Analyzing HRM Strategies: A Case Study on Sainsbury (Individual)

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of Human Resource Management (HRM) strategies, focusing on the multinational grocery retailer Sainsbury. The report delves into how HRM creates value for the firm, exploring strategies like recruitment, training, and employee development. It examines the impact of regional and national cultures on HRM practices, emphasizing the importance of adapting to local values and norms. The analysis includes Sainsbury's employment model, highlighting its flat organizational structure and its use of organizational levers to create value, such as direct manager-employee relationships and focus on employee engagement. The report benchmarks Sainsbury's practices against Storey's 27 points of difference between HRM and personnel management. Furthermore, it considers the significance of local culture in international subsidiaries, addressing employment law differences, and offering recommendations for optimizing HRM practices to enhance organizational performance. Corporate examples and literature are used to support the findings, making it a detailed study of HRM in a real-world context.

HRM( Individual
Assignment )

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
(A) Mention the way through which value can be created to the firm by using HR strategies.. 3
(B) Impact of regional and national culture on the practice of HRM.........................................4
(C) organisation's model of employment and sate the organisational levers used by firm to
create value .................................................................................................................................5
D) Using Storey's 27 points of difference between HRM and personnel management as a
benchmark...................................................................................................................................5
E) Consider the importance and significance of local culture and HRM practices needs to be
undertaken in international-subsidiary........................................................................................6
F) Examine the differences in terms of employment laws when international HRM changes
local business systems.................................................................................................................7
G) Use appropriate corporate examples and literature to justify your stand...............................8
H) Recommendation to employers regarding HRM practices to ensure that the organisation
performance is high?...................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Human resource plays a vital role in all the organisation, as it tends to provide all the
companies a major source through which the varies revenues are being generated and there has
been framed that all the elements and the sustainability and profitability of the company tends to
be increased by the hum,an resource. The HRM provides various strategies that helps out to
make all the employees to get involve in increasing the revenue of the company. Though HRM
tends to involve with all the important areas of functions and management that is being done by
the individual for there working(Armstrong, and Taylor, 2020). This report will cover the
formative HRM strategies of Sainsbury which is the multinational grocery retailers there
headquarter is being situated in UK, and it tends to expand in all the Asian areas. There will be
given all the HRM strategies with all its practises and policies that are being made.
MAIN BODY
(A) Mention the way through which value can be created to the firm by using HR strategies.
The HR has the important role In all the organisation and as there has been seen in
Sainsbury it use to be one of the biggest multinational retailer company. There has been analysed
that all the growth and the production of the company can there by depend on the retailing and
various areas. The company there by seems to be more formative when it comes to planning and
producing all the elements. The main aim of the company is to make all the improvement in the
business and with that all the areas which governs out the improvement of the business. The HR
strategies pertains to frame all the flexibility, competitive advancement and with that all the
innovation which is being lied in it. The main areas and the strategies for the HR is that they tries
to improvise all the recruitment, selection, training and there various process that helps out to
train there employees. In the HR framework it has been mentioned that all the working zone and
the areas carries out to be the most effective and the important part(Berman and et. al., 2019).
There has been seen that Sainsbury as being the ,leading brand tries to get involve and
make all the HR strategies and they comes out with all the innovative ideas in the mind in order
to make things work and adapt usual and innovative areas. They select out all the efficient
employees and the training process also leads to make there employees more capable in
framework so as to provide the retain and the development in effective manner.

Sainsbury carries out all the important areas and the methods through which there
performance and the sustained business practises with all there workforce creates out the
affective and the clear looking of the development in formative areas. Thus the company tries to
cover out with all the effective values and the methods that has been framed in a competitive
manner. The Sainsbury can there by imparts and make all the variably clear in utilizing there
employees efforts by making them more sharp and creating there effectively more clear area of
working(Brewster and Hegewisch, 2017).
(B) Impact of regional and national culture on the practice of HRM.
The company have various values that is being covered in the cultural practises of the
HRM, there has been seen that all the regulations and the nature which is being made by the
company can there by pertains out to be the most important feature in all the areas. The
organisation in order to frame various rule and to regulate the methods through which any
organisation can consider the regional values as the conducts, ethics, values and norms plays a
crucialk role in all the company so as to make it work in all the way possible.
Sainsbury can there by evaluate and frame the methods in which the company pertains
out the working in all the areas with the methods and the carried way as the organisation with all
there growth and establishment should not tend to follow the cultural and the ethical values
which are being considered.
The HRM use to imply various practises in which they makes all the employees
engagement and with that there ideas in the working of any company or there methods in order
to frame the work for nature and recourse. The ideology behind all this tends to create that all the
decisions of the company will be dependent on the ethics and moral values. There has been
analysed that such methods and the ways in which organisational growth is being carried on can
make the ethical areas more strong. As Sainsbury there by can make the ethical perspective and
approaches in there company in order to establish the clear and the proper vision in all the
ideology. The company there by applies in all the cultural and the various regions through which
they tends to expand there working in certain areas and that also calculate the regulations ion the
globalisation with the efficient market practises. The national and the regional factors helps out
all the company in there growth and practises through which they can expand there image with
the market value by variably keeping the customers and the employees with there norms and
culture connected (Chaudhary, 2019). This undergoes in all the areas through which the actual

working can be framed. The high sale in all the areas and there major working can cover out the
meaning and the social benefited areas of working.
(C) organisation's model of employment and sate the organisational levers used by firm to create
value .
The HR of the organisations tends to create an important impact on all the company.
There has been framed that in all the areas and the working the main method through which such
measures are thereby being framed is being covered as under. Sainsbury use the Flat
organisational structure as in order to see the growth of the company and the working of any of
the areas in order to make various rules this model is being used by the Sainsbury. Through this
model all the employees are being managed by the managers and there is no other employees or
the staff in between in order to make them clear about there various rules and working.
The main role and the working of the company pertains out to be on the employees who
are covering up and making all the rules which provides the methods and the areas. The main
strategy behind this is to guide there employees about there strategies and the respective goals
that are being carried and helps out in attaining the more benefit in all the enhance effect.
Sainsbury as being the well known company use to covers the maximum areas and through
which they make an formulation in the marketing strategy son as to keep themselves and there
employees updated in the areas of innovation(Chelladurai, and Kerwin, 2018). There is direct
link in the managers and the employees in such areas and conditions.
This method helps out in enhancing the performance of the external and the internal
factors like the profit sharing, the marketing strategy and all the financial turnover in all the
areas. This provides help in attaining all the model and the leverage in order by there various
selection, training and recruitment process all the employees were being connected and also the
main objective of the company is being explained to them. Thus all this models helps ion the
development and getting the proper outcome for the company as in order to gain more profit.
D) Using Storey's 27 points of difference between HRM and personnel management as a
benchmark
HRM is an important part in all the success and the growth of the company as it helps in
identifying all the important areas and the requirement for the company as in order to make the
work and the growth of the company more achievable. Whereas, personnel management reflects
out to maintain all the records and the statements that are important in all the companies and

organisation, it means that all the wages, salary and the other benefits are being considered in
this . All the policies that are developed in the HRM creates an important impact in all the areas
and maintain the presence in the market these helps out in the growth of the company and to aim
in all the required areas of interest(Cuskelly, and et. al., 2020).
BASIS Personnel Management HRM
Management task The personnel management involves in
Sainsbury tries to cover and monitor all
the working of the company and there
increasing productiveness in the
market.
HRM focuses on the work of
the employees as they use to
depend on the working of there
employees as in order of the
companies growth and
performance by making and
providing varies tasks.
Contract Sainsbury has all the properly written
and the framed contracts that are being
made as in order to attain more gain
and the clarity to the working people
with there timely contracting.
The HRM covers all the
standard timely contractual
implications in terms for the
employees so as to maintain all
the work by there efficiency
and time.
Rules Through the personnel management all
the devices being made as to control in
all the areas and there ill be framed that
all the employees will get working in
specific areas and make it for the
employees and there areas(Jiang, and
Li, 2019).
The HRM in Sainsbury tries to
maintain the proper relation
with the employees as in order
to create the good and the clear
environment for all the
employees as in effective
manner.
E) Consider the importance and significance of local culture and HRM practices needs to be
undertaken in international-subsidiary.
The HRM covers out all the important areas in the business as it helps out to gain more
business facility. Sainsbury there by make the increment in all the working areas and they make
up the various efforts through which the working of the company can there by be framed and

adapted. All the hiring of the new employees use to depend on the growth and the advancement
that is coming for the company. As in all the sustained growth and development there gains out
all the achievement of the company(Pham, and et. al., 2020). The hiring when is made of all the
local culture as Sainsbury is being expanding in all the Asian areas and that helps them to pertain
and know about there culture and there requirements so in order to maintain all the local culture
of individual will be covered and explained there in:
 The localities or the candidates in local areas are well aware about the nature and the
culture of that zone and helps the company to gain more production by removing the
financial loss.
 There has been analysed that local candidates when being hired they are fluently aware
with the language which is being used in that area. As Sainsbury generalise all such terms
as in order to maintain a proper communication in that local markets and with the people
the hiring of the local candidates helps them out as they can mediate with all the
surrounding and are aware about the problems that is being faced. The company will
there by face no language barrier by there help and as the UK based company can easily
fir in that other areas too.
 The cost of training, relocation, language training is being curt down from this method.
As the person who is highly efficient in all the languages and is already being settled with
there family can be considered as low cost and saves the expenses of the company in all
the variable away(Soltis, Brass, and Lepak, 2018).This tends out to clear out the method
through which Sainsbury can save there cost by hiring the local candidates.
F) Examine the differences in terms of employment laws when international HRM changes local
business systems.
HRM has the been covered on all the varies areas and the internal and the external factors
that are being analysed as for all the effective requirements. There has been framed all the local
cultures and with that all then national areas. All the international HRM tends to cover out the
nation as a host, parent and also the third country nationals etc. as this implies that all the areas
and the aims which is being followed up by the company tends to provide the main focused
areas. Parent country National (PCN)- In such country all the essential and the origin basis of
the company can there by be framed as a expatriate. Merely the employees in this use to

work for 4-5 years and that in the term of de facto as a labour law of all the standard of
the company. Host country Nationals (HCN)- The employees in Sainsbury who are mainly working in
the foreign country as covering all the foreign subsidiary of that business are being
considered in it.
 Third country Nationals (TCN)- In this all the employees who are in that same
headquarter and work in the original company will be covered as under. There will be
applied that all such working can there by be pertain as the main originated company.
The Sainsbury formulates that there are certain laws which are in under the company and
that are being used as in order to frame all the requirements in that business(Stewart, and
Brown, 2019). There has been analysed that all the contract law, employment law, Equality act,
unfair dismissal act, national minimum wages act are being covered in it. The Sainsbury there by
frame out all the essential requirements and that is being considered to be in the tribunals the
company tends to follow all the laws and the nature that has to be kept for the protection of
employees.
G) Use appropriate corporate examples and literature to justify your stand.
The HRM covers all the rights and the responsibilities which in order to frame the rights
and the Jane courtnell, 2019, mentioned as in companies and the organisation the Human
resources plays an important role. There has been seen that all the organisation use to work with
the help of the employees and the employees plays a major role in all the working of the
company. There has been analysed that all such advantages and the gaining in the company can
only be made by variable changes and the innovation and that can only be possible when the
employees working in the company impartial the areas and the nature. The employees as when
the organisation wants to achieve the goals tends to make and clear there mission and vision as
by the help of that every company can gain the growth.
The recruitment, selection and training all are the important segments of the company and
there has been seen that all such things majorly implies that organisation gives out the methods
and the areas of working in the efficient way(Word, and Sowa, 2017). Sainsbury has varies
strategies that are being covered by them as it helps out in all the methods and the major areas
through which the company can feasibly attain success. Sainsbury there by tries to raise there
employee in a proper way so as to make it more successful and developed as compared to any

other areas and regions. The HRM helps all the companies to grow and to expand with all the
major manner. All the companies as that may be of UK or can be maintained of Asia they tends
to make the working in a efficient manner and tries to maintain the balance in all the company
and there further nature. The balance and the level which is being made and framed in the
company helps to provide the resolving of all alternative.
H) Recommendation to employers regarding HRM practices to ensure that the organisation
performance is high?
The HRM helps in the development of certain policies which helps in the growth of
individual behaviour and there attitude in all the basic means. All the organisation us to work in a
better way with all of there efforts. As there has been framed that in all such methods HRM
implies that the working of the company depends on the crucial and the developed areas and
manner. There are some recommendation for Sainsbury in order to make there business in a
proper and an expanded manner.
 The HR can manage all the various managing skills as in order to frame and make
there employees work in better way they can imply and use certain methods liken
working in the smooth and functioning manner. As the proper training of the
employees can be framed as that helps them order to gain more efficiency. As all
the flexibility in the functions can be made in the company(Zaid, Jaaron, and
Bon, 2018).
 There should be maintained all the security in the areas and there has to be
established a balanced nature and the environment in order to frame and maintain
the clear and the operating goal of the company. The Sainsbury can maintain the
transparency with the employees and make them, clear about there working style.
CONCLUSION
From this above report it is concluded that,Human resource helps to frame the business
effectively and has maintained the role and the working of the company in a functional areas.
They maintain the HR strategies which helps to develop the goals and to maintain the effective
working of the business. The regional and the national culture also frames out the working of the
company. Furthermore, employment law covers out all the managing and maintaining the

international business in the performance of the business. The HRM gives the specific method
through which all the employees can maintain and get the ability of working in all the areas. The
HRM motivates the employee to give there best to the company so that it can flourish.

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