Impact of Leadership and Management on Organization Productivity and Performance in UK Retail Sector

Short research proposal

Contents
Research topic: To ascertain the impact of leadership and management on Organization
productivity and performance within UK retail sector....................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
THEORETICAL BACKGROUND AND RESEARCH FOCUS...................................................1
Research aim:...............................................................................................................................1
Research objective:......................................................................................................................2
Research Question:......................................................................................................................2
Rationale of research...................................................................................................................2
JUSTIFICATION AND CONTEXTUALIZATION......................................................................2
To understand the concept of leadership and management within the context of UK retail
industry........................................................................................................................................3
To identify the impact of leadership and management on Sainsbury productivity and
performance.................................................................................................................................3
To discern the challenges faced by Sainsbury in absence of effective leadership and
management within the organization...........................................................................................4
METHODOLOGY..........................................................................................................................5
Proposed Timescale.........................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

Research topic: To ascertain the impact of leadership and management on
Organization productivity and performance within UK retail sector.
INTRODUCTION
Leadership and management both plays crucial role within retail industry. As leadership is
considered as the efficient process which is used by leaders to guide, direct and convince
individuals’ attitudes and perform towards accomplishment of common objectives in specified
time period. It is also regarded as process to inspires person by influencing as well as
empowering the team. This is also the abilities to develop a changes or difference by forming
objectives that bring individuals together, maximising their development through effectual
vision, empowerment, enthusiasm and many more. Management is regarded as the procedures to
guide the development, maintenance and allocation of resources for attaining the firm’s
objectives. Additionally, managers may renders leadership to its groups, facilitating an intent as
well as guidance that staff may trust. In addition to this, the effective management and
leadership can leader organisation in enhancing their productivity and performance in efficient
manner. It assists workers reach its targets and manage regular manufacturing & procedures of
business. The company chosen for this study is Sainsbury, which is one of the leading retailer
and second largest supermarket chain in UK. Its headquarters is in London, United Kingdom and
established in year 1869 by John James Sainsbury. The topics which are going to be discussed in
this study are Theoretical backgrounds and research focus, justification and conceptualisation.
Apart from this, research methodologies are also explained in this investigation.
THEORETICAL BACKGROUND AND RESEARCH FOCUS
Within this chapter, it would be utilised to briefly introduce the fundamental theoretical
topics which would be formed in detailed manner. Moreover, the key intent of this is to connect
the research existent knowledge. The main focus of research is to impact of leadership and
management on Organization productivity and performance within UK retail sector.
Research aim:
“To ascertain the impact of leadership and management on Organization productivity and
performance within UK retail sector: A study on Sainsbury”.
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Research objective:
 To understand the concept of leadership and management within the context of UK
retail industry.
 To identify the impact of leadership and management on Sainsbury productivity and
performance.
 To discern the challenges faced by Sainsbury in absence of effective leadership and
management within the organization.
Research Question:
 What is the concept of leadership and management within the context of UK retail
industry?
 What is the impact of leadership and management on Sainsbury productivity and
performance?
 What are the challenges faced by Sainsbury in absence of effective leadership and
management within the organization?
Rationale of research
The one of the key reason for performing this research is to ascertain the impact of leadership
and management on organization productivity and performance within UK retail sector.
Additionally, this enables researcher to obtain the understandings related to different effects of
management and leadership upon organizational performance & productivity, concepts of both
leadership and management within retail industry and challenges faced by firm in absence of
effectual management & leadership. In respect of organization, this aids in gaining insight
related to their impacts on business productivity. This also assists researcher to develops as well
as learnt competencies like communication skills, time management skills, data collection and
many others. In addition to this, this would be also helpful in performing further investigation in
efficacious and on time.
JUSTIFICATION AND CONTEXTUALIZATION
Justification describes towards the rationale for study, or reason why investigation is being
performed that includes a description for design & methods included into study. Additionally,
conceptualisation is considered as the way to approach the research project, or relating this to
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