Analysis of HRM Profession and Required Skills Report

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Human Resource Management (HRM) profession. It begins with an introduction highlighting the role of an HR manager in the retail sector, emphasizing the need for experience, skills, and specialized knowledge. The main body of the report delves into the analysis and application of the HRM profession, including administrative tasks and the direction of employees towards achieving organizational objectives. It examines current trends in HRM, such as innovation, people analytics, talent sourcing, wellness apps, cloud migration, smart recruitment, and blockchain, emphasizing their impact on organizational efficiency. The report also outlines the essential skills required by HR managers, including communication, decision-making, multitasking, organization, and leadership. Furthermore, it includes a job description of an HR manager, detailing roles, responsibilities, and qualifications. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of effective communication and leadership skills for aspiring HR managers.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1
Analysis and application of HRM profession. ...........................................................................1
Current trends in Human Resource Management.......................................................................1
Skills required by HR manager are ............................................................................................3
Job description of HR manager ..................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Human resource manager in the retail sector has significant role to play. It basically
involves management of people at workplace. An individual in order to become an effective HR
manager need to have experience , skills and specialize knowledge about field. The aim of the
report is to define as well as conceptualize employability for graduates. In addition to this, main
objective of assignment is to collect as well as analyse the labour market information in context
of specific profession. Present report will include the analysis of HRM profession and
application of the same. It will also highlight the skills require for becoming professional HR
manager.
MAIN BODY
Analysis and application of HRM profession.
Human resource management mainly includes administrative work . It also involves
directing people towards accomplishment of desired objectives. HRM is considered to be as one
of the fundamental activity in an enterprise in which human beings are given job. These are
those people who make their significant contribution in accomplishment of desired business
objectives (Stewart and Brown, 2019). They also help firm in improving performance. It has
been analysed that The responsibility of human resource management continues to grow in
complexity and value for all companies because of its effect on both culture as well as business
strategy,
The core tasks of Human resource manager in an organisation is to train as well as
motivate employees for improving their participation in business activities. In addition to this,
the main activity which is required to be performed by HR manager includes execution of
selection as well a recruitment procedure for hiring talented employees for performing specific
job role in an enterprise (Morgeson, Brannick. and Levine, 2019).
Current trends in Human Resource Management
In a retail rector company it important to make right decisions to maintain the
productivity of organization and this is work of the human resource management to make
relevant changes in the organization to meet the organization goals. There are different modern
tools are used by the HR department to meet the need of company. The current trends in the
HRM are innovation in HRM, surge people analytics, change in talent sourcing, popularity of
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wellness app, increased migration to the cloud, smarter recruitment and block chain (Stewart and
Brown, 2019). These trends are important for the organization to improve their processing
efficiency. This high efficiency can improve performance of organization and HRM both.
HR Innovation
Tesco can implement different methods in practices of HRM to improve their operational
and management efficiency for the productivity of company. These methods can reduce the
issues in the working of human resource management department. These innovations also can
help the HRM to organization to perform different training and development sessions for
employees.
Surge of People Analysis
Work force analysis is important for company to meet the need of employees to complete
different targets and company goals with in the time. There are different technologies are
available in the market to perform monitoring of employees in organization. This tools are RFID
and AI.
Change in Talent Sourcing
Talent sourcing is the procedure of HRM that are performed to full fill the needs of
organization related to the work power. There are different tools and alternatives are used by the
HRM to improve the efficiency of recruitment process to select better candidates.
Popularity of Wellness Apps
Performance of employees is based on their mental and physical wellness. If the
employees are not supported by organization then it will reduce their productivity in company.
So HRM department in Tesco are using different methods and activities to support employees
and keep them motivated.
Increased Migration to the Cloud
There are various technology and tools are used by the HRM to perform monitoring and
data management in the company. This tasks are performed to full fill the basic needs of
employees. For data processing and storing HRM can use cloud computing and cloud storage.
Smart Recruitment
The smart recruitment is one of the most important way to meet the work force need of
organization. Tesco can use this to recruit highly skilled and qualified candidate in organization.
Block Chain
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Block chain is one of the latest method of data storing and transferring with high security
and privacy. These methods can be implemented in Tesco to managing data and information of
employees.
Required Skills
There are different skills are required in an HR manager in Tesco company. The most essencial
skills and qualities required in person are Leadership, conflict management, problem solving,
project managing and good knowledge of recruitment.
