HRM Report: Functions, Planning, Change Management, and Legislation

This report provides a comprehensive overview of Human Resource Management (HRM) and its various functions within an organization. It begins by defining HRM and exploring its core functions, such as recruitment, training, and development, emphasizing their importance in maximizing organizational productivity. The report then delves into HR planning, highlighting its role in aligning human resources with strategic goals, addressing future manpower needs, and ensuring the recruitment of skilled personnel. Furthermore, it examines the significance of training and development in enhancing employee performance and organizational efficiency, followed by a discussion on change management and its stages. The report also covers employment legislation, emphasizing the importance of protecting employee rights and ensuring fair practices. Finally, it touches upon the impact of globalization on HRM. The report aims to provide insights into the practical application of HRM principles and their impact on organizational success.

INTRODUCTION TO
HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1 Human resource management and its functions of HR........................................................................3
Task 2 HR planning and its importance .............................................................................................................4
TASK 3 Training and development....................................................................................................................5
Task 4 Change management...............................................................................................................................6
TASK 5 Employment legislation ......................................................................................................................7
TASK 6 Globalisation........................................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................................................9
REFRENCES.........................................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management refers to utilisation and allocation of resources
properly. It helps an organisation to select specialised workers for a firm. HR manager also
perform some other functions like giving salary to their employees and many more. HR is
primarily works on the management of workers in an organisation focusing on policies and
on systems. Present report is based on all the functions performed by human resource
manager and also about its planning made by the management. It helps in the globalisation of
an organisation and promotes the employment legislative functions in an organisation. So,
employees rights can not be get harm. They also provide proper training to their workers and
helps them in their development as well as promotes the development of an organisation. All
these points are more evaluated in the given study.
TASK 1 Human resource management and its functions of HR
Human resource management is the process through which human resources are
managed by an organisation. It plays a very important role and part in a firm. This managerial
function responsible for overseeing employees benefits as well as all activities of selection
and recruitment have also done by them. In Palermo safe storage, HR activities are not done
by them properly(Armstrong and Taylor,2014). They have to properly use their human
resource so, they can maximize productivity of an organisation. They have to manage firm
human capital and mainly focus on implementing policies and strategies for an organisation.
HR manager performs many function in an organisation. So, they have to understand their
work and place in cited firm. Some of the functions which are performed by an human
resource managers are as follow:
Recruitment: Selection of wide range of specialised workers is the main and primary
function of HR manager(BloomVan and Reenen,2012). It helps them to recruit appropriate
employee in an organisation and select only those candidates which are eligible for that
purpose. There are several other task which are including in this like interview, job
description, salary negotiation all these are done by HR manager.
Training: When an organisation hired a candidate, major duty of this department is to
provide proper training to their workers. This is because every department performs functions
in different way. So, they have to provide this training to those workers in every department.
Development: After providing appropriate training, human resource department have
to identify convenient opportunities for their employees. This term is elaborated as
professional development of each and every employee on individual basis.

Human resource department of Palermo safe storage have to perform these functions
properly. So, they can increase their organisational efficiency together with their employees.
All these functions helps them to attain their targets with their workers help.
All the functions done by HR helps an organisation to select skilled candidate which
is appropriate for a firm. They have to maintain such plans which can help them to achieve
business objectives. A skilled and capable employee always work effectively. They have to
maintain ethical practices in an organisation, so firms can not harm their employees and
society welfare. These kind of strategies have to maintain by HR, so that they can achieve
organisational objectives(Boxall and Purcel,2011)
Task 2 HR planning and its importance
Human resource planning is the continuous systematic planning for achieving
optimum use of organisational most valuable resources which are human resource. The main
objective of human resource planning is to maintain a balance between employees and job
while avoiding manpower shortage and surplus. It is a process which helps an organisation to
identify current and future human resource needs for an organisation to achieve its goals. It is
a type of link between strategic plan of an organisation to the human resource management.
It is that process in which human resource requirement is identified for an organisation and
plans are made for satisfying their needs.
HR department of Palermo safe storage have to establish a proper plan regards to their
organisation. Some of their employees are dismissed due to trying to made trade unions.
Company have to manage their employees in such a manner so, that they will not face any
kind of issues like this in future. They have to maintain such plans through which they can
use their organisational resources properly. Department have to analyse the future demand of
workers with current position so, it became helpful to them to achieve their goals.
Proper planning of human resources helps them to take qualified and skilled workers
in their organisation. It helps them in sourcing appropriate employees for their entity. An HR
plan can address both tactical and strategical needs. Tactical addresses that how a firm can
deal out with day to day staffing issues and compliances with government regulations are
managed. A strategic HR plans helps an organisation to grow advanced recruitment and
training programmes(Bratton and Gold,2012). Some of the importance of HR planning are as
follow so, that the productivity of an organisation can be increased:

Future manpower needs: It helps an organisation to meet with future man power
demand for carrying out all the activities appropriately. It determine the future needs in terms
of number and kind.
Recruitment of talented personnel: Another purpose is to select and recruit the skilled
person for an organisation for filling the vacant position. They determine the human resource
needs, examine the present inventory level of employees in an organisation and then recruit
the personnel who fits in the job perfectly.
Development of human resources: Human resource department organise various
training and development programmes for their workers and helps them to increase their
skills more(Buller and McEvoy,2012)
Human resource planning is necessary in Palermo safe storage because, it helps them
to recruit and select perfect employee for their organisation. It also helps them to fill vacant
positions in an organisation and meet the demand level of workers in near future. This
process helps them to conduct various programmes for their employees. So, that they can
improve their ability of work, increase their efficiency and effectiveness for their
organisational work.
TASK 3 Training and development
Training and development helps an organisation to improve their work and efficiency.
Human resource department helps to their employees to work with motivation. They have to
provide training to their workers after selection process made. This training process helps
them to increase their performance in organisation. This performance improvement promotes
organisation output. Which may lead to survival of a firm in market for long run. It helps
them to enhance capabilities of an employee, so, they can give better result. It helps to each
and every individual to develop their personal as well as professional skill. It helps to
experience employees in increase their skills and competence because of more job
experience. And it is treated as the benefit for an organisation(Chen,2010).
Training is a return on investment. After training employees give their best in
organisation. A firm performance is totally depends upon on their workers employees. If
workers are doing work in a business effectively than it helps them to increase their
organisation performance and productivity.

By providing good training, development also takes place. Because it is a synonym
for training. Individual development can take place when an organisation conduct effective
training session to them. It helps in development of individual profession. This aspect also
helps in the development of an organisation.
Hence, Palermo safe storage have to use appropriate training session to their
employees which is exist-able and helpful in their development as well as to organisation
also. It increase their firm efficiency and also helps in sorting out the conflicts in an
organisation. So, human resource department have to work on this aspect so, that they can
give proper training to their employees and improves their organisation performance also.
Task 4 Change management
An organisation have to change their management according to their employees and
time requirement. This change made a wide impact over on employees and organisation
performance. This change is compulsory due to external environment of business is not same
and constant and keep on changing according to the time. HR plays a role of protector and
administrator. It helps an organisation in address the strategic issue involving the
competitiveness and performance of firm. External environment affects the business very
well so, HR have to maintain such strategies which helps them to recover from those.
There are three stages of change: unfreeze, change, refreeze. Changes in business is
compulsory because it helps them to grow and made them to adopt changes of technologies.
This three stages of business is given by lewis and this model chain is popularly known as
lewis change management model(Fee,2014).
Unfreeze: This stage evaluate that the organisation have to prepare themselves for
accepting the change. This acceptance is necessary in every business. This change process
balance off the organisation because things are not be done in same manner like from past.
This process helps an organisation to accept the changes.
Change: After the initial stage of unfreeze, people start finding out the best way to do
things. Unfreeze stage creates an uncertainty in an organisation and forces to people to look
out the new ways of doing things. This change process take few times for acceptance and
make it successful for an organisation(RenwickRedmanMaguire 2013).
Refreeze: this is the process when organisation is ready to refreeze after accepting all
changes. It helps an organisation to get in shape and helps them to maintain proper balance.

This refreezing process is compulsory after change because it helps at the final stage of
success. It helps all the employees to be well informed about all the things and keep them
supportive in nature(Stahl ,2010.).
Palermo safe storage organisation have to keep prepare themselves to adopt change in
management. Human resource department have to do work in this concern. It helps their
employees to keep aware about all the circumstances and encourages them to be supportive to
organisation. This step helps their firm to survive. Their employees have to be more creative
and helpful so they can get rid out from this situation as early as possible. So, for this concern
human resource management have to motivate their employees and have to provide proper
training to them. So, they can manage in any situation.
TASK 5 Employment legislation
It includes all type of protection measurement which are related to an employee.
Employment protection refers to both from hiring to firing. It includes all the term like the
advance notice of termination, salary related issues and all those things from which a n
employment rights got harm. This provision enforced workers to right appeal against unfair
practices against workers. In any organisation human resource manager have to get well
know about all the rights of a workers. It helps them to avoid the welfare of their workers.
They have to pay for the overtime done by the workers. This motivate other
employees and also an individual to work with more efficiency. An HR have to get fully
aware about all these things because it helps a entity to net sue by their employee at any time
and also helps in making the contract with workers. So, their rights not get void. This
provision helps in maintaining equality in business without any type of discrimination against
each and every employee(Vörösmarty,2010).
According to the given firm, they usually terminate their employees without any
notice due to making of trade union in an organisation. They also gave some other work to
their employees without any premature information. By not providing proper information
about overtime, firm is disobeying working time directive act, in which they are using their
human resource from more than 48 hours. This short period notice from organisation make
difficulty for their workers. Their salaries and wages not equal to the national average. It
means that they are getting low amount than other employees which is not helping in

complete their basic needs. Hence, they are violating the national wage act. This act gives rise
in getting minimum wages so their living standard can be improved.
Human resource department of Palermo safe storage have to get knowledge about all
these things. It promotes to work in favour of an organisation and workers will remain in firm
for more time. This process also helps them to select skilled candidate in an organisation
which works in the field of efficiency increment. This helps an organisation to perform more
appropriately in the competitive market and can survive for more run.
TASK 6 Globalisation
Globalisation is very helpful for every business firm. It helps them ton achieve their
goals and objectives with effectively and efficiently. Human resource department is very
helpful in achieving goals for an organisation by using globalisation. They have to maintain
strategies which are important for an organisation. It is the policy which has been introduced
so as to remove the barriers of trade and commerce between the countries. It became the
turning point for interaction and integration for organisation people and countries. At the
universal platform global trade is conducted(Wrigh2011). It has increased the scope of
international businesses.
Globalisation has helped to remove the legislation enforced by state on goods and
services across the countries.
It has improved the living standards of the countries engaged in free trades as income
has been increased and also economic growth.
An advantage that is attached with globalisation is competition, due to which local
merchants have become more attentive and has started working on their quality so as to
compete with the outside world.(Wrigh and McMahan,2011)
Globalisation has provided the benefit of free trade : free trade means where two
countries can trade among each other freely with no barriers. Organisation have the utmost
benefit as they now can provide their customers with -
1. better quality products
2. wide variety
3. at lower cost

With globalisation organisation has more choices even in case of labour also. Labour
migration rate has been increased due to this and it has benefited to both the labourers as well
as organisation.
Hence, human resource department of Palermo safe storage have to use this
globalisation method for increasing their business. As, it helps them to increase their profit.
So, for all these things the have to use specialised workers with high efficiency. This also
helps them to produce good quality service in market. Globalisation helps them to establish
strategies which are compatible for their business.
CONCLUSION
It is concluded from the above report that, in any organisation human resource
department plays a important role. A HR manager of any organisation helps them to recruit
those candidates which are suitable for an entity. According to above mentioned study,
Palermo safe storage have to use mentioned corrective steps for making a good organisation.
Their HR managers have to use those methods from which they can maintain good relation
with their employees. Also, they have to improve their training techniques, it helps in
development of their employees. HR manager should have to get properly aware about the
employment provisions, it removes the mostly chances of harming their rights. They should
have to adopt globalisation method in their business expansion.

REFRENCES
Books and Journals
Armstrong, M and Taylor, S., 2014. Armstrong's handbook of human resource management
practice. Kogan Page Publishers.
Bloom, N and Van Reenen, J., 2011. Human resource management and productivity.
Handbook of labor economics. 4. pp.1697-1767.
Boxall, P and Purcell, J., 2011. Strategy and human resource management. Palgrave
Macmillan.
Bratton, J and Gold, J., 2012. Human resource management: theory and practice. Palgrave
Macmillan.
Buller, P.F and McEvoy, G.M., 2012. Strategy, human resource management and
performance: Sharpening line of sight. Human resource management review. 22(1). pp.43-
56.
Chen, T., and et. al., 2010. The Human Oral Microbiome Database: a web accessible resource
for investigating oral microbe taxonomic and genomic information. Database (Oxford). 2010.
p.baq013.
Fee, M.C., 2014. Human resources management.
Guest, D.E., 2011. Human resource management and performance: still searching for some
answers. Human resource management journal. 21(1). pp.3-13.
Kern, R., 2014. Introduction. In Dynamic Quality Management for Cloud Labor Services (pp.
3-7). Springer International Publishing.
Lengnick-Hall, and et. al ., 2011. Developing a capacity for organizational resilience through
strategic human resource management. Human Resource Management Review. 21(3). pp.243-
255.
Renwick, D.W., Redman, T and Maguire, S., 2013. Green human resource management: A
review and research agenda. International Journal of Management Reviews. 15(1). pp.1-14.
Stahl, G.K., and et. al., 2010. Unraveling the effects of cultural diversity in teams: A meta-
analysis of research on multicultural work groups. Journal of international business studies.
41(4). pp.690-709.
Vörösmarty, C.J., and et. al., 2010. Global threats to human water security and river
biodiversity. Nature. 467(7315). pp.555-561.
Wright, P.M and McMahan, G.C., 2011. Exploring human capital: putting ‘human’back into
strategic human resource management. Human resource management journal. 21(2). pp.93-
104.
Online
Employment legislation. Online. Available through
<http://businesscasestudies.co.uk/business-theory/people/employment-
legislation.html>. [Accessed on 21st March 2017]
Six Main Functions of a Human Resource Department. Online. Available through
<http://smallbusiness.chron.com/six-main-functions-human-resource-department-
60693.html>. [Accessed on 21st March 2017]