Analysis of HR Functions Improvement in Co-op UK Food Retail Business

This report provides an overview of Co-op UK and analyzes ways to improve HR functions within its food retail business. It examines the roles of HR, explores challenges faced by the HR department, and investigates methods for improving the department and mitigating issues. The project execution plan covers aspects like time, cost, quality, communication, and risk management to ensure project objectives are achieved. The report references literature on HR roles, challenges, and improvement strategies, offering a comprehensive analysis of HR functions in Co-op UK.

KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE
PROJECT
Assessment 1

Table of content
• Overview of Company
• Influencing literature
• Project objectives
• Project execution plan

Overview of Company
Co-op UK is a brand which is introduced in
order to provide movement for food retail
business of the consumer Co-operative in
UK. The brand is associated with more than
15 differentiated co-operative society and
those are covering near about 400 shops.
The latest version of this brand was
initiated in the year of 2016. Co-op food in
the year of 2016 acquired near about 6.6%
overall grocery market which is a
substantial portion.

Influencing literature
Roles of HR within business functions
According to Mone, London
and Mone (2018), HR department is
associated with major role of recruiting
best suitable candidate and in order to
utilise their strengths and capabilities in
business operations. On the other hand
by recruiting right candidate over job
position appropriate utilisation of
workforce can be made

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Challenges faced by HR department while
operating organisational functions
According to Sheehan and et. al.,
(2016) in current time for managing business
operations in appropriate manner HR
department is playing significant roles and
responsibilities so that to manage whole the
business with needful aspects. In this context
various challenges are being faced by HR
department which creates barriers for them in
managing HR operations in appropriate
manner.

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Ways for improving HR department and
mitigating issues
According to Sulaiman, Ahmed and
Shabbir (2020), in current time for meeting
expectation of employees HR department
plays crucial role. In the process of managing
people due to several issues efficiency of HR
department gets decreased and in this manner
this is imperative that these issues are resolved
so that employees can be satisfied and they
can perform in desired manner

Project objectives
Aim
To analyse the ways in which functions of HR
department can be improved in food retail business in
UK. A study on Co-op UK.
Objectives
• To examine the roles of HR within business
functions of Co-op UK.
• To explore the challenges faced by HR department
while operating organisational functions in Co-op
UK.
• To investigate the ways for improving HR
department and mitigating issues in Co-op UK.

Project execution plan
The project execution plan is regarded as
the study which is associated with
providing such guidance to the project so
that objectives can be accomplished. This
is a set of activities which are helping the
project manager to align their efforts with
reaching to project objectives. There are
various dimensions which a researcher is
required to undertake and some of them
are as under:

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Time: Time is defined as the aspect which
is significantly handled by researcher in
which whole the research can be
completed within research. By deciding
project timeline delays of project can be
avoided. Besides this by this aspect
uncertainty within project can be avoided
to its maximum.

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Cost: The cost dimension within project
execution plan is the amount which is
required to conduct research with utmost
efficiency. When budget is decided in
prior manner this would lead in
developing objective of project in early
manner without facing any difficulty.

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Quality: The quality within project is
defined as level best inputs and outputs
provided by up keeping several quality
standards. In this manner for each
activity quality standards are required to
be met so that in significant manner
project can be carried out. As in this
project no amount of quality will be
compromised by researcher so that to
take out reliable outcomes.

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Communication: Communication is
denoted as one of the prominent failure
due to which barriers are created while
attaining research objectives. This is a
primal step in which chances of failure
can be mitigated by communicating to
all associated parties to research in
significant manner.