Human Resource Management Report: Practices and Legislation

This report analyzes human resource management (HRM) practices, specifically focusing on the context of Canary Wharf. The report begins by outlining the purpose and functions of HRM, emphasizing its role in workforce planning, recruitment, employee relations, and employee management. It then delves into different approaches to recruitment and selection, comparing their strengths and weaknesses. The report further explores the benefits of HRM practices for both employees and employers, including learning and development, flexible working options, and performance management. It examines the effectiveness of these practices in raising profit and productivity. The report also highlights the importance of employee relations and its influence on decision-making processes, as well as the key elements of employee legislation and its impact. The report concludes by summarizing the application of HRM practices in a work-related context, providing a comprehensive overview of HRM principles and their practical application in a business setting.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Purpose and function of HRM applicable to workforce planning.........................................1
P2 Strength and weakness of different approaches to recruitment and selection.......................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
P3 Benefits of HRM practices for employees and employer......................................................4
P4 Effectiveness of HRM practices in raising profit and productivity.......................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
P5 Importance of employee relations and its influence on decision making process.................6
P6 Key elements of employee legislation and its impact on decision making process..............7
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................8
P7 Application of HRM practices in work related context.........................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is a term which shows management of a employees and
employer at workplace by enhancing their performance. It is primarily concerned with
development of people within organization. This report is classified into different tasks by
explaining roles and responsibility of human resource at workplace. Canary wharf is a leading
organization district in London expanded across national borders which consist of a major banks,
professional services as well as media enterprises for example Barclays, citigroup, Infosys etc.
Therefore this assignment highlighted appropriate method of recruitment and selection process
of a chosen organization (Bratton, 2012). Apart from this, report also throw lights on various
HRM practices and its impact on decision making process due to their eminent role played in
success of a company. Instead of this, it also explains importance of a employee relations as well
as various laws, norms, rules and regulations which is enacted by governing bodies for protecting
employees from exploitation.
TASK 1
P1 Purpose and function of HRM applicable to workforce planning
Personnel resource plays a very vital role in managing and controlling other resources
available in canary wharf due to its roles and responsibility towards development of a company.
Therefore HRM consist of various purposes which is stated as follows :-
 Appropriate utilisation of resources:- One of a main purpose is to allocate all the
resources in a proper manner for example arrangement of a raw materials for conversing
input into output.
 Recruitment :- Secondly they are responsible for selecting best candidates from outer
world by implementing effective method of recruitment.
 Employee relations :- Sometime HR department need to create a healthy and friendly
connection between higher and lower authority.
 Management of workers:- Employees are one of a indispensable part because of that HR
department of canary wharf need to manage and control all the labours working at a
workplace (Gold, 2012).
 Act as adviser:- According to this purpose they also suggest best path to employees and
candidates or motivate also towards their personal and professional goals.
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Along with this, it also highlighted major functions of HRM at workplace planning
process is mentioned below:- Recruitment and selection:- One of a major function of a HR department is to appoint
best and deserving candidates for their organization because every task and activities are
managed and controlled by them only. Orientation :- It is not easy for newly appointed employees to adjust themselves in new
environment. Thus managers of HR conduct induction programme so that they get
familiar with surroundings.
 Training and development :- According to this function personnel managers of a canary
wharf need to conduct enhancement sessions for improving the learning skills of existing
employees (Chelladurai, 2017).
Apart from purpose and function of HRM scope and actual definitions is also explained
as follows :-
HRM is mainly all about assigning right person at a right job on the basis of their talent
and skills by considering various essential factors which must be consider in a recruitment
process. On contrary to this scope of HR department is to improve the knowledge and skills of
existing and newly appointed employees to run their organization for longer period of time.
(Source:- Human resource management)
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Illustration 1: Scope of HRM

P2 Strength and weakness of different approaches to recruitment and selection
Recruitment is a one of a major role of HR department whose main motive is to select
best alternative from various candidates by adopting effective approaches which is mentioned
below:- Internal approach :- According to this strategy personnel managers of a canary wharf
fill the vacant position of their organization by promoting existing employees to other
position (Kerwin, 2017).
Strength:-
 Requires minimum fund.
