BTEC HNCD Engineering - Human Resource Management - Pearson Qualifications

P1: Purpose and Functions of HRM applicable to resourcing and workforce planning

Overview of company: Marks and Spencer (M&S), a UK multinational company which deals in offering expensive clothing, home and food products across worldwide due to which the company attained huge customers strength. The company was founded by Sir Michael Marks and Thomas Spencer in 1984 and its headquarter is in London, United Kingdom. It has employed more than 84,939 employees who contributes their maximum efforts in achieving growth and success of an organisation (Pfeffer, 2010).

Purpose and Functions of HRM:

Human resource management refers to such a department which are wholly liable to recruit and develop human resources with an objective of achieving growth and success of an organisation. The HR management of M&S performs different functions such as staffing, recruitment, selection, performance appraisal etc. in order to get skilled and knowledgable employees for an organisation. The purpose of forming HRM is to increase productivity and profitability of M&S through supporting employees in improving their performance. Following are the some nature and scopes of HRM:

Nature:

• HRM is a continuous process.
• It perform several functions such as recruitment, selection, performance appraisal etc.
• It is considered as valuable part of an organisation.
• It connects with all departments of M&S.

Scopes:

• Conducting training and development programs to the workforce.
• Building self-confidence and motivation among employees.
• Recruiting and selection of skilled and knowledgable employees.
• Providing Job security to employees.

There are mainly five functions performed by HRM which are given as below:

Training and development: It is the responsibility of HR manager of M&S to identify low-skilled and new employees and provide them sufficient training in order to develop their skills and knowledge about different techniques and tools. This will help in improving the performance of an organisation as well (Fulton and et. al., 2011).

Compensation and benefits: It is important for an organisation to have confident and motivated employees so as to get better result. Therefore, HR manager is liable to bring motivation among them through rewarding them on the basis of their performance. There are various benefits the company can provide to their employees:

• Flexibility on working hours
• Paternal and maternal leave
• Providing holidays

Performance appraisal: HR manager is liable to admire the performance of employees after identifying more skilled and knowledgable employees.

Planning: Before implementing something for the betterment of employees as well as an organisation, HR manager should required to make an effective decision and plans so as to achieve desired goals and objectives within limited period of time.

There are various activities HRM need to performed which are as below:

• Recruitment and Selection
• Making suitable plans and strategies for M&S.
• Bringing motivation and self-confidence among employees.
• Create communication channel so as to communicate employees.

Best fit approach v/s Best practice

Such practice i.e. Best Fit approach and Best fit approach is essentially required to adopt by M&S in order to bring motivation and confidence among employees so that they can contribute maximum efforts in achieving desired goals and objectives of M&S. It can be adopted through providing training and learning programs, rewards etc. so as to improve the skills and knowledge of employees which indirectly make positive impact on the overall performance of company. The manager of M&S are reuqred to first identiy the low skilled employees and accordingly choose an appropriate strategies in order to improve their capabilities.

Soft and Hard skills of HRM

Hard skills: It refers to such skills which is developed though practising more in order to achieve desired target. More hard work and dedication are required by employees in order to gain such skills. Example: Typing, writing, ability to use software programs etc.

Soft skills: It refers to such skills which is developed over a period of time as no efforts and hard work should required by employees to gain such skills (Guest, , 2011). It can be developed through interacting with others. For example, Communication skills, Problems solving skills etc.

Types of labour market:

An internal labour is become a part of administration of company which are liable to allocate workers on the basis of their skills and knowledge and control cost using administration policies and rules.

In M&S there are number of employees attaining higher position who holds different roles and responsibilities. Therefore, M&S should pay them accordingly on the basis of their contribution to achieving desired goals and objectives of M&S. For example, A manager received high salary as compared to supervisor or employees.

P2: Weaknesses and Strengths of various approaches to recruitment and selection

Recruitment is the process of giving invitation to maximum number of candidates to apply for vacant job in company after matching the criteria required for the job. It can done internally and externally. It is an essential activity which is performed by every organisation to get skilled and knowledgeable employees. HR manager is liable to recruit eligible candidate after analysing their skills and knowledge in order to determine whether the candidate fulfil all th criteria required by an organisation for the vacant job. The recruitment process includes availability of vacant job, inviting candidates for job, testing and recruiting applicants etc. There are different factors which are included in recruitment which are given as below:

Job Analysis: It means the determination of need of job in an organisation. HR manager is liable to to conduct research within an organisation and identify the job requirements on the basis of activities performed in order to achieve desired goals and objectives (Hitt and et. al, 2011).

Job description: It refers to the process of providing description about the vacant job, its roles and responsibilities, duties etc. attached with vacant job to inform applicants to determine whether they are capable of performing such roles and responsibilities.

Personal specifications: It includes the description of skills and knowledge that a candidate should possess to perform roles and responsibilities related with vacant job.

Mainly there are two methods of recruitment and selection which are as follows:

Internal recruitment and selection

Marks & Spencer is retailer organisation which are inviting candidates to fulfil their vacant job from the existing employees working in an organisation. It helps company in saving cost and time in order to recruit internally. Providing an opportunity to existing employees to apply for vacant job brings motivation and self-confidence among them which indirectly brings profitable result to company. Recruitment within an organisation can be done in form of:

Promotion: It is a kind of giving appraisal to employee on the basis of their past performances. In this, the employees promoted to the higher post and achieve strong position in company than before (Mellahi and Collings, 2010). It will encourages promoted employees as well as other employees to work hard in order get promotional chances in near future. In this, salary may incremented along with the roles and responsibilities.

Transfer: In this, the existing employees transfers from one department to another or from one position to another after analysing their skills and capabilities.

Employee referrals: In this, the existing employees help their relatives, family members of friend to provide them job in an organisation through giving their referrals.

Strengths:

• It helps in saving cost as well as time of an organisation.
• As existing employees are very much aware of the working environment thus faces no difficulties in adjusting and gives their maximum efforts.
• Increases motivation to existing employees to perform better in order to get promotional chances in near future.

Weaknesses:

• It restrict entry of new and fresh talent within an organisation.
• Conflicts or issues may arise between the existing employees.
• It includes biasness while giving promotional changes that harm the interest and working behaviour of other employees.

External recruitment and selection

In this, HR manager inviting public to apply for the vacant job available in an organisation. Their main motive of recruiting outside of the organisation is to get new and fresh talent which help them in achieving competitive advantage (Mitchell, 2013). It can be done through college placements, pool campus, through making an advertisement etc.

Strengths:

• It provide an opportunity to more skilled and qualified candidate to get their dreamed job.
• It help company in achieving competitive advantage through using new ideas and techniques developed by recruited candidates.
• No biaseness will be created.

Weakness:

• It requires lots of money and time.
• Bring demotivation among existing employees due to ignoring them in recruitment process.
• Conflicts mat arise between new and existing employees.

Selection: It is the process of giving employability to candidates after passing all recruitment process. After analysing the skills and capabilities of candidates required for vacant job, HR manager should decide to give appointment letter and given them legal employability.

After selecting employees, training and development programs should required to be conducted with an objective of adjusting them in working environment and perform their roles and responsibilities in an effective and efficient manner. Before joining company, HR managers required to organises following programs:

On-boarding: It is the process of introducing new candidates to the departments in which they performed and work. Defining company's aims and objectives to the selected employees in order to give motivation and confidence among them (Nabrzyski, Schopf and Weglarz, 2012).

It is an effective process which need to be organised by every organisation such as M&S so as to motivate new employees to perform their delegated roles and responsibilities in more effective and efficient manner which indirectly makes positive impact on the performance of M&S.

Induction: It is the process of introducing new employees with business culture, values, vision etc. It can be organised for a day or week. The main motive of conducting induction program is to help new employees in adjusting in working environment and the people they worked with them.

Such programs also required to be organised by the M&S on regular basis in order to help new employees in gaining knowledge about culture, values, vision of company which encourages them to give their maximum efforts in achieving desired goals and objectives within pre-determined period of time. It also help in maintaining healthy relation with employees due to which the employees doesn't hesitate to provide issues and problems faced by them at workplace.

P3: Advantages of various HRM practices in an organisation

There are number of HRM practices which need to be performed by HR manager of M&S which are determined as below:

Learning, training and development: Every employees working in an organisation have different skills and knowledge. Thus, HR manager need to identify their weak areas and accordingly make an effective decision regarding conducting training, learning and development programmes in order to improve such areas. It helps in bringing motivation and self-confidence among employees due to which they perform better than before.

Difference among Training and Development

It is the responsibility of HR management to identify the needs of training in an organisation and accordingly decide which type of training should they provide to their employees in order to enhance their skills and capabilities. There are mainly two types of training which HR manager provide to its employees such as:

On the job training: This type of training is conducted at workplace of an organisation in order to adjusting them in working environment. It is cost effective but the chances of creating biasness among employees will be more. Job rotation, coaching internship etc. are the various methods of such type of training (Ployhart and Moliterno, 2011).

Off the job training: This type of training is conducted outside of the organisation with a motive of getting new knowledge about market. Foe this, HR manager of M&S hired mariner to conduct such type of training for their employees. It is an expensive method and take more time as well. Case studies, role playing, seminar etc. are some method of such type of training.

Reward management: It is also one of the HRM practices which is performed with a motive of providing motion to the employees. HR managers are required to analyse the performance of their staff members and accordingly decide to rewarding them in form of giving promotion, increment in salary, bonus salary, incentives etc. It motivates other as well to work hard and perform better to get rewards in future. There are mainly two types of rewards which are as follows:

Intrinsic reward: It is type of reward which are intangible in nature. It includes recognition, pride, satisfaction etc. It develop employees and make them strong internally.

Extrinsic reward: It is type of reward which are tangible in nature. It includes trophy, increment in salary, certificate etc.

Flexible working options: It can be defined in different forms such as changing in working hours or timing, locations, time schedule etc. As the employees are liable to work at least 8hours in an organisation in order to get legal employability. Therefore, HR manager should required to change in timing of working hours according to the preferences of employees (Sirmon and et. al., 2011). As they also required to give some free time to their employees so as to relaxing them and should not feel pressured. Providing the healthy working environment and fixing the time of working hours according to the preferences of employees brings motivation among employees which results in increasing productivity of employees as well as an organisation.

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Link among motivational theory and reward

Motivation refers to the process of improving the behaviour and attitude of people towards their roles and responsibilities. It can be provided by the management of an organisation in order to get better work from their employees. The motivational theories are divided into two different view points. One is Maslow theory and other one is Herzberg theory.

Maslow theory: It is one of the most popular needs theories which tells that motivation directs employees to put their maximum efforts in fulfilling their five basic needs such as physiological, safety, social, esteem and self-actualisation. The main purpose of using theory is to motivate employees to work hard in order to meet their needs of life.

Herzberg theory: Such theory has been dived into two factor theory which are Hygiene theory and Motivational theory. Hygiene factors includes those employees who are not satisfied with their work in an organisation thus need motivation in form of fringe benefit, job security, physical working conditions etc. whereas Motivational factors includes those employees which are very much satisfied with their work but instead motivation should be provided to them regarding superior performance. It can be done through giving higher roles and responsibilities in an organisation (Song, and et. al., 2010).

Therefore, providing rewards or appraisal to the employees brings motivation among them due to which they give more efforts in achieving desired goals and objectives of an organisation. Hence, motivation are directly interconnected with rewards.

Performance and reward: The employees should be rewarded on the basis of their past performance which will help them in performing better than before in future. Regular appraisal of employees brings motivation and helps in retaining experienced employees with an organisation for longer period of time. Therefore, it is considered as an important HR practice. HR manager should be rewards on the basis of:

• Work quality
• Behaviour and attitude
• 360 degree review
• Punctuality

Types of payment and reward system

If the employees perform better than expected then they will be liable to get rewards from the company. There are various methods of payment system which are competencies based system, variable based pay system. These all are very effective. Whereas rewards system can be of different types such as performance based, monetary and non-monetary, intrinsic and extrinsic etc.

P4: Effectiveness of various HRM practices in context of increasing organisational profit and development

T6he main objective and aim of M&S is to earn huge profit and sustain in market for longer period of time. It can be possible only when the management of M&S should adopt various HRM practices which play a crucial role in enhancing the performance of employees which directly make positive impact on the overall performance of an organisation. HRM practices influences training and development programs, reward system etc. which play an important role in maximising the interest and working behaviour of human resource. Through this, they contribute more in achieving desired goals and objective so of an organisation. If company provide effective technology to their workers for production process then it will help in bring efficiency in performance and thus achieving huge profits and high productivity.

P5: Importance of employee relations in order to influencing HRM decision-making

Employee relation always brings positive result to company thus it is important for employer of M&S to make efforts in maintaining healthy relation with their subordinated through establishing communication channel with the help of which they can easily communicate with each other. This reduces the chances of issues and conflicts at workplace. As employees are the main asset of company on whose performance the performance of company depends. Therefore, if the employees are not satisfied with their delegated work, working environment etc. then it will negatively impact on their performance which results in decreasing productivity of company.

Therefore, relationship should be maintained with them through identifying their needs and requirements at workplace. Conducting training and development programs in order to bring motivation among them through which they perform valuable efforts in achieving desired goals and objectives of an organisation. The relationship between the employer and employee can be emotionally or physically. The relation will be better among between two if the employer gives an opportunity to their subordinates to get particulate in decision making process and gives their suggestion and ideas in order to implement to make an effective decision. Through this, the employees feels importance and motivated as well. The employers also required to create healthy environment at workplace and resolve conflicts among employees through implementing corrective actions.

Importance of employee relation

Effective decision making: Proper communication with employees help in getting new idea and suggestions which help management in making an effective decision and plans for the betterment of an organisation.

Easy to perform work: Giving proper guidance and direction to the employees through establishing communication channel which help employees in performing their allotted work in an effective and efficient manner.

Remove conflicts: Maintaining healthy relations with employees help in getting issues and problems that may faced by employees at workplace. Through taking corrective measures, the conflicts may resolved which helps in maximising the interests and behaviour of customers.

Influence of employee relation on HRM decision-making

• Maintaining better relation with the staff members help management of M&S to focus on crucial matters which brings competitive advantage to company (Dacin and et. al, 2010).
• Providing an opportunity to employees in decision making process will help management to make an effective decisions and plans.
• It also help in creating good atmosphere at workplace due to which the performance of employees are also increases.

P6: Key elements of employment legislation

There are different legislation formed by government authorities which need to adopt by every organisation if they want to survive in competitive market world for longer period of time. Such legislation includes:

Equality Act, 2010: This act informs every organisation to provide equal rights and duties to their workers and should be differentiated them on the basis of their gender. This act restricts the management of M&S to not biased and support every employees.

Health and Safety Act: This act states that the company should required to implement safety measures at workplace so as to protect employees from any damages and accidents which may occurred at workplace. Therefore, M&S also required to adopt safety measures which prevent their workers to indulge in any injuries (Human resource management, 2016).

Data protection: This act implied that an organisation should required to implement various systems in order to protect crucial and important data form their rivals. Information may be related with strategies, customer's information etc. which should not be leaked to outsiders. As M&S attain huge customer strength and achieve strong brand image in market thus it is important for them to implement such act within an organisation in order to protect the information about the valuable information of their customers.

Impact of employee legislation on HRM decision-making

• The management of M&S should required to discuss about the implementation of such legislation while decision making process in order to avoid penalties and fines.
• Implementation of such legislation helps in maintaining healthy relation with employees and create good atmosphere at workplace.

P7: Application of HRM practices in work-related context

In order to recruit skilled and knowledgable employees HR managers need to advertise about the vacant job and perform different recruitment process. Collecting relevant information and facts in order to hire right person at the right time for the right job.

Job specification

Description of CV - Necessary information and qualification for Sales manager to increasing the sales and turn over of company.

Among all the people, HR manager have to choose the skilled people for the vacant position. It is necessary for the manager to use an effective selection practice for choosing the right person, at right time.

CONCLUSION

It has been concluded for the above project report that Human resource management is require by every organisation which help them in gaining skilled and knowledgable employees in order to get profitable outcome from them. For the betterment of employees, HR manager should required to conduct training and development programs which increase productivity of employees as well as an organisation.

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