Motivating Employees: A Case Study of Tesco

HR Case Study

Table of Content.
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................2

INTRODUCTION
Business environment is becoming so dynamic and innovative that every departments
plays an essential role in growth and success (Kir and Erdogan, 2021). There are many
departments in the organisation such as sales department, human resources, finance, marketing
etc. This report deals with the human resource management which includes the process of hiring
employee, providing them training, motivating and developing strategics to retain them. In
addition to this the report also deals with the motivating the employee and its different theories
which help in achieving the target effectively.
MAIN BODY
Human resource are the people who are responsible for recruiting, screening, promoting,
firing the job applicants so that there is maximum productivity of employee. Human resources
involves in increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of organisation by developing, managing
employer and employee relationship (Jang and Ardichvili, 2020). Human resources play an
important role in motivating the employee so that they can work productively and collectively.
Motivation refers to the process of accomplishing the goals by fulfilling needs, desires
and wants within the individual. The main aim of the human resources is motivate the employees
which improves the productivity as well as the ability of employee to perform the task in
achieving the long term goal (Madni and Sievers, 2018). There are many models and theories
that human resources management can adopt in order to motivate the employee. Some of the
theories are discussed below:
Maslows hierarchy of needs is defined as theory of motivation that includes five element
which fulfils the physiology and psychological needs of the employee. In this hierarchy first
need is basic needs that includes food, safety, education, shelter etc. This need should be
followed in order to satisfy the other needs. This need is considered as one of the most essentials
one in the hierarchy (Goede and Boshuizen-van, 2019). The next need is safety needs that
includes job security, health safety, safety from disasters and wars etc. here the individual should
be provided with the safe and predictable environment so that they can react to it when not met.
Third need in the hierarchy is love and belonging which includes love, respect, friends, family in
order feel motivated. Here the individual wants mental peace and acceptance in the society so
that they can live a comfortable life. Another need is self esteem needs where the individual
wants appreciation, respect from others. Here the individual wants to feel valued by others and
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