Tesco Selection & Recruitment

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Executive Summary The aim of this report is to explore the process of recruitment and selection within the Human Resource Department of a specific organisation – that organisation is Tesco. I aim to analyse the essentials within recruitment and selection and also make a clear, defined difference between the two processes. An analysis will then take place on Tesco’s recruitment and selection process which will include some criticisms, finally recommendations will be made on how Tesco could improve their process of recruitment and selection. 1.0 Introduction to Human Resource Management Human resource management as a whole is defined as “the function within an organisation that focuses on recruitment of, management of, and providing direction for the people who work in the organisation.” Human Resource Management is a field that is evolving at a rapid pace throughout the world of business. The field of HRM is both an academic theory studied by many and also a business practice which puts these academic theories and concepts into action when managing a workforce. There are many subsidiaries within the field of HRM, one of which is recruitment and selection. Recruitment and selection, although they go synonymously with each other they each perform very different roles within the field of HRM. Bratton and Gold (2007, p 239) differentiate the two terms while establishing a clear link between them in the following way: ‘Recruitment is the process of generating a pool of capable people to apply for employment to an organisation. Selection is the process by which managers and others use specific instruments to choose from a pool of applicants a person or persons more likely to succeed in the job(s), given management goals and legal requirements.’ 2.0 Recruitment Recruitment as a process also has a number of smaller processes or task’s to complete in order to
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