Human Resource Management Report

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of Human Resource Management (HRM) practices, drawing on several case studies. It examines workforce planning, recruitment and selection strategies (internal vs. external), and the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. The report also delves into employee relations, the impact of legislation on HR decisions, and effective advertising platforms for job vacancies. Specific examples from Woodhill College, Tesco, and ITV illustrate key HRM concepts, including training and development programs, structured training methods, and the importance of flexibility in the workplace. The report concludes by emphasizing the crucial role of HRM in achieving organizational goals and maintaining positive employee relations.

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................................................................2
TASK 1...........................................................................................................................................................................3
A. ........................................................................................................................................................................3
B...........................................................................................................................................................................4
C. .........................................................................................................................................................................4
D. ........................................................................................................................................................................5
E...........................................................................................................................................................................5
TASK 2...........................................................................................................................................................................5
A. ........................................................................................................................................................................5
B. .........................................................................................................................................................................6
C. .........................................................................................................................................................................7
D. ........................................................................................................................................................................9
TASK 3 ..........................................................................................................................................................................9
A..........................................................................................................................................................................9
B. .......................................................................................................................................................................10
C. .......................................................................................................................................................................10
D........................................................................................................................................................................11
E. .......................................................................................................................................................................12
F. .......................................................................................................................................................................12
G. ......................................................................................................................................................................13
TASK 4 ........................................................................................................................................................................13
A. ......................................................................................................................................................................13
B. .......................................................................................................................................................................14
C. .......................................................................................................................................................................15
D. ......................................................................................................................................................................15
CONCLUSION.............................................................................................................................................................15
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
HRM refers to the procedure of carry off staff members in an effective and efficient way
within organisation. It includes different tasks such as selection, rewarding and forecasting
culture of firm that helps its business to achieve the desired objectives. Corporate is required to
manage its resources in an effective manner for remaining competitive at the global level.
Present report is based on different case scenario which includes different practices of HRM
(Armstrong and Taylor, 2014).
This report provide appropriate understanding of the advantages and disadvantage of the
recruitment and selection approaches. Other than this, this report also helps to understand the
importance of employee relations and its influence on the HR decisions. Lastly, it also involves
determination of various platforms in order to place advertisement for the job.
TASK 1
A.
Workforce planning can be termed as the procedures that is enforced by company for
maintaining the employees for increasing the level of profit. In context of Woodhill College,
there is an important role played by HR manager in workforce planning. There are certain
intention of workforce planning and function of HR manager at Woodhill College that are
mentioned as:
Training and development- Main aim of workforce planning is to create skills and
knowledge with the help of appropriate training programmes. Manager of HR department at
Woodhill College plays an necessary role for employees which helps to increase the level of job
satisfaction and to learn new technologies along with different methods. Other than this, it
facilitates to retain the employees for a long period of time (Aswathappa, 2013).
Compensation and benefits- HR manager plays an important role in order to provide
appropriate benefits to employees on the basis of their performance. In context of benefits,
payroll to employees at Woodhill College is a significant aspect for them.
Retaining people- HR manager at Woodhill College must make sure for retaining the
efficient employees. It is most important to retain skilled and trained employees instead of
providing training to new people. The stated business provides monetary as well as non-
monetary benefits for retaining employees at workplace.

Employee relations- It is another essential role of workforce planning and HR plays an
essential role to investigate different situations between employees and to find out appropriate
solution to the issues. It assists in managing the relationship between employer and employee in
order to maintain appropriate healthy working environment in the college.
B.
Recruitment refers to the process of identifying the requirement to employ people as per
the post which is available at workplace. Along with this, selection is considered as the
procedure included in order to select an appropriate candidate for filling the post. Some of the
strengths and weaknesses to the approaches of recruitment and selectio at Woodhill College .
In terms of recruitment, internal recruitment is a procedure of transferring employees in
another department. These involve filling vacancy through a person who is already working and
advertisement of the vacancy and election is based on the responses. Major strength of this
approach is that stated business is able to get appropriate information about the candidate.
Further, it also helps in minimising the value of recruitment and to make investment in the
programmes of training and development (Bamberger, Biron and Meshoulam, 2014).
On the other hand, disadvantages includes that it does not create any new ideas and
knowledge. Moreover, external approaches of recruitment involve different sources which are
found outside the business such as through advertisement, websites and campus recruitment as
well as through employee referrals. Strength of this approach is that it increases the possibility to
find an appropriate candidate for the job. It also provides different opportunities to select
experienced and highly skilled candidates for meeting the requirements of Woodhill College. On
the other side, weakness includes that this is time consuming process as well high cost.
On the other side, selection is a process in which to select a qualified person who
provides appropriate contribution to the business. There are some of the methods included in the
process of selection and it have some of the strengths along with the weaknesses. One of the mai
strength of approaches to selection is that they select a candidate on the basis of their skills ans
knowledge of the subject. Furthermore, the weakness involves that at the time of selection there
is biasses and selection of employee is based on the personal relation (Brewster, Mayrhofer and
Morley, 2016).

C.
There are different purpose of HRM which involves the selection, staffing and the
progress of organisation along with the programmes of training. It plays an crucial function in
order to give the skills and knowledge for attaining the goals of organisation. With the help of
skills and knowledge are required to be in appropriate condition so that activities are performed
in appropriate manner.
D.
There are certain of the strengths and weaknesses of approaches to recruitment and
selection which are adopted by Woodhill College sourcing through internal and external. In
internal sourcing the main strengths is that it is the fast way to recruit the employees and people
are promoted or shifted to other department. One of the weaknesses is the number of different
applicants are restricted to get a job. On the other side, external sourcing in which main strength
is the company get new new people with innovative ideas and get benefits from the various
candidates. Major weakness is that it is a long procedures and it is also expensive.
E.
In context of internal recruitment approaches at Woodhill College which can be done
through the internal and external approaches and it have some of the benefits as well as
limitations. Through internal sourcing it helps in saving the cost of the firm and time in order to
advertise the different activities. It can be critically evaluated that this approaches helps to hire
employees as it is ineffective at the time of promotion. On the contrary of this, it can be analysed
that external sourcing at Woodhill College is effective and providing different types of people for
recruiting and the firms gain choice of selection of various people. However, the college have to
make so much expenses at the time of interview of employees. Profits of the company also get
affected as it also affect the salary of the different employees.
TASK 2
A.
Vacancy for Lecturer at Woodhill College
Introduction- This advertisement is made in order to fill the vacancy of Faculty at Woodhill

College along with the mentioned requirements.
Duties
 Proper knowledge about the given topic
 Must maintain the level of discipline
 Evaluating the progress of students along with preparing appropriate lessons
 managing an effective communication with people
 Motivating the students for giving their improved performance
Qualification-
 Mush have masters degree in respective subject
Skills-
 Appropriate communication skills so that it helps them to communicate with the
students in an effective manner.
 There is an appropriate level of patience must be present in person so that which helps to
handle the different number of students at workplace.
 There is requirement of interpersonal skills for managing the interaction and
communication so that it develops and successful for the professional level.
 In order to solve different issues at workplace the person must have critical thinking.
B.
There are various types of platform in order to place an advertisement that is available to
the Woodhill College is described below:
Social media marketing- This type of advertising is carried out with the help f using internet and
it helps in reaching large number of audience. There are some of the websites which are popular
in social media and it helps in marketing of advertisement to the people and searching people
from the different areas. Further, social media marketing is beneficial for getting information
regarding the people in a specific field and to place an advertisement to the sites. Thus, it can be

stated that it this type of platform helps the College in getting appropriate person for the vacancy
of job.
Newspapers- This is another platform in order to place the advertisement as it can reach the
different people and those people also who does not have appropriate knowledge regarding the
usage of internet. Furthermore, it is also considered as a traditional method of advertising and
also attract large number of people (Budhwar, P.S. and Debrah, 2013).
Magazines- Through magazines as it is another way to place advertisement which is more
targeted and people recognises it for a long period of time. Furthermore, it also helps the College
to attract people for the purpose of their vacancy.
Mobile advertising- In modern era, people using mobile phones so that this is another way by
which they can advertise their vacancy to the people. It also helps in attracting people to a great
extent and leads to the growth of the organisation.
Thus, it can be stated that there are different tools of advertising are available to Woodhill
College which helps them to attract people so that they can recruit best person for the job
vacancy. With the help of various techniques they can promote their advertisement in an
appropriate manner. Moreover, this tools are helpful for them as they can employed best person
and can get different choices for making selection (Horwitz and Budhwar, 2015). The
employment is on the basis of knowledge and skills and they must be efficient enough to handle
all of the targets at workplace.
C.
Person Specification
This is a statement that includes the skills, qualification, knowledge and other different
concepts which must be needed in a student for performing the job responsibilities.
Person Specification for Faculty for higher level education
Essential Desirable
Attainments
Qualification and training Must be MBA from top The person who completed

College along with teaching
knowledge.
masters in business
administration and provide
services around 3 years.
Experience Candidate must have
experience of 5 years in
education field.
Candidate having an
appropriate experience in
education field.
General Intelligence
Change management The candidate have the
capability to adopt alteration in
context of working of College
(Kumar, 2014).
Person must be ready to accept
changes and capable enough to
work in those changes.
Knowledge and expertise Candidate have appropriate
knowledge of computer and
proper information of the
different concepts of
marketing.
Candidate should have proper
skills of presentation and to
maintain the people at
workplace.
Job Specification
It is a statement of that is necessary components of a class of job which involves the
summary of the work which is to be performed along with the primary roles and responsibilities.
It also includes the minimum qualifications and the needs which are important for performing the
various functions at job.
Job description
Position- Teacher Reports to – Head of Department
Job Responsibilities

