Analysis of Career Development Strategies for TESCO HR Manager Report

This report focuses on the career development strategies of an HR manager at TESCO, a leading UK retailer. It begins with a SWOT analysis and a personal development plan (PDP) for the HR manager, identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The report then explores strategies for skills development and lifelong learning, emphasizing their importance for career advancement and team performance. It examines how effective performance management can cultivate high-performance individuals and teams within TESCO. The report also discusses various training and development sessions, and learning to promote and market one’s skills in order to cultivate the relationship with the employees and through this strategy the employees skills are also developed in order to achieve the desired goals. The conclusion reiterates the significance of these strategies in enhancing employee efficiency and achieving organizational goals. This report is available on Desklib, a platform offering past papers and solved assignments for students.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Question 1........................................................................................................................................1
a) Presenting SWOT analysis of HR manager and PDP........................................................1
b) Presenting how strategies for skills are developed for lifelong learning...........................5
Question 2 - High Performance Individuals and Teams..................................................................8
a) High performance people be developed by effective performance management..............8
b) High performance team strategies....................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
To run a business in forward direction, it is quite essential for every firm to have a skilled
and competent workforce so that they help a business in performing its operations well. The
report's main aim is to determine the importance of concepts that are associated with the career
development strategies. For this report the chosen company is TESCO which is one of the
leading retailer company in UK. The company wants to improve the working efficiencies of their
employees. Company operates its unit in more than 50 countries and also uses different market
strategies in order to evaluate their working performance.
Report present the SWOT analysis and also includes the personal development plan that
is actually help a person to groom themselves. Report further describe the importance of high
performance and a range of strategies which also lead TESCO in positive way. Moreover it also
assesses how strategies for skills development and lifelong learning also enable the career
development for the team. Report also evaluates how high-performance strategies that enables
how a manager to work effectively in a company to achieve the its future goals and lead it to
further level of success.
Question 1
a) Presenting SWOT analysis of HR manager and PDP
SWOT analysis is a framework that is actually used in order to evaluate the company as
well as personal strength, weaknesses, opportunities as well as threats (Bull and et.al., 2016).
This model is actually used to determine the internal environment and this SWOT analysis is
actually done to determine the actual performance of the company's HR manager. On the other
side, weaknesses are the negative habits which a person may have or some points which they
want to improve among themselves. Moreover, the opportunities is a external factor which
means that a person can take as an advantages for pursue a promotion and on the other side,
threats is a chances which also help to attain the goals for their future improvements. Personal
SWOT analysis for HR manager is as follows:
Personal Skill Audit:
Skills Ranking
Communication skill 5
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Presentation skills 9
Financial skills 6
Decision making power 7
Confident 8
Risk management skills 9
Time management skills 6
As per my skill audit, I am realizes that I need to overcome my weaknesses such as
communication skill, decision making skill, time management skills while on the other side I am
good in risk management, conflict solver and can do work in any pressure.
Strength Weaknesses
 Being a HR manager I have a good
presentation that help me to convince
other or influence others.
 I also have strong interpersonal skills
which help me to establish good
relationship with my colleagues as well
as employees.
 Having enough confident and dynamic
with pleasing personality.
 Can solve many conflicts which no-
one can.
 I can even work under pressure and
deadlines and also gives training and
development sessions to those
employees who actually needs to
improve themselves.
 Have good knowledge related to
 I am lacking some skills related to
communication which needs to be
improved as the time passes.
 Some times feels hesitate to ask
question to the employees.
 Can take better decision for the welfare
of the company but due to emotional
attachment I cannot do.
 Lack of financial knowledge.
 Have moderate time management skills.
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computer software as well as internet.
 Good in presentation that help me to
convince other peoples so that the work
assigned to them will completed on
time.
Opportunities Threats
 Opportunities to learn new roles as well
as responsibility for the future
improvement.
 Finding new and better career option
for the future growth.
 Being a HR manager, I want to learn
corporate and business ethics so that it
will be helpful in order to upgrade the
qualities.
 Job uncertainty is the biggest threat
which I faces because of my some weak
points.
 Competition from others who also
posses the same qualification as well as
experience.
To overcome from the weaknesses and improve some of my strength, I used to make
Professional developmental plan. It is a plan which is actually created by the person in order to
identify the actual or necessary skills as well as resources which support the staff (Schools,
2014). So that it will help them to achieve their well-defined goals as well as objectives. This
plan comprises some skills which needs to be improved and learning resources, time-scales and
the outcomes which help to determine the exact performance are improved or not. PDP for HR
manager is as follows:
Skills needs to
be improved
Action plan taken Learning
resources
Learning
Time scale
Expected
outcomes
Communication
skills
Attending some classes
and watching some
videos which will be
helpful for me to
overcome this.
