HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Human Resource Management



Human Resource Management

Overview of the topic

The topic is related with the Human Resource Management Case Study. In the given scenario, the Human Resource Manager needs to hire a new sales person in a retail company located in Singapore. There is a need to identify the recruitment and selection techniques needed to hire the HR Manager. The recruitment and selection of a salesperson is going to differ considerably as compare to any other field. The criteria are certainly different for hiring a salesperson in comparison with any other profession. Though, the concepts used in the HR topics are going to be utilized in the current issue. Therefore, the role and major responsibility of an HR manager are discussed below:

Human Resource Management Strategies for a Retail Store

The human resource management strategy for the retail store is to provide the organization with quality human resource and the hired talent within the organization for a long term period by the use of policies that are in alignment with the organizational wide goals and objectives, in a way that the retention of the employees (whether newly hired or old and experienced) helps the organization and its employees to grow, side by side.

Methods to Improve the Human Resource Management Functions.

In order to improve the functions at the retail store, these three methods can be incorporated in the Human Resource functions of the store (Abella, 2004):

Align the HR Practices with the Organization Wide Goals

In order to improve the Human Resource functions, the store emphasizes upon its business objectives and align its Human Resource functions and practices along with the organization goals.

This means that human resource functions are to be made accordingly in a way that they comply with the organizational goals whether long term or short term. It also means that the human resource practices like staffing, policies etc should reflect the organizational goals and should not be contradictory to the main goals of the organization.

Continuously Measure the Impact of HR practices incorporated

In order to keep the Human Resource practices up to date and in alignment with the changing organizational goals, it ism important that they are a check upon and are thus, to be reviewed every now and then for the measurement of their impact (whether positive or negative) towards the organization.

This process also enables the review of organizational wide Human Resource practices that are being incorporated and helps to analyze that which Human resource practices that are contributing positively towards the organization, which in turn helps the Human Resource management of the organization to pluck out or discontinue those practices that are not being fruitful for the organization.

Amend the HR strategies for improvement

In order to implement this practice, the Human Resource practices that need amendment are highlighted at first; which has in the above suggested practice.

In this practice, the Human Resource functions that are highlighted for improvements are under consideration and are for better performance or more fruitful outputs.

In short, this Human Resource practice ensures that all ...