Their employees so
that they can work in an better way. This helps the company to manage their transparency in the
organisation which helps them to generate the positive image in the market.
Managing employee Relation: Employees are ji backbone of the organisation. Asda used to
maintain good and healthy relations with their employees which leaves the company to make
better working environment for them. This helps them to work together to attend the common
objective of the firm.
Purpose of Asda
The main purpose of Human Resource Management is to manage the task of the
company which enhance the working and functioning of an organisation in an effective manner.
Another main purpose of Human Resource Management is planning so that the company can
manage the good and healthy relation with their work force (Khan, Rao-Nicholson, Akhtar and He,
2017). This can be done by providing them fair and equitable Raman narrations and motivating
them to achieve the common objective of the company.
Workforce planning at Asda
Human Resource Department uses to manage the employees while predicting the current
and future demands of their labor and examine the source from where they can manage and
fulfill the demands. The department also determines the future requirements of the candidates
and resource from where that department can fulfill the vacant post. Asda use to hire the labor
with the help of internal and external market. The managers of Asda use to focus on the external
labor in which the used to hire an innovative and skilled workforce whenever they required.
P2 what are the strength and weaknesses of different approaches to
recruitment and selection.
Recruitment and selection are the primary functions of the Human Resource Department
at Asda. The manager's office use to hire their candidates mostly with the external force.
Recruitment process
Recruitment means hiring the new candidates to fill the vacant post it is the process
which begins with the identifying the task force gap in preparing the job description and their

mode of selecting. The managers of Asda use both approaches of recruitment which are
mentioned below:
Internal recruiting: it is the process which boosts the moral of the existing employees. It is the
ideal option for the company e to retain their most skilled and experienced employees within the
organisation (Jebb, Parrigon and Woo, 2017). The managers of the US the use these kinds of
recruiting by the way of promotion and transfer the employees to fill the vacant place in firm
 Promotion it is all about promoting the employees to the next level so that they can fill up
the vacant job. It can be done by motivating Their employees which enhance their
productivity. It is the kind of a technique which helps the company to retain their
knowledgeable and skillful employees within the organisation.
 Transfer it means when the the employees are being transferred from one department to
another or from one place to another which helps them to explore themselves and
enhance their productivity.
Strength and weaknesses of internal recruitment method
Strength:
 The managers of the as the used to save their cost for filling up the vacant job position
by this method.
 It is the time saving method. This helps the employees to work at the new position as they
are already familiar about the working culture and policies of the organisation.
Weaknesses:
 The main drawback of internal recruitment is the company fails to hire the new
knowledgeable and skilled candidates in the organisation.
 This method of recruitment brings and conflict among the colleagues which resulted in in
flexible work culture within the company.
 Age limits the pool of driving innovative and fresh ideas in Asda.
External recruitment: It is another method of recruiting the employees in an organisation. It
helps the company e to attract the fresh talent with the new ideas and skills which fulfill the
needs of new job requirements (Sparr, Knipfer and Willems, 2017). It can be done in two ways:
 Campus hiring it is an accurate method of recruitment for hiring a skilled and
knowledgeable candidate they use to hire the recent graduates and undergoing studies
students from there colleges and Universities The Asda company manager used to
determine the colleges from where they can hire the skillful candidates to fill their vacant
jobs.
 Employment agencies these are the Agencies which acted as the middleman to give the
potential and skills labors to the company as they used to demand the candidates which
works in an effective manner to fill their job profiles. The agency is used to get
Commission in the form of vendor payout.
Strength and weaknesses of external recruitment method
Strength:
 It helps in in recruiting the new candidates from a pool of new faces new ideas in new
skills.
 There is the less conflict arising with the new employees between their existing
employees.
Weaknesses

 It is more time and money consuming approach.
 They need to take more time for on boarding the process of joining.
Selection process: It is the process which helps the company to pick up the right candidate which
helps them to meet the specific job skills experience and knowledge (Mokria and et. al., 2018). It is
the most crucial step of hiring capable employees as employees are the Assets of the form there
are many techniques which helps the company to select their employees some of them are
explained below:
 Interview it is the form of interpersonal method to select the candidate where the
interviewer used to ask different questions which helps them to identify the candidate that
it he or she can fulfill the requirements of the profile.
Online test is used to conduct online test so that they can determine the personality rational and
intelligence of the candidate. The more higher the candidate scores in he test will be selected (Lo
Presti, Pluviano and Briscoe, 2018).
Strength and weaknesses of selection
Strength:
 It helps in direct interaction with the candidates which helps them to identify the
cognitive aspects.
 The online test helps in determining the skills of the candidates so that they can analyses
the cost of training which will be required to train the candidates.
Weaknesses:
 It is the most costly and resource intensive process (Motofei, 2017)
 This method increases the risk of bias in selecting the appropriate talented candidate.
Task 2
P3 what are the benefits of different HRM practices within and company for
both the employer and employees.
Human Resource Management is all about managing the resources of the company so that they
can utilize them in an effective manner. The main functions of this department are to found the
strategies which helps them to attain their targeted goals (Kuhn and Maleki, 2017). An effective
human resource management practices would provide benefits to both us and its employers in the
following manner:
Benefits to employer:
The recruitment and selection process used by Asda which helps them to fill the vacant positions
so that they can achieve their targets in an effective manner. The internal recruiting method helps
to organisation to retain their higher skilled and talented employees within the organisation and
external recruitment method used to intake the new faces with highly skilled and ideas in the
company.

The accurate training helps the employees to strengthen their skills. This will enhance
their productivity which resulted in high revenues to the company. The process of training and
development helps the employees to maintain and healthy relations with their employer.
The human resource management used to motivate their employees which helps them to achieve
and statistical decision in the company there are many ways to motivate their employees by
providing extra rewards and remuneration which attracts them to work in an effective manner.
Benefits to employee:
Recruitment and selections are equally important for employees. Promotion and transfer
helps to company to satisfy Their employees with the help of rewarding them for their extreme
and extra contributions in Asda.
The Human Resource Department is responsible for providing proper training to their
employees which helps them to explore their hidden talents and helps in learning various skills
which helps them in their functions. The training and development programs ensure the growth
of the both personal and professional skills in them. Employer use to motivate their employees
which has in positive impact on their performance this helps them to satisfy the requirement of
their jobs and enhance the productivity of the employees.
P4 evaluate the effectiveness of different HRM practices in terms of raising
organizational profitability and productivity.
The managers of Human Resource Management please an important rule to attend the
strategic which helps them to reach the high profitability with the help of harassing the
performance of the employees. The followings are benefit of Human Resource Management
practices which are explained below:
Organizational profitability every business organisation has an aim to earn profit. Asda
used to acquire and retain the high skilled candidates which help them to contribute more in
attaining their organizational goals this can be done by recruitment and selection process. The
training and development methods help the Asda to enhance their productivity of their
employees. This resulted in in enhancing the skills and knowledge of their employees employee
empowerment is useful in Human Resource Management practices which has an positive impact
on the firm as they used to motivate Their employees so that they increase the profitability of the
firm.
Organisational productivity: With the help of recruitment and selection process company
used to identify the skillful candidates which helps them to acquire and positive image in the
market. Also helps in increasing the productivity of the firm. Motivational and productivity are
interlinked concept because motivation used to provide satisfaction to the job in developed the
dignity of the work in the minds of the employees training of the employee is an additional
practices which is performed by the Human Resource Department so that they can pull out the
hidden skills of their employees.
Task 3
P5 Analyses the importance of employees relation in respect to influencing
human resource management decision.
Human resource department use to maintain the healthy working environment in the
company. The employers are making continuous efforts on healthy relationship with the

colleagues and other fellow employees the good and strong relation among the employers and
employees helps in enhancing the performance of an organisation. The company has to maintain
a positive environment which helps them to increase the output of the employees. There are
several strategies which affects the human resource management decision making to employees
relationship some of these are explained below:
Employee’s engagement it is concerned with the active participation of the employees
when the decision are made in the company. Asda use to encourage their employees so that they
can give more ideas freedom of expressing their views which helps in in increasing the
engagement of the employees in organisation as disease their presence and views are valuable for
the company (Kolus, Wells and Neumann, 2018).
Flexibility in workplace the good and healthy relations among the team members helps in
increasing the continuous growth of the organisation the managers of the US used to focus on
developing the flexibility in the working which helps them to satisfy their employees with their
job. The entire workforce is known with their roles and responsibility towards the organisation
which resulted in reduced of confusions among the team members.
Employees productivity employee engagement and satisfaction results in high
productivity the managers of the Asda, used to maintain good relationship between the
organisation and the employees so that they can increase their productivity the company used to
take proper feedbacks and appraisals and their work simultaneously which helps them to
motivate to work hard within stipulated time period.
Career development opportunity empowerment is related with providing and Employees
with certain skills and knowledge through training that helps them to counter future challenges
the human resource the human resource department of Asda used to develop many approaches
and strategies to train their employees which helps them to motivate and compared to untrained
employees. This helps the department to establish a positive relationship between the employer
and employee and ensures the future growth while working at the company.
P6 identify the key elements of employment legislation and the impact it has
upon human resource management decision making.
Employment legislation means the rules and regulations which are made by the
legislation to protect the rights of the employees. There are many laws which are followed by us
in save their employees from discriminating and their exploitation. This helps the company to
sustain their business performance and helps them to take decisions for the benefits of their
employees. The thirties have framed many acts within the employment legislation. The managers
of Asda frame their policies in accordance to the employment legislation there are several
elements of employment legislation with are explained below:
Employment act it is the act which provides the legal treatment of their employees
disputes successful Re compensation to be given to the employees in case of a payment of their
remuneration. There are many other laws which are enacted as the sub clause in the Act such as
the right of minimum wages which the employer has to pay to their employees. It is the
responsibility of the human resource manager at us to give the accurate and fair wages to their
employees this helps them how to take proper decisions in off boarding process and the
compensation which can be paid to them at the time of their resignation or termination.
The Civil right act it is made to safeguard and protect the individuals from getting
discrimination based on their gender sex color racism religion and nationality is the multinational

company which serves their products over the seas, they have diversified employees in the
organisation.
Equal pay act it is the most important law which is made by the the employees
legislation which helps the employ to get the proper wages of their services. The managers of
Asda make sure that their employees get the equal wages to the same position on level of the
other. The human resource decision making in reference to the planning of compensation policy
to their workers it is the duty of the manager to pay Their employees on the basis of their
performance and not on the basis on their age or gender.
Task 4
P7 illustrate the application of Human Resource Management practices in the
work-related context using specific example.
Illustrate: The Asda Company has an vacant job on the profile of Marketing Manager.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job Title- Marketing Manager
Reported to whom: Human Resource Manager
Job Summary: The Marketing manager should have appropriate skills and knowledge which
helps them to promote the products and services of the company. They must have a
leadership skills which will be useful in order to maintain the stores.
Responsibilities:
 To generate more revenue from business and makes a good brand image in the
market.
 To coordinate with the sales department and other departments.
 To do planning and research of market.
 To develop different campaigns for promoting their products and services.
Qualification:
 Bachelor degree in the marketing specialisation
 Master degree in the marketing is an additional advantageous.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Essential Skills:

 At least 3 years’ experience as a marketing manager in a retail firm
 Good Leadership skills
 Strong communication skills
 Problem solving skills
Desired skills:
 Willingness to travel
 Technology skills
 knowledge about social media network for integrated marketing campaign
Preparatory Notes of Interview:
Interview is as important model which helps the company to identify the candidate’s skills
and knowledge which is posed by them in order to attain the goals of the company (Mokria and et.
al., 2018). Human Resource department of the Asda, prepares the questions which will be useful to
identify the candidates skills and knowledge. Those questions are mentioned below:
 What is the role of marketing manager in the company?
 What are the different strategies used to promote the products of Asds?
 What are the different leadership skills used by the marketing manager in order to
perform their functions.
 What are the new marketing tactics you have used in your past experience jobs?
If the candidate has given all the answers properly then he will be given the offer letter by
Asda.
OFFER LETTER
Asda Pvt. Ltd
March 19, 2021
LMN
Dear PQR,
We happy to communicate you that you are selected as the full time marketing manager in our
esteem organisation. According to our decision, we are offering you to join our organisation by
April, 1 2021. . If you are curious about this role, please revert us back on our email address.
Also please attached all your academic and experience documents in the same mail and brings

hard copy for the cross verification. Kindly attach your qualifications and experience
certificates with this mail and also bring the original documents on the date of joining.
If having any issue please feel free to reach us on our email and contact number.
Regards,
HR Manager
XYZ
CONCLUSION
The above report can be concluded that, human resource department plays a significant
role in order to attain the goals of the firm in an effective manner. The department uses the
appropriate strategies which helps the company to maintain their long run growth in the
competitive market. It can be concluded that there are several laws which are enacted by the
authority which helps the HR to influence their decision making power. Lastly, the report is
being discussed about the ways which are used to identify the candidates and their skills to fill
the vacant jobs.

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