Analysis of HR Practices at Mother London and US Legislation

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Introduction to Human Resource Management & Learning and Talent Development
Assessment
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Table of Contents
Introduction....................................................................................................................................................3
Task 2.............................................................................................................................................................4
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................................9
Reference list...............................................................................................................................................10
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Executive summary
This report has detailed all the major roles and responsibilities of a HR officer of an organization.
Training and development, performance and rewards and other are regarded as important HR practices
that are used by most of the successful business organizations for betterment and growth of their
organization. A number of theoretical perspectives of SHRM have been detailed in this report. Ulrich
Model is one of the effective SHRM models that are used by successful firms for better functioning of the
organizational activities. There are also several laws and regulations regarding recruitment and selection
such as Child Labour act, Foreign Labour Act and other. All of the business organizations are bound to
follow the exhaustive laws and regulations regarding the recruitment and selection during their selection
process in order to continue their business activities in a seamless manner.
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Introduction
Human resource management is all about managing the exhaustive workforce and enhancing their
performance to their maximum potential for accomplishing their expected business outcomes in a more
effective manner. It is the effective method of identifying both of the current and future needs of a
company for achieving its business targets. HRM is regarded as the process that concentrates upon the
recruitment, proper management of various organizational activities and offering appropriate guidelines
to the entire manpower across the firm. “Mother London” is one of the most creative organizations
throughout the globe that was established in 1996. There are seven legal partners of this organization and
three of them are founding partners.
This study will outline the several important roles of HR practices and their contribution to the success of
the company named “Mother London”. Additionally, all the recruitment process of “Mother London”
will be analysed and potential drawbacks will also be sorted out from the recruitment approach of
“Mother London”. Theoretical perspectives of SHRM and discussion between the HR strategy and
business strategy will also be discussed in this portion of the study. Examples of key legislations
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Task 2
a) Explain the role of HR practices in supporting the different forms of capital and how these have
contributed to the success of Mother.
HR department has a verity of roles and responsibilities to play within the organizational premises. They
focus on adopting and implementing a number of effective HR practices across then firm in order to
enhance the work culture and to gain competitive advantages in the market place through generating more
profits.
Training and development
Companies from all sectors can such enhance their business position and generate more amounts of
profits, through arranging proper training and development program across the firm. Training and
development is the seed time of an employee’s career (Wilson, 2014). During training, employees can
extend their performance to their maximum potential by gathering organizational knowledge and
strengthening their organizational skills as well. Training and development program is regarded as one of
the most effective HR practices that can be used by organizations such as “Mother London” for
supporting different forms of capital including human capital, organizational capital and social capital.
Improved recruitment process
Recruitment is regarded as extremely important as this process assists to select the most eligible candidate
along with all the required skills and qualification. An organization such as “Mother London” is one of
the most popular creative organizations; the company such requires concentrating upon improving their
recruitment system (Ford, 2014). This will allow them to select and hire the most effective candidates
from a pool of candidates. Eligible candidates will assist the firm to accelerate the productivity of the
company so that they can generate more business profits. Recruitment is considered as the important HR
practice and plays a vital role in supporting the various forms of capital. Alternatively, eligible employees
can better support the organization to face a verity of future challenges in a more effective manner.
Performance management and rewards
Most of the successful organizations like “Mother London” arrange an annual performance management,
where employees those are rewarded as per their organizational performance and contribution towards
accomplishing the organizational goals and objectives (Cardy and Leonard, 2014). Employees are likely
to select their own hours of working and reward system as well. In “Mother London”, reward is provided
to groups instead of individuals. Groups are rewarded as per their performance standard and contribution
towards accomplishing the organizational goals and objectives. These are extremely important to keep the
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employees motivated and satisfied with their jobs all the while. Motivated employees are able to perform
and contribute in better manner so that organizations like “Mother London” can easily generate
Discuss any potential drawbacks with Mother’s approach to recruitment.
One of the major drawbacks of Mother’s approach to recruitment is that “Mother London” uses external
recruitment to fulfill their vacant job positions across the organizational premises of “Mother London”.
External recruitment has several drawbacks that can such affect the organizational performance of an
organization such as “Mother London”. First of all, this recruitment takes more cost and time to hire the
most eligible candidates compared to other recruitment process (Usher, 2017). This can be hard to say
through information of a candidate whether she or he will fit in with the firm as well as its staffs. New
employees may bring new ideas and fresh outlooks that are regarded as a disadvantage because all these
fresh outlooks and ideas also may generate a verity of conflicts with employees that are present in the
company.
In the given case scenario, this is completely clear that most of the newcomers those are recruited in
“Mother London” are recruited by senior staff’s the extensive personal networks. Additionally, morale of
an employee can also be damaged through it as current staffs may feel this lessens their opportunities for
promotion. Many of the agencies that are being used in the external recruitment process are not trusted
and they can cheat in the hiring process as well. Therefore, company may have to face a number of
organizational performance difficulties in future. These all are regarded as potential disadvantages of
recruitment approaches of “Mother London” that such can impact over overall organizational
performance and profit generation.
b) Evaluate the HR practices implemented at Mother with the theoretical perspectives of SHRM.
(A minimum of two will be expected). A discussion about the link between the business strategy and
HR strategy will also be expected.
“Mother London” has used a number of important HR practices such as rewards & performance
management and training and development in order to extend their employee performance to their
maximum level, gain competitive advantages and generate more profits in business.
Best fit is often considered as the ‘contingency theory’ approaches to the HR (Jackson et al., 2014). this is
possible to improve the business performance, while the HR strategy linked inextricably with the
formulation as well as implementation. On the other hand, Best Practice model provides principles for
building better strategies. These best practices focus upon enhancing the employee performance so that
they can contribute for the growth of the organization in better manner.
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Performance and reward is arranged by organization to motivate employees and make them satisfied in
their work. Alternatively this is beneficial for organizational growth as motivated employees can
contribute in better manner. Training and development program is arranged by the organizations to extend
their employee performance level to the maximum level. During training employees learn a lot of new
things related to organization operations and strengthen their skills as well. “Mother London” is one of
the most popular creative organizations; therefore they must need eligible employees to perform their
various organizational activities in a seamless manner.
Ulrich model is one of the best models for strategic human resource management that is used by many of
the organizations including “Mother London”. This model provides advice for providing rewards and
bringing innovations to the company. Through Innovations Company can such create difference
compared to other firms in the market (Bratton and Gold, 2017). This allows gaining competitive
advantages in the market that is crucial for global sustainability.
Another important theory that is used by organizations including “Mother London” is Contingency
theory of management. This contingency theory of management provides several important ideas to
organizations that are as follows:
 As per this theory, there is such no universal way of managing an organization and its activities.
 Management is quite situational in nature. The management techniques depend upon the situation
complexity (Otley, 2016). Additionally, all the managerial actions based on the environmental
situations.
 This assists to understand the complex firms as this concentrates upon organizations’ multivariate
nature. This is fact that this helps a firm such as “Mother London” in operating under a verity of
organizational and environmental situations. This offers a framework, where each of the solution
relies on the environmental circumstances instead of having particular remedies for solving issues.
 This allows infighting into the adaptability of the organization to both of external and internal
environment.
 This helps managers in planning the information decision system and designing the organization
structure.
 Additionally, this assists in devising leadership and motivational approaches for motivating the
employees.
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Business strategy and human resource strategy is related with each other and successful companies such
as “Mother London” always focus on linking their business strategy along with the organizational
strategy in order to achieve best possible outcomes in business (Armstrong and Taylor, 2014). For an
instance, company named, “Mother London” arranges training and development program for the
employees. The business strategy is used by “Mother London” for accelerating the production rate so
that company can accelerate their sales rate and revenues as well. On the other hand, HR strategy is
strengthening the employee skills and organizational knowledge and making them ready for facing future
organizational challenges in effective manner. They focus on long term betterment and growth of the
organization.
c) Illustrate with examples key legislation and areas for consideration in recruitment and selection
that might affect Mother in a country of your choice (apart from the UK).
Recruitment and selection is regarded as one of the necessary components to any small to large size
business organizations that are conducting business activities across the market place. A company such as
“Mother London” require selecting the best candidates possible for helping entrepreneurs to reach the
business goals as well as fulfil his organizational mission. During this recruitment and selection process,
all the organizations from small scale to large size business firms have to follow and maintain several
important legislations in proper manner. Labour law, Wages Act, Foreign labour and other legislations are
included in the list of legislations that are required to be followed all the organizations that are conducting
business activities across the US premises.
Child labour
Wage and Hour Davidson of the United States Department of labour enforce all child labour laws. As per
this act, children those are under age of 16 years may just work during the restricted hours. Most of the
scenarios, employment’s minimum age is 14 (Nogler and Pertile, 2016). This law has been implemented
throughout the US premises for safeguarding the children from all the unethical activities. Employing
children for hard working activities is completely restricted in US premises. Companies those are
conducting business in US premises are bound to follow this law in proper manner. Small companies
which employ children should keep payroll records and meticulous employment. During recruitment and
selection process of “Mother London” company is bound to check the age of the candidate properly in
order to continue their business activities across the US.
Foreign labour
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Before hiring a foreign national to work in US premises, checking the certification with U.S. Department
of labour is such important for all the business organizations in US. Labours those being outsourced from
different country such require having a proper visa as the permission letter for working in the US
premises. Visa is provided by the government bodies of US. Additionally, candidates should prove that
they are eligible for employment under the Immigration and Nationality Act regulations. Companies
including “Mother London” those are conducting business in US must follow this act and must
concentrate upon checking the visa and its validation before hiring employees from foreign countries.
Affirmative actions
Affirmative action is regarded as the set of laws that in enforced through the Federal Contract
Compliance Programs office. This wads impended with the aim of stopping any kind of discrimination
across the US organizational (Naibandian, 2018). US government regulated this act to make sure that all
the employees have the same opportunity for employment, without regards to race, culture, sex, colour,
national, disability, origin and others. Persons those will find with this kind of activities will be punished
as per the government laws of US. Therefore, companies such as “Mother London” are bound to ensure
that there are such no discrimination cases within the organizational premises of the US to continue their
business in proper manner.
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Conclusion
From the above discussion, this can be concluded that the human resource manager is responsible for
managing all the resources in proper manner for better functioning of different organizational activities.
Roles of HR practices in different forms of capital and their contribution in the success of the “Mother
London” have been detailed in this study. Several HR practices such as training and development
program, performance and rewards are used by organizations for enhancing organizational performance.
Additionally, both of the business strategy and HR strategy are linked with each other and both of them
are designed for betterment and growth of the organization. Key legislations including Child Labour,
affirmative action’s and their impact on recruitment and selection process have been described in this
portion of the study.
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