LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Leadership Development in TESCO



Leadership Development in TESCO

1.1 Introduction

Tesco is a public limited company based international president of the United Kingdom working in the commissary and major retail store chains. It is the largest British shops in terms of global sales and market share with total earnings exceed £ 3 billion. She is currently in third place worldwide in terms of revenue after Wal-Mart and Carrefour but second in terms of profits ahead of Carrefour. And after that has been specializing in foods and beverages, it has diversified its business to include new activities such as selling clothes, electronics, household, financial services, telecommunications, insurance houses, health insurance, vehicle insurance, insurance dental, selling and renting DVD and CDs, download music, Internet service provider and the sale of computer software. escort operates in Europe with 825 stores spread across six countries (117 in Ireland, 313 in Poland, 164 in Hungary, 74 in Slovakia, 127 in the Czech Republic and 30 in Turkey) and Asia with 1,136 stores (137 in Japan, 614 in Thailand, 280 in South Korea, 30 in Malaysia, four in Taiwan and 71 in mainland China) (Data monitor, 2010).

1.3) Relationship between existing, required and prospective staff skills

The HR policy has always aimed to be motivational, fair and help to feel good about the company. This means that Tesco is constantly working on improving their customer service and bringing it to the next level. For this purpose, the staffs of Tesco have to work efficiently and accordingly to meet its strategy of improvising better customer service (Rowley, 2000, pp. 397).

The skills required by the employees of Tesco should match their strategy of achieving its goals. Following are the list of skills that should be required by the employees of Tesco in order to meet the company's strategy (Peterson, 2004, pp. 269):

Integrity - Ability to stay within the social norms, organizational and lawful in the work-related activities.

Creativity - Ability to propose creative solutions to business situations.

Ability to solve problems: Ability to identify problems, examine and make decisions effectively is highly valued in the public service, business, medicine, science and engineering.

Vocational skills: Ability to install, test and repair electronic and mechanical devices are extremely highly regarded in the fields of engineering, telecommunications, and transportation.

Ability to communicate with people: The working atmosphere in the organization and its success often depends on the quality of relations existing between employees and their customers.

Programming: Understanding of computers and the ability to use them increases the chances of finding a good job.

Information Management: Information - a critical element in all spheres of human activity, especially in the economy. Will be increasingly in demand systems analysts, information technology and database administrators.

Knowledge of foreign language: In an atmosphere of global economic and political integration of the knowledge of such "hot" languages ??like Russian, Japanese, Chinese and German can greatly increase the chances of finding a good job.



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