Human Resource Management Report: HRM Practices and Analysis

This report delves into the core principles of Human Resource Management (HRM), exploring its objectives and diverse functions within an organizational context. The report examines key HRM practices, specifically focusing on recruitment and selection processes, evaluating their strengths and weaknesses through both internal and external approaches. It also assesses the benefits of various HRM practices, including performance management, training, and development. Furthermore, the report analyzes the significance of employee involvement in decision-making and the impact of employment legislation on HRM. A practical application of HRM is showcased through the creation of a job advertisement. The report uses Marks and Spencer as a case study and provides a critical evaluation of employee relations and the application of HRM practices. It concludes with a comprehensive overview of the discussed concepts and their implications for effective workforce management.

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Table of Contents
SINTRODUCTION.........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................2
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................2
P1. Explain the objective of human resource management and its functions.............................2
M1. Assess how the function of HRM practises fulfilling business objectives. ........................3
P2. Illustrate Strength and weakness about recruitment and Selection.......................................4
M2 Evaluate the strength and weakness of different approaches recruitment and selection :....6
D1. Critically evaluate the strength and weakness of different approaches of recruitment and
selection specific examples; ......................................................................................................6
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................7
P3. Explain the benefits of different HRM practises..................................................................7
M3. Assess different method of use in HRM practises. ............................................................8
P4. Evaluate different HRM practises in terms of raising profit and productivity. ...................9
D2. Critically evaluate HRM practises and application within an organisational context. .....10
Task 3.............................................................................................................................................11
P5. Examine about the importance of employees in decision making......................................11
M4. Evaluate key aspects of employees relationship management and employment legislation
that affect HRM decision making.............................................................................................12
P6. Investigate about key elements of employment legislation and impact it has upon HRM
decision making........................................................................................................................12
Task 4.............................................................................................................................................14
P7. Illustrate about application of HRM practises in work related...........................................14
Job Advertisement-..................................................................................................................14
M5. Provide a rationale for application practises in work related context................................16
D3. Critically evaluate employee relation and the application of Human resources
management practises. ..........................................................................................................17
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................17
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................18

INTRODUCTION
The concept of Human resource management is defines about strategic approach where
how to handle manpower that effectively management within organisation (Alsaadat., 2019). The
major task of human resource is to forming policies and regulation, managing manpower, assign
and provide induction to individuals employee for their specific job roles and responsibilities at
the time of hiring, training and development, performance appraisals and others activities is
majorly monitor and conducts for positive outcomes. The human resource manager are required
to make it use where organisation are able to attain their goals and objectives that depicts further
development contribute by employees.
In this particular report, the organisation Marks and Spencer's group plc which is based of
British multinational retailer with headquarter in London, England. It specialises about to selling
clothes, home product and food product. It was founded in 1884 by Michael Marks and Thomas
Spencer in Leeds. It was currently has 959 stores across United Kingdom where they uses digital
platform its television advertising asserts and the exclusive nature about luxury and television,
advertising of its food beverages online delivery services (Bastida., Marimon and Carreras.,
2018). As per report is concerned, the topics are determine about purpose and function of human
resource, evaluate and effectiveness of its key elements analysis of internal and external factors.
Additionally, application of HRM practices in a work-related context will be made as a part of
this project. Creation of Job advertisement, description and offer letter for company perspective.
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Illustration 1: Mark and Spencerin London, 2021
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MAIN BODY
TASK 1.
P1. Explain the objective of human resource management and its functions.
Human resources management is procedure of recruiting, selecting, clear emphasis about
work roles to employees, providing orientation, enhance development and training and appraise
to employees (Beijer and et. al., 2021). This helps to maintaining proper relations with
employees and their trade to evaluate positive outcomes. In perspective of Mark and Spencer
company, they have separately having human resource department where it enhance to
maintaining roles and responsibilities of employees, training and development, hiring etc. in
following there are some major human resource practises and functions:
 Recruitment and Selection: The term recruitment refers about practise through
identification of effective and potential candidates for valuable jobs. Selection refers to
using of different types where they are hired on certain assumption and particular of
organisation. In Mark and Spencer company, the function of human resource department
helps to effectively perform both recuritement and selection through different alternatives
by online job portals.
 Induction: This practise of human resource management it has function about to
conducting induction to provide effective job related information to employees
(Bhattacharyya, 2018). It helps to having better clarity by individual manpower and as
per according they can attain their job task in effective manner. Similarly, in Mark and
Spencertheir human resource department is reliable for provides information that support
towards attain competitive goals and in outcomes expected performances.
 Performance Management: To making employees on board, performance management
plays an important role as performance management is one second human resource basis.
In perspective of employee's role they have responsibilities that must need to take care
which enables employees to correct form of feedback on their performance with reaches
towards goals performance (Brewster and et. al., 2018). In Mark and Spencer company,
to implies performance management practise to their employees for making their
performance effective manner.
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 Training and Development: The human resource department of Mark and Spencer
allows this HR practises for developing skills and functions to mapping individual's
employees. Mark and Spencer HR department to performs function that ensure effective
training and development which ensures worker are able to concentrate better work.
Thus, the human resource of purpose and implies to able perform its different functions
in high effective manner.
Managerial function of Human resources management.
 Planning: The form of research in core of Human resource management that tend to
planning which also helps to management that collect, analyse and identify for currently
plus future need within organisation (Chams and García-Blandón., 2019). In perspective
of human resource management of Mark and Spencer company that helps to
management which enhance to collect analyse about situations.
 Organising: it is task in another important aspect where it helps to manage or process
where every member as per their skills and activities are integrated attain towards
common goal. In Marks and Spencer, their Human resource manager allows organise
overall activities to implement positive outcomes.
 Directing: this involves many alternatives to guide employees for their objective get
helps to attain maximum towards organisational goals (Collins, 2021). To tapping
maximum potentials of an employees via an employees to motivates and command for
better prime focuses . Mark and Spencer allows leader and manager to provides essential
outcomes.
 Controlling: This practise to monitor and guides employees to improvise their
performance about an employees to checked and verified towards compared within goals.
If the actual performance is found deviated from plan to control are taken in effective
manner.
M1. Assess how the function of HRM practises fulfilling business objectives.
It is describe about the function of human resource management which must assess
responsibility of human resource manager to recruit correct people who suits to the company's
specific profile. Through different training and development programs where human resource
manager uses these practises for making employees trained as well as it helps to improvise their
skills and further attributes. It is necessary about their skills to only accomplishing goal towards
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individual growth (Cooke and Kim., 2018). Thus, it also promotes flexible functioning without
lacking through effective skills set. In perspective of Mark and Spencer they majorly work on
recruitment and selection along with other practises of HR enhance more efficiently accomplish
effective manner.
P2. Illustrate Strength and weakness about recruitment and Selection.
Recruitment: It refers about the overall process of identification, attracting, screening,
shortlist for the candidates to clear out from interview and approach suitable candidate for jobs
within an organisation. Recruitment can also prefers to process that involved towards choosing
individual towards unknown roles assigned. There are some approaches about recruitment of
Mark and Spencer context that uses as:
Approaches of Recruitment:
Internal Sources: In this aspect about Human resources department is able to identify and
targeted people within an organisation where they promote them in higher role of company
(Flynn, Valentine and Meglich, 2021). Therefore, the manager of Mark and Spencer which is
uses of sources that they save to costs on recruitment skilled about specific job roles.
Strength :
 It can save the cost organisation by enhance internal recuritement.
 In organisation , when human resource department use internal approach they get to
analyse about talented manpower within organisation.
Weakness:
 The use of this approach is not fully recommend to the organisation, because it might
creates biased or discrimination between employees who are currently working there.
 When the approach that is used which create resentment within workers, because
employees not consider employees who are considered effective manner.
 This can take long time in decision making to recruit internal premise employees.
External Sources: In the external sources of recuritement where the Human resource
department that human resource department organisation puts focuses on recruiting externally
(George, Li and Hou., 2020). As for human resource manager of Mark and Spencer venture, they
mainly offers that identify from large pool available candidates to selects on different roles
identifies.
Strength:
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 With the use of this approach , the human resource manager are effective to reduce
internal politics in organisation which can occurs between colleagues.
 As per this approach, it is used by Human resource manager where they can able to
creates fair policy in terms of recruitment the workforce.
Weakness:
 On Human resource perspective of they recruit from external sources, it enhance for
consuming high time intake consumption to required between colleagues.
 The Human resources department about an organisation that contain higher costs these
sources for used leads on higher expenditure.
Selection: This a process to appointing high qualified and right candidate which suits where
successfully on effective job deliver valuables contributes to the organisation (Kaufman, 2019).
A selection where it depend on job analysis where they ensures towards selection criteria will
meaningful candidates.
Approaches of Selection in context of Marks and Spencer:
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Illustration 2: Selection Process, 2021
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management-and-entrepreneurship/human-resource-
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Preliminary Screening: If an employer received what it consider towards sufficient interest in
this position, the recruiter starts screening resumes or job applications for analysation that
particular candidate is suitable for position or not.
Telephonic Interview: It is been used at the time of first round of interview, in this process get
to mapped about situation that weather they get proper applicants interested within job or not.
Recuriter also measure behaviour and skills of individual candidates and then face to face inter
view approached.
Written Test: The using of this concerned method which made overall aptitude and skills of
candidate are mapped (Li., 2018). The human resource department of Mark and Spencer
company that able to make it use where they might analyse for potential candidate in effective
manner.
Strength:
 By using of this method it used to helps human resource department to analyse for overall
aptitude of candidates before hiring candidate particular role.
Weakness:
 The assort of this approach is time consumed in nature and therefore increases for
effective time taking to selective candidate.
 For using this approach organisation needs to bear high cost effective as it tend to
expensive.
M2 Evaluate the strength and weakness of different approaches recruitment and selection :
As per above two approaches of recruitment and selection with the perspective of Mark
and Spencer plc company. The human resource manager uses overall types of approaches in
which external approach adopted for hiring perspective. Two main selection process Preliminary
screening and telephonic interview are major round to allows by recruiter in selection method or
appraoch. They mainly seeking for potential candidate on which situation basis internal and
external type of hiring enhance more for increasing effective manpower. Thus, each approach
having their strength and weakness elaborates that defines towards competitive business
environment. On the context of Mark and Spencer plc work on wide range where external
sources on internal employees. Since it believes within equal work opportunities towards for
existing employees.
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D1. Critically evaluate the strength and weakness of different approaches of recruitment and
selection specific examples;
Through the strength and weakness of different approaches through recruitment and
selection where internal and external approaches of recruitment enhance more cost saving rather
than external way. But it depends upon situation where company uses to approach internal and
external factor. In similar situation there is arises implication for selection procedure that creates
more opportunities as most of companies are prefer written test. This helps to asses individual
candidate writing and accuracy skills for more improvement within competitive business
advantages. To making manpower effective written test enhance more productive enough to long
term perspective in Mark and Spencer plc.
Task 2.
P3. Explain the benefits of different HRM practises.
The human resource management for company where link between different function of
organisation to accomplish common goal. This protect about interest for both employer and
employee perspective within organisation development (Macke and Genari, 2019). In context of
Mark and Spencerthere s significant practise of human resource which enhance more benefits
towards employees and employer perspective.
Benefits for employees: Some of important areas where the employees get benefited of different
human resources practises:
 Enhance positive environment: One of important role of human resource management
through which HR manager creates ethical perspective of workplace norms and
regulation through optimal. The human resource department of Mark and Spencer
company, their HR manager first responsibility is to enhance more work which create
positive environment culture through effective manner.
