Employee Development: Role of Line Managers and Leaders in TESCO

Research Project

Executive Summary
Employee development is significant for staff members in order to improve their skills
and enhance their existing knowledge so that they can perform better. There are many benefits
gained by a company because of employee development that is effective execution of activities,
high productivity and profitability, achievement of objectives, improvement of brand image and
so on. Leaders and managers plays an important role in the employee development procedure as
it help them in guiding employees, providing training and development, control employee
activity, ensure daily tasks are met and employees learn and so on. On the other hand, they also
face many challenges in relation to employee development that is reduced employee
performance, lower employee motivation, increased employee turnover, lack of employee skills
and many more.

Contents
Chapter One: Introduction...............................................................................................................4
1.1 Research Aim...................................................................................................................4
Rationale.................................................................................................................................4
1.2 Research Questions..........................................................................................................4
1.3 Research Objectives.........................................................................................................5
1.4 Significance of the Research............................................................................................5
Chapter Two: Literature Review.....................................................................................................5
2.1 Introduction of Literature Review....................................................................................5
2.2 Main Body........................................................................................................................6
Role of a line manager in TESCO in regards to talent development.....................................6
Role of a leader in TESCO in regards to talent development................................................7
Challenges has TESCO overcome in employee development...............................................8
2.3 Conclusion of Literature Review......................................................................................9
Chapter Three: Methodology.........................................................................................................10
3.1 Research Approach.........................................................................................................10
3.2 Research Strategy...........................................................................................................10
Research philosophy:............................................................................................................10
3.3 Research Methodology...................................................................................................10
3.4 Research Tools...............................................................................................................11
Research instrument:............................................................................................................11
3.5 Sampling.........................................................................................................................11
3.5.1 Identifying Population and Research Site...................................................................12
3.5.2 Sampling Strategy.......................................................................................................12
Data analysis.........................................................................................................................12
Chapter Four: Findings (Data Analysis and Presentation)............................................................14
Chapter Five: Discussion (Data Interpretation).............................................................................19
On the basis of secondary:....................................................................................................21
Chapter Six: Conclusion, Recommendations and Implications for Further Research...................22
Reflection.............................................................................................................................23

Implications for further research..........................................................................................23
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................25
APPENDIX....................................................................................................................................28

Chapter One: Introduction
Employee development refers as the procedure where staff members with the assistance of
their employers has go through professional learning and training in order to improve their skills
and gain higher growth (Bairagi and Munot, 2019). Along with this, employee development
plays an important role within an organisation as it helps them to improve productivity,
systematic execution of activities, improve brand image, employee retention and many more. For
the present study, Tesco is taken into consideration. It is a British multinational groceries retailer
which was founded in year 1919 and head office in UK. Tesco has around 3,85,000 staff
members which is one of the major reason of its success and growth. The main reason to conduct
the is to understand the role of line managers and leaders in employee development.
1.1 Research Aim
The main aim of the research is “To identify and understand the role of line managers and
leaders in employee development”. A study on Tesco
Rationale
One of the main reason to conduct this study is to gain knowledge about the role of line
managers and leaders in employee development. In addition to this, the present study also help to
know about challenges faced by respective organisation at the time of employee development
and what are the strategies they require to adopt for dealing with such challenges. The present
study assist various stakeholders such as organisation, researcher and so on. In context to
organisation, it assist them to know the issues and because of which they are able to develop
effective strategies and retain employees for longer time period. Furthermore, it help researcher
to gain deep understanding about employee development and to learn as well as improve skills
such as data collection, data interpretation, communication and many more. It will also allow
investigator to conduct future studies in more effective and systematic manner.
1.2 Research Questions
 What is the role of a line manager in TESCO in regards to talent development?
 What is the role of a leader in TESCO in regards to talent development?
 What challenges has TESCO overcome in employee development?

1.3 Research Objectives
 To identify and understand the role of line managers in employee development in
TESCO.
 To identify and understand the role of leaders in employee development in TESCO.
 To identify challenges TESCO faces in talent management and find solutions on how
leaders and line managers can improve on those challenges.
1.4 Significance of the Research
Employees are the important part and asset for an organization as they help to gain higher
growth and success at marketplace. Employee development is vital for a company as it assist and
prepare staff members to deal with the adverse and complex situation (Burnett and Lisk, 2019).
In addition to this, it also helps a company to ensure that all the activities assigned to employees
is implemented properly which has a positive impact on the performance and profitability of a
company. The present study assists respective organization to know the challenges they faced at
the time of employee development because of which they are able to develop effective strategies
and resolve the issues. This help company to gain various benefits such as employee satisfaction
and retention, develop brand image, increase performance and productivity, enhance profitability
level and many more.
Chapter Two: Literature Review
2.1 Introduction of Literature Review
Literature review is referred as an academic piece of writing which includes the
information and knowledge about the particular topic. In addition to this, it is basically the
secondary data that is collected with the help of different sources that is books, Journals, articles,
websites and many more (Mukherjee, 2019). The main objective of literature review is to
identify gaps from the previous research. In the previous studies, there is a discussion about
concept of employee development along with its significance. In addition to this, it also include
data about challenges faced by companies because of employee development but it lacks
information about the role of leader and manager in employee development. In order to fulfill
this gap, some of the research questions were developed which are as follows: