Balancing Career and Family: Impact on Human Resource Management in Tesco Plc

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Balance between career and family influencing human resource management in an
organization................................................................................................................................3
Recommendations for addressing this issue faced by employees..............................................8
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................9
References................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
The purpose of this assignment is to provide an overview on the challenges of human
resource management in the organization. The study discusses about how the balance
between the career and family influences human resource management of the enterprise. The
organization selected for this study is Tesco Plc. In today’s world, balancing family life and
career has become the main problem for workforce. As several enterprise are streamlining
their labour force to become lean and mean, it is becoming highly difficult for the workers to
cope with the demands of career and family life. Balance between career and family
influences the human resource department of the enterprise as it facilitates the employees to
manage interface between family responsibilities and work (Blanchard, 2012). With the
technological advancement and changing dynamics of workplace, the line between one’s
personal life and career is rapidly narrowing. Now- a- days, it is vital for the human resource
department to include benefits as well as services for employees owing to balance between
career and family in employees policies. Career and family life balance not always creates
new opportunities to the human resource department but also creates challenges if the
department do not pay attention on the requirement of employees. However, balance
between career and family is one of the critical issues in human resource management and
has got important bearing on enterprise growth and workers positive perceptions. The study
also provide recommendations to the human resource management of Tesco Plc for
addressing issues faced by the employees.
About Tesco Plc
Tesco Plc is one of the biggest multinational merchandise retailer and groceries that
operates in several countries across Asia and Europe. It is the ninth biggest retailer in the
globe accounted by revenues. The total number of employees working in this enterprise is
476,000. The core values of Tesco involve commitment to use its scale for commodity by

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being responsible leader. The company aims to enhance consumer loyalty and its business for
helping it develop shopping experience for customers. Tesco have core vision is to be one of
the highly valued business by the consumers they serve and the communities they operate.
The mission of Tesco is to create value for the customers to earn their loyalty for lifetime.
Tesco has well documented HR department that is in tune with business aims.
Balance between career and family influencing human resource management in Tesco
PLc
Balance between career and family life is one of the broad concept in the field of
human resource management that signifies prioritizing between ambition as well as career of
employees on one hand and their family life and responsibilities on the other hand. Balance
between career and family is mainly about finding appropriate balance between one’s work
and family life as well as feeling comfortable with work as well as non- work commitments
(Darcy et al., 2012). The balanced workers apt to feel more encouraged as well as less
stressed out during work, which in turn reduces the conflicts between the human resource
management and employees. Wheatley (2012) has found that Tesco Plc with information
collection system offers wide range of balance between career and family priorities. Besides
this, Tesco motivate their employees by several methods in order to help them to balance
between their career and family. Moreover, Tesco also apt to enjoy higher workers retention
rates, which in turn influences its HR management to reduce time- consuming training to the
employees.
The HRM of Tesco Plc is aware of their employee’s requirements as well as provides
them with huge flexibility, thereby allowing them to combine personal spheres and work for
meeting personal and professional target. The HR department of Tesco Plc introduces work-
life practices as it serves as an important tool for retaining and attracting their employees
(Deery & Jago, 2013). The adoption of work life practices helps the HRM of Tesco to