Human Resource Practices of Sainsbury: Adapting to Changes in the External Environment

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body...................................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................................11
REFERNCES............................................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Human resources are the employees who perform assigned task in an efficient manner so
that company can achieve its goals and objectives. There are a lot of resources such as financial
resources and other resources are used in business. In present time, human resources have also
become a crucial part of organization. They are considered as social elements that need to
motivate on regular basis for ensuring growth and success of business (DeCenzo, Robbins and
Verhulst, 2016). Now, there are a lot of changes are being introduced in the external environment
which also put a great impact over HR practices of company. The present report is based on
Sainsbury which is a renowned company working in retail industry. It is considered as one the
biggest supermarket chains within UK that deals in general items and groceries. It is stated that
company is adopting effective strategies of people management and resourcing which are going
to be discuss in the present report. It also comprises changes which are coming in external
environment along with the way in which organization responds these changes. Moreover,
human resource is a vital part of business that needs to manage with the help of appropriate
strategies.
Main Body
Overview of Company
Sainsbury is regarded as the second largest chain of supermarkets within UK. It was founded by
John James Sainsbury in the year of 1869 in London. The company is working within three
domains such as Bank, Supermarkets and Argos. They have huge brand portfolio such as habitat,
argo, groceries, financial services and more which is imperative for attracting more number of
customers. This diversity is helpful in attracting more number of customers. However,
organization was started in London but it has been expanded business overtime resulted has
nearly 2400 stores in different countries across the globe. Currently, Sainsbury is working within
70 countries at international level. In addition, it also serves customers via online
medium (Marchington and et. al., 2016). Here, Martin Scicluna is the chairman of company who
has extensive experience thus able to prepare crucial strategies for betterment of organization.
Apart from this, there are highly experiences persons are appointed by company at higher level

of organizational hierarchy for running business in an efficient manner. Main Strategy of
Sainsbury is to bring operations efficiency within business for providing quality food & products
to customers in relatively lower price. For this, they try to reduce overall cost and make sure that
their brand portfolio supports their focus over food with an aim to deliver higher value to
stakeholders.
Vision and Mission of company:
Vision: “To become trustworthy retailer from where people like to shop and work for
earning huge sales and profit margin”.
Mission: “ To become the priority of customers for getting food, and products with
remarkable quality and great services at competitive pricing by working simpler, faster and
together”.
Human resource practices of Sainsbury:
It is analyzed that human resources are one of the key stakeholders of business as they
perform different business functions in such a manner that company can attain its predefined
goals & objectives. Without, human resources, it is not possible to complete functions of
organization. For this purpose, there are various practices adopted by HR managers of Sainsbury
which are discussed below:
Recruitment: It refers to getting the right people at right place. Recruitment is vital for
hiring potential candidate for performing different roles & responsibilities in an efficient manner.
In recruitment, managers create a pool of potential candidates and then select most suitable
individuals as per requirement of vacant position of organization. There are two important
sources of recruitment such as internal sources and external sources (John and Taylor, 2016). In
internal sources, candidates are selected within company for filling the vacant position. On other
side, in external sources, candidates are invited from outside environment. In external sources
organization can hire individuals from campus recruitment, walk ins and with the help of
employment agencies. In context of Sainsbury, they are working at large level thus require a lot
of individuals for handling different operations of entity. So, they use both sources of recruitment
internal as well as external for getting a right candidate onboard.