Books, tutor and
videos
1 to 2
months
This will helps
me in improving
my
communication
skills and I will
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Speaking in public
places will make me
more confident.
not hesitate while
asking some
question to my
employees.
Financial
knowledge
Take classes from
professionals, attending
classes related to
finance which will be
helpful to me to
overcome this
weakness
Tutor 2 months This will help in
improving my
financial
knowledge which
further assists me
in performing my
duties well. I Can
use this skill in
my future growth
and even in my
own company
also.
Decision taking I participate more in
group discussions and
other activities which
helps me in improving
my thinking abilities.
Using classes as a base
which will be helpful to
overcome this.
Group
discussions and
Classes
1 month My increased
thinking ability
helps me to take
more effective
decision for the
welfare of my
company and
having strong
decision making
will be helpful in
my future also.
Time
management
skills
I start to make
schedules and Prioritize
each activity. I also
Videos and notes 20 days This will help in
improving my
time management
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start to make notes and
watch videos related to
time management.
skills. Having
strong time
management
skills will be
helpful to do the
work in proper
time and this will
be helpful to
achieve the
expected goals.
Uneven
Participation
Start developing new
strategies and take
participation in each
and every activity in
order to overcome this
weakness and then
taking reviews from
others.
Colleagues 1 month The expected
outcome for this
is to developing
extra knowledge
related to the task
and this will make
familiar me with
other employees.
This will help in
increasing my
participation in
activities.
b) Presenting how strategies for skills are developed for lifelong learning
Career development is a life long process for managing of learning, work and leisure in
order to develop the skills that help for future development. In order to improve the skills which,
the employees of TESCO possess, there are so many strategies which are helpful for the HR
manager because it will be helpful to reduces the chances of conflicts and also creates
connections between the personnel as well as strategic. These strategies are as follows:
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 Training and development sessions: HR manager of the company should provide
training sessions in order to improve the skills so that they will also help them to
enhances their working performance and help to attain the objectives as well as goals of
the company (Fundin, 2018,). Training and development are two different things and this
are provided through a professional who have enough knowledge in order to gain the
competencies of their actual performance (Hertzman, Moreo and Wiener, 2015). Training
sessions are also provided to the new employees of TESCO so that it will be helpful for
them to raise their actual working performance as well as developed new strategies that
will help to achieve all defined goals as well as objectives. These training sessions are
also helpful for the employees of TESCO in order to develop new skills and strategy that
also support the motivation and as a result this help in employee retention as well as their
progression. If HR manager of a referred company provided the proper training sessions
to their employees then it will be helpful to achieve the defined goals in proper defined
time.
Career development strategies are also help to produce the exact result and therefore the
manager of TESCO are also using various types of training practices in order to produce the best
results (Elliott, 2017). Therefore, the quality information is the main key aspect for career
developmental. Even if these strategies are applied into the company then it will be helpful for
many employees to raise their efficiencies and also support to motivate them.
 Another strategy is learning to promote and market one’s skills in order to cultivate the
relationship with the employees and through this strategy the employees skills are also
developed in order to achieve the desired goals. This needs to be connect with public in
order to promote as well as encourage the learning skills that further help to achieve the
defined goals of the company.
 Being a HR manager, even the lifelong learning also helps to build a strong team which
together attain the objectives in prescribed time (Jhawar, Garg and Khera, 2016). It has
been analysed that the life long learning are direct and transparent ways that is a strategic
direction which consider the best key aspect for both employees as well as manager in
order to raise the working efficiencies as well as productivity level. Moreover, in TESCO
the managers and employees of the company are always learn new things and then
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applied in the working environment to develop new strategies for the welfare of the
company.
The various other steps and strategies are as discussed below -
 Understanding about learning- before starting of a training in terms of continuous
learning, I have to seek about the optimal learning style and also environment. I also have
to ensure about the learning plan.
 Common goal- the success of any company is based on clear common goal. The team
that succeeds are the one who has a common goal and also common purpose.
 Clarity in goal- clarity is must in all type of communication. Great communication keeps
the team members from aborting core of a particular project that is due in terms of lack of
understanding of overall purpose. In addition to this, frequent communication of project
purpose may play vital role in terms of keeping team on track. Goals of individuals must
be clear as it helps them in their successful career development.
