Comprehensive Report on HRM Practices at Rolls-Royce Motors

This report provides a comprehensive overview of Human Resource Management (HRM) at Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, focusing on the functions, practices, and their impact on the organization. It begins by defining HRM and its importance, highlighting key functions such as job design, recruitment, training, compensation, and performance management. The report assesses the purpose of HRM in maintaining work-life quality, increasing productivity, adapting to change, and matching human resource demand and supply. It also evaluates different recruitment and selection approaches, including internal and external recruitment, and examines the strengths and weaknesses of each. Furthermore, the report discusses the benefits of various HRM practices for both employees and employers, assesses their effectiveness in terms of productivity and profit, and analyzes the importance of employee relations and employment legislation in influencing decision-making. The report concludes by illustrating the application of HRM practices in the context of work, providing a rationale for their implementation and emphasizing the critical role of HRM in organizational success.

Human resource
management

Executive summery
This project report summarise that human resource management is one of important
function of company. It describe human resource management and its importance for company.
It also includes description of various function of human resource management. This report
consist of advantage and disadvantage of various approaches of human resource management
and impact of practices of HRM on success of company.

Table of Contents
Executive summery..........................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3
P1. Explanation of purpose as well as function of human resource management that applicable
to planning, resourcing and workforce in an organisation...........................................................3
M1. Assessment of function of HRM in order to provide skills and talent in provide objectives
of business ...................................................................................................................................5
P2. Explanation of strength as well as weakness of different approaches for recruitment and
selection.......................................................................................................................................6
M2. Evaluation of strength and weakness of different approaches of recruitment and selection
......................................................................................................................................................8
P3. Explanation of benefits of different practices of HRM in organisation for employee and
employer......................................................................................................................................9
P4. Evaluation of effectiveness of different practices of HRP in terms of productivity and
profit...........................................................................................................................................10
M3. Assessment of different method used in practices of HRM by providing specific example
in order to support evaluation within context of organisation ..................................................11
P5. Analysation of importance of employees relation in respect of influencing decision making
....................................................................................................................................................11
P6. Identification of elements of employment legislation sand impact on HRM decision
making .......................................................................................................................................12
M4. Evaluation of key aspect of employees relation management and employment legislation
which affect decision making of HRM......................................................................................13
P7. Illustration of application of HRM practices in context of work with use of examples......13
M5. Provide of rationale for application of HRM practices in context of work........................17
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................17
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................19
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INTRODUCTION
Human resource management refers to process of management of human resource,
providing training and compensation to the employees and developing effective strategies in
order to retain them for long period. Human resource management is plays an important role in
organisation by developing ethical values in different employees. Human resource management
play a crucial role by managing and encouraging performance of different employees in the
organisation (Agarwal, 2021). The human resource management is also powerful as its major
functions are motivating employees, providing them training and development, solving problems
of employees in order to increase satisfaction of employees. Human resource management
provide various benefits to organisation as it helps in finding right kind of employees at right
place in company and manage performance of employees which helps in improving efficiency of
employees. Human resource managers also helps in building culture as well as values in the
organisation and also focus upon the management of conflict within the same.
This project report includes study of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars which is a auto mobile
organisation providing its products and service at international level (Acquah, Agyabeng-
Mensah and Afum, 2020). Rolls-Royce was established in the year 1904 and the founder of this
company was Charles Rolls and Henry Royce. This project report includes explanation of scope
and purpose of human resource management in order to retain skills and talented employees who
are capable for fulfilling purpose and objectives of business. This report covers different
functions which are performed by human resource management in order to develop the
organisation according to contemporary world. This project also covers various HRM practices
that are used by human resource management of an organisation. In this project a brief overview
of employment legislation is also explained in a precise manner.
MAIN BODY
P1. Explanation of purpose as well as function of human resource management that applicable to
planning, resourcing and workforce in an organisation
Function of Human resource management
The main function which is performed by human resource management is recruitment
and selection (Arvanitis, Seliger and Stucki, 2016). This function of HR management helps to
hire and select right employees for the business entity. Function of HRM helps business to
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increase engagement of employees and also increase their productivity. It also helps them to
improve their efficiency and also retain employees for long period of time. There are various
functions to be performed by human resource managers in an organisation. Function to be
performed by Rolls-Royce are as follows:
Job design and analysis: Job design is one of important function of HRM as it involves
the process of describing duties, responsibilities as well as operation of job. In order to hire right
kind of employees in an organisation based on rationality as well as research (Al-Romeedy,
2019). The HR management of an organisation mainly performs different activities which are
related to job design in order to gain growth at the marketplace. This helps managers Rolls-
Royce to identify right kind of employees for the job.