Impact of Globalization and Technology
There are different challenges are faced by the organization to during globalization and
technological improvement. If organization moves to the international platform then it will
increase the work load of HR department and also will affect their working efficiency. This is
same for technological implementation (DeCenzo, Robbins and Verhulst, 2016). Implementation
of new technology in the organization then this will take much time to learn it and perform
according to new technology.
Notes of Interview
As per the personal interview of a employee the trends in the HRM practices can improve
the efficiency of organization and in initial condition this will be little difficult for them to
understand this change but with the time this will improve the operational efficiency of HRM.
Skills required by HR manager are
5 personal skills which HR manager must have are
communication skills : For the position of HR manager it become essential to have a good
communication skills. A person should be good in both oral communication as well as written
communication. As HR manager has to deal with lot of people in daily therefore it become
necessary for them to have a good communication skills.
Decision-making skills : As the post of HR manager is high in the organisation as a result many
important decision has to be made by HR manager. Therefore it becomes necessary that HR
manager should have good decision making skills.
Multi tasking : As a huge responsibilities lie on the shoulder of HR manager therefore it become
necessary that a person should be multi tasking. The various responsibilities such as interviews,
training programme, grievances etc., has to be managed by HR professional therefore a person
should be capable of carry different task properly.
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Organised : A person should be organised. It is the important trait which a person should have.
The person should know how to handle conflicts and do work for the benefit of employees.
Leadership skill : This is the most important skill a person should have as the manager has to
handle many employees therefore a person should have good leadership skills(Skills all HR
manager must have, 2019).
2 areas of knowledge and expertise
if a person has done MBA is human resource management than the person know the working of
hotel and also have practical as well as theoretical idea of industry which would be beneficial.
An internship or experience in the same field will also be a advantage for a person to apply for
this role
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Job description of HR manager
Job Title Human resource manager
Reports to Head of Human resource department
Roles & Responsibilities Recruiting, selection, training, development, rewards and
incentives
Qualification MBA in human resource management
Title of the job Human resource manager
Date: 1/08/2019
Qualification required Essential Desirable Met
MBA in human resource
management
Diploma in human
resource or relevant field
M.A. in human resource
Yes
Yes
Yes
Need of Experience
A person should have
experience of 2 years in
the same field from a
reputed organization
Yes
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Personal characteristics
& conduct
Interpersonal skills
Decision-making skills
Speaking skills
Should have ability to
use human resource
software
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Roles and
Responsibilities
A person is responsible
to recruit right people
in organization(Roles
and responsibilities of
HR manager in
growing organisation,
2019)
Proper training should be
provided to them
Is responsible for
planning professional
development plan for
employees(Stewart and
Brown, 2019)
Responsible for resolving
conflicts in the
organization
Reward and incentives
should be given in
order to increase the
motivation level of
employees
Should conduct activities
in order to enhance
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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relation between
employee
Planning benefits for
employees such as
providing incentives,
safety, and conducting
program to enhance
learning of employees
Yes
Evaluation : I have the good communication skill, has done MBA in human resource and also
have relevant experience of 2 years in local hotel. By analysing this factor it can be said that I
will be eligible for this post.
CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the above that there is high scope of career growth in the
HRM profession. The other fact which has been found is that with the growing complexities as
well as continuous expansion of business there is great demand for HR management in order to
manage people during change process. It has also been concluded that an affective
communication as well as leadership skills is very much essential for becoming professional HR
manager and getting the same positing in an organisation.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
DeCenzo, D.A., Robbins, S.P. and Verhulst, S.L., 2016. Fundamentals of Human Resource
Management, Binder Ready Version. John Wiley & Sons.
Morgeson, F.P., Brannick, M.T. and Levine, E.L., 2019. Job and work analysis: Methods,
research, and applications for human resource management. Sage Publications.
Stewart, G.L. and Brown, K.G., 2019. Human resource management. Wiley.
Stewart, G.L. and Brown, K.G., 2019. Human resource management. Wiley.
Online
Roles and responsibilities of HR manager in growing organisation. 2019. [Online] Avaialble
through <Jackson, S.E., Schuler, R.S. and Werner, S., 2009. Managing human resources (p.
358). Mason, OH: South-Western Cengage Learning.>
Skills all HR manager must have. 2019. [Online] Avaialble through
<https://www.topresume.com/career-advice/top-skills-for-human-resource-managers>
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