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People Management
In this assignment I will be looking at the role played by the Personnel Management to
Human Resource Management (HRM) for Sainsbury and there historic developments. I
will also be looking at how the existing HR function for Sainsbury could be developed to
work more effectively with the rest of the organisation.
Human Resource Management (HRM) is fundamentally another name for personnel
management. It is the process of making sure the employees are as creative as they can be.
HRM is a way of grouping the range of activities associated with managing people that are
variously categorised under employee relations, industrial/labour relations, personnel
management and organisational behaviour. Many academic departments where research
and teaching in all these areas take place have adopted the title department of human
resources management. HRM is a coordinated approach to managing people that seeks to
integrate the various personnel activates so that they are compatible with each other.
Therefore the key areas of employee resourcing, employee development, employee reward
and employee involvement are considered to be interrelated. Policy-making and
procedures in one of these areas will have an impact on other areas, therefore human
resources management is an approach that takes a holistic view and considers how various
areas can be integrated.
Many businesses place an emphasis on the importance of teamwork. A good team consists
of people with different skills, abilities and characters. A successful team is able to blend
these differences together to enable the organisation to achieve its desired objectives.
An important part of the retention of staff, reducing staff turnover and minimising
absenteeism at work is ensuring that staff are properly motivated. This is not as easy as it
sounds. At first glance, you might be tempted to think that merely increasing wages is the
way to motivate! Not so. Most thinkers on the subject would argue that motivation is a far
more complex issue than merely money.
If staff are absent from work they are not able to carry out the functions for which they
have been employed. In many businesses, these functions have to be taken on by someone
else - if not, the customer could suffer. Reducing absenteeism is an important feature of
human resource management. The extent to which absenteeism affects businesses has been
a topical feature. Not only does absenteeism cause problems, but employers are beginning
to recognise the effects of presenteeism - staying at work when you are ill or because you
