Human Resource Management Report: Aldi Company HRM Practices

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of Human Resource Management (HRM) practices, specifically within the context of the Aldi company. It begins with an introduction to HRM, emphasizing its role in organizational success and the responsibilities of HR managers. The report then delves into Task 1, exploring the purposes and functions of HRM, including recruitment, safety, employee relations, compensation, performance management, and training. It also examines the strengths and weaknesses of different recruitment and selection approaches, such as systematic and modern methods. Task 2 focuses on the benefits of various HRM practices, including conflict resolution, training and development, employee relations, information resources, and employee retention. It also evaluates the effectiveness of these practices based on factors such as workforce innovation and effective communication. Task 3 investigates the significance of employee relations in HRM decision-making and the impact of employment legislation. Finally, Task 4 illustrates the application of HRM practices in Aldi. The report concludes with a summary of findings and a list of references.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Purposes and Functions of Human resource management................................................3
P2 Strength and weakness of different approaches to recruitment and Selection..................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P3 Benefits of different Human resource mangemnt practices..............................................6
P4 Evaluating the effectiveness of different human resource management practices............7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
P5 The significance of employees relation in respect to influencing Human resource
management decision making process...................................................................................8
P6 Determining the key elements of employment legislation the impact it has upon HRM
decision making......................................................................................................................9
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................10
P7 Illustrate the application of HRM practices in a work related context for Aldi.............10
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management plays significant role in the organisation. Human resource
management refers to the planning, organising, directing and controlling various activities that
are conducted by employees in business. They help enterprise in arranging , organising various
activities in business. It enables business unit to conduct their business operation in systematic
and effective manner. Their role is to mange the human resource and their activities in firm.
Human resource manger is required to develop knowledge and management skills as they have
to face many challenges in an organisation.
The Aldi comp[any has been selected for conducting this research. The Aldi is the retailer
company. This enterprise is selected for conducting this study as it consists large number of
workforce that would help in explaining human resource management concept in better manner.
The report will have focus on explaining the concept of human resource management.
The research aims at discussing benefits of various approaches. The project emphasizes on
evaluating the effectiveness of major element of human resource management and identifying
benefits of Human resources' management practices. The study will have focus on examining
various factors that may have effect on various decision made by personal manager.
TASK 1
P1 Purposes and Functions of Human resource management
The effective and talented personnel manger can provide Aldi with structure and the
ability to fulfil the needs and managing organisational most valuable resource.
The responsibility of Personal manager can be categorised into three selecting and hiring
employees, framing policies, defining and designing work. The purpose of human resource
management is to increase productivity and help organisation in achieving their goals as well as
objectives. Their intention also include assist employees in increasing their contribution and
enhancing their performance. Their goal is to foster good employer and employees relationship.
There aim is to create better working environment for workers. Their function include providing
safety and security to employees and framing such policies that would encourage worker to work
for benefit of company. Their mission is to reduce employees turnover rate in Aldi company and
to retain employees for long period. They support organisation for maintaining its performance
in the market. (Newman and Newman, 2017)The various functions of human resource
management are-

Recruitment-This the most important and critical function of human resource management. Their
function include hiring right candidate at right place. Personal manager is required to have
proper knowledge and skills for performing this function. According to this function human
resource manger is required to judge candidate on the basis of their skills and abilities. They
have to ensure that the best and talented employees are being hired. Unskilled and uneducated
worker can create worse situation in Aldi enterprise.
Safety-This functions of personal manager includes providing safety to workers. Their function
includes preventing the interest of employees from being exploited. This function is being
performed in order to fulfil the need of workers and encourage them to increase their
contribution in various decision making process by firm. It is very important for them to ensure
that employees are being provided with safe and healthy environment in order to eliminate legal
issues related to human resource.
Employees relation-This function of personal manager include developing union ionized
environment. Their this role is concerned with strengthening employer and employees
relationship. Their main purpose is to eliminate conflicts in the business unit and providing job
satisfaction to workers.
Compensation and benefit-Their this function include framing various policies for the benefit of
employees. Their intention is to motivate employees to work for benefit of enterprise and assist
firm in achieving their mission and vision.
Performance management- The human resource manager function is to overview worker
performance and to provide them with feedback as well as advice to improve their performance
level. The purpose personnel manager is to assist workers in identifying the areas and method for
improving performance. Their function also includes ensuring proper flow of communication
between various departments of organisation in order to help them in achieving their goals. This
function of personnel manager provides enterprise an opportunity to maintain their quality of
products and performance in the market.
Training and development-The another function of human resource department includes
organising various training and development programmes. This function of human research
manager aims at assisting employees in developing various skills so that they could perform their
task in effective and systematic way. This function of personnel manager also enables workers to

