Impact of Brexit on HR Practices in the UK: TESCO Case Study Report

This report investigates the impact of Brexit on Human Resources (HR) practices within the United Kingdom, focusing on a case study of TESCO. The report begins by providing background information on Brexit and its implications, followed by the research aim and objectives, which include evaluating the importance of HR practices, analyzing Brexit's impact, and recommending improvement strategies. A literature review explores the significance of HR practices, the effects of Brexit on HR, and the reasons behind Brexit. The methodology section outlines the research types (qualitative and quantitative), approaches (inductive), and philosophies (interpretivism). Data collection methods, including questionnaires, are described, along with details on the population, sampling method, and research participation protection. The report concludes with a discussion of data analysis and references.

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Table of Contents
Title- Impact of Brexit on Hr practices in the United Kingdom- case study of TESCO ................3
Background and Context .................................................................................................................4
Research aim and objectives............................................................................................................4
Literature Review.............................................................................................................................5
Importance of Hr practices for the organizations........................................................................5
Impact of Brexit on the Hr practices ...........................................................................................5
Reason to implement Brexit and what are the negative impact on HR practices .......................5
Suggestion and recommendation for reducing negative impact from the Brexit on the Hr
practices.......................................................................................................................................5
Methodology....................................................................................................................................5
Research types ............................................................................................................................6
Research approaches....................................................................................................................6
Research philosophies..................................................................................................................6
Data collection.............................................................................................................................6
Population ...................................................................................................................................6
Sampling method.........................................................................................................................6
Research participation protection................................................................................................6
data Analysis ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................8

Title- Impact of Brexit on Hr practices in the United Kingdom- case study of
TESCO

Background and Context
A)
Brexit was the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union at the end
of December 2020. EU referendum took place and the people of the United Kingdom voted to
leave the European Union. This page contains government information on the EU referendum.
Research report will cover case study of TESCIO company who are top leading
organization in UK and having good reputation within the market. Research will help to identify
the impact of Brexit on TESCO' s HR practices.
B)
TESCO is top leading British multinational company, selling varieties of the product and
services that include financial services, grocery, home appliances etc (Styliani., 2019). After the
Brexit referendum, companies HR practices affect and Hr department faces problems like ,
demotivation in employees, pressure of new recruitment and many more issues take place. It
show that how TECSO is affecting and research will help to identify the strategies that can help
company to overcome from the issues, so they can take competitive advantages within the
market where they are operating their business.
Research aim and objectives
AIM
To identify impact of Brexit referendum on the Hr practices of TESCO company.
Objectives
 To evaluate importance of Hr practices
 To analyse the impact of Brexit on the HR practices with respect to the all industries in
the UK.
 To recommend strategies on how HR practices can be improved.
Research questions
Q1 Why Hr practices are important for the companies
Q2 What are the impact of Brexit on the Hr practices in the United Kingdom ?
Q3 What is the reason behind Brexit and how it is negative impacting on the Hr practices within
UK ?

Q4 Suggestions to improve HR practices and reduce the negative impact of the Brexit ?\
B)
The study of the topic “ impact of Brexit of the HR practices of the UK” is important
because It has huge impact on the Industries within the United kingdom.
Literature Review
Importance of Hr practices for the organizations
According to the Author (Attia and Edge., 2017) Hr department is one of the most
important part of the organization because they run the Hr practices like Recruitment, training
and development, policy development etc. It helps to plan their workplace and manage
employees. IT helps bridge the gap between employees' performance and the organisation's
strategic objectives. Moreover, an efficient HR management team can give firms an edge over
their competition.
In the argument (Blunk, Benson Marshall and Cox., 2020) explained that
implementation of the Hr practices need a proper process, failure in implementation can affect
the performance of organization. Hr manager should have proper knowledge, and they need to
decide proper time for the implementation of new practices at their workplace.
Impact of Brexit on the Hr practices
As per the view of (Cumming, Wood and Zahra., 2020) Brexit is affecting HR practices
of the companies within the UK industries. It necessary for the organization to react on it As
soon as possible by making the strategies. Due to the Brexit Pressure to recruitment of the new
employees included because before the Brexit people from the EU used to work of most of the
companies within the UK, after the referendum, most of the employees leave the organization
and that makes difficulty for the UK based companies to recruit employees.
In the argument (Jäske, and Setälä., 2020) explained Brexit can have negative impact on
the HR practices, but impact can be controllable for firms. Their are some strategies that can be
followed by the Organizations for the improvement like Companies can recruit employees from
the other countries where they do not need to pay high salaries to the organization.

