Recruitment and Selection in Human Resource Management: A Case Study of Tesco

Human Resource Managment
Tesco

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Recruitment and Selection.....................................................................................................3
Importance of Recruitment................................................................................................3
Selection.................................................................................................................................3
Importance of Selection.....................................................................................................4
Literature Review...................................................................................................................4
Tesco’s Recruitment and Selection Practice......................................................................5
Challenges for Tesco in Recruitment and Selection..............................................................6
Human Resource Practices.....................................................................................................7
Diversity and Innovations..................................................................................................7
Research and Development................................................................................................7
Quality Recruitment...........................................................................................................8
Recommendations..................................................................................................................8
Generating Online Applications.........................................................................................8
Providing Attractive offers to the Employees of the company..........................................8
Creating a separate team of Recruitment...........................................................................9
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................9
References................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
HRM (Human Resource Management) is the management of people or human resource.
Generally called as the department of HR, it is created to enhance the performance of the
employees in order to achieve the organizational objectives. HR is majorly concerned about
the management of people in organizations, concentrating on strategies and on systems
(Wilton, 2016). This report is being prepared to highlight the concept of Recruitment and
selection activity of Human Resource Management and their importance in an organization.
Along with this challenges will be stated that Human Resource manager of Tesco Company
faces and best practices of human resource in relation to these challenges. This report
includes a brief introduction of the Tesco Company. Further, recommendations will be
provided to address these challenges.
Tesco is a British general and grocery merchandise retailer and has headquarter in England,
United Kingdom. As per its profit, it is known as the third largest retailer and by revenue, it is
world's night largest retailer. The stores of the company are present in seven countries across
Europe and Asia. The company is the market leader in a grocery in the in Ireland, Thailand,
Hungary, and the UK. Jack Cohen founded Tesco as a group of market stalls in 1919. It is
listed on the stock exchange of London.
Recruitment and Selection
A process of identifying possible participant for a function or job, commenced by recruiters is
known as Recruitment. This activity is very important for every organization in order to have
the best workforce in the premises (Smartling, 2018). It might be started by an agency of
recruitment or a staff member of an organization seeking workforces. Advertising is a general
portion of the process of recruitment and can occur by numerous means: by the newspaper,

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using newspaper devoted to the advertisement of the job, by professional publication,
advertisements on windows, by a job center, by campus interviews, etc. (Society and Human
Resource Management, 2008)
Appropriateness for a job is usually evaluated by considering kills, e.g. computer skills,
typing skills, communication skills. Proof of the required skills for a task or job may be
offered in the form of qualification it can be professional or education (Yu & Cable, 2013).
Importance of Recruitment
Recruitment provides an entree for a company to get a pool of talented people at a single
place in single time. If there will be a high number of participants in the recruitment process
companies gets more options of skills to choose from. Along with this, organizations can
target the potential participants and hire them for upcoming assignments rather than
struggling to search for the right candidate at last moment (Devi & Banu, 2014).
Selection
Selection is a procedure used in an organization to recognize and employ a group of
individual to fill the posts. It is mostly depended on an initial job examination; the final goal
of employees’ selection is to confirm a sufficient return on investment. In other words, to
confirm the efficiency of the new employ warrants the amount spent on employing and
training that hired individual (Gatewood, Feild & Barrick, 2010).
Importance of Selection
The main agenda of having well-organized selection process is to raise the success of hiring.
Developing a detailed job analysis assist in understanding what person requires. Every tool of
selection which is utilized to assess candidates must add value to the capability to efficiently
define which applicant is the best for the job (Kokemuller, 2018).