 Very short process.
 Easy to mingle with colleagues because familiar with environment.
 Consume minimum time period.
Weakness :-
 Absence of innovative and new ideas.
 Create another vacant position.
 Disturb the environment of a company. External approach:- According to this, HR department appoint employees from outer
world by conducting proper procedure of recruiting and selecting. In fact this approach is
totally opposite of internal due to its roles towards enterprise (Daley, 2012).
Strength:-
 Emergence of creativity with different ideas,
 Free from any discrimination.
 Fill the vacancies of a company due to availability of large pool.
Weakness :-
 Requires maximum capital for advertisement
 Longer process.
 Requires skilled and experience person for selection process. Third party:- This approach of recruitment is totally different from both the above
explained method. In this methodology there is a presence of third party or mediator
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while selecting employees and act as a consultancy. In other words, various recruitment
agencies are going to help canary wharf during selection process (McMahan, 2011).
Strength:-
 Availability of skilled and experience candidates.
 Cost of advertisement and improvement will safe.
Weakness :-
 Chances of fraud.
 Presence of confusion.
 It will take maximum time period.
 Expensive process.
 Availability of third party create a misunderstanding.
At last it has been understood that managers of a canary wharf have various approaches
and methods of selecting best and eligible candidates (Fee, 2014).
TASK 2
P3 Benefits of HRM practices for employees and employer
Workers are one of a mandatory resource for canary wharf because success of whole
organization is depend upon them only. In fact HRM practices plays a very eminent role in
improving the skills of employees and employer to achieve their personal and professional goals.
Therefore benefits of HRM practices is mentioned below:-
Employees Employer
Learning, development and
training practices.
Newly appoint candidates can
easily improve their learning
skills to perform their job more
effectively (Wright, 2011).
Whereas employer enhance
their knowledge by attending
more and more developmental
programmes which is
beneficial for future.
Flexible working options. According to this HRM
practice employees get flexible
hours which act as a
motivation for them towards
Due to flexible working option
employer of an organization
get a chance to mingle with
their subordinates for creating
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their goals. In fact every
workers want to spend some
flexible and free time at
workplace for making friends.
a mutual understanding
between them. Apart from this
it also helpful in creating a
friendly and healthy
environment of a company
(Storey, 2014).
Employee performance
management and monitoring
HR department of a company
trying monitor the
performance of employees for
guiding them. Main motive is
to improve presentation of
workers by removing their
hidden barriers and obstacles.
Monitoring is a technique of
encouraging employer to learn
extra things for becoming
more extra ordinary from
others.
Payment and reward system. Proper and appropriate
payment and reward system is
very helpful for motivating
employees towards personality
enhancement (Purce, 2014).
Basically for employees it act
as a motivational tool to attain
short term goals.
Whereas payment and reward
system is also motivate
employer of a company for
achieving long term
objectives. Therefore it
encourage employer to
continue a particular firm for
longer period of time.
At last it has been understood that all these HRM practices is very much beneficial for
whole organization by improving skills of employees and employers (Guest, 2011).
P4 Effectiveness of HRM practices in raising profit and productivity
All the HRM practices is very much indispensable and mandatory part for canary wharf
because it plays a major role in profit maximization as well as increase in productivity by
implementing impressive methodology. Therefore effectiveness of HRM practices is mentioned
below:- Learning, development and training practices:- According to this practice of HRM
personnel manager of a canary wharf need to improve the learning skills of their
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employees by implementing various training sessions. In fact it act as a very essential
tool of profit maximizing by performing all the task and activities in a minimum time
period. Therefore development of employees which means growth of whole firm. In other
words improvement in learning and overall development is also develop whole
personality of employees. Flexible working options :- This practice is very helpful and useful in creating healthy
environment which encourage employees towards professional objectives. In fact
according to this, HR department of a canary wharf needs to make a flexible hours for
labours so that they can share their views and opinion with each other for creating mutual
understanding between them (Harzing, 2010). Employee performance management and monitoring:- Measuring employee
presentation is technique of identifying their weakness and hidden problems due to which
they can able to perform well. In fact main motive of monitoring process is to eliminate
problems faces by employees during their job role by conducting effective training
sessions for profit maximization process.
