Human Resource Management Report: Sainsbury's HRM Practices

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of Human Resource Management (HRM) practices within Sainsbury's, a leading UK retailer. It begins with an overview of Sainsbury's and the functions of HRM, emphasizing recruitment, selection, employee relations, and training. The report then evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of internal and external recruitment methods, highlighting their impact on employee morale, cost-effectiveness, and innovation. Furthermore, it assesses Sainsbury's approach to workforce planning, exploring practices such as recruitment and selection, employee training, performance management, and reward systems. The report also evaluates the effectiveness of employee relations, focusing on reward systems, communication, and employee collaboration. Finally, it examines the key elements of employment legislation, including anti-discrimination, wages, and working hours, and their influence on decision-making within Sainsbury's. The report concludes by summarizing the application of appropriate HR practices and their significance in the organization.

Human Resource Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
1. Overview of the organization and functions of Human Resource Management....................3
2. Presenting the strength and weaknesses of different approaches of recruitment and selection
.....................................................................................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
A. Presenting an assessment of organization's approach to workforce planning for both
employee and employer..............................................................................................................5
B. Evaluating the organizations approaches for the effectiveness of employee relations..........6
C. Presenting key element of employment legislation and its impact on the decision-making in
Sainsbury's...................................................................................................................................7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
A. Application of conducting appropriate HR practices.............................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management plays an important role in the field of any business. The
report mainly focus on the roles and responsibility of Human resource in Sainsbury's. It is one of
most leading retailer company in UK who offer variety of groceries. There are almost 1415
supermarket available in all over the world and this report is designed to assess knowledge of
human resource management and its functions to the workforce planning. The report also
explains the strength and weaknesses of different approaches that are used in recruitment and
selection process. It also explains benefits of human resource management for employee as well
as employer in Sainsbury's. The report also help to present the effectiveness of different HRM
practices for company's profit and its productivity. It also analyze the importance of employee
relations with respect to HRM decision making. The report also identify the key elements of
employment legislation and the impact upon its decision making.
TASK 1
1. Overview of the organization and functions of Human Resource Management
Human resource management is the biggest approach in every industry. Even Sainsbury's
is also have its own management system. Sainsbury's is count as second largest supermarket in
United Kingdom. The company provide different variety of groceries and there were about 1400
shops available in all over the world. The company has human resource management system
which help to run a business in an effective way and they play an important role in a company.
HR have different functions and some of them are mention below:
Illustration 1: Functions of HR

 Recruitment and Selection: it is count one of the most important function of Human
resource. Recruitment is the process of selecting a right candidate for the job based on
objective criteria (Function of HR, 2018). In the context of Sainsbury's, HR also hire
some of the qualified employees for the job and take interviews then select the best
option out of many.
 Employee relations: Another major function of HR is to maintain or manage employee
relations because employee are the pillars of an organization. HR of Sainsbury's also
organized many activity in order to know them personally as well as professionally.
There is a need to manage relationship and motivate them because they are the key
person of an organization.
 Training and development: employers must provide all the necessary tools such as HR
provide training and development session for their new employees in order to know their
role and responsibilities towards new organizational culture (Azarniya and et.al., 2015).
HR of Sainsbury's even provide leadership training and hire supervisors who can look
after their workings. Company also provide professional development activity which help
to achieve personal goals.
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Human resource help every individual and try to enhance their level of performance.
They recruit or select those qualified candidate for their job field who can achieve all the targets
and desired goals. HR also provide training session to new individual and motivate them to
complete the need of an organization (Haddow and et.al., 2014). These functions of HR help to
enhance individual talent and skill to fulfill the objectives of business.
2. Presenting the strength and weaknesses of different approaches of recruitment and selection
HR uses various method and different approaches of recruitment such as internal as well
as external. Human resource of Sainsbury's uses both method and hire the best candidate for a
company (Advanatges and disadvantages of recruitment method, 2018). In internal method, HR
familiar with the candidate while in the case of external method, HR search the candidate outside
of the current area in order to fill the option in an organization. Both methods have their own
advantages and disadvantages which are mention below:
Strength:

 By using internal method, it help to increase the morale of employees which keep them
engaged in the business.
 The biggest advantages of using internal method of recruiting, HR of a company will
have less paper work and this help to consume their time as well as money.
 By taking interview, HR can easily knew their personal background as well as their
productivity level (Kim and et.al., 2015).
 Using internal recruitment process, HR can easily save the money because there is no
need to spend extra money for advertisement.
 Using external method of recruitment, the chances of finding right person for the field
may be increases and HR can select true person for the vacant seat.
 Hiring new employee from external method will help a company to meet other need and
requirements.
Weaknesses:
 External method of recruitment cost higher then other approaches so generally HR avoid
to use this approach.
 Recruiting person using external method will take more time to train the candidate and
generally many damage the morale of employee (Nezhand and et.al., 2014).
 If HR of Sainsbury's always uses internal method of recruitment then there will be no
chance for new ideas and innovation in a company.
 Using internal method again and again by HR may creates conflicts between colleagues.
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Every approaches of recruitment and selection have their own weakness and benefits. HR
of Sainsbury's uses both method of recruitment because internal method help to save money
while external method help to explore new ideas and innovation within a company (Anderson
and et.al., 2016).
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There are different approaches of recruitment and selection. HR of company hire many
person in order to achieve all the defined goals and objectives. Internal method of recruitment
help to done less paper work while external method take more time to train new employees.

TASK 2
A. Presenting an assessment of organization's approach to workforce planning for both employee
and employer
Human resource managers have many rule and responsibilities towards their employee as
well as employers. They always take care that their staff should not suffer from any problem.
Sainsbury's uses workforce planning for their best performance and manages employee relations
so that they can reach to the defined goals such as productivity, efficiency and maximizes profit.
There are different HRM practices which a company uses in order to enhance their level of
performance (Radke, Hornsey and Barlow, 2016). These practices are recruitment and selection,
development and training, performance management, reward system and many more. The HR of
Sainsbury's uses recruitment and selection as a HRM practice because they want higher and
skilled employee in order to enhance the level of company. By using correct workforce planning
HR of a company can easily find new ways for better structuring of a company. Another HRM
practices such as development and training method, where HR provide complete training session
to their new staff so that they can easily accept the new culture and help to achieve the defined
goals.
HRM practice such as performance management also help to achieve better opportunities
for a company (Lopez-Cotarelo and Nicolini, 2015). Reviewing the employees performance also
help to check whether they are doing for the betterment of a company or not. Using reward
system in a workforce planning can also help to promote employees for doing their best in a
workplace. This system help to achieve all the targets and objectives of a company and these
HRM practices help for the proper workforce planning as well as welfare of a company.
B. Evaluating the organizations approaches for the effectiveness of employee relations
There are different HRM practices which help Sainsbury's in the term of raising profit as
well as productivity. The company also achieve all its desired objectives as well as profit with
the below mention perspective:
 Effective Reward system: when the company offer reward system in the term of money
it directly affect the performance of employee as well as employer as they take their task
more seriously as compared to past. After implementing this HRM practice into the
workplace of Sainsbury's, it is observed that performance of all the employees improved
from last performance (Radke, Hornsey and Barlow, 2016).

 Good communication, sharing and Collaboration: this is also help to improve the
profit as well as productivity in the company. Profitability and productivity of Sainsbury's
improves when the company gets ideas from the people such that they take feedback in
order to increase the productivity level of a company. Only HRM practices help a
company to increase or develop various methods in order to achieve all the defined goals.
 Innovating and high performing employees: HRM practices help a company to
innovate new ideas and implement those into the workforce. These help to motivate their
employees for better facilities as well as to increase the productivity and profitability of a
company (Reguieg and et.al., 2015). HRM practices help to gain high performance of the
employees in a company so that they increases their working performance.
 Reward system other than monetary form: the manager or leaders of Sainsbury's can
get more profit and increase profitability by reward system. This is the best HRM
practice which help to increase the morale of every employees, these non monetary form
of factors are praise, exposure, challenge, feedback etc. managers or leaders of a
company should always provide motivation that help to increase employee energy and
loyalty towards their work place (Torrico and et.al., 2018).
 As HR maintain good relation with their employees as well as team, they always try to
solve the conflict between their team member so that they maintain the relationship with
each other. Even they trust each other for fulfilling the goals and objectives of the
company.
 A good and effective communication also help to the system of Sainsbury's and ensures
all the employees that there is no discrimination in a workforce. Due to this they feel
more motivated and perform very well to attain the desired goals for a company (Van den
Heijkant and et.al., 2015). A proper communication system also help to take proper
decision in any time by human resource management.
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there are various method or approaches used by HR of Sainsbury's in order to maintain
good relationship with their employees. Management provide training session and seminars for
their new employees in order to promote them to attain all the defined goals and objectives of a
company. Company also uses good communication and effective collaboration that help to take
feedback from outer people and then they implement those into their effective workforce.

C. Presenting key element of employment legislation and its impact on the decision-making in
Sainsbury's
While recruiting and selection process, Sainsbury's also maintain all the employment
legislation because they affect the decision making of business. HR make sure that there they
should follow all the legislation regarding recruitment process and these element are as follows:
Anti- Discrimination: While appointing new employees, human resource management should
ensure equality in all view point. The company did not discriminate on the basis of age, gender,
caste and religion (Azarniya and et.al., 2015). As per the civil act prohibits the discrimination
against employees on the basis of above mention areas and any employee found any type of
discrimination done in the premises then employee can ask for legislative help in order to fulfill
their demands. That is why HRM always try to feel comfortable and motivate them in all
perspective.
Wages and Hours: Employees of a company should be aware related to their working hours and
daily basis work done (Reguieg and et.al., 2015). If they work for extra time then HR should pay
extra wages for their overtime. Even the company should allow their leaves as per their need or
requirement. This time distribution management system help HRM to take better decision for the
company.
Medical and Disability: HR of a company should make sure that there should not be any
discrimination on the basis of genetic information such as disorder in the family member. The
company should also make sure that discrimination on the basis of their disability is illegal in the
eyes of laws. So there should not any discrimination and if anyone found that they can take
legislation help in order to punish them (Torrico and et.al., 2018).
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There are various type of HRM practices that affect the decision-making for an
organization. If the environment of Sainsbury's is effective and pleasant then it will help to create
loyal employees and even they feel motivate to perform any task willingly. HR practices also
help to solve conflict between the employees and they trust each other for achieve better result
for the welfare of a company.
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Human resource of Sainsbury's uses different types of HR practices such as it provide
training session for the new employee as well as running employer so that they perform well and

extra ordinary to attain or fulfill the defined target and objectives (Van den Heijkant and et.al.,
2015) Sainsbury's also recruit new candidate so that they can explore new ideas and innovation
within a company and help to complete all the targets.
TASK 3
A. Application of conducting appropriate HR practices
HR of a company have various roles and responsibilities such as they recruit new
employee and give them a chance to explore their ideas in a premises. Different HR practices are
help to give training and development practices in order to increase the morale of their
employees and promote them to do better performance.
Job description for Marketing manager in Sainsbury's is as follows:
Job Title: Marketing Manager
Job Purpose: Can lead a team of Sainsbury's in an effective way. Realize company's goals and
objective and then proceed those to the team. Always try to motivate team member and increase
their morale. With effective communication skill, try to reach every person and let them know
about company's innovative products and services. Work as a mediator between management
and members .
Job duties:
 keep all the records of work .
 Communicate with good manner
 Try to convey all message related to product and service.
 Identify all new strategies in order to promote team to achieve goals and target.
 Taking feedback from the people about work.
 Help management to coordinate sharply with team members.
 Try to solve all the problems related o product offering.
 Help to generate more profit for the company
 try to increase the sales of a company.
Qualifications:
 Past experience related to marketing manager.
 Complete knowledge related to products of a company and policies as well as rules.
 Motivation skill.

 Skill to maintain good relationship with customers.
 Strong communication skills.
 Good communicator and capacity to innovate different things.
 Good personality.
 Self confidence as well as self motivating.
Person specification for a Marketing manager in Sainsbury's is as following :
Knowledge of
 Good marketing techniques.
 Strong market channels.
 Awareness about new techniques.
 Strategic planning.
Experience
 working in a marketing team.
 Have ability to work on own initiative.
 Worked in Business to Business environment.
 Implement various marketing strategy.
 Strong writing skills and good commanding in language.
Academic requirements
 Degree of business studies and marketing qualifications.
CONCLUSION
By summing up above report, it has been concluded that HR Management plays an
important and crucial role in the business environment. The report concluded that HRM have
different roles and responsibilities towards their workplace and they have different functions
regarding planning and resourcing an organization. There are various methods of recruitment and
selection and the report concluded its strength and weaknesses. It also evaluated the effectiveness
of different HRM practices at the time of profit and productivity of an organization. The report
also present the importance of employee relations in respect of influencing decision making of
human resource management. The report concluded different external as well as internal factors

that affect the HRM including employment legislation. It also present HRM practices by
presenting different examples.

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