Human Resource Management Report: HRM Practices at Sainsbury's, UK

This report provides a detailed analysis of Human Resource Management (HRM) practices, focusing on workforce planning and resourcing within an organization, specifically using Sainsbury's as a case study. It explains the purpose and functions of HRM, emphasizing its role in achieving organizational goals and competitive advantage. The report explores different approaches to recruitment and selection, evaluating their strengths and weaknesses, and discusses the benefits of various HRM practices for both employers and employees. It also assesses the effectiveness of HRM in relation to profit and productivity, analyzes the importance of employee relations, and identifies key elements of employment legislation and their impact on HRM decision-making. The report illustrates the application of HRM practices with specific examples and concludes with a summary of key findings and recommendations.

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................3
Explain the purpose and the functions of human resource management, applicable to workforce
planning and resourcing an organization.................................................................................................3
Explain the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection...................5
Explain the benefits of different Human resource management practices within an organization for both
the employer and employee.....................................................................................................................8
Evaluate the effectiveness of different human resource management practices in terms of raising
organizational profit and productivity......................................................................................................8
Analyse the importance of employee relations in respect to influencing human resource management
decision making.......................................................................................................................................9
Identify the key elements of employment legislation and the impact it has upon HRM decision making.
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Illustrate the application of HRM practices in work- related context, using specific examples.............10
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................................15
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INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is demonstrated as practice, which manages or handle group of people in
order to accomplish better performance. If an individual is hired for any position, therefore for to hire an
candidate some qualities are seen such as candidate should fit in the company along with stay longer and
should be more productive. This is a strategic approach in the terms of management of group of peoples
in an organization further this helps organization to accomplish competitive advantage. Human resource
management it has been designed to enhance the performance of the employee. Most fundamentally
human resource management id defined as management of peoples in a company or organization which
primarily focuses on the system and policies. Therefore, the department of human resources are
responsible for the employee for performance appraisal, recruitment, reward management and training
and development which also include managing of benefit systems and employee benefit. Human resource
management they primarily concern regarding industrial change and additionally balancing the practices
of an organization along with the considerable requirements which often arises from government laws
and collective bargaining. The main aim of human resource department is to be assure that whether an
organization accomplishing success or not. In this report would be considering Sainsbury company.
Sainsbury this is a second fastest and largest company in the United Kingdom, this company have almost
16.0 % share in the supermarket sector, and they also have biggest chain of supermarket in UK. Sainsbury
was founded by john James in 1869. This company became biggest retailer company of groceries in 1922
(Berman, and et. al., 2019).
MAIN BODY
Explain the purpose and the functions of human resource management, applicable to workforce
planning and resourcing an organization.
Human resource management is demonstrated as the process which manages group of peoples in order to
accomplish better performance. In other words, it could be explained as the process which manages the
workforce into a business in effective manner thus to accomplish specific goals in the given timeframe.
This management probably includes staffing, training, and hiring and in addition encouraging and
motivating workforce in order to improve efficiency. The primarily function of human resource
management is to recruit right applicant for the firm, in this way productivity of a firm could be improved
and this improvement could be beneficial for the success and growth of an organization. In the context of
Sainsbury their human resource managers should analyses all the considerable requirements of workforce
thus the business operation could run in a smooth or effective manner. They all should work like a bridge

gap among employee and top management at the workplace due to this reason the entailment of the
employee could be recognized by the seniors so in this way requirements could be fulfilled accordingly.
The main motive of human resource management is to hire an ideal applicant and provide specific
trainings thus to accomplish organizational goals in a given time (Suleiman, and et. al.,2020). The Mission of selected
organization is that they have to produce the better quality products to their customers. The core
objectives of Salisbury are that they have to attract their customers by delivering them better quality
goods and services. So, that they can gain competitive advantage in industry. The Nature and scope is that
they invest in our new orders in places that they value, such as variety, reliability, cheap prices,
flexibility, and excellent service, by the productivity in our daily operations.
Purpose of human resource management
To maintain adequate manpower inventory- In the context of Sainsbury, this is another purpose of human
resource manager, their main purpose is to analyses considerable requirements of the human resources at
the workplace, this process helps them to facilitate and recognize present and future needs in the firm. In
the relevance of Sainsbury this purpose is quite helpful for the human resource managers to find a right
candidate for the specific job position on right time.
Maintaining high morale of employee in an organization
The primary purpose of human resource managers to motivate their employee, in the context of Sainsbury
their managers encourages and motivate their employee or workforce, thus they provide incentives and
bonus, and several benefits such as perks and rewards these all things are given to the workforce
according to their performance level. This purpose is significant as well as helpful for the employee
because by achieving certain rewards this increases their confidence level and they could work with
whole enthusiasm along with workers with highly efficient they attained at workplace for long time
period.
Functions human resource management
Operative functions – In the context of Sainsbury this is known as significant functions which has been
performed by the managers. In this process they develop and procure as well as encourage and motivate
their employee in effective manner thus they could have attained in the firm for the long period. Their
primary function is to maintain highly experienced employee in an organization in order to manage all the
operations at the workplace.

Managerial functions- In this process human resources managers have some specific function which
include staffing, organizing, controlling and directing all the operational activities in the firm due to these
activities it would be possible to accomplish objectives in the firm along with timeframe. In the relevance
of Sainsbury to comply these function effectively, human resource managers of Sainsbury should
distribute human resources in this way staffing would require human resources. Furthermore, they direct
their employee to achieve their task effectively, and the final step is followed that is controlling all the
insignificant activity so in this way organizational goals could be accomplished easily.
Labor Aspect- This type of aspect includes placement, recruitment, planning as well as promotion of
employee. In the context of Sainsbury this aspect is very scope because this helps human resource
managers to identify the basic needs of the workforce so by fulfilling these needs the loyalty of
employees could be improving (Hyde, and et. al., 2020.).
Welfare aspect – This aspect is associated with working conditions along with comfort zone of workforce
and it include health, food, transport, safety etc. In the context of Sainsbury this aspect is very scope
because it increases the loyalty of workforce or employees towards the organization as well as maintain
the firm for a longer period.
Managing reward: The main function of HRM department of Sainsbury is that they have to analyses the
performance of each employee and then give rewards accordingly. So, with this they can effectively
engage their employees to do work.
Employment relation: The another is employee’s relation where HR manager have to maintain the
relation between each other, so, that there is no conflict in selected organization. In this way, they can
conduct training and development sessions in order to build the performance of workers.
Managing performance: The selected organization have to manage the performance of employees so that
they can complete their work on time.
Explain the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection.
The process of recruitment is demonstrated as hiring a right candidate and selecting this means selecting
an individual for the vacancy of job in an organization. The knowledge and skills could be done with two
sources internal and external recruiting process is held in an organization. External recruiting is done
from outside the organization, internal recruiting is done inside the company.
Internal sourcing: Sources are adopted from inside organization, this could meet requirements for the
vacancy job, by following different methods;

 Selecting top and good talent – This is done by measuring the performance and reports are
evaluated of every employee.
 Promotion – Devoting promotion for the workforce and employee according to the skills,
performance and knowledge.
Recruitment selection
Recruitment is defined as acquired pool for the potential applicants which require skills,
knowledge and experience is also required to select the right candidate for the job vacancy and
against defined specification and position description.
 Strength
 Good communication skill
 Good at multi- tasking
 Confidence
Internal recruitment
 This process involves reorganization and promotion.
 Jobs are given to staff employed by organization.
 Advantages
 They provide various opportunities for promotion.
 They are quicker and cheaper.
 People they stay familiar with business.
 Disadvantage
 All the business already knows their strengths and weakness of applicants.
 They have limit Number of candidates.
 Creates different vacancy which should be filled.
External recruitment - The term external recruitment is known as new face to the organization.
This statement means organization would get new ideas from new applicants and might get wide
range of benefits. In this process applicants comes from outside the business. The external
applicants they could be more dynamic along with workforce. External recruitment is known as
long process. The function of human resource management mainly handles and manage the
process of selecting right candidate.
External recruitment
 Job advertisements

 Job centers
 Recruitment agencies
 Personal recommendation
 Advantage
 The people from outside they bring new ideas.
 In this process group of people do have range of experience.
 Disadvantage
 This is a longer process.
 The process of selection it is not accounted as effective to reveal the ideal applicants.
 This process is known as more expensive due to requirement of interviews and
advertisements.
 Strength- In the context of Sainsbury they do not assure about the high productivity.
 Weakness – outer candidates they are needed of various skills back of the absence of
experience.
Selection
Selection is defined as a process of choosing the ideal and right applicant, who could be
suitable for the job, it is known as selection.
 Strength
 It reduces lot of time and it is also cost- effective.
 Weakness
 Candidate might make a fake personality in order to get suitable job.
Approaches of selection
 Interviews: A company will invite a variety of candidates for an interview. This is
normally a face-to-face interview in which the company asks a set of questions and
watches how the applicant responds. Each candidate's success can be contrasted. The
strength is that they can analyses the reaction of candidate and the weakness is that they
sometimes do not.
 Group activities: A company may sometimes request that a group of applicants
collaborate to complete a mission. This may be a debate or a practical job. The actions of
the applicants can be analyzed as they complete the task in order to distinguish some who
work well with each other, those who are managers, and those who may work best on
specific activities.

Explain the benefits of different Human resource management practices within an organization
for both the employer and employee
The successful practices of human resource management they probably give huge satisfaction
for both whether employees or employer. The significant target of human resource
management is to preserve all the human resources in the company. The practice it captivates
employees at the workplace. Employee performance have been improved after the huge
satisfaction in an organization. The development and research programs they provide skills
program, development program and training as well as personality development for the
employee or the workers. In the context of Sainsbury place the external sources of selection
and recruitment for the applicant. If any company apply certain strategy, then it would have
capability to appoint innovative and creative employee for the company.
Benefits of HRM Practices:
 Training and development: The training and development is the main practices which is
done by HR so that they can develop the skills of employees. Both the employee and
employer of Sainsbury get benefits as they can develop their skills whereas business can
performance better.
 Motivation: The another practices is that selected organization motivate their employees
by giving various benefits, rewards and many other. The employee benefits as they get
extra pay and on the other hand organization benefits as it increases the productivity level
in organization.
 Performance based rewards: The last is rewards as this is only be analyzed when they
have to check the performance of employees and give them rewards according to that. In
this way the employees of Sainsbury get motivated and put their efforts in order to
achieve business objectives.
Evaluate the effectiveness of different human resource management practices in terms of raising
organizational profit and productivity.
The process of human resource management they mainly focus on comfort and better affairs
with the employee at the workplace. The impact of human resource management approaches
formed on applicant profitability, and it plays a significant role in the graded brain research,
modern connections and human habit executives. If the best human resources have been
utilized, then it shows a best grounded relationship which is barely associated with the
profitability in the terms of high development industry. In the context of Sainsbury money
mostly tied up with the interest plan further which could be achievable rather than costs. The

use of practices of high work performance further this helps in pay as well as liberation in the
terms of work of the structure of executive, it is accomplished more by the service of worker
as well, as qualifying and enhance the learning along with this arising their desires and
enhance the value of employees and further lead to the boosting of an organization.
Analyze the importance of employee relations in respect to influencing human resource
management decision making
In order to enhance the process of execution of group of employee at the working place, the
board of benefits make assure that workers having captivating connections. In the context of
Sainsbury, they had huge negotiate for the representative alliance, however the common hit
of an organization could be weakened. In the relevance of Sainsbury there are following
systems to maintain the immense worker’s relation they are mentioned below;
Correspondence – The business sectors they must give significant data to the group of
representatives in order to keep restore regarding the task of an organization. In the context of
Sainsbury must pass the collective data to the candidate regarding feature of items and items
to the employment workforce.
Great profit – In the context of Sainsbury gives their candidates safe techniques, great office
for the purpose of just using the driven openings. Furthermore, this process helps in facilitate
to maintain better relations.
Professional development contingency – The representative tasks at the workplace mainly
construct their general professions. In the relevance of Sainsbury, they usually deliver their
representative professions during the change openings. Therefore, this way leads to the
candidates trustworthy and inspire towards the organization. By following this way, the
relation of employee would be enhanced.
Vision- The vision is defined as range of planned along with destinations of the applicants.
The employee relation is the relation where they interact with each other so that they
understand. They focus on maintaining the cordial relationship with their colleagues so that
they can work in proper manner. In this way selected organization develop strategies to
maintain the relationship by involving each worker in decision making process and solve
their problems and conflicts in systematic manner.

