Sainsbury's HRM: Recruitment, Selection, and Practices Report

This report provides an in-depth analysis of the recruitment process and HRM practices at Sainsbury's, a major UK supermarket chain. It begins with an introduction to HRM, emphasizing its strategic role in managing and maintaining the workforce to gain a competitive advantage. The report explores the functions of HRM applicable to workforce planning, including performance appraisal and training & development. It then delves into recruitment, examining internal and external recruitment approaches, their strengths, and weaknesses. The selection process is also discussed, covering screening, shortlisting, and psychometric testing. The report further highlights the benefits of HRM practices such as reward systems and training and development for both employees and the employer. It evaluates how these practices contribute to increased profits, revenues, and productivity. The report uses Sainsbury's as a case study to illustrate these concepts, providing practical examples of advert roles, job descriptions, and offer letters. The analysis highlights the significance of effective HRM in achieving organizational goals and maximizing employee performance. The information is valuable for understanding how HRM strategies are implemented in a real-world business context, contributing to the overall success of the organization.

UNIT – 3
RECRUITMENT PROCESS

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management defines to the process of strategic tool that helps in managing and
maintaining the people within the organisation so that they help in gaining the competitive advantage for
the business enterprise. It helps in maximize the performance of employees to grow and reach the
strategic goals. In this recruitment and hiring method is a significant process that is provide the skilled
workforce for the company by hiring the best and suitable candidate for the job role. The information is
based on the Sainsbury’s that is one of the largest supermarket chain in the UK and deals in the various
products range like groceries, clothing, baby products, home wares etc. this project involves the function
and scope of the HRM within the business venture that helps in accomplishing the desired goal in the
organisation. It also shows the recruitment and selection process with their advantage and disadvantage
related to the firm. Further it involves the elements of the HRM practices to raise profits and revenues and
that benefits the employee and employer of the company. It also involves the factors that is based on
internal and external terms that helps in taking the effective decision making for the organization so that it
gives the positive outcome to the task. At last it shows the application of HRM practices includes
example of advert the role, job description and offer letter. This shows for what position HR can hire the
candidate that helps in accomplishing the goal on the desired time period(Swider, Zimmerman and
Barrick, 2015).
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Human resource management
It refers to that strategic approach that showcases the effective management within the
organisation that helps in gaining the advantage of beating the rival firms in the business environment and
sustainable growth in the marketplace. They also help in managing the workforce so that they work with
productivity and proficiency. The main intention of this is to maintain and organize the relationship
between employees and manager and also engage the employees for good work so that turnover of the
staff members is reducing. With background of Sainsbury’s it includes different functions of the HRM
that can be shown below(Humburg and Van der Velden, 2015).
Functions of HRM applicable to workforce planning
Workforce planning

It refers to the process of forecasting, analyzing, assessing and determine the talent that was
present in the company and also ensure that they place on the right position, with right skills and the right
time that achieve the organisational goals. it involves various functions of HRM that is related to labor
force planning.
 Performance appraisal – It defines to the reviewing the employees performance on the regular
basis so that they contribute in achieving the overall objectives of the firm. in context of the
Sainsbury’s manager it helps in motivating the employees by using promotional technique if they
work better and it also helps in influencing and encouraging the workforce to do a plan to
increase their productivity of the work and enhance the profits for the company. in this the HR
manager can communicate with their subordinates so they understand the skills and also create a
trust with is more important to complete the task and earns a high quantity of profits(Hawranik
and Pangman, 2016).
o Purpose – The main purpose of the performance appraisal is that it helps the manger to
evaluate the overall performance and know the employees strength and weakness to
complete the task.
 Training and development – this factor suggest that function of the HRM which helps in
improving the present and future performance by enhancing their skills and ability of learning
things that is related to their job positions. it also helps in showing the learning growth of an
individual person that helps in achieving the task. With the reference of Sainsbury’s, it is very
essential for the manager to provide timely training and development sessions for their employees
according to their learning ability so that the task can be done in an appropriate manner(Kaur,
2015).
o Purpose - The main purpose of training and development is to enhance the knowledge of
the workforce in the working environment so that they the work can be done in an
successful and capable mode.
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Recruitment
It refers to a process of attracting the large number of candidates for the vacant position that is
available in the organization. with the references of the Sainsbury’s it discovers the various source from
where the manager of the firm can hire a skillful candidates for filling the job position so that they fulfills
the targets on a set time period. It includes approaches on the basis of which recruitment can be done but

