Human Resource Management Report: HRM Practices, Tesco's Strategies

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of Human Resource Management (HRM) practices within Tesco, a multinational company. It begins by defining HRM and its core functions, emphasizing the importance of effective workforce management, adherence to employment laws, and strategic planning. The report delves into the purpose and functions of HRM, focusing on recruitment and selection processes, including internal and external methods, and their respective strengths and weaknesses. It explores different approaches to achieving company goals, particularly in the context of a large organization like Tesco. Furthermore, the report examines the benefits of various HRM practices for both employees and employers, such as promoting positive behavior, employee development, and building a flexible workplace. It also discusses the significance of employee relations in influencing HRM decision-making, key elements of employment legislation, and the impact on HRM. The report concludes with an overview of HRM practices in a work-related context, providing a holistic view of HRM's role in organizational success.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Purpose and function of HRM................................................................................................1
M1 Function of HRM to provide skills and talent for company..................................................2
P2. Strength and Weaknesses of different methods to recruitments and selection process.........3
D1 Different approaches to achieve the goals of company.........................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
P3 Benefit of different HRM practices to employees and employer...........................................5
P4. Effectiveness of different HRM practices that help to grow profit.......................................6
M3 Different methods used in HRM Practices............................................................................7
D2 Evaluation of HRM practices within an organisational practices..........................................7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
P5. Importance of employees relations that influence HRM decision making............................8
P6 Key elements of employment legislation and their impact on HRM decision making..........9
M4 Key aspect of employee relation.........................................................................................10
D3 Evaluation of employees relation that help in decision-making..........................................10
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................11
P7. HRM practices in work related context...............................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
In business world, human resource management is defined as the activities that help in
the management of different people working in company. So human resource manager of
company are responsible to perform different function such as recruiting, staffing, organising,
worker compensation or benefit scheme and allotting work (Schalk, Timmerman and Van den
Heuvel, 2013). Essentially, the main objective or purpose of Human resource manager is to
maximise the productivity of company and execute them is fundamental ways so that employees
work with their full potential in order to attain the goals. HR manager of small or medium
company use to examine the performance of all worker working within an organisation and then
they make effective plan to improve the performance if required. Tesco, is selected to understand
the importance of Human resource management. This company deals in daily product, cloths,
grocery etc. and have number of stores in different part of world.
In this report, main purpose and important functions of HRM that help to hire best
candidate, strength and weaknesses of various approaches to recruitment and selection are
discussed. Benefits of various HRM practices, effectiveness of these practices that help to
generate profit for company are shown in this project. This report also discusses employees
relation that help to influence HRM decision, key elements of employment legislation and the
impact on HRM decision making and application of different HRM practices in a work related
context.
TASK 1
P1 Purpose and function of HRM.
Human resource manager of Tesco use to create effective polices and plans that help to
identify the need of customer visiting company. They also focus to develop the strategies that
will benefited for company to sustain long term financial sustainability in long term. HR
manager are basically assigned in company for important purposes and perform different
function, some of these are explained below:
Purpose of HRM:
 Effective use of workforce: In companies, like Tesco there is need for proper
management of human resources in order to get best possible outcome in the favour of
company. In case if work force is not managed then productivity of company may reduce
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resulting in decrease of profit. (Renwick, Redman and Maguire, 2013). So HR manager
of Tesco use to keep detail information about overall performance of each human
resource working in company. They use to make effective plan and provide them time to
time training so that productivity and performance of company can be increased. They
prepare several benefits policies for manager, employees and other staff member so that
reason they get motivated and give their best performance.
 Law: It is very important for company to execute its operation according to the laws and
rules of implemented by government of nation. In Tesco, manager use to make sure that
all the relevant business activities are performed according to the laws implemented by
government of UK. HR manager use to make sure that all activities performed within
Tesco, are according to laws implemented by UK government.
Function of Human resources manager:
 Planning: Effective planning help in future attainment of goals and improve the
performance of company. HR Manager of Tesco, use to make plans and polices for
entire company that support in future growth and development. This would result in
profit maximisation for company.
 Recruitment: This is consider to be most important function of HR as they have to
recruit the best candidate for their company. They have to make decision relating the
allotment of work according to the skills and knowledge of person for desired post.
