HRM: Workforce Planning, Employee Relations, and Legislation

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of Human Resource Management (HRM) practices, focusing on workforce planning, employee relations, and the impact of employment legislation. It begins by explaining the purpose and functions of HRM, particularly in workforce planning and resourcing, using McDonald's as a case study. The report evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of different recruitment and selection approaches, discusses the benefits of various HRM practices for both employees and employers, and assesses their effectiveness in raising organizational profit and productivity. Furthermore, it analyzes the importance of employee relations in influencing HRM decision-making, identifies key elements of employment legislation and their impact, and illustrates the application of HRM practices in work-related contexts with specific examples. The report also touches upon the use of HRIS software, the role of IT in enhancing organizational efficiency, leadership encouragement, and performance analysis, emphasizing the importance of resource management, learning atmosphere, health facilities, problem resolution, and team management in ensuring the smooth functioning and success of an organization.

Human resource management
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................5
P1- Explain the purpose and the functions of HRM, applicable to workforce planning and
resourcing the chosen organisation of your choice......................................................................5
P2. Explain the strength and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection. 6
P3: Explain the benefits of different HRM practices within an organization for both an
employee and employer...............................................................................................................7
P4. Evaluate the effectiveness of different HRM practices in terms of raising organizational
profit and productivity.................................................................................................................8
Task 2.............................................................................................................................................10
P5. Analyze the importance of employee relations with respect to influencing HRM decision-
making........................................................................................................................................10
P6. Identify the key elements of employment legislation and the impact it has upon HRM
decision-making.........................................................................................................................11
P6. Identify the key elements of employment legislation and the impact it has upon HRM
decision-making.........................................................................................................................14
P7. Illustrate the application of HRM practices in work-related context using specific
examples.....................................................................................................................................18
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................20
Reference.......................................................................................................................................21
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Introduction
HR management is very significant for any organization. It is responsible for the smooth
function within the organization. The HR department role is to maintain the coordination with all
the department and helps in achieving and aim of the organization. Hr. manager team maintains
the dashboard method for analysis of the work management within the all domain of the
organization. With the help of the HR department the resource can be utilized in the well
synchronized way. McDonalds is a very well-known fast food organization and the credit for its
best growth goes to the Human resource management also McDonalds has the best team of HR
and Leaders who have best potential in them to maintain the name and fame of the organization.
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Task 1
P1- Explain the purpose and the functions of HRM, applicable to workforce
planning and resourcing the chosen organisation of your choice
Role of HRM
The main role of Human resource Managers is to manage its resource in a sound and efficient
way such as the analysis of the job, organization of the meeting within the different departments,
recruitment and retraining of the employee. Maintaining and monitoring the performance of all
the departments, maintain policies within the organization etc. Work management planning is
also the role of the HRM the best leaders and the managers of the HRM has the analysis of the
future trends and thus they made the change according to that. It is also responsible for
management of quality within the organization (Ackah & Agboyi, 2016).
Recruiting the candidate
It is one of the important task and one of the challenging thing for any organization the good
staff and employee are responsible for the success of the organization .The Hr management
department get the complete job analysis of each domain according to their vacancy positions
and later they publish their vacancy details in the portal and many other important newspapers
so that candidate can submit their working CV on it .Once the CV are received the Hr
department shortlist the candidates by seeing the working profile and the work experience and
invites the candidates for the various technical and skills round .
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P2. Explain the strength and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and
selection
McDonalds have the very best mode of the recruitment of the candidate they are the direct
recruitment or the recruitment by the vendor.
Direct recruitment
When the organization recruit the candidates in the direct panel without including any TPA .In
this mode all the mandatory formality of recruiting the candidate are organized within the
organization .it has the many advantages and the disadvantages.
Advantages Weakness
 The policy is clear of the organization
as there is direct interaction between
the candidates and the company HR
 The policy is transparent and clear
 The whole process is tedious and hectic
as it consumes a lot of time in
manipulating the whole things.
Third Party recruitment
The vendor recruitment or third party recruitment is also common in the many organization .It
has also many strength and weakness,
Advantages Weakness
 It is not tedious and hectic.
 It takes not much time
 The policy of the organization is not
clear in that scenario as the interaction
is not direct with the organization HR.
it is done via third source (Armstrong
& Armstrong, 2012)
 The innovation method cannot be
carried out as most of the third party
restricts the fresher resource the fresher
pool can sometimes be the reservoir of
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the vast talent and innovation resource.
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P3: Explain the benefits of different HRM practices within an organization for both
an employee and employer
Retaining the candidate
Once the candidates have been recruited it is also important for every organization to hold the
talented employee. McDonalds is always known to maintain the employee friendly relations with
the employee they have issued many awards and bonus system for the employee such as
employee of the month and various other awards so that staff member can show the more
dedication to their work and can achieve the best output for their organizations.
