Arcadia Group HRM: Recruitment, Training, and Employee Benefits Report

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of Human Resource Management (HRM) practices within the Arcadia Group, a multinational retailing company. The report begins by defining HRM and outlining its purpose, emphasizing its role in maximizing organizational productivity and aligning employee needs with business objectives. It then details various HRM functions, including recruitment and selection, training and development, and employee relations, with a specific focus on training and development, and recruitment and selection. The report further explores different approaches to recruitment and selection, evaluating their strengths and weaknesses. It also examines specific HRM practices within the Arcadia Group, such as employment security, selective hiring, and training and development, along with the benefits of job descriptions and advertisements for both employees and employers. Finally, the report discusses how effective HRM practices contribute to improved organizational productivity and profitability.

HUMAN RESOURCES
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
1. Define HRM and explain the purpose of it.............................................................................3
2. Various functions of HRM......................................................................................................4
3. Select two from above list and explain in details....................................................................4
4. Approaches of recruitment and selection process...................................................................5
5. Select 2 approaches of recruitment and selection explain with strength and weakness. .......6
6. Selected organisation's HRM practices...................................................................................8
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................9
7. Practices and explain the benefits of employee ans employer with example.........................9
8. Benefits of Hr practices to improving profit and productivity of the organization..............10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is an important part of the organization. It is an effective
process of managing people in the organisation. It helps to business in gaining competitive
advantage (Boon, Den Hartog and Lepak, 2019). Present study is based on the “Arcadia group”
is a multinational retailing company. The group has more than 2500 outlets in the UK. Study lays
emphasis on the purpose and functions of HRM in the organization. Report will show the
different approaches of recruitment and selection and strength and weakness of it. Study is
highlight the various HRM practices in organization and select one practice and define its
benefits for both employer and employee. It is also highlighted by how hr practices help to
improve productivity and profits.
TASK 1
1. Define HRM and explain the purpose of it.
HRM is the practices of recruiting, hiring, developing and managing an organisation
employees. It is important for the organization to handle the employees. The responsibilities of

humane recourse manager in Arcadia group are staffing, compensation and benefits of
employees and candidate who are working with the organization. The purpose of HRM are as
follows:
 To maximize the productivity of an organisation by optimizing the effectiveness of its
employees.
 The coordination with organisation peoples to achieve business objectives by fulfilling
staff needs and maintain employees satisfaction.
 It is focus on internal part of the organization rather than external environment (Bratton
and Gold, 2017).
 It communicates with employees and adapts the organisation culture and structure to their
needs.
 It leads the employment cycle, by attracting and hiring the best candidate for Arcadia
group.
 Its main purpose is to coordinate with peoples in organisation to achieve goals and
improve productivity and profit of its.
2. Various functions of HRM.
There are various functions of human resource management. That are as follows:
Recruitment and selection
It is the very important function for every organization. Recruitment means is attracting
candidate or making a pool of candidate for employment and other hand selection is the process
of find qualified candidates for job role (Functions of hrm, 2017). This function help to Arcadia
group to placing right person at right place at right time at right cost.
Training and development
Training is the function which is help to know the where employees are present and what
they have to achieve through skills, knowledge and ability. This help to Arcadia group to
improve current and future performance of an employees by increasing ability of employees.
Through education and using effective training methods.
Managing employee relationship
Employees are the pillars of the organization. Effective relations between employees and
employers influences the behaviour and work outputs of the Arcadia group. It is important
function of HRM.

Maintaining good working condition
It is the main function of the HRM to maintain the good working condition in the
organization (Brewster and et.al., 2016). This function help to Arcadia group to maintain
employees trust on organization and help to improve productivity of the organisation.
3. Select two from above list and explain in details.
From the above list select the training & development and recruitment & selection
process.
Training and development
It is the vital part of the human resource development. Training is use for develop their
employees skills, knowledge and ability to perform better and effectively in Arcadia gruop.
Impotence of training and development:
 Development of employees skills
 Increase the productivity
 Optimizing utilization of resources
 Improvement of organization culture To improve employees morale and corporate image
Process of training and development:
 Determine the needs of training and development
 Establish specific objectives and goals
 Select the methods of training
 Implement of training program
 Analysis the output and performance
 Monitoring and evaluating the performances
It is the process of training and development which is help to develop employees skills
(Brewster, Chung and Sparrow, 2016).
Recruitment and selection
Recruitment is the process of identifying and making right candidate to apply for the job
and selection is the process of choosing the right candidate for the vacant post in the Arcadia
group.
Importance of recruitment and selection:
 Identifying the requirements for each positions in the organization

 Communicate about the vacant post
 Interview of candidates Save training time buy selecting good and valuable candidate for organization
Process of recruitment and selection:
 Prepare the job description and person specification
 Locating and developing the sources of requirement numbers
 Short listing and identify the eligible candidates
 Arranging the interview with selected candidates
 Finally, taking decision of hire candidate
4. Approaches of recruitment and selection process.
Recruiting is the crucial part of developing and maintaining an effective and efficient
team of organization and other hand, selection is the process of choosing the best and right
candidate for the organisation (DeCenzo, Robbins and Verhulst, 2016). These process help to
Arcadia group to select right candidate for the vacant post.
Approaches of recruitment process:
Internal sources of recruitment External sources of recruitment
Its refers to hiring employees within the
organization internally. It is the best way of
selecting employees of the vacant post in
Arcadia group. Approaches are as follows:
 Promotion of employees
 Transfer of employees
 Employees referrals
 Internal advertisements
Its refer to hiring employees outside the
organization. External employees brings the
innovation and fresh thoughts for the Arcadia
group. Approaches are as follows:
 Direct recruitment
 Campus recruitment
 Advertisement
 Employment agencies
Approaches of selection process:
Selection of right candidate for vacant post in the Arcadia group. It is the process of
matching organization requirement with the best skills and qualification of candidates.
Approaches of selection are as follows:
 Online screening and short listing

 Ability and aptitude test
 Group discussion
 Presentation
That are the main approaches of the selection process (Dresang, 2017).
5. Select 2 approaches of recruitment and selection explain with strength and weakness.
From the above list select the promotion and direct recruitment of the candidate, it is the
approaches of recruitment process. Group discussion and aptitude test is the approaches of
selection process.
Method Description Strength Weakness
Recruitment process
Promotion It is refers to
upgrading the
employees by
evaluating their
performance in the
Arcadia group. Its
process of shifting
employee from one
post to another post it
may be higher and
lower post. Arcadia
group uses this for fill
their vacant post with
the process of
promotion (Noe and
et.al., 2017).
 It is simple,
easy, quick and
cost effective
process.
 In that no need
of induction
and training to
employees
because
employee
already know
about the
organization
and work
responsibility.
 It has limited
scope because
all vacant post
not fill by
promotion.
 By promoted
the employees
for new post, in
that position
will remain
vacant.
Direct recruitment It is refers the external
sources of the
recruitment. Recruit
the qualified candidate
 It encourages
the new
opportunities
for the job
 This process
consume more
time, as the
selection

for vacant post. By
this method Arcadia
group get the best
candidate with
innovative ideas.
seekers.
 The scope of
selecting new
candidate for
organization is
more, because
of the large
number of
employees
appearing
(Turner and
et.al., 2019).
process.
 Direct recruit
candidate
demands high
remuneration
and benefits.
Selection process
Group discussion It is the platform
where employer
expected to discussion
on an assigned topic.
In that candidates are
discussed on the
particular topic and
put their point of view
regarding the topic.
Arcadia group involve
this selection method
in their selection
process (Wright,
2018). This help to
select new candidate
for the organization.
 It helps to
provide great
alternatives of
solutions.
 This makes
higher
collectives
understanding
of the course of
action.
 It is very time
consuming
methods of
selection.
 In that difficult
to fix
responsibility
of the job role.
Aptitude test It is help to access the  It allows  It increases the

logical reasoning and
thinking ability.
Arcadia group involve
in verbal ability,
numeric ability, data
checking and
reasoning.
objective
comparisons of
the employees.
stress level in
employee. In
that person
appearing for
the test devote
their mind
before and
during the test.
6. Selected organisation's HRM practices.
The best practices of HRM help to maintain the human resource in organization.
Practices are as follows:
Employment security: it is the social contract between the employees and employer of the
Arcadia group. It helps to retain their employees (Boon and Lepak, 2019).
Selective hiring: Hiring the people in the organization is the important hr practices of Arcadia
group. It is help to hiring right candidate for the organization with effective skills and
knowledge.
Training and development: it is most important part of the Arcadia group. Give training to their
employees for develop their skills and growth.
TASK 2
7. Practices and explain the benefits of employee ans employer with example.
HRM is effective approach to manage people effectively for performance.
Job description
Employee job description are written statement that help describe the duties,
responsibilities and qualification requirement in candidate.
Benefits of employee Benefits of employer
By that employee get the daily responsibilities
and duties regarding the post.
That help to analysis the design and administer
employee benefits program.

Ensuring the qualification requirement foe
particular post.
Determine the compensation and other rewards
to employee.
Example:
Job Title Human resource assistant
Reports to Human resource manager of Arcadia
Roles (main purpose) Payroll
Managing human resource
Check over Attendance records
Responsibilities Managing job application
Scheduling interview
Making hiring documents.
Qualification Bachelor's/master's in human resource management (Certified from
CIPD)
Advertisement:
Job advertisement is an announcement of an open job position in Arcadia group. This
help attract perfect candidates for the post.
Benefits of employee Benefits of employer
By this candidate get to know about the vacant
post in the Arcadia group.
Maintaining the consistent message of the post.
By that company get educated and best
candidate for company.
Example:
HR assistant staff
A high dynamic and progressive organization requires the services of professionally sound
candidate for the HR assistant post:

HR assistant
Qualification: Graduate with 2 year working experience on the same position.
Candidate meeting above criteria and interested in working at London, should send their resume
with convening letter within three days from the publication.
Human resource manager of Arcadia group
London
Email: [e-mail]
8. Benefits of Hr practices to improving profit and productivity of the organization.
Benefits of Hr practices which is help to improve productivity and profit of the
organization.
Training and development:
Training and development is an important part of the organization. That is help to
increase the knowledge and skills of employees. Effective and best training and development
process help to improve productivity and profits of Arcadia group (Bratton and Gold, 2017).
Recruitment and selection:
It is also an important function of Hr practices. Best recruiting and selecting candidate for
the Arcadia group. Effective and best candidate also help to improve the productivity and profit
of the organization by implementing innovative ideas.
Maintaining employees relationship:
Effective and positive employee relationship help to improve profit and productivity of
Arcadia group because positive relationship plays important role in the organization.
CONCLUSION
From the above study it had been concluded that the HRM practices played an important
role in the organisation. Report has covered by the purpose of he practices and its function were
effective for maintaining effective relations of employees. In that also included that the
approaches of recruitment and selection process which has helped to analysis the candidate
requirement. In that also highlighted Hrm practices of selected organisation that is help to solve
the problem of the organisation. In that also discussed on job description and advertisement were

beneficial for the employer ad employee and also to hrm practices has help to improve the
productivity and profit of the firm.