 Evaluating the performance which is based on the requirement.
 Maintain appropriate level of relationship with the students.
 Achieve the targets related to the proper subject
 Must maintain various number of people at one time
 Understand the needs of students and give them appropriate guidance
Job Roles
 To maintain the students performance while teaching
 Do proper research of the subject knowledge
 Make arrangements of the different aspects as per the requirement of students.
D.
In context of application of various HRM practises in the above case problem, it can be
asserted that the business is facing issues related to vacant post in the organization. Furthermore,
the advertisement displayed will highlight the key attributes required to fill the vacant position in
organization. The HR manager will need to ensure that proper and effective process of selection
and recruitment is carried out in order to satisfy the requirement of human resource within
Woodhill College.
TASK 3
A
Training and development plays an essential function for enhancement of skills and
knowledge of workers at Tesco. Training is considered as an act of learning new things at
workplace that helps to make betterment in the present performance of an employee. However,
development is used to increase the level of capacity of employees and motivate them
performing in an appropriate manner. There is certain difference among the training and
development with respect to Tesco which is described as below:
Comparison Training Development

Meaning Training refers to the
procedure of learning and
different skills for performing
tasks as per the requirement
(Horwitz and Budhwar, 2015).
Development can be termed as
capabilities of a person for the
improvement in performance
of job and helps employees to
grow.
Purpose It helps to improve the level of
performance or capabilities of
an employee at workplace.
Main purpose of development
is to prepare an individual for
the future challenges.
Focuses on The focus of training is based
on existing requirement at
Tesco.
Development mainly focuses
on the future criteria which is
to be used at workplace.
Term It is considered as short term
procedure for the employees of
Tesco.
It is a long term process that is
applicable to the growth of a
person and maturity in context
of different capabilities.
Concentration towards At Tesco, there is main focus
of employees is ability to
perform the activities in an
effective manner.
The development of employees
at Tesco is related to the career
and future possibility of
growth.
B.
For providing appropriate services to the broad range of customers and to perform
various activities out of the store in professional manner and it is based on the basis of training
and development programmes. Furthermore, with the help of training programmes there is
growth in the professional activities of company and to take care of customers for the purpose of
attracting them. The customers are considered as an important entity in the business and they
have the power to make changes in the organisations strategy. There is requirement to give
training to members of staff so that they can fulfil the demands and expectations such as likes

and dislikes, appropriate services so that it helps in attaining business targets (Kumar, 2014). The
main role of training and development programmes is not only to fulfil the requirements of
customers but also helps in the growth of business. Thus, it can be stated that through training
employees can be efficient enough to satisfy the needs and demands of customers.
C.
Tesco provides various types of training to their employees in order to make
improvement in the growth of company along with its performance. There are two kinds of
training that covers on the job as well as off the job which is described below:
On the job training
Mentoring- The main concentration of this type of training is on the development of the attitude.
It can be used for the managerial employees and it is carried out by the senior person at
workplace.
Coaching- Though coaching it helps to find out the weak areas and attempt to mainly
concentration on them. It is one to one training and offers advantages of transferring the theory
into practice (Li, and et.al., 2015).
Job rotation- At Tesco, this is another method of training which is adopted by the management
in which they rotate the employees in the different department as per the requirement and their
capabilities.
Off the job training
Vestibule training- This grooming offers possibility to learn something new and the employees
are trained in an appropriate environment in a particular job. In this, the huge number of people
are given training on a specific time.
Conferences and lectures- It is a direct method of giving instructions and in this the
presentation is given to the large number of audience. Lectures should be motivating and to
develop interest among the trainees at Tesco. The person who provide lecture must having
appropriate knowledge regarding the subject (Locke and Latham, 2013).
Simulation exercises- In this type of off the job training, the management games are arranged by
the company which helps to motivate the employees so that which enhance the level of
performance. Further, it is effective for managing the worker at Tesco.

D.
Requirement of training can be known through the different goals and achieve it in
appropriate manner. For the expansion and modifications in business and there are certain goals
behind the programmes of training at Tesco. It needs that the correct people along with the right
place in order to achieve the goals. In order to identify various activities which are performed at
stores and employees are required to have appropriate skills of ability (Luo and Milne, 2014).
The worker who have broad range of skills as they are productive and helps to carry off the
development of business concern. Further, for fulfilment of demand of customers there is need to
have proper understanding of customers profile and to select the stock of the store. The
procedures of training is must be effective as they can carry out their activities in effectively and
efficiently which is based on their knowledge and skills. At Tesco, the employees are capable
enough to identify the difference between the skills for the procedures of training and
development (Nickson, 2013).
E.
Structured training refers to the various techniques and method that are employed for
developing the professional skills and to make enhancement in the work of employees. It helps to
perform their activities and tasks of job in an effective manner. In order to achieve the goals and
objectives along with the increase in the level of profit at Tesco so that the main aim of this
method is to increase the volume of sales (Riley, 2014). There is requirement to have proper
response on the level of performance which is necessary to concentrate on the various activities.
Along with this, through the structured training programmes there is increase in the level
of company by providing appropriate services. The employees at workplace are trained in such a
way so that they make optimum utilization of resources and different skills that is to be
beneficial for the business as well as customers.
F.
For providing appropriate quality services to people and to manage the development of
organisation as it can be done with the helps of structured training which is advantageous for
management. Further, this type of activities assist company so that they can earn high level of
profit and the growth of business is possible (SMITH, 2015). In context of Tesco, the company
also provide online services to their customers which is helpful for them to attract people with