Analysis of HRM Functions, Practices, and Employee Relations at Tesco

This report analyzes Human Resource Management (HRM) practices within Tesco, a major grocery retailer. It begins with an introduction to HRM, its functions, and objectives, followed by an examination of recruitment and selection approaches, including their strengths and weaknesses. The report then delves into various HRM practices such as job analysis, training and development, performance management, industrial relations, and compensation systems, highlighting their benefits for both employers and employees. Furthermore, it evaluates the role of these practices in enhancing organizational effectiveness. The report also explores the significance of employee relations and relevant legislation in shaping decision-making processes within the company. Finally, it discusses how different aspects influence employee relations and employment legislation, evaluating the overall applicability of employee relations within the context of Tesco's operations. The report concludes with references to support the analysis.

HUMAN RESOURCES
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
lINTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................................................3
lACTIVITY 1...................................................................................................................................................3
lObjective and various function of HRM..................................................................................................3
lDurability and weakness of various approaches that will be related recruitment and selection ..........4
lACTIVITY 2 ..................................................................................................................................................5
lHRM practices their benefits to employers & employees and evaluation of role of these practices.........5
lACTIVITY 3 ..................................................................................................................................................9
lEmployee relation significance that will impact decision making process in the company ...................9
lDifferent key legislation that will affect HRM decision making............................................................10
lVarious aspect that will affect employee relation and employment legislation ..................................11
lEvaluation of employee relations and its applicability .........................................................................11
lREFERENCES..............................................................................................................................................13
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l壱INTRODUCTION
Human resource management refer to the term that will include various activities that
includes performance management, staffing and various approaches that help in gaining
different aspect of the company. (Arulrajah, Opatha and Nawaratne, 2015).
Study is based upon Tesco Company. Company is the largest retailer of grocery item
founded by Jack Cohen in 1919 at united kingdom.
Study is basically emphasized on functions and purpose that will be associated with
HRM and its applicability in organization. Mainly emphasized on various practices that will be
organized in the company that will be helpful for both owner and employee. Furthermore, it
includes different practices that help in improving effectiveness and efficiency of the company.
In an organization employee relation plays an important role and beneficial for company in near
future. Ddifferent methods are used by human resource management by motivating them to do
work. Key legislation will be applicable while doing business in other country that will affect
decision making process.
l弐ACTIVITY 1
l弐Objective and various function of HRM
Tesco need to adopt different strategies useful for company in future. Through different
activities it becomes easy to achieve competitive advantage in the company. It concentrates on
internal sources that help in providing different aspects of Tesco (Ranjan, 2017). It helps in
aligning human resource practices that will increase efficiency and effectiveness of employees
that helps in creating different aspects in the company. Also responsible for managing change in
the business that helps company for their smooth running in the future. . Necessary for business
to make changes that will be creating different aspects in Tesco. Staffing and training crucial
role in providing different values as it is helpful in given to employees in the company.

As it is considered to be different levels of management that will be run by human
resource department and providing various aspects that helps in attracting employees towards
Tesco. It is essential for providing different perspective which enhance gaining knowledge
regarding environment of company. As HR department is the pillar of Tesco as it helps in
maintain all the activities of company for managing various perspectives in near future for
development of the company. Involved in employee relations that will be providing different
aspects that helps in gaining different aspects in creating various sources for the future. It is
important for Tesco to manage different activities that helps company for earning more profit.
There are different functions of HRM such as planning, organizing, directing and controlling.
Planning is an essential element that will be creating different perspective as it is
necessary to plan for the business that helps in developing various opportunities in future. As
without proper planning company’s operation will not work properly enhance in gaining
knowledge and attracting various aspects of the company. It is important to do planning in
advance that will be beneficial in future (Martin-Rios, Pougnet and Nogareda, 2017. As there are
various perspective providing to employees in company. Organizing is another function that will
be performed by human resource department for providing various activities. It needs to develop
different plans and programs that will be conducted by the company in future. Another function
is directing to provide different plans for future courses that helps development of Tesco. As it
is important to direct employees in the company otherwise they are not be able to work properly.
Direction are important for employees while working in the company as there are various
activities for providing different ways to bring employees together and get work done in the
future. Controlling is another function that will be providing various facilities to employees as
there are different segments that will be affected by human resource management. HRM plays an
important role in the success of the organization. Fulfillment of HRM activities helps business to
develop their market and gain large number competitive advantage. Helps company to attract
employees towards the organization for the fulfillment of organization goals. HR department of
company is responsible for management of human resource available at work place. HRM works
with the objective to develop company at large and helps business to achieve their goals.

l壱Durability and weakness of various approaches that will be related recruitment and selection
It is the method responsible for hiring employees in company for their future growth.
There are different segments for improving planning process in company. Various strength are
provided in the company for future as different segments that are strength of recruitment and
selection. Important for company to select talented employees that helps in improving efficiency
as it is important to note that different perspective is being followed for doing business. It is the
process of relocating that will be providing different facilities as it is creating various segments
that affect various course of action. As recruitment is the process that handles various activities
in company.
Recruitment is the process of gaining different aspects that structured in a business to get
involved in various aspects which create different perspective in near future (Belizón, Morley
and Gunnigle, 2016). There are different segments that helps in involving various aspects that
applied in different activities as according to various segments those are involved in providing
different person have different perspective. There are different approaches that helps in
providing approaches for creating various segments that will creating different segments that
helps in bringing different sections for achieving future course of actions. There are different
perspective gaining more knowledge for future development of company. Important to gain
various segments those are beneficial for the company. Important to see all rules and regulations
provided for different purpose as recruitment is important part of company. There are various
segments bring helpful and different perspective be carrying out as various purpose is being
followed for the future.
As various sources will be used for analyzing and increasing efficiency for the purpose in
creating employees so that it facilitate as different segments are developed in creating future of
the company. Different perspective are available to bring changes in the Tesco. As recruitment
helps in bringing various perspectives that helps employees for growing in near future as there
are various segments in recruitment that are provided to employees in the future. As selection is
another practices that provides different segments in creating various aspects that helps for the
future course of action. Selection is not given proper chance that will be various aspects as
different segments that will bring efficiency and productivity as different sections that is
providing in near future (Sanders and Yang, 2016). There are different selection and recruitment

process for better selection of employee that will be creating various perspective in the
company. Recruitment and selection both needs to be done similarly as selection means selecting
employees on the basis of their abilities and skills.. Recruitment means provide job to employees
on the basis their qualities.
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l壱HRM practices their benefits to employers & employees and evaluation of role of these
practices
HUMAN RESOURCES PRACTICES
Human resource practices refer to the procedures or methods for doing or conducting
human resources activities. It is considered to be a part of strategy of the organization. It helps
an organization to do their activities in a corrective framework. It is necessary for the
organization to adopt the particular hr practices in order to create a good working environment.
DIFFERENT TYPES OF HUMAN RESOURCES PRACTICES
There are various HR practices which has been adopted by the Tesco. These practices are
as follows –
Job Analysis
Job analysis is a process of collecting and analyzing the requirements of employees
according to the need of job. These can be done through job description and person
specification. Job analysis helps business to gather information about the skills required for the
completion of job and assign task to employees on the basis of their skills.
Training and Development( T&D)
T & D is a practice provided by the company to their employees for acquiring and
gaining required skills, knowledge and capabilities to do their work effectively (Noe and et.al.,

2017). Training of employees is required for the smooth working of the business. Training helps
employees to develop their skills which leads to achievement of the goals of organization.
Recruitment and Selection( R&S)
R & S is a practice done by organization to notify the pool of candidates and choose the
suitable and talented candidates out of pool of candidates for fulfilling the vacancy in the firm.
Selection of employees is done on the basis of their skills and abilities. Company hire employees
with the ability to cope up with companies technology.
Performance Management
Performance management refers to the practice carried by the organization for the
purpose to evaluate and review the performance of the employees and give them feedback in
order to improve their performance. Performance management is required for the organization to
develop at a large scale helps company to track the work done by employees and provide them
information about their work and try to improve their performance.
Industrial Relations
Industrial relations refer to the employee relations which are related to the practices done
by the business to retain employees for long time and build a good relationship between every
staffs of the organization. Building an effective relation with the employees helps company gain
the trust of their employees. Familiarize the employees with work environment helps to increase
the efficiency of employees.
Compensation and Rewards System
Compensation and rewards system refers to the practice which is adopting by company
for the purpose of motivating and satisfying the needs of employees. It is also done by the
company to retain them in the organization for longer time. Rewards are provided to employees
on the basis of their work. Rewards helps to engage employees more effectively with goals of
organization.
THEIR BENEFITS TO THE EMPLOYEES

HRM PRACTICESBENEFITS TO THE EMPLOYEES OF TESCO
Training and Development It helps workers to acquire the skills and knowledge which will
enhance their productivity and efficiency.
It helps employees to update with new technologies which improve their opportunities for the
career (Cascio, 2015).Job AnalysisIt helps employees to do self improvements in required areas
in order to perform their roles and responsibilities accordingly.
It also helps employees to analysis his career progression which is considered to be benefits for
the growth of the career. Recruitment and Selection helps in creating employee brand image
which lead employees to get better work opportunities. Selecting for a job increases the
motivation in an employee. Recruitment helps them to engage them with the work environment
of the organization.
It boosts the confidence level of the employees which affect their performance positively and
increase their productivity. Performance Management helps employees to understand their roles,
responsibilities, duties clearly which improve their working style and working efficiency.
It helps employees to gain support and guidance from their managers or employers which
motivate them to do their work properly. Performance management means to analyze the
development in an organization. Industrial Relations helps employees to secure their job and
salary which lead them to be satisfied with their organization.
It helps employees to create good working environment in their organization because they have
good relationships with another staffs of the company. Developing a strong relation helps
company to build trust in the minds of the employees and helps companies to achieve their
goals. Compensation and Rewards System helps employees to be motivated for better
performance in the future which lead to improvement in their performance standards.
It helps employees to be satisfied which lead to efficient employees. This will help them to
improve their productivity and enhance their career growth (Bratton and Gold, 2017). Rewards
motivate employees towards the work. Company needs to compensate employees on the basis of
their abilities.
THEIR BENEFITS TO THE EMPLOYERS

HRM PRACTICESBENEFITS TO THE EMPLOYERS OF TESCOTraining and
Development It helps employers of the company to focus on other important things due to get
experienced employees at the workplace.
It helps employers to reduce the work pressure in the organization. Job Analysis helps employers
to get required skilled and capable employees which improve the employer brand image of the
enterprise.
It helps employers to decide the appropriate salary packages of particular job carried out in the
organization. Job analysis helps company to assign responsibilities to the employees easily.
Recruitment and Selection helps employers to get right employees for the right job which helps
in improving the productivity of the organization which in turn enhance the profitability.
It helps employers to get pool of candidates which is beneficial for the organization to get
suitable employees (Noe and et.al., 2015). Performance Management It helps employers to
understand the reason behind the skills gap existed in the organization which helps in
improvement in the organizational performance.
It helps employers to get to know about the employees’ performance standards and accordingly
provide training which reduce the time and efforts of the employers towards all the employees.
Industrial Relations It helps employers not to worry about the employees’ turnover rates as
strong industrial relations helps in employees to become satisfy with the company.
It helps employers to build healthy relationships with employees and another staffs which
improve their network. Relation helps in development of strong working environment in an
organization. Compensation and Rewards System helps employers to motivate their employees
which lead to improvement in the productivity of organization.
It helps employers to get to know about the low performance and high performance employees.
(DeCenzo, Robbins and Verhulst, 2016). Rewards to employees helps companies to achieve
their goals effectively.
ROLE OF HRM PRACTICES IN ORGANIZATIONAL PROFITS AND
PRODUCTIVITY
There are various HR practices which has been adopted by the Sainsbury’s company for
the purpose of getting the right employees at the right time for the right job in an organization so
that company can retain them by offering him various incentives and another employees’

benefits. This HR practices helps company to improve their employees performances which
impact the organizational performance overall positively. HR practices helps company to
understand needs and wants of the employees which is fulfilling by the company for the purpose
of motivating them, retaining them for long time and improving their performance. Overall it
will increase their productivity. Overall organizational productivity will also increase which will
improve the working environment and efficiency of the organization. Thus, it will lead to
profitability and revenue generation due to attainment of the organizational goals and objectives
by the Sainsbury’s (Bratton and Gold, 2017). HRM practices plays an important role in
overall development of employees in organization. HRM helps business to develop
at large scale and provide new strategies for the development of the business.
l弐ACTIVITY 3
l弐Employee relation significance that will impact decision making process in the company
Building good relation will be able to bring efficiency between workers to providing
different perspective for creating various aspects as it is important for future of the company. It
is important in maintain relation in company for increasing different perspective in the future
(Plaskoff, 2017). There are different segments that helps company to develop their future.
Providing employees to bring different context for the company in bringing different activities
that helps company for development of strategies as it is important for company in their smooth
working in near future. It enhances productivity and profitability of employees as it will
creating different perspective in providing segments to bring various perspective for future.
These relations will be required for getting more involved to create human satisfaction between
employees as they are doing productive work for development of future for the company. It is
necessary in providing different thing that helps to gain different context as it is important to
gain various context that creates future for the company.
It is important to create different things as it is important in providing different segments that
creates for the future achievements.. Important to provide different segments for changes in the
company Employee relation will provide different aspects as it plays an important role in
creating different segments helpful for future course of action. As its important in providing

different segments gaining segments that helps in creating different behavior for future growth
in a company. Employees of different segments helps maintaining employee relations as it is
important for the future course that will be helpful and important for company by providing
various aspects that bring different segments for the future. There are different segments are
available that helps in creating various aspects for the growth of the company.
Employee relation helps in creating efficient use of resources to gain different
perspective by providing various aspects for the company. Gaining different segments as it is
important for the future (Siyambalapitiya, Zhang and Liu, 2018). It helps for future course of
action that will help in getting various aspects in bringing efficient work together that is
important for the future course of action. Different segments are available that helps in getting
involved that will be providing different facilities are provided to employees. Facilities provided
to employees as it is important for gaining different perspective for the future. Several issues are
arising in the company so it is important for the company to get involved in various aspects as
there are different perspectives that will help in taking decision in the company.
Work becomes easy if workers relation are important that creates different aspect that
bring efficiency in company. Different segments creating various perspective that helps for the
future as there are different segments important in building employee relation. Therefore, it is
necessary for building employee relation that helps for taking decision in the company.
l壱Different key legislation that will affect HRM decision making
Health and safety act:- Act describes that proper health and safety will be provided to
employees that will be provided so that it will be helpful for them to feel secure and safe in the
company that be beneficial for the company that will be provided to employees as there are
different perspective helpful for the future course of action. Various perspectives are creating
various segments that are important and helpful for the future course of action. Safety is
important for employees as it will be helpful for employees and it will also help employees that
will be employing as it is important that will be helpful for the future.
Equality Act:- This act emphasize that employees are treated equally in Tesco. It is necessary
for providing different perspective that will provide equal opportunity for employees as there are

different sectors that provides work to develop the future of company. There are various
segments are helpful in providing various aspects that provides different conditions for future. It
is important in maintaining balance between employees that creates different aspects that helps
in providing different aspect as treating them equally help in providing different perspective for
the future of the business. Equality is the first thing that provides different segments as there are
various segments that bring harmony for the future as different companies have their different
policies that are applicable on different business as it is necessary to bring equality between
employees that are working in Tesco. As there are various aspect that leads to create different
perspective it plays an important role in providing various segments. It is important in
providing various aspect for the future course of action. Important in gaining various segments
that bring different perspective to gain knowledge for future (Haddock-Millar, Sanyal and
Müller-Camen, 2016). It is necessary in providing different activities it is important to note
down various legislation as it is necessary to gain various aspect of the company. Different
employees are working will be important for company as there are different segments that
provides various segments as it is necessary in providing aspects. Important in gaining different
perspective for the future. Important in gaining equality that helps in providing different work to
employees. Different laws are available that employees of company. Equality enhance
productivity and profitability (Obeidat, 2016). Different segments that gain various challenges
for accepting challenges as there are different changes that brings efficiency in the company for
doing business at large area provides to employees of company that will be beneficial for the
future course of action. It is important to gain different segments as there are various aspects
that will bring new problems in company. It is important in providing various challenges that
provided to the employees of company.
l弐Various aspect that will affect employee relation and employment legislation
It is important maintaining different workers relation it is important in providing
different aspects as it is necessary for providing different segments that will provide various
legislation that helps in maintaining different segments as it is providing aspects that will be
gaining different segments as it is necessary in providing various aspects for the future. It is
important to provide different segments that will be helpful for the future courses of action. It is
providing various aspects that will be help in gaining different perspective for the future. It is