Human Resource Management Report: Purpose, Functions, and Practices

This report provides a comprehensive overview of Human Resource Management (HRM) principles, functions, and practices, with a specific focus on the retail giant Tesco. It begins by explaining the purpose and core functions of HRM, including workforce planning and resourcing, and then delves into different approaches to recruitment and selection, evaluating their strengths and weaknesses. The report further explores the benefits of various HRM practices, such as training and development, reward management, and performance management, for both employers and employees, while also assessing their impact on organizational profit and productivity. Additionally, the importance of employee relations in influencing HRM decision-making is analyzed, along with a discussion of key elements of employment legislation and its impact. The report concludes with the application of HRM practices in a work-related context, using specific examples from Tesco, and offers insights into the overall effectiveness of HRM strategies.

Human Resource
Management

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1.......................................................................................................................................................3
P1 Explain the purpose and the functions of HRM, applicable to workforce planning and resourcing an
organisation.............................................................................................................................................3
P2 Explain the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection..............4
TASK 2.......................................................................................................................................................6
P3 Explain the benefits of different HRM practices within an organisation for both the employer and
employee.................................................................................................................................................6
P4 Evaluate the effectiveness of different HRM practices in terms of raising organizational profit and
productivity.............................................................................................................................................8
TASK 3.......................................................................................................................................................8
P5 Analyse the importance of employee relations in respect to influencing HRM decision-making.......8
P6 Identify the key elements of employment legislation and the impact it has upon HRM decision-
making...................................................................................................................................................10
TASK 4.....................................................................................................................................................11
P7 Illustrate the application of HRM practices in a work-related context, using specific examples......11
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................................15
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is the method which helps out to implement the strategies
through which the management of individuals and important organisation can be enhanced as it
helps out to maintain the growth and also to develop the employees performance (ŠIKÝŘ, and
et. al.,2018). Human resource is the most important asset which helps out to provide growth and
the implementation of talented workforce through which staff working company can manage
their work in an effective manner. This report will cover all the functions and implications with
the purpose of HRM with the recruitment and selection process of different approaches for the
candidates. It will also cover the employment law and the effective areas for maintenance. The
graduation chosen for this report is Tesco as it is the biggest retailer company headquartered in
London
TASK 1
P1 Explain the purpose and the functions of HRM, applicable to workforce planning and
resourcing an organisation.
 Mission: To give the better quality of services and he is a living for the customers with
the great products and faster delivery.
 Purpose: To create an important value and a lifetime loyalty of customers and also to
provide better services with a wide range of products.
Objectives
 To expand the retail services in the market.
 To give a strong non-food business practises with an international expansion.
 To increase their sales by 1.36% in upcoming years.
Human resource management helps out to provide an implementation to which the hiring of
candidates is being made in order to recruit and provide them better training facilities so that
organisation can develop a proper growth in the retail sector and the advancement (Hieu, and
Nwachukwu, 2020). It helps how to implement the major changes through which the framework
and important implementation of organisation can be maintained. Tesco as thereby use certain
objectives in order to gain the effective strong workforce.

Purpose of HRM
 HRM provides to maintain the develop strategies through which the employees will gain
advancement through the benefits that can be reach out to programs and can also attract
the workforce and the candidates were being applying for the organisational job.
 HRM implemented to provide the functioning of all the work force by over going
strategies through which a skills and important positioning for their various job roles can
be provided.
 HRM tends to motivate all the employees working working in order to perform in and it
has to be and to accomplish the goals and objectives set up being framed by the company
for the benefit.
Functions of HRM
 Human resource manager used to provide various attractive work for through which
implicate out a proper management in accomplishing the goals for the organisational
manner and areas (Tordera, and et. al., 2020).
 HR helps out to provide proper planning in order to adapt the systematic approach and
procedure through which a recruitment of the selective staff members can be applied.
 HR manager heads out to maintain the current training for the candidates in order to
provide them depth knowledge about the performance and the variable job roles in the
specific quantity.
P2 Explain the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection.
Recruitment is a method which helps out to identify all the important evolution through
which short listing, screening and various process of interviewing is being implemented for the
employees and the candidates who have been appointed for the job (Sulaiman, and et. al.,2019).
It usually covers out various treatment approaches for the Tesco as the applies different types of
mentioned methods which are being given below:
Internal approach
It mainly cover out all the job positions that are being given in order to maintain the
existing for force and also to provide the recruitment through the internal process which are as
follows:

Transfer: These are mainly the shifting of the employees from their present working
areas to a similar area of job role in order to maintain the responsibilities of work and it will not
cover any change in the salary slip.
 Strength: This mainly helps out to motivate all the employees to work and gain the
knowledge from any other working areas (Wright, and et. al., 2018).
 Weakness: As an employee used to shift to different areas it will need so much of
adjustment in various sectors in which will amount to fund and various training sessions.
Promotion: It is mainly the method in which employees were already in the job used to attain
a higher job role and also get more responsibilities and increase pay scale in their working
segment as by their efficiency, knowledge and important talent that is being shown by them.
 Strength: It helps out to identify and cognize the talent of the workforce and the
knowledge in the company and aspects.
 Weakness: It can thereby de-motivate the employees who are not being able to get
promotions with service that is being provided by them for the company.
External approach
Job advertisement: These are mainly the recruitment process through which all the important
advertisement result relating to the jobs are being given on the newspaper, digital platforms and
their all the position and the skills that are being required are being analysed and given.
 Strength: It helps out to find the potential candidates with various of applications that are
being coming by seeing the job advertisement (Kerdpitak, and Jermsittiparsert, 2019).
 Weakness: This sometimes is not a favourable approach for the company as so many
irrelevant candidates used to apply for the job positions.
Referrals: It is mainly the recruitment method which helps out to get the reference from the
candidates were already been working in the company and they used to give the reference of
other person.
 Strength: It helps out to attract the candidates as they used to already know about the
work role in specified working environment so they will not be any issue regarding to the
adjustment that they will have to face.

 Weakness: As with the help of reference the recruitment that can gain the talented
workforce is being as it is a loss of talented working employees which can come to the
campus selections and job advertisements (Hou, and et. al., 2019).
Selection
It is mainly a method through which the identified areas of the employees can be covered
out and it helps out to know that skills and the important qualifications of the employees working
in the company Tesco thereby use various approaches for selection in order to her and efficient
candidate some of which are mentioned below:
Interview: These are mainly the methods which used to conduct out to determine all the
important queries and face to face interaction for the Different approaches and working of the
organisation (Sembiring, and Ferine, 2018).
 Strength: It mainly helps out to get the response in a quick manner and gain the practical
knowledge about the employees and their working capabilities.
 Weakness: It is mainly a time consuming process which required so much of time and
effort.
Personality test: These are mainly the methods through which all the characteristics of an
implementation and the future performance of it has stopped all can be undertaken as it helps out
to provide the knowledge about the employee and candidates that are being elected for the
company.
 Strength: This mainly helps out to know the interpersonal areas and characteristics in the
workforce.
 Weakness: It is a time consuming process.
TASK 2
P3 Explain the benefits of different HRM practices within an organisation for both the employer
and employee.
Human resource management is a method which helps out establish and maintain proper
management of works into people and also evaluate recruitment of employees were busy

