Human Resource Management Report: The Colour Company Analysis

This report provides a detailed analysis of Human Resource Management (HRM) practices within The Colour Company, a London-based printing services firm. It begins by defining HRM, outlining its functions like performance and reward management, and differentiating between hard and soft management approaches. The report then explores recruitment and selection methods, comparing internal and external recruitment, as well as systematic and unsystematic selection processes. Task 2 examines the advantages of various HRM practices for both employees and employers, focusing on training and development, recruitment, and selection. It also assesses the effectiveness of these practices in raising organizational productivity and profit, offering suggestions for improvement. Task 3 emphasizes the significance of employee relations in influencing decision-making processes, highlighting the impact of employee relations and employment legislation on HRM. The report concludes by applying HRM practices in an organizational context, referencing relevant academic literature.

Human Resource
Management

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Functions and purpose of HRM applicable to workforce planning and resourcing...............1
P2 Strengths and weakness of various approaches of selection and recruitment........................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
P3 Advantages of various HRM practices in an organisation for employee and employer........4
P4 Effectiveness of different HRM practices for raising organisational productivity and profit 4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
P5 Significance of employee relations in influencing decision making process.........................6
P6 Key elements of employment legislation and its impact on decision making of HRM.........7
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................8
P7 Application of HRM practices in organisational context.......................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management refers to the process that an organisation follows in order
to manage and control the people working within company for achieving their set objectives. It is
also responsible for formulating policies as well as work with in organisation (Banfield, Kay and
Royles, 2018). The Colour Company is London based firm which provide high quality and fast
turnaround printing services such as digital print, 3D print, online marketing etc. This report
elaborates about the purpose of HRM practices and different approaches of recruitment &
selection along with its benefit to employer as well as employees. Further it explains
effectiveness of HRM in raising organisational productivity and profit. It also talks about the
influence of employee relation and legislation over HR decision making.
TASK 1
P1 Functions and purpose of HRM applicable to workforce planning and resourcing
Definitions:
Human resource management refers to the set of activities that are performed for
effective management of employees so that they help company to achieve competitive
advantage. For example, the HR manager of Colour Company formulate action plan on which
employees work in order to achieve set targets and their performance are regularly evaluated for
determining the progress of plan.
Human resource management is the practice of recruiting, hiring, managing and
controlling the employees of organisation.
Human resource management meant for the effective utilisation of skilled employees
working within organisation for enhancing productivity and profit.
It defines as the function in an organisation that focuses toward hiring, managing and
providing guidelines to manpower working within company.
Goals:
The purpose of HRM is to hire candidate with required skills and capabilities at right place for
ensuring the proper functioning and performance of organisation toward the accomplishment of
objective (Bratton and Gold, 2017). In addition to this goals of HR department is to ensure
proper management and utilisation of human resource within organisation so that competitive
advantage can be achieved at workplace.
Role of line and HR manager:
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The role of HR manager is to manage, create, supervise and formulate policies which are
mandatory to follow for each employee working within the organisation.
Line manager is a person who directly communicate with employees and their role is to
ensure that the policies formulated by the HR manager must function appropriately and in
planned manner.
Hard vs soft:
Hard management Soft management
Under this employee are considers as a
resource of company such as machinery. It
focuses on identifying the need of employees,
recruiting and manage them as a machine for
work and not as a human.
Soft management consider the emotional need
of workers and treat them as an individual. It
focuses on role, reward and motivations of
employees to manage them accordingly.
Functions of HRM:
Following points describe about the major functions that are performed by hr manager within
the colour company Performance management and evaluation: It refers to the process of regularly analysing
the work performed by employees and then compare the actual result with planned
performance for enhancing the quality of work. HR manager of The Colour Company
must regularly evaluate the performance of employees for keeping them aligned and
motivated toward the targets. Reward management: It refer to the process of rewarding or appreciating the employees
over their better performance. HR manager of The Colour Company must reward its
employees on regular basis in order to keep them motivated and satisfied with job.
 Employee Relations: HR manager is responsible for managing the better relation with
employees in order to keep them engaged and dedicated toward the accomplishment of
organisational goals. HR manager of The Colour Company must try to maintain positive
relation with employees for achieving their support and contribution in term of operations
performed in company.
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P2 Strengths and weakness of various approaches of selection and recruitment
Recruitment refers to the process of searching and hiring the best candidate for vacant position in
a timely and cost efficient manner. It includes analysing the job requirement, attracting
candidates toward job, screening, selecting and integrating new employees to company.
Recruitment can be done in two ways that are explained below:
 Internal recruitment: The method of identifying and attracting candidates for job from
within the organisation is consider as an internal recruitment. For example, The Colour
Company can promote the existing employees who are working well in their job for
filling up vacant position.
Advantage Disadvantage
 It saves cost of company and also
quicker to recruit as compare to
external approach.
 Internal recruitment limits the and also
create conflicts among employees who
didn’t get chance.
 External recruitment: It refers to the process where a business looks for suitable
candidates from outside the organisation in order to hire some fresh talent. For example,
The Colour Company can place advertisement in newspaper or over internet in order to
attract people with required skills toward vacant position.