Planning information
It is the responsibility of the HR department to plan for the each and every task that is
responsible for the success of the organization (Baráth, et. al., 2017 ). The HR department
organizes the meeting with all the department of the organization and sets the goals and tasks
for each domain .The Hr. department also scheduling the meeting with staff and their respective
leads to resolve any issue and conflict and thus responsible for smooth function of the
organization.
Training and development
After the candidate is recruited it is the necessary that his skills must be developing from time to
time in order that he becomes more compatible within the trending technology. McDonalds HR
department also schedules the various training test to check the strength of their employee and
provide the training according the needs of the organization .The responsible of Human resource
Managers is that they set task according to the trending market needs thus they schedule various
compatible training according that .The Hr. department also checks whether the knowledge of
his employee is not getting stagnate thus they also scheduled training according that also.
Appraisal policy
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McDonalds has also maintained the very clear policy of appraisal for his employee and staff the
appraisal of the employee in the McDonalds always done from time to time with the extra bonus
and the incentives so that the employee can dedicate to their work (Boxall & Purcell, 2016)
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P4. Evaluate the effectiveness of different HRM practices in terms of raising
organizational profit and productivity.
Resource Management
McDonalds has the very best resource management tendency they have also the redundant
employee in their every domain of the organization so that each and every domain can work in a
synchronized way .The Hr. department must also ensure that there are no exceeding working
hours for the employee also it is to ensure that there are also proper shift management so that all
thing go in the organization in smooth way.
Learning atmosphere
Positive atmosphere is necessary for every organization .McDonalds has positive atmosphere in
its premises the positive environment also necessary to achieve the goals .Human resource
department team of McDonalds plays a very important role in maintaining this they have
various monitoring methods to check the employee work performance and also they are
monitoring the laws and regulations within the organization premises .Also the various social
and cultural program are organized in the working organization to enhance the moral of
employee also various soft skills and hard skills training are provided to the employee and staff
for their professional development (Bratton & Gold, 2012)
Health Facilities
McDonalds have very healthy infra as their HR departments are continuously organizing health
checkups camp to check the health of their employee in working atmosphere also they are
aligning shift in such way so that there is no hectic shift schedule ,also they have induced gym
training facilities with proper trainer so that employees can remain fit and fine .The HR
managers know the importance of good health ,as good health is necessary for the better
efficiency of the candidate and this effects the organization also.
Problem Resolution
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McDonalds leaders and managers are solution oriented they are having the back plan to handle
every situation they are also analyzing the problem from its root basics and thus takes the
required action to remove that issue also the HR department is also responsible for coordination
between the teams so that effectiveness can be made within the system.
Team Management
It is also the duty of HR to maintain team managements in the entire domain by conducting the
meeting frequently between the entire domain and their leads so the team sprit could be
maintained in the team.
Elite culture
McDonalds has very elite culture it organizes various mock drills and various trainings to
maintain this environment .Also the McDonalds have the elite leaders in their organization that
also makes the organization sounds and well efficient.
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Task 2
P5. Analyze the importance of employee relations with respect to influencing HRM
decision-making
Resource management and handling is the part of the resource management .proper management
of human resource can leads to the better development of the organization there are also some
factors that are to be kept in mind. Resource analysis, proper data plan, utilization and
allocation .the resource plan is crucial as it contains the whole brief of the project from beginning
to end
Meeting Organization
The meeting must be organized with the outside business partners in order to check the growth of
the organization. McDonalds has maintained the best effectiveness in it. The topmost managers
of McDonalds are conducting the meeting with outside SME also not check the effectiveness of
his overall system this things has helped McDonalds to spread his business with more efficient
way throughout the global world (Burke & Cooper, 2012).
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P6. Identify the key elements of employment legislation and the impact it has upon
HRM decision-making
Implementing HRIS software
The HRIS (Human Resource System Information) is software that is needed in tracking the data
and managing the whole data. The advantage of the human resource information system are they
contain the employees attributes such as working details and zones of work and many other
useful things. Such as payrolls it has also performance development plans disciplinary action
required execution tasks and strategic maintenance tasks .The HRIS gives all those details which
the company wants for an employee and it also helps to develop the strategic information for the
organizations
IT revolution
IT Industry play a very crucial role in developing the Efficiency of the organization .McDonalds
have best IT experts and consultants in its department McDonalds is using web site promotion
and many web hosting and also the promotion is done by many networking and social
sites .Many SEO (Search Engine Optimization ) experts person has been deployed to do the
branding and the grooming of the product also many online information is available for the
product .Similarly many online booking of food products can be done within the time and also
proper delivery is there this things also saved the time of the customer and the clients (Cameron
& Quinn, 2015)
Leadership Encouragement
The good leaders and the managers are behind the success of each and every organization.
McDonalds has the best of this system .the HR team of McDonalds are organizing the various
program to encourage and develop the leadership within the organization. they are also giving
the chance to youth as they are innovative as well as talented to use their full potential to develop
the leadership skills in them they are also scheduling various mock drill activity to boost their
inner caliber they also ensure that what the leaders are saying they are practicing it or not .
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