HRM Report: An Evaluation of Tesco HRM Recruitment and Selection

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of Tesco's Human Resource Management (HRM) practices, focusing on recruitment and selection strategies, talent management, and training and development. It begins with an overview of Tesco and its operations, followed by a literature review of relevant HRM concepts. The report then delves into the discussion and analysis of Tesco's recruitment and selection processes, evaluating their effectiveness and alignment with employment law. It examines talent management strategies, including job descriptions and development opportunities, and analyzes HR systems and procedures, such as performance appraisal and grievance management. The report also explores the development of employees through HRM practices, offering insights into best practices. Finally, it concludes with recommendations for improving Tesco's HRM practices and ensuring continued success. This report is contributed by a student and is available on Desklib, a platform offering AI-based study tools for students.

HRM Report

Table of Contents
ABSTRACTS..................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
COMPANY OVERVIEW ..............................................................................................................3
LITERATURE REVIEW ...............................................................................................................3
DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS...................................................................................................6
RECOMMENDATION...................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................11

ABSTRACTS
The function of the abstracts defines that HRM report is an essential term for organising
the working of the businesses so that they will retain within the firm and company will enjoy
large amount of profits by regularly evaluating their performance and hiring new candidates for
the vacant position by applying some approach of the recruitment. This study is based on the
TESCO recruitment and selection process. It is based a particular structure that involves
introduction, literature review, analysis and conclusion. With the purpose of maximising the
skills related to company workforce practice and management.
INTRODUCTION
HRM report refers to an analytical method that is essential for the organisation for
displaying the workforce based insights, stats and metrics etc. for enhancing the planning for
employees performance. Hiring processes with the help of HR dashboards. This helps the
business to get the higher returns by managing the issues by providing the proactive solutions for
the fluent results. This report is based on the TESCO, that is one of the largest superstore in the
UK that deals in varieties of product range such as foods, cloths, home wares etc. so that
customers can enjoy number of product range at one place. In this employees work very
effectively for gaining the higher profits by attracting the large base of customers. The main
purpose of this project is to enhance the knowledge regarding the company HRM practices so
that increasing profits and sustainability would be maintained. This report includes the
recruitment and selection strategies that is used by the businesses. Further it discuss the talent
management strategies and training and development strategies that helps in developing the
employee and employee satisfaction so that they can give their best. Therefore, it also explains
the analysis of the hiring and training & development approaches so that they can provide
ascertain amount of benefits and further HR systems and procedures gives the relevant examples
for this. At last provide some recommendations so that good practices can be increased and by
avoiding problems(Ren and et. al., 2017).
COMPANY OVERVIEW
TESCO is the prominent British multinational retail groceries store in the UK that is
headquartered in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England. It operates their business in all
over the world across Asia and Europe. It trades in different aspects like superstore,

hypermarket, Convenience shop and the supermarket where they sells home ware, cloths, foods
etc. The company can follow the business environment so that they can earn higher profits and
for this they follow proper recruitment and selection process for hiring new ones and evaluate the
performance for employees so that they work effectively and gives the efficient results to the
company(Zikic, 2015).
LITERATURE REVIEW
Explain recruitment and selection strategies used by various firms
According to Author “(Ehnert and et. al., 2016)”Recruitment and selection is an essential
term for the HRM of the businesses. In this recruitment is the process of attracting the number of
candidates for a vacant job roles whereas selection is the process of hiring the best candidate out
of number of applicants. Different organisation use different strategies for recruiting the
candidates for a particular job position. Such as internally recruiting, externally advertising, print
advertising, Talent search , recruitment agencies etc. and for selecting business firm may use on
the job training, screening, evaluation etc. some of the recruiting and selection strategies can be
shown below that is adopted by the various organisation for enhancing their productivity.
Social media- It is the best source in recent business environment where small and large
companies can use the services like Twitter, Facebook etc. to meet the potential applicants for a
vacant job position. This also helps in saving the time and have very convenient in taking and
giving the interviews.
Web Advertising- It shows the growth of the company in the internet and digital world
where companies like TESCO, M&S, ALDI etc. can make their own official website to attracts
the skilled and experienced candidates for a advertise job position and due to this selection
would be easy.
Using recruitment agencies- Country like UK this type of agencies are growing day be
day. It reflects the mixture of in house and outsourced approaches. In this various large firm can
hire the experienced recruiter for hiring the top level position so that they give effective results
and done their task effectively.
Provide follow-ups to applicants- It is the best strategies that in recruitment and
selection process most of the companies like TESCO, M&S, ASDA etc. use this process of
taking follow ups so that they can understand their thoughts related to the company and the
environment.

Recruiting internally- It is an effective strategy of recruiting and selecting the candidate
in the different organisation like M&S, ASDA etc. where manager can recruit the candidate
within the organisation using intranet. At this time they can select the moderate level position
that helps in enhancing the morale of employees(Foster and Duinker, 2017).
Discuss talent management strategies and training & development strategies including
responsibilities of employee and employer
Strategies Talent management
According to “(Bondarouk, Parry and Furtmueller, 2017)” it refers to that term that can
do a whole work related to managing and organising the workforce of an enterprise in this
human resource department can connected with attracting, retaining and developing the
employees to their best within the same industry market so that they give effective results. In
TESCO, manager can apply some strategies related to talent management that includes
understand the power of job role, analyse the culture of workplace, offers training and
developments opportunities where employer have responsible for dictating the proper features of
the present job and employee have accountable for properly understand the role so that task can
be done effectively and if any issues occur it can be solved.
Strategies of training and development
Training and development is a core aspect of the human resource development. It
describes as a subsystem that can helps in reducing the randomness and encouraging learning for
maintaining the positive behaviour of the workforce. In case of TESCO, the major strategy of
HR is to create a strong link with vision and mission of the organisation so that they can
effectively provide the training and development to their employees so that they can give the best
results from this. In this the major responsibility of the employer is that they can provide proper
training session to their employees according to the task given where employees are responsible
for learning effectively so that they can enhance their personal growth that helps in future.
Critical analyse HR system and procedures
HR system and procedure- According to professor “(Sivapragasam and Raya, 2018)” it refers
to that term which is used to designing the safety, equality and consistency within the
organisation at the working environment. Apply proper system and procedures helps in retaining
the employees, improving their performance etc. so that company will earn higher profits. It

includes various systems and procedures that can be shown below(Human Resource Policies &
Procedures, 2020).
Performance appraisal- It refers to the best system of the human resources
management within the company because it helps in enhancing the performance of employees so
that they can provide best results to the task. In case of TESCO, this system of human resource
helps in examine the ability and capability of an employees so that they will be rewarded for
their best and this helps in enhancing their performance level.
Sickness policy management- In this HR manager of the corporate organisation can
focus on balancing the support with the workers health issues by permitting them to stay in
without compromising the health of the employees this procedure helps in maintaining the
effective brand image into the market and also helps in retaining the employees for a longer
period of time.
Grievances management- It is the best procedure of the human resource within the
organisation. With the background of the TESCO, HR manager can ensure that they can fulfils
all the requirements and tools related to accomplishing the project to their employees so that they
effective do their task without facing any grievances in the working environment. In this
manager of company can handle the complaints and dissatisfaction of the employees by
providing the safe and healthy environment where workers can share their issue effectively with
the manager and leader. This helps in maintaining the decorum with in business firm.
DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
Evaluation of effectiveness of recruitment and selection strategies including employment
law
Effective business success is totally depend on the proper assigning of the workforce in
the different functional areas. In this, recruitment and selection strategies helps the most for
getting the correct people for the proposed job for ensuring the organisational effectiveness. In
case of TESCO, manager can advertise the vacant job by using external recruitment that is Tesco
official website i.e. www.tesco.com or their vacancies board that were presented in stores. In this
they can hire the managerial post via the use of online media where they can select the few
number of applicants out of many at the primarily type of interview and then invited for final
interview that is done by attendance at the assessment centre for the final interview. As TESCO
can adopted both type of the recruitment strategy i.e. internal and external and to successfully

completing the hiring process company can follow the equality law act where they can farely
treated all the employees according to their skills and capabilities without any discrimination.
This helps in enhancing the image of the organization within the marketplace and company will
sustain for a longer term. This also helps in satisfying the employees job related demands that
will enhance their overall performance due to this firm will achieves their target within a
specified period of time(Chuang, Jackson and Jiang, 2016).
For internal recruiting manager of TESCO can promote a low level employees to the
higher position within a same department so that they shows their effectiveness by completing
the task on time and this helps in the success of the firm. In this Equality law plays an important
role in maintaining effectiveness within the organisation. This term also helps in effectively
fulfils the strategies that have done for enhancing the growth of the business firm within the
marketplace. The main objective of the TESCO is to achieves the goals within a team for this at
the time of hiring manager can take a assessment test so that employees effectiveness can be
judged and according to this they can organize the team who can done their task without any
conflicts and misunderstanding. Hence it is proved that the HR process i.e. recruitment and
selection strategies plays a significant role with the help of employment law because they give
the trusty results to the company growth and profits(Hair and et. al., 2019).
Analysis of business manages development of employees including best practices of HRM
It is to be analysed that talent management strategies helps in developing the employees
performance and also business growth with the use of HRM practices that involves the strategies
related to training and development, performance appraisal etc. there are some approaches of
talent management that can adopted by manager of TESCO which can be shown below.
Developing job description- It is the first approach of the talent management where HR
manager of TESCO is responsible for describing the job role in an effective manner whether they
hire the applicant on internal and external base. It helps in low turnover of the employees
because there is no misleading is presented by the job that shows the best strategy of the human
resource manger(Kaufman, 2015).
Provide development opportunities- In this strategy human resource manager of
TESCO can helps in developing the skills and knowledge of the employees by providing the
proper training and development session to their new and existing employees according to their
task allocated so that they can give their best in achieving the targets. In this employer is

responsible to analysing the skills and abilities of employees so that training sessions can be
organised according to that so that large number of opportunities can be cracked by company. On
the other hand employees are responsible for gaining their knowledge for their future
development that helps in their personal and professional career(Promee, 2019).
Performance assessment- In this term manager of TESCO, is responsible for evaluating
the performance of employees on a half yearly basis so that they can work on enhancing their
performance for getting higher rewards. This helps in creating the new goals for the employees
where they are responsible for fulfil it within a certain period of time. And here employer is
responsible for selecting the good performer so that they can offer some rewards due to their
their working morale is enhanced and absenteeism would be reduced(Panos and Bellou, 2016).
Selection process- In this TESCO employer is responsible for selecting the best
candidate out of number of candidates are present that provides the effective results to the
objectives.
Critical analysis of HR system and procedures within chosen organisation
HR Policies and system- It refers to that policies and guidelines that is related to
maintains the decorum within the working place. It shows the performing and non performing
activities for the employees that is set by the top authorities of the company. In case of TESCO,
manager can define this term for analysing the attitudes and values of the companies regarding
how an individual is treated for the development of business firm. Some of the system and
procedures can be evaluated below(de Zubielqui, Fryges and Jones, 2019).
Performance appraisal- It refers to that term which is used to evaluate the performance
of employees within the working environment. In case of TESCO, adopting this policies helps in
increasing efficiency of employees due to this task can be achieved within a set period of time.
As the company is present in all over the world due to this it is very essential to have a team of
effective employees. In this manager can evaluate the ability and capability of performing a task
of employees so that appropriate training can be given to them. It is to be critical analyse that this
system helps in achieving the targets on time so that employees get the high rewards for their
effective work.
Grievances procedure- It is the procedure of the HRM, that shows the resolution the
dispute that was arise within the working place. In this human resource manager of the TESCO
can focus solving the problems of employees, suppliers, customers and competitors by providing

them valuable solutions so that workers gives the effective results to the company. It helps in
reducing the employee turnover that helps in saving the operating cost due to this profit margin
of the company will be maximised.
Sickness procedure- It shows the policies regarding taki9ng leaves at the time of
sickness. In case of TESCO, manager can supports their employees to take off when they will
not well. This helps in satisfy the employees at their job position. The main aim of providing this
policies is creating support around employees jobs when they are absent. This will enhance their
performance and productivity due to this company can gain high amount of profits and revenues.
RECOMMENDATION
From above explaining various types of strategies related to the functions of human
resource management such as recruiting and selection, performance appraisal, training and
development and talent management and various HR practices this report helps in providing
some recommendations for enhancing the future growth and success. For this it is to be
recommended that in recruiting and selecting the candidates HR manager of the TESCO can
follow the social media tool and also hires a skilled and experienced candidate for recruiting the
vacant job role so that it helps in maintaining the brand image into the marketplace(Zibarras and
Coan, 2015). For effective talent management it is to be recommended that the manager can not
avoid the negative working behaviour within the organisation. And always focus on creating the
healthy working environment according to the business environment so that employees give
their best and due to this company will sustain in the marketplace for a longer period of time. For
retaining the employees employer can make a proper plan in which they can regularly evaluate
the performance of employees not on the half yearly basis this helps in motivating employees to
always do their best without any blockage. According to performance of employee firm will
provide training and development sessions due to this cost should be minimised and
effectiveness would be increases.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is to be concluded that in every organisation use of HRM report
is very essential because it helps in providing the proper knowledge regarding the vacant job
positions, needs of recruitment and selection, what strategies would be effective for hiring the
applicants. Evaluation of employees performance so that rewards can be deliver to them as per
their performance this would helps in earning higher profits and revenues. It inculcates the

recruitment and selection strategies that is best for the organisation for gaining higher profits and
longer sustainability with the marketplace. Adopting the appropriate strategies for hiring the
applicant by using the employment law helps in retaining the employees and improving the
performance of them so that that they gives the positive outcomes to the business enterprises.
This term also helps in analysing the HR practices and system by using performance appraisal,
training and development, reward system etc. and also inculcating the various terms that shows
the employees and employer responsibilities so that they work effectively and efficiently. At last
it helps in providing the recommendation related to the used of the various strategies and
practices so that in future it would be more improved and gives the effective results to the
company.

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