TESCO: Organizational Culture, Functions, and Difficulties Report

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of TESCO as a multinational enterprise, examining its organizational structure, culture, and functions across different countries, specifically the UK and USA. It explores the differences in organizational structures, highlighting the tall hierarchical structure in the UK versus the flat structure in the USA. The report delves into various functions within TESCO, such as Human Resources, and discusses the difficulties the company faces, including organizational culture clashes and technical changes. It concludes by emphasizing the importance of adapting to local cultures and environments for the success of a multinational enterprise. The report also includes references to academic sources supporting the analysis.

MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE

TABLE OF CONTENT
 Introduction
 About TESCO
 Organizational Culture
 Organizational Culture of TESCO at UK and USA
 Functions
 Difficulties faced by TESCO
 Conclusion
 References

INTRODUCTION
Multinational Enterprise refers to an enterprise which operates beyond the
boundaries of headquarter or operates outside the home country. TESCO
company is taken into consideration for the research for which the company's
organizational structure, function and culture is identified in different countries.
Companies operating multinationally needs to fulfil various criteria and requires
to function according to the culture of the country.

ABOUT TESCO
TESCO is a multinational company headquartered in UK operating in more
than 13 countries follows an organizational structure in order of smooth
functioning in the organization. The companies follows different structure in
different operating countries like in UK, Poland, Thailand, etc. with different
functions and cultures.

ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
Organizational structure refers to a blueprint of an organization which every
company prepares to achieve its goals. It generally includes rules and
regulations, policies and framework upon which company acts.

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
OF TESCO IN UK
Tall hierarchical structure is followed by TESCO in UK which comprises of
long chain of functions but majority of the powers are accessed by the top level
in the organization. President of the company has all major powers in his
hands. The company is having nine separate executives for the functioning of
each department in the organization.

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
OF TESCO IN USA
In USA TESCO follows Flat Organizational Structure of management which
comprises of few or less management personal. In USA the employees are
required directly to report their boss for any decision, discussion or regarding
any issue. This type of organizational structure provides more responsibilities
to the employees and supports free flow of communication.

FUNCTIONS
Every Company operates efficiently based on various functions within the
organization. If in any organization any of the function is absent or is week
then it affects all other functions and hinders the working of the company. The
various functions which are present in the organization are Production, Human
Resource, Finance, Sales and Marketing, Technical, etc. which all have their
separate importance and place in the organization.

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Human Resource: Human resource department focuses on the recruitment
of employees, payroll, training and development, etc. Since TESCO
operated in more than one country so it takes a good of its employees
and maintains a quality in recruiting employees.

DIFFICULTIES FACED BY TESCO
Difficulties are something which is present in every organization. No
organization can work and survive without facing difficulties or hurdles. It is
inseparable form the functioning of the company. Difficulties can be either
internal or can be from outside the boundaries of the company. Internal
difficulties such as difference in organizational culture, employees behaviour,
management control, etc. External difficulties such as Political hindrance,
Technical change, Societal preference, etc. These difficulties are discussed
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Organizational Culture: Organizational culture refers to the internal
environment of the organization upon which directly or indirectly the
efficiencies of employees depends. Every nation has its own culture
and behaviour which is hard to balance of all the operating countries
equally.

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Technical Change: Technical changes may be either in the form of up
gradation or can be of any change in existing one. TESCO adopts the
technological change in an efficient way and as soon as possible but
sometimes it becomes difficult to match with the technology as technology
gets obsolete very frequently.