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Terms of reference:
This report is being produced to fulfil the criteria required for Unit four of the Advance Vocational Certificate of Education (AVCE) course in Business Studies. It will give a comprehensive overview of the way’s in which the human resources function(s)’, within businesses are organised and managed and how they operate, and an analytical insight into the human resource management team, of the business that I’ am focusing on, which is HSBC Group Plc. The report will specifically focus on the possible conflicts of interest between employees or individuals, the way’s which human resources planning procedures take place, the recruitment and selection process, training and development programmes and performance management at HSBC Group Plc, in view of the current economic climate for retailing/banking.
An Introduction to the Report:
In this assignment, I have been asked to structure an analytical approach, about human resources and its effects, on one business, and to file all of my information in one simple, but sophisticatedly structured report. The report will therefore contain the following topics, as of mentioned in the first paragraph (terms of reference), and are as follows:
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Introduction to Human Resources (Personnel Department).
Introduction to & the Definition of Human Resources:
The human resource department (personnel department), or as it is formerly known as ‘human resources management (HRM)’, and what this department is mainly concerned with and significantly contributes to the human side of managing enterprises and employees’ relations within the business itself. However the main purpose of human resources, is quite simply to ensure that the employees of the business, or company, for example the human resources, are adequately and appropriately used in such a way that their employer would obtain the greatest possible benefit from the employees full ability and the employees would therefore obtain both material (financial pay, fringe benefits, bonuses, etc) and psychological rewards from the work that they carry out.
Therefore human resources management is mostly situated on the findings of work psychology and it will then use these techniques and procedures that is collectively known as ‘personnel management’, and such an example is where the human resource department is involved with staffing the enterprise/or business, which would determine and satisfy the needs of people at work that would include obliging practically to rules, regulations and procedures, which govern the relationships between employees, employers and the organisation.
In relation to the definition of human resources and the affects that it can have upon one business, is quite dramatic, regarding to being responsible in looking after employees, for example lets say that everyone within a business – working in the same department has control over others, then they would also share in human resources management; however that does not necessarily mean that this is a function which that individual manager/person can avoid and leave to people who are more specialised within that particular field. But this does not exactly mean that human resources are easy to manage, no! In fact these resources are much more difficult to keep under control and manage at the same time, partly due to there being conflicts of interest between both the employers and employees’ wishes, or other specific needs and partly due, to an increase to the extent, which employees try to share in making decisions about the environment in which they work in.
As I have mention in the above paragraphs, human resources in theoretical terms is not necessarily part of the personnel management system; this is partly due to, although this part of management is concerned with people at work and with the relationships that they have within an enterprise. It aims to bring together and develop into an effective organisation, and that it can with ease overcome its competitors, the men and women who are employed make up the organisation as a whole and, having regard for the well-being of individuals, to dramatically play a vital role and to make their best contribution to the organisations success.
Reflecting the point(s) that I have just made, the personnel department mainly focuses among the development and application of the policies that govern:
- Human resources planning, recruitment & selection, and so on;
- The preparation of both accurate and precise job descriptions/personal specifications and any other recruitment aids;
- Education and training; career development;
- The maintenance of management training, development and succession planning among the workforce;
- The terms of employment, the methods and standards of remuneration;
- ‘Incentivating’, e.g. a method of compiling together a system, to try and simulate workers into work at an enhanced effort/level and to be efficient;
- Working conditions and employee services;
- Formal and informal communication methods and consultation both through the representatives of both employers and employees throughout all the levels of the enterprise;
- The negotiation and application of agreements on wages/salaries and working conditions; such as procedures for the avoidance and settlement of disputes;
- Conducting research among local wage levels to ensure and to try and maintain a competitive reward system is competitive with those, in relation to other companies within the industry;
- The administration of superannuation schemes and to offer words of advise to a firms employees about such schemes, e.g. pension schemes and other entitlements;
- The human and social implications of change internally, within the organisation and the methods of working, and of any economic and/or social changes that take place in the community, all of which have been regulated, or modified by the government;
- The implementation of health and safety regulations and any other security procedures that have been made, to prevent or help those who have, or have not had any forms of accident;
- The responsibility of maintaining personnel records and statistics;
- The means of employee communications, the transmitting of information of interest to employees via through newsletters, notices, etc throughout the entire workforce.
