Report on Tesco's Management Functions, HR, Marketing, and Culture

This report provides an in-depth analysis of Tesco's management practices. It begins by examining the advantages and disadvantages of different organizational structures, such as hierarchical and flat structures, and how these impact decision-making and flexibility. The report then delves into the specific business functions within Tesco, detailing the responsibilities of Human Resources, Marketing, and Accounting and Finance. It outlines various management functions including planning, organizing, commanding, staffing, and controlling, and explores the interrelationships between planning and organizing, highlighting their roles in achieving organizational success. Furthermore, the report investigates the collaboration between marketing and other business functions, such as sales, finance, and HRM, to attain overall business objectives. The crucial role of HR in talent management is discussed, focusing on organizational strategy, career management, and performance management. Finally, the report defines organizational culture and analyzes how a positive culture can significantly impact organizational success by attracting top talent, reducing turnover, and fostering employee motivation, ultimately leading to a stronger brand and competitive advantage. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of each function working together to achieve success.

Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................3
Advantage and disadvantage of different organizational structure...............................................3
Business function and responsibilities..........................................................................................4
Different management functions and their responsibilities..........................................................5
Relationship of two management function and their role to manage success...............................5
How marketing work with other business function to attain success............................................5
Role of HR in relation to talent management................................................................................6
Define organisational culture and how positive culture impact organisational successfully........7
CONCLUSION .................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES...................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
In organisation management is an art to maximize efficiency, as a social process, method
of getting the things done through others a plan of the action and its direction by a co operative
group towards common goals or objectives. Effective utilization of all the available resources to
accomplish same goals or objective is management. It is a comprehensive function of the
planning, organising, leading, motivating and controlling the efforts of other people to attain the
objectives (Briesemeister and Selmer, 2022). Organization chosen in this report is Tesco that will
be helpful to understand different function of the management. This company is situated in UK
and mainly deal in retailing sector. This report will be based on the evaluation of the management
functions, their responsibilities, relations of marketing with other functions, role of the HR and
impact of the positive culture on organizational success.
Advantage and disadvantage of different organizational structure
Hierarchical structure- It is most popular and traditional structure in the existence and it is still
dominant in large organisation, corporations, government and religious group. Tesco also uses this
organisation structure in which all entities except topmost are subordinate to the another entity.
 Advantages
Career path are defined very clearly with each employee performing to attain the level
higher than their own.
 As there are various risk in organisation, this structure enable creating numerous
department where specific abilities are required.
Disadvantage
 There is less flexibility as this structure is not adaptable to the changes (Stepanov and et.
al., 2022).
 It take much time in decision making and their implementation as chain of the command
has to be followed.
Flat structure- In this, there is few or no level of any middle management between company's
executive and staff level workers. It decentralize decision making and also elevate levels of the
responsibilities of workers.
Advantages

 It promote faster decision making as only certain people have to be consulted regarding a
decision.
 It allow a clear communication as information is parson through specific series of mouths
and ears that it ended up either distorted or deflated.
Disadvantage
 There is possibility of struggle in work relation as it is not easy to connect with workers on
personal level.
 Management can lose control if there are less individual to put brake to the bed behaviour.
Business function and responsibilities
Human resources- This department is responsible to manage workers within company including:
 Recruit and select employee with right qualification for organisation.
 Establish system of incentives and reward to motivate employees.
 Handle dismissal or termination and also mange the industrial relations.
Marketing- This function is liable for marketing, sales, research and after sale services practices.
It identify buyer's need and requirements and develop appropriate strategy for marketing mix that
satisfy customer's needs. This function deals with the aspect including:
 Advertisement
 Distribution
 Market research
 Customer services
 Product development
Accounting and finance- These functions deals with managing the money in organisation,
including monitoring money going in or out of a business (Holzmann, Zitter and Peshkess, 2022).
It tasked with:
 Providing finance related informations to the management and some other department that
help in decision making.
 Preparing the budget allocating cost to the other business functions.
 Raising funds and also mage them such as for working capital management and capital
budgeting.

Different management functions and their responsibilities
 Planning- It set the objectives, policies programs, strategies and procedure of an
organisation in order to achieve the business goals effectively.
 Organising- It is process of establishing employees relationship that allow workforce to
perform together to attain desired target.
 Commanding- In this instructions are given to the subordinated and also ensure that that
organisational task are carried out appropriately.
 Staffing- In his, skilled employees are recruited and selected for vacant position in
organisation (Dixit, 2022).
 Controlling- In this, manager of a company measure the performance and correct the
activities which may not be working as well.
Relationship of two management function and their role to manage success
Planning- It is first function of the management which performed in management's process. It is
mainly concerned with deciding in advance, that when thing is to be done, where, when, how and
but whom that thing will be done. It is predetermined course of an action that help to attaining
specified goal.
Organising- This is a process of assembling individuals, organising resources and also include
distribution of planned work essentially for carrying out managerial plan. This function driven by
the goals identified during managerial planning process.
Relationship between planning and organising
The organising and planning can occur together for a large project. The organising include
identification of required resources and employee who will lead several acquisition and planning
of resources (Shubinsky and Zamyshlaev, 2022). Once initial company has begun, potential
principle and investors will want to understand the basic plan for assessing possibilities of failure
and success and also provide additional planning consideration. Thus by working together, both of
these function lead to a success for the organisation.
How marketing work with other business function to attain success
 Marketing and sales- Both of these function work with each other very closely in
organisation. Marketing in Tesco play its role by attracting clients to the business and also
develop customer's interest in products. Marketing ensure that sales function is selling
product or services which meet needs or wants of the customers.

 Marketing and finance- Marketing and finance work closely to ensure that in
organisation, there should be sufficient budget that can meet needs for the promotion,
research and distribution. Finance function of Tesco ensure that business operates in
financial capabilities, while marketing mainly concentrate on market share and sales
volume.
 Marketing and HRM- Both of these work together to ensure an appropriate skill and
staffing levels are in the place to: meet the production target, create competent sales team,
develop new product ideas. HRM has training and recruitment demand to balance its
obligations to marketing with those to the other functions.
Role of HR in relation to talent management
 Organisational strategy- Activates of talent management rarely happen in the isolation
(Jia, Li and Xia, 2022). HR team of Tesco may play leading role when making this
happen, from determining talent management as strategic priority to analyse where and
how that focus will be implemented.
 Career management- Managing career path of employees can aid to increase satisfaction
when reducing expensive turnover. By analysing, employee's strength and weakness it
become easy for Tesco's HR department to decide to work with employee for career
development plan of long time period.
 Performance management- When workers have been hired,it is significant to have right
process in place for managing them successfully. HR service solution technology in area
such as attendance and time help Tesco to track performance en and productivity. Regular
review procedure help keep the communication's line open between staff and management,
allowing employees to get feedback regarding what is going well and required
improvement.
Define organisational culture and how positive culture impact organisational successfully
Organisational culture is used to describe way individual define goals, values and overall
vibe at workplace (Li, Zhang and Qian, 2022) Tesco has unique workplace. Its team oriented

culture foster, personal growth, empowerment and innovation, and sincere desire to serve its
clients with a quality product and meaningful solution.
Impact of positive culture on business success
In organisation, a positive work culture impact influence the success of business as it make
a great contribution in organisational success. A positive work culture gain attention of the top
talent and also reduce the employee turnover. Employee in organisation get motivate by the
positive work culture as health culture cultivate such workplace in which workers have a higher
job satisfaction. Creating a winning and string culture leads to a better brand. Company with a
positive culture become key points of the differentiation for an organisation that help them stand
out amongst crowded field of the competitors. Thus, positive work culture lead to success within
an organisation.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is analysed that every business need an organisational structure to
operate systematically which can be used by company based on their needs. In organisation,
management perform various function and help the to mange the business success. At workplace,
all functions work together to accomplish success. The HR management also perform their duties
to create such working environment in which organisational culture impact the business success
effectively and efficiently.

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