Human Resource Management

Order Description In order to complete of this assignment you should refer to Sainsbury’s as the organisation, ensure that you obtain enough information about the following area of HRM activity to write a report. In your report answer Questions (a), (b) and (c) below, with reference to recruitment and selection. • a.Define in general terms what you understand by ‘recruitment and selection’ and briefly describe the activities and structural arrangements used in your organisation to carry out your chosen HRM functional area. (For a large organisation you may need to focus on one group or category of employees.) (25 marks) • b.With reference to theory-based approaches to HRM that you have learned about, critically evaluate your chosen HRM area. Discuss how you feel the strengths and weaknesses of the organisation’s approach(es) may affect its performance.(25 marks) • c.Imagine that you have the opportunity to recommend an improvement to the way your organisation recruits and selects, or rewards and incentivises, staff in key positions (such as highly skilled specialists, senior managers or the sales force). Outline the nature and benefits of your proposed improvement, and support your recommendation with reference to sources. (25 marks) Guidance notes Source 1: Human Resource Management by Derek Torrington, Laura Hall Stephen Taylor and Carol Atkinson Other sources: Anything from Sainsbury’s website etc. Part (a): Use part (a) to lay down this structure, and then I would stick to this structure in parts (b) and (c). In the case of recruitment & selection, after providing initial explanations of what these terms mean, with references to the course materials, I would use the main subdivisions of Torrington Chapters 7 & 8 to organise my answer. I would observe that the process of recruitment involves: - pre-recruitment decisions and documentation (e.g., is recruitment actually necessary?) - consideration of various methods of attracting applicants - shortlisting and evaluation Shortlisted candidates then progress to the next stage of the process, which is selection. The process of selection includes: - consideration of different selection criteria - consideration of different selection methods - final selection decision making and validation of selection procedures In producing my answer for part (a), I would go through the above six areas systematically, identifying the relevant practices of Sainsbury’s in each area. I would then keep to this structure when addressing parts (b) and (c). Part (b): Here it would be necessary to review the six areas in part (a) from the point of view of evaluating the organisation’s performance, and ALSO highlighting problems of implementation and incompleteness of theory and critically evaluating the approaches outlined in the course. Lots of references to relevant parts of Torrington are needed in considering each area. I will be looking for things like the following: - a thoughtful critique of various approaches identified in the course, intertwined with a critique of the approaches used by your organisation. Both of these are needed. - consideration of the extent to which there is a match between the philosophy of your organisation in adopting its approaches, and the philosophy underpinning the theory presented in the course - consideration of things like counterproductive behaviours that might result from trying to implement a particular theory in your organisational context Part (c): Finally in this part it would be necessary to go through your answers to (a) and (b) and suggest how things might be done differently in your organisation and why. Again, I would go through each of the six areas identified in part (a) systematically, thus making this structure run through the essay. I will be looking for things like the following: - consideration of how theories might be better or more appropriately implemented in your organisation - any changes that would need to be made in your organisation in order to facilitate the implementation of theories suggested in the course - consideration of the possible implications of implementing some of the course theories in your organisation In the above I considered recruitment & selection. You would then deal systematically with these seven areas in each of your answers to (a), (b) and (c).