Introduction Over the years, human resource management has developed into a strategic process through which the

overall performance of the organization can be increased. Initially, the labor force was not as seriously in the operations of an organization and therefore the concepts such as job satisfaction of employees, their self esteem, their working capabilities were not taken into account. However, the experience over the years of corporation and businesses and also the research and development processes have helped bring into the limelight the importance of human resource management as an application and also as a theory. Proposed Topic: For the Human resource management dissertation, the following topic has been proposed, Employee recognition programs and their impact of the

performance of Tesco Dessler (2009) says that the basic functions of human resource management are planning, organizing, staffing, leading and controlling the employees. However, Mathis and Jackson (2008) say that people usually are not happy with the existence of human resource management in their lives. The reason of this holding true being the notion that human resource management has a bureaucratic function which stretches the performance of the employee beyond their capabilities. Programs such as the employee recognition ones and similar others then seek to balance out this notion of human resource management and confirms the fact that human resource management is actually present to help the employee in recognizing their abilities and in the organization overall in recognizing the efforts of the employees. The proposed research paper is going to study the theory of such programs specifically and of the human resource function generally and then relate the

theory to the application on Tesco. The research will be a combination of primary and secondary data collection. This will be focused upon later in the paper.

Proposed Research Methodology The research methodology will have two basic parts. The first part is going to focus on collecting the secondary data and theory about human resource management, employee recognition programs and Tescos human resource management applications and reputation. The research is going to be both qualitative and quantitative in its approach. Primary data collection For the primary data collection, the idea is to conduct two questionnaire surveys. The first questionnaire survey will be directed towards the general public and will seek to analyze the importance of employee recognition programs in organizations. This will be the non expert part of opinion on employee recognition programs. The questionnaire are going to be in multiple choices formats so that the participants do not have troubles filling them out and also so that the ease of analyzing the results of the questionnaire are maintained. The second set of questionnaires will be directed towards the employees of Tesco and will seek to understand what employee recognition programs are currently being employed in the organization and what are their impacts with respect to the opinion of the employees of the organization are. The results of the questionnaire will be analyzed in computer software to avoid human error and the analysis will be done on the basis of graphical representations. Secondary Data Collection

The secondary data collection will be presented in the form of literature review in the proposed research paper and will be collected by online books and journals. The fortunate thing here is the fact that online libraries are rich with human resource management and related literature. Moreover, even in regards to Tesco, literature will be available. The reasons for this availability of literature being two in number! The first one being the fact that Tesco has a long history and therefore, documentation of its practices and experiences is available. Secondly, Tesco is currently the market leader of in the United Kingdom and also as its branches all over the world. This strategic importance of Tesco has influenced the researchers and writers as well as documenters to save the experiences of Tesco. All that documentation then is going to be of aid in this paper. Ethics being taken into account As far as the secondary research is concerned, no ethical issues will form an obstacle in the conduction of the proposed research. In the primary data collection however, the participants will not be asked to fill out their personal information and will also be informed of the true nature of the questionnaire. This would cater to both the problems of deception and confidentiality. Thus, overall, ethical issues are not expected to be a strong factor in influencing the paper. Reliability and Validity of the Proposed Paper It is expected that the paper is going to be reliable because it will analyze the primary data in the light of the expert opinion in the shape of literature review. Moreover, it is assumed that the participants will be honest in their replies and thus, the primary findings can be analyzed without the fear of biased data sets. In the terms of educational and application purposes, this paper is expected to be valid and credible since employee recognition programs are becoming

a new norm in various organizations owing to the tough competition in the labor market. Moreover, in theory, the findings will always remain a vital analysis tool of research. Schedule Following will be the order of actions for the proposed research: i) Collection and analysis of literature ii) Formation of questionnaires iii) Getting the questionnaire filled iv) Analyzing the results of the primary data v) Compilation of the report Conclusion This paper presented a brief plan of the human resource management dissertation. The idea is to analyze the significance and impact of employee recognition programs and for the sake of specificity, Tesco has been chosen as a case study whose employees will be studied for the employee recognition programs currently available in the organization and their impact and what according to the employees should be added to the human resource management programs of the organization to improve the overall performance and satisfaction of both the employees and the organization. Finally, the proposed paper is going to present recommendations for the organization.

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