Comprehensive Human Resource Management Report for ASDA Stores

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of Human Resource Management (HRM) at ASDA, a British supermarket retailer. It begins with an overview of ASDA's organizational structure and the role of HRM in achieving business objectives. The report delves into the specific functions of HRM, including staffing, training and development, compensation, employee relations, and health and safety. It also explores different approaches to workforce planning, such as recruitment and selection, training and development, and performance management, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. Furthermore, the report emphasizes the importance of employee engagement and flexible organizational structures in influencing HRM decision-making. It concludes by identifying key areas of employment legislation relevant to ASDA, such as holiday entitlement, working time, and equal opportunities. The report aims to provide a detailed understanding of HRM practices and their impact within the context of a major retail organization.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1 ...........................................................................................................................................1
1. An overview of the organisation.............................................................................................1
2. Describing the purpose of HRM functions along with the appropriate skills to full fill such
business objectives......................................................................................................................2
3. Different approaches to workforce and also its strengths and weaknesses.............................3
4. Analysing the importance of employees that influencing the HRM decision making..........5
5. Determining the key areas of employment legislation............................................................6
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
Job specification..........................................................................................................................7
Curriculum Vitae for students.....................................................................................................7
Selection criteria for Asda organisation .....................................................................................8
Job offer letter.............................................................................................................................8
Steps that describes the complete process of recruitment...........................................................9
Evaluation and rationale for conducting appropriate HR practices............................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Human Resource Management is referred as a strategic approach to the effective
management of the people and resources within organization. HRM helps the people to gain a
competitive advantage. It allows the manager to design the strategies that assists the enterprise in
maximizing the performance of the employees. Human resource Management also plays the
important role in recruiting, selecting, inducting employees, imparting training and development
and motivating the workforce of the company. This study will be based on the human resource
management of ASDA Stores. This is a British super market retailer organization and
headquarters are present in West Yorkshire UK. This report mainly focus towards HR functions
and responsibilities of HR function within organization.
Furthermore, this document will also help in discovering training and development of the
individual within organization. This report will also help in identifying importance of the
employee motivation which influences the decision Making of HRM. It will also provide Job
offer letter along with the curriculum vitae of candidates
TASK 1
1. An overview of the organisation
Human resource management is one of the important unit of the organisation which helps
in coordinating all the business functions of the ASDA (Berman and et.al., 2018). All the human
resource efforts are integrated with other sources of the firm which results in producing effective
throughput. ASDA stores Ltd trading as Asda is a British supermarket retailer company which
was founded by Peter and Fred Asquith in 1949. The enterprise deals with large variety of
grocery items and also provides the financial services to its customers. The firm employs 165000
number of employees and generate the operating income of almost £791.7 million in 2016. Asda
is a growing company operating in highly competitive markets. Due to the expansion of
business and colleague turnover, this organisation has started recruitment of the employees.
Human resource Management of ASDA aimed at filling 70% of its leadership team vacancies.
Meanwhile, Asda's comprehensive HR strategies engage colleagues and supports the
organisational culture. Human resource management of Asda company provides wide
opportunities for the career development of the employees. This resulted in high loyalty of the
employees which leads to the retention of the workforce.
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2. Describing the purpose of HRM functions along with the appropriate skills to full fill such
business objectives.
Human Resource management is the term which is used to describe a formal system
which is devised for the management of the people within an organisation (Devine and et.al.,
2019). HR professionals conduct a wide variety of tasks within the structure of the organisation.
Human Resource Manager mainly responsible for various kinds of activities within the
enterprise. Such actions are staffing, employees compensation and benefits creation of the
management strategies. Such activities and actions are described below:
Staffing
It includes hiring and employment of the employees within the firm. Such activities are
as follows:
 Identifying the vacant position of the company and fulfilling the need with the talented
candidates.
 Use of the effective technology to invite the applications of the people in order to aquire
the vacant position of company.
 Termination of the contracts when necessary.
 Maintaining the ethical hiring practices that aligns with the regulatory environment of the
firm.
 Writing about the negotiable salary and benefits.
Training and development
Training of employees regarding the operational practices of the company and also
development of the staff members in the form of promotion and professional development of
employees. Various activities includes:
 This function allow HR Managers in supervising the overall behaviour of employee.
 Training programs conducts training for new hires and existing employees.
 HR department of Asda also monitors human resources of the company and also
determines the training needs of the employees.
Compensation
The Human resource department is also responsible for various compensatory aspects of
employees that includes payslips and compensation amount of workforce (Fu, Jonathan and
Bano, 2019). Various activities are as follows:
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 This department of Asda typically handles payroll and ensures that employees get paid
accurately and on time.
 HRM also manages the compensation programs that includes the pension and other fringe
benefits offered by employer.
Health and safety
The Human resource manager is responsible for the environment of the workplace. Also
employees enjoys all the health and insurance benefit from the company are managed by the
human resource of the department. Also, health and safety benefits of employees includes:
 This department keeps the track of absence and job protected leave of individuals.
 Human resource representative also ensures the that the employees receives the proper
disclosure regarding benefits.
 It also helps in assisting the eligibility or its benefits are no longer available to individual
may be because of the layoff or termination.
Employee relationship
The human resource department of the firm are also responsible for handling the
employee relations within Asda (Kasemsap, 2019). Various programs that contributes towards
the employee relations are:
 It can be improved by promoting the communication and equality within the company.
 Resolution of the disputes between staff members.
 Assessing the employee rights and labour unions.
Legal and regulatory framework of the Asda effects the work culture of the company and thus
it is responsible for the negative and positive environment of workforce. It influences the
behaviour of the employees at workplace.
Advancement of technology effects the working procedure of the company and hence it may be
responsible for retention of the employees. So Human resource manager need to motivate the
staff members in adopting new techniques. Such new techniques help in improving the efficiency
of the firm. In this situation, HR management need to promote trainings and development
programs for employees in order to provide skills and knowledge regarding new technology.
3. Different approaches to workforce and also its strengths and weaknesses
Workforce planning is a continual process that mainly focuses in identifying the needs
and priorities of the organisation to ensure the effective business procedure and regulatory
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production and services that meets the actual objectives of business. Workforce planning
analysis the future and present requirement of the human resource within company. Most of the
employees generally work for longer hour to increase and boost the revenue of the firm.
However, it effects the working efficiency of employees which may leads to negative effects on
employees.
Recruitment and selection
This is the process of employing the workforce within Asda. Recruitment and selection
refers to the process of attracting, short-listing, selecting and appointing suitable candidate for
jobs. It can also be considered as hiring of the candidates according to their skills and abilities.
Strengths: It promotes outside talent and provides opportunities job opportunities for freshers
(Macke and Genari, 2019). It brings new ideas and skills of the people. Selection and recruitment
also supports the company in fulfilling the vacant position of Asda organisation.
Weaknesses: recruitment and selection procedure is generally time consuming and cost
consuming activity. Training and development of the new hiring need to be organised. This also
adds the cost in recruitment and selection.
Training and development: This is the process of improving the knowledge and skills of staff
members. This helps in improving the efficiency of the firm. HR professionals introduces the
training and development programs helps in influencing positive environment at workplace.
Strengths: It improves the performance of employees and it also promotes the productive
efficiency among the work of employees.
Weaknesses: Training and development may be responsible for the waste of time and money.
Wrong training may effects the overall objectives of the firm.
Performance management and Reward system
Performance management helps in improving the overall throughput of the Asda and this
allows the company in achieving higher profitability of the firm (Masud and Daud, 2019). This
can be defined as the process of monitoring and supervising the activities of the employees that
engaged in achieving higher profitability. Rewards and recognition is the method of improving
morale and employee satisfaction.
Strengths: The performance management system improves the overall productivity of employees
which result in growth and sustainable development of firm. Rewards and appreciation
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encourages the performance and also motivates them in doing better job. This satisfies the people
at workplace and creates the positive work environment of Asda.
Weakness: Low performance of the employees discourages them. It demotivate staff members
and it may promote the sense of favouritism and unequal treatment to employees. It may be
responsible for low performance of employees.
4. Analysing the importance of employees that influencing the HRM decision making
Employee engagement is a workplace approach which results in the positive work culture
in the business environment. It basically assists the nature of the relationship between an
organisation and its employees. Employee engagement motivates the workforce towards the
improved performance and thus it increases the overall productivity of the Asda company.
The flexible organisation
A flexible organisation structure is one in which the employees can easily adopt the
customer needs efficiency and completes expedite decision making whenever necessary (Turner
and et.al., 2019). These types of organisational structure helps in meeting the main objectives of
the firm. Such organisations are generally categorised into three sub units that is structural,
numerical and functional flexibility of organisation.
There are lot of flexible working options within the organization such as flat
organisational working, geographical structure and ad Hoc teams. This type of structure within
Asda company promotes healthy work culture and it also engages the employees in decision
making of the company.
Benefits of flexible organisational structure:
it enhances the competitiveness within the industry and also it promotes opportunities for
and chances to retain in the company for the longer run. It develops the effective teams within
the organisational environment of Asda (Tweedie and et.al., 2019). It enables the workforce in
choosing their comfortable environment so this makes motivated workforce and hence it
increases the morale of staff members within the company. Flexible organisational structure
within Asda which also promotes healthy work culture and ensures the safety of the staff
members.
Benefits to employee flexible working practices:
Employee flexible working practices may promotes better communication between staff
members and it results in the effective relationship of the employees within organisation. It
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improves the performance of the workforce and thus it helps the organisation in meeting the
main objectives of the firm.
5. Determining the key areas of employment legislation
Employee legislation is the law that governs the employment of the people within
workplace and this ultimately affects the employer, employee and unions directly. This includes
several types of employee protection measures weather grounded primarily in legislation, court
rulings, collectively bargained conditions of employment or customary practices.
Implementation of the proper legislation and legal employment laws builds the strong
image of the company which ultimately promotes the positive work culture. Employment law
regulates the relationship with employer and employees. It includes various things such as health
and safety regulations, maternity and parental rights, discrimination, discipline, graviance and
dismissal procedure etc. various different types of legislation and legal procedures of the
employment are as follows:
Holiday entitlement and pay: Guidance on the legislation of the employee governing the
holidays' entitlement and pay of the holiday. All the employees have equal rights to be paid for
their holidays.
Working time: working time regulations are also one of the main legislation that provides equal
rights to employee so that employer do not exceed the working hour of an individual (Yadav
andet.al., 2019). If the working exceeds then employer have to pay for the extra time to
employees.
Health and safety: It helps in understanding the one of the important employment laws in UK.
As safety and stress at work includes the obligation of the employees at work place.
Equal pay: This law provides the information regarding the minimum wages of the employees
per day. So all the employees at same level and designation need to be paid equally.
Bullying and harassment at work: This is one of the important employment law which is made
for those who face lot of humiliation at workplace. Employees need to be provided proper
trainings and recommended advices on such behaviour and issues within the workplace.
Motivation of the employees is very important as it improves the morale which leads to
the improved efficiency of the employees within Asda. Various motivational theories at
workplace helps in encouraging the morale and employee satisfaction. Motivated workforce can
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be achieved by fulfilling the basic needs of individual. It also provisions effective organisational
behaviour which engage employees in developing more skills and understanding regarding the
work procedure and operations of the firm (Human resource Management, 2018).
TASK 2
Job specification
URGENT HIRING
Human Resource Manager Require
A well established super marketing Asda company of Uk is seeking for passionate,
knowledgeable and energetic HR professionals to fill this position.
