Employee Well Being in Marks and Spencer and Tesco

Managing Human Resources

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................3
Employee Well being.............................................................................................................3
Marks and Spencer well being initiatives...............................................................................8
Tesco well being initiatives....................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Employee well being is defined as a process to improve the employment experiences
of all employee’s associated with corporate organisations (Athota, Budhwar and Malik,
2019). It emphasis on providing proper work culture based on needs of individual employee’s
so that all staff members of company get equal development and growth opportunities in the
organisation. This report is based on the case study of Marks and Spencer and Tesco in
regards to their employee well being policies. Marks and Spencer is UK based retail
organisation established in the year 1884. Tesco is a based company founded in the year
1919. Jack Cohen was the founder of the company. The study evaluates different aspects such
as scope, nature and limitations of wellbeing of staff members. Approaches used in both the
organisations for improving well being of employee’s will also be summarised in this report.
MAIN BODY
Employee Well being
Employee well being is a process that enables corporate organisations to improve
employment experience of all human resources employed in the company. Employee
satisfaction is considered as the primary element which work behind the welfare and comfort
of employees (Axtell and et.al., 2018). Well being of organisational human resources is
closely associated with the work culture of corporate organisation. Some of these elements
can be summarised as follows:
Scope of employee well being
Employee wellbeing plays a crucial role for the corporate organisation in order to
achieve all its objectives and targets. It improves the work culture of company and its scope
is defined in following ways.
Improves employee’s potential: The well being level of the staff members can be denoted
by higher level of employee satisfaction. It explains that how good an employee is treated in
organisation. All corporate organisations sustain good welfare policies for their staff
members and end up by improving potential and abilities of human resources. Improving
employee potential involve giving opportunities to employee’s for learning and grabbing new
skills and techniques that can improve the potential of employment opportunities (Brun and
Cooper, 2016). Well being aspect of human resources in organisation also drives increased