Evaluating Talent Management Strategies: A Tesco Case Study Project

This project delves into Tesco's talent management strategies, aiming to evaluate their effectiveness in attracting and retaining employees. The project outlines the aims and objectives, including understanding talent management concepts, assessing the impact of Tesco's strategies, identifying challenges, and recommending solutions. It includes a project management plan, a Gantt chart, and a literature review. The research methodology employs a qualitative approach, incorporating questionnaires to gather data on employee perceptions of talent management practices. The findings reveal that talent management strategies are crucial for organizational success, with Tesco experiencing increased productivity, a competitive workforce, and improved retention rates. However, the project also identifies issues such as higher compensation demands and employee turnover, leading to recommendations for improvement, such as implementing 360-degree feedback and effective HRM practices. The project concludes with reflections on the research process and recommendations for future implementation.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LO1..................................................................................................................................................4
Aims and Objectives....................................................................................................................4
P2 Project Management Plan.......................................................................................................5
P3 Gantt Chart and WBS.............................................................................................................5
LO2..................................................................................................................................................7
Literature review..........................................................................................................................7
P4 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY...........................................................................................8
LO3..................................................................................................................................................9
P5Data Collection & Analysis.....................................................................................................9
P6 Findings................................................................................................................................15
LO4................................................................................................................................................16
P7 Reflection.............................................................................................................................16
Recommendation.......................................................................................................................17
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................17
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................18
Appendix........................................................................................................................................19

INTRODUCTION
Talent management is the continuous process that evolves in attracting and retaining high
skilled and talented employees, developing their skills and constantly encourages them to
improve their performance. This research topic has wide scope in current and future scenario
because most of the companies are adopting talent management strategies and will adopt in
future (Mupepi, ed., 2017). This research assignment will act as reference project for all
companies which will implement talent management strategies in future. In this research project
will discuss about impact of talent management strategies that use by Tesco to attract and retain
employees in the company. it will include issues that faced by Tesco while adoption of talent
management strategies in this research project which will support other companies to understand
depth of issue then they will enable to take effective practices to deal with identified issues.
Thus, this research project is important for the all companies across the world. In this research
assignment will use effective methods i.e. qualitative method to collect and interpret information
related to research.
Background: Tesco is a British Multinational and general merchandise company which is
headquartered in UK. In this research assignment will involve aims and objectives of the
company.
LO1
Aims and Objectives
Aim
“To evaluate talent management strategies that companies use to attract and retain people in the
case study of Tesco plc”.
Objectives
 To understand the concept of talent management.
 To evaluate the impact of talent management strategies that Tesco use to attract and
retain people in the company.

 To determine the issues that have faced by Tesco after adoption talent management
strategies.
 To recommend solutions based on the issues that have been determined.
Research Questions
 What do you mean by the phenomena of talent management?
 What is the impact of talent management strategies that Tesco use to attract and retain
people in the company?
 What are the issues that have faced by Tesco after adopting talent management
strategies?
 What solutions can be recommended to the Tesco in order to deal with identified issues?
P2 Project Management Plan
 Scope: Talent management strategies is one of the most hot topic currently which has
huge scope in UK market. There is a reason such as it supports in attracting and retaining
talented employees in the workplace through which organization’s gets lots of
commercial benefits.
 Resources: Journal articles, internet, social media, online published research papers etc.
are important resources that applied for the research.
 Communication: Tesco follows open communication method so that employees and
workers can communicate with each other in effective manner regarding their issues and
gains creative solutions over proposed issues (Collings, Mellahi and Cascio, 2019).
 Quality: Overall data that are collected from the different resources must be qualitative
and can use for quantitative method.
Cost: The cost is completely dependent of research methods. This research project needs
estimate € 6000 sum.
 Risk: Limited availability of resources can be a risk factor for the research project but it
will minimize by using available resources in effective manner.
 Time: The whole research will complete within 11 weeks effectively.

P3 Gantt Chart and WBS
Gantt chart:

Break Down Structure
LO2
Literature review
As for the view of the Kravariti and Johnston, (2020), telling management is very important for
organisations because it is important for them to make the best use of the talent in the
organizations an want to retain that talent for a longer period of time. Tell and management is
very important for organisations to include in the practices to increase the higher satisfactions to
the employees and the organizations focus in maintaining the talent and retaining the talent for a
longer period of time so that that does not need to expend money again and again on the training
and development of their people who are working for them.

McDonnell and et.al., (2017), suggested that Tesco is using the best talent management strategies
to retain their people in the organizations and they want to understand the process in the best way
so that they can provide and better organizational culture to their employees and want to retain
the employees who are working hard for the organizations. Tesco doesn’t want to lose those
employees who are very talented and can be beneficial for the organizational and future and can
help the organization in achieving the overall objectives and goals. it is very important to make
the best use of talent management and Tesco always provide different strategies which
including’s remunerations and other rewards to retain their employees.
P4 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research methodology refer to the process in which all the research is being done and the
process of research and data analysis, limitation are being found by the researcher. Research Type: Research type refer to the process in which the research is being
calculated by the process of which way it is being done. There are 2 kinds of
investigation type, one is quantitative and other is qualitative. In this research we will
take the qualitative research because it gives human psychology and beliefs in it. On
different mitt quantitative approach is done on numerical information and numerical
collection. The researcher is taking the qualitative research for this report (Ørngreen and
Levinsen, 2017). Research Approach: Research approach refer to the approach a researcher made in doing
the research on a particular topic. Research approach are of two type inductive and
deductive. Inductive approach is done on human beliefs and qualitative data and on other
hand deductive approach is done on quantitative data. The investigator will yield
inductive because the search type is qualitative, and the deductive approach is not taken
as it is used in quantitative approach. Research Philosophy: Research Philosophy module be done in Interpretivism manner as
the search is done in qualitative form. It will show human touch and human belief's and
qualitative form of research include Interpretivism philosophy.

 Data Collection: Data collection is done in two ways one primary and other one is
secondary. In this the researcher will do both type of research. The research needs to be
done in depth and need both primary and secondary collection. Sampling: Data sampling refer to the process in which the sampling of the data take
place from the market and other ways. The sampling of data will be doing in simple
random sampling and purposive way to do the sampling. Data Analysis: Data analysis refer to the process of analysing the data which is being
collected and sampled from the collected data. Data analysis will be done in thematic
way as the research is done in qualitative performing and type with inductive approach in
it, so the data will be analysed in thematic analysis (Attia and Edge, 2017). Ethical Consideration: Ethical consideration refer to process in which their searcher
proof that all the research is done in the ethic way of doing process. Ethical thinking will
be done by investigator and both the consent sort and statement form will be filled by
responder which display the evidence about research quality. RM Limitations: Research limitation refer to this limitation of work while doing the
research the researcher got. Researcher has a limited time and resources. The research
will be done in the given time period and the limited time and limited resources and will
be completed within the given time (Snyder, 2019).
 Validity and Reliability: Validity refer to the process in which the researcher provide the
information regarding the reliability of the research and the relevancy of it. The research
will be done in relevant way and all the information will be done in tested origin and will
supply dependability (Mohajan, 2018).
LO3
P5Data Collection & Analysis
QUESTIONNAIRE
Name:
Gender:

Age:
Q:1 Do you think talent management strategies are important for the organization’s success?
 Yes
 No
Q:2 What positive impacts have gained by Tesco after adoption of talent management
strategies?
 Increase employees’ productivity
 Highly competitive staff
 Increase employee retention
 All of them
Q: 3 Are you ensure that Tesco respects generation gaps and offers equal opportunity for all
ages of employees in its recruitment process?
 Yes
 No
 Not sure
Q:4 Which recruitment strategies are undertaken by management of Tesco to improve staff
retention?
 Detailed Job descriptions
 Training and development
 Opportunities for continuous improvement
 All of them
Q:5 What are the issues that have faced by Tesco after adopting talent management strategies?
 Higher total compensation demands
 Increase employee turnover
 Impact on economical scale
 a and b
 None of them
Q:6 What solutions can be recommended to the Tesco over the identified issues?
 360-degree feedback strategy
 Implement effective HRM practices
 Effective leadership

 All of them
Theme 1: Talent management strategies are important for the organization’s success
Q:1 Do you think talent management strategies are important for the
organization’s success? Frequency
a) Yes 26
b) No 4
Total 30
Interpretation: The above-mentioned pie chart has been summarized that out of 30 employees
only 4 participants replied that talent management strategies are not important for the company’s
success. They thought that to implement talent management strategies requires expertise of the
HRM management then organization enables to have benefits of implication. But they did not
have any logical fact to prove their statement. While 26 participants shows agreement with above
sated fact that talent management strategies supports company to take all fair practices in the
business which ultimately attracts new talents and existing one to retain in the company and give
honest performance in the workplace. Base on the majority answering it can be interpreted that
talent management strategies are essential for the company’s success.
Theme 2: Positive impacts have gained by Tesco after adoption of talent management
strategies
Q:2 What positive impacts have gained by Tesco after adoption of talent Frequency

management strategies?
a) Increase employees’ productivity 3
b) Highly competitive staff 1
c) Increase employee retention 1
d) All of them 25
Total 30
Interpretation: It can be calculated that out of 30 participants only 3 employees replied that
Tesco has gained positive impact after adoption talent management strategies that is increase
employee’s productivity ratio in the workplace. They believed that Tesco is one of the high
successful company because it always gives priority to it’s customers and employees wellbeing.
So, it always takes initiatives to give value to the staff and customers feelings. Talent
management strategies i.e. recruit only right talents etc. supports Tesco to attract right talents for
the designated posts. On the other hand, 1 participant commented that Tesco has enabled to
retain highly competitive staff in the company with the support of talent management strategies.
In last remaining 25 employees said that Tesco has achieved number of positive impacts after
adoption of talent management strategies i.e. highly competitive staff, increase employee’s
productivity as well as enhance company’s performance in the business market. It can be
interpreted that company has gained more benefits.
Theme 3: Tesco respects generation gaps and offers equal opportunity for all ages of
employees after adoption of talent management strategies.

Q:3 Are you ensure that Tesco respects generation gaps and offers equal
opportunity for all ages of employees in its recruitment process?
Frequency
a) Yes 28
b) No 1
c) Not sure 0
Total 30
Interpretation: The above-mentioned pie chart has summarized that out of 30 participants 28
communicators replied that Tesco respects the generation gap and offers equal opportunities to
all age’s employees after adoption of talent management strategies. They believed that Tesco is
highly valuable company among other successful company which always try to maintain equal
balance between input and output. While there are several strategies of talent management such
as equal opportunity to all gender that is adopted by Tesco. Due to this company gets more
positive impacts on it’s business culture such as it enables to maintain wellbeing of diversified
workforce. In addition, company gets positive impact on it’s business performance as well. Only
one candidate disagreed with above sated fact and said that Tesco cannot offer equal opportunity
to diversified workforce for long time because these talent management strategies requires high
involvement of HRM practices and understanding level of staff then company can gain positive
impact on it’s business. But the candidate did not have any evidence to prove statement.