Strategies for Talent Retention in Sainsbury's

This research focuses on identifying strategies used by organisations, specifically Sainsbury's, to attract and retain talent. It explores the meaning and concept of talent management, different strategies used for talent retention, and the challenges faced by organisations. The research also highlights the benefits of talent management for employees and the importance of effective talent retention strategies.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Aims and objectives of research................................................................................................3
Literature review........................................................................................................................4
To understand the meaning and concept of talent management............................................4
To study different strategies used by organisation in order to retain talent...........................4
To analyse different challenges that are faced by organisations while using strategies to
retain.......................................................................................................................................5
Project management plan...........................................................................................................5
Research methodology:..............................................................................................................8
Recommendations......................................................................................................................8
Reflection...................................................................................................................................8
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8
References..................................................................................................................................9

Title: “To identify strategies that is helping organisations to attract and retain talent in the
business.” A case study on Sainsbury‘s
Introduction
Talent management is referred as a process which is helping organisation to retain
employees in a business for a longer period of time. It is a great way to help organisations to
achieve all their objectives along with increasing their productivity and profits in business.
There are a number of processes that are used by organisations on a continuous basis that
allows them to make sure that they are attracting skilled and experiences employees in the
organisation and retaining them for a longer period of time so that they can bring benefits for
the business (Rahimiaghdam, 2018). This is a great way that helps in bringing creativity and
innovation in the organisation as well. Employees should be provided with compensation and
encouragement that will also increase employee’s engagement within the business. In the
following research a retail organisation Sainsbury’s is taken into consideration. The
organisation was established in 1869 and John James was founder of this huge retail chain.
The organisation is successfully set up worldwide with more than 1400 stores in different
countries. There are various talent management approaches that are used by organisation to
retain employees for a longer period of time.
Aims and objectives of research
Research aim
“To identify strategies that is helping organisations to attract and retain talent in the
business.” A case study on Sainsbury‘s
Research objectives
To understand the meaning of talent management and its concept
To study different strategies used by organisation in order to retain talent
To analyse different challenges that are faced by organisations while using strategies to retain
talent in the workplace
Research questions
 What is the meaning and concept of the talent management?
 What are different strategies used by organisation in order to retain talent?
 What are different challenges that are faced by organisations while using strategies to
retain talent at workplace?

Literature review
To understand the meaning and concept of talent management
According to Maurya and Agarwal (2018), talent management is a systematic process
with the help of which organisation is making sure to reduce their employees turnover and
retain the employees in the organisation for a longer period of time. In order to do so the
recruitment process of organisation is to be systemised so that only skilled employees who
can fulfil the required duties of vacant positions are employed in the organisation. Employs in
the organisation are bringing various benefits to the business by conducting all the activities
and goals. It is necessary to retain talented employees so that the productivity of organisation
can be increased and all the objectives of the organisation can be fulfilled successfully. The
talent management of employees also helps in achieving satisfaction within the customers as
talented employees will successfully satisfy all the customers of the organisation. It is
necessary to implement functional talent management strategy in the organisation with the
help of with the managers can take care of all the employees and align the individual
employee goals to the overall organisational goals. It is also required by organisation to make
sure that whatever weekend positions in the organisation at present or field with skilled and
experienced employee who can help the organisation in its further growth. In order to do this
various promotional strategies and recruitment strategies are used by the managers in the
organisation. If the present workforce of organisation is encouraged and satisfied they can
successfully act more productively and attract talent towards the organisation successfully.
To study different strategies used by organisation in order to retain talent
According to Olufemi, Afegbua and Etim, (2020), talent management refers to an
important factor in the organisation that can help an organisation to reduce employee’s
turnover rate and also enhance encouragement and satisfaction within the employs. There are
a number of ways through which organisation or making sure that you employs can be
retained in the organisation. In order to do so they are providing employees with a number of
different motivations. This can be monetary or non-monetary benefits for the employees.
Monitory benefits include bonus and rewards for the employees whereas non-monitory
benefits refer to appraisals and promotions. Along with this there are also a number of
training and development programs through which employees can be retained in employees.
This was successfully help the employees to understand that they can develop personally and
professionally while working in the organisation and it will help the organisation to retain

employees. Employee’s engagement is also one of the way through which employees can be
written in the organisation. Proper communication between employees and their superiors
will also help to motivate employees and generate a sense of belongingness within the
employs which will make them to retain in business for a longer period of time. These are
various strategies which organisation uses in order to make sure that talented employees in
the organisation can be retained.
To analyse different challenges that are faced by organisations while using strategies to retain
According to Tafti, Mahmoudsalehi and Amiri, (2017), each organisation which is
dealing globally needs to make sure that they are managing their employees well in order to
retain them in the organisation for long run. There are a number of different strategies that are
enabling business managers to manage the employees within the business. But organisation
need to face a number of different challenges while they are implementing these practices.
They have to apply huge efforts and capital in order to retain employees in the organisation.
When taking Sainsbury the organisation is employing huge number of employees in all their
retail stores throughout the world. The employees in the organisation are from different
cultures due to which understanding their needs and motivating them becomes difficult for
the managers. It is necessary to understand the perception of all the employees in order to
take steps so that they can be retained in the organisation. But understanding these perception
can be difficult for the organisations due to different values and believes of all the employees.
Also after this in order to develop various training programmes experts are required by the
organisation which requires a lot of time and efforts.
Project management plan
Project management is a document that is used by researcher in order to make sure
that they have proper strategies plan on the way is to conduct the research. It is required by
the managers to make sure that project management plan is created successfully. Project
management plan consists of a number of different elements in this plan as mentioned below:
Scope: The following research have a scope which will help this organisation to
understand various ways in which they can successfully develop strategies to retain talent and
attract talent towards the organisation (Hughes, 2018). Various challenges organisation might
face and ways to deal with these challenges are also a scope included in the research
conducted.

Project cost: The amount required by the researcher to successfully complete the
research is known as the project cost. The following research required €500 in order to be
conducted successfully including all the expenses that were borne by researcher to draw
conclusions from the research.
Communication: A research include team effort of more than one people. It is
necessary that all these people are communicating well with each other along with the
respondents of the questionnaire so that proper information can be collected and results can
be drawn with the help of information that is collected.
Project resources: A number of different resources are used while conducting a
research so that results can be formed in given time period. The following research required
human resource, various technical resources along with stationery, mobile phones, computer
system and so on. All these were various resources that researcher used to complete the
research.
Project risk: There are a number of risk involved to a research. In the following
research barriers in communication is one of the major risk which will make it difficult for
researcher to understand and draw conclusions from the questionnaire that is used in the
research. Also maintaining confidentiality of the respondents by the researcher is necessary to
avoid the risk of leakage of personal information.
Time: Time is the days or hours which are taken by researcher to conduct the
following research and complete it. The following research was time taking as collecting
primary data and drawing conclusions for it requires efforts and time.
Quality: Quality is an important factor which can define whether the research is
reliable or not. The researcher needs to make sure that quality is maintained throughout the
research that is from choosing data that is secondary as well as collecting primary data. All
this will successfully help the researcher to enhance quality of the overall research.
Work breakdown structure: WBS refers to a project management tool that is
allowing researchers to divide all the tasks in the research within into small activities. This
approach will successfully help the researcher to make sure that they are successfully
fulfilling all the needs and requirements to draw conclusion from the research successfully.
Gantt chart: Gantt chart is a graphical tool that is used by researcher while
conducting a research in order to make sure that the tasks are allotted times in order to
complete the research in required time period. All the tasks can be successfully fulfilled
according the time that is provided in the Gantt chart.

Research methodology:
Research methodology find different steps used study in effective manner. There are
various steps involved in the conduction of research analysis. There are different types of
studies used in research methodology what are used for conducting Stop in present resorts,
both quantitative as well as qualitative research is conducted in order to have the best
outcomes.
Data resources: It is known as one of the major factor involved in research methodology 2
have reliable and valuable research outcomes. This includes collecting the primary
Information which is collected through questionnaire or survey. Secondary data is collected
so magazines, journals from articles, earlier researcher are used for evaluating research
outcomes.
Sampling: sampling is defined as the process which is used for conducting the research and
maintaining the effective research. Sampling consists of respondents and total population is
chosen according to these probability and non-probability sampling methods. In present
research, random sampling method is used and 40 staff members of Sainsbury are taken for
completing the research.
Ethics: ethics is defined as beliefs and values which are to be followed while conducting the
research. These are necessary to be followed by researcher in order to avoid any type of risk.
It is very important to conduct research S by following all ethical factors (Maurya and
Agarwal, 2018). This helps in preventing any deceptive practice, informed consent,
anonymity, providing off right and declining the risk of harmful stop it is very important for
investigator to manage all the principle and probabilities for completing the research in
ethical manner for stop
Reliability and validity: validity and reliability are both Important factors which must be
analyst before conducting this research. It is important that research outcomes must be
reliable and validate so that this study can be used by another researcher for further research
conduction. Both primary and secondary data is used by investigator in order to complete the
research.

Data collection method: data collection is known as the major step for completing the
research. Primary and secondary data are used in analysing employ and talent retention
methods of sensory. A primary research conducted in which 40 staff members of Sainsbury
are used for conducting a survey. A question is provided to them which has to be filled by
them by following all the ethics and values. The Questionnaire is provided to the Sainsbury
employees and this is given below-
Questionnaire:
Q1.) Is there need for companies to have effective and strong talent management?
a) Yes
b) No
Q2.)
According to you, what is the different type of approaches used by Sainsbury for talent retention?
a) Performance assessment
b) Providing effective compensation
c) using of appropriate recruitment and selection method
d) Developing job description
Q3.) What are the advantages that Sainsbury will attain after adopting the talent retention
strategies?
a) Higher customer satisfaction
b) Retain & attract top talent
c) Proper execution of activities
Q4)
What do you think are the benefits of talent-management for employees in an organisation?
a) Attain job satisfaction
b) Develop morale and confidence
c) Professional growth and development
Q 5.) As per your opinion, what are the different activities conducted by organisation for
adopting talent retention?
a) By results

b) By competencies
c) BY potential
Q6.)
Do you think following are the challenges and problems faced by Sainsbury in managing
employee retention?
a) Raise in employee turnover
b) High compensation demand
c) Lack of leadership
Interpretation and findings:
Question: 1
Is there need for companies to have effective and strong talent
management?
Frequency
a) Yes 28
b) No 12
a) Yes
b) No
Interpretation:
From this pie chart or graph, it is concluded that out of 40 respondents, there are 28 people
who have agreed that talent management is necessary for managing the organisational work
properly. Only 12 respondents are there who think that talent retention for employees is not

an important concept. Talent management is an essential process which is used for managing
employees of the company. There is need for Sainsbury to evaluate effective strategies to
retain talented employees of the company.
Question: 2
According to you, what are the different type of approaches used by
Sainsbury for talent retention ?
Frequency
a) Performance assessment 10
b) Providing effective compensation 10
c) using of appropriate recruitment and selection method 12
d) Developing job description 8
a) Performance assessment
b) Providing effective
compensation
c) using of appropriate
recruitment and selection
method
d) Developing job
description
Interpretation:
It is analysed from this pie chart that there are more than 20% respondents who believe that
Sainbury can improve performance management and assessment. For retaining employees
within the company, it is concluded that there is need to evaluate the work in effective
manner for managing the organisational activities and functions. There are only 12
respondents who have to manage the work for retaining employees. Talent retention and
performance within Sainsbury is also an important function for managing the work. There are
8 respondents who think that proper recruitment and selection method is used for Sainsbury
in order to attain employee engagement.
Question: 3

What are the advantages that Sainsbury will attain after adopting the
talent retention strategies?
Frequency
a) Higher customer satisfaction 13
b) Retain & attract top talent 10
c) Proper execution of activities 17
a) Higher customer
satisfaction
b) Retain & attract top
talent
c) Proