Strategic Human Resource Management Report: Tesco HRM Practices

This report provides a comprehensive overview of Human Resource Management (HRM), emphasizing its strategic importance in achieving organizational objectives. It explores the purpose and scope of HRM, highlighting its role in workforce planning, recruitment and selection, job analysis and design, performance management, training and development, and reward systems. The report also delves into the significance of employee engagement and employee relations in influencing HRM decisions. Furthermore, it examines employee legislation and the impact of both internal and external factors on HRM. The report uses Tesco as a case study, illustrating various HRM practices, including workforce planning, recruitment strategies, and performance management techniques. It also includes a job description, personal specification, interview questions, and a sample job offer letter, along with recommendations for improving the recruitment and selection process. The report concludes by emphasizing the critical role of HRM in organizational success and the importance of maintaining positive employee relations and adhering to employment legislation.

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Executive Summary –
Human resource management is an important for every organization. Its purpose is to achieve
organizations objectives through people by effective planning of workforce, recruiting
efficient employees, maintaining healthy work culture, proper analysis of the job, proving
proper training to the new employees and measuring performance of the individuals then
motivating to the good performer by giving rewards and benefits. Employee relation and
employee engagement is also important practices for HR. Organization must work within the
employment legislation as per their country. These are important for making decisions
relating to the Human resource management. Maintaining positive relations with the
employees and employment legislation helps the organization in achieving their goals.

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Table of Contents
Introduction –.............................................................................................................................3
Task 1.........................................................................................................................................4
Purpose & Scope of Human Resource Management –..........................................................4
Effectiveness of HRM practices, its benefits for both employer & employee and methods –
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Importance of employee relation in respect to influencing HRM decision making –............9
Employee Legislation –........................................................................................................10
Task 2.......................................................................................................................................11
HRM practices at Tesco –....................................................................................................11
Job Description –..................................................................................................................13
Personal Specification –.......................................................................................................13
Questions for interview –.....................................................................................................14
Job Offer Letter –.................................................................................................................15
Recommendations for improving recruitment and selection process -................................15
Conclusion –.............................................................................................................................16
References................................................................................................................................17

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Introduction –
Human Resource Management (HRM) is the strategic approach foe managing the people
effectively in an organization, so it helps in gaining the competitive advantages, improving
productivity, maximising employee performance and achieving organizations goals or
objectives (Sanghi, 2014). In other words, Human resource management refers as developing
and implementing policies or programs which are made for increase the effectiveness of an
organization and creating, managing and maintain employer and employee relationship.
Humans are essential for every organization, without employees organization does not
achieve their goals and profits. Human resource aim is to ensure that organization is able to
achieve goals through people. HR manages the all activities related to the humans and
implement policies and procedure or system for managing the employees. HR can manage
their employees by motivating the employees through rewards & recognition, giving training
to the new employees for increasing the performance and sales, recruiting the best employees
according to the job position, keeping all information regarding employees in case of
shortage of employees, maintain good labour relation, focus on high labour turnover,
maintain healthy working environment, build trust and engagement with the employees,
flexible working hours, behaviour of the organization and try to giving better employment
services (Aquinas, 2009). The report consist of purpose and scope of Human Resource
Management, roles and responsibilities of HR functions, significance that HR plays in
recruiting new employees, effectiveness of key element of Human Resource Management in
an organization, employment legislation, internal and external factors which affect the
Human Resources Management, an assessment to workforce planning, training and
development, rewards system and recruitment and selection decisions, labour relation and

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employee engagement and different methods which are used in HR practices. By taking
Tesco as an example, we described various HRM practices at Tesco.
Task 1
Purpose & Scope of Human Resource Management –
1. Main purpose of Human Resource Management is to coordinate the human within an
organization for achieving their goals.
2. Creating job satisfaction of employees and increasing employee efficiency and
effectiveness. HRM treat people as an essential asset of the organization. It focuses on
the internal or external source of competitive advantage or how to gain the
competitive advantages and how to improve productivity & achieve organization
goals and profits through people.
3. HR communicates with the employees and solves their problems and fulfils their
needs by maintaining organization culture and structure as per their needs.
4. HR leads the employment life cycle by recruiting right employee, evaluating the
performance and termination of employees. HR encourages the employees by
appreciating them, rewards & recognition, bonus, gifts and incentives.
5. Its objective is to increase individual growth, development, productivity, developing
new innovative skills and effectiveness, so it will contribute to the organization
development (Chand, 2019).
Significance that HR plays in acquiring talent to meet business objectives –
1. Help in achieving organization objectives through people
2. Improve in productivity and performance of the organization
3. Managing the disputes

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4. Proper operational system
5. Maintain healthy working environment
6. Developing labour relation
7. Help in organization development
8. To match demand and supply of human resource
9. To select best employees which will fit according to their needs
10. Build reputation of the company
Effectiveness of HRM practices, its benefits for both employer & employee and
methods –
1. Workforce planning: - It refers to the effective planning for managing the workforce
of the organization. It will help the employer to contributing in achieving the
organization goals and maintain positive working environment for the employees
(Mayhew, 2018).
Example of Tesco- Tesco uses a workforce planning table to know the how many
employees are needed. This process runs from the last week in February. They take
reviews in every quarter i.e. May, August and November.
2. Recruitment & Selection: - It is the important function of Human Resource
Management. HR ensures that right employee should be select for the right job. So, it
will help the employer in development of organization performance and employee
will get right job (Aswathappa, 2010). There are various methods of recruitment &
selection such as campus recruitment, promotion, transfer, print media and
consultancies (Compton, Morrissey and Nankervis, 2011).
Methods Strength Weakness

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Online job boards and
websites
 Cost effective
 Less time because
of online
 Wide area covered
 Diverse talents &
skills
 Large number of
inappropriate
applications
 Discrimination
among candidates
 Technical difficulties
Campus recruitment  Less costly because
of no advertisement
cost and website
cost
 Alternatives are
available because of
bunch of candidates
 More time because
of more candidates
and lengthy process
 Lack of quality
candidates because
of no experience
Print media  Alternative source
of publication
 Positive
communication
 No guarantee of
success
 Costly
 Slow process
 No control
Professional referral
schemes
 Credible
 High quality
candidate
 Cost- effective
 Limited candidates
 Distract employees
from other jobs
Example of Tesco- Tesco uses internal method of recruitment such as promotion,
transfer etc. and if there is no appropriate talent in the organization then Tesco recruit

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employee through their intranet. For external recruitment process, Tesco uses online
job board and website method for the recruitment of the employees. So they use their
website www.tesco-careers.com (Anonymous, 2009).
3. Job Analysis & design: - HR analyse or design the nature of job such as qualification,
whether work experience will required or not, skills, duties and job description for the
particular jobs. So, it will helps in giving right job to the right people.
4. Performance Management: - HR has to evaluate the employee performance then
appraise to the employees for good performance. So, it will helps in improving
productivity of the employees and retain the employees for long period of time
(Guest, 2011). There are various traditional and modern methods of performance
appraisal. Traditional methods are ranking method, paired comparison, grading,
forced distribution method, checklist method, forced choice method, critical incidents
method, graphic scale method, essay method, field review method and confidential
report. After evaluation of performance of the employees then HR motivate them by
the above methods. Modern methods are management by objectives, 360- degree
appraisal and cost accounting method (Laired, Naquin and Holton, 2010).
Example of Tesco-At Tesco Performance management is a process which includes
organizational strategic goals, employee performance and competencies objective. It
is measure by feedback system, plans for performance improvement and pay and
reward system.
5. Training & Development: - HR has to give training to the new employees. So, it will
help in increasing the performance of the employees and it will help the employer
achieving their goals.
Example of Tesco- Different types of training programs are held by Tesco.

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 Options program: It is used for the development of new recruiters. New
employees learn about business, their job description, organization culture and
get chance to interact with the other employees.
 Development program: It will help the employee to grow and improve their
performance. It focuses on the development of operating skills as well as
leadership behaviour skills and the personal development of plan of the
employees.
 Specialized program: This type is focuses on the Graduates or A-level
employees who are working in distribution or store or office.
6. Reward System: - Reward system helps the employer improving productivity, and
performance and reducing disputes and conflicts. It will help the employee for
appreciation, motivation and maintaining positive relation with the employers. HR
can reward to this employees by organizing small events, gift cards, gamification and
showcasing.
Example of Tesco- Tesco mainly focuses on performance linked plan, bonuses,
annual compensation, gifts and perks for rewarding to the good performer.
Employee Engagement – Employee Engagement is a fundamental concept which describe
quantitatively, qualitatively and the nature of the relationship between the employees and the
organizations. In other words, Employee Engagement refers as maintaining the positive
attitude or behaviour towards the organization (Truss, et al., 2014). Three ways of employee
engagement are: vigour, it means keeping energy related to the work, second is dedication
and last is absorption in the task it means employees are fully focused on their work. When
employees are engaged, then they work harder and invest more in the work, so this will helps
in increasing their productivity and retaining them for the long period.

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Employee Relation – Employee relation refers to the maintaining positive or healthy
relationship between employees and organizations or it means company’s efforts to manage
or create healthy relationship between employer and employee. It focuses on solving
employee issues and creating positive working environment. Company can ensure good
employee relations by human resource strategy (Bingham, 2016).
Importance of employee relation in respect to influencing HRM decision making –
1. Productivity: Strong employee relation increases the employee motivation and
improved employee morale, therefore it will helps in increasing their productivity and
organization profits.
2. Employee Loyalty: Creating a pleasant working environment has directly on an
employee’s loyalty to the business. It will also help in employee retention, reduce the
employee turnover, reducing cost of hiring or recruitment and employer will get the
set of trained and skilled employees.
3. Reduction of conflicts: Strong employee relation or positive working environment can
help in reducing conflicts among employees. It will result as employees being able to
focus on their respective task and given more productive work.
4. Delegation: Delegation of work is important for every organization. By strong
employee relation, employee will delegate to their work, so it will help in achieving
organizations goals.
5. Open communicate: When there is good relation between employer and employee
then employee will tell their issues or problems to the employer without any fear. So,
maintaining an open communication channel will make employee aware of their
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6. Increase Morale: Creating strong relations between employer and employee, help in
building trust, security, confidence. So this will help in increasing employee morale
(Subramanian, 2017).
So, the employee relation plays an important role while taking human resource
management decisions. If there are conflicts between the manager and employees then it
is responsibility of HR to creating good relationship between employer and employee by
maintain positive working environment, communicate effectively from the employees,
proper planning or setting up the goals for achieving strong employee relation and solving
employees problem regarding salary, rules and regulation, their task, working hours etc.
Employee Legislation –
Employee legislation is the laws that affect employer and employee. Following are the
aspects of employee legislation within which organization must work:-
1. Employment equality law: This law is an integral part of the UK law. It is a law
which legislates against discrimination in the workplace on the basis of age, gender,
disability, religion or belief. First legislation is the Equality Act 2010, which legislates
against discrimination on the basis of education, private or public goods and services.
Discrimination on the basis of work status, working hours are comes under Trade
Union and Labour Relation (Consolidation) Act 1992. If there is partiality between
men and women regarding salary then they can claim under the Employment Rights
Act 1996 (Sargeant, 2014).
2. Labour law: It regulates or manages the relations between employer, employee and
trade union. It includes the right to a minimum wages of £7.83 under National
Minimum Wage Act 1998 and it is the right of the employee for 28 days paid holidays