Reason to implement Brexit and what are the negative impact on HR practices
According to the (Ranta and Nancheva., 2019) Brexit was about to happened in past two
years, and main aim was Separation of EU and Uk - the formal process to leave. But they had to
push the deadline twice after MPs rejected her Brexit deal.
On the other side (Ridgway., 2019) some of the people were fervour on the Brexit, and
they Europoort because they believe EU and UK are two Different national, and they should be
separated.
Suggestion and recommendation for reducing negative impact from the Brexit on the Hr
practices.
As per the view of (Snyder., 2019) Impact of Brexit from the HR practices can be
improved through taking immediate action and using the HR resources effectively.
On the other side (Jäske, and Setälä., 2020) argued that Brexit impact can be impact for
the long times on the HR practices event if company use the strategies.
Methodology
Research methodology is the technique that helps to process, identify and analyse the
information about the chosen topic. It allows the readers to critically evaluate study. In the
research paper, methodology section allows the reader to critically evaluate a study's overall
validity and reliability.
Research types
There two type of research that are qualitative and quantitative. Qualitative method
obtain data the from different sources and it is totally non-numerical data while, qualitative
method is analysis of numerical data to understand concepts, opinions, or experiences. It can be
used to gather in-depth insights into a problem or generate new ideas for research. Researcher
will use qualitative and quantitative methods and .
Research approaches
There are two type of research approaches Inductive and Deductive. Inductive
approaches are tart with the theory's ad proposed toward the research process. In deductive
research people typically associated with scientific investigation. Research will use inductive
method to make study successful.

Research philosophies
There are 5 Philosophies that can be used by the researcher but two philosophies that
mainly used by the researcher are Interpretation and Positivist, researcher will use Interpretation.
Intrepretuivism researches are based on the principles that sates the researcher of the project
perform on the specific job in the observing the social world. According to this research
Philosophy, research is depend on the what researcher has inserted about the topic. On the other
side Positivism is an western philosophy that usually, any kind of the system that confines itself
to the data of experiences and the excludes a priori or the metaphysical speculations. An example
of positivism is a Christian being absolutely certain there is a God. A doctrine contending that
sense perceptions are the only admissible basis of human knowledge and precise thought.
Practical spirit, sense of reality, concreteness.
Data collection
There are two type of data collection that can be used by the researcher are primary and
secondary data collection method. Primary researches are new and fresh research collected by
the researcher by themselves while, secondary researchers are obtained from the secondary
sources like Articles, newspaper etc. Secondary data is collected by someone other than the
primary users. Common source of the secondary data collection can be government department,
organizational records and data that was originally collected by the other research purpose.
Researcher will also use questionnaire method where survey questions will be given to the
ventilators and 30 employees will participate so there less chances of queerness.
Population
Around 30 employees from the TESCO will take participation in the research, and they
will give aware of the question thorough the Questionnaires. 30 employees from the company
will be chosen because they are having good knowledge, and they are involve within the
situation.
Sampling method
Sampling method is the process that analyse in which the predetermined number of the
observation. This methodology used t6o sample from the large population depend on the types of
analysis being performed. it can include random and systematic sampling. Random sampling is
the technique in which each sample has the equal probability of the being chosen and systematic
sampling is the type of probability people selected by the researcher the large population.

Around 30 employees from the TESCO will take participation in the research, and they will give
aware of the question thorough the Questionnaires. 30 employees from the company will be
chosen because they are having good knowledge, and they are involve within the situation
Research participation protection
It will necessary for the researcher to do not share personal information of the
participants and it should be remained private to the other. Declaration form must be signed by
the participants for their confirmation that they are not been forced by anyone to participate in
research.
data Analysis
data analysis can be defined as the transforming, clearing and the modelling of the data
to discover the useful information for the decision-making. Researcher will use qualitative
method to conduct research. It also includes interpretation of the data collected by the researcher
on the basis of answers given by the participants.

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