Leading and Managing People: HRM Challenges and Planning at TESCO

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of human resource management (HRM) practices within TESCO, a multinational company. It begins by identifying the HRM challenges TESCO faces, such as compliance with laws, adapting to innovation, and recruiting talented employees. The report then outlines TESCO's human resource planning process, including objective determination, manpower analysis, forecasting, gap analysis, employment planning, and training and development. It further examines how TESCO promotes staff welfare through training, incentive programs, team building, and social activities. The report also details TESCO's employee development strategies, such as training, performance feedback, and task delegation. Finally, it explores the individual responsibilities in developing one's skills, including personal development planning and reading articles. The report concludes by emphasizing the crucial role of HRM in employee development and overall organizational success.

Leading and Managing
People

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
a. Identify the human resource challenges/obstacles facing your organisation..........................3
b. Identify the human resource planning process in your chosen organisation and how it meets
organisation objectives. ..............................................................................................................4
c. How is the organisation promoting staff welfare?..................................................................5
d. How is the organisation currently developing their employees?............................................6
e. What are the individual’s responsibilities in developing their own skills?.............................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Leading and Managing is explained as the process of giving direction or vision to the
group of people for the purpose of attaining the specific goal within the given time period. It is
necessary in any of the organisation because it helps to provide necessary information to
employees so that they can work in systematic manner. For this respective task, the chosen
company is TESCO which is a multinational company performing its business activity in
different part of the world. The company was commenced in the year 1919 by Jack Cohen.
Various topics which will be discussed in this respective file will be related with human resource
challenges being faced by the company and different planning process adopted by the company.
In addition, this file will explain that how company is promoting staff welfare and in the ending
section responsibilities will be explained which are required for developing own skills.
MAIN BODY
a. Identify the human resource challenges/obstacles facing your organisation.
Human Resource Management is explained as the management process where major
concern is related with hiring, motivating and even maintaining workforce within the company.
HRM department plays the most significant role within the company as it is directly concern
with giving training to the employees working within the premisses of a company (Iles, 2017). In
context of TESCO Plc, they are one of the leading multinational business performing in different
part of the world. HR department can play the crucial role in their success for long period of
time but still their some of the challenges which are being faced by this respective organisation
and they are explained below in detail:
 Compliances with Laws and Regulations: In present scenario, it is very necessary for
business organisation to follow the legal compliances because they directly helps to take
business decision on daily basis through which goals can be accomplished easily. While
talking about TECSO Plc, their HRM team is unable to follow the rule and regulations
which they need to follow and it has been creating lots of issues for them on regular
basis. In addition, they are unable to adopt the political changes while expanding the
business to new place.
 Adopting to Innovation: Everyday technologies changes on regular basis where it is
necessary that company must adopt those changes for attaining the better result. In

context of TESCO Plc, their HR department is unable to adopt the changes which are
required for the company to attain the success and it is becoming one of the major
obstacles which company is facing in current situation.
 Recruiting Talented Employees: In any of the business organisation, it is necessary that
deserving candidate should be selected for the company (10 of Today’s Common Human
Resource Challenges, 2019). While talking about TESCO, HR team is being biased in
number of cases due to which the deserving candidate are not being recruited. It is also
one of the reason that company has to suffer at number of occasion as those selected
candidate do not have the right skills and talent to tackle with problem.
These are some of the obstacles which are being faced by the Human Resource
Management of a company and it is necessary that company must try to come up with some of
the changes if they want to sustain within the market for longer period of time.
b. Identify the human resource planning process in your chosen organisation and how it meets
organisation objectives.
It is necessary for every business organisation that human resource department must do
proper planning in a systematic manner before taking any of the decision. It can help them to
accomplish the goals which company want to attain within the specific time period. Below,
human resource planning process of TESCO has been explained.
 Determine the objective Of Human Resource Planning: The primary step which is
needed to be followed by the HR department of TESCO is find out the objectives of
company for which they are working.
 Analysing Current Manpower Inventory: Once objectives are prepared by the TESCO
Plc, it becomes important for HR department to find manpower available in the company.
They will required to determine about the manpower who have experience, skills and
proficiency to achieve the target on given time period (Cowne and et. al., 2018).
 Forecasting Demand and Supply of Human Resources: The third step is to determine
that demand required the employees to company and to check whether supply can be
done or not with the help of available resources.
 Analysing the Manpower Gap: In this respective step, the HR department of TESCO is
required to understand that gap between demand and supply should not be there because

it might create issues for company in accomplishing the goals in specific time period and
even in some of the cases losses may arise.
 Employment Plan: This respective planning process express that HR department of
TESCO will need to hire new employees in case deficit and in case of surplus they must
be able to make voluntary retirement of employees or transferring them to new place.
 Training and Development: It becomes crucial for the business organisation TESCO to
give training to their employees who are new and even to them who lack various skills
and knowledge.
All of this planning process will be helpful for the company to meet out its objective
because it will help to employees that what they are required to do and what should not be done
in any of the condition (Smits and Bowden, 2015). Even, there will higher possibility that HR
department will not allow to incur unnecessary expenses of a company due to which profit
margin will automatically increase.
c. How is the organisation promoting staff welfare?
It is necessary for each and every company that they must think about staff welfare
because that allows employees to connect with business organisation for longer period of time. If
in any of the situation company fails to do so then number of problem might arises which can
lead to financial loss for the firm (Walker, 2018). By looking at this, TESCO Plc have been
working since very long period of time so that their employees can be sustained for longer period
of time. There are some of the organisation promoting staff welfare being followed in TESCO
and they are explained below:
 In this respective stage, the HR team of TESCO Plc is giving suitable training to each and
every employees so that working condition becomes easy for them to operate.
 They have made different incentives program for employees which allow employees to
work more hardly to attain those target through which they can earn various types of
incentives.
 HR department of a company has made the number of groups within the company where
they will work together which allows to perform task in best possible manner and even
communication process automatically improves in it.

 Social activities are also one of the way which has been planned by the HR department of
TESCO because it gives freedom to employees to make their mind stable towards the
work (Ellis, 2018).
d. How is the organisation currently developing their employees?
In present scenario, it is necessary that employees must be developed systematically so
that they can perform their task smoothly. The duty to develop any of the employees is in the
hand of Human Resource Management because they confirms that how employees is going to
perform for obtaining the goals of a company. In context of TESCO Plc, HR department has the
huge role and responsibilities because that will allow them to determine that whether company
will attain its desire outcomes or not. Some of the ways which they uses to develop their
employees are explained below:
 Training and Development: It is one of the most essential thing which is needed to be
delivered to the employees of a company because it will allow them to determine that
how any of the work is needed to be done in specific manner. The HR department of
TESCO manages each and every activity through which they can provide the suitable
training to their employees. It is been one of the best way has been adopted by company
to develop their employees.
 Measure Performance and Give Regular Feedback: Employee's can be easily judges
on the basis of performance which they perform within the premisses of a company but
after judging the performance feedback is necessary to be given so that improvement can
be done (Hughes and et. al., 2019). While talking about TESCO Plc, their manage judge
the performance of every individual and on that basis they give them necessary feedback
so that they can easily enhance their performance for attaining the goals of a company.
 Delegation of task into group: It is crucial for every business organisation to divide the
work on the basis of group as it will help to enhance the performance of every individual.
In terms of TESCO Plc, they make number of teams where multiple number skills are
available in employees due to which it becomes easy to complete any of the task on time
and even it helps many employees to gain knowledge through which their skills can be
enhanced.
These are some of the practices which are being followed by the HR department of
TESCO Plc through which performance of employees can be improved in best possible manner.

e. What are the individual’s responsibilities in developing their own skills?
It is necessary for every individual that they must improve their skills by because that is
only one of the way through which they can attain personal milestones. Whenever an of the
individual carry multiple number of skills then they get the extra edge to get success in short
time period. While enhancing the skill, it is necessary for any of the individual to find that what
are their current skills and where they want to reach after certain period of time. Some of the
responsibilities of individual for developing the own skills are explained below:
Personal Development Plan: It is crucial for every individual to prepare personal
development plan which helps individual to set the target (Ntui, 2017). This target will give them
the idea that what are those essential things which are needed to be added on so that target can be
achieved related to improving the skills.
Reading Articles: It is also one of the way through which any of the individual can
enhance their performance and skills. It is because they will get the chance to explore number of
field and even they will get the option to take suitable decision afterwords.
These are some of the ways which can be adopted by any of the individual for the
purpose of enhancing their skills and knowledge. In addition, it will help to attain personal
milestone as well as goals of a company.

CONCLUSION
From the above file it can be easily concluded easily the Human Resource Management
plays the crucial in the development of every employees. It is necessary for any of the HR
manager to find out the challenges that company is facing so that they can find the appropriate
way to overcome from the problems. Company can easily enhance their performance if they are
able to proper planning and plotting because that gives the idea about the essential things which
are required for achieving the targets. It is only possible for any of the company to attain the
goals if they are able to provide different kinds of training program to their employees.

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Cowne, E. and et. al., 2018. The SENCo Handbook: Leading and managing a whole school
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Smits, S. J. and Bowden, D. E., 2015. A perspective on leading and managing organizational
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Ellis, T., 2018. Leading and Managing Professional Services Firms in the Infrastructure Sector.
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Hughes, C. and et. al., 2019. Prelims', Managing Technology and Middle-and Low-skilled
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