MG410 Career Viewpoint

This report provides an analysis and evaluation of the career viewpoint of the human resource function at Tesco, a British multinational retail company. It discusses the general trends impacting human resources, the skills and experience required for the profession, and concludes with insights and recommendations.

MG410 Career Viewpoint

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Analysis and application.............................................................................................................1
General trends which impact on human resource.......................................................................1
Skills and experience required....................................................................................................2
Evaluation ..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
Appendix..........................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Human resource profession is basically concerned with recruiting, screening,
interviewing and placing employees and workers. Human resource professionals are basically
helps in dealing employee relations , payroll, benefits as well as training. Human resources
managers basically helps in managing plan, directing and coordinating various administrative
functions and operations of businesses(Chen, Shen and Gosling, 2021). Human resource is
defined as basically a profession which is charged through searching, screening, recruiting and
training job applicants as well as administering employee benefit programs. This report is based
on career viewpoint of human resource function of Tesco, which is a British Multinational
groceries and general merchandise retail company. This report includes analysis and application,
evaluation along with its conclusion.
MAIN BODY
Analysis and application
General trends which impact on human resource.
As per the viewpoint of Jeremy Bradley, 2021, human resource profession faces various
impacts that will be faced by company in order to carry business practices effectively. There are
various key general and global trends which human resources function in businesses. As it is a
management of various company's policies and processes that are relating to to its employees and
workers. As due to rise of globalisation and wide communication global world has become
smaller place(Baice and et.al, 2021). In terms of Tesco, human resources function creates an
impact and affect human resource function in different ways that are as follows: Training and professional development: It is referred as one of most emerging trend in
global businesses in which diversity training and cross cultural professional
development. This area of human resource includes sponsoring various formal
university coursework, opportunities to attend conferences and networking events and on
job training seminars(Moshfeghyeganeh and Hazari, 2021). This emerging trends of
helps in providing training and development. Global recruitment: Company helps in realising that there is best matches for jobs in
country that are not necessarily be employees that are individuals. Global recruitment is
basically focussed on getting best applicants to best person in available position. HR
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teams helps in providing trend value to customers which non native or non local
employees are could bring various functions and they seek to bring to those individual
on boarding. Cross border legal compliance: This effects of globalisation on HR have brought
attention to importance of cross border legal compliance(Shapira, 2021). As company
have potential to sell products and services in various markets and through use of
internet and postal services. As selling products overseas sometimes consists
requirement of to apply for additional permits or to pay tax within various jurisdiction.
 Benefits and compensation: As human resource profession provides benefits for
compensation that determines various targets and accomplishing various planned goals
and objectives of company(Bailer and et.al, 2021). This is an emerging trends in
business as it helps in identifying various human resource profession.
Skills and experience required.
There are many skills required for human resource profession like communication skills,
organisational skills and many more. It is further been explained as below:- Communication skills:- As a human resource profession it is very important to have the
skill of clear communication both in context with oral as well as written communication.
It is the profession which involves just the concept of communication right from doing
recruitment to further roles and responsibilities(Zhao, 2021). Communication skills not
only involves interacting with other people but also involves listening to them, their
issues and so on. With the help of these effective skills they help in building up trust as
well as confidence among whole organisation. Organisational skills:- There are many roles and responsibilities which are involved in
human resource profession so to deal with those certain challenges effective
organisational skills are needed. It involve lot of paper work, they had to manage many
documents and assure that everything is been organised in a well manner. As an HR, it is
necessary to grow themselves so that efficiency of both organisation as well as them gets
increased(Ruf, 2021). These type of skills helps them in managing all kind of activities
that arise in organisation on continuous basis. Decision making skills:- As a HR professional they had to take various decisions so it is
necessary that they pursue such skills through which they can make effective decisions
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for their organisation(Endsley, 2021). If they had to take decision regarding the process
of recruitment then they are expected that they chose right talent so for this their decision
making skills should be effective. It is their role and responsibility to manage everything
and if any kind of conflict gets arise then their decision skills will only be helpful for
them.
 Budgeting skills:- All compensations goes through the profession of human resource. It
involves different activities like social, performance appraisals and many
more(Bussmann-Holder and Keller, 2021). So, all these activities are needed while
setting up compensation and different benefits. It is very important for organisation to not
exceed their budget and it all depends on their profession only. So, it is necessary to have
such skills so that they can set up their budget well and don't waste their effective amount
of money(Volovici and et.al, 2021).
Evaluation
From this report it has been evaluated from my report is that I have keen interest in
building my career in human resource. As I want to build my future career in human resource
department that deals in carrying various recruiting practices, staffing them, providing them
guidance by training and develBradley, 2021,opment in order to perform their roles and duties so
that goals and objectives of company could be timely fulfilled. For carrying this profession I
have been using various sources of research which is divided in primary and secondary sources
in which primary research is carried by literature review and secondary source of data is being
used by questionnaire. For carrying my career viewpoint effectively and efficiently I had decided
and evaluated that human resource profession helps in carrying business operation in a
systematic and proper way and Bradley, 2021,for that I have decided to choose a retail company
which is Tesco that deals in selling groceries and otheBradley, 2021,r household products. With
help of this project I have been able to understand various aspects of businesses in human
resource professions. By carrying research on this company I have been able to identify various
requirements that are used in carrying human resources functions. As I have analysed that
Tesco's human resource department helps company in recruiting and hiring skilled and efficient
workforce so that company's planned goals and objectives could be achieved easily. By taking up
this report I have been able to understand concept of human resource and its profession which
provides benefits to employees, company as well as individual. By using mode of literature
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review as a mode of primary source I am able to understand about concepts of human resources.
With that I am able to analyse about various requirement which company wants in their
workplaces to carry human resource as a profession in future.
With this I am able to understand about concept various hiring requirements of company.
With this I am able to determine and planned human resource as a career to carry my practices.
As by carrying these practices it will help me in building my career as well as developing my
personality along with professional development. With this I am able to understand futuristic
professional approach of company which is implement by them in order to accomplish their
targets. I am able to understand about various requirements of skills and knowledge to carry
profession as a human resource employee.
CONCLUSION
From above report it has been concluded that professional approach is important and
essential element which is required to carried for carrying business career effectively. As
professional approach helps in identifying various methods that are required to carry business
practices effectively. This report clearly determines human resources professions which deals in
having recruiting, staffing, providing training and development to employees so that they are
able to carry their business practices effectively and efficiently. There is a brief explanation of
primary as well as secondary research has been carried in types of literature review as a primary
source and questionnaire as a secondary source. There is an analysis and evaluation of various
general trends that creates impact on human resource as well as skills and experience required
for carrying business.
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Online
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Appendix
Questionnaire
1. Is planning career is important and necessary?
a. Yes
b. No
2. When was first time you decide to carry your profession as human resource?
a. Graduate level
b. Post graduate level
3. Is this project and report is helpful to you?
a. Yes
b. No
4. Is human resource is effective in developing personality of employees?
a. Yes
b. No
5. Is human resource profession helps you in building career?
a. Yes
b. No
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