 Staffing: Human resource manager of Tesco wants best employee for their job role so
they ensure that best employee must be staffed on particular job. This would help
company to generate huge profit and better execution of work.
M1 Function of HRM to provide skills and talent for company.
Every company,wants skilled and talented workforce who work with entire potential to
accomplish the overall objective of company (Kehoe and Wright, 2013). Human resources
manager of Tesco perform different function such as recruitment, selection, staffing etc. They
have to hire the best candidate for company on the basic of skill set, education level and
experience that will be assistance for company to achieve goals for future. Manager then select
the best employee for the desired post in company to attain the business objective. They also use
to improve the skill and talent of existing staff member by providing different training and
development program.
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P2. Strength and Weaknesses of different methods to recruitments and selection process.
In today's world, every organisation wants professional staff member that will give best
result for company. Therefore they use to recruit best employees for their company through
different sources. Recruitment is defined as the process of choosing the best applicant form the
various option for company (Recruitment and selection processm, 2017). HR manager have to be
loyal, judgemental at this stage of selecting best employee. And selection is the process of
making choice from the hired applicant on a particular job role. They select an individual on the
basis of knowledge, skills and the toughness of particular job.
Recruitment: There are basically two method of making recruitment for a desired job role
within a company. HR manager of Tesco, use to both internal and external method of hiring staff
member. These are discussed below:
Internal sources: Manager of company use this process of recruitment to hire best
person for a particular job from the organisation self. They use to examine and record the
performance of each worker working within Tesco and complete their hiring process. Worker
also work with full potential in order to get being promoted and appointed for new job. Human
resource manager use to make new plans and polices for the internally selected staff member
such as salary increase, incentive etc. There are different strength and weakness of Internal
source that are discussed below:
Strength:
 HR increase morale of worker by promoting them according to their work performance
that support in completion of business activity.
 This is consider to be effective process of recruiting a staff member as it reduce the cost
and time for company.
Weaknesses
 There are main disadvantage is that favourite employee got promoted.
 HR do not have more option or they are not able to hire fresh and talented people (Jiang
and et. al., 2012).
External process: In business world, hiring of employee for different job role for
company from different sources outside the company is known as external process of recruitment
etc. Human resource manager use to visit college, university, post advertisements etc. to collect
number of applicant (Huselid and Becker, 2011). Then they select the best from the available
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option. HR of Tesco use external process to recruit best employee that help to achieve basic
objective. Some strength an weakness of external sources are:
Strength:
 With the support of external method of recruitment company have new and talented staff
member.
 As new employees in company bring new ideas for performing task and improving
productivity of company.
Weaknesses:
 It require huge cost, time and lengthy process of Recruitment.
 This also increase the chance of conflicts as many time selected employee do not
cooperate with other team member.
Selection: It is observed that HR manager of Tesco uses various method of selecting a perfect
employee for the desired post. Some of these are discussed below:
Online screening: Company in order to select the best employee makes job portal so that
best person is selected for particular job role. HR manager of Tesco receive different online
application for job posted on their online portal than they use to select the eligible candidate.
Some strength and weaknesses are discussed below:
Strength:
 They make use of different online software to post advertisements of various job offer
and gather useful information about applicant.
 This process is helpful for company as it reduce the cost.
Weakness
 This process is time consuming as HR requires more time to examine the right prospect.
 Responsible person must have proper knowledge about the process of selection.
D1 Different approaches to achieve the goals of company.
Manager of Tesco requires skilled and professional employees that help in formation of
better company, completion of various task and accomplish of objective. Manager use several
approaches of selection and recruitment that will provide skill full worker for company and
support to accomplish predefined goals (Hendry, 2012). For company different recruitment
process are used such as internal and external sources that help in achieving the overall objective
of company. Tesco is a multinational company so manage and execute different task they require
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professional staff member. Therefore they develop online job portal so that large number of
applicant can apply for job. From these job they hire the best and make them work to attain the
yearly objective. But there is a need for bring change in salary package, benefit scheme for the
new hired staff member. This make them motivated and help to increase the goals of company.
TASK 2
P3 Benefit of different HRM practices to employees and employer.
To manage people's performance effectively, HRM is used by the Tesco. Its objective is
to motivate, develop and manage the employees in the best possible way. The good HRM
practices are instrumental in achieving objective and enhancing productivity. It involves the
practices used by both employee and employer and automated systems to manage people. Some
of the examples of HRM practices are performance management, training, hiring, payroll, firing
and administration of employee benefit (Han, Chiang and Chang, 2010). In case of lack of
organisational coordination through HRM practices, managing personnel is cumbersome, which
can leave employee feeling dissatisfied and wanting to work for more organized firm. Some of
the HRM practices that provide benefit to both employee and employer of Tesco are as follows: Promoting positive behaviour: As a successful organisation, Tesco creates working
environment of the company positive through HRM practices and it helps in keeping
employee happy, productive and job satisfied. HRM practices will reinforce and reward
the desired employee behaviour. These managing employee's aspects are used to fit the
Tesco culture and confirm to employment standards and laws. Developing employees: Employees are satisfied and are encouraged in contributing to a
company's intellectual assets through HRM practices. Increased skills and knowledge of
the employees provide Tesco business competitive advantage. The effective organisation
will capitalise this positive effect of HRM by helping employee. Building a flexible workplace: HRM practices reflects moving demographics in the
workplace. Employees of current new century will always expect different conditions
than the employees of earlier centuries. There are different kind of employees and
workers in the Tesco, like new, older, disable and part time. Due to effect of HRM,
flexible workplace are allotted to the employees and workers which are related to
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employer flexibility. In flexible workplace of Tesco, employees and workers can
customize aspects of their job in the organisation as per their lifestyle (Flamholtz, 2012).
 Motivating Employees: Employees benefits must be maximised by the managers. That's
why Tesco tend to promote or hire managers who manage employees effectively. HRM
practices implemented by successful manager are used to help employees to increase
feeling of being competent about their position in the Tesco and positively impacting the
company. Employees will feel more motivated under positive managers.
P4. Effectiveness of different HRM practices that help to grow profit.
In present world, HR of every company weather small or big have to perform certain
importance function so that management of activities can be done in effective manner. They
have to make sure that all activity of company must be executed in proper way that will assist in
achievement of business objective and goals. Different practice of HR manager help to generate
profit for company and make them effective to sustain in long run. These practice are performed
by Human resource manager of Tesco, so that equal benefit could be given to employees and
other employer. They focus to uplift the benefit of worker and employer so that their
performance can be increased (Guest, 2011). Therefore manager of Tesco, make effective plans
that will be helpful in raising the annual profit and increasing the productivity. Some of the HRM
practices that are discussed above that help in increasing the productivity and profitability of
business are discussed below:
 Planning for change: First manager use to make effective plans and policies that will
add benefit to company. The HR manager plays a crucial role that bring stability in
company operation so that productivity can be increased. For example, HR manager of
Tesco guide production department to control their expenses in order to improve profit
and increase the market share. The change the old polices of production and update their
techniques so that effectiveness in operation can be bring.
 Recruitment: Manager of company plays this important practice in order to hire best
employees for particular job role (Farndale, Scullion and Sparrow, 2010). They use to
follow the HR policy for appointing the best candidate on a particular job role. For
example, manager of Tesco use to recruit the eligible applicants that is qualified,
professional, skilled etc. for specific job. There are different relevant policies for selected
team member such as wages, incentive and compensation. When employees get these
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benefit then they work with full potential to give best result for company. This help Tesco
to achieve the business objective and increase the profitability during an accounting year.
 Promote positive behaviour: As discussed above this practice of HR manager use to
helps in maintaining positive and ethical culture within company. That further support to
improve the performance of both employees and employer. Thus as a result it will
defiantly help to increase the profit of company and improve the productivity of various
business activities. For example, HR manager use to promote positive behaviour in Tesco
by giving additional benefit for work performed by employer and worker. As additional
benefit are provide to each member of company would help in improvement of doing a
task in effective manner. This would give better result to Tesco by increasing profit for
year.
M3 Different methods used in HRM Practices.
There are different method that are being performed by HR manger of Tesco, that will be
supportive in arrangement of resources and controlling of various business operation. Some of
the HRM practice are discussed below:
Recruitment: This method is related to hiring of best candidate for different job within
company. For example, Tesco has posted a advertisement for the job opening of store manager
on their online portal. In response large number of applicant applied for the same. From which
manager select some applicant for interview and ask to appear on a particular date. Now the
manager have to make choice from the available applicant and hire the best employee on job role
of store manager.
Training: It is observed that with effective training HRM are use to develop skills in
employees so that business activity are performed well (CHUANG and Liao, 2010). For
example, manager are use to develop effective training programs and education seminar that help
to bring effectiveness in their way of doing following activity. This help to increase the
performance of company and increase the productivity and profitability.
D2 Evaluation of HRM practices within an organisational practices.
Different practices of HRM are helpful in achieving the predetermined objective of
company. These practices such as promoting of positive behaviour and planning for change that
help to improve the performance of each worker of Tesco. For example, HR manger of Tesco
launching new outlet in India so they need to develop a healthy, cultural and ethical environment
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according to the need of worker so that they perform their work in better manner and attain the
overall goals.
TASK 3
P5. Importance of employees relations that influence HRM decision making
Employees are valuable assets for the company and every company wants to grow their
strength in order to operate their business operations effectively and efficiently. This is very
important for organisation to build a better relation with employees (Buller and McEvoy, 2012).
The motivated employees enables organisation to achieve their goals effectively and efficiently.
As if working environment of Tesco is not good than it can lead to decrease in efficiency of
employees. The manager of Tesco always tries to build better and effective relation with the
employees so that they serve the company for long period of time. The employees directly affect
profitability of business. An improved performance of employees leads to higher profitability for
business and vice versa. There are some significance of employee connection which are needed
in order to form the adequate judgement. These are discussed as below:
Employee engagement in business activities:
These relations will enable the company to achieve their goals effectively. As the
employee engagement in the business activities leads to increase in profitability of business.
Effective communication and better coordination is one way to enhance employee engagement in
business. As human resource of Tesco needs to come up with the some incentive schemes in
order to motivate the employees so that employee can be engaged more in business activities and
goals of organisation can be achieved. With effective business management and employee
engagement help HRM to take valuable decision in different situation (Bloom and Van Reenen,
2011).
Better communication:
Communication is an important tool for human resource management in order to develop
the effective relation with employees. As it is important to have the effective communication
among higher authority and employees so information can be circulated easily. The managers of
Tesco are obliged to maintain an effective network so the important message can be delivered to
the employees. The communication is very helpful in the resolving conflicts and issues which are
faced by employees at workplace. As the timely resolving the issues of employees motivate them
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to give their best effort. Communication between employees and management helps company to
get the new ideas from employees in order to expand the business. So better communication help
to have viewpoint and thoughts of other team member and enable HR manager to take valuable
decision so that benefit to company can be provided.
P6 Key elements of employment legislation and their impact on HRM decision making
Employment legislation are laws and policies with respect to employment and these are
governed by the government. These are formed to prevent the unfair practices in the
organisation. The main purpose of legislation is to smooth business operation within Tesco. The
human resource of company needs to analyse and evaluate these laws in order to formulate
strategy for organisation (Bamberger, Biron and Meshoulam, 2014.). The legislation binds the
organisation to follow ethical practices. As non following of laws and legislation can leads to
huge penalties on the company. There are different laws which are defined below:
Equality Act, 2010:
Equality Act states that there should not be any kind of partiality among the employees
within organisation in order to perform the work effectively. Now days people are facing the
inequality on the basis of their caste, gender and religion so this act enables organisation to
allocate the work according to talent rather than any other element. This act promotes the equal
opportunity to each and every individual. As human resource of Tesco needs to make decision in
accordance with law as non following of these laws can make impact on their decision. For
example, Tesco has come up with new bonus scheme for the male employees of company so the
according to this act company have to introduce the for all employees irrespective of male
employees.
Data protection:
The data protection act enables the company to protect their important data which is
received form various sources. As today's technological world the data are stored at cloud and
these can be hacked and used by people for the different purpose. The Tesco is multinational
retailer and one can misuse this data. So data protection allows organisation to protect their data
and store it at safe place. These stored data are very useful for the manager of company in order
to make valuable decision (Armstrong, 2011).
Health and safety act, 1974:
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