keep themself updated with the latest business trends. So that they could increase their
contribution in various decision making process by firm.
P2 Strength and weakness of different approaches to recruitment and Selection
The systematic approach of recruitment and selection aims at attracting diverse
workforce within the equal opportunities' employment legal framework.
The organisation can approach recruiting with reactive or proactive attitude , responding
immediately to new job vacancies taking the time to develop a pool of skilled and talented
candidates before opening up of new position. Major challenges are being faced by small
organisation in developing or selecting high performance team. It is important for enterprise to
make systematic plan adopt effective approach order to find the best skilled and talented
employees..
The traditional approach of recruitment and selection is also known as systematic
approach. This approach is based on psychometric model that often evaluate candidate
performance with the job fit on the other hand modern enterprises the traditional approach to
recruitment and selection processes are strategic in nature. Morden systematic approach to
resourcing firm has harmoniously integrated over all business strategies and procedure rather
than merely focussing on job criteria. This aim of this approach include achieving enterprise
objectives aligned with long term organisation mission and vision(Springer,Dwyer, Čorak, and
Tomljenović, 2017)
The strength of systematic approach is that it integrates external environmental factors in
order to ensure that enterprise establish a strong relationship with new employee, job market and
legal environment. It has strength to contribute in developing and promoting trends for fair
employment. The strength of systematic approach also include it enables business unit to
formulate framework for performance management. The strength of this approach is that it takes
into account various factors that could assist business in exploring opportunities.
The weakness of this approach is that This approach has it does not have focus on fair
distribution of representation of person where recruitment and selection process are concerned.
Traditional approach has usually unequal and unspecified outcomes. For instance gender and age
discrimination can become issues for unequal employment in organisation. Commitment towards
equal opportunity and for fair representation of individuals in recruitment and selection
processes does not any value.This approach hinders the enterprise achievement. It doest not

contain effectiveness that can be used for resolving various problems and issues related to human
resource management.
The modern approach of recruitment and selection uses information technologies. The
various method that are included in modern approach are internal and external recruitment. This
modern approach of recruitment and selection uses various computer software in order to
manage human resource. In the approach sometimes business entities select 3 rd party recruiters
to conduct recruitment and selection process.
The strength of this approach is that it includes the use of software that helps human
resources' manger in maintaining data. It consists ODF system that are interconnected with
internet job fair that allow enterprise monitoring their increment status.
The weakness of this approach is that it suggest such methods that require lot of
investment. This approach doest have focus on effective recruitment and selection strategy.
TASK 2
P3 Benefits of different Human resource mangemnt practices
The human resource department in enterprise have to fulfil many responsibilities within
business unit as they protect the interest of both employer and employees. In case of employer
Personnel manger manages worker relation and they also examine various methods in order to
reduce various labour cost. They frame various strategies for employer in order to assist him in
retaining employees for longer period. They help employees in protecting their interest and
ensures that workers operates within the scope of various laws such as employment and labour
law. Benefit of different human resource management practices are-
Conflict Resolution:Personnel manger help organisation in resolving various conflicts between
employer and employees. In order to resolve various issuers they interrupt various firm policies
and procedures and helps in defining the appropriate workplace behaviour. They also contribute
to resolving various other matter such as insubordination, poor behaviour , use of inappropriate
or bad language that could lead to miss happening or bad consequences in organisation.
Training and development:This practice include organising various training and development
program. They facilitate this ranting events in order to determine the systematic delivery method
to launch training material according to the needs of workers. This practices aim at making
effective utilisation of man power in order to increase marketing and customer service skills.This
process enable workers to enhance their cvareer path and support them in their career

development process. This practice allow employees to maintain good relationship with
management.
Employees relation:The personnel manager provides assistance to those employees who feel that
their rights have been exploited. Human resource manger interrupts various laws such as anti
discrimination and harassment law in Oder to support workers in legal matters. They act as
mediator between employee and employer in to eliminate possible litigation.
Information Resource: Their this practice include providing information to workers .They have
to ensure that there is proper flow of information between various departments and among
employer and employees. They provide communication between employer and workers. As
workers can not directly communicate with higher authorities. Human resource manger provides
information to employer regarding worker performance, leaves, employees assistance programs
and benefit of workers compensation policies. Is in some case workers need personal assistance
and guidance then it is the responsibility of personnel manger to provide such information.
Retaining Qualified employees: Aldi provides easy access and flexibility in employees
benefit .So Their employers can have well qualified and talented team in business unit.
Encouraging positive behaviour:The human resource manger in Aldi ensures and develops
positive working environment and formulate various beneficial policies for workers in order to
encourage them to become more productive.
P4 Evaluating the effectiveness of different human resource management practices
Human resource management has been very effective For Aldi in terms of increasing
organisational profit and productivity. The implementation human resources' manager has
enabled firm to earn huge profits and increase their productivity. The effectiveness of different
human resource management practices can be measured on the basis of following:
Innovative and high performing workforce: The organisation Human resource management
promotes innovative working environment and encourage workers to assist business unit in
increasing profits and enhancing their productivity (Belias,Trivellas, Koustelios, and et.all.,
2017)
Effective direction setting and execution: Human resource leaders and manger play significant
role in establishing setting, standard, purpose, priorities , goals and responsibility as well as role
of workers. This help staff members in identifying their roles as well as goals and to implement

task according to the set standards. It leads to the saving of time, eliminating wastage of
resources and avoiding overlapping of activities (Yazici, Beyca and Zaim, 2017)_
Team and individual goals with effective communication: The Aldi human resource manger
assist to set and attain both individual and organisational goals. Personnel manger provides
effective communication channel to employees in order to aid them in increasing their
productivity and increasing their contribution in achieving goals for organisation.
Effective reward drive performance: They include various monetary and non monetary benefits
rewards in their policies in order to motivate workers to increase their performance. They
provide knowledge to employees that their rewards can only be possible if they help firm in
increasing profits.
Sharing and collaboration: Productivity and profitability of Aldi has improved tremendously
when it has done collaboration with other such companies those who are willingly to share their
ideas and tools. It is the organisation human resource management that has supported firm to
adopt formal methods in order to increase productivity and enhance profitability by way of
sharing and collaboration process (Newman and Newman, 2017)
TASK 3
P5 The significance of employees relation in respect to influencing Human resource management
decision making process
Every individual in Aldi organisation share a specific relationship with his subordinates
or co workers. It is very essential for them to maintain relationship with other people in business
unit in order to get guidance and feedback from them in order to improve their performance and
complete their task in systematic manner. An interactive environment in enterprise assist human
resource management in motivating employees to work for benefit of organisation. It is the
responsibility of personnel manger to ensure that workers are comfortable working with each
other and they are working in team for achieving goal of firm. The significance of employees
relationship are:
Work is easy If it is shared among al workers- In ALDI The healthy relationship with workers
lead to easiness of work load on specific individual that in turn increases the chance of
productivity. It is impossible for individual employee to do everything by its own. It is required
by leader to divide workload among other employees of team in Oder to help them to com,plete
task in easy way (Payne and Isaacs, 2017.)

Eliminating conflict among employees:Effective and healthy relationship between co workers
help them in minimising the chance of conflicts. Employees relationship assist human resource
manger in developing trust worthy environment. It also provides assistance to personal manger
in framing policies and strategies related to man power. This also aid human resource leader to
make effective and accurate decision for organisation.
Loyalty of workers: Pleasant and interactive working environment In Aldi assist to develop loyal
workers. The workers feel motivated to perform their task that is being allotted to them by their
employer. Interactive environment assist them to increase their efforts which lead to increase in
productivity. This encouraged human resource manger to make effective changes in various
policies and procedures. It enables them to formulate lenient and more beneficial policies for
workers (Huebner, 2017)
P6 Determining the key elements of employment legislation the impact it has upon HRM
decision making
Like other organisation Aldi company is also maintaining the employment legislation
when recruiting new candidates as this has great impact on various decision of human resource
manager. The major elements of employment legislation are:
Defining positions: At the time of recruitment it is essential for enterprise to provide a candidate
detain information about positions in the business unit. It is also required by firm to describe
various roles and responsibilities that are associated with the positions of job in respect of
Human resource management decision.
Proper compensation: It is very important for the firm to define various compensation policies to
candidates at the time of recruitment and selection. The company should ensure employees about
their minimum salaries and length of working hours. As per human resource decision the
employer can select candidate only after conducting proper agreement on everything.
Ensuring Quality: According to the decision of personnel manager The enterprise must ensure
that all the employees in organisation should be treated equally. If workers feel that they are
being discriminated in any aspect they have the right for legislative support to meet their
demands. The human resource management can positively influence workers by ensuring
equality in all aspects (Wrosch, Jobin and Scheier, 2017)

TASK 4
P7 Illustrate the application of HRM practices in a work related context for Aldi
Training an development: Training and development are that functions of human
resource manger. This include employees orientation, job skills training, leadership training, and
professional development programmes. These practices of Human resource leader assist worker
in enhancing their abilities and improving performance .It also provides workers an opportunity
to acquire more skills and expertise for implementing cross functional work that can help them to
increase their value at workplace. This will enable them to retain their job for long period of time
and achieve job satisfaction. Professional development programmes assist business unit in
succession planning strategy by preparing future leaders for higher level of job and
responsibilities. Human resource management training and development programmes indicate
promotion from within practices and supports employees in achieving their individual as well as
organisational goals (Newman and Newman, 2017)
Work life balance: The human resource manger by implementing flexible work schedule ,
provides workers with telecommuting options and training leaders to address sign of workplace
stress .It suggests the enterprise to support workers and enable them to maintain work life
balance. The essential transactional functions are managing scheduling transportation, modifying
changes in technology for easy remote access and conducting training session .This practices
help human resource manager to create result oriented environment and motivate employees to
increase their working efficiency .It enables workers to devote time time for fulfilling the needs
of their families (Payne and Isaacs, 2017)
Conclusion
The study has concluded that human resource management plays vary significant role in
organisation. The report has proved the effectiveness of key elements of personal management. It
has successfully explained the influence of various internal and external factors on personal
manger decisions. The project provided the illustration in order to present application of human
resource management practices in work related context. It has shown the way employees
relationship affects the productivity and profitability of firm. IT has aslo been concluded the way
human resource manger influence employees. The assignment has proved that personnel manger
assist organisation a lot in increasing their productivity and sales.

It has been recommended by research that there are various ways by which organisation
can gain support from human resource manager. Various Human resources practices has been
recommended in order to help personnel manager in providing support to enterprise.