Issues of Workforce Planning in the Retail Industry of UK

Academic Research and
Writing

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
PART 1 REPORT............................................................................................................................4
Main issues of workforce planning........................................................................................4
Organisations are reacting .....................................................................................................5
Conclusion and recommendations..........................................................................................5
PART 2............................................................................................................................................6
Learnings from the module:...................................................................................................6
Importance of learnings:.........................................................................................................6
Application of learnings for future developmental plans: .....................................................7
PART 3............................................................................................................................................7
Performance development plan..............................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCE...................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Workforce planning is the basic process that is related to the process of analysing,
forecasting and further planning of the supply and demand of employees in a organizations.
There are many different functions that are associated with this function that includes assessment
of gaps, determination of the talent management to ensure that there is right individual working
in a right position in every organisation. Present report is based on assessment of the issues of
workforce planning in context with the retail industry of UK by analysis of the planning of
workforce in organisations such as TESCO (Teare and et.al 2017). Based on that there is
formation of reflection follow by a performance development plan that can assist in development
of lacking areas of academic skills with the specified time duration.
PART 1 REPORT
Main issues of workforce planning
According to views of Peter Louch Vemo, 2014 in the present changing talent based
economy workforce is one of the most crucial tangible resources with every organisation. Many
time organisations are not able to carefully plan this resource. For this there has to be focus on
the issues that are commonly faced by retail industry and the way such issues can be responsible.
Some of common issues includes the time frame, in Retail industry Management is generally.
focusing on quick results but workforce planning is a element that generates effective results in
long run. There is issues related to data integrity that is managers in retail segment are not able to
review the future plans as they are not getting the proper head count (Alter, 2017). With instance
to TESCO there is issues if setting the required level of granularity that is part of workforce
planning and job taxonomy. Forecasting is also a identified issues where the traditional methods
of forecasting are not able to generate the required results and sometimes nor actionable by the
human resource managers in TESCO (Sparkman, 2018). Managers sometimes are also dealing
with issues of controlling process in the workforce planning where they are not able to retain the
talented workforce in the gradual process of new hiring that results into double cots that is of
recruiting new individuals and high cost of labour turnover.
Organisations are reacting
According to view points of Neelie, 2019 there are certain effective steps that have to be
undertaken by organisations to ensure successful strategic workforce planning. TESCO is a super