Tesco's Operations in the UK: Social, Economic, Environmental Impacts

This report investigates the social, economic, and environmental impacts of Tesco, a multinational retail company, on the United Kingdom. The research explores Tesco's operations within the UK, analyzing its effects on the business environment, and considering the broader implications of globalization. The study includes an introduction to globalization, a background on Tesco, and research questions addressing the impacts of Tesco's operations. The methodology section outlines the research type, approach, and design, including sampling and data collection methods. The project management plan details the scope, cost, quality, time, communication, and resources needed for the research. The report aims to evaluate Tesco's impacts, identify negative consequences, and provide recommendations for mitigating these impacts, offering insights for businesses operating in the UK and other global markets. The report also includes findings, discussions, recommendations, and a reflection on the research process, aiming to increase understanding of globalization's impact on the business environment and the role of multinational corporations.

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Table of Contents
TOPIC..............................................................................................................................................4
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................4
Aims & Objectives.................................................................................................................4
Background of the Research...................................................................................................5
Rationale.................................................................................................................................6
Significance of Research........................................................................................................6
Project Management Plan................................................................................................................6
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................9
Research Methodologies..................................................................................................................9
Introduction............................................................................................................................9
Research Type........................................................................................................................9
Research approach................................................................................................................10
Research Design...................................................................................................................10
Sampling ..............................................................................................................................11
Data Collection.....................................................................................................................11
Data Analysis........................................................................................................................11
Ethical Consideration...........................................................................................................12
FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION...................................................................................................12
LO 3...............................................................................................................................................20
RECOMMENDATION.................................................................................................................20
LO 4...............................................................................................................................................21
REFLECTION...............................................................................................................................21
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................22
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................23
APPENDIX....................................................................................................................................25

TOPIC
To investigate the social, economical and environmental impact of a multinational
company on UK. - ''A study on Tesco.''
INTRODUCTION
Globalisation refers to the process through which companies successfully develop their
international influence. Business organisation start operating on international scale through
globalising its business activities and operations. Different countries come together in one
economy and makes the international trade easier (Quinlan and et.al., 2019). Companies enter
into international trade in order to have access for increasing the customers and market share as
well. The companies trading on international economy may lead to face both benefits and
challenges. The technological advancement and up-gradation allows easy access to business
organization to operate in international markets. Developments in transportation, ICT and
communication helps in accelerating the globalization pace. Retail business organization adopt
for international trade to gain the benefits of increased market share, profitability, productivity,
improved brand image etc. Increasing use of internet enables fast communication that can be
utilized by different business organization to gain effective advantages of international economy.
Economies of scale, competitive advantages and increased inward investment can be achieved
through globalization. Companies entering into international markets may also face issue and
challenges, such as, issue of cultural differences, language gap, effective advertisements for
attracting new and potential customers, finding new distribution methods and also developing
effective relationship with various important aspects and components of new markets
(Taherdoost and Keshavarzsaleh, 2018).
Tesco is chosen for the present research report, it deals in retail sector. Tesco is a British
retail multinational organization that deals in general merchandize and groceries. The company
serves in international markets including Malaysia, Thailand, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland
and United Kingdom. This retail company provides employment to approx 460000 people and
around 7000 stores around world-wide.
LO 1
Aims & Objectives
Aims:

To investigate the social, economical and environmental impact of a multinational
company on UK. - ''A study on Tesco.''
Objectives:
 To evaluate the impacts of Tesco's operations in the UK in 2018.
 To examine the negative impact on environment due to increasing multinational
companies in UK.
 To provide recommendations for reducing negative impacts due to operations of Tesco
on the business environment.
Research Questions
1. What are the impacts on the social and economic environment due to the business
operations of Tesco?
2. What are the negative impacts of Tesco operations on the business environment?
3. What are some recommendations for increasing the benefits and reducing risk of
globalization on business environment?
Background of the Research
This research is based on the Tesco company that deals in international and global
markets. Operations of Tesco leads to bring various impacts' ion the host country destinations.
The business organization operating on global level gets impacted and influenced by various
factors as well (Kumar, 2019). The business can gain benefits of increased markets share,
productivity, demand and sales. There are various factors that may affect the performance of
business such as, business needs to focus on cultural differences, fluctuation in foreign exchange
rates or tariff and trade barriers. Environment of a country may get affected due to operations of
business organization. The social, economic, environmental and financial factors of country gets
affected and influenced due to the globalization. Therefore, this present research focus on
identifying the various factors that may lead to bring effects on the business environment.
Rationale
This research topic is selected as globalisation is increasing and adopted by every
business organisation (Um, 2017). The researcher focuses on identifying the various impacts of
globalisation on the environment and ways for reducing it. Tesco is big retail supermarket that
may lead to bring different impacts on the social, economic, financial and environmental factors

of UK. Thus, the topic being chosen will guide business organisation for reducing the negative
impacts and increasing benefits of globalisation for the host country.
Significance of Research
The topic chosen is the globalisation and many research studies are conducted on this
topic. This research study can be used by other researcher for conducting further study on the
same topic. Focus of this research study is to move beyond the conceptualizing the term
globalisation (Patton, 2015). This research study will help in identifying the influencing factors
such as, economy, social and environmental. The research will lead to increase the understanding
of the globalisation term and its various benefits and negative impacts. Understanding
globalisation is essential part of learning about the business involvement in social, economical
and environmental aspects of destination country.
Project Management Plan
While conducting a research. It is important to prepare the project management plan as
this helps in effectively executing and controlling the activities of research project. There are
different elements and aspects that are included in the research, such as, scope, cost, quality,
time, communication and resources. This is a document that guides and directs researcher to
effectively executing the research study (Quinlan and et.al., 2019). Following is given the brief
description of the different elements of project management plan:
Cost: This is considered as the central activity that shows how much funds are required
for completing the project. The budget or cost of the project are estimated so that and all the
activities of project are carried out effectively. In order to complete the present research activities
and reaching to aims and objectives, £5600 is needed. Globalisation is a narrow concept that
requires studying of various narrow aspects of it for gaining authentic and reliable results.
Quality: This element is very important to be considered while carrying out the activities
of research study. The data gathered by researcher needs to be relevant, authentic and reliable.
Quality needs to be maintained by the researcher from start to end of the research study, i.e.
while collecting information or interpreting it (Kumar, 2019).
Resources: In order to effectively and efficiently complete the research study, various
resources are required. The adequate resources helps in conducting the research study in
effective and systematic manner. Thus, researcher needs to be provided with required resources

in order to maintain the quality and effectiveness of the research. This may include storage
devices, laptop, stationery items or etc.
Communication: This element outlines about how project will be communicated with
different audiences of project (Appelbaum and et.al., 2017). It is the backbone of the research
study and researcher may make use of emails and circulars for having an effective
communication. There needs to be effective communication between the various activities and
functions of business organisation entering in the international markets.
Risk: It is very essential for effectively analysing the risk factors, prior to conducting the
research study. Effectively analysing the risk factors, research may effectively and efficiently
conduct the study research (Creswell and Creswell, 2017). Security issues and theft of
information are the risk that needs to be analysed and mitigate for maintaining the effectiveness
of the research study. Thus, proper management plan will help researcher to identify the risk and
find ways for mitigate it and conduct effective research study.
Task
Mode Task Name Duration Start Finish Predece
ssors
Auto
Scheduled Identification of market 8 days Mon 03-12-18 Wed 12-12-
18
Auto
Scheduled Selection of market 9 days Thu 13-12-18 Tue 25-12-
18 1
Auto
Scheduled Conducting market research 9 days Wed 26-12-18 Mon 07-01-
19 2,1
Auto
Scheduled
Formulating of goals and
objectives 7 days Wed 26-12-18 Thu 03-01-
19 2
Auto
Scheduled
Identification of audience in
new market 4 days Tue 08-01-19 Fri 11-01-
19 3,4
Auto
Scheduled Creating marketing plan 6 days Tue 08-01-19 Tue 15-01-
19 3
Auto
Scheduled
Implementing of marketing
plan 10 days Wed 16-01-19 Tue 29-01-
19 5,6
Auto
Scheduled Testing of product 8 days Wed 30-01-19 Fri 08-02-
19 7
Auto
Scheduled
Final launch of product in
market 5 days Mon 11-02-19 Fri 15-02-
19 8

LO 2
Research Methodologies
Introduction
The research methodology refers to defining of the activities of research study. It is very
important element of the study as it helps in executing the aims and objectives of research topic.
The researcher may effectively gather the relevant and authentic data through various sources
with the help of research methodologies (Denzin and Lincoln, 2018). It includes philosophies,
approaches, type, design, data collection methods, data analysis, sampling and lastly ethical
consideration. The research methodology type selected by researcher in the present study
underpins the work and also methods which are used for gathering the relevant information.
Research Type
There are two types for conducting the research i.e. qualitative and quantitative. This
distinction is caused because of the factors like structure, flexibility, depth of study topic and
sequential order (Edwards and et.al., 2016). The present report will be conducted using the
Illustration 1: Gantt Chart

qualitative type as it will help in describing theoretical concepts of the topic effectively.
Whereas, the quantitative type is used for describing the numeric figures of the research topic.
The topic selected for present research is globalisation which is very broad concept that requires
conceptual and theoretical frameworks, thus, qualitative research type is chosen.
Research approach
Researcher needs to focus on selecting the best suitable approach for conducting the
research study. This refers to the procedure or plan of the research that helps to span the different
steps from broad assumptions into detail methods for data collection, data analysis and its
interpretation. This is important for researcher to maintain the effectiveness and relevancy of the
study, thus, researcher needs to choose the best research approach. Inductive and deductive rtae
the two type of research approaches. Deductive research approach refers to aimed and testing
theory. Whereas, inductive research is concerned to generating new theory which is emerging
through the data collected (Flick, 2018). The present research topic is globalisation that requires
qualitative research and inductive approach may lead to bring effective and efficient results and
outcomes. Therefore, researcher focuses on identifying the social, economic and environmental
impacts on the business environment due to the operations of Tesco by using the inductive
approach.
Research Design
This can be defined as technique or framework which is chosen by researcher for
combining the various aspects and elements of the research study in a logical, systematic and
reasoning way. Descriptive, semi-experimental, experimental and co-relational are the four types
of research design that can be used by researcher for effectively researching about the topic. The
researcher has chosen qualitative research type and descriptive design so that it can bring out
best results and outcomes (Görg and Strobl, 2016). The descriptive research design refers to
scientific method which includes observing and describing behaviour of the subject and without
influencing or impacting it. The descriptive research design focuses on depicting the participants
view in accurate manner. Researcher can make use of descriptive research design for effectively
and efficiently identifying the positive and negative impacts of globalisation on the UK's social,
economic and environment factors.

Sampling
While conducting the research on specific topic, sampling is considered as the important
element. The sampling technique refers to the procedure for choosing a small part of the
participants from the large population (Hillson, 2017). This is very essential for selecting the
group of people or sample from the large population as it will help to save money, energy and
cost. The group of participants are chosen in order to effectively conduct the research study and
also to make it convenient and easy. The researcher for conducting the present study also focuses
on selecting the group of participants rather than studying large population. Sampling
probabilistic and non-probabilistic sampling are the two methods that can be used by researcher
for grouping the population.
The probabilistic sampling is chosen by the researcher for conducting the present
research study on globalisation topic (Kumar, 2019). And in probabilistic sampling, random
sampling technique is being used by the researcher as this provides equal chances to respondents
for getting selected in the sample population. Thus, for conducting the present research study,
researcher has selected 10 managers of the Tesco as sample respondents.
Data Collection
The researcher needs to collect the data from the relevant and authentic sources in order
to effectively conduct the research study (Lê And et.al., 2019). Data collection is the procedure
for gathering data through the relevant and authentic sources so that it leads to finding of answers
for different problems of research, testing hypothesis and also to effectively measure the
outcomes and results.
There are two methods for gathering the relevant and authentic data for conducting the
research study, i.e. primary method and secondary method. Primary method helps in gathering
the fresh and new data and it may be collected through undertaking surveys, interview,
questionnaire, force field analysis, etc. Whereas, the secondary data refers to using second hand
data and this can be collected through articles, internet, blogs, journals, magazines and books.
For conducting the present research study, researcher has chosen to collect primary data by using
questionnaire. The main aim of using questionnaire is to know different views of managers of
Tesco about economic and environmental impacts on their company.

Data Analysis
The gathered data need to be effectively inspected, cleaned and moulded otherwise it will
be useless and meaningless data without the analysis (Miles And et.al., 2014). Two methods can
be used for effectively analysing the qualitative and quantitative data. For analysing the data for
the present research study, researcher makes use of descriptive statistics to summarize the data
by tables, graphs and charts with proper interpretation of it so that it can be presented in
systematic and effective manner.
Ethical Consideration
Ethics refers to the standards and norms that makes distinguish between right and wrong.
This element is very essential that needs to be understood by the researcher in order to make the
research study valid and authentic. Following are given the ethical considerations which needs to
be considered by the researcher while the whole process of research study.
 The participants of research were not subject to any harm or risk (Patton, 2015).
 Any participant of the study was not forced for taking participation in the study and they
were given rights for leaving the study whenever they wanted.
 Authentic sources are used for gathering the data. Investopedia and Wikipedia were
avoided in the research study.
 Respect and dignity of sample respondents were maintained in the study.
 Level of confidentiality is adequate in the research study.
 Researcher ensures about the privacy and protection of the data.
FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
Theme 1: Strategies to enter in new market.
Particulars Participants
Competing with established competition 3
Build trust and awareness through social media 4
Complying with regulations and local laws 2
Planning to scale effectively 1

Interpretation: Above survey which is conducted by researcher from manager of Tesco
company. In this survey total respondents was 10. Out of 10 participants 3 participant said that
they use competing strategy with established competition. On the other hand 4 participants said
that they build trust and awareness through social media platform that is the best strategy.
Whereas 2 participants said about complying with local laws and regulation strategy. Only 1
participant out of 10 participants choose planning to scale effectively strategy.
Theme 2: Main benefit by operating in different countries
Particulars Participants
Access to new customers 5
Economies of scale 2
Diversification of business risks 2
increases revenue 1
Competing with established
competition
Build trust and awareness
through social media
Complying with regulations and
local laws
Planning to scale effectively

Interpretation: From the above survey conducted from the managers of Tesco it was
identified that there are various benefits of operating by the company. Out of 10 participants 5
participant and the majority said that it has main impact on accessing to new customers by
operating in different countries. Whereas 2 participants said it has benefit as diversification of
risks. 2 another participant said and preferred economic of scale as a benefit. Only 1 of the total
participants said about increment in revenues of company.
Theme 3: Main issue involved in international market
Particulars Participants
Ethics and norms challenges 2
Tariff barriers 4
Terrorism and racism 1
Political instability 3
Access to new customers
Economies of scale
Diversification of business
risks
increases revenue