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Business Level 3 Unit 13 Human Resources P1

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This report is for Denis Phillips, head teacher, and it concerns the importance of having a human resources assistant at Benningholm Primary School. I will be explaining and evaluating the recruitment function, why induction is important and employment legislation.

2.0 The Recruitment Function
Recruitment is the process where an organisation searches for applicants to potentially employ. A Human Resource (HR) manager or assistant will have the job of analysing the organisations current employers and see whether there is a need to recruit new people. If there is a need, then recruitment and selection will take place.

Important documents need to be produced when recruiting and these include a job advertisement, job description and job specification …show more content…

By having the salaries and benefits shown, in appendix B, it will attract people to it. A person specification is a significant part of the recruitment pack. If a candidate meets all the requirements such as in appendix C, there is less chance that they will need extra training and it will help to keep costs down. If a candidate does not have all the qualities such as working well in a team, they may leave the job within a few months causing a high turnover of staff. A survey in the UK in 2012 by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) revealed that labour turnover in the UK was 12.7 per cent compared with 12.5 per cent in 2011. If there is a high turnover then it will decrease productivity within the work place. This is why it is important to have a HR function in all organisations to put together a pack like this. An organisation has the choice whether to recruit internally or externally. Recruiting internally is beneficial as it keeps costs down because the organisation will not have to pay to advertise or have an induction for a new employee. Externally recruiting can be successful too as organisations as they may find someone with fresh ideas. This is up to the HR department to decide, showing that it is necessary to have someone to do this in an organisation as there is a lot of decision …show more content…

An induction could also include written information, audio visual aids and group discussions. According to the CIPD, “The purpose of an induction is to ensure that new employees are person-job fit, to reduce turn over and absenteeism, and increase employee commitment and job satisfaction.” The induction programme in appendix G contains information of an induction that lasts just two hours. For the rest of the day the candidate would settle in to their work environment. In an induction it is important to know of any rules, policies or legislation. As this induction is for a school, safeguarding training would be compulsory. Also, the Health and Safety at Work Act would need to be implemented in the induction and this is compulsory too because if anything happened, the organisation could be fined. It is also under the law for people to have a safe environment to work in. In order to have an effective induction programme it is essential to have a HR manager or assistant to put it together. This is because they will have knowledge of HR and different recruitment legislation. If another member of staff is dealing with HR such as an office manager, it could prove difficult to keep up as they would have other

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