working in the company. Tesco use different strategies for HRM practises in order to manage
their employees working some of which are mentioned below:
 Training and development: HR manager should try to impose proper training facilities
for the workforce environment and also try to improve the knowledge and skills of the
existing employees were being working in the company. This will help out to maintain
the lifelong process and also to increase their professional growth.
Benefit to employees
It helps out to give them job satisfaction and
also increase their moral of working and
contributing towards the organisation.
Benefit to employer
It enhances the production and the profitability
and less error will be occurred in the
organisation.
 Reward management: All such HRM practises which used to cover all the policies and
strategies through which rewards are being given in a consistent manner to all the
employees who used to work. It really helps out to enhance and grow the motivational
production of the employees. Tesco thereby gain the bonus, recognisation through
different approaches of rewards (Stewart, and Brown, 2019).
Benefit to employees
It help out to increase the confidence of the
working employees.
Benefit to employer
It enhances their production and growth of the
company.
 Management of performance: It is mainly the HRM practice which helps out to provide
the monitoring and accessing of different efficiency through which regular check on the
employees at the feedbacks are been taken so that their cabbie maintain a proper direction
in order to gain the goals.
Benefit to employees
It helps out to clarify all the employees
regarding the job satisfaction and working
right areas.
Benefit to employer
It avoids all the conflicts that happened
between the employer and employees.

P4 Evaluate the effectiveness of different HRM practices in terms of raising organizational profit
and productivity.
For all the important organisation it is important to maintain the HRM practises through
which the goals and the targets can be achieved. Tesco thereby implement out some important
areas through which the workplace employees can be grown by managing different strategies
which are discussed there under:
 Performance management: It is mainly a system which helps out to evaluate the
performance of all the work in employees in the company and also help out to know
about the talent and the development that is being needed in the society. Provides of the
channel of communication through which the targets of the business can be achieved. HR
manager of Tesco can dead by implies out short-term goals in order to gain the
challenges and gave the regular feedback through the employer who are being working
with the employees (Hackley, and et. al., 2018).
 Training and development: HRM helps out to provide different methods and skills in
which regular training should be given to the employees which will help out to achieve
the organisational goals and the workforce came thereby be improved in their working
areas any quicker manner. Tesco can dead by implement out the production through the
enhancement and accomplishment of goals by implementing the turnover rate for the
employees.
 Reward management: It is mainly a method which helps out to motivate the employees
were being working in the company as it helps out to provide a contribution in which the
production can be enhanced by overall looking on the work in process of the employees.
Tesco candid by provide certain policies through which the rewards can be given to the
people and the recognisation is through which the overall performance can be increased.
TASK 3
P5 Analyse the importance of employee relations in respect to influencing HRM decision-
making.
For developing a positive and a healthy environment it is important that employer and
employee should work in a cooperative method as workforce should maintain a better

relationship and loyalty with their customers and the employees working. In all the business
practices the main aim of the employee relation is in order to collaborate and maintain the
relationship in a smooth working. All these should help out to evaluate all the nature and the
functions through which the growth and the advancement can be advanced as it helps out to
promote the culture and the nature of working in variable means and adaptations. Tesco can
thereby provide different functions in building strong relations with their employment terms
which are mentioned below:
 Loyal retention of employees: As in order to maintain a proper valuable areas of working
environment there should be given the company a proper amicable relations with their
working employees and a comforting and healthy environment should be created in order
to increase their working sections. HR manager tends to create a clear communication
with your workforce. All the employees should try to serve and maintain the proper
balance and the HR manager tends to provide in Tesco proper variable behaviour through
which they should be maintain a loyalty from the employees side by maintaining better
coordination and facilities that are being given to them. All the employees were having
certain that the company should gain the maximum advancement and benefit according to
the means and the methods by maintaining transparency between the employer and
employees and also by implicating the changes by coordinating and motivating the
employees (Fernandes, and Taba, 2019).
 Avoiding workplace conflict: HR manager tends to provide a proper productivity through
which in hospital growth can be analysed and a positive approach and environment can
be created it helps out to reduce the conflicts between the employer and the employee.
Tesco tries to analyse and implement also benefits and important relations of the working
environment through which they can approach and maintain the enhancement and growth
of company. It is important to maintain peace in all workplace environment and friendly
environment should be created so that to maintain the benefits and facilities to outgrow
the areas in development. HR manager of Tesco should try to implement better
programming through which they can implement out the facilities through which
employees should feel motivated and friendly environment should be given to them
regarding to the working area as a team spirit and transparency should be maintained with

