Significance of Training and Development at Tesco Project Report

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of a training and development project focused on Tesco, a multinational retailer. The project's aim is to identify effective training programs to enhance career growth and retention of talented employees. The report covers project planning, including defining aims, objectives, and scope. It details a performance management plan, Gantt chart, and work breakdown structure to organize project activities. The research employs both qualitative and quantitative methods, including literature reviews and questionnaires, to gather data on the significance of training and development. The report examines key issues in talent management, such as cultural disparities and work pressure, and recommends strategies to improve employee engagement and performance. The project's costing, risk assessment, and resource allocation are also discussed, providing a detailed overview of the project's execution and outcomes.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
TASK ..............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Describe the aims and objectives of organisation..................................................................3
P2 Produce a performance management plan.............................................................................5
P3) Make Gantt chart within time frames and work breakdown structure of stages for
completing the projects...............................................................................................................6
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................9
P4) Describe qualitative and quantitative methods which result as conducting research
meeting to achieving goal and objectives...................................................................................9
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................12
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................19
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................19
REFERNCES:................................................................................................................................21
Books and Journals:..................................................................................................................21

INTRODUCTION
The aim of this project initiate to analyse significance of trainings and development
programme within an organisation in order to develop career growth for both organisation and
employees. workforce are a crucial part of organisation on which productivity and positivity
depends upon. Their efforts decide the position a company took into long run. Therefore, it is a
need to select an retain the most prominent employees who could serve their contribution in
favour of companies goals and objectives. Providing training programmes helps in boosting
overall growth of employees so that they could look for making its long term career into
organisation. By attracting talented employees make use of their skills and capabilities lead to
result in high growth and success(Thunnissen, 2016). Tesco Is a top merchandiser of general
goods, based in London, UK. This report is going to consist the significance and issues are
related in h providing training and development for managing talent workforce into Tesco. The
company has large operations and number of employees working into different departments that
must be prepared for market uncertainties and innovation which increase their personal growth
and enhance retention. The research will undertake corrective data and resources to find the best
outcomes over problems.
MAIN BODY
Section 1
Project planning
The report is going to demonstrate need of training and development for enhancing career
opportunities to retain employees within organisation. Is is essential to provide opportunities into
an organisation so that employees get more attracted in working with Tesco. The company is a
multinational firm which consist large operations and various innovative product and services
that require contribution of skilled workforce. So that, Tesco could maintain its positive brand
image into whole wide world(Collings, Scullion, and Caligiuri, 2018). Talented workforce are
hard to find but must to retain for achieving goals and objectives in desired manner. For that
instance, there are various issues and elements that could affect environment of organisation
productivity and growth so, it is necessary to make strategies to cope up with uncertainties in
managing talent.

Research title: “The significance of new training and development programme for
managing talented employees within organisation.”
Research aim: To identify effective training and development programme for enhancing
career growth and retention of talented employees. A case study on Tesco
Research objective:
 To identify necessity of training and development within Tesco
 To analyse effective programmes that help in boosting career opportunities
 To demonstrate issues in managing talented employees within Tesco
 To recommend effective strategies for eliminating key issues in talent management.
Literature Review
To identify necessity of training and development within Tesco
According to the author Krishnan, and Scullion, (2017) Training and development has a
universal applicability for all organisation whether it is small or large. It is required to prepare
organisation workforce for enhancing their skills and potential effectiveness so that, they could
perform more superior towards goals and objective. Tesco is in need of providing training to
eliminate workplace conflicts, misconception and delay in work. As training makes the
individuals more better and confident in putting knowledge into practical situation.
To analyse effective programmes that help in boosting career opportunities
According to the author (Taylor, 2018)There are various training programmes that organisation
use in order to provide career development opportunity thorough which company enjoy lifelong
loyalty of employees. Therefore, the pr0ogrammes could be skill development, interpersonal
capabilities, make group discussion for regulating ideas, employees engagement in new and
diversified activities. All these training programmes must be regulate by Tesco for better talent
management.
To demonstrate issues in managing talented employees within Tesco
According to the author Sheehan, Grant, and Garavan, (2018) Tesco facing issues in managing
talent due to various cultural disparities and work pressure into organisation due to which,
employees could not make time for active participation into enhancing their knowledge. Also,
the organisation face difficulty In enhancing interpersonal relations of employees through which
together efforts will results in meaningful experience and elimination of mistakes.
performance management plan.

Performance management plan is a directive way though which projects get instruction in order
to complete assign task on time and with useful resources. The main purpose of preparation of
plan is to analyse potential performance. organisation must develop this time frame to check and
analyse how well their employees are working at workplace. It is necessary to undertake that the
goals and objective are fulfilling properly or not which could only be possible by making plans
for activities that needs to be run into operation. Through formulating plan, time, cost, resources
will be use effectively as per the standard desires(McDonnell, Collings, Mellahi, 2017) . Tesco is
a large supermarket that contains varieties of products and department in which there is high
need of planning the activities to avoid mistakes and loss of scare resources. The plan of Tesco
includes many performance criteria on which work gets divided These are mentioned below:
Scope: It is the way in which research is being carried out. It involves how the research
will going forward by focusing on Gantt chart and WBS.
Time: Completing work on time is the most required aspect into an organisation. The
time taken for this project is approx 3 to 7 weak. As it is the standard time required for a
research project with effective data and keeping superior quality.
Activities Expenditure (Pound)
 Analysed the issue £ 50.00
 Construction of plans £ 100.00
 Research evaluation £ 150.00
 Salary of researchers £ 180.00
 Miscellaneous expanses £ 200.00
 Project execution cost £ 250.00
Total £ 930.00
Quality: Quality is most crucial factor that require most attention while doing research
project It needs to be superior and valuable which can enhance by making proper plan and
procedure. Quality depends on what factor organisation use such as primary secondary,

qualitative, quantitative. Tesco undertake tools of primary and secondary methods for enhancing
quality of the project(Collings, Mellahi, and Cascio,, 2017)
Communication: It is the key of all the problems, without communication organisation
would not be able to interact with respondents and employees. Various communication tools are
there in which the most effective one needs to be analyse to reach maximum people for the
project. Tesco requires to undertake significant , communication tools like,emails, texts and
social platforms and many more. In carry out this research project, use of questionnaire has
involved in order to make communication with employees, students, customers and others. Also,
make sure to keep the communication authentic and up to professional boundaries.
Risk: Risks are associated with every project, that needs to be handle with calmness and
appropriate strategies. The projects involve risk of cost, employees perception, authenticity and
similarity. In order eliminate risks factors, Tesco needs to take help of PMP plan so that all work
will carry out smoothly and on the basics of integrity and authenticity. Therefore, risk could be
ascertain or uncertain. For that, measures and tools smut be prior level to maintain project
effectiveness.
Resource: resources are limited and must be authentic to maintain quality and cost of the
project. Tesco needs to make sure in utilising these resources into optimum use. The project will
work out through literature sources, mobile, laptops and journals.
Therefore, PMP is crucial to make for taking detailed knowledge about cost, time,
communication, risk and resource factor(Morris, Snell, and Björkman, 2016). . In which, the
po9rjcet took success in fulfilling research aims and objectives. The researcher needs to have
knowledge and potential to make effective use of tools.
Gantt chart and work break down structure
Organisations work and operates to achieve their targets and goals by making possible
efforts by breaking down the activities into simpler manner. Tesco is an affiliated firm into UK
market in which functions are complex and required effective decisions. Therefore, Gantt chart
and work breakdown structure are the tool and document in which, time frames are associated
for each activities. It is necessary to make use of tools in order to give a structured framework to
the data and its time duration in a highly complex and uncertain working environment. In order
to ascertain good results in providing trainings and development programmes, these two

structure are reliable(Bradley, 2016) . Tesco needs to work on the basis of time frame to reduce
over burdened and and less confusion would create at workplace.,
Gantt chart:
Gantt chart is essential to check performance and find out mistakes in order to improve
efficiency. The graph represents line of vertical and horizontal time frame that shows different
time scale and work completed on that time respectively. Tesco could utilise their resources an
effective workforce in completing the project on time so that, better results come up and things
get less complex. Gantt chart gives durations of the activities and current schedule of tasks. It is
the most important function of management to analyse cost and time frame. So less complex
work will comes under less time duration and vice-versa.