 Revise about Employee policy: The Human resource department on which having
major responsibilities towards overall for all polices regarding employees for the
organisation. They enhance to maintain about laws regarding their employees which
protect their interest (Morgeson, Brannick and Levine, 2019). The human resource also
having responsibilities to implement in effective way. Anti Harassment policy and other
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negative compliances related with employment safety that denotes Health policy within
benefit policy etc.
 Help in Development: Through depending of environment about overall needs of
customer company where they have to updated on their functioning. HRM arrange
about necessary of training and development program where all among within their
employees about the company perspective. Within then perspective of Mark and
Spencer company, HR mainly focuses on performance appraisal, training and
development program through skills improvisation. This provides opportunity for
growth with both organisational and personal level accuracy.
 Provide help to resolve personal crises: At the time of personal crises in which Human
resource work as main point of contact. Employees are most important assets for
company in which Mark and Spencer venture Human resource manager to contributes
for major work attainment and solving employee's grievances where they can satisfy
through work on personal interest basis.
Benefits to Employers: For employer perspective is benefited towards under following basis.
 Manage the relationship of avoiding conflicts: It creates for may raise effectively may
rise due to benefits of employer. Through Human Resources management use to avoid on
the basis of situation and contribute efforts for relation work place. It is an act for
counselling or discussed about employee problem for constructing disputes undertakes
place. For Mark and Spencer company essential steps for better environment for effective
management towards long term in systematic manner.
 Decrease Retention in the organisation: It is function but it also enhance wide
benefits towards superiors. Human resource management about hire required for avoid
such procedure. The high retention make negative impression towards company. The
human resource within different strategies for program where strategies benefits like
significant strategies on higher education skills program etc (Mukherjee and et. al., 2020).
In perspective for Mark and Spencer company, their human resource management only
retain if employees are potential enough to contribute their skills and knowledge.
 Easy to enhance change: This is important for brining change as for more creativity and
leading towards positive benchmark. Human resource department of organisation reliable
to execute new change that creates effective positive outcomes as it assisting employees
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and their employment. The human resource practises in Mark and Spencerenhance
employee working style fluctuates as well as productivity for effective comparative level.
The practises of change is part of Mark and Spencer is work on economy basis which is
tend to uncertain. There is different responsible towards formulating which helps
bridging for measuring gap between authority and employees.
M3. Assess different method of use in HRM practises.
As there are many practises which related to Human resource security about employees
providing security towards employees, recruiting employees and having self managed and
effective teams. Fair performance to based on competencies based on their skills and attributes
relevant skills towards creating making information easily accessible to those who needs it. All
these and rest other activities which controlled as monitored for employees performance. For
example: Mark and Spenceris multinational retail business where human resource department
specify to enhance more productive outcomes by implies overall activities in to creates better
work facilities in productive results.
P4. Evaluate different HRM practises in terms of raising profit and productivity.
The department and manager of human resource management plays about important role
which increase worker productivity and performance are significant of organisation. This
practise helps in increase profit of company and managing workforce along with activities at
workplace. As per profit and productivity of every firm reflect through effectiveness about
human resource practises and further activities. It bring coordination where various activities of
different department (Nieves and Quintana, 2018). This helps to enhance about for bringing
different department and decrease about the cost of production process and guides in
accomplishing efficiency in all overall commercial operations. Through achieve objectives about
company employees and provide them right direction for setting goals and objectives
accomplished. This makes better where human resource to increase profit through workforce
optimising initiatives (Renwick ed., 2018). Through addition about increase the strength of an
organisation through people assets hiring initiatives. The human resource enhance to effective
certain human resource practises within Mark and Spencer company in detailed manner. Providing Security to employees: The first human resource best practises is employment
security, as life is full of uncertainty and stability of factor occurs important towards most
of people. For having an employer who enables that employees tend to productive whicj
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