Identify the key elements of employment legislation and the impact it has upon HRM decision
making.
There are various guidelines and legislation as well as enactments which includes various
examples such as disability discrimination act, sex discrimination act, national minimum
wage act, employment act and in addition equally pay act these all act they goes in the
employment center for the guidance probably to make human resource management and
further it would change a plan or a choice which have been organized by the HR office.
There are many general aspects which are appropriate to work treated in the terms of business
that have been mentioned below;
1- As compared to the business chances which include darken, ethnic source and race, for
instance it includes native American, African American and in addition sexual adjustment
(people more than 40) women those are pregnant, The person with mental and physical
disability etc.
2- Affirmative actions – The regulations of EEO they usually given the guarantee levels
along with the analysis of work, the all the schemes of the government they require
society employment in order to hold group of individuals those have places regarding
conventions.
3- Equality Act, 2010: The Equality Act of 2010 contains provisions prohibiting gender
discrimination in the delivery of services and official services to people. The ban went
into effect on October 1, 2012, and it is now illegal to discriminate against people based
of age unless an exception to the ban occurs. This law is compiled by Sainsbury so that
they can retain their employees for long time period.
4- Health and Safety work act, 1974: The main piece of legislation governing health and
safety in the United Kingdom is the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. It lays out
the legal requirements that managers have to their workers and communities. As selected
organization protect their employees by giving them insurance and take various safety
measures.
5- Minimum Payment Act - This type of legislation was enacted by the United Kingdom
government in order to mitigate labor abuse. So that each and every employee at
Sainsbury's receives the same pay regardless of their job title.
Illustrate the application of HRM practices in work- related context, using specific examples.
Measurable and employment is accurate.

The evaluation of the people detail which enables scouts to look at the proof from each and
every hopeful further it could be against the necessary activity.
Internet – based life enrollment
The online profiles as well as online interviews they are known as primary aspect of the
application.
Versatile recruiting – This process mainly assists about the range of candidates which
increase from huge to large extent of applicants in effective manner.
Career side and occupation pages – This process of recruiting these are not fresh and boards
of employment are created. In the context of Sainsbury, they usually set their data. The entailment of
portable could direct the profession sheets these are needed for the job position which are posted on
requirement.
Human resource applicants play a vital role in helping businesses accomplish their mission and targets in
a prepared manner. The following are the most relevant activities that Sainsbury's employs:
Job specification: This element specifies the roles and obligations that employees must adhere
to when serving in a particular role. The document also specifies the skills and abilities that an individual
must possess in order to complete the task. Following the test, a team leader arrives with a list of
requirements that must be completed by the individual.
JOB SPECIFICATION
Organisation: Sainsbury
Job Title – Human Resource manager
Qualification – PGDM or MBA Specialized in (Human Resources) and (Marketing)
Essential Criteria:
 Having complete understanding of tools and strategies • Coordinating the department's
numerous purposes
 Enhancing employee relationships
 Anxiety needs to be managed effectively.
Desirable criteria:

 2+ years’ experience in industry
 Great personality
 Effective communication skill
Job description: This is a crucial document that details the job that must be completed by
an individual. It includes a brief description of the vacant positions, as well as the roles and
responsibilities that the individual must fulfil.
Job Description
Organization: Sainsbury
Division: Human Resource
Job Title: Human resource manager
Job Location: United Kingdom
Job Summary
Businesses are concentrating on hiring people with the necessary skills and abilities to fill the
role of human resource manager. The ideal candidate would have experience handling human
resources in a strategic manner.
Role
At work, there should be a supportive atmosphere.
Recruitment strategies that work.
Organizing programmers for training and development.
Ascertain that all policies and initiatives are implemented in the workplace.