Work breakdown structure
Under this structure, the name represents all the meaning itself that work gets break
down into smaller parts. So that, it become easy for the employees to complete each and every
work without any confusion. So that work will carry on smoothly. It also has two types one is
deliverable and phase. These two are only indifferent because of element it contains. Tesco need
to undertake this structure to lowering down work pressure and feel free in working remotely.
Forming this structure, gives insight of bringing the charm of organisation in form of employees
by enhancing their work satisfaction.

Section 2
Conduct qualitative and quantitative research .
The project based on data and analyses which is most suitable for the work. An
explanation of data collection methods are described below:
Qualitative approach: it is an effective approach of collecting data in theoretical aspect
which does not contain any figures, charts and numbers. This approach is used for gaining
knowledge into less relevant aspect. This project is based on qualitative aspect by conducting
observation, literature review, books and journals. This approach is suitable to analyse
theoretical aspect of need to have training and development problems by author’s perspectives.
Quantitative approach: This research is a part of numeric data with most relevant
figures and presentation of statistics (van Zyl, Mathafena, and Ras, 2017). It is useful to gain
accurate information of the topic. The data will be get collect though surveys and question by
doing relevant research. This project is also using quantitative data in form of questionnaire,
graphical representation and data interpretation. As it is also required to check practical situation
of organisation so that the objectives of the project would be get fulfil.
Data collection methods: There is mainly two type of data collecting methods and both
have equal importance in carry out the project.

Primary data: Primary data is a part of quantitative research approach in which data gets
collected by taking personal interaction with respondents and keep the data authentic and
accurate. This project is using primary research method in form of questionnaire which provides
data into numerical manner and would analyse how much employees are acknowledged by the
significance of training and development.
Secondary data: Under this type of data collection, qualitative approach is required on
which data are collected on the basis of books, journals, literature review, internet and other
sources and other sources. This project is based on secondary source that is literature review as it
is required to ascertain author’s perspective to analyse the issues and significance of training and
development into organisation.
Data sources: there are many sources through which data get collected. All the sources
are effective as per the significance of criteria. These sources help in gathering data and
preparing the whole conclusion over the findings. Therefore, this project has carried out though
using mobile, internet, organisation visits and study material of books and articles.
Sampling: sampling is all about gathering participates for the research purpose. There are
mainly two methods of sampling which is profitability and non-profitability sampling. Random
sampling is a part of profitability sampling. This research is based on random sampling method
in which 50 respondents has picked randomly of Tesco organisation. The participates have total
rights to take their concern back. It is effective as it save time and does not create any
discrimination among people. All the 50 participates are employees of Tesco organisation
through which the researcher would collect data about practices of Tesco in providing career
opportunities.
Questionnaire
Quantitative Questions
Q1) Do you aware about what talent management is?
a) Yes
b) No
Q2) Do you agree with the significance of managing talent within workplace?
a) Yes
b) No
Q3) Do you think training and development is a part of talent management?

a) Yes
b) No
Q4) Does Tesco understand the need of skilful employees?
a) Yes
b) No
Q5) Does Tesco use effective practices in managing talent to enhancing career opportunity for
retaining skilled employees?
a) Yes
b) No
Q6) Is Tesco come up with issues in providing training and development to employees?
a) Yes
b) No
Q7) What issues Tesco is facing in running practices for talent management?
a) Ineffective leadership style
b) demand for high pays
c) inadequate working structure
Q8) What are the complimentary measures that undertaken by Tesco for resolving issues in
proving better training programmes?
a) Initial induction process
b) regular initiative towards new work
c) hiring expertise training professionals
Q9) What role does HR manager of Tesco play in providing effective growth and development
of employees in order to retain employees for longer time?
a) Hire skilful professionals
b) regular check on performance level of employees
c) provide support in resolving doubts at workplace
d) Enhance motivation.
Q10) How talent management get maintained by practices performed by HR manager of
Tesco?
a) Employees get dedicated to achieve growth
b) Ensure job satisfaction

c) cooperation and hierarchy reflects within workplace.
Qualitative questions
Q11) What could be effective step for boosting employees motivation to take participate in
training and development programmes for managing talent in Tesco?
 Reflect career opportunities.
 Provide higher pays and compensation
Q12) What are vital functions that undertook by Tesco to Enhance performance and
productivity of both employees and organisation?
 Performance appraisal tools
 Effective leaders support
Q13) Recommendation
Section 3
Findings:
Q1) Do you aware about what talent management is? FREQUENCY
1. Yes 40
2. No 10