Qualification in Maters with specialization degree in Human Resource and finance
Management is required.
A skillful personnel is required also non experienced candidates will be eligible for the vacant
position.
Full command over english communication and problem solving attitude will be
desired.
Interested candidates matching with the above requirements criteria may email us along with
updated Curriculum vitae and covering letter and two pass port size photographs.
Email: [e-mail] or you can contact us at 5682901432.
We hire according to the best knowledge and skills of personnel and also provides equal
opportunities to fresh talent.
Curriculum Vitae for students
SAINT JOE PETERSON
5406 labondig street New Hampshire, UK
CEL#: 546209850
Email: [e-mail]
OBJECTIVES
To achieve the position of human resource manager at multinational company of UK so
that it allows me in conversion of my HRM skills and knowledge into actions. To achieve my
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future objectives of Human resource manager, I found this company is best suited for me to
explore my human resource practices.
EDUCATION
I have completed my Masters in business association along with specialization in
Human resource management in 2017. Also scored second rank in graduation of Bachelor of
Commerce at XYZ universities of London and got 92% in 12th boards at Hampshire university.
WORK EXPERIENCE
I have worked for 2 years in Aston university as a lecturer and served many students with
my HRM knowledge and skills. Also worked under for 6 months in London school of
Economics at same post. Now I want to explore my knowledge practically
SPECIAL SKILLS
Good communication skills, human resource Management skills, Professional skills, and
A good knowledge of Microsoft Applications.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
DOB: January 12, 1992
Place of Birth: Labondig street, new hampshire
Nationality: UK
Gender: Male
Civil status: South east
Selection criteria for Asda organisation
Selection criteria will be based on the skills and abilities of individual candidate. As the
interview process starts with the interview questions that specifies the characteristics and desired
abilities of candidates. Several interview questions asked from interviewer to interviewee are:
Ques:1 Tell me some strengths and weaknesses about yourself?
Ques:2 why should we consider hiring you among all the talented candidates?
Ques:3 why do you want to work in Asda company?
Ques:4 Where do you see yourself within next five years?
Ques:5 How do you handle stress and pressure and also monitor the team of five to six members
in this situation?
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Job offer letter
To,
Mr. XYZ
Subject: Offer letter for Human Resource Manager
Dear Mr. XYZ,
We are happy to offer you the position as Human resource manager On following terms and
conditions:
 Probation period will be three months in which you are not eligible for any employee
benefits. This probation period will be starting with effect from Marrch 21, 2019.
 you are not entitled to any paid or casual leaves.
 You have to bear Loss of pay in case of any absent.
With Regards,
ABC
Senior Human Resource Director,
Wang lee
Steps that describes the complete process of recruitment
Personnel recruitment and selection process is based on the skills and knowledge of the
candidate which matches with the selection criteria of vacant position. Hiring of the candidate is
completely based on overview of their curriculum vitae as well as abilities of the individual.
 Hr manager generally asks various questions with the interviewee in order to seek the
personality of candidate.
 Written test is also performed in most of the cases which depicts thoughts and the writing
abilities of the individual. s
Evaluation and rationale for conducting appropriate HR practices.
HR Practices are been performed in the organisation in order to bring the employees
within the company and this also matches with the required profile which is vacant in the
organisation.
Conducting the HR practices at workplace helps in maintaining the employee relation and
also helps in controlling the activities of human resource in company (Yadav andet.al., 2019).
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Pay slips, employee benefits etc. human resource management practices helps in maintaining
good relationship of the employees at workplace.
CONCLUSION
From the above study, it can be concluded that Human resource management is one of
the main department of the organisation and this unit is responsible for the management fo
human resource within company. This assessment has described effective roles and
responsibilities of HR manager and also discussed benefits of effective engagement. This
document has also provided Job letter and curriculum vitae needed for the HR professionals. this
has also described various interview questions that drives the eligibility in recruitment and
selection criteria.
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