Impact of Employee Collaboration Tools on Productivity: A Study on Sainsbury's

Research proposal

Research Proposal Form
Student Name: ______________________
Proposed Title: ______________________________________________
Section One: Title, objective, responsibilities
Title or working title of the research project
Employee collaboration tools: How they are being deployed and how they are impacting
productivity in sometimes surprising ways.
Introduction
Workplace transformation is a business strategy which helps in improving the skills, tools
and capabilities of the employee and organisation. It also helps in aligning the work and
workers with various digital technology and network. Employee are being aligning with
various tools and network so that productivity can be improved (Nicholas, 2018).
Collaboration tool is the software and apps that helps the organisation and employee to work
together in more effective and efficient manner. for conducting the current investigation, the
chosen business organisation is Sainsbury. Sainsbury is the second largest supermarket
chain in United Kingdom. T was founded in the year 1869 by John James Sainsbury.
Research objectives (e.g what is the question you want to answer? What do you
want to learn how to do? What do you want to find out?):
Research Aim
To examine the impact of employee collaboration tools as a strategy of workplace
transformation in increasing productivity within UK retail industry: A study on Sainsbury's
Research Objectives
 To analyse different employee collaboration tools used within UK retail industry
during workplace transformation
 To assess the impact of employee collaboration tools in increasing productivity
within Sainsbury's in terms of workplace transformation
 To determine the reasons for adoption of employee collaboration tools within
workplace transformation by Sainsbury's
Research question
 What are different employee collaboration tools used within UK retail industry
during workplace transformation?

 What is the impact of employee collaboration tools in increasing productivity within
Sainsbury's in terms of workplace transformation?
 What are the reasons for adoption of employee collaboration tools within workplace
transformation by Sainsbury's?
Section Two: Reasons for choosing this research project
Reasons for choosing the project (e.g links to other subjects you are studying,
personal interest, future plans, knowledge/skills you want to improve, why the
topic is important):
The main rational behind carrying out the current investigation is to know the detailed
understanding about workplace transformation and about employee collaboration tool. The
current investigation assists in knowing the different collaboration tool used by the
organisation to increase productivity of employee. With the assistance of present
investigation investigator will also get to know the impact of these collaboration tool on
employee productivity. Apart from that in present investigation, investigator will also get to
attain two objectives which are personal and professional (Papagiannidis, Harris and
Morton, 2020). In respect to the personal objective, researcher will have built various
research skill. These skill helps them complete the investigation in systematic manner. On
the other side, with the assistance of professional objective current investigation helps them
to know various tool which a human resource manager can use to improve productivity of
their employee. Thus, the current investigation is significant in knowing the importance of
the topic and to attain dual objective.

Section Three: Literature sources searched
Use of key literature sources to support your research question, objective or
hypothesis:
Different employee collaboration tools used within UK retail industry during workplace
transformation
According to the view of Storey and et. al (2019), in recent dynamic time it is very
important for the organisation to adopt various collaboration tool within their business. This
is because it helps in aligning the worker s with technology as well as helps in increasing
the productivity. The foremost employee collaboration tool used by UK retail sector is file
sharing tool. In this grant is access to the selected employee to transfer the file and provide
access to them. The second tool that is used by the retail sector is video conferencing where
virtual interaction and communication can be made between team members.
Impact of employee collaboration tools in increasing productivity within Sainsbury's in
terms of workplace transformation
As per the opinion of Ammons (2019), employee collaboration tool impact the Sainsbury
productive in positive manner. The foremost impact of employee collaboration tool is that it
improve the performance of the employee by combining work with technology. This helps
in reducing the stress and pressure among the employees. Increasing employee skills and
capabilities is another major impact of employee collaboration tool. As it helps in
developing various skills and capabilities of the employee which they use in their work and
carry out their job in effective manner.
Reasons for adoption of employee collaboration tools within workplace transformation by
Sainsbury's
In the view of Zhao and et. al (2020), employee collaboration tool becomes necessary at the
time when workplace transformation is taking place within Sainsbury. The first reason for
adopting employee collaboration tool is improving the employee performance. So that work
can be done in effective and professional manner. Another need is it improves the
collaboration and engagement of employee with their work and with colleagues. As with
the helps of employee collaboration tool alignment between the employee is being made
which helps them to make effective engagement.
Section Four: Activities and timescales