Human Resource Management Report on Tesco

This report discusses the current HRM trends and problems faced by Tesco, along with theories and practices for long-term workforce planning and ethical recruitment. It also provides practical solutions to resolve the identified problems.

Individual Report
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INTRODUCTION -100...................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
What are the current HRM trends and problems the organization face, and how does this
impact on them?.....................................................................................................................4
How might the HRM team start to plan ahead and think about long-term workforce planning,
what theories and practices will you consider?......................................................................5
What considerations can the HRM team take to ensure ethical practices are used in their
recruitment/selection pnrocess?..............................................................................................6
Looking at the problems you have identified, what recommendations can the HRM take to
resolve the problems. Please give 3 practical, realistic solutions they can implement..........7
Critique and debate key and contemporary arguments about the theory and practice of HRM
and how ethical expectations are met in practice whilst assessing its contribution to the
organisation............................................................................................................................8
Evaluate and analyze workplace scenarios relating to relevant business strategies for
professional, ethical, effective, and efficient HRM within current organizational contexts.. 8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
Top HR Trends And Some Major Challenges Of 2021. 2021.....................................9
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INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is basically defined as a strategic approach through which
organisation efficiently manage individual (Seow and Choong, 2021). It helps organisation to
assure more competitive advancements. Human resource management allow complete maximize
performance of employees and accomplish strategic objective. Present report is conducted on
Tesco which is operating its business services in retail industrial sector in the provinces of
United Kingdom. Report include current HRM trend and problems that organisation face along
with theories and practices through which workforce planning can done efficiently. In addition to
this, ethical practices that are required to be considered by HRM team is also included in this
report.
MAIN BODY
What are the current HRM trends and problems the organization face, and how does this impact
on them?
Management of Human Resource within an organisation is never been an easy task. It has
been evaluated that from past years organisations is facing significant changes due to the rapid
growth of technology, remote working, fast paced software updates and many more. In order to
have an efficient HR management system. It is essential for TESCO HR to make sure that
organisation resources time and money is being spent well. There are number of current HRM
trends and problems that organisation face:
Discovering the right talent
It is one of the growing trend or problem due to the significant rise in competition among
business especially in retail industrial sector (Top HR Trends And Some Major Challenges Of
2021). Leading companies in order to enhance their speed are making investments to find most
suitable talent for organisation. This aspect it is acting as major problem for number of
companies in 2021.
Building a Culture of Continuous Learning
Due to the dynamic changes in business environment and needs of consumers, it is
essential for an organisation to upskill knowledge and skills of their workforce. It is one of the
trends which is essential for organisation within HRM context to emphasize upon. It is essential
for TESCO to make sure that they encourage employees by enhancing their skill level in order to
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make organisation process and performance compatible with the modern skill and knowledge. It
is creating problem in front of company in which they are require to emphasize upon number of
measures in order to provide appropriate skills and knowledge to employees.
Focus on more collaborative work
In order to bring best out of employee’s collaborative team work is playing major role
and is one of the significant HRM trend for organisations in upcoming years. Organisation is
required to emphasise upon encouraging their work force to perform collaboratively as much as
possible in order to strengthen efficiency and productivity of the work done. This is creating
major problem in front of TESCO in which they are require to emphasize upon building
relationship among employees in order to maximize productivity.
How might the HRM team start to plan ahead and think about long-term workforce planning,
what theories and practices will you consider?
In order to start to plan ahead and effectively think about long-term planning it is
essential for HRM team of TESCO to consider some certain theories and practices which is
defined below:
Human capital theory
This theory effectively states that efficiency and productivity of workers significantly
increases by education via increasing the level of cognitive stock of economically productive
human ability (Camacho and Torous, 2021). It is essential for HRM team of TESCO to
emphasise upon providing knowledge to the new generation in order to match their skills and
talent with existing knowledge within organisation. TESCO HRM team is also required to
encourage to have new approaches in order to fulfil organisation workforce need in effective
manner. With the help of human capital theory HR department can enhance productivity of
employees, as according to this theory skills eventually increases economic productivity which
also lead employees to be more creative that helped company to a sure competitiveness.
Motivation Theory
Motivation plays essential role in creating high amount of passion as to accomplish goals
and objectives of company (Ahlemann, Legner and Lux, 2021). This theory allows HR
department to fulfil employees needs. In this is HRM team is required to be professionally
equipped as to hire best staff. In addition to this as to optimise employee’s productivity
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employees are required to be motivated in effective manner for which proper understanding of
the motivational factors are required to be identified. To accomplish this, it is essential to
combine the correct motivational resources with successful leadership as well as management. In
this HRM team is required to ensure that their planning include motivation as an incentive
programs in order to build capacity as to translate them into higher performance.
Resource-based Theory
This theory Mele suggest that do sources that are difficult to imitate valuable and rare
allows organisation to assure long-term success organisational resources include kills materials
employee’s organisation system and process data and more furthermore it has been evaluated
that resource base theory ties HRM with competitive advantage generation while emphasizing
upon for string organisation internal resources. This allows TESCO HR team to identify unique
and special resources of firm and create competitive advantage. To identify resources in this HR
team is required to categorise resources that are physical, financial, technological, human
resource, organisation and reputation. This theory will effectively allow TESCO HRM team to
emphasize upon all the resources of organisation and conduct long-term workforce planning.
What considerations can the HRM team take to ensure ethical practices are used in their
recruitment/selection pnrocess?