Advantage Disadvantage
 Numbers of choice are available to
choose best candidate.
 Expensive process as it includes cost of
advertisement and interview.
Selection is defined as weeding out the unsuitable applicants and choosing those
candidates that have capabilities and qualification which is required for a particular job in
organisation. There are two type of selection approach which are as given below:
 Systematic: It includes series of steps which are interlinked with one another and focuses
toward testing the skills of candidates in order to choose best candidates out of available
applicants.
Advantage Disadvantage
 This process help in selecting the right
candidates by testing their skills and
capabilities
 It is very costly and time consuming
process.
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 Unsystematic: It is process where applicants are chosen randomly and then their skills
are compared with the capabilities required in order to fill up the vacant position.
Advantage Disadvantage
 It is quick method of filling up vacant
position which also saves money and
time.
 Decisions taken while performing this
operation is not always correct.
TASK 2
P3 Advantages of various HRM practices in an organisation for employee and employer
Human resource department is responsible for performing several operations that are
required for managing the people working within an organisation. HRM practices aim toward
accomplishment of desired objective by providing benefit to both employee as well as employer.
Following tables describe about the HRM practices of The Colour Company that provide benefit
to both employee and employer:
HRM practices Employee Employer
Training & development Training program will help
employees in strengthening
their skills and ability that
further support in getting
promotion and other career
benefit in future.
These programs will help – to
improve the performance of its
employees that support them in
achieving the set targets and
competitive advantage at
marketplace.
Recruitment and selection Internal recruitment creates
various opportunities for
employees to achieve more
benefits within the
organisation by performing
better such as promotion,
recognition etc.
Recruitment and selection
process help The Colour
Company in creating a skilled
and competent workforce that
support in achieving
organisational objective.
P4 Effectiveness of different HRM practices for raising organisational productivity and profit
Human resources management practices plays an essential role in term of raising
organisational profit as well as productivity as it focuses on management of employees. These
practices support in keeping employees satisfied so that they can work toward improving their
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performance. Following are the HRM practices and their effectiveness toward improving the
productivity and profit of The Colour Company Recruitment and selection: - It refers the process of identifying, attracting and then
selecting the best suitable candidate for the vacant job present within the company.
Recruitment can be from within or outside the organisation. Internal recruitment plays an
essential role in encouraging the morale and confidence of other employees to work
harder in order to achieve recognition and higher position within company. This further
support The Colour Company in increasing the productivity and quality of work which in
turn will result in achievement of maximum profit in marketplace.
 Training & development: - It refers to the process of sharpening up the skills, concepts
and capabilities by providing more knowledge with an aim to improve the performance
of employees. By providing training The Colour Company will be able to make its
employees aware about various other methods that they can use in order to perform their
work in most efficient manner. Training also help in enhancing the capabilities as well as
knowledge of employees that help in increasing their productivity and profit of The
Colour Company
These both are the HRM practice that will support The Colour Company to improve their
organisational performance by increasing productivity. But in order to achieve maximum benefit
from these HRM practices it is very essential to perform these activities efficiently. Following
are certain suggestions that can be used by The Colour Company in order to improve these
practices:
Training & development
 It must try to identify skills that are required to improve within an organisation as well as
set up time frame for meeting up goals. This will help in achieving optimal payback from
activities performed to provide training.
 The Colour Company must try to encourage a learning culture by expressing to
employees about efforts that company want to make for enhancing their skills. This help
in increasing the interest of employees toward training program which in turn will
provide better result.
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 Training location also plays a major role in quality of learning, so The Colour Company
must ensure that training area must have sufficient space and required equipment such as
computer and other instrument for achieving maximum result from efforts.
Recruitment:
 Describe about the factors that make company unique as it helps in attracting candidates
toward the vacant positions.
 Expand the candidate sourcing methods by organising the industry event, meet-ups and
conferences which support The Colour Company to hire more experienced and
professional candidates for job.
 The Colour Company must try to get referrals from existing employees or other contacts
as it helps company in getting high quality recruitment.
TASK 3
P5 Significance of employee relations in influencing decision making process
Human resource manager is responsible for maintaining good relation with employees
working within the organisation as it is a pre-requisite for organisational success. Strong
employee relation help company in achieving higher productivity as well as greater satisfaction
among both employee and employer. Apart from this employees’ relation also have great
influence over the decision and policies formulated by human resource department. Because the
policies and decision taken by HR affect the environment as well as working procedure followed
by employees. So in order to implement changes effectively it is very essential for human
resource manager to maintain a good relation with its employees. This help HR to get support
from their workforces toward implementing changes as if The Colour Company shares good
relation with employees them the workers will easily accept changes that company want to
implement.
On the other hand, if The Colour Company shares bad relation with workforce then the
employees react negatively to the decisions take by HR department. For instance, employees
may not put efforts toward bringing positive result from changes, they may not perform well or
may voice them, that may create conflict among others. So, it is very essential for HR
department to maintain healthy relation with employees in order to implement decision and
changes effectively without any conflict or issues in organisation. Following are certain methods
that can be used by The Colour Company to improve its relation with employees:
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 Employees have certain expectation from company to get fair and just treatment at
workplace. So The Colour Company must ensure that employees must be treated fairly as
well as equally and favouritism should be eliminated.
 Employees must be included within the decision making process as it help in increasing
employment involvement and trust toward the management that support The Colour
Company to share a healthy relation with its workforce.
 Workers must be rewarded and appreciated for the effort made by them toward
performing well or achievement of targets as it helps The Colour Company to boost up
the morale of employees and they will work try to work together as a team.
 The Colour Company must exert responsibility to employees as well as indulge them in
training and development program that help in keeping them satisfied with management
which in turn support in improving relation.
Impact of Brexit over Human resource:-
Brexit bring up several economical as well as corporate changes with in the country as
after leaving the European union, several laws and regulations get changed. This has influence
the procedures followed by the existing companies in country. As a result of which the HR
policies followed by companies also get changes and this has a negative impact over the human
resource practices. Hence, The Colour Company has to interact with trade union and other
authorities for analysing the regulations related to employment law and then they will be able to
formulate policies regarding their business as well as employees. Therefore, Brexit brings up a
huge impact over the human resource practices.
Trade union was generally setup with an aim to provide a better environment for
employees to work in order to safeguard them from bulling, harassment and other sort of
exploitation at workplace. It also provides several other benefits to employees by providing equal
pay, equal opportunity, maternity pay, more holiday and flexible working hours. Apart from this
trade union also ensure that employees get health & safety assurance, proper training and
educational benefit over workplace along with the legal support to voice up their issues. In
addition to this trade union also assure employees regarding their job security. These all are the
benefits which are provided by trade union which supported in improving the working conditions
of employees at workplace and providing them a safe environment where they can grow and
work effectively.
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P6 Key elements of employment legislation and its impact on decision making of HRM
Human resource department is considered as the heart of company as without which an
organisation will not be able to perform its operational well. It is responsible for formulating
various plans and policies related to the activities performed within the organisation. But before
formulating any policies or strategies it is very essential for HR to consider all the laws and
legislations related to the operations performed within the organisation. Following are certain
legislation set by the UK government that must be followed by The Colour Company: Health & Safety Law: This legislation is formulated by UK government in order to
ensure the health, safety and welfare of employees at workplace. It makes employer
responsible for providing the safe environment to its employees where they work without
the risk of health and life. Health & safety law has a great influence over decision making
of HR as they have to consider the guidelines of this Act before making any policies
related to working environment. The Colour Company must comply with this law as
employees are more productive when they feel safe at the place of work. On the other
hand, when employees started feeling unsafe or their wellness is not cared by company,
they always work in fear which never allow them to their total contribution toward work.
 Anti-discrimination Law: This legislation state that employees must not be discriminated
on the bases of their age, gender or ability and must be treated equally by their employees
at workplace. This law also has an influence over the decision taken by human resource
department as they have to formulate work plan as well as policies as per the instructions
provided by UK government under this law (Discrimination, 2018). Breaching of any
condition may leads The Colour Company to face legal compliances which in turn also
influence the goodwill of company at market place. So, it is very essential for HR
department of The Colour Company to comply with this law by providing equal
opportunity to employees despite of their age, gender etc. They must be treated in equal
manner and most not be discriminated.
TASK 4
P7 Application of HRM practices in organisational context
There are number of activities performed by HR within organisation in several ways for
achieving the its set goals and objectives in given time period. Following are some major
practices performed by HRM within organisation:
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Personal Statement
'Talented, skilled and innovative graduates with consolidated expertise in business
management and personnel management.'
Highly motivated and hard working junior HR assistant, educated from MBA with a
commitment of pursuing a career in human resource after working in a retail firm for around
two years along with my studies. Have a deep knowledge about the laws and regulation related
to employment and other human resource related operations along with the experience of
personnel management.
JOB SPECIFICATION
Organisation: The Colour Company
Job title: Assistant HRM
Qualification:- MBA in HR
Essential Criteria:
 Must be able to perform operations co-ordinately with other functional departments
 Should have adequate information related with management
 Should have capability to deal with complex situations.
Desirable Criteria:
 3-year experience
 Good personality and communicational skill
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Organisation: The Colour Company
Department: Assistant Human resource division
Job Title: - Assistant HRM
Job location: London
Job summary
Company is looking for candidate who have all the quality of HR and knowledge about
management practices to manage employees effectively.
Role: -
Organise induction and training programmes for new employees
Manage ethics in practices
Compliance all law related to organisational operations.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Curriculum Vitae
Name: - Stella John
Address: - 28rd street, West-side lane, London
Phone No: - 123456987
Career objective: To pursue my career in professional company that provide me new horizon
where I can apply my skills and develop knowledge.
Educational Qualification: -
 B.COM
 MBA
Experience: 2 year working experience in retail firm.
Declaration:
I hereby declare that all the information provided is correct up to my knowledge.
Date:
Place:
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