 Payment and reward system:- Appropriate method of payment and reward system
motivate employees to perform their task in a proper manner by considering all the
essential facts and figures. In fact this system encourage workers towards their goals so
that they can raise their productivity for earning more and more profit.
By concluding these HRM practices it has been understood that these above strategies
plays a very eminent role in establishing goodwill of a company at a marketplace (Meredith
Belbin, 2011).
TASK 3
P5 Importance of employee relations and its influence on decision making process
Positive relationship between higher and lower level is very much essential for whole
organization because all the activities are regulated and controlled by them only. Employees are
plays a major role in the success of an enterprise by performing their job in efficient manner
(Pinnington, 2010). Therefore there are number of reasons are available which shows
importance of employee relations is mentioned below:-
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 Increase in productivity:- First and foremost importance is that working together is very
much useful in raising productivity of an organization in a minimum time period.
Therefore if there is a increase in manufacturing process then profit of a company is
automatically get increased. Creation of healthy environment :- One of a major importance of positive relations
between employees is that it is very useful in creating a friendly surrounding of a
company which motivate workers to perform their task in efficient manner. Completion of work in a minimum time period:- Working in a team by maintaining a
mutual understanding between employees helpful in attaining objectives of a canary
wharf in a minimum duration. Effective decision:- Employees plays a major role in a decision making process because
activities are controlled by them only. HR department of canary wharf trying to consider
all the available facts and figures while decisional process (Hendry, 2012).
 Conflict reduction:- Canary wharf is a large enterprise where number of employees are
working due to which there is a maximum chances of a conflict or dispute which affect
decision making process of an enterprise.
All these above factors shows that effective connection between employees is very much
indispensable due to its roles and functions towards success of a company (Werner, 2011).
P6 Key elements of employee legislation and its impact on decision making process.
Legal authority have implemented number of laws, norms, beliefs, rules and regulations
for protecting employees from getting exploited because it influence decision making process of
a company. In other words governing bodies trying to create a environment free from any
discrimination. Thus they enacted various laws and sections to protect them which is mentioned
below:-
 Anti-discrimination:- According to this law of a government HR department of a canary
wharf must create a surrounding free from any discrimination and disparity because it
influence decisional process in different manner (Huselid, 2011).
 Data protection:- Accurate information is very much indispensable for effective decision
making so government have implemented this data protection law to prevent real
information from any danger.
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 Equality :- According to this law a cited organization need to provide equal opportunity
to every individual working in a company for establishing a environment free from any
partiality which affect decision making process.
 Health and safety:- First and foremost priority for every employees is their health which
they want to secure from any disease or sudden attack. Therefore main reason behind
enactment of this law is to protect health of employees from any dangerous effect.
All these above laws and norms are very much useful as well as played a very eminent
role in protecting rights of employees (Becker, 2011).
TASK 4
P7 Application of HRM practices in work related context
HRM practices plays a very eminent role at a workplace due to its broad concept which is
very helpful in resolving various problems of a company by performing all the task and activities
in a proper manner (Schuler, 2011). For example while providing training to receptionist of five
star hotel an appropriate plan is going to prepared which is mentioned below :-
1. Personality development:- First and foremost need for receptionist is to enhance their outer
look because everyone knows that first impression is the last impression. Therefore main
motive of a training seminar is to develop the personality for capturing the attention of million
of consumers.
2. Communication skills :- Must know how to interact with customers in a polite way .
3. Tolerance level :- Potentiality of working in a stressful environment.
4. Convincing power:- Learn how to convince towards their hotel by fulfilling their needs and
wants.
5. Negotiation skills :- Ability to negotiate with consumers without hesitating .
This above steps shows the actual training session for receptionist of 5 star hotel to
improve their learning skills (Jackson, 2011).
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that human resource management plays a
very eminent role in success of a canary wharf by considering all the necessary factors. In fact
this report is a cluster of essential plans and policies which enhance the skills and knowledge of
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employees working at a workplace. Apart from this it also highlighted mandatory laws and
norms of legislation for protecting rights of workers as well as it shows effectiveness of a HRM
practices in attaining goals of a whole organization
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