Hiring and selection of employees: Recruitment and selection is basic function of HRM
which focuses on choosing qualified and eligible employees for the organisation in order to
achieve objectives and goals of business (Chaudhary, 2020). The function of HRM starts with
hiring right kind of employees among available applicants. The human resource management of
an organisation mainly conducts interview of different candidates to select the appropriate
candidate for a job.
Employees training and development: Employees training and development is another
function which is performed by human resource management (Das and Kodwani, 2018). This
function helps the business to improve efficiency of employees and also increase their
engagement. Hiring employees is not sufficient for organisation, it is also important for HR
managers to provide them training to employees which helps them to understand job and its
functions.
Compensation and benefits: Benefits and compensation are also important in order to
increase the satisfaction of employees (Anlesinya and Susomrith, 2020). The human resource
management is helpful in developing performance of different employees by providing monetary
and non-monetary rewards..
Employee performance management: Performance management is one of important
work of human resource management at Rolls-Royce as this activity ensures that organisation is
getting sufficient output from employees.
Purpose of human resource management
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Human resource management play a crucial role in development of a business and
provides right type of employees to the business entity. There are various purposes of human
resource management for Rolls-Royce which are as follows:
Maintaining quality of work life: Human resource management helps a business to
formulate effective working environment (Farh, 2017). In today's competitive world every
organisation try hard to provide optimum working conditions to different employees in order to
increase productivity. Quality of work life is related to work freedom, job recognition,
belongingness, rewards of business.
Increase productivity and profit: HRM helps a Rolls-Royce to increase its revenue
generation and income by developing different techniques to manage large number of employees
(Gigauri, 2020). This also provide opportunity to employees in order to grow and advance their
carer. HRM provide training and development which helps to increase efficiency and
productivity of employees.
Make employees adaptable for change: Human resource management which is
working for Rolls-Royce also helps organisation by making employees more adaptable for
accepting changes (Barrena‐Martinez, López‐Fernández and Romero‐Fernández, 2019). Changes
in organisation is important as it helps to ensure long term survival of business which make them
to adaptable for changes and also allow them to accept changes in organisation.
Match demand and supply of human resource: Human resource management ensure
that Rolls-Royce is always having sufficient numbers of employees in order to develop business
activities and operations (Jiang and Li, 2019). The HR management of Rolls-Royce also helps
the company to meet demand and supply of employees in order to increase job satisfaction. Most
of the business organisations in corporate world hire professional and skilled human resource to
develop major policies of organisational functioning.
M1. Assessment of function of HRM in order to provide skills and talent in provide objectives of
business
HRM is one of important function as it provide various skills and talent to business which helps
them to attain their objectives. It provide support to business in order to get different types and
numbers of employees in order to attain goals of business (Bouaziz and Hachicha, 2018). It also
to create environment of employees which helps in development of skills as well as utilisation of
skills. It also assist in maintaining standards of performance also also enhance productivity of
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organisation with feasible job design and also providing orientation to employees. This also
improve performance of employees by providing them performance based feedback and ensuring
two way communication (Lim, Wang and Lee, 2017). It also helps in maintaining employer as
well as employee relationship with promote harmony in business. Human resource management
helps in maintaining safety at workplace and also development of healthy environment. There
are various activities to be included in human resource function including job analysis, executive
and employee remuneration, job design and many more.
P2. Explanation of strength as well as weakness of different approaches for recruitment and
selection
Recruitment: Recruitment is process of identification, attracting, selecting, hiring, interviewing
of employees. This function starts with identification of needs of staffing in order to fill needs of
employees in organisation (Chaudhary, 2018). Recruitment includes various functions like
identification of needs of hiring, writing job description, devising plan of recruitment,
advertising of recruitment position and other things.
Approaches of recruitment: There are different approaches of recruitment and selection which
are adopted by human resource managers. Business require employees for performing various
roles. These requirement of employees are fulfilling with hiring new employees or promotion
existing employees. Approaches of recruitment for business are as follows:
Internal recruitment
Internal recruitment refers to process in which managers is hiring insiders for job roles through
emails, notice broad and internal memos (Chaudhary, 2019). There are various advantage and
disadvantage of this approach for organisation of Rolls-Royce which are as follows:
Strength Weakness
 Internal recruitment is quick method
which saves time of organisation.
 In this types of recruitment, candidates
are already known for company
(Turulja and Bajgoric, 2018).
 In approach of recruitment, employees
has previous experience of working in
 Internal recruitment provide limited
choices to organisation.
 In recruitment process, candidate may
not have experience for same role
which is offered by company.
 This method does not provide fresh
ideas as company is hiring existing
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organisation
 It is one of cheapest method of
recruitment as it saves cost of company.
employees.
External recruitment:
External recruitment refers to an approach in which business is hiring employees from outside
organisation (Siyambalapitiya, Zhang and Liu, 2018). It is one of method in which organisation
is advertising for attracting new employees towards organisation through emails, websites,
newspaper, social media method. There are various advantage and disadvantage of external
method which are as follows:
Strength Weakness
 External approach of recruitment helps
to bring new ideas in business.
 It also helps to provide new employees
outside company who has fresh skills
and enthusiasm (Chowhan, Pries and
Mann, 2017).
 It provides variety in candidate in
business which provide skills
employees to company.
 It increases time of employee to settle
in organisation.
 It is expensive method of recruitment.
 In this method, employee is not
previously known for business.
 It is more time consuming in compare
to internal recruitment.
Selection:
Selection refers to process of selecting right kind of candidate who is suitable for job of
company. Selection is one of process which helps in identification as well as hiring of applicant
for different vacancies in company.
Approaches of selection
There are different approaches of selection which helps company in hiring employees.
These approaches have their own advantage and disadvantage for business of Rolls-Royce.
Interview: Interview is one of method for selection process in which employees invite
various number of applicants in their organisation (El-Ghalayini, 2017). This interview is
conducted through telephonic and virtual interview mode in which interviewer can ask different
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question to interviewee. There are various strength and weakness of interview approaches for
Rolls-Royce which are as follows:
Strength Weakness
 Interview is one of method which helps
to assess practical knowledge of a
person. It helps company to hire right
kind of employees with practical
knowledge.
 It helps to analyse personality of a
person by analysing their ways of
speaking.
 It is not right ways to analyse efficiency
of a person.
 In interview, interviewer build a
perception about a person by their first
appearance due to which they made
wrong decision.
 Managers cannot assess skills and
knowledge of a person in one meeting.
Group Discussion: Group discussion is another method of selection which involve
different people for share their ideas as well as activity for making discussion (Fei and Aun,
2019). In this, a topic is given to group of individual and they needs to discuss about positive and
negative views on topic given by examiner. There are various strength and weakness of group
discussion approaches for Rolls-Royce which are as follows:
Strength Weakness
 Group discussion helps to assess
communication ability of a person.
 It also helps to analyse confidence of a
person.
 The main weakness of group
discussion is it is sometimes
considered as an irrelevant approach
due to its characteristics.
 This approach is majorly expensive in
nature and company has to select at
least five person as a judge.
M2. Evaluation of strength and weakness of different approaches of recruitment and selection
Recruitment and selection is one of approaches which helps business in providing
suitable candidate to organisation which allow them to carry out operation successfully.
Recruitment is one of function which allow firm to recruit new employees. Selection function
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helps business to select best candidate among available (Flamini, Gnan and Pellegrini, 2020).
Rolls-Royce is one of organisation which is adopting various strategies for recruitment and
selection which has their own advantage and disadvantage. Recruitment process allow firm to
attract various candidate towards business and selection process helps to reduce number of
employees in order to select best employees among them.
P3. Explanation of benefits of different practices of HRM in organisation for employee and
employer
Human resource management approaches are most effective for business as it helps to
motivate employees in order to work with efficiency and also improve performance of
organisation. There are different practices in organisation which provide various benefit to cross
training, job evaluation as well ad incentive for improving performance of company. It provide
various benefits to both employees and employers in Rolls-Royce which are as follows:
Training and development: Training and development refers to process which can be
conducted in organisation for enhancing skills and knowledge of employees by providing them
various information as well as instruction for performing particular task (Hee and Jing, 2018).
Training is one of short term activity which helps in development of additional skills in a person
and also helps to develop their personality. Training is an initiative taken by management of
company in order to meet needs of employee. This training and development opportunity helps
to prepare employees for upcoming challenges occurred in organisation and also give push
growth of company. Motivation is one of important factor which encourage behaviour which
helps to give performance and also helps to reach goals of company. Motivation helps to get
maximum output from employees and also helps to increase engagement of employees.
Benefits to employers: Employer of Rolls-Royce get various benefit to employees
training and development which as it helps them to provide various benefits of improving
performance of employees. It helps improve efficiency of employees which helps them to
increase their productivity. It helps to reduce cost of company and also helps them to increase
their profit.
Benefits to employees: Training and development is one of important approach for
employees of Rolls-Royce as it helps them to improve their areas of knowledge and skills. It
provide capability to employees for adopting different technologies and method which helps
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them to improve their skills. This improvement increase their job satisfaction and also increase
their improve in order to contribute their best.
Motivation: Motivation refers to process which guides, maintain and initiate goals oriented
behaviour within an organisation (Jennings, Cyr and Moore, 2017). It is one of process which
involve social, emotional forces in an organisation which activate behaviour employees.
Motivation helps to activate behaviour of employees working in an organisation which direct as
well as maintain goals oriented action in company.
Benefits to employer: Motivation is one of approach which which helps employer of
Rolls-Royce which helps to enhance their business process. Motivate employees provide various
benefits to company and also helps to contribute to achieve target of company. Motivation
improve efficiency of organisation and also helps them to increase engagement of company.
Benefits to employees: There are various benefit which helps employees of Rolls-Royce.
This human resource approach helps employees to motivate to work with full dedication and
efficiency. This helps employees to complete work on time and attain goals of organisation.
Motivation provide support to employees which increase effectiveness of employees to attain
target of company.
P4. Evaluation of effectiveness of different practices of HRP in terms of productivity and profit
Human resource management is one of function of management which is includes
different practices that helps to improve employees and employer relation in an enterprise.
Employees relation are one of important term as it helps in increasing productivity of company
which in turn increase profit of company (Knezović, Bušatlić and Riđić, 2020). Managers of
Rolls-Royce adopt different practices of human resource management in their organisation with
intention of development of working condition which that allow employees to give their best
contribution.
Organisation offer wages to employees on basis of their abilities which helps to get best
result. Abilities of employees are evaluated on basis of their performance. These strategies to be
adopted by human resource managers helps to increase satisfaction of employees. These
strategies adopted by employer helps to increase efficient as well as productivity of employees.
Organisation has created various system in organisation which helps to measure performance of
employees and also provide support to the in order to create balanced between their personal as
well as professional life. Human resource managers are also providing different measure like
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consolation payment, housing support, health promotion, welfare plan and many more. They are
providing corporate pension plan which provide support to life in planning management.
It provide various benefits to employers as well as management of company. Human
resource management motivate employees which make the feel motivated and also increase their
commitment towards organisation (Koirala and Acharya, 2020). It also increase their
productivity and increase their productivity level. Human resource practices helps to resources
employees turnover which helps to reduce cost of organisation and also increase profitability
level.
M3. Assessment of different method used in practices of HRM by providing specific example in
order to support evaluation within context of organisation
Rolls-Royce is one of organisation which work for purpose of growth and success of company
by boosting confidence of employees, arrangement as well as commitment. In order to increase
turnover of organisation, managers needs to adopt different practices of human resource
management (Konrad, Yang and Maurer, 2016). Company adopt these strategies in order to
increase inspiration and faithfulness achievement of employees. There are different method
which is to be adopted by managers of Rolls-Royce as HRM practices. Occupation as well as
individual particulars, enrollment and choice for practical speaking, planning for work
particulars as well as individual detail. Managers also adopt effect of innovation for improving
enrollment, structuring as well as work promotion, short-listing candidates and preparing
applications.
P5. Analysation of importance of employees relation in respect of influencing decision making
Employee relation is organisation's efforts which helps to develop as well as maintain
good relationship with employees. With maintaining positive relationship with employees,
organisation can keep loyalty of employees high and also increase their engagement with work.
Good relation of company with employees provide benefit to whole organisation. Employees
relation is one of important factors for Managers of Rolls-Royce due to various reason which are
as follows:
Retain loyal employees: Increasing employee turnover is one of problem for an organisation as
due to this employees can leave organisation and can join organisation of competitor which is
not a good situation for company (Lee and Ahn, 2020). If organisation feel appreciated sand
comfortable with employer, they remain in company for long period of time. Companies build
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