People Management in UK Companies: A Sainsbury's Perspective Report

This report delves into the realm of people management, focusing on the challenges faced by line management within organizations, particularly using Sainsbury's as a case study. It explores contemporary issues such as the gig economy, innovation and automation, changing regulatory issues, and the importance of recruiting and retaining top employees. The report further examines the knowledge, skills, and behaviors required for effective people managers, including communication, organization, technical knowledge, and the ability to address diversity and harmony issues. Furthermore, it analyzes the HR processes that underpin and support effective performance management, such as goal setting, employee recognition, regular feedback, employee development, and transparent communication and collaboration. The report provides a comprehensive overview of people management strategies and their impact on organizational success, drawing insights from the context of Sainsbury's.

Introduction to people
management
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Table of Contents
Introduction to people management................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
What contemporary issues face line management when it comes to people management
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Knowledge, skills and behaviour that is required for effective people manager............5
What HR process underpin and support management when it comes to effective
performance management...................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
The effective people management is the really very necessary quality for the new and
current leaders. That have aim to improve its workplace and the communication that prepare the
employee for obtaining the success, that helps to examine the skills that can make up the people
management that helps to innovate the strengths and capabilities to define the areas of the
improvement (Bruce, 2020). As well as the people management is the process of training,
motivating and directing the employee in order to gain the workplace productivity that helps to
promote the growth in the professional way. The workplace leaders such as who lead the team,
as well as managers and the head of the department use the people management to look after the
workflow and develop the employee performance every day. The people management is really
useful for handling the situations of the workplace. Now, in the respect of the UK company
Sainsbury the further discussion is about the challenges and issue faced by the company when
the company is focused to manage the peoples within the organisation.
MAIN BODY
What contemporary issues face line management when it comes to people management
The human resources department of the Sainsbury is now a day is focused in operating the
employee different from the human resources department. Now everyone knows that, there is
change in the job market that helps in regulating the demands and the issues that are related to
the compliance that human resources managers are playing an important role in the strategic
development of the organization. The business managers of the organization Sainsbury have to
understand the general issues that every human resource manager is facing that how they can use
the valuable resources that gives the best benefits. so, the further discussion is about the issues
that managers is facing in order to people management in the organization Sainsbury.
The gig economy- there are many of the talented people have decided to left the
workforce that is purely in the traditional form. This decision is exchanged from the freelance
work related to their area of the expertise. This will give them the flexibility that is desirable
from them. As well as most of the best employee wanted to work independent within the
organization without facing any authority pressure (Hanley Shogren and White 2019). This will
also give the good working structure to the employee but provide the huge number of challenges
for the human resources department. Because this is difficult to manage the best talented
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workforce within the company of the human resource of the Sainsbury (Hinchliff and Barrett
2018).The human resource department of the Sainsbury have to build the long influencing
contact in order to develop the preferable talent strategy of the human resource department of the
Sainsbury, so, the employee will not leave the organization and remain sustain with the profit of
the company in order to provide the best outcome for the company and improve the productivity
of the organization.
Innovation and automation- the human resources department has also conduct training
and provides the education seminars in order to grow the effective innovation as well as
providing the change in the automation. As well as for this company this has to need prepare the
effective training program, so that each and every one within the organization can adopt the
changes in the innovation in the company business process. The company HR has to improve the
co-ordination, so that every employee fit for the organizational change. This is not necessary that
every employee can easily grab the opportunity within the innovation of the business operations.
This is really difficult to co-ordinate each and every employee in such a way so that HR can
easily introduce their rules and regulations as well as policy of the company. So, that they can
effectively manage the people of the company.
Changing the regulatory issue- this term is used for the fulfilment of the regularity
issues that contains the aim and objective of the HR in the organization Sainsbury. This gives the
regular guidance and supervision that is needed within the organization. This leads towards the
top level of the manager that will be changed by the HR manager. This will provide the lots of
regulatory law that will be needed for the organization. The health care law is also used by the
HR for providing the safety needs of the employee within the organization. This is essential for
training and the recording of the Data. In the case if the human resource manager will not follow
the current regulations, after ward the employee have to give the penalty for avoiding the law
within the organization management.
Recruitment and sustaining the top employee – the most important step of the
Sainsbury organization is searching and retaining the best employee within the organization.
This is one of the best tasks that required to done in the appropriate way by the manager of the
Sainsbury (Larentis, Antonello and Slongo 2019). This should always in the search of the best fit
employee in the organization by the help of both of the sources internally and externally. The HR
manager of the organization can also make use of the LinkedIn for hiring and retaining the
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employee who are best employee to delivers the best result within the company progress. As well
as for the retention of the employee HR will must focus on the Transfer, promotion, perks,
retention and hiring ratio within the company. This one of the difficult task company HR has to
deal with.