at the same time it showcase the various strength and weaknesses of approaches that can be shown
below(Bartakova and et. al., 2017).
Approaches of recruitment
 Internal recruitment - It refers to that process and approach of a recruitment in which a
manager can attract the various employees within the organisation itself. In context of
Sainsbury’s manager can use this feature by using intranet and display boards where they place
add to attracts the employees for applying the vacant position and in this interested candidates are
apply for the job(Gilani and Jamshed, 2016
o Strength – The main advantage of using this feature in the recruitment process helps in
strengthen the employee engagements with the firm and it also limits the pool of the
applicants. in terms of Sainsbury’s this helps in restrict the high usage of cost and time in
attracting the number of candidates so that the manager of company can also focus on the
other activities to fulfills the objectives.
o Weakness – The major disadvantage of using internal recruitment in Sainsbury’s is that
they restrict the suggestion of new and innovative ideas that is helpful in achieving the
target and beating the competitors of the business venture.
 External recruitment – It refers to that process in which company hires and attracts the large
number of applicants from outside the organisation. For example – campus recruitment,
advertising, contractors, employment agencies etc. In context of the Sainsbury’s manager can
attract the candidates by using campus recruitment and employment agencies so that they get the
highly skilled candidates who fulfills the criteria for the job and gives the productive outcome to
the company(Wroblowska and Ruda, 2015).
o Strength - The major advantage of external recruitment is that it attracts the creative and
skilled candidates who have a great knowledge about the current scenario from outside
the business. This helps the concerned company for future term growth.
o Weakness- Cons of the external recruitment is that in context of Sainsbury’s is that they
contain high cost and more time at the time of recruiting the candidates. and it also place
a fear of hiring the little understanding about the firms values and objectives this will
create more cost in training and development.
Selection
It refers to the process of selecting and hiring appropriate candidates out of number of applicants
who are applied for the job role that is vacant in the company. In reference of the Sainsbury’s it is most

significant process and role of the HR manager because it helps in screening the number of applicants and
selects the best suitable for the job. it contains various approaches that can be shown below(Petzold,
2017).
Approaches of selection
 Screening and short listing – It refers to the screening the number of applications as per the
assessments of the applicants qualifications and experience for filling the required job position. it
is very important because without it Sainsbury’s cannot get the appropriate employee who fulfills
all the set objectives to achieve the profits(Visa, Einolander and Vanharanta, 2015).
o Strength – It can helps in finds the best candidates out of number of candidates and in
this Sainsbury’s use online screening which helps in finding the right candidate for the
right job and on the tight time.
o Weakness – The main disadvantage of the feature is that it contains more time and cost
and also demotivates the employees and candidates because in this only suitable
candidate is selected out of number of candidates.
 Psychometric testing - It refers to that test which is related to aptitude test in thismanager of
Sainsbury’s can take the test for knowing their weakness, ability, capability of handle the
situation and task and achieve the goal in the positive manner within a time frame(Stewart and et.
al., 2016).
o Strength – The main trump card of using this test by the manager of Sainsbury’s is that it
helps in giving the overall picture of the employee by showing their strength and
weakness at the time of completing the task. on the basis of which they provide training
to them so that they work more hard.
o Weakness –The key drawback of this approach is that they may depress the employee.
and also gives the false answers sometimes about their skills when the test done online
mode. It also very costly in nature and also the time consuming.
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HRM Practices

It refers to those practices of management which includes the system related to motivates,
develops, retains and engagements of they employees within the company and it also ensures that all this
aspects are executed effectively so that it helps in longer survival of the firm. In terms of Sainsbury’s it
includes the benefits in the HRM practices for employee and employer so that task can be achieved in an
effective way. Some of the benefits are to be explained below(Bohmova, 2016).
Benefits of HRM practices
 Reward system – It refers to that concerned which is selected and used by the employees for
rewarding them their good work is called reward system. in this manager can noticed and
observed the employee contribution in the particular task on the basis of this they can rewarded
and recognized in the firm. In this manager of the Sainsbury’s can implement this strategy for
improving the employee’s performance at the time of completion the task. In this if an individual
work best than they will be rewarded and apprise in front of all the team members so that other
also motivated to do a good work.
o Benefits to employee and employer – for Sainsbury’s employer point of view it helps in
achieving the target on the giving time and also get the motivated and encouraged
employees who can achieve the task in an appropriate manner. For employee it helps in
motivating and encouraged for the good work and this also develops their personality as
an individual person(Constantin and Stoenescu, 2015).
 Training and development – It is an most effective practice of the human resource that helps in
designing the skills of the individual employees and enhance their knowledge by using effective
training process so that task can be fulfilled on time. With reference of Sainsbury’s the manager
can provide proper training and development sessions so that they ready the skilled and
knowledgeable workforce who provide the innovative suggestions for accomplishing the task.
o Benefits to employee and employer – This aspect can benefits the employees and
employers of Sainsbury in a way that employees get the knowledge and skills so that
they improve their quality of work and give the best results on the same time it also
benefitted the employer as they provide skillful workforce on time so that they achieve
the task in an appropriate manner(Hada and Gairola, 2015(.
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It is very essential to evaluate the different HRM practices that help in raising the profits,
revenues and productivity within the company. It includes the different reimbursement of the HRM
practices that have been explained above that helps in earning profits and revenues for the business.

 Reward system is very effective and efficient to encourage the Sainsbury’s employees because it
helps in completing the task in an appropriate manner. It inculcates that HR manager play an
important role to motivate the workforce for doing their best so that they earn large amount of
profit and gaining the competitive advantage with is more important in today’s world. In this
employee retention is more and because of this it maintains the loss of expenses on the
recruitment process and invests in other important task so that they achieve more profits in the
organisation. This also helps in enhances the productivity of task because of reward that was gain
by their good work(Zin and et. al., 2016).
 After evaluating the training and development process it shows that it is very effective in nature
of the organisation profits and productivity. in this manager of the Sainsbury’s can provide the
training and development session so that it will enhances the individual person skills and
knowledge according to their work assigned so that they complete it in an effective manner and
gives the productive results to the business venture. it helps in earning the profits by managing
the work with their skills and knowledge and also enhances the market share which is more
important to longer survival of the firm.
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Employee relation
Employee relations shows the company efforts towards the maintaining and creating the
relationship in their employees so that goals can be achieved in an effective way and also profits can be
earn on a high amount with longer sustainability of the firms. It is a significant term to improve the
productivity and performance of an individual employee in the working environment. It is beneficial for
the manager of the Sainsbury’s to get the productive resulted in completion of task and they also make the
decision in an appropriate way so that work can be managed and achieved in a desirable manner. it shows
the significance of employee relation that helps in influence decision making can be explained
below(Melanthiou, Pavlou and Constantinou, 2015).
 Employee satisfaction - This factor is based on the employee engagement because if the
employees are less engaged than they will be less satisfied. To increase the satisfaction level
manager of the Sainsbury’s can focus on individual needs and preference of the employees are
fulfilled in the expected criteria or not. Therefore, if is not fulfilled by the greater extent than they
take the proper actions so that they will hence the employee satisfaction with their job and they

will not think to leave the job. This benefit of employee relation can influence the decision
making procedure as in this employer give the right to contribute in the decision making process
so that they also suggest their ideas and thoughts. This also provides the innovative ideas and
suggestions at the time of decision making so that task can be achieved in an appropriate manner.
 Employee empowerment- This factor plays an importance of the employee relations because in
this manager of the Sainsbury’s can give the power and right to take decisions at the operational
level on their own. This helps in managing the relation to the employees and reducing the
employee turnover in the organisation. In this manager can give the right to their workers so that
they present their unique ideas and solve the problem that they were faced on their own. it helps
in increasing their decision making power as well as problem solving power. Which is more
important to earn a profits and sustainability of the company? It also helps in enhancing the
productivity of employees within the firm. Because of all this each and every employee feels
secured at their job and enjoying their work(Asseburg, Homberg and Vogel, 2018).
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Employment legislation
It refers to the laws that is applicable in the organisation and imposed by the government of the
country for the betterment of the employees, employers and customers. It includes the various types of
laws that include benefits entitlements, pay equity, wages and hours of works, human rights, employee
standards, safety of employees and consumers etc. With reference of Sainsbury’s these laws can be place
an important role and also place an impact on the decision making power in the organisation(Volkening
and et. al., 2017).
 Minimum wage act – It refers to that employment law that is taking by the manager of the
Sainsbury which shows the minimum amount of the salary that they pay to their employees. In
this manager of the Sainsbury’s can relate this act to the compensation that is given to the
workers in the organisation. This act create an impact on the decision making process related to
recruitment where they find those candidates who want to do work on any amount. And at this
time they hires the candidates as per their maintain budget so that they cannot face any issue
relating to negotiation of the salary and they focus on the other task that place an important role
in achieving the profits.
 Maternity and parental leave regulation act – It refers to that employment law suggest the
right of an employee to take the leave for accomplishing their parental role. Using this legislation
is very significant in the company because of productive work. it affects the decision making of

the Sainsbury’s as they manage and motivates the employees who are not satisfied with this leave
in different ways and those who need this type of leave offers them so that they give their best by
achieving the task in an appropriate manner.
 Safety laws - It refers to that law which shows the safety of the employees on the workplace. in
this manager of the Sainsbury’s can take decision related to the safety of employees by providing
the healthy and safe environment at the work place that does not harm them in physical and
mental terms. In this employer can decide the budget for spending on safety of employees so that
they give the productive results which is very important for the longer survival and employee
retention with the organisation.
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Advert for the role
In the background of the Sainsbury’s the HR manager is looking for a Human Resource executive
job role. In this they require a person who can communicate clearly and in an understanding way and also
manages the workforce relations and manage and maintain the regular activities within the organisation
that is related to the human resource functions. They also help the human resource manager in decision
making process. This person also has the skills of managing the relations between the HR manager and
the employees(Spychała and et. al., 2019).
Job description
In Sainsbury’s the job description of the HR executive is that they direct and overseeing the
training, hiring and dismissal processes and also administrating the benefits programs on the basis of HR
manager set rules and regulation. They have a proper knowledge for managing the relations of the
employees and help the top level managers to accept the change as per proper guidelines and rules. if a
person fulfills all this role than they will sent their resume.
For this manager need to prepare previously and ready the interview question so that it does not spoil the
impression of the company. These questions are-
 Tell me about yourself?
 Why you want this job?
 Why you work for our organization?
 what is your strength and weakness

CV
OBC
Online Mail-id
Career Objective
To work for the growth enhancing in a reputed corporation that assists in increasing the
capabilities and skills and achieve the task on time.
Personal skills
Encouraging learning innovative and new things that are beneficial for the personal
development and that will showcase in achieving the goal of the organization.
Ability to work with team and also manages the work individually with a calm nature.
More energy work ethic
Work experience
Total experience is about 5 years in ABC company as a human resource executive
Key responsibility of HR Executive
Scheduling interviews for selecting the candidates
Screening of applicants as a first round
Maintain coordination with different departments
Managing the consultants
Offer letter
Job Offer Letter
Dear OBC
We are glad to inform you that you are appointed as a HR executive in the company. at the time of interview we feel

that you contains the skills that is beneficial for performing this job role.
The joining date will be the next month we are greet to welcome you in the organisation.
If you accept this offer letter than sign it and return to it. at last we are very excited to welcoming you as a new HR
executive.
Sincerely
OBC
HR Executive
Evaluation
It is a significant term to evaluate the application of human resource management to recognize
their impact on the recruitment and hiring activity. It is an interesting process if the manager of the
Sainsbury can perform it by using appropriate skills and plans. by using this application organisation get
the skilled and knowledgeable person as a HR Executive. but on the contrary using and following this
method is very time consuming and costly in a way that firstly manager can place an advertisement for
they vacant job for attracting the number of candidates and than select the one which is suitable for that
job role and than make a offer letter for the selected candidate all this need more amount of funds and
times. But on the same time it helps in getting the suitable candidate, on the right job at the right time.
This is more important.
CONCLUSION
From the above research project report it is concluded that the human resource management
refers to the prominent term to manage the workforce of the company. In this it shows the various
purpose of human resource that is helpful in gaining the competitive advantage by accomplishing the task
on the given time. It also explains the recruitment and selection that is important function of HRM and
helps in hiring the best and suitable candidate for the vacant job that gives the overall profit to the
organisation. It also helps in explaining the employment legislation that is very significant at the time of
proper and appropriate decision making. it also helps in giving the knowledge related to the HRM
practices that is beneficial for the employer and employee so that they get motivated to do a work in an
proficient manner. at last it shows the application that includes the example of the vacant job and hiring
process for the vacant job position that helps in earning profits and revenues and also complete the task
opn the desired time. it helps in longer survival of an organisation.