 Commitment from each team member- thus, commitment from each team member must
be done so that it helps in maintaining the relationship between members and producing
high quality products for the company.
 Word and imagery association- I must visualise things that can help me in triggering
memory. So if the way has been found out in either creating new image or associating the
old one along with information that is existing , meaningful information in the knowledge
base is considered Thus, it will also help me in increasing the recollection and also
increase in retention of employees in Tesco.
 Engaging on reflective learning- this is also the important strategy that helps in effective
management of business. The employees must ask themselves about how much they have
learnt from training and application of that knowledge in their current job in Tesco.
 Putting of knowledge into application in immediate manner- this strategy also helps in
achieving long term success (Hillson and Murray-Webster, 2017). As a HR professional I
would try to make use of the knowledge of employees in Tesco and implement on it as
soon as possible that will help me in long term success of the cited company.
 Verbalising the knowledge and also transferring it- training sessions and continuous
learning becomes helpful for me in order to have reflection or the segment on lesson that
has learned where each person learned about certain skills. The knowledge is further
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transferred to the other individuals that helps them in effective development of
employees.
 Flushing out learning plan and prioritise- As with most things in life, if I plan in order to
help in terms of accomplishing task, the chances of my success will more likely to be
increase. . This key step will help me in understanding trends in the market. This will also
help me in analysing the requirements of technology to achieve loyalty of customers. I
will also come to know by this about recent release of technology that will later lead me
towards success.
Thus, all these strategies will help me in making the extreme use of the employees inner
talent and knowledge they have in terms of business. This will also help me in understanding the
actual requirement of employees and the process from which these requirements can be met. I
can make complete use of the training session and make the employees of Tesco sharpen. Thus,
it will lead in achieving long term success and high profitability of Tesco.
Question 2 - High Performance Individuals and Teams
a) High performance people be developed by effective performance management
The term performance management is defined as a continuous process that helps in
improving the performance with help of setting individual as well as team goals that are been
aligned to the strategic goals of the particular organisation (Tangney, BOONE and
BAUMEISTER, 2018). Thus, effective management plays important role in developing the
people with high performance. Thus, it all depends on how the particular organisation that is
Tesco uses this management program for the employee involved in it.
 Better attitude of employees- As being the HR professional of Tesco, the performance
management program helped me in having a team that arrives each day with highly
motivated. I also feel good when I see them always ready and eager in order to do their
work. Thus, motivation never remains but adopting the culture of high performance
always helped me in motivating employees. With help of this culture, I found employees
with better attitude. Employees after this tries in taking more responsibility in terms of
improving the products, services and process of organisation. My employees always try
to take more initiative and also degree of innovation increases.
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 Better corporation inside and outside organisation- It also helps me in brining and
maintaining the cooperation between the employees and customers. My employees are
more open in terms of ideas from people and they feel as the valued one in Tesco. The
dialogues between me and my colleagues have become more frequent.
 Sharing vision- When my employees are effectively managed and also understands what
has been expected from them. This leads in achieving positive vibes and environment. I
can create accountability with help of clear communication of my vision with them. It
also helps me in having performance measures in clear manner and also have accurate
plan of action that helps me in effective performance. Thus, it also helps me in sharing
new and innovative ideas because I feel that employees are interested equally in order to
perform their work by putting their maximum efforts.
 Support- High performance culture also leads me in focusing on customers and try to
provide them with their desires. The training in terms of performing at high levels also
help me in ensure that people maximising their potential and is vital in order to offer
support, coaching and training that helps employees to achieve high quality skills,
knowledge and resources in order to achieve next level of excellence in Tesco.
 Transparency- the environment of Tesco is flexible and transparent. My employees know
about the strategic directions that has the ability in order to talk with me about the ways
in terms of making improvement. Thus, there is an open line of communication that helps
in travelling up and down in the hierarchy structure of organisation.
 Competitive advantage- in order to achieve higher effective performance management,
means to achieve better financial results. Thus, I can help my company to achieve huge
competitive advantage with help of high performance and skilled employees involved
with us in terms of achieving high profitability and productivity.
 Engaged workforce- with help of effective performance management, I can deepen the
engagement of employees of Tesco with help of creating culture that shares
accountability and career growth and development.
 Ensuring the clarity of workplace- this management system can help in easily eliminating
employee ambiguity and confusion. Thus, with help of these process, I can ensure that
employees of Tesco are clear on everything that are supposed in terms of doing that has
been expected by them. This also helps me in ensuring that management are in touch with
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