Recruitment and Selection at Tesco in Taiwan: A Project Report

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Unit 6: Managing a Successful Business Project
Title: Globalisation can increase recruitment and selection of Tesco in Taiwan considering the
financial environment of host nation
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
LO1: Project aims, Objectives and timeframes...............................................................................4
Stages of Project Management with advantages.........................................................................4
Project initiation and Project planning........................................................................................5
Documentation in initiation phase...............................................................................................6
Work Breakdown Structure.........................................................................................................7
Gantt chart for effective planning................................................................................................9
LO2: Small-scale research.............................................................................................................10
Project Execution phase.............................................................................................................10
Fieldwork...................................................................................................................................11
Ethics, validity and reliability....................................................................................................12
Analysing information and Data................................................................................................12
Survey Questionnaires...............................................................................................................12
Interviews..................................................................................................................................16
LO3: Communicating appropriate recommendations on conclusions drawn................................17
Communicating outcomes.........................................................................................................17
Findings/outcomes of the research............................................................................................17
Evaluative conclusions..............................................................................................................18
Critical analysis and evaluation.................................................................................................18
LO4: Value gained from conducting the project...........................................................................19
Reflection from practice and learning.......................................................................................19
Cycle of reflection.....................................................................................................................20
Reflective writing from Logbook..............................................................................................20
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................22

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References......................................................................................................................................23

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Introduction
The project will embark on how globalisation at present is effecting the business environment of
emerging nations. The project perspective will analyse the increasing pace of globalisation that is
influencing many companies to apply better HR practices, so that productivity and profits can be
done in a new foreign country. The retail giant Tesco is chosen here to analyse how it can enter
Taiwan market, so that it can practice better path of recruitment and selection to increase their
retail chains hugely (Too and Weaver, 2014). This project will however analyse the key stages of
Project management with Project plan, including WBS and Gantt chart. Further, a Small-scale
research will also be carried out, so that better findings can be gained from the overall project.
LO1: Project aims, Objectives and timeframes
Project Management and it includes
Project management is considered as the planning of company’s resources that may move any
type of specific task during completion. It comprise of four phases, i.e. Initiating, Planning,
Executing and Closing work to attain specific goals to meet success criteria of a project in time.
This includes skills, processes and knowledge to attain project objectives, as per the acceptance
criteria of a project (Carroll, 2012). Some of the core competencies include defining reason to
choose the project or captures project requirements, specifying project timescales, resources and
deliverables.
Stages of Project Management with advantages
There are four stages of Project management, which includes Initiation, Planning, Execution and
Control and Closure. The first stage is considered as project initiation, as it establishes whether
the project is feasible or not. The advantage is that it sets out a justification for the project, on
what the needs of the organisation are or how will it benefit to produce potential financial output.
Project Planning is the next step, which outlines project needs and goals that are created to define
project scope (Meredith et al. 2017). It identifies what should be done or finalises timelines for
the deliverables in order to have a workflow schedule. Project Execution is the next step where

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objectives of the project is analysed with assigning task to the team members, or procuring
required resources. During this phase, the project manager needs to make certain that KPIs could
be used to control the project’s performance, like adherence to timelines, or keeping the budget
planned (Burford, 2012). Finally, closure is the next step, which evaluates how successful will be
the project be, or the lessons learnt from the process. The advantage is it comprises of flexible
systems that incorporate change, and it can be optimised rapidly.
Project initiation and Project planning
Project Scope
The scope of the project will analyse how Globalisation could affect the business environment of
Tesco, looking at its success in UK. As it is expanding to Taiwan, the role would be to find, how
effective recruitment and selection policies could be increased due to the advent of globalisation
(Mir and Pinnington, 2014). It will nullify the recruitment steps, implemented by the company
where it can hire the local and the regional staffs with better coaching, so that productivity and
profits can be increased.
Project Aim and Objectives
The project aim is to identify how globalisation can increase recruitment and selection of Tesco
in Taiwan considering the financial environment of host nation. The objectives include:
 To identify key HR practices that would be implemented by Tesco in Taiwan business
environment
 To examine how better recruitment and selection can develop productivity and profits for
Tesco while entering to Taiwan
 To investigate the local recruitment techniques of Taiwan, so that better selection
procedures can be practiced by Tesco in host nation
Project Deliverables
The project deliverables will include the vital information in the form of documents, software,
equipments, money, etc needed for project development. For this project, the use of laptops, pen,

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paper, project journals, electricity and phone bills are requirements that would help the project
manager to have success in the project (Svejvig and Andersen, 2015).
Project Purpose
The purpose of the ongoing project is to plan, co-ordinate and control the different activities for
the project, which will include common aspects of project ideas, or issues that can be controlled
in spite of risk in an event (Milosevic and Martinelli, 2016). However, the purpose will analyse
how the retail giant, Tesco can make business growth in Taiwan with the advent of globalisation
through effective recruitment and selection policies.
Documentation in initiation phase
Project Cost and Time
For this project, the projected cost estimated would be £1200. This will include total funds that
will be required for completing the ongoing project, on provided monetary obligations incurred
to analyse the project baseline. However, the time required for the project will be around 10
weeks from, starting from 17th April 2019 to 30th June 2019. The project time will be decided on
the time spent on the project activities and task that needs controlling project activities
(Blomquist, et al. 2010). It is quite evident to schedule resources, so that major milestones can be
determined.
Project Risk/ issues
Project risk is an uncertain event that has a large effect on project objective. The risk may deal
with uncertainty of events, which would have a likelihood of occurring on a specific project.
Thus, the risk factor could be deciding the timeframe of the project, which needs to be exact, so
that no extra time is, required more (Svejvig and Andersen, 2015). Even, the same case has to be
considered for budget as well. As Tesco will be entering to Taiwan, it has to look on the business
environment of Taiwan, so that it can practice better selection and recruitment policies.
Risk Probability(1-
5)
Risk Size (High,
medium, and Low)
Mitigation
To decide timeframe of the 4 Medium To monitor project stages, so