Management of employees requires proper ethical consideration which is essential for
HRM team to emphasize upon in the process of recruitment and selection. This act as a base
through which relationship among organisation and employees can be fostered:
Do not put misleading job advertisements
It is essential for HRM department to make sure that they do not post misleading job
advertisement in order to attract talent advertisement. Misleading job vacancies will lad towards
attracting wrong talent (Anwar and Abdullah, 2021). In this HRM department is required to
effectively collaborate with hiring manager and make sure that the proper ethical consideration is
being adhered in order to make sure that there is no misleading job advertisement practices are
being conducted within company.
Do not engage in misrepresenting the job requirements practises:
In this it is essential for HRM department of TESCO to make sure that they do not
engage in the process of stating the job requirement in terms of education, experience and
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specific job duties as to attract higher level of candidates, this will create problems in future. HR
department is also required to suggest appropriate working hours, compensation, position to
employees in ethical manner.
Anti-Discriminating practices against a potential candidate
It is one of the most important ethical consideration in which HRM department must
ensure that there is no discrimination in the process of recruitment and selection of candidates on
the basis of their gender, culture, nationality, colour, caste, physical disability and more.
Looking at the problems you have identified, what recommendations can the HRM take to
resolve the problems. Please give 3 practical, realistic solutions they can implement.
Benefit from talent acquisition software
In this modern dynamic business environment technology is playing important role
through which organisation can intensify their roles and responsibility. In context to this Tesco
HRM management is recommended to take than use of talent acquisition software in order to be
more effective and streamlined. This help HR department to redefine their talent process. Talent
acquisition software allow HR department of TESCO to conduct their roles and responsibilities
with attractive features such as auto job posting and real-time candidate collaboration, through
which they can enhance recruitment of talent in faster manner.
Keys to collaboration success: motivation, networking, trust
Collaborative working is also identified as a problem in which HRM department face
issues in making employees work collaboratively with each other. In test it is recommended to
HRM department of Tesco to emphasize upon key factors of collaboration success which is
motivation, networking and trust. Having talented employees is essential but in order to be
innovative creative and more productive employees are required to engage in the process of
exchanging ideas. This effectively contribute in accomplishment of organisational goals with
high commitment. HR department is recommended to encourage employees to expose them in
new information via cross functional team. HRM department of TESCO is also recommended to
strengthen social connection among employees as the help of commitment based HRM practices
creation of trust and cooperation among employees. HRM department is also recommended to
motivate employees and create trust among them.
Use technology as learning platforms and foster mentoring in workplace
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According to the above identified problem it has been identified that building a culture of
continuous learning is the major issue that are required to be resolved by HRM department in
order to foster continuous level of learning with an organisational workplace (White, 2021). It is
recommended to HR department of Tesco to use technology as learning platform and encourage
learning from different angles. With the advantage of multimedia options audio and visual
materials can be provided to individual through which they can enhance their skills and
knowledge by appreciating continuous learning culture. It allows TESCO HR to enable every
employee to learn their own pace and in a manner with proper comfortableness.
Critique and debate key and contemporary arguments about the theory and practice of HRM and
how ethical expectations are met in practice whilst assessing its contribution to the
organisation
It is essential for different department to emphasize upon significant theory and practices
of HRM in order to make sure that employees are managed in an effective manner. It has been
identified that with the help of taking advantage of motivation theory of HRM unit of TESCO
can effectively emphasize upon fulfilling needs and requirements of employees. Motivation
theory allow HRM department of organisation to motivate employees in a well-defined and
effective manner with the help of different practices. All the theories are required to be applied in
proper ethical manner in which HRM unit must make sure that all the employees are getting
benefit from without any discriminatory practices. It significantly assist organisation to enhance
its overall performance and productivity in respective industrial sector.
Evaluate and analyze workplace scenarios relating to relevant business strategies for
professional, ethical, effective, and efficient HRM within current organizational contexts.
In contact with Tesco, it has been evaluated that within TESCO HR department provide
fair remuneration and salary to employees according to their job skills and company guidelines.
Furthermore, it has been evaluated that employee does not get discriminated on any form of
basis. Along with this it has been evaluated that within organisation structure HRM department
assured that they take regular feedback from employees. It is one of the most effective HRM
strategy in which issues of employees get solve in effective manner. Furthermore, company
undertake use of efficient communication strategies in order to enhance trust and cooperation
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with employees. This significantly enhance company capability to increase their employees
talent.
CONCLUSION
According to the above-mentioned report it has been concluded that human resource is a
crucial aspect of every organisation that enlighten organisation about the manner in which
employees can be managed. This role helps organisation to deal with realistic compensation
structure in order to set organisation wages and salaries in order to enhance employee’s
performance and productivity. There are number of HRM trend and problems such as
discovering the right talent building a culture of continuous learning and collaborative work
which is impacting organisation HRM management. In this it is essential for company to
undertake use of different tools and techniques and alight with HR trends in order to assure
competitiveness and handle challenges in effective manner as to ensure greater productivity and
higher loyalty of employees.
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REFERENCES
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Anwar, G. and Abdullah, N.N., 2021. The impact of Human resource management practice on
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Camacho, E. and Torous, J., 2021. Introducing an implementation framework for augmenting
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Cheung, M.L and et. al., 2021. Driving loyalty intentions of mobile games: a motivation theory
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White, B., 2021. Human capital theory and the defectology of aspirations in policy research on
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Top HR Trends And Some Major Challenges Of 2021. 2021. [Online]. Available
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