Managing People in Organizations: Tesco Case Study Analysis Report

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of managing people in organizations. It begins with an introduction to the topic, emphasizing the importance of effective people management for organizational success. The report then delves into induction and training programs, highlighting their impact on employee output and performance, using Tesco as a case study. Various management and leadership styles are examined, including autocratic and democratic approaches, with their respective advantages and disadvantages. The influence of organizational structure on company culture is also explored, with a focus on divisional structures. The report concludes with recommendations for improvement, particularly in developing centralized e-learning programs, and provides a list of relevant references.

Managing People in
Organizations

Content Covered
• Introduction
• Induction and Training program leads to greater output
• Management and Leadership Styles
• Organizational Structure influence culture with the Organization
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
A company belonging to any sector, any size or nature is formed by
association of many people who provides leadership, formulate strategies and
provide innovative and creative ideas that assists firm to transform from
mediocrity to great successful venture.

Induction and Training program leads to greater
output
• Induction Program: It can be described as process and support that is been
provided by a firm to its new joiners to make them familiar with company
and its members along with expectations and tasks of the job.
• Training: It can be described as the process of enhancing the core
competencies of new as well as existing employees.

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• Training and development on other hand too greatly contributes in enhancing
employee performance of TESCO. It follows a flexible and structured
approach in its training and development program.

Challenges that are been encountered by firm
during training
• Dispersed Workforce : TESCO being a global brand has an international presence
and thus its workforce is pretty diversified in more than 15 nations across the
world.
• Measures to overcome problem: E-learning can be most suitable and viable
solution to overcome this challenge. It forms one the most innovative, attractive
and understandable way to train geographically dispersed staff by TESCO by
making use of online forums, video conferences etc.

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• Lack of engagement: TESCO being UK's largest retail company have
around 295000 employees that forms one of the biggest challenges for
TESCO during its training process.
• Measures to overcome problem: The best solution to this problem is that
managers of TESCO should properly communicate the importance and
associated benefits that a particular training program will provide to
employees.

Management and Leadership Styles
• Management Style: Management style could be describes as particular
method or way adopted by a manager to successfully deals with its business
environment and to make its employees to do a particular task in a
prescribed manner.
• Leadership Style: Leadership style could be described as the ability of an
individual to inspire and influence its team members to work autonomously
towards attaining one specific objectives by giving best of their efforts.

Different management and leadership styles
Basis Management Style Leadership Style
Autocratic Style This type of management
managers whole and solely
takes all decisions without
involving any subordinates.
Under this style leaders are
having control over all
decisions and they take little
inputs from their team
members.

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Basis Management Style Leadership Style
Democratic Style It is also known as
participative management
style where in managers
encourages followers to get
involve in decision making
process and give their
opinion, suggestions and
ideas.
By applying Democratic
leadership style TESCO
leaders provides
opportunities to its team,
members to openly respond
to a particular subject matter
of fact, to share their ideas
and opinions.

Organizational Structure influence culture with the
Organization
TESCO being a multinational
grocery and general
merchandise selling retail
supermarket chain follows a
divisional organizational
structure having various small
units.

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Advantages of Divisional structured
• Helpful in developing varied skills in divisional head who looks after all
functions and operations.
• It helps in quick decision making as divisional manager is having authority
to take independent decisions at their ends without consulting other
divisional managers.