Challenges Faced by UK Retail Sector Due to Pandemic: A Study on Tesco

Research Project Proposal

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Background of the study..............................................................................................................3
Research aim and objectives........................................................................................................3
Research Questions......................................................................................................................4
Research Rationale.......................................................................................................................4
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................4
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY.....................................................................................................7
Research approach ......................................................................................................................7
Research philosophies .................................................................................................................7
Data collection methods ..............................................................................................................7
Data analysis tools.......................................................................................................................8
Sampling techniques ...................................................................................................................8
Ethical consideration ...................................................................................................................8
TIMELINE.......................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

Topic : To identify and evaluate challenges faced by UK retail sector due to pandemic and its
impact on organizational performance within UK retail sector: A study on Tesco.
INTRODUCTION
Background of the study
The current era of Covid-19 pandemic has been very unforgiving for the businesses. Due
to pandemic the organization during this era has been facing major issues and challenges. Hence,
it can be said that pandemic has impacted the organizational performance in the retail sector.
Major challenges faced by this industry was due to the Lock-down which were implemented
during the pandemic. More over there were are areas in which the business faced issues related
to their operations, human resources management and competition. For the current proposal
Tesco has been selected as the case study in the retail sector. Tesco is the UK based supermarket
chain which deals with all the different types of home products, food products and fashion. This
research proposal will shed the light on research tools and techniques which will be used for
analysation of this issue. This research will also highlight a time-frame within which the
investigation will be completed.
Research aim and objectives
Aim
The aim of the current investigation is to recognize and measure the problems faced
during the pandemic which affects the organizational performance of Tesco.
Objectives
 To identify the issues and challenges faced by organizations due to pandemic.

 To analyse the problems faced by organization in the retail sector during pandemic.
 To assess the impact of pandemic on the organizational performance of Tesco.
 To recommend strategies which can mitigate the impacts of pandemic on organizational
performance.
Research Questions
Q1. What challenges were faced by organizations during the pandemic?
Q2. Why is the organizational performance affected by pandemic in retail sector?
Q3. How can Tesco overcome the organizational impacts of Covid-19 pandemic?
Research Rationale
The main reason for doing this research was to analyse how the pandemic has brought
new challenges and issues for the Tesco and affected its performance. This research was also
able to identify the major issues and challenges caused by the pandemic. These issues were faced
by all the sectors in the market but this research focused specifically on the retail sector. It is an
issue as impacts on organizational performance due to pandemic can have negative impacts on
the future of the business. Identification of these issues has the purpose of finding the ways in
which they can be mitigated. With the help of a thematic perception test techniques research has
been able to shed light on the level of impacts on the organizational performance.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Theme 1
According to the study of Hanson and et.al., (2020) during Covid-19 most businesses
supply chain was under severe stress and had the least issues from procurement of goods raw
materials to transportation facility for delivering their operations on the day to day basis. For the
business this period was very challenging for the preparation of any type of short term planning.
The companies had to manage the blood life of any business cash flow constraints that provided
timely recovery of debtors payments to suppliers and employees. Akpan, Soopramanien and
Kwak, (2021) added that there were also few businesses which went to the bankruptcy during the
pandemic due to lack of proper financial help provided by the government. For business which
operated in different countries for them the level of assistance was different significantly from
one country to another.