Human Resource Management Report

This report delves into the Human Resource Management (HRM) practices at Asda, covering workforce planning, recruitment and selection, employee relations, and the impact of employment legislation. It highlights the importance of HRM in enhancing organizational performance and employee satisfaction, providing insights into effective HR strategies and practices that contribute to Asda's success.

Human Resources
Management

INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1.......................................................................................................................................................4
P1 The purpose of HRM for workforce planning in an organization.......................................................4
P2 The strengths and weaknesses of recruitment and selection...............................................................5
TASK 2.......................................................................................................................................................7
P3 Explain the benefits of different HRM practices within an organisation for both the employer and
employee.................................................................................................................................................7
P4 The different HRM practices of the organisation...............................................................................8
TASK 3.......................................................................................................................................................9
P5 Importance of employee relations in respect to influencing HRM decision- making.........................9
P6 key elements of employment legislation and the impact it has upon HRM decision- making..........10
TASK 4.....................................................................................................................................................12
P7 Application of HRM practices in a work-related context, using specific examples..........................12
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
Human Resource Management is the process of selecting, recruiting, analysing and
getting the best fit for the organisation and incorporated methods to help them understanding the
needs of the organisation and employees working in the organisation. Human Resource
Management includes selecting and recruiting employees and Human resources is helping the
organisation in improving performance (Dhar, 2016). The organisation should introduce the
proposition for employment and they should have qualified employees who want to apply. The
employees determination begins when the selecting the best organisation they want and the
scouts get requests for employment. The Human resource is the process used to analyse energy is
expected to improve performance. The organisations are giving training to improve the skills of
the employees. It current day arranged and centres around ones present place of employment.
Advancement then again centre mostly around future positions in an organization. The chosen
organisation for the report is Asda which was founded in 1949 in UK. They are the third largest
retailers of the world and have many employees. They are having many products and they are
giving them at prices lower than others and they have stores which are in different places to
attract customers. The report includes the purpose of HRM for workforce planning, the strengths
and weaknesses to recruitment and selection, the benefits of different HRM for the employer and
employee, the effectiveness of different HRM, the importance of employee relations in HRM,
employment legislation and the impact in HRM and practices in the organization.
TASK 1
P1 The purpose of HRM for workforce planning in an organization
Human Resource Planning is the process that connects the human resources needs of an
organisation to the needs of employees to help the HRM staffing is making them select the
qualified and skilled employees to achieve the success of the organisation. Human Resource
Planning is helps the organisation on focusing and making tem analyzing the performance of the
employees and making goods for the needs of customers because it is the basis which are needed
to be monitored by them to help in the development and making the strategies of the
organization. HR or the employees are most important resource for the organisations and this is
helping them in the best quality of a similar which will be useful in the achievement of the

success of the organisation. The most important factor of human resource is the board are
enrollment, preparing, choice and advancement, employees relations, finance, remuneration the
employees and worker commitment. Asda is the successful organisation of the HR and they are
having important strategies to improve performance. The employees will make the organisation
achieving of the success of the organization and helps in smooth working of the organisation and
help the employees to make the most important factors and they will help employees in
improving the performance (Pearce, 2017). Asda is having a process of selecting and employing
the best ability for the group to get the best fit. It likewise has faith in paying unreasonably to
spur the employees to work enthusiastically to accomplish the prizes or impetuses from the
organization.
The purpose of an organization
 Recruitment- Recruitment is the most important factor of the HRM. The organisations
have employees and necessity that will help them in selecting. Asda is having a process
of recruitment and they take the employees who are skilled and interested in the
organisation and they want the employees that have the qualities and abilities needed to
achieve the success of the organisation. There are numerous manners by which an
organisation can actualize its enrollment cycle.
 Training- Training and improvement are the basic factors of human resources and they
are helping the organisation to improve performance by monitoring employees and
helping them by extending the limit of a delegate through instructing and growing the
skills of the employees. This is the most important factor to help the employees with
changing himself with the business and with his new occupation, which means laborer
acquaintance program should with join the objectives and targets of the affiliation and
how the delegates can achieve the long stretch and transient goal of the affiliation.
 Equal rights of employees- The organizations should give equal rights to employees and
they will make strategies to improve performance (Todorović and et.al., 2015). The men
and women in the organization should be equal and they should get work which are equal
and according to the employees. Asda is giving equal rights to the employees. They hire
men and women and they are working according to the employees.

 Selection- Human Resource Management is the process and they are the basis for the
performance and employees instruction, preparing and improvement. The organisation
future is exceptionally reliant of these capacities. Selecting workers is a basic cycle for
any organisation. The organization might need to guarantee that they reach however
many people as could reasonably be expected to have a more extensive determination to
look over. This will help the organisation in selecting the bets people for the work. The
employees of ASDA should be qualified by having required instructive foundations.
There should be determination is additionally should to grow new representatives
aptitudes and achieve the success (Bason, 2018).
P2 The strengths and weaknesses of recruitment and selection
The recruitment is making the organisation having Human Resource That will help them
improving performance. It is the way toward putting forth an attempt to pinpoint and move the
plausible candidates to go after current or unsurprising position opening. For any organisation,
enrollment is a vital piece of the advancement of the organisation. Enrollment specialists profit
the particular techniques like source, screen, waitlists and select the assets according to the detail
of the organisation. By the enrollment cycle, we can choose the privilege meriting contender for
making a serious extended preparing and talented assets additionally being progressed. Morgan
Hunt utilizes both the homegrown source way and the external source way for enrollment and
determination of possibility for their organisation.
Recruitment
Strength- HRM can coordinate this selection and preservance successfully inside a restricted
time. It need not scholarly gathering of workers. As Morgan Hunt will browsed the current
laborers, it not need a lot of time. Up-and-comers utilized through this basic are a lot morehelpful
for customers. It assists with deciding the future labor needs of the organisation. It additionally
ends up being useful for the organisation to adjust as per the progressions that happen in the
outside climate. It additionally ends up being useful in selecting gifted and dexterous faculty for
the organisation (Langenwalter, 2020). It additionally guarantees the advancement of the HR
inside the organisations. It guarantees suitable just as most extreme usage of the HR towards
accomplishing the ideal objectives of the organisation. It additionally limits the odds of
vulnerabilities with respect to the HR of an organisation

Weakness- The organisation referenced in the situation doesn't follow an appropriate enlistment
and choice technique for enrolling its workers and because of which they can't hold their
representative which eventually brought about high turnover pace of the representatives. The
chief refered to the purpose behind the equivalent being that they can't select great just as gifted
individuals for the organisation as such they needed responsibility towards the organisations.
This was basically in light of the fact that legitimate HR arranging was not attempted by the
organization and the organization even didn't have a compelling and proficient HR administrator
to guarantee the advancement just as the usage of the HR approaches inside the organization or
the organisation.
Selection
Strength- To decide the quantity of workers needed by the organisation. To distinguish the
aptitudes of the workers that are basic for the organisation (Kanfer, Frese and Johnson, 2017). To
recognize the cycles just as the techniques which are fundamental for augmenting the exhibitions
of the HR. To distinguish the manners in which that are basic for keeping up just as holding the
workers inside the organisations.
Weakness- The organisations are selecting the employees on the basis of knowledge and they
will not understand the capabilities. Asda has many selection process and they are based on the
understanding of the topic. The important factor for the selection is that the employees should
improve the performance of the organisation.
TASK 2
P3 Explain the benefits of different HRM practices within an organisation for both the employer
and employee.
Human resource management practices consider of different task or activities that is significant
for enhance overall performance of business . There are number of benefits and advantages that
could be attain by company for significantly for effectively performing human resource
activities. It is important that Asda company is successfully performing human resource
management activities in order to provide benefits to employer along with employees. There are
distinctive HRM practices that should be acted in better and viable way. HRM activities are

considered as critical for workers just as manager. Advantages of a several HRM practices and
its advantages for worker and representative of Asda company is explain below in detail –
Training and development – Training and development can be describe as the practice of
business in which company is training employees to enhance their skills and capabilities. it is
essential for Asda company to timely provide training to its employees. This activity of HRM is
identified with advancement of worker abilities and potential so they can perform task in better
way. Preparing and advancement incorporates various techniques which will prompt upgrade
capacities of workers. For instance Asda organization needs to give preparing to representatives
to expanding relational abilities.
 Benefit for employees – Through training and development activities employees of Asda
company will be able to gather information about new aspects and approaches.
Employees will be able to increase their potential and skills that will lead to have
significant affect on accomplishing personal and professional objective.
 Benefit for employer – Employer of Asda will be benefited by training and development
practices of human resource management. It will have significant influence on employees
performance and they will be able to carry out business task properly. This will help in
making employer work simpler and they can focus on other aspects as well.
Motivation – Motivation can be describe as activity in which organisation is able to
encourage and boost performance of business. This HRM practice is useful in urging
representatives to execution in better way. For instance separate organization should offer
different prizes and money related advantages to workers to inspire them. There are different
ways and approaches through which company can motivate its employees and boost their
performance. Benefit of motivation on employees or employer of Asda is mention below –
 Benefit for employees – Human resource management activities of motivation will assist
in boosting moral of employees to perform better and attain goals. Through this practices,
employee will get more opportunity to work effectively as well as attain several rewards
by performance.
 Benefit for employer – Motivation practices of Human resource management is important
or beneficial for employer as it will enhance business process. Employer of Asda will be

able to get various financial benefits by conducting motivation activities and it will help
respective company in attaining organisational goals and objective on right set of time.
P4 The different HRM practices of the organisation
HRM rehearses are planned in so fine manner that it can support and help an organisation
to quicken the benefits and efficiency of the organization in a consistent way. Asda utilize viable
HRM rehearses to upgrade their efficiency and benefit. HRM of an organisation is one of the
most important and basic HRM that helps in improving performance (Leon, 2015). The staffs
have gotten more agreeable in their work and perform better inside the adaptable work air.
The HR administrator of an organisation like Asda has the duty of embracing sufficient
strategies for impacting adaptable workplace, where representatives can choose their working
hours too. Preparing and advancement program is another incredible significant thought and
through this preparation program a representative can such stretch out his level to the greatest
level with the goal that the organization can quicken their creation rate and produce most
elevated benefits also. Enlistment and choice cycle assists with choosing and select the most
qualified competitor that is additionally reasonable for the hierarchical empty employment part
alongside successful abilities and information too. The prizes framework is given to the workers
to keep them persuaded constantly all through the authoritative limits. Propelled representatives
can perform and contribute in better way with the goal that the organisation will have the option
to create more measures of benefits in business also. Aside from that profitability, deals and the
general hierarchical presentation will likewise be improved. Because of these advantages,
organizations including Asda utilize successful HRM rehearses and that has affected their
efficiency, deals and productivity.
TASK 3
P5 Importance of employee relations in respect to influencing HRM decision- making.
Employee relation introduces to an efforts of company to develop and maintain a positive
relation with its workforce. Positive employee relationship is important and essential part of the
business success and growth because it helps them in retaining of talented workers at workplace
for longer time and also facilitated in attracting of different customers easily (Namazie and
Pahlavnejad, 2016.). This will support Asda in increasing of its sales as well as improving of

brand image in marketplace and in customer mind. There is different importance of employee
relation that helps in making effective discoing by the human resource. Some importance will be
explained as below:
Retain loyal and talented employees: This is a main importance of employee relation at
workplace that help Asda in improvement of its brand image and goodwill in marketplace.
Talented and loyal employees played an important role and work towards attainment of
organisational goals within limited time period. This will effect on HR decision making in
positive manner. For this, human resource of Asda must take decision regarding attracting and
retaining of talented or loyal workers. For this, they must provide benefits and appraisal to their
employees that turn to impact in increasing positive relationship with the company (Nankervis
and et. al., 2016).
Fewer workplace conflict: This is another importance of making strong relation with the
employees at workplace. Having positive relation at workplace support employees in its work
and also support them in reduction of any type of conflict. Positive relation among employees
helps in increasing motivation in other employees that result in less or fewer conflict. There is
requirement for HR to make an effective decision and reduce the conflict among their workforce.
For this, they must make decision regarding using of effective communication techniques that
will help in communicating of all business information to the workers in clear and effective
manner. Thus, it will facilitate Asda in making of strong and long lasting relation with their
employees (Noe and et al., 2017).
Increased Productivity: It is important for Asda to increase employee relation at
workplace. As it helps in improvement of productivity that result in accomplishment of
competitive advantages in successful manner. Therefore, is requirement of human resource of
Asda to make an effective decision regarding increasing of employee’s relation. There will be
requirement of motivating and satisfying their employees by using motivational techniques and
theories. Therefore, it is essential and important for human resource manager to motivate and
satisfied their employees towards the job.
Improved brand image: This is a biggest advantage of maintaining strong relationship
with the employees. Positive relation among workforce increase helps employees to provide

