Human Resource Issues

Human Resource Issue in Tesco



Tesco Plc-Organizational Background

Tesco is a leading food and grocery retailer. The company operates 4,811 stores in 14 countries worldwide. Tesco is running its services in UK and many other countries across United States of America and Asia. The company operates in a single segment, retail. However, Tesco's operations can be examined by the store formats operated by it: Express Metro, Superstore, Extra and Homeplus. The company has over 961 Express stores (up to 3,000 sq ft) offering fresh food at convenient locations. Tesco uses different channels to provide it customer with the quality services. The following are the channel that Tesco uses.

Online shopping channels

Tesco.com and

Tesco Direct.

Tesco also provides its customer with other services like broad band internet connection and telecommunication serviced. Tesco offers telecommunication services with the help of 50-50 joint venture, and mobile company is also involved in this services. Financial services are another service that Tesco is providing to its customer. Tesco offers this service through Tesco bank; there is a variety of ranges their service like saving accounts and credit cards. The company also operates Dunnhumby which offers consumer insights; market-related research also supports the Tesco Clubcard. Dunnhumby provides these services to external clients. The future retains numerous, distinct scenarios for Tesco. The business has currently developed into a worldwide business. One of their likely future strategies could be dedicated to gathering a spectacular clientele service, as they have currently developed enough. Another likely strategy Tesco could take would be to extend their present crusade in growth. Eventually the business could set up an international command and monopoly over food and house pieces distribution. This would make it an unstoppable force as by this time they would have acquired out competing risks for example, Sainsbury's or other supermarkets and there would not be any other shops that would be adept to compete, particularly since Tesco has an online buying characteristic accessible to any individual with an Internet connection (Achenreiner & John, 2007, Pp.45-50).

Discussion

The organizations these days have been experiencing resilience, change and increasing competition at a much faster rate. The speed of innovation, creativity and productivity is rapidly increasing and only the privileged organizations, which allow themselves no leverage, are able to sustain in such a pressurized and competitive environment of the global business. Many large and medium sized organizations have adopted such strategies which have given them increased profitability, and generated faster revenues for them. The common and much dominant feature of today's organizations are increasing workforce diversity in the organizations. The heterogeneity of the labour force has become one of the essential features of the modern organizations. The paper will discuss the subject of managing the workforce diversity and recruitment and selection in UK based organizations. In order to provide a structure to study, the exploration will be guided through the use of research methodologies, the collection of data through a carefully selected sample and the interpretation of the results. It will undertake to examine the patterns of ...