HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management

Introduction

The main purpose of this paper is to make discussion on the perspectives of human resource management of any organisation. The paper also gives a brief overview on the ways through which the flexibility can be developed within the workplace, and the need for equal opportunities within the workplace. The paper makes a review on the ways through which topical human resource practices and issues can be explored.

Company Overview

The chosen company for this paper is Tesco, Tesco PLC has developed into an international grocery and general merchandising chain, employing 440,000 staff worldwide and with sales exceeding £59 billion (in the year ending February 2009). Operating income exceeded £3 billion. These figures make Tesco the largest British retailer in terms of both combined sales and domestic market share, and the third largest in the world after Wal-Mart (United States) and Carrefour (France). It is claimed that £1 in every £7 of UK retail sales goes the way of Tesco (Burnett, 2010).

1- Explain human resource management from different perspectives and discuss how your organisation could be explained in terms its approach to HRM.

People are in all the organisations, and organisations are made up of only people. These people are called human resource by the organisations. Every organisation has human resource, and the size of the organisation is not dependent on the organisation. The organisation only grows and develops when it has quality human resource and the effort of these resources lead to the organisational growth (Hesketh, 2006). The activities to maximize those capabilities and that performance are necessary regardless of whether the organisation refers to them as Human Resource Management, Human Resource Development or Human Resources -- or has no formal name for those activities at all. Those activities are the responsibility of all people in the organisation (Farndale, 2010).

The Human Resource Management (HRM) function includes a variety of activities, and key among them is the responsibility for human resources -- for deciding what staffing needs you have and whether to use independent contractors or hire employees to fill these needs, recruiting and training the best employees, ensuring they are high performers, dealing with performance issues, and ensuring your personnel and management practices conform to various regulations (Dewe, 2007).

Some people distinguish a difference between HRM and Human Resource Development (HRD), a profession. Those people might include HRM in HRD, explaining that HRD includes the broader range of activities to develop personnel inside of organisations, e.g., career development, training, organisation development, etc. The HRM function and HRD profession have undergone tremendous change over the past 20-30 years. Many years ago, large organisations looked to the "Personnel Department," mostly to manage the paperwork around hiring and paying people (Burnett, 2010).

In terms of different activities and functions of HRM, Tesco is the firm that has the best HR services. Tesco presents its main focus on the function of recruitment and selection, Recruitment and selection is the core ability of Tesco. The process of recruitment and selection enables Tesco ...