Investigating Diversity Management at Tesco PLC: A Research Report

This report focuses on diversity management within Tesco PLC, a major UK supermarket chain. It investigates the current diversity situation, specifically examining the impact of linguistic differences on managerial activities within a Tesco Convenience Store in Central London. The research explores workforce planning processes and aims to provide recommendations for creating a multilingual and diverse workforce that maximizes productivity. The report outlines research aims, objectives, and expected outcomes, including a discussion on communicating research findings to stakeholders like investors, creditors, researchers, employees, and managers. The conclusion emphasizes the challenges of linguistic diversity in a globalized business environment, highlighting the need for effective language management strategies. The report recommends the use of interpreters and effective communication methods to foster trust and ensure clear instructions are provided to all staff members, ultimately contributing to a more inclusive and productive work environment at Tesco PLC.

Research Project

Table of content
• Introduction
• Research aims and objectives
• Research outcomes
• Recommendation
• Conclusion

Introduction
• This research project is about diversity management in a large enterprise. Tesco PLC is
the largest supermarket chains in the UK. The company has to deal with people from
different cultural, linguistic, and social backgrounds. Meanwhile, the company has to
maintain its equal opportunities provided to each of employees. Management of diversity
in the workplace has been praised at Tesco PLC for a long time.

Research Aim
• To investigate the current diversity situation in Tesco Convenience Store in Central
London
• To analyze the impact of linguistic differences on the managerial activities at the store
• To explore processes in workforce planning through linguistic operations
• To provide recommendations for creating a multilingual diverse workforce with the
maximum productive level

Communicate Research Outcomes to Stakeholders
• Stakeholders are the people or firm who have interest in research project on mainly
affected to its outcomes. Stakeholders consist of the people who are supported a research
and less supportive. Stakeholders play a necessary role in conducting the research
activities in an effective manner. They take interest in the research outcomes. The
necessary stakeholders who are included in the research project are investors, creditors,
researcher, employees and managers.

Conclusion
• In the globalised business context, reality is linguistic issues and multilingual bring the
challenges in relation to organisation diversity management. The language management
is more complicated. In context to this, from the linguistic barriers organisation face
issues of identifying what procedure and process can be implemented and what kind of
practices should be responsible. The main challenges are to accommodate diverse
requirement of various context needs and goals which are implemented appropriate
language that is expecting for each of them.

Recommendation
• It is necessary for management of Tesco to use an Interpreter which can able to interpret
the information. Whenever management gives instruction for also feedback to staff
members then there may be someone who speaks both the languages fluently in order to
convey message to all the staff members. It is one of the effective ways to develop the
trust among the staff members. Other than this, it is helpful for management to give the
instructions to management in a proper manner.

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