Analysis of HRM Policies and Employment Contracts: Adecco Group UK

This report provides an overview of the human resource management (HRM) practices at The Adecco Group UK. It explores the importance of robust HRM policies, detailing how they contribute to effective management, employee motivation, performance standards, and conflict resolution. The report also examines employment contracts, including the key elements such as salary, duration of employment, schedule, and confidentiality clauses. Furthermore, it discusses zero-hour contracts, their increasing popularity, and the ongoing debate surrounding their reliability and effectiveness. The report concludes that sound HRM policies are essential for achieving better organizational results and that concepts like zero-hour contracts may become more prevalent in the future due to the focus on work-life balance.

The Adecco Group UK

Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Importance of robust HRM policy...............................................................................................................3
Employment contract...................................................................................................................................4
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................5
References...................................................................................................................................................6

Introduction
Human resource is considered as one of the most important department of an
organization because it is responsible for recruiting right person for right position. This report is
based on Adecco Group which is a leading permanent and temporary placement provider.
Importance of robust HRM policy
HR policies play crucial role in success of an organization because it is related to
management of employees (Bartram, Cavanagh and Hoye, 2017). Adecco Group is leading firm
in field of human resource so understanding significant of these policy is compulsory for the
enterprise. Below is important of strong HRM policy:
Thoughts of management – Human resource management policy provide clear thoughts
and ideas of top level management. Instruction may look basic but they provide general
guidelines regarding prevailing practices. Thoughts of management is assisting Adecco Group in
smooth functioning; they also save them from unpredictable hurdles as employees can
understand mindset of key people, for finding solution of problem, by reading HR policies.
Assure continues action – Employees may come and go but policy always remains there.
It may change with time but it does not get affected by entry or exit of workers. This ultimately
help Adecco Group in reducing problems which may arise because employee turnover. When
personnel are aware of company’s policy then they do not feel unguided as they always have an
option to look into the policies in case of any kind of confusion.
Set performance standards – HRM policy cover various aspects and one of the most
important parts is performance standards of employees. Guideline consists of responsibilities;
they provide a clear idea about what Adecco Group is expecting from employees. Standards
create target for workers, it allow management to check their performance at the end of year. In
an indirect way, HRM policy gives future leaders to Adecco Group.
Resolves conflict – Prime reason behind most of the conflicts in any organization is
confusion and wrong expectations. This problem is resolved HRM policy as it provides clear
instruction about all the rules that are prevailing on the company (Rees and Smith, 2017).

Adecco Group is taking benefits of their guidelines by directly mailing them to employees; it
reduces number of conflicts on daily basis and delivers realistic expectation to personnel.
Disputes bring negativity in workplace environment; HRM policy improves overall working
culture by addressing severe problems without consuming much time. These small things make
an indirect but significant impact on revenue of organization.
Motivate employees – HRM policy of Adecco group has some unpopular rules. Its
provisions provide fair and equal treatment to every employee; this ultimately motivates
personnel to be with company because they know that there is no injustice in the organization.
Motivated employees provide an edge to Adecco group; it also play crucial role in reducing
employee turnover. Fair workplace environment help people in growing, it improves worker’s
loyalty towards to company.
Employment contract
Employment contract is an agreement between an individual and employer. It is consist of all the
terms and condition relating to employment (Zakaria and et al., 2018). Various elements get covered in
this document, few of them are mentioned below:
Salary – The agreed amount which employer will pay to employee for fulfilling given
responsibilities. It can be paid on monthly, weekly or on any other basis, as per the contract.
Duration of employment – It also clarifies an important aspect that whether workers is on
contractual basis of permanent employee of company. It may talk about minimum duration of work or the
period for which it can be extended.
Schedule – This section consist expected working days and hours. All the information about
leaves is also mentioned in this part of the contract.
Confidentiality – Adecco group and other firms put this clause in the contract for assuring that
employee does not reveal any confidential information to outsiders. This non-disclosure document is very
popular in contemporary world.
Zero hours contract
It is an agreement between employment provider and seeker which states that employer is not
obliged to assure minimum working hours to employee (Farina, Green and McVicar, 2019). It also

provides power to workers for not obliged to accept any work which they do not want to do. Casual
contract is another name of Zero hours contract because of these relaxations. This contract is getting
popularity in contemporary world because of its flexile terms; it provides work life balance to employees.
Although it has provide some benefits to both side but there is still a big question mark on its reliable and
effectiveness.
Conclusion
At the end, it can be concluded that sound HRM policies can deliver better results. Concepts like
Zero hours contract may become more popular in upcoming time as work-life balance has become a
major issue.

References
Books and Journals
Bartram, T., Cavanagh, J. and Hoye, R., 2017. The growing importance of human resource
management in the NGO, volunteer and not-for-profit sectors.
Farina, E., Green, C. and McVicar, D., 2019. Zero hours contracts and their growth. British
Journal of Industrial Relations.
Rees, G. and Smith, P. eds., 2017. Strategic human resource management: An international
perspective. Sage.
Zakaria, N and et al., 2018. The link between HRM practices and performance in Malaysian
SMEs. International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM). 7(6). pp.118-126.