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project that there are no lags.
To frame the budget, if it
not exceeds
5 High Budget could be decided by
looking at it more, so that
project manager analyses every
task before headedly.
Team discussion without
any negotiation
3 Low Project manager needs to sort
the issues, so that no certain
differences in the project are
found.
Table 1: Risk log
(Source: Learner)
Project quality
It is imperative to analyse better quality of the project, as the project manager is taking imitative
to launch Tesco in Taiwan, so that better recruitment and selection functions can be prioritised
there. For maintaining project quality, it is effective that success factors have to analyse the way
project will be suitable to the audience (Burford, 2012). Thus, the project quality has to be
implemented, so that better recruitment and selection policies can be devised, knowing Tesco’s
initial success in other foreign countries.
Project Milestones
 To decide the initiation phase of the project, so that £1200 will be sufficient to execute
the project in 10 weeks time
 To devise breakdown of the task, so that list of every activities during planning phase of
the project can be tracked
 To analyse the key recruitment and selection policies among employees of Tesco in order
to judge its effectiveness while entering to a foreign country, like Taiwan
Work Breakdown Structure

Recruitment and selection of Tesco
in Taiwan with advent of
Globalisation
Project Initiation Project closure
Project Execution
and ControlProject Planning
Assign the project task to project manager and teamDecide the project Milestones and objectives
Devise a plan for the large project plan
Meet with the key project stakeholders Decide Project Time and Budget
Avail the project Scope with project deliverables
Devise risk log, in order to have better project quality
Identify if better selection and recruitment polices are doneAnalyse how Tesco will make success in Taiwan
Define team members who are capable to conduct survey among employees of Tesco
With Survey, analyse the Interviews among 2 managers of Tesco
Analyse the survey results by making recommendations
Document the project write up with logbook
Draw conclusions by validating project outcomes
Performance review of project manager
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WBS is a structure that is used by project managers to simplify it for project execution. WBS
helps to analyse the accurate project organisation, and indicates project milestones that would be
easily estimated using time, cost and risk factor.

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Figure 1: WBS
(Source: Learner)
Gantt chart for effective planning
Tasks Week 1 Week
2
Week
3
Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week
7
Week 8 Week 9 Week
10
Select the
project topic
Devise Aims
and Objectives
Project the
Business
project Plan
Decide the time
and budget of
the project
Design the
WBS
Design Survey
and interview
questions
Record
feedback from
employees from
survey
List the
feedback to
conduct better

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analysis
Derive the
interviews from
managers of
Tesco
Draw valid
conclusions
Analyse the
performance
review on
project close up
Final
Submission
Table 2: Gantt chart
(Source: Learner)
LO2: Small-scale research
Project Execution phase
Research Approach
In this research project, the use of deductive approach would be used, as it analyses the research
objectives that will be addressed with patterns made for observation. Deductive approach is more
general and specific since it assumes conclusions that have better measure of probability (Smith,
2015). Thus, it predicts the outcome, with the help of surveys in common.
Research Design
On conducting small-scale research, Descriptive research design would be chosen, as it describes
characteristics of a population that is being studied on a research subject. Thus, it is effective in

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case of quantitative research, as it attempts to analyse the quantifiable information drawn in the
base of statistical population sample (Antwi and Hamza, 2015). In market research, it helps to
collect the data, so that basis for future research can be easily done.
Data Collection method
For data collection, the project manager would use only Primary research, as it is effective to
analyse the findings with numerical data. Primary research helps to gather data, so that better
authenticity is maintained without any alternations (Mertens, 2014). Here, the use of surveys and
interviews will be performed, as they are convenient and can be done for a relatively small
sample size.
Qualitative and quantitative methods
Quantitative research uses numerical analysis that uses effective information to help in better
decision process. The research here aims in objectivity, and the design of the data is descriptive
in nature. Qualitative research involves non-numerical data, and it includes interpretive meanings
that are naturalistic to understand social reality of groups and individuals (Davies and Hughes,
2014). However, quantitative research is carried out in case of Online Surveys while qualitative
is used during semi-structured interviews.
Data Analysis technique
The data would be analysed using Quantitative data analysis that will be framed with tables,
figures, charts and graphs (Terrell, 2012). It will be analysed using MS Excel through percentage
calculations in the form of frequency.
Fieldwork
Sample size
The relative sample size chosen for surveys in 20 employees of Tesco while 2 managers of Tesco
is also chosen, for performing interviews on the concerned topic.
Sampling approach

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For defining sampling, the project manager would choose Random Sampling method in order to
perform the surveys better, as it is effective phase in probability sampling procedure. Towards
interviews, the project manager will choose purposeful sampling, as it will better illustrate the
association of non-probability sampling procedure (Terrell, 2012).
Ethics, validity and reliability
How the research is reliable
The research is reliable, as it produces reliable information that is mostly quantifiable in nature.
With small sample size of 20 employees, the project manager has to seek informed consent from
them in order to perform the surveys. They were also given confidentiality in the form of Data
Protection Act, 2018, so that no information is leaked.
Analysing information and Data
Survey Questionnaires
1. What is your age?
Age groups Number of respondents % of respondents
21- 30 years 3 15
31- 40 years 9 45
41-50 years 5 25
51- 60 years 3 15
Table 3: Age group of the respondents