Cultural Impact of Labour Migration on Tesco's HRM: A Business Project

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MANAGING A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS PROJECT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................................2
TITLE......................................................................................................................................... 3
ACTIVITY 1: RESEARCH PROJECT MANAGEMENT PLAN............................................................3
PROJECT BACKGROUND.......................................................................................................3
PROJECT AIMS AND OBJECTIVES..........................................................................................3
PROJECT MANAGEMENT PLAN.............................................................................................4
WORK-BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE AND GANTT CHART.........................................................7
ACTIVITY 2: CARRY OUT RESEARCH AND EVALUATE................................................................9
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH...................................................................................................... 9
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH..................................................................................................10
EVALUATION OF THE ACCURACY AND RELIABILITY OF THE APPLIED RESEARCH METHODS
........................................................................................................................................... 11
ACTIVITY 3: RESEARCH ANALYSIS AND PERFORMANCE REVIEW............................................12
ANALYSIS OF RESEARCH DATA........................................................................................... 12
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION............................................................................19
PERFORMANCE REVIEW.....................................................................................................19
REFERENCES........................................................................................................................... 22

INTRODUCTION
Globalization has created a huge competition, challenges as well as opportunities for
business organizations across the world. It has created a financial as well as the economic
shift from the developing to emerging nations by promoting global economic-
interdependency and sense of cultural awareness (Cavusgil, et al., 2014). The multinational
organizations like Tesco have great growth opportunities in the international market and the
internal and external business and culture of the company is greatly affected due to
globalization. This project will support the company in identifying and analyzing the cultural
impact of the increasing level of labour migration on human resource management within
the Tesco Company. The different aspects of project planning and implementation will be
applied in this project to make sure that the project would successfully meet its objectives.

TITLE
“Identifying and analyzing the cultural impact of increasing level of international labour
migration on the human resource functions of Tesco”
ACTIVITY 1: RESEARCH PROJECT MANAGEMENT PLAN
PROJECT BACKGROUND
Tesco is a well-known supermarket retailer based in the UK. The company operates its retail
outlets across the different locations of the world. It is a multinational groceries and general
product store founded by Jack Cohen. The company offers cheap and affordable products to
its customers. Currently, it has 6,569 shops across different locations of the world with
around 460,000 employees. Employees are the key assets of the Tesco as they are in direct
connection with the customers (Tesco, 2019) Being a multinational organization, the
workforce at the Tesco is consisting of employees with different cultural, religious and
economic background that affects human resource management at the organization and
affects the human resource strategies and policies at the company. Globalization has also
facilitated labour migration due to the workforce at Tesco has become very dynamic. Thus,
this research project will provide a proper understanding of the cultural impact of increasing
level of labour migration on the human resource management function at the organization.
PROJECT AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
This research project is set to identify and analyze the cultural impact of increasing level of
labour migration on the human resource management and strategies of Tesco Company. It
will support in identifying the impact of globalization on the human resource management
of the multinational business organizations like Tesco. In order to achieve its stated aim, the
following objectives have been formulated;
 To understand the impact of globalization on the organizational culture of the
multinational business organization
 To analyze the level of international labour migration within the Tesco

 To analyze the cultural impact of labour migration in human resource management
in Tesco
PROJECT MANAGEMENT PLAN
A project management plan refers to the blueprint involving all the essential activities and
aspects of a business project. It is formal documents containing a project plan that is used
for successfully managing and implementing a project (Kerzner and Kerzner, 2017). It
defines how a business project would be monitored, controlled and completed successfully.
The essential elements of this project are stated below;
COST
It involves the determination of all the financial resources required to complete a particular
project (Meredith and Mantel Jr, 2011). This research project will require an estimated
budget of £30,200. A project budget containing the cost of all the essential activities and
resources used in the project is presented below:
ACTIVITY COST
Project initiation and planning £2,000
Resource allocation £7,000
Secondary data collection £4,000
Primary data collection £6,000
Collecting and recording
information
£3,000
Analysis of collected information £4,500
Preparation of final reports £3,700
TOTAL £30,200
SCOPE
This research project will support Tesco and other business organizations in understanding
the cultural impact of globalization on the human resource management function of the
multinational business organizations. It will evaluate the impact of increasing level of labour
migration on the organizational culture and human resource management at the Tesco that
would support the company in formulating effective strategies to deal with the negative
impact of international labour migration on the company and create an efficient culture

within the organization. However, this project is only limited to analyzing the cultural impact
of labour migration and does not cover the other aspects of the organization.
TIMEFRAME
Time management is an important factor for completing any business project successfully as
the in the absence of proper time management plan the project make not completed on
right time and may lose its relevance to the company (Kerzner and Kerzner, 2017). Thus, a
timeframe of 8 weeks is set for completing this business project. A milestone scheduling is
prepared to ensure all the project activities are efficiently completed on time.
S.No. Milestone Date Milestones Deliverables
1. 21st January
2019
Project initiation and
development of the project
management plan
Developing a comprehensive
project plan to direct further
actions
2. 25th January Resource assessment and
allocation
Assessing essential resources to
perform project activities
3. 30th January secondary data Collecting secondary data to
gain in-depth information about
the topic
4. 8th February Collecting primary data Collection of primary data for
obtaining in-depth
understanding
5. 21st February Collating and recording
information
Systematic recording of
research data to support
accurate analysis
6. 28th February Analyzing research data Formulation of results from the
collected data
7. 14th March Preparation of final report Complete research project
report
QUALITY
To maintain a project quality throughout the project is a tough task that requires proper
attention of the project manager and team. Project quality is very important to ensure that
all the project activities are performed efficiently and at the right time. The methods of
quality assurance and quality control are used in this project to maintain quality at the level
of the project (Meredith and Mantel Jr, 2011).
COMMUNICATION

Proper communication between the team members would support in performing all the
project activities effectively. In this project, the information among the project manager and
team members would be exchanged through the relevant sources like e-mail, Fax, calls and
text messages. A regular meeting is done to exchange necessary information and further
planning for the project.
RISK
Risks are always present in every kind of project. Some risks are certain and some are
uncertain. The certain risks like lack of time and funds can be mitigated through a risk
management plan (Hillson, 2017). This project is exposed to the technological risks and risk
of lack of time and funds that can be handled through proper planning.
RESOURCES
The key resources required in this project are financial resources, human resources, and
materials. The financial resources are estimated through a project budget and a team of 10-
12 members is required to perform all the essential activities of this project.

WORK-BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE AND GANTT CHART
A work-breakdown structure provides a breakdown of the project activities that enables
team members to have a clear understanding of all the essential activities of the project. It
break-down the project activities into small achievable tasks that support in the proper
management of the project activities (Lock, 2017). The work breakdown structure for this
project is presented below:
WORK BREAK-
DOWN
STRUCTURE
Project
Planning
Devising Project
Aims And
Objectives
Project
Management
Planning
Resource
Assessment
Assement Of
Required
Resources
Project
Research
Conduction
Secondary
Research
Conducting
Primary
Research
Data Collection
And Recording
Decoding And
Recording Collected
Data In Proper Format
Data Analysis Results And
Conclusion

GANTT CHART
A Gantt chart is used to create a graphical presentation of the major activities of the project
against the time. It supports in effective planning, coordination, and implementation of the
project activities (Lock, 2017). The Gantt chart for the project activities of this project is
presented below;
ACTIVITIES/TIME 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Project Initiation and
Planning
Resource allocation
Secondary research
Primary research
Data collating and
recording
Data analysis
Results and conclusions
Preparing the final
report

ACTIVITY 2: CARRY OUT RESEARCH AND EVALUATE
Business research supports having a clear understanding of the conceptual as well as
practical knowledge about the research topic. A mixed research approach is used in this
project by involving both qualitative and quantitative research methods. A method of the
literature review is used for qualitative data collection and a method of questionnaire
survey is used for collecting quantitative data (Saunders and Lewis, 2012). The applied
research method has supported in meeting the set research objectives and formulating
meaningful outcomes to the research project.
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
The literature review is been performed for analysing the organizational culture and current
level of international labour migration within the Tesco. The qualitative data will be
collected through accessing relevant literature sources like books, journals, online blogs and
company annual reports (Costley, et al., 2010). This would provide significant information
about the impact of globalization on the organizational culture of Tesco and other
multinational business organization.
Naor et al (2010) have conducted a study which helps in understanding the globalization of
operations and their impact on the organizational culture are significant level. It has been
evident that the national and organizational culture possesses huge importance in the
functioning of the organization. The globalization possesses a huge role in shrinking the
boundaries and expanding the business ties such that it has become vital for the
organizations that they conduct their operations by considering the cultural aspects
effectively so that they could gain competitive advantage. The study has been helpful in
understanding the role of management in handling the cultural impact and assisting the
organization in gaining competitive advantage.
According to Islam et al (2011), the globalization assists in maintaining organizational culture
and knowledge sharing at a significant level. The study has been helpful in understanding
the relationship between the organizational cultures along with knowledge sharing. The
cultural assimilation due to globalization has resulted in diversity in the workplace. The
human resource department of the organization has perceived cultural assimilation at the

workplace due to globalization. The healthy cultural environment at the workplace could be
ensured through trust, communication, and leadership. It is essential for the management
that they work on certain attributes in order to maintain an organizational culture which
would be helpful in knowledge sharing.
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
Quantitative data is collected through the survey questionnaire. The survey questionnaire is
performed by sending a questionnaire to the employees of Tesco for identifying the level of
international migration and its impact on the organizational culture of the company. A set of
7-8 questions closed-ended questions is prepared to collect the information (Flick, 2015).
The respondents were randomly selected and the survey form will be sent to them through
e-mail with a sample population of 50.
Sample questionnaire: -
1. Your designation
o Senior manager
o General Manager
o Ground staff
2. Work experience with the company
o 0-2 years
o 2-4 years
o More than 4 years
3. Are you?
o Expatriate or Inpatriate Employee
o Local national employee
4. According to you do the foreign national employees affect the organizational culture
at the Tesco?
o Yes
o No
o Maybe
5. The migration of employees from different countries is good for organizational
culture.

o Yes
o No
o No Idea
6. Does the increasing level of labour migration affects the human resources strategies
of the company
o Yes
o No
o No Idea
7. Do the foreign national employees affects the personal information and
transparency of the business organization
o Yes
o No
o No Idea
EVALUATION OF THE ACCURACY AND RELIABILITY OF THE APPLIED RESEARCH METHODS
The research methods which have been utilized in the project are helpful in attaining the
required knowledge for the project. The qualitative and quantitative research methods have
been utilized in the research method with the help of a literature review and survey so that
the primary and secondary data could be collected effectively. The literature review process
has been helpful in attaining secondary data through the peer review of similar studies.
Further, the survey helps in attaining the primary data through the collection of responses
from the respondents. The information which has been attained from the application of
research methods has been significant and assists in meeting the aim and objectives
effectively.