Human Resources for Tesco Assignment

HUMAN RESOURCES FOR
TESCO ASSIGNMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
LO1:.................................................................................................................................................3
P1- Purpose and function of HRM in organization.....................................................................3
P2- Strength and weakness of various recruitment methods.......................................................4
LO2:.................................................................................................................................................6
P3- Impact of HRM.....................................................................................................................6
P4- Effectiveness of HRM activities on goal achieving..............................................................7
LO3:.................................................................................................................................................8
P5- Influence of employee relation to HRM decision-making....................................................8
P6- Employee legislation on HRM decision-making:.................................................................9
LO4:...............................................................................................................................................10
P7- Application of HRM (Human Resources Practices) practices in a work-related context...10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
HRM (Human Resource Management) Plays an effective role to each company and business
in market place. In this dynamic world, no business is able to run its different operations and
activities in the market place without considering different practices of the human resource
management. This report discusses HRM function of Tesco. Basically, Tesco is one of the most
reputed and famous retail brands, headed in England United Kingdom. Major purposes and
function of HR department also has been discussed in this report. There are weaknesses and
strengths of various HRM methods and the impact of HRM practices on organisation goals also
has been discussed in this report.
MAIN BODY
LO1:
P1- Purpose and function of HRM in organization
Human resource management is the organizational practice done in order to improve the
working capabilities of the organization by efficiently managing it workforces by which
organizational working output of the company can be increased. In order to achieve this HRM
has to implement several organizational changes through which working output of the
organization can be increased. Following are the functions of HRM in terms of resourcing an
organization.
Recruitment and selection-
HRM at Tesco is responsible for increasing the working efficiency of the organization
and due to which it is responsible for recruiting new candidates as per company's requirement by
which HRM can improve the goal achieving capabilities of the organization. While recruiting
HRM make sure that candidates are able to fulfil the current and future requirement of the
organization, with that HRM at Tesco has to make sure that the selected employees are as per
company's requirement (Michael, 2019). This recruitment helps in developing effective
organizational plan but at the same time HRM has to make sure the candidates are not selected in
excessive number because they are selected in excessive number then it will make impact on
company's economic growth.
Training and development-
The main purpose of HRM activities is to make sure that it is able to increase the working
capabilities of the organization and for which it has to make sure that employees are working as

per current requirement. It is important for organizations like Tesco that they are able to work as
per current market trend and thus HRM has to make sure that employees are improving their
working capabilities (Aboramadan and et.al, 2020). For which efficient training is provided to
them as per company's requirement, through this HRM also develop a positive image of
organization in front of its employees because they are assured that company is showing interest
in their personal development.
Organizing-
HRM has to make sure that Tesco is able to achieve its organizational goals and for
which it has to implement organizational structure in which organizational departments are made
as per the availability of the workforces. Through this organizing HRM make sure that work load
is equally divided among all the employee's in which they are able to perform their specific
tasks. This empowers employee to identify the higher authorities of the organization by which
they will get motivated to discuss their issues through this HRM improves the problem solving
time of the organization which will improve its goal achieving capabilities.
P2- Strength and weakness of various recruitment methods
Recruitment is one of the most factor of organization in which candidates are selected as
per the requirement of the organization (Reid, Greaves and Kirby, 2017). For selecting
appropriate candidate for the position HRM can recruit best fit from two methods, which are
internal recruitment and external recruitment.
Internal recruitment-
As the name suggest in this type of recruitment candidates for a specific position are
selected from within the organization and due to which Tesco is having several advantages and
disadvantages which are as following.
Advantages-
1. Employees are already well aware of the working procedure of the organization due to
which comparatively less training is required, which will be beneficial for the
organization because they can join the work force in minimum time.
2. Internal recruitment is very beneficial for employee motivation because it can be done
through the process of promotion, will motivate employees to work hard, so they can get
organizational benefits (Beymer, Holloway and Grov, 2018).