Human Resource Management Report: Employment Legislation and Practices

This report examines Human Resource Management (HRM) practices within the context of the John Lewis Partnership. It delves into the significance of employee relations and the impact of employment legislation, such as equal opportunities, data protection, health and safety, and employment contracts. The report analyzes the role of workplace representation and its relevance to HRM, emphasizing the importance of creating a positive working culture. Furthermore, it provides practical HRM documentation examples, including job and person specifications, a job advertisement, and an interview checklist for a store manager position. The report critically evaluates the link between employee relations, legislation compliance, and effective recruitment and selection practices, highlighting how these elements contribute to overall business success. The conclusion summarizes the key findings, emphasizing the importance of HRM practices for organizational effectiveness and compliance.

Human Resources
Management

Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................2
TASK 3.......................................................................................................................................................2
Employee Relations & Employment Legislation.....................................................................................2
Human Resource Management Practice..................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................6
REFRENCES..............................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is one of the main practices or approach which conducted
by an organization in order to conduct effectively management of people at their workplace.
Through HR practices an employee able to maximize their performance in effective manner
which help them as well as company to attain their desire goal or objective successfully (Amede
and et. al., 2017). Organization selected for this report is John Lewis Partnership which is a retail
store introduced by John Lewis in 1864. Its head office is located in London, United State and
they are operating at the international level. The main aim of conducting this report is to
understand about employment legislations which are essential to be considered by company.
Topics include in report are different aspects of employees relation and employment legislation
as well as it will also include some human resource practices.
TASK 3
Employee Relations & Employment Legislation
a) Role of workplace representation in organisation and analyze the relevance of employee
relations to human resource management.
In order to conduct business activities, operations and functions in effective manner every
company need to adopt workplace representation practices because that will provide proper
guidelines. In respect of John Lewis, it is also essential for them to conduct different employee’s
relationship activities so that they can conduct their work effectively as well as it will also help
in motivating employees (Brewster and et. al., 2016). In respect of this they can conduct
activities like involve employees in decision making, appraise them according to work, provide
growth and equal opportunities and many more. In addition to this, John Lewis develop as well
as maintain positive working culture so that employees feel motivate and encourage to conduct
their work in effective as well as impressive way.
b) Identify key employment legislation relevant to organisation and evaluate how
employment legislation impacts the some aspects

There are numbers of legislation which are necessary to adopt by an organization in order
to conduct their work in effective manner. Some of the main legislations which are necessary to
adopted by John Lewis are given below:-
 Equal Opportunities: According to this legislation John Lewis need to provide equal
opportunities to their staff every if they are female, male, fat, black, white and so on
(Chadwick, Super and Kwon, 2015). This is so because through it employees feel
motivated and connected toward their workplace.
 Data Protection: In respect of this law it is essential for respective company to adopt this
because this will help them in ensuring that all private and essential information of
employees, customers and clients are safe. This will also help in ensuring that no one can
misuse their data.
 Health and Safety: According to this legislation it is essential for company to maintain
health and safety at their store because through it employees feel motivated and feel
connected toward the workplace.
 Employment Contracts: It is one of the main legislation which are essential to be
adopted by respective company because through it they able to provide proper
information about rules, duties and responsibilities to every employee (de Souza Moraes
and et. al., 2018). This will also help them in conducting their work in effective manner.
Human Resource Management Practice
a) Based on workplace, create the following HRM documentation:
 A job and a person specification
Job Specification
Company: John Lewis
Position : Store Manager
Responsibilities
 Conduct scheduling and assigning employees their duties and conduct follow up on daily
basis.
 Maintain store staffs by conducting recruitment, selection, training and other activities.
 Resolve issues of clients or customers when it cannot be resolved by employees.

Experienced : 1 year
Skills:
 Communication skills
 Understanding skills
 Time management
 Decision making
Person Specification
Company: John Lewis
Position: Store Manager
 Required minimum one year experience at similar industry.
 Required excellent communication and interaction skills.
 Knowledge of IT is needed.
 Excellent customers service skills required.
 Knowledge of day to day activities of store manager.
 Need to have problem solving skills and conflict resolution skills.
 Job advertisement
John Lewis
Hiring for Store manager
Location:- London, United Kingdom,
Salary:- Negotiable
Interested candidate kindly contact to [phone] or send their CV at the
[e-mail].
 Interview checklist
Position: Store Manager
Candidate name:

Interview date:
Interviewer:
Priority Capable Comments
Work experience
Behavior
Personality
Speaking/ written skills
IT skill
Final comment……………………………………………………………………………………..
……………………………………………………………………………………………………. .
b) Critically evaluate the relevance of employee relations, including employment legislation
compliance, to effective recruitment and selection practices in your organisation.
For every company it is essential to maintain effective employees relation, adopt proper
employees legislation and conduct recruitment and selection practices because through it they
able to ensure that their business are conducted properly (Driessen and et. al., 2015). This will
also motivate employees moral which improve their work quality as well as it will help in
minimizing turnover ratio. By maintaining employees relation John Lewis able to motivate staffs
which increase their performance quality and customers satisfaction. Moreover by adopting
proper employment legislation company able to ensure that all the business activities are
conducted in legal manner as well as by conducting effective recruitment and selection practices
firm hire right person at right place (Hack, 2015). This will help company in ensuring that all
activities will conducted properly with minimum wastage because they hire skilled,
knowledgeable and experienced person.
CONCLUSION
By analyzing above discussed point it can be summarized that there are several practices
which are conducted by human resource department of a company so that their business
operations and functions will conduct effectively. This will include developing effective
employee relationship because through it management can ensure quality production, positive

working culture, less wastage and so on. Moreover in order to adopt and maintain it firm need to
undertake numbers of legislations such as data protection, equal opportunities and many more. in
addition to this, human resource management also conduct work related to recruitment and
selection for which they need to develop several documents such as job and person
specification, advertisement and interview. This is so because through it they able to hire person
for the specific position which help them in attaining goal.

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