Human Resource Management in Tesco

Unit 3- Human Resource
Management

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................3
Purpose and functions of HRM...................................................................................................3
Strengths and Weaknesses of different approaches to recruitment and selection.......................5
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................7
Benefits of HRM practices for the employees and employers....................................................7
Effectiveness of HRM practices in increasing the organisational profitability...........................8
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................9
Significance of employee relations in HRM decision-making....................................................9
Key elements of the employment legislation and its impact on decision-making....................10
LO 4...............................................................................................................................................10
Implementation of HRM practice..............................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Human resource Management plays a very important role in the organisations as they focus
on the welfare of the employees as well as the organisation. It does the role of managing the
people so that they become able to achieve better performance. It is responsible for handling all
the aspects of the employees such as human resource planning, recruitment, training,
compensation, maintaining employee relations etc.
Tesco is the British multinational retailer company which deals in manufacturing and selling
of groceries and general merchandise. It is headquartered in England, UK. It became the third
largest retailer in the whole world on the basis of the gross revenues. It performs its operations in
many countries across the world and has its established shops in those countries. It is also the
market leader of groceries in UK (Tesco, 2020). The report will mainly focus on the human
resource management in Tesco.
Various functions of HR will be highlighted along with the strengths and weaknesses of
approaches of recruitment and selection. Furthermore, it will also describe the benefits of HRM
practices for the employees, employers and the organisation. The report will also discuss the
importance of employee relations and the major elements of the employee legislation. The HRM
practice will also be implemented through examples.
LO 1
Purpose and functions of HRM
Its main purpose is to provide constant support to the HRM issues so that the employees
can be lined and organisational goals can be achieved. It needs to make the job and deal with the
job i.e., the employees. In order to perform jobs, identification of someone must be done so that
right person can be selected for the job. The job from selecting the qualified employee to
providing training and assessing the performance along with rewarding them, all are performed
by the HR department. Along with all these, it also focuses on maintaining healthy relationships
among the employees along with resolving the conflicts (Cook, MacKenzie and Forde, 2016). Its
main goal in Tesco is ensuring the availability of competent and willing workforce to the
organisation. It coordinates the people of the organisation so that they become able to achieve the
goals of the organisation, fulfilling the needs of the staff, maintaining employee satisfaction and
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many more. This is achieved by HRM by the use of people, processes and technology which
focusses more on internal environment rather than the external.
The HRM of Tesco performs various functions which are as follows:
Figure 1: Functions of Human Resource Management
Source: HRM, 2020
Planning: Under this, the HRM of Tesco analyses and identifies the needs of the organisation
regarding the need of certain kind of people, suitable number of people so that the HRM can
shape the other important processes in the organisation such as recruitment and selection,
learning and development and many more. It focus on the future of the organisations.
Recruitment and Selection: This involves attracting the people so that they can work in the
company and selecting the best, qualified and skilled. The company must have a stronger
employee brans so that it does not face any problems in recruiting and selecting the best and
highest potential candidates. Various recruitmnet tools are used by Tesco to do the same.
Performance Management: This is to ensure that the employees remain engaged and
productive as this manages the performance of the employees through good leadership,
feedbacks etc. This eliminates the gap between the workforce of today an tomorrow (Adam,
2018).
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