Human Resource Management Report: Functions, Challenges, and Solutions

This report provides an overview of Human Resource Management (HRM), defining its core functions such as recruitment and selection, employee performance management, training and development, and compensation and benefits. It emphasizes the importance of HRM in achieving organizational goals and objectives, highlighting the role of employee relations and the need for effective leadership. The report uses Unilever as a case study to illustrate real-world HRM challenges, including attracting top talent, delivering consistent training across a global organization, managing cultural and language differences, and adapting to organizational changes. The report concludes by emphasizing the significance of employee management and the role of training and development in enhancing employee understanding and performance, while addressing challenges like engaging learners and adopting new training methods. The report suggests solutions to overcome the challenges, for example, providing employees with the proper training and development to promote the right place at the right time.

Human resource management is defined as process of recruiting,
selecting, orienting, imparting and appraising employee's
performance in the organization. In each organization HRM is
playing a vital role as it analysis the vacancy and make efforts to
select the kind of employees by evaluating skills and experience. All
functions and activities should be properly organised and arranged
that can help to attain the business and maintain the productivity. In
other words, HRM is a tool in which maximize employee
performance is measured with intention on strategic objectives. It
mainly concerned with management of people of policies and
systems. Main objective of human resource management is to
achieve overall object of organisation and also success through
people. Some of them are providing training, developing employees
as well as maintaining employee relation within an organisation. To
understand about Unilever has been selected that is British
multinational consumer goods company headquarter in London,
managing all functions smoothly. The HR management is playing the
vital role who identify vacancy and recruit the top talent by analysing
skills and abilities to work. The report is considering role of HRM
functions and one area to focus in depth. Moreover, HR issues and
challenges also covered in functions that can be solve out by
managing staff at workplace.
Functions of HRM
Employee hiring and selection: This is one of major function
of HRM which aims to achieve goals and objectives of company by
retaining qualified and efficient employee in organisation, in this criteria
an organisation need to hire right employees who can work effectively .
Employee performance management: Output of employee
meet goal and objective of organisation by managing all functions and
activities. This functions states how employees are organising and
managing their performance. An HR management is responsible for
viewing and measuring the employee’s performance.
About HRM: Human resource management is explained as
most important process of employing people, training, and
compensating them by managing the each functions and
activities. If all functions are properly managed. In each
organization training professionals confirms that employees are
well trained and have continuous development taken place.
This can easily can be done through training, reward programs
and performance evaluation. Human resource management is
simply hiring employees from outside environment with in
organisation. It also involve procurement,development,
maintenance of human resource and also it helps to achieve
individual, organizational and social objectives. In an
organisation handles all aspects of employees and has various
function like human resource planning, conducting job analysis
and conducting job interview.
Human Resource Management
INTRODUCTION

Recruitment and selection: Recruitment is one of major
function of HRM in organisation, in this staff level is to maintain at
right place at right time , at right job this mean that staff members
need to understand various roles and responsibility in organisation
and qualification which is necessary for particular job role to full
fill objective of organisation.
Guiding or directing employees: The another function of
HRM is guidance and direction to employees who can work
effectively and increase the organizational productivity. The HR
management is responsible for getting the problem which
employees faces and provide the proper direction and motivation
that maximize the organizational productivity. Through proper
motivation and command of employee HR can easily maximize
potential of employees.
Compensation and Benefit: It is also necessary to pay
employees well, at same time to plug expenses and compensation
package to attract more employee into workplace and primary
objective is to give equitable and fair remuneration for every
employee and at same time HR can use this type of function to
boost up employee productivity as well as establish a good image
of business.
Employee training and development: Main success of
organization is mainly depend upon how well employee is
performing and how employee is trained for job purpose and
what are growth and development opportunities within
organization. New skill should be provided to employees so
that task can be accomplishing in a proper way.
Controlling : After planning, organizing and directing,
controlling comes, in this aspect employee performance is
measured actual one and this has compare with plan. If actual
performance is with planned one if not, control measured are
required to be taken. The HR management focusing on all
functions and control the activities.
Area to focus
Training and development of HRM is main function in which proper
training is provided to new hiring employees to promote the
organizational performance. Training course and workshop is
provided to encourage ongoing development of employees. HRM
department in organisation is also maintaining health and safety, in
this references employee’s safety training is kept up to date and that
increases organizational productivity and profitability. When
employees are highly busy then promoting workplace safety records
task in any organisation. It also boosts overall productivity and
efficiency of workforce, which ultimately results in better business
for company. It plays a crucial role in preparing employee for bigger
tasks and responsibility, which leads to development of employees at
work. For an healthy organisation, it provides various growth and
development opportunity.

Dealing with change: The main issue of HRM function is
organizational changes that occurs due to mergers, acquisitions, technology, and
budgets that hampered the organizational productivity and profitability. It is
difficult for each organization to bring the changes in their industry as all needs
to be done properly. In relation to Unilever, management as well as employees
face the challenge of change that arises in industry that affected organizational
profitability .
Engaging learners: In training and development, engagement of
learners is also a issues which faces by management in running their business
and operations. A person or learner should be engage in all functions as it
develop the understanding and managing the functions. Due to lack of training
and learning in between employees performance of organization can be
hampered negatively. In relation to Unilever, this challenge is facing by
employees as it does not involve in learning activities.
Delivering consistent training: When an organization is
globally dispersed then major difficulty of providing consistent
training arises that reduces the employee’s performance. In
relation to Unilever, geographical limitation, increasing cost,
language barriers virtual training needs, and translation issues
facing by management that reduced the business performance
negatively.
Changing in culture and language: In organization
number of employees works who belongs to different culture
and language that create the challenge of developing employee’s
skills and abilities to work. This challenge can be face by
Unilever while managing HRM functions.
Lack of effective leader: In any organization leader
and management is playing important role who understand the
problems of employees and provide them optimum solution. If
there is no effective leader, then it will be difficult for
management to run and operate their business regularly. In
relation to Unilever, there is lack of effective leader who can
guide or motivate the employees to work properly. This develop
the feel of leaving the organization between employees as it
reduced the business productivity.
Adopting new method of training: In company’s
employee works with traditional method that may not work with
millennials. There is need to accept the new or modern
technique of working that can increase productivity. If there is
not proper training and new talent in organization, then
challenge arises in operation. Thus, challenge of not adopting
new method of working and training is not adopting by selected
industry that reduced the competitive advantages.
Attracting top talent and experience: This is another challenge for
each organization in relation to training and development that
reduced the sales and overall profits. In business industry, skilled and
experience employee are important who can work in dynamic
environment. Due to improper training and development programme
it will be difficult for Unilever to attract and retain the top talent as
employees do not work properly.
Solution
As different challenges faced by organization in relation to
training and development, management should understand the
different culture and conduct the sessions of training according to
their understandable language which can help to encourage
employees to work properly. The management provide good and
flexible leader to working staff who solve their problems and
motivate them to work hard. Moreover, task should be allocating
between employees by analysing their skills and experience which
can help to increase the business productivity.
From the report it can be concluded that HRM is employee
management with an emphasis on those employee as assets of
business. As with other business assets, goal is to make effective us
of employees, reducing risk and maximizing return on investment.
Another major role is employee relation is in this aspect it very
important to keep the staff up to date that manages work accordingly.
Training and development is important function which uses to
develop understanding of employees and completing the project
timely. Dealing with change, engaging in learning, changing in
culture and language, attracting top talent are challenges that related
with training function and affected the profitability.
Conclusion
HR issues or challenge in
recruitment and selection
function