Report on Job Offers: An Essential Element of Human Resource Practice

This report provides a comprehensive overview of job offers within the context of Human Resource Management. It defines job offers, discusses the elements of a job offer letter, and outlines the process of offering a job to potential employees. The report differentiates between oral and written job offers, highlighting the benefits and drawbacks of each. A sample job offer letter from Tesco Plc is included to illustrate key components such as job responsibilities, compensation details, and employee benefits. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of job offers in recruitment and the value of providing clear and comprehensive information to prospective employees. Desklib offers this and many other solved assignments to assist students in their studies.

Report Human Resource

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Human Resource is an important resource of an organization that are responsible for
performing different types of functions and activities. The department of Human Resource is
responsible for recruiting and managing the human resource of the company. They play a major
role in growth and success of the firm. The Report has covered the meaning of Job Offer,
different elements of a job offer letter. It also consist of the procedure for offering job offer to
employees and example of job offer letter.

Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.............................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Job offer..................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
Human Resource Management refers to the process of recruiting, selecting and managing
the human resource of the organization. HRM can also be termed as human resource.
Department of Human Resource is responsible for developing various policies and programmes
related with different aspects of the employees that are working in the firm. Job Offer is the
document that employer provides to the employees for offering the job (Gilbert, De Winne, S.
and Sels, 2015). The Essay will outline all the details regarding job offer. Such as explanation of
the term job offer, job offer letter, different components of a job offer letter. It will also describe
process of offering job to potential worker etc.
MAIN BODY
Job offer.
Definition of Job Offer -
It is a type of invitation provided by the company to potential employee whether the
worker has applied or not applied for the vacant job position. Job offer is a type of document that
includes all the details in respect of employment. It includes all the information regarding the
terms and conditions under which the job has been offered by the firm to prospective employee
(Cascio, 2015).
Job Offer Letter -
A job offer letter is a type of formal document that is provided by Human Resource
Manager to the employee when the candidate is selected for a particular job role in the
organization (Bratton, J. and Gold, 2017).
Components of Job Offer Letter-
There are various components of a job offer such as Name and Title of the Manager of
company, responsibilities of worker related with job, benefits, detail of compensation etc. It also
provides the details of hours for which employees will have to work such as 8 hours per day in a
week etc. Starting date of working from which employ will have to report in the organization. It
also provides the information of Job description, Reporting structure, eligibility and other details
that are relevant for the worker and other details that are relevant for the worker etc (Guest,
2017). Job Offer also contains the information in respect of the amount of bonus employee will
receive in future and date of payment of bonus.
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Further, Job Offer is an important document that contains details of additional benefits
such as information regarding fringe benefits. For Example – Health insurance, reimbursement
of the expenses, life insurance etc.
Types of Job Offer – There are mainly two types of Job Offers such as -
Oral Job Offer -
Oral offer for the job can be considered as an agreement between potential employee and
Hiring Manager of the firm. Hiring Manager and prospective worker will discuss salary, perks,
benefits, job responsibilities, background check of employee etc.
Benefit -
One of the major benefit of verbal job offer is their no factor related with employment
can be restricted through oral job offer (Norton, A.J. and Roberts, 2017). Main disadvantage is
that there is possibility that employer may deny that they does not offer the job to employee.
Written Job Offer -
Written Job Offer is more formal and company offers written job offer letter only when
the potential worker meet out terms and conditions related with the employment. When the
candidate successful pass on the screening after this, they will receive written job offer letter.
Under this, employee will require to sign the document and employee will also have to obtain the
copy of signed job offer letter by the Manager of the company (Sarpong, 2019).
Benefit -
Employer cannot deny from the fact that they have offered the job to potential employee.
Process of developing job offer – It consists of various steps. Such as -
 Firstly, Manager should make the offer to candidate over mobile phone.
 Company will verify that whether employee is suitable for job or not.
 Hiring Manager will conduct job interview of prospective employee.
 Manager will make efforts for understanding the expectations of potential employee.
 Negotiation will take place in respect of terms and conditions of employment.
 Now, Hiring Manager will make offer of the job through verbal mode. At last, written job offer letter will be prepared by the employer and offered to rospective
employee. It will provide details of compensation, personnel policies etc (Shenoy, V. and
Aithal, 2016).
Example of Job Offer Letter-
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Suppose, there is a vacant job position in Tesco for the post of Human Resource
Manager. Firm is considering to appoint potential employee to fill the vacant job role. Job offer
letter offered by Management to employee for the post is as follows-
Date - 12-07-19
Name of Candidate – Joy Paul
Address – 50, Royal Park, London, UK.
Subject – Offering job offer letter for the appointment as Human Resource Manager.
We are excited to offer the offer letter for the post of Human Resource Manager in Tesco
Plc. The date of joining will be 20-07-19. Starting salary will be £1500 per month. Please sign all
the relevant documents.
Thanking You
Hiring Managerial
Tesco Plc.
CONCLUSION
The above Essay has outlined that job offer letter helps the firm to appoint prospective
employee on vacant job position. It helps the employee to get all the relevant details regarding
the employment such as terms and conditions, working hours, salary, and details of other
benefits. Further, it has described that there are two ways of offering job such as verbal and
written job offer. It has also explained the procedure of offering job offer letter to employee such
as communicating with potential worker over telephone.
REFERENCES
Books and Journals -
Bratton, J. and Gold, J., 2017. Human resource management: theory and practice. Palgrave.
Brewster, C., Chung, C. and Sparrow, P., 2016. Globalizing human resource management.
Routledge.
Cascio, W.F., 2015. Managing human resources. McGraw-Hill.
Gilbert, C., De Winne, S. and Sels, L., 2015. Strong HRM processes and line managers' effective
HRM implementation: a balanced view. Human Resource Management Journal. 25(4).
pp.600-616.
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Granovetter, M., 2018. Getting a job: A study of contacts and careers. University of Chicago
press.
Guest, D.E., 2017. Human resource management and employee well‐being: Towards a new
analytic framework. Human Resource Management Journal. 27(1). pp.22-38.
Norton, A.J. and Roberts, L.W., 2017. Evaluating Your Contract or Letter of Offer. Handbook of
Career Development in Academic Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. p.93.
Sarpong, S., 2019. The challenges of job hunting and recruitment in Ghana: Opportunity for
improvement. Global Business and Organizational Excellence. 38(3). pp.35-42.
Shenoy, V. and Aithal, P.S., 2016. Changing Approaches in Campus Placements-A new
futuristic Model. International Journal of Scientific Research and Modern Education
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Process of making Job Offer. 2016. [Online] Available Through :
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