a better communication facilities regarding to the projects and the work that is being
assigned to them.
 Increase production: They should be made of workforce to maintain a healthy
relationship with their employs and a proper coffee can be achieved out by enhancing
their generation of revenues. HR manager of Tesco can maintain equal efforts to give and
build a proper relationship between the employers and employees so that a proper
motivation should be given to the working environment and the employees who have
been working in the company (Kigume, and Maluka, 2019). The growth in the production
is the main aim of all the companies in order to gain the advancement it is should be
maintained that employs should be focus on the better training facilities and also
optimisation and using of the products through which the gaining of culture can be
maintained. Employees can thereby provided the facility is regarding to the goals and
objectives and they should be clear about the targets that they have to achieve for the
company this will help out ability objectives and the growth in a positive approach and
manner.
All such things helps out Tesco in order to maintain the benefit for the company and also to gain
the employee relations through which better facilites can be implemented in the HRM. Human
resource management should try to impose all the employees to be treated in any manner and
there should not be any discrimination and a better training facility should be given so that a
production can be enhanced.
P6 Identify the key elements of employment legislation and the impact it has upon HRM
decision-making.
For all the implies working in the company it is important to give them all the rights and
regulations according to the legislation that a speed of light it so that they will not be any
exploitation with them. Tesco can thereby follow out important laws which help out to maintain
the balance which are as follows:
 National minimum wages act, 1976: It is mainly the act which helps out to provide a
minimum wages to all the working employees were been working in the company and
there is a fixed amount of minimum wage status be implemented by the legislation

through which the compliance can be made. Tesco thereby make sure that there should
not be any discrimination on the behalf of wages that is being provided to them.
 Employment rights act 1996: This act will help out to provide proper rights to all the
employees regarding their wrongful dismissal, redundancy and unfair dismissal. HR
manager of Tesco get thereby try to implement all the important policies through which
no employees thereby been unfairly dismissed from their jobs and equal and fair
treatment should be given to all their work for force without any discrimination. As all
the employees in Tesco should be tested equally and there should not be made any kind
of wrongful dismissal proper notice should there by being served as in order to maintain
the working and the nature of the equal treatment to all the employees being working in
the company (Petrick, and Furr, 2017).
 Health and safety at work act 1974: It is mainly which helps out to provide a proper
duties and measures through which the employees can be safely be maintained As in
order to provide a proper training with the hazardous equipments and HR manager of
Tesco thereby employees the strategy through which they should maintain a proper safety
measures regarding to the reply swiping working in the company. As for all the
companies it is important to maintain the safety measures through which all the nature
and the implications can be maintained and there can be given all the very nature through
which the advancement and the practical well being is being applied.
Thus, all the business practices should implies all the legislation in the rules that are being
complied in order to maintain the balance and the organisational goals. Tesco can thereby play
meant of the strategies for enforcement of laws and statues for the company areas.
TASK 4
P7 Illustrate the application of HRM practices in a work-related context, using specific
examples.
Job description
Details
Job Role - Head Marketing Manager
Company – Tesco

Purpose of Job
A Head marketing manager should be required to undertake the development with all the
marketing strategy and also imply sales in company are expanded. All marketing manager
provides identification of demand of customers in market.
Roles & Responsibilities
 To maintain marketing.
 To manage sufficient market research.
 To handle employees and customer requirements.
Personal details
Position- Marketing Manager
Department–Marketing unit
Attributes Essential Desirable
Education & Experience  The candidate should
be Post graduated and
also to have
specialization in
marketing.
 The candidate must
gain bachelors degree
from recognized
University.
 The candidate must
have 3 year
experience.
Skills and Knowledge  Decision making
skills
 Problem solving skills
 Communication skills
 Time management
skill
 Creativity skill.
C.V