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And many other relative aspects are also governed, or are the responsibility of the personnel department – in relation to employees, recruiting and selecting, training, developing, managing, planning, maintaining, etc;
Background Information on HSBC.
The Foundation & Growth of HSBC:
As you may have already read, or noticed from the previous pages, the business/or enterprise that I have judged, carried out research and in the end decided, to base my in – depth analytical report/approach on the following business: that is HSBC. As an establishment HSBC is a business, which is surrounded with an extraordinary and amazing past/history, from the moment of time, of when the enterprise first opened its doors – up to the present day! The reason for why I say this is solely due, or partly due to the fact that HSBC, was founded by one man’s inspiration during the late 19th century. A Scottish man named ‘Thomas Sunderland’, who
worked in Hong Kong – during the late 19th century at the Hong Kong Superintendent of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation company, and from those many years of work, this one man soon came to realise the considerable demand that there was for local banking facilities, within Hong Kong and Chinese territories, and since these difficult periods of time, this man helped ‘as I said’ establish HSBC of which at that time it was named and known as: “The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited”, and both the headquarters and the first branch opened, in the year of 1865.
Ever since the year of 1865, when the first headquarters and branch were established, throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the institute/company took its first opportunity to grow, even further; expanding the business by establishing a sophisticatedly structured network of agencies and branches, throughout Asia and by also representing many other countries (Europe, the west and so on) in which many of these branches were at that time the pioneers, or leaders in practicing modern banking.
But however there was a set back, for the bank, which came during the time of when the Second World War began, in which the business was therefore forced to close down several of branches, and had to temporarily move its headquarters to London. But as well as to this being a disadvantage to the organisation, it also ended up becoming a great advantage; a way of expanding the business by far imaginable, then the bank first imagined. I say this because from the moment of when the Second World War ended, the bank played a key role in the reconstruction of the Hong Kong economy, then the bank set about to even further diversify the geographical growth and spread of the bank.
What type of a business is HSBC?
Well as you may be aware that in which ever local borough you go to, visit or pass by, you are most certainly going to see a local HSBC branch, within that particular location, this is solely due to fact that HSBC is the most/first largest financial institute within the United Kingdom, not only to mention that this organisation is the world’s most second largest banking and financial service provider in the world! With a well-established business throughout the world, providing a wide variety of services, to those who seek help; financially, such services include: personal financial services (which include current and savings account, mortgages, insurance, credit cards, loans, pensions and investments), consumer finance (credit cards, consumer loans, vehicle finance, etc), commercial banking (this is aimed at small or medium-size enterprises), corporate, investment banking and markets and private banking, is all part of the lines of business HSBC operates in.
What is the approximate size of HSBC, including the number of people who are employed throughout the enterprise?
As an enterprise, HSBC is an organisation that is capable of bringing in, a vast amount of money/income to the business, and this therefore adds an even greater sense of just how big HSBC really is; comprising over 9,500 offices worldwide. In conclusion to this point, based on precise and up-to-date information on their financial statistics – regarding the total assets that was gained by the business, is simply unique in its very own way, and from the fact sheet, which I have obtained, it states that the business gained an impressive £595 billion at 30th of June 2003, of which in simple terms this can lead us, to see the type of scale this firm operates on – in relation to the amount of customers who obtain services/financial support from HSBC, which consists of a very large amount of people, ranging from almost 100 million customers worldwide, with an even further total e-customer base of 11 million. As a result of these figures, it’s not to mention that in order for HSBC to have such/or to even gaining such an amount of both customers and revenue at the same time, can be in some terms relate to the levels or to the number of people who are employed at HSBC, which is quite a considerable amount of 218,000 employees in 79 countries and territories worldwide, all of which play a vital part in ensuring the success of HSBC.
Who are its competitors and where is HSBC situated within the market?
