Contemporary Issues in People Management: A Case Study of Tesco

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Contents

INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................3
What contemporary issues face line management when it comes to people management.......................3
What knowledge, skills and behaviors are needed to be an effective people manager.............................4
What HR process support and underpin management for effective performance management...............5
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
People management is defined as the procedure of training, motivating and directing all
employees in order to enhance workplace productivity and also achieve growth at high level. The
concept of people management is a method of organizing all employees and building up better
teams so that effective performance can be done. For every organization people management is
important because in order to retain top talented executives the organization need to help each
individual by providing them various opportunities and proper training. In terms of successful
people management it includes the process of empowering each employee in order to enhance
their potential level and so on (Hoffman and Tadelis, 2021). The below report involves
contemporary issues that face line management in relation to people management, knowledge
and skills needed to be effective people manager and HR process that underpin and support
management in terms of effective performance management. The report is based on Tesco. It is a
British multinational groceries and merchandise retailer that has it’s headquarter in England. The
company was founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen.
MAIN BODY
What contemporary issues face line management when it comes to people management
Managing people requires a team of management professionals, having the knowledge,
understanding, skills to manage people in effective way. These managers cannot face manage
people alone that’s why they need the support of HR for the justification of performance
management work. Although COVID 19 has adversely affected the work management. There are
various issues faced by management while managing those people they have never met before.
As management brings progression giving rewards it brings difficulties too. Some of them are:
Communication with employees
One of the biggest challenges is to bring the variant together with timely motivating them all
with their communication skills. A manager is required to develop advance skill of listening and
communicating with people as they play major role in success of team. This has been found that
the lack of interdepartmental communication become the cause of stress for UK employees in
2020. To avoid this kind of situation which not only damage the relation of manager and
employee but also add to the stress of employees at work place? Everyone has different way of
communication because of which the method which works for some employees does not work
for others( Power, 2021). To overcome this type of problem manager need to discover various
personality types in the team. HR professionals of Tesco minimize the by creating transparency
in communication. Manager can conduct the personality test to know each member’s strength
and weaknesses and take measures to overcome it by recognizing the best way to communicate
with different personalities.
Performance problems