Recruitment and Selection Strategies at Tesco

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO1..................................................................................................................................................3
Recruitment and Selection process.........................................................................................3
Employment Law...................................................................................................................4
Case Law................................................................................................................................5
LO2..................................................................................................................................................6
Development and training of employees................................................................................6
Talent management strategies................................................................................................6
Responsibility of employee and employer.............................................................................7
LO3..................................................................................................................................................8
Human resource processes and systems.................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
Books and Journals........................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Human resource management can be described as a system which is formally set up in order
to manage the people within an organisation. It is the duty of a human resource manager to make
sure that staffing, employee compensation and benefits for the employer designed well by them.
The following report is carried on Tesco (Armstrong and Taylor, 2020). It is a British
multinational company which is retailing in groceries and general merchandise. Its headquarters
is situated in England, United Kingdom. The following report talks about recruitment and
selection strategies used by Tesco. Various employment laws regarding recruitment and selection
are also discussed in this report. There are a number of approaches for talent management used
by company. All those approaches are discussed in detail in this report. A critical analysis of
Human Resource systems and procedure in Tesco is also discussed in this report.
LO1
Recruitment and Selection process
Recruitment
Recruitment refers to a process in which Companies attracting right skilled people in or-
der to apply for vacancy in the organisation. There are a number of ways through which Tesco
uses recruiting Processes. Most of this process depends on the availability of job in the organisa-
tion. Various recruitment processes used by Tesco are mentioned below:
Internal Recruitment: Many of the companies looks at its internal talent in order to fill in
vacancies in the company. In this the current employees are moved to any other department for
the employees are provided with a promotion at a higher level. Many a times companies also go
for training and development if there are not enough people to fill in the required job vacancies.
If any of these does not work companies go for external recruitment.
External Recruitment: External recruitment refers to a process in which companies
advertise their vacancies in order to attract applicants. Tesco uses their website and Boards in
their stores to advertise the vacancies in company. The applicants are then Managed online
through the Resume they have submitted for the interviews (Chelladurai and Kerwin, 2018). For
store-based job Company usually keeps a record of people in waiting list and then they call them

whenever the jobs are available. In this way Tesco manages the recruitment functions in their
organisation.
Tesco is also choosing various other ways to fill in job vacancies these includes:
 Advertising through television and radios
 Advertising through offline media
 Advertisement on various magazines and journals.
Selection
Selection refers to choosing the most appropriate candidate from the pool of talent who
have applied for job. It is however, necessary for them to keep in mind all the employment rules
and regulations while they do so. The first step in this selection is screening.
Screening: In the first step of screening the managers or the selectors judge an applicant based
on their resume which they have submitted with the organisation. It is the summary of an
applicants all the significant achievement throughout their lives (Berman and et. al., 2019). It is a
summary of their job history as well as their education. It helps a manager to understand whether
or not is applicant fir for job and have the required skills. Next step is assessment centre.
Assessment Centre: When an applicant has passed the screening, they have to then attend
assessment centre of Tesco. These are set up in stores of Tesco and are run by the managers of
those stores itself. They are efficiently providing consistency to this process of assessment and
selection. All the applicants are distributed in groups and have to do a number of exercises. This
will help in judging them as per their qualities and skills. They are listed with a number of
problems so that their problem-solving skills could also be managed.
Interview: All the applicants who successfully pass this stage are then called in for an interview.
After their interview when the line and job managers are satisfied that the employees are perfect
for their jobs they are then chosen for the job.
Employment Law
Employment laws refer to all those laws which are formulated by government in order to
benefit the employees and so that no employer can practice negative practices with their
employees. These various employment laws include terms and conditions of employment,
representation of employees and industrial relations, discrimination, leave rights of an employee,
termination policies of an employee, data protection and employee privacy as well as court
practice and procedures. All these are to be duly followed by organisation while selecting an