Report on Employee Engagement and HRM Practices at Sainsbury Plc

This report provides an analysis of employee engagement within Sainsbury Plc, a major UK supermarket chain. It delves into the background of employee engagement, emphasizing its importance for organizational success through enhanced mental and emotional connections. The report examines the legal regulations impacting employee engagement, including employment rights and equal opportunities, and discusses the costs and benefits associated with employee engagement initiatives, such as reduced absenteeism and increased productivity. Key recommendations are offered, focusing on deliberate communication, investment in employee well-being, and empowerment of employees. The report concludes that effective management of employee engagement is crucial for Sainsbury's future growth and enhanced productivity, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to HRM practices.

Introduction to HRM
presentation and report
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Table of Contents
Assessment 1...................................................................................................................................3
Covered in PPT.......................................................................................................................3
Assessment 2...................................................................................................................................4
Introduction.....................................................................................................................................4
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................4
Background of the topic.........................................................................................................4
Legal Regularisations.............................................................................................................5
Cost and benefits to the organisation while dealing with the issue........................................6
Recommendations..................................................................................................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
References.......................................................................................................................................9
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Assessment 1
Covered in PPT
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Assessment 2
Introduction
Managing people in the form of collective relationship is to provide a significant
management practices and employees. This approach is basically helpful and focus on the
objectives for the growth of HRM functions. This is the notion of people to an enable the
people's management, focus on the growth to work and make employment relationship for the
management team and the employees as well. It is considered that the use of effective resources
is analysed to work and make deploying people and planning, monitoring and control of
employees. Most of the organisations are mainly focus on the lowering employees turnover and
make retain the talent by their workforce planning (Anderson, 2021). But it is considered that
employee's engagement is also an important factor for the HR department as it will lead to the
future success and growth in the organisation. The base company for this project is Sainsbury
Plc, second largest chain of supermarkets in UK. The company was founded in 18698 by John
James and headquartered is in London (Angelina, Bernarto and Yohana, 2021). This project
highlight about the brief introduction of employee's engagement, their legal regulation that are
formulated by the organisation. In last cost and benefits of the organisation related to employee's
engagement issues and some specified recommendation will be discussing in this report.
Main Body
Background of the topic
The employee's engagement is basically one of the HR concept that can be described at
the level of enthusiasm and work as higher dedication to feel towards the job and effective
personality report. Engagement of the employees basically care for their work and make
appropriate performance of the company and feel efforts to make a differences. Employee's
engagement is considered as a strength of mental and emotional connection in-between the
employees (Bardhan, 2021). It is considered as the team and organisational aspect are used to
work and make appropriate growth in the team management performance. This is basically based
on the trust, integrity and proper communication channel that helps the organisation to work
effectively and manage their basic approach to the company's success.
Within the Sainsbury, the employee's engagement and its management process is one of
the essential factor that are used to be more effective and helpful for their future performance
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and indicators. They are effectively working on the health and satisfaction to make deteriorate,
escalating mistrust and other issues which are prevailing within the market. It is basically for the
focus on inclusive business with the diversifying representation for the level to make more
successful business growth (Ding, 2021).
Legal Regularisations
It can be termed as the act of standardising the work and bringing uniformity in actions of
individuals toward the achievement of organisational objectives. In other words, it could be
stated as the activity of managing or exercising control over procedures and working by an
individual. It also connotes disregards to any such activity that creates irregularity of actions and
reduces efficiency of an individual. Therefore, to create an engagement, the employee must be
qualified of their probationary time and must gain some recognisable standards in order to be
regularised or made permanent. The need of employee regularization is important for an
organisation in lieu of controlling employees’ actions and define their obligations and duties
towards employees. This helps a company to keep an track on employee actions and motivate
them to work along the company's objective (Sophie and Pierre-Yves, 2021). These laws
differentiate employees, workers and self-employed among whom employer has rights and
responsibilities regarding work. The lawful regularisations for employee engagement of
Sainsbury's is elucidated below:
The Employment Rights: The employment rights of Sainsbury's consider having a legal
framework for its employees clearly describing terms employment contract, individual
employment guidance, dismissals, grievances, reorganizations and redundancy. Employment
status of an individual cannot be determined until they have completed a certain continuous
duration of work with the same employer.
Equal Opportunities for growth: The Company makes sure that it follows no gender,
caste and religion based discrimination and practice equal pay, equality and diversity in
workplace. The company had also updated employment laws regarding Brexit and equal
opportunity to people with disability who can work hand in hand to the other employees.
Providing supportive communication to employees: It is vital to question employees
towards their work as well as how the superiors could make improvements towards superior-
subordinate relations. In context to Sainsbuey's its superiors listen to its employees and value
their opinions this helps in motivating them.
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Communicate the company's mission and vision: The employees are also eager towards
their growth and prosperity therefore superiors must also focus towards it. Sainsbury's is eager to
maintain a continuous flow of employee’s prosperity so they work satisfactory in terms of their
efforts. Value the Employees: Employees feels their worth when their work and efforts are
appreciated by the company, management awards their employees for their every added
effort they make towards the growth of the organisation. If the work culture is formed to
support it provides great results in its workings. Work life Balance: Family and work are two important aspects of a working individual.
If the employees are continuously working they do not have enough time for self and
family so company should make a balance for work timings (Van Campen, 2021).
Without a proper time balance an individual will become futile and will lack behind in
their efficiency and effectiveness.
 Career Growth Opportunities: Rising individual levels in terms of authority along-with
responsibility is required by everyone. Sainsbury gives opportunities of growth to its
employees this helps to maintain a competitive work environment and develops
employee-superior relations.
Cost and benefits to the organisation while dealing with the issue
When it comes to analyse the cost and benefits of the organisations when they are
working effectively into the employee's engagement are highly related. It is further evaluated
and effective for managing the task and provide an appropriate growth to work effectively in the
market and gain high profit ratio. Today's environment is so effective that are used to manage
and make appropriate growth to build up the important aspects and it is related to pay and
manage the perspective in different platform. The cost which is used by the company to work
effectively into the market or on the Sainsbury is related to make effective leadership approach,
having appropriate leadership, effective employee's engagement and training to the employees
for enhancing their performance (Monica, 2021). The cost of the organisation which is used to
work effectively and provide significant growth in Highly engaged workers, moderately engaged
people and try to motivate those who are disengaged from their working. These will be work
effectively and make a connection to their team workers and have positive feelings for the
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growth of the company. Sainsbury have their separate cash funds that are used for the growth of
employee's engagement and work life balance in the major perspective.
There are some major benefits which are gain by the company while they are dealing
with the issues and make growth in the major perspectives. Some of the benefits are:
 Reduction in Absenteeism: Having absenteeism in the workplace may affect the work
life and continuity in the organisation. It mainly affects the cost of the company and
make a control which is not addressed in an effective way. Sainsbury try to work and
reduce their employee's absenteeism to gain more profit into the market.
 Increased Productivity: One of the main growth that is useful for engage in employee's
productivity and make positive behaviour for the organisation and make more believe
nature in the company's mission and vision of the company. Sainsbury should try to
improve their employee's productivity and engagement that further helps in appreciating
their values and make different working style in higher productivity and efficiency
process.
 Healthier employees: Sanisbury try to operate their business activities that are related to
high stress and environmental aspect to make a better employee's retention and perform
with high integrity at their best manners (Gupta, Pandey and Pandey, 2021). Healthier
employees are mainly related to the employee's engagement that reduce an employee’s
productivity within the organisation. This benefit is useful for the employees of sainsbury
as they are able to work effectively and provide a significant growth.
 Higher growth: To increase the profitability within an organisation, it is important to
work and make appropriate relationship to their employees and management team.
Higher growth within an organisation like sainsbury is very effective and helpful for
generate higher profit ratio and make significant growth in addressing employee's
engagement issue and provide a relatable development in market.
 Better network: For engaging the employees to exchange the feedback is effective and
helpful for generalising the statement and make more effective goals in market. Engaging
an employee and applied those policies are helpful generate higher network at different
platform.
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Recommendations
There is some major need of improving the role and try to work effectively into the
market and gain more appropriate ways to provide a systematic approach to the company. Major
recommendations are:
Communicate deliberately to their employee: It is basically helpful for make start
communicating and use frequently for the growth of employee's success. It is important to work
and manage their perspective to work with HR policies and make significant growth in different
challenges (Orlowski, Bufquin and Nalley, 2021).
Invest in well-being: In order to work effectively and manage employee's engagement
and argue for the perspective growth that are closely linked. Promoting a healthy environment is
basically used to provide a significant success to their employees and demonstrate the culture in
well-being nature. For the growth of mental and physical well-being is beneficial growth.
Empower the people's engagement: To improve employee's enthusiasm and make
creativity to work and make constant to achieve retention and recruitment to provide suffer in the
growth. It is easy to understand the consequences for managing style and provide a significant
action plan to make delegate the authority and empower the success of employee's engagement
(Panda, Sinha and Jain, 2021).
Conclusion
From the above report, it has been discussed that there are many perspectives to work
effectively and manage HR professional perspective to improvise the statement and make more
understanding management style. It is determined that employee's engagement is basically
helpful for providing a systematic growth in the company and make suitable action to the
company. It is analysed that the company should work effectively and try to summarise their
issues in the management perspective of the company. It is basically helpful for the future
growth and enhanced productivity within the employees of the company. In last some legal
regulation and benefits for using employee's engagement are disused to provide more detailed
perspective to the company.
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