Strategies to Reduce Employee Turnover at Tesco: A Case Study

This case study investigates strategies to reduce employee turnover at Tesco and improve company productivity. It aims to understand the concept of employee turnover, identify strategies used by Tesco to mitigate it, examine the causes of turnover, and recommend appropriate solutions. The research employs a positivism philosophy and a deductive approach, utilizing a survey strategy and mono-method research choice with cross-sectional time horizon. Primary data will be collected through sampling, focusing on talent management, retention strategies, creating a positive work environment, and implementing learning and development programs to provide clear career paths for employees. The study references various academic sources to support its analysis and recommendations.

Research Proposal
(Title: To identify the appropriate strategies to reduce
employee turnover in order to improve the productivity of
the company”, A case study of TESCO)

Table of Contents
Introduction:.....................................................................................................................................1
Research objectives and aim:.................................................................................................1
Rationale.................................................................................................................................1
Literature Review.............................................................................................................................2
What is the concept of employee turnover?..........................................................................2
What are the strategies used by TESCO in order to reduce employee turnover?..................2
Examine the causes of employee turnover rate that are facing by the company TESCO?...2
Activities and timescales..................................................................................................................3
Research methodology.....................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
APPENDIX A.................................................................................................................................6
Research Ethics Approval Form..........................................................................................6

Introduction
Employees turnover rate create huge impact on the organization in order to maintain their
brand image in the marketplace and improve the productivity and efficiency of the organization.
There are different kind of marketing strategies that helps the organization to improve the
employees Retention rate as well as turnover and there are different strategies to reduce
employee turnover like identify a clear career path for the employees and motivate a healthy
work life balance of the workplace and create different kind of learning and development
programs. This is the research that focusing on the different kind of a strategy so that the
company can reduce employs turnover rate
Research objectives and aim:
Research aim
To identify the appropriate strategies to reduce employee turnover in order to improve the
productivity of the company”, A case study of TESCO.
Research objective
 To understand the concept of employee turnover along with its effect on productivity of a
company.
 To identify the strategies used by TESCO in order to reduce and mitigate the issue of the
employee turnover.
 To examine the main causes of employee turnover rate that are facing by the company
TESCO.
 To recommend appropriate strategies to reduce employee turnover in order to improve
the productivity of the company.
Research question:
 What is the concept of employee turnover?
 What are the strategies used by TESCO in order to reduce employee turnover?
 Examine the causes of employee turnover rate that are facing by the company TESCO?
Rationale
The main motive of this investigation is to fulfil the objectives of the organisation in order to
identify different kind of strategies that support the organisation to reduce employees turnover
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rate. This will help the individual to gain different kind of knowledge and improve their
capabilities so that they can improve their professional career in an appropriate manner
Literature Review
What is the concept of employee turnover?
As per the view of, (Yang and Alves, 2021) Employees turnover rate refers to the entire
number of the employees who leave our organisation over a certain time period. This is the term
that includes those individual who exit voluntarily as well as workers who are fired all kind of
laid off. There is different kind of turnover in the organisation like voluntary turnover, total
turnover, in voluntary turnover. It is very important for the organisation to reduce the employees
turnover because it create impact on the brand image and also create impact on the workforce.
What are the strategies used by TESCO in order to reduce employee turnover?
As per the view of, (Zhang and Li, 2020) There are different kind of causes that become
reason of employees turnover at the Tesco organisation and that are deficiency of growth and
progress in the organisation and deficiency of feedback and recognition. It is very important for
the organisation to give feedback And adopt a different kind of strategies so that they can give
different kind of opportunities for their employees in order to maintain employee’s turnover rate.
Apart from this there are different kind of more reasons like lack of the warden compensate of
your workers little opportunities for the decision making in the company less investment in the
workers and many more (Yunmeng and Chengyi, 2019). These are the main reasons of
employee turnover that create huge impact on the organisation and it is very important for the
company to analyse employs turnover in order to reduce their employees turnover rate in the
company and improve their capabilities
Examine the causes of employee turnover rate that are facing by the company TESCO?
According to the, (Aldatmaz, Ouimet and Van Wesep, 2018) There are different kind of
strategies that are adopted by the Tesco company so that they can reduce employees turnover in
the company and improve the capabilities as well as efficiency of the company. The organisation
is working on the fact of talent management strategies in order to find the right talent for the
organisation. Apart from this the organisation is introducing different kind of retention strategies
so that they can retain more employees in the company and provide appropriate motivation.
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Apart from this the organisation is working on creating positive environment at the workplace so
that they can motivate their workers towards the healthy work life balance. Apart from this the
organisation is also developing and formulating different strategies and activities in order to
improve their skills and capabilities of the employees Through conducting learning and
development programs. Furthermore, the companies also identifying appropriate clear career
path for the workers so that they can feel more valuable in the organisation.
Activities and timescales
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Research methodology
This process is very helpful for the organisation as well as investigator to achieve the goals
and objectives of the investigation in an appropriate manner and collect the data for the interpret
the data.. There are different kind of philosophy and approaches which are not up by the
investigator so that they can evaluate that effective data and information in an appropriate
manner. The research methodologies separated into different components that are below
mentioned:
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Research philosophy: It is separated into two portion which is interpretivism and
positivism. According to the current investigation the researcher will going to select positivism
philosophy so that they can become capable to collect quantitative information.
Research approach: Research approach is the strategy that is used by the investigator in
order to test hypothesis information and research approaches are of two types that is deductive
and inductive. In the current research, the researcher will going to work on deductive approach
so that they can test curious which are associated to the quantitative information.
Research strategy: There are different kind of tree surgeon strategies like systematic
literature review, cases study, surveys and many more. For the current investigation, the
researcher will going to select survey investigation of strategy so that they can collect
appropriate Information in a numerical form from the wider section.
Research choice: Quantitative as well as qualitative are too kind of research choices that are
classified into three parts and that are multi method, mixed method, mono Method. The current
investigation will going to work on mono method.
Time horizon: It is the particular time Frame that has two kind of halogens that is longitude
channel, cross-sectional. The investigator will going to work on the cross-sectional time Horigan
so that they can collect the appropriate information in the shorter time period in order to achieve
their goals and objectives
Data collection: Data collection is the kind of technique that helps the researcher to collect
the appropriate information. Primary as well as secondary data to types of data collection method
that helps them to collect data from the participants. According to the current investigation the
primary data will going to collect from the respondent because the information is very fresh and
direct collect from the participants..
Sampling: There are two kinds of sampling method that are used in the investigation in
order to grab the information and that is probability as well as nonprobability. The current
investigation will going to work on the probability method and the simple size that are selected
by them researcher is 50.
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REFERENCES
Books and journal
Aldatmaz, S., Ouimet, P. and Van Wesep, E.D., 2018. The option to quit: The effect of employee
stock options on turnover. Journal of Financial Economics, 127(1), pp.136-151.
Zhang, T. and Li, B., 2020. Job crafting and turnover intention: The mediating role of work
engagement and job satisfaction. Social Behavior and Personality: an international
journal, 48(2), pp.1-9.
Yang, W. and Alves, J.C., 2021. IMPACT OF HRM PRACTICES ON EMPLOYEE
TURNOVER INTENTIONS THROUGH ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE: A SOCIAL
IDENTITY PERSPECTIVE. International Journal of eBusiness and eGovernment
Studies, 13(2), pp.260-280.
x Yunmeng, Z. and Chengyi, Z., 2019, October. The Application of The Decision Tree
Algorithm Based on K-means in Employee Turnover Prediction. In Journal of Physics:
Conference Series (Vol. 1325, No. 1, p. 012123). IOP Publishing.
APPENDIX A
Research Ethics Approval Form
All students conducting research activity that involves human participants or
the use of data collected from human participants are required to gain ethical
approval before commencing their research. Please answer all relevant
questions and note that your form may be returned if incomplete.
For further support and guidance please see your respective Unit Tutor.
Before completing this form, we advise that you discuss your proposed
research fully with your Unit Tutor. Please complete this form in good
time before your research project is due to commence.
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Section 1: Basic Details
Project title: To identify the appropriate strategies to reduce employee turnover in order to
improve the productivity of the company”, A case study of TESCO
.
Student name:
Student ID number:
Programme:
Center Name:
Intended research start date:
Intended research end date:
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Section 2: Project Summary
Please select all research methods that you plan to use as part of your project:
• Interviews:
• Questionnaires:
• Observations:
• Use of Personal Records:
• Data Analysis:
• Action Research:
• Focus Groups:
• Other (please specify): ..............................................................................................
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Section 3: Participants
Please answer the following questions, giving full details where necessary. Will your research
involve human participants?
Who are the participants? Tick all that apply
Ages 12-16:
Young People aged 17–18:
Adults:
How will participants be recruited (identified and approached)?
Through probability sampling
Describe the processes you will use to inform participants about what you are doing:
Through consent form
How will you obtain consent from participants? Will this be written? How will it be
made clear to participants that they may withdraw consent to participate at anytime?
Through Email and this will be in written format
Studies involving questionnaires: Will participants be given the option of omitting questions
they do not wish to answer?
Yes No
If No please explain why below and ensure that you cover any ethical issues arising from
this.
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Studies involving observation: Confirm whether participants will be asked for their informed
consent to be observed.
Yes No
Will you debrief participants at the end of their participation (i.e. give them a brief
explanation of the study)?
Yes No
Will participants be given information about the findings of your study?(This could be a
brief summary of your findings in general)
Yes No
Section 4: Data Storage and Security
Confirm that all personal data will be stored and processed in compliance with the Data
Protection Act (1998) Yes: No:
Who will have access to the data and personal information?
During the research:
Where will the data be stored?
IN LAPTOP
Will mobile devices such as USB storage and laptops
be used?
Yes: No:
If yes, please provide further details:
After the research:
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Where will the data be stored?
In USB
How long will the data and records be kept for and in what format?
For six month
Will data be kept for use by other researchers?
Yes: No:
If yes, please provide further details:
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Section 5: Ethical Issues
Are there any particular features of your proposed work which may raise ethical concerns?
If so, please outline how you will deal with these:
It is important that you demonstrate your awareness of potential risks that may arise as
a result of your research. Please consider/address all issues that may apply. Ethical
concerns may include, but are not limited to the following:
• Informed consent.
• Potentially vulnerable participants.
• Sensitive topics.
• Risks to participants and/or researchers.
• Confidentiality/anonymity.
• Disclosures/limits to confidentiality.
• Data storage and security, both during and after
the research (including transfer, sharing,
encryption, protection).
• Reporting.
• Dissemination and use of your findings.
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