positive review about the company that turn to impact in enhancement of brand image in
marketplace. Along with this, improved brand image will help HR in recruiting and hiring of
best candidates that output in increment of sales and profitability easily (Stewart and Brown,
2019).
Therefore, all these are main importance of employee relation that help Asda in
accomplishment of competitive advantages and also increasing of their market ratio easily.
P6 key elements of employment legislation and the impact it has upon HRM decision- making.
There are different laws and regulations in UK that has been governed with the aim of
improving business performance and protecting employees from any legal issues. Some
important and essential laws that must be used by Asda. These will be explained as below:
 Equal Pay Right, 1970: It is a type of act that explains regarding equal treatment of both
male and female workers in terms of salary. In context of Asda, they must pay equal
salary to their both workers because it will help them in reduction of inequality issue and
also facilitated in improvement of their brand image in positive manner. Asda should
every worker equally as well as do not discriminate on any type of discrimination
including age, gender, race etc. This act has direct impact on Human resource to use
Equality act 2010. This act will help them in promoting of their employees from any type
of discrimination and support them in promoting of equality at workplace (Stone and et
al., 2015).
 Health and Safety Act, 1974: This is another act that will help an organisation to make
sure that workplace has with full security. As per the government of United Kingdom, it
explains regarding that responsibilities of managers within a company must protect health
and safety of their all employees in the working environment. In context of Asda,
business manager must give health and safety to their all employees. For this, human
resource manager must make a decision regarding developing health and safety related
policies that turn to impact in retaining of employees for longer time.
 Minimum Wages Act, 1998: It is an act that have purpose to provide minimum wage to
the employees according to their performance. This act is mainly based on hourly rate
within which entire right is for employees age 21 year or above as well as low minimum
wages applies to 18 to 20 years. In context of Asda, human resource manager must

provide the wages to their employees because it is a monetary benefit that helps
employees in working at same organisation for longer time (Treweek and et. al., 2018).
Therefore, all these are main and essential laws that must be used by Asda for protecting their
employees at workplace. This will help company by reducing the High employee turnover,
improving performance and productivity, improvement brand image etc. These are major
benefits of above mentioned laws that turn to effect on Asda by improving its growth and
development at national as well as international marketplace.
TASK 4
P7 Application of HRM practices in a work-related context, using specific examples.
There are different HRM practices including training and development, recruitment and
selection and many more. All these are important HRM practices that will help Asda in recurring
of best candidate at post of non-food manager (Williams, 2018). There is job description and
personal specification about the required post such as non-food manager. This will be shown as
below:
Person Specification
Jon position at Asda: Non-food manager
Functional unit: Human resource department
Reporting to: High Authority
Attributes Essential Desirable
Qualification & Experience Completed graduation and
MBA in human resource
management will be needed
for Non-food manager
position.
The Applicants having post-
graduation in management
industry accompanied by
having excellent time
management skills are
desirable.
Skills or Knowledge The applicant must have
effective time management
quality so that they can coach
as well as create non-food
The candidate must be capable
to multi-task different works
at a time as well as also have
the capability to lead a group

products so that clients service
or facilities can be improved.
of the people.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Company: Asda
Section: Human resource department
Designation: - Non-food manager
Job Address: London, UK
Job summary
The candidates must have accurate time management and communication skills because it will
help them in attracting of larger base of customers towards the product or services.
Role: -
Coaching as well as managing non-food team
Collecting customer feedback about the products or services
Stock management
Issues solving
Decision making
Time management
Recruitment and selection practices: This is one of the main HRM practice and in this,
human resource must recruit and select best candidates. There are different promotional
techniques such as LinkedIn, Facebook and many other. In this platform, Asda must provide
information about the vacant position that turn to impact in hiring of best talent in the workplace.
Best recruitment and selection of candidates support the Asda in improvement of its growth and
development within minimum time and in successful manner (Zheng and et. al., 2015).
Designing as well as placing job advertisements: This is significant for the Asda to
design and place job advertisement. Job advertisement regarding the current post will be shown
as below in tabular form. This is:
Non-food Manager needed