BTEC Level 5 Research Project: Effective Talent Management at Tesco

This research project examines effective talent management strategies within organizations, using Tesco as a case study. The project begins with an introduction and outlines the aims and objectives, which include assessing the role of HR in implementing talent management, examining different strategies, and determining the relationship between talent management and company performance. A literature review explores the roles of HR in talent management (recruiting, performance management, career management, and leadership development) and identifies key strategies such as detailed job descriptions, person-organization fit, collaborative coaching, rewards and recognition, and opportunities for continuous improvement. The research methodology employs a positivism philosophy and inductive research approach, utilizing quantitative methods and a combination of primary and secondary data. The data analysis and interpretation, along with research outcomes, presentation, and recommendations for alternative research methodologies, are also included. The research concludes with recommendations for enhancing talent management practices and references for further study.

Research Project

Table of Contents
Topic: Effective talent management strategies for successful organizations............................3
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Literature Review.......................................................................................................................5
To assess the role of HR in implementing talent management within company...................5
To examine different talent management strategies...............................................................6
To determine relation between effective Talent Management on performance of company.7
Research Methodology...............................................................................................................8
Data Analysis and Interpretation................................................................................................9
Research Outcome...................................................................................................................17
Presentation..........................................................................................................................17
Reflection and Recommendations for alternative research methodology................................23
Conclusion and Recommendation............................................................................................25
References................................................................................................................................26

Topic:
Effective talent management strategies for successful organizations
Introduction
Talent management is the process which refers the concept for making anticipation
which are required to maintain human capital for an organisation and help the organisation to
make a plan for completing basic needs and desire. Talent management is the science which
are useful for making strategic human resource policies to improve the business growth and
to make possible for the companies to reach out to their goals in desired time. The main
reason to choose this topic is that talent management include the process to recruit, retain,
develop and help their employees to perform in the strategic manner. Furthermore it is said
that talent management is focus on relating to the human resource management and their
development process so that the employees of the organisation are accomplish their goals and
serve their customer in best manner (Anaraki Ardakani and et.al., 2018). Many organisation
provide various opportunities for human resource, in both the ways, within and outside the
workplace for researching more innovative talented. Finding the talent management in such a
unique strategic resources, which are useful to achieving sustained competitive advantage and
different organisation which are used by talent management to capture. For completing this
research the chosen organisation is Tesco, which is a multinational company headquartered in
Welwyn Garden City, England. This research is based on finding the roles of HR and it will
help them to implement the talent management within the organisation. Furthermore it
discuss the different strategies which are useful for the growth of company and discuss the
impact of company’s talent management and their performance in the market.
Aim:
To determine the impact of effective talent management strategies on
organisational success and performance. A case study on Tesco.
Objectives:
 To assess the role of HR in implementing talent management within
company.
 To examine different talent management strategies within an organisation.

 To determine relation between effective Talent Management on
performance of company.
Research questions:
 What are the roles of HR while implementing talent management within the
organisation?
 What are the different talent management strategies?
 How the company could make a strong relation between effective talent management
and their performance?
Research rationale
Tesco, which are operating their activity in retail industry. As the competition is increased in
the market at the very high rate. So one of the important topic which are prevailing in the
market is the search of talent management in companies for making them stronger in market.
Tesco build various talent management strategies which are helpful for them in order to
become more successful (Chitu and Russo, 2020). This research is conducting to evaluate the
performance of Tesco and their employees. This research help the investigator to know more
about the strategies of talent management.
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Literature Review
To assess the role of HR in implementing talent management within
company
According to Pavlou, C (2021); the two terms Human resource management and talent
management are interchangeably, even with being altered purposes. As talent management is
the part of Human resource functions, HR attract, select and train the employees of the
organisation which are needed by the company. In Tesco, most of their employees are
suitable and manageable in various different cases. Talent management is the process where
the teams comes and grow in order to manage the objectives of the company. In Tesco, the
charge of talent management are in the hands of HR (Damer, 2020) (Elena, 2017). so the role
of HR in the company while manage talent management is very important and useful for the
growth of company (Impact of Talent Management on Organizational Performance: The
Moderating Role of an Effective Performance Management System, 2021). Which are
described below:

 Recruiting: The foundation of talent management is hiring choosing the right people
at right time. This is one of the best recruiting process within the organisation as it
will help the company to make clear goals. With the help of carefully interviewing
applicants to select the strongest candidates.
 Performance management: Once the employee are hired, one of the most important
role of HR. HR technology and services are the solutions in the area such as time and
attendance to track their performance and productivity on the regular basis.
Furthermore they can manage the staff and allow their employees to provide feedback
related to services and improve performance (Taylor, 2018).
 Career management: Managing the employee and help them to choose their career
path is one of the important aspect of human resource manager. Build on the
information which are collected by the managers to perform and analysis the review
for employee’s strength and interest. In Tesco, the manager are dealing with the
people who are highly skilled and individual contributor then their main aim is to
make their career management in such a critical way that help the talent management
and employee satisfaction both (Goldstein and et.al., 2017).
 Leadership development: This is one of the vital part of talent management as once
the performance is set and their targets are achieved then they are shifted to the long
term goals and develop that employee in the best leader.
To examine different talent management strategies
According to Ghosh, P (2021); talent management is not just a checklist for
completing the requirement and for this companies has to make the complete strategic plan
for the improvement of company. There are mainly five strategies are there which are used by
Tesco and discussed here:
 Detailed job description: This is needed by most, as companies have to make a
strong and impressive job description. That help the source, by using software and the
candidate must understand the related concept of job role better (Storozhuk and
Zaiarniuk, 2019). This would include job title and location, overall duties and their
roles, skills which are searching by the company for their vacant job role. Another
things like reporting line and different type of tools and equipment used and salary
and benefits are needed by an employee.
 Person-organisation fit: An employee who are selected in the organisation are
related to organisational culture and practices. Their nature and culture must be fit in

the organisational culture and practices. It is quite difficult to know that an employee
are fit in the organisation or not for the growth of the company (Hernández, Zatarain
and Barrón, 2018). But at the same time this is important strategy of the talent
management team in the company.
 Collaborate coach: It means the company has to make the talent management team
and make them more effective culture which are related to coaching and mentoring of
employee. With the help of constructive feedback and development team the role of
employee and their skills are enhance and improved.
 Reward and recognize: The process where the rewards and recognition form a very
important part of the strategy which are helpful for employees to motivate, engage
and manage for the growth of company. This will further help the employee to
increase their development and make more strong future.
 Opportunities for the continuous improvement: one of the best strategy in talent
management is that managing the talent need and help them to secure their future for
the more opportunities (Savelyeva, Kurina and Zykova, 2019). This will involve the
companies planning related to their employee’s career path and that will create a
sense for the employee. Having a map to follow the task and improve the issues which
are coming are important and this will make retention to score better in the market.
While looking forward in the future they can think towards their common goals (What
is Talent Management? Definition, Strategy, Process and Models, 2021).
To determine relation between effective Talent Management on
performance of company
With the help of talent management the growth of the company are increased and
their performance evaluation are increased and help in achieving the organisational goals.
According to almohtaseb ali, A (2021); explain that the growth and performance of an
employee is depend on their talent management team who are working on them and helpful
for improving their efficiency. The effect of an effective performance and organisational
performance will be helpful for the company to evaluate their performance. There is a very
strong relationship is established in between the talent management and performance of the
company. He further explain that the company and their employees are always in one team
and they help the company to manage their performance with their own records (Jameela,
2020). In order to improve the employees retention and it might be helpful for the company
to run and manage their talent within the organisation. In Tesco, they make the strong

relationship with employees in order to manage their talent resource in goodwill of the
company (Talent Acquisition vs. Talent Management vs. HR: A primer, 2021). All of their
employees are capable to learn the things in very ease and retain in the company for the long
period of time. So it is very important for the companies that the HR of the company must
know their roles and responsibility with employees. Further they should be aware with the
customers demand and increase their company’s productivity in market. All of these make a
strong image in front of market and build a relationship within company and their employees
(Sangapu, 2018).
Research Methodology
 Research Philosophy: This is the process and study of collecting and analysing the
data which are helpful in pertaining to a particular research and this is known as
research philosophy. This is very for the research as it will help to conduct the
research and effectively and attain the appropriate result (Rajasekar and Rengamani,
2017). Mainly there are two type of research philosophy, positivism and
interpretivism. For conducting this research, positivism philosophy has been used.
 Research Approach: This is defined that a plan or techniques are best in order to use
by researcher to complete the research project in the effective and ethical manner. The
researcher should be select their best option and make appropriate research by
keeping in mind which are using requirement for the research (Likhi, Sabita and Rao,
2018). To complete this research the chosen strategy is inductive research is used as
because it will be helpful for the company and researcher to conduct the study in an
effective manner and gather all the information in an effective manner.
 Quantitative methods: Here the research which can be used and defined as a type of
research which involve the data information and their gathering procedure. It can be
in the form of tables and charts, which are helpful for a good representation and easy
to understand. There are various different type of methods which are useful for
conducting research by using useful methods. The main purpose to collect the data in
quantitative format is to make a strong understanding and maintain the research topic.
 Primary and secondary data: In order to collect the information and make the research
in different from others are only with this way. As these sources are fresh and unique
form others. Primary or secondary are the two methods which are very important to
collect the information which are related to the research and their compliance (Liu,
2019). Data collection is one of the important part of research and its use for

collecting the data is important. The main example of conducting the research is
survey, interview, questionnaire and experiments etc. whereas the secondary data is
collected from the different journals and books to analysis and interpret the
information.
 Sampling and questionnaire: another important component of the research is to collect
the sample and define the process in selecting the pre-determined number of different
observations from the large populations (Polo, 2021). There are mainly 50
respondents has been selected in order to complete this research and finalised the
outcomes. With the 50 respondent researcher ask the various questions which are
helpful for this research and complete the final outcome. It is effective in nature and
time saving data collection process to analysis the interpretation on easily basis.
Thus all of methods and components are somehow important and appropriate for the use of
data to collect the information in an effective manner (Mahlahla, Lourens, and Oparinde,
2020). The research will be able to save unnecessary cost and result which are helpful for
creating more knowledge and develop some more in addition to that.
Data Analysis and Interpretation
Questionnaire
Name:
Age:
E-mail:
Address:
Phone Number:
Q1. What are the role of HR in the organisation regarding talent management?
a) Recruiting within the organisation
b) managing the career of their employee’s within organisation
c) Evaluating the performance of their employees.
d) Developed a good leadership culture within organisation.
Q2. What are the best strategies of talent management using in organisation?
a) Providing job-detailed description
b) Pearson organisation fitting ability
c) Make a collaborative coach and leader
d) Support with rewards and gifts

Q3. Do you know about the relationship of HR and talent management team in the progress
of company?
a) Yes
b) No
Q4. Do you know about the main reason and progress of Tesco?
a) Yes
b) No
Q5. What do you think about the career and future growth in talent management?
a) Yes
b) No
c) never think about that
Q.6 Do you think that Tesco are able to manage the healthy relationship with customers?
a) Yes
b)No
Q7. Any suggestion for Tesco?
Questionnaire Frequency
Q1. What are the role of HR in the organisation regarding talent
management?
a) Recruiting within the organisation
b) managing the career of their employee’s within organisation
c) Evaluating the performance of their employees.
d) Developed a good leadership culture within organisation.
Q2. What are the best strategies of talent management using in
organisation?
a) Providing job-detailed description
b) Pearson organisation fitting ability
c) Make a collaborative coach and leader
d) Support with rewards and gifts
Q3. Do you know about the relationship of HR and talent management
team in the progress of company?
a) Yes
b) No
15
10
20
5
20
10
13
17
25
25

Q4. Do you know about the main reason and progress of Tesco?
a) Yes
b) No
Q5. What do you think about the career and future growth in talent
management?
a) Yes
b) No
c) never think about that
Q.6 Do you think that Tesco are able to manage the healthy relationship
with customers?
a) Yes
b) No
35
15
20
15
15
40
10
Data analysis and interpretation
Theme 1: Role of HR manager
Q1. What are the role of HR in the organisation regarding talent
management?
a) Recruiting within the organisation 15
b) managing the career of their employee’s within organisation 10
c) Evaluating the performance of their employees. 20
d) Developed a good leadership culture within organisation. 5
frequency
a) Recruiting within the organisation
b) managing the career of their employee’s within organisation
c) Evaluating the performance of their employees.
d) Developed a good leadership culture within organisation.

Interpretation
From the above graph it is suggested that, out of 50 respondent 15, think that the main
role of HR in talent management is to recruit the staff in the company at right time. Whereas
out of total, 10 thinks that helping and managing the career of an employee is the main
technique and role of HR in the company. As it will help the company to work and manage
their employees to retain for long term aspect. Again from the total respondent, 20 think that
the role of HR is to evaluate and analysis the performance of the company. And only 5
respondent think that become a good leadership style in the organisation and work according
to that is the main role of HR in relation to the talent management.
Theme2: strategies which are used in companies for talent management
Q2. What are the best strategies of talent management using in
organisation?
a) Providing job-detailed description 20
b) Pearson organisation fitting ability 10
c) Make a collaborative coach and leader 13
d) Support with rewards and gifts 17
20
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17
job detailed description person fit in organisation collobrative approach rewards and gifts
Interpretation
After conducting above research it is given that out of 50 respondent 20 think that the
best strategy which are used by companies is make a detailed job description which are