Role of IT in Recruitment and Retention Strategies of TESCO

IT and HRM

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART 1 INTRODUCTION.............................................................................................................3
PART 2 ...........................................................................................................................................3
Recruitment & Retention strategies of TESCO...........................................................................3
Recruitment process.....................................................................................................................4
Role of IT in recruitment and retention.......................................................................................4
PART 3............................................................................................................................................5
Strategies and techniques for developing and engaging employees............................................5
IT system used.............................................................................................................................6
PART 4 CONCLUSION..................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

PART 1 INTRODUCTION
IT plays an important role HRM as it helps in managing of human resources in an
effective manner in 21st century. In 21st century human resource management is well needed for
developing skills, mind set as well as abilities which are required for gaining competitive
advantage in the market. Role of IT has also become vital for organisation in managing human
resource as IT helps in connecting HR works with various business system which can help in
achieving objectives for company. IT is used to improve overall talent management of company
as it help in effective planning of HR planning and training and development programs. In this
Tesco is taken as organisation, which is a groceries and general merchandise retailing company
of UK. There are approximately 450,000 employees working in more than 6,800 shops. The
target customer of the company are middle income group with young children and also targets
the customers who are interested in quality products. Total revenue of the company as per the
year 2019 is 63,911 million pounds. The IT system which is used by Tesco is Human resources
management system which is designed for managing company's automated and computerised
human resource.
PART 2
Recruitment & Retention strategies of TESCO
The process of attracting, finding, short-listing, selecting and hiring qualified candidates
for suitable jobs within in company or organization k/a recruitment.
Recruitment strategy:
Social media: This is the best medium to find 5alent, advertise jobs and communicate with
suitable candidates for suitable job profile (Oh and et.al., 2017). Tesco uses this strategy to get
value and employer brand.
Collage recruitment: it is also good strategy to discover upcoming talent who can provide new
framework of company by exploring new ideas in company which can be fruitful for company.
Tesco apply this strategy in company and recruit from collage.
while retention refers to ability of company or organization to retain employees and
product or customers for particular period.
Retention strategy: