HRM Project Report: Functions, Practices, and Employee Relations

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of Human Resource Management (HRM) practices within Sainsbury's. It begins by defining HRM functions, including planning, organizing, directing, and controlling, and their application to workforce planning and resourcing. The report then evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of various selection and recruitment approaches. Further, it examines the benefits of HRM practices for both employers and employees, focusing on training, development, conflict resolution, and information resource management. The report also assesses the effectiveness of HRM practices in raising organizational productivity and profit, highlighting strategies such as recruitment, training, and employee relations. Additionally, it explores the significance of employee relations in influencing HRM decision-making, and identifies key components of employment legislation and their impact on HRM decisions. Finally, the report includes a person specification and job description for a team leader within Sainsbury's, considering company policies and legal requirements.

Human Resource
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PROJECT 1......................................................................................................................................1
P1. Functions and purpose of HRM and it is applicable to workforce planning or resourcing
within the organisation................................................................................................................1
P2. Strength and weakness of various approaches to selection and recruitment in an
organisation.................................................................................................................................3
PROJECT 2......................................................................................................................................4
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................4
P3. Benefits of several HRM practices for employer and employee..........................................4
P4. Effectiveness of various HRM practices in order to raising productivity and profit of an
organisation.................................................................................................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P5. Significance of employees relation in relations to influence HRM decision making...........6
P6. Effective components of employment legislation that has impact upon decision making of
HRM............................................................................................................................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
P7. Person specification and job description for a team leader within the organisation by
taking company policies and account legislations......................................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCE.................................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management refers to the planning, directing, organising and controlling
of the procurement growth compensation integration, separation of human resource, social or
organisation in order to fulfil goals and objectives in an effective manner. On the other hand
HRM is a very well known function within the industries in which HR manager always select
and recruit higher skilled employees for the betterment of future. It is one of the best function of
management which is mainly related with energies of humans and competencies. For this present
assignment Sainsbury's has been selected which is one of the second largest supermarkets chain
in UK. It was formed in the year of 1869 by John James Sainsbury and it is headquartered in
Holborn London UK. Further discussion will be based on functions and purpose of HRM that is
suitable for workforce planning. Strength and weakness of various approaches to selection and
recruitment (Bondarouk and Ruël, 2013). Additionally, various HRM practices in terms of
raising productivity and profit. Lastly, significance of employees relations in regards with
influencing HRM decision making with the identifying key components of employment
legislations and the impact on HRM decision making will get covered.
PROJECT 1
P1. Functions and purpose of HRM and it is applicable to workforce planning or resourcing
within the organisation.
HRM refers to the strategical approach which involves in the developing knowledge and
skills of employees within the company. Additionally, HR manager is always responsible to
recruit and select appropriate candidates for company in order to increase work force effectively.
As per the current period of time HRM is much effective aspects which is helpful for each and
every company to enhance their productivity and profits within the competitive environment. In
reference with Sainsbury HRM plays very important role and offer effective strategies in order to
improve their employees performance and working skills as well. For better understanding the
concept of HRM there are some functions and purpose, those are mentioned below:
Functions:
Planning: According to this HR function manager of respective organisation (Sainsbury)
make appropriate plan for future in order to get things done by their subordinates. On the basis of
this organisation can easily achieve their goals in an effective manner. Additionally, planning
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helps manager to form the best one procedure to reach particular goals. In reference with HR
department planning mainly includes in defining the personnel programmes by which they can
contribute to achieving their organisational goals easily.
Organising: After implementing on effective planning function for betterment of future
manager of this respective company required to have organising function in which he can
formulate their ideas and appropriate structure that includes in various group activities to
different person, coordinating different activities of employees and assigned various roles and
task to employees to improve overall performance (Chang, Chiang and Han, 2012).
Directing: According to this HRM function manager of Sainsbury is able to develop
effective plan and implementing on plans which is mainly depends upon the employees
performance and how they can motivated. Directing function involves in people to work
willingly and how HR manager can motivate their employees by making proper salary and
planning administration of employees.
Controlling: It generally refers to the different regulating activities by which manager of
this company can develop appropriate objectives within the company. Additionally, as per this
manager of Sainsbury compare and observes the total results and standard of employees activity
in an effective manner.
Now this can be said that if manager of Sainsbury will follow all those HR functions so
that they can make better strategies for their employees by which they can learn something and
able to gain effective knowledge or skills so that it develop effective workforce resource and
plan in an organisation (Costea, Amiridis and Crump, 2012).
Purpose:
 The main purpose of HRM is to make proper strategies and plan for Sainsbury by which
manager of this company can achieve their goals properly. Along with this the planning
process of selection is also done by HRM to make this company productive in a different
manner.
 The next purpose of HRM in Sainsbury is to conduct various training and development
programmes to give lots of knowledge to employees and able to make effective work
force planning because employees are best resources of an organisation who always
achieves targeted goals in a perfect way.
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 In context of Sainsbury, manager effective followed proper training and development
programming strategies in order to maintain relationship between employees and
employer by which they can fulfil their target and provide effective guidance to people in
an organisation.
P2. Strength and weakness of various approaches to selection and recruitment in an organisation.
Selection refers to the process of defining education and qualification of candidates by
which they can attain their goals and objectives in a perfect way. It mainly focuses on those
people who wants to get job. Along with this selection method is more important for companies
by which managers can eliminate or select appropriate people for making their organisation
better. But there are some strength and weakness during the selection process, those are given
beneath:
Preliminary Interview: According to this method manager can easily eliminate employees who
are not in communication and problem solving knowledge as well as who are not good in
adopting new strategies and skills (Durão and et. al., 2012).
Strength: During the time of interview or selection method it create perfect bond
between candidate and manager in which they interact with each other.
Weakness: Some times selection process can be difficult for manager because of
candidates knowledge and skills.
Selection Test: In the present scenario there are various types of firms who are having different
selection process and questions during the interview. Therefore, manager of this respective firm
is needed to explain about their overall question to candidate so that they can answer
accordingly.
Strength: It overcomes the operational cost and helps to select effective candidate.
Weakness: In the same way it can be costly because of manual grading.
Employment Interview: According to this method interview always conducted in a simple way
like one-to-one or in a sequential form of interviews.
Strength: It is the time and cost saving process into the organisation along with there is
no needed to spend lots of money during interview and it generate new ways to developing better
ideas.
Weakness: As per this employees can get disturbed and not able to give effective answer
due to some changes in the interview questions.
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From the above analysation HR manager of Sainsbury is able to select and recruit
appropriate candidate for their firm by having different kind of selection and interview methods
through which they can make better ways to make organisation effective.
PROJECT 2
TASK 1
P3. Benefits of several HRM practices for employer and employee.
Human resource managers have lots of responsibility within an organisation as well as
they protect the interest of employee and employer both. In regards with employee they
generally carry effective relations with people in an organisation whereas, employer always
protect employees rights and gives them better direction to achieve targeted goals properly.
There are some aspect by which employee and employer can get benefits, those are listed below:
Training and development:
Human resource managers is responsible to provide effective training and development
programmes to employees. With the help of this they can get better knowledge and able to face
any change in the organisation. Therefore in Sainsbury, it is much beneficial for employees to
learn something and implementing on new strategies (Schuler, Jackson and Tarique, 2011). In
the case of employer they always ready to accept new challenges and able to give proper
guidelines to employees in order to gain competitive advantages for future opportunities in an
effective manner.
Conflict resolution:
According to the human resource manger employer are always responsible to give
support for each and every employees by which they can easily understand overall policies and
procedures of Sainsbury so that it can be fruitful for employees and employer as well. Wherein
both are able to make appropriate strategies to overcome unnecessary aspects within the
organisation.
Information resource:
In order to provide lots of information to employees is much important for the betterment
of future. Therefore, employers are always ready to give huge information to employees in order
to make proper way in which they can get better results in an appropriate manner. Now in
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Sainbury this situation is much beneficial for employees to gathered lots of data for
implementing on new ideas along with employer also able to get benefits by conducting this
types of aspects within the organisation.
Employee relations:
Human resource department always give support to employees and understand their
overall rights and needs in an effective manner. In this method employees who have experience
discrimination can directly contact to HR manager in order to overcome this situation. So that it
is benefited for employees at higher level. Apart from this employer plays an effective role they
always make good strategies to reduce these sort of problems from the organisation and take care
of employees. In context to Sainsbury employer can get rewards and awards for their good work
and achieve organisational goals. Wherein, employees are also responsible to accomplish their
goals and it is beneficial for them (Shuck and Wollard, 2010).
P4. Effectiveness of various HRM practices in order to raising productivity and profit of an
organisation.
In order to make proper HRM practices for increasing firms productivity and revenue at
higher level, therefore, there are some practices which are mainly followed by Sainsbury, those
are given below:
Raising organizational productivity:
Within the Sainsbury, recruitment and selection process is always helpful for managers of
this company by which they can easily select people as per their needs. On the basis of this they
can use different kind of training and development programmes in order to prove appropriate
knowledge in relation to particular subject. By having this type of knowledge people can get
their goals in a proper way. Apart from this employees are able to make proper relations to
higher authorities so that they can make effective tools and techniques for gaining better sales
and revenues in a proper way. In order to know more effectiveness employees can manage their
work life balance for better future. From all of the above aspects this respective company can
increase their productivity at good level.
Raising organizational profits:
In reference with Sainsbury, selection and recruitment process is much helpful because
on the basis of different HRM practices manager can make better policies in order to raising
organisational profits in a perfect way. By having these sort of practices like training and
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development, employees relation and so on they can influence their employees towards the work
and able to make proper decision in a perfect way. If employees will be able to follow each and
every aspect of company which is given by managers they can get better results towards their
work and it increase their profit of an organisation. On the basis of this for making better
recruitment and selection process Sainsbury can apply unique strategies and able to develop
healthy environment within the working place. Therefore, all these practices are much beneficial
for employees and employers in a perfect way. It helps organisation to increase their overall
profit in a better way.
TASK 2
P5. Significance of employees relation in relations to influence HRM decision making.
Employee relations and engagement : a collaborative approach
This approach is very important in which employees are involved in different kind of
activities within the organisation and make effective policies for better opportunities in future.
According to the Sainsbury, they are applying this approach for making better collaboration in
between managers and employees to accomplish goals (Chelladurai and Kerwin, 2017).
Effectiveness of this approach:
On the basis of this approach HR manager of an organization make proper goals and
strategies to enhance profit and revenue of firms in a perfect way. In reference with Sainsbury
HR manager is always able to to give huge information to their employees by which they can
make better ideas for gaining lots of profit in a perfect way. Good relations always influence
other people into the company so that they can also make better way to sustain for long period of
time within the UK market. If employees have very good relation than they can affect HRM
decision making in a positive manner. Therefore, it develops more relations between employees
and other people who make organization effective and attractive. With the help of higher skilled
employees and good relation with them Sainsbury can make better sales and profit in an effective
manner.
P6. Effective components of employment legislation that has impact upon decision making of
HRM.
Employment legislation is one of the best way of law by which managers of an
organisation can examine the overall demand and needs of the customers in an effective manner.
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But as per the present context firms are having different kind of culture and operational laws in
order to make their company effective in a perfect manner. Therefore, in order to mange system
of companies there are different kind of laws which is applicable for Sainbury organisation,
those are listed beneath:
Fair Labor Standards Act, 1938: This act basically comes for identifying effective
minimum wages and overtime payments along with workers salary within the organization. In
reference with Sainsbury they are giving better salary and payment to their employees as per
their performance. Apart from this respective brand follows this act rules and regulation in order
to make their employees happy and ignore any kind of criminal violation from the working place
so that employees can work easily and able to achieve targeted goals (Daley, 2012).
For example: If Sainbury provide proper salary to their employees so that they can attract
and able to develop proper strategies in order to gain achievements in a proper way. Therefore is
is important and effective.
Minimum Wages Act, 1998: This act defines about paid and non paid employees or
workers and their performance as well. In regards with Sainsbury they are giving average
amount or salary to their workers . In short they always fulfill workers and employees demand
and satisfying them in an appropriate manner.
On the other hand, as respective company providing proper minimum amount to
employees or workers as per their working performance than it creates effectiveness in the
working place.
Occupational Health and Safety Act, 2004: This act is specially made for bring
changes within the safety standards. In context with Sainsbury they are properly giving effective
culture and environment within the working premises by which employees can easily
communicate with each other and able to help other people who are not aware properly with
company's culture (Glendon, Clarke and McKenna, 2016). On the basis of this act company
provide full of safety and health protection tools so that employees can stay for long period of
time in an organization in a perfect manner.
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TASK 3
P7. Person specification and job description for a team leader within the organisation by taking
company policies and account legislations.
Sainsbury: It is one of the best second largest chain of supermarket in UK which was
established in 1869 and became the huge retailer of groceries in 1922. in the present time this
company deals with different kind of product by which they can fulfil consumers needs and
requirements in a different ways. As it is the largest supermarket in UK so that they can easily
attain lots of profits and goals in an effective way. For this there are different job specification
and person specifications in relation with HRM practices those are given below:
Positive reinforcement: On the basis of this managers of this respective company
always encourage employees and people towards their work. In order to make this aspect
effective they always gives better benefits and reward to employees by which they can work in a
simplest way and able to achieve organisational goals perfectly. So that this overall aspect of this
company influence others within the marketplace (Fulton And et. al., 2011).
Selection of experienced person: In order to make organisation effective managers are
responsible to select appropriate people so that they can manage their work easily. Higher skilled
employees always ready to accept any kind of challenges and satisfying consumer needs.
Job description: It refers to the written statement which generally includes in scope, tile,
job responsibilities, working conditions and designation etc.
Job Description
Company Sainsbury
Department Sales
Job profile Team leader
Job location London, United Kingdom
Job summary Candidate is needed having higher skilled of knowledge in
development of product, good communication skills. Candidate
should have proper knowledge of sales department and
knowledge of redesigning products.
Roles & Responsibilities  Full knowledge of selling department.
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 Knowledge of applying effective and innovative ideas on
new products.
 Conducting research and development programmes for
people in order to support other people in an
organization.
 Report writing skills and customers feedback should be
done in a particular time frame.
Personal specification: Personal specification analyse about different things like
outlines experience, expertise, qualification, job skills by which people can understand their roles
and responsibilities.
Name: Macron Mathew
Address: Gloucester avenue, near qualtier Hill, United Kingdom
Contact number: 22441023120
Job Experience: Sainsbury is looking for individual and should have 4 years experience in the
sales department. Along with this individual should have new skills and techniques to adopt
new technologies in order to gain competitive advantages.
Specialization:
 Specialization in designing innovative products.
 Expert in power point presentation and excel.
 Understanding skills in relation with company policies.
 Experience in different approaches of sales by which individual can influence others.
Skills:
 Innovative designer
 Effective problem solving skills
 Excellent communication skill
 Ability to cope up with team members.
Qualification:
 Certificate of selling department
 Degree in appropriate subjects like MBA, BBA.
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