Knowledge, skills and behaviour that is required for effective people manager
The Human resources of Sainsbury is one of the main reasons of the company success as
the manager of the company can continuously focus on the company growth and development.
So, here are some of the skills and knowledge that is set by the effective people manager of the
Sainsbury must have to include.
Communication- communication is the most important skills that every influencer of the
company and the manager must have (Morgeson, Brannick and Levine 2019). Through the
effective communication that the Hr can improvised their various functions like salary
negotiations, benefit explanation, conflict resolutions as well as the company presentation. This
will help to improve the relationship and provide the Aid in solving the conflict between the
employee and help to retain them for the long run in the respect of achieving the profitability of
the company effectively.
Organising- while, organising all of the business activity is really one of the difficult
tasks of the organisation. this is the reason Why HR is appointed because the manager is only
one in the company who manages the team in the appropriate manner. As well as the Hr manager
handles all type of the administration work that is related with the workforce management. HR
has to organise the effective flow of the information from the top to bottom level. This has to
record and maintain the employee schedule or structure the functions of the organisation. The
HR manager has to organise the effective flow of the information as well they must have the
skills to identify the requirements of the workforce. That is required for the proper workforce
management that operates every task effectively.
Technical knowledge- the human resources department must contain the knowledge of
the human resources management in the information system. So, that every data is related to
managing the peoples that will keep record within the software system (Pfeffer, 2018). The HR
must include the knowledge of the digital platform in order to recruitment and selection of the
employee. So, that they can best hire the employee within the organisation without wasting much
of the time as well as money. This will help in recording and managing the employee data base,
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that is necessary for providing the benefit for the company. The tech Savvy to build the strong
base software in order to build the effective management of the people while the formulation of
the strategic.
Diversity and harmony issues- the human resources have to deal with the diversified
employee within the working environment. This is the important reason in building the stronger
team in the company Sainsbury (Smith and Whitmore 2019). Without the presence of harmony
this leads the low morale as well as the low productivity within the working culture of the team.
As well as this also affects the culture of the company that can affect the consumer satisfaction.
This is the reason HR has to manage the harmony of the company that leads to improvised and
diversified the harmony that contributes the best efforts within the company.
What HR process underpin and support management when it comes to effective
performance management
` The performance management is not the easy field of the assessment. This is
continuously involving the new performance management. That is getting emerge within
company in every year sometimes. But sometimes the human resources department letting this
wrong. The employee is sometimes left feeling demotivated and unengaged. This is the reason
managers sometimes feeling frustrated at the poor levels of team within the individual employee
performance. But thankfully the companies Sainsbury are now focused to improve the
importance of the companies that results into the benefits. That produce the effective
performance management systems. So, there are some of the steps that is the reason of the
effective performance management.
Goal setting- firstly, there is need to set the goals in the appropriate way. The goal must be
meaningful and can understood by the employee properly. Employee should have well explained
that why the individual goals are important to achieve within the organization Sainsbury (Waters,
2020) .This also helps to explain the importance of giving efforts to the organization. Afterward
employee will care much about their roles and much more engaged in their work after knowing
their work and truly understand the importance of their job that matters a lot.
Employee recognition- the employee recognition is the effective performance management
this is the system that helps to prioritize the recognition of the employee and giving them reward.
The employee will feel valued and appreciated for their performance and effort during the
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completion of their work. The employee recognition is must be the priority of the company as
well as the employee in order to do progress in its effective performance
Honest and regular feedbacks and reviews- if the manager is more frequently giving the
feedback to the employee. The employee performance will better day by day. As well as the
employee wants the regular insight into the work they are involving. This results the better-
informed employee in relation to their performance. This gives the ability to improve their
pattern of work and the excel.
Employee development- there is no employee who is really ambitious for the wok wants to
remain constant within the one company (Wong and Liaw 2018). Without any kind of the honing
and developing skills. The advancement as well as the development are the two important key
formulas for the employee. These two things will be explained by the HR manager with the
employee to provide benefits and lots of advantages within the organization
Transparent communication and collaboration- the employee wants and deserve their
managers and leaders to be open with them into the organization. The employee doesn’t want to
keep them in the dark side when their organization is facing the difficult situation. They always
want to be informed and want the equal importance in comparison of the other employee. on
order to achieve these things in the Sainsbury the organization is always in need of the real time
communication while building the strong relationship within the organization. This will involve
the regular feedback and the honest pattern of the discussion. At the time when some of the
communications will be difficult or uncomfortable within the organization (Zalewski, 2019).
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CONCLUSION
From the above report, the conclusion of the topic is as follows this report includes the
introduction to people management. The management includes the process of planning
organising as well as directing and controlling of the staffs within the organisation. this
report also includes the contemporary issues faced by the organisation in terms of how
people management can be conducted within the organisation. as well as the various
discussion is about the knowledge and skills that should be present under the manager while
the effective people management and also the manager should have the multitasking skills
while resolving the problems of the organisation.
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