human resource management
Executive summary
This report shows that the good practice strategies to retain staff collectively used by a sample of small business employers in Tescoexceed the range of good practice strategies recommended in the literature.The report provides descriptions of those retention strategies and the checklist of over fifty practical strategies set out in section five will be of interest to all employers in small business in the State and beyond. Good practice is taken to mean a technique, method, process, activity, incentive or reward that is believed to be more effective at delivering a particular outcome than any other technique, method or process (from Wikipedia). Research Question: How can a firm such as Länsförsäkringar Bergslagen utilize selection and retention methods to find and keep employees that add value to the organisation?
Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to describe and analyse the process of selection and retention and how it can affect organisations’ ability to select and retain staff that perform well and are an asset to the organisation.
Method: Primary information was gathered from a face-to-face interview with the chief of personnel at TESCO, as well as from a follow-up e-mail interview. Secondary information was gathered from books, journals and the web. The research is designed as a case study and the approach to analyzing data is qualitative.
Conclusion: From the findings the authors conclude that by using selection methods with high predictive validity such as structured interviews, cognitive and personality tests, work samples and assessment centres, while at the same time considering how these methods affect the candidates attitudes and how well they allow for the candidate and employer to exchange views, values and goals, is the way firms can utilize selection methods in order to find staff that will add value to the organisation. TESCO is using all these methods, except for work samples. Of
This report shows that the good practice strategies to retain staff collectively used by a sample of small business employers in Tescoexceed the range of good practice strategies recommended in the literature.The report provides descriptions of those retention strategies and the checklist of over fifty practical strategies set out in section five will be of interest to all employers in small business in the State and beyond. Good practice is taken to mean a technique, method, process, activity, incentive or reward that is believed to be more effective at delivering a particular outcome than any other technique, method or process (from Wikipedia). Research Question: How can a firm such as Länsförsäkringar Bergslagen utilize selection and retention methods to find and keep employees that add value to the organisation?
Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to describe and analyse the process of selection and retention and how it can affect organisations’ ability to select and retain staff that perform well and are an asset to the organisation.
Method: Primary information was gathered from a face-to-face interview with the chief of personnel at TESCO, as well as from a follow-up e-mail interview. Secondary information was gathered from books, journals and the web. The research is designed as a case study and the approach to analyzing data is qualitative.
Conclusion: From the findings the authors conclude that by using selection methods with high predictive validity such as structured interviews, cognitive and personality tests, work samples and assessment centres, while at the same time considering how these methods affect the candidates attitudes and how well they allow for the candidate and employer to exchange views, values and goals, is the way firms can utilize selection methods in order to find staff that will add value to the organisation. TESCO is using all these methods, except for work samples. Of