Identify possible areas of conflict between the human resources Functions.

most suitable people. This conflict would generate two major problems which were time consuming and costly.

        Another conflict may be between performance management and training and developing. This is because the employees are getting trained but they may not be using this training to benefit their performance, so the performance management team may feel that the employee has not been trained in those specific areas when he/she has. So they may think that training is not given effectively. So the employees that did not follow training have generated this conflict. If this were to occur at Safeway they should again need to use communication skills to avoid this problem, because this is a simple conflict that can be resolved by simple communication with the two human resources functions. If this was done they will see that the employee was the one who was not following his training techniques. However the member of staff may have not been trained and the performance management team may think he has and think his performance standards are not acceptable. This conflict can cause problems such as member of staff is being interpreted wrongly by the performance team because they feel that the person has been trained where he has not. So this will affect communication because they don’t know what is going an around Safeway.

Another conflict that can occur is between the human resources planning and the recruitment and selection. If there are problems within these two there can be a lot of problems because the human resource planning organise all the vacancies and advertisement for jobs etc. And the recruitment team will be given the people that are attracted to the vacancies developed by the human resource department. So if the recruitment team need people for a position in a certain area of the business they will tell the human resource department to develop advertisements for the job. So they will need to be accurate on what to advertise, this is where the problems can occur because the wrong sort of people may be attracted to the job due to bad advertising. So if this was the case at Safeway they will have to interview them not knowing that they don’t have the right requirements so this will be time consuming. And the recruitment team will be very frustrated with the human resource planning, because they have done the wrong planning. So for Safeway to avoid this conflict again need more communication between the two functions so each other are aware of what is being done. Also better advertisement is needed e.g. if a job was needed for an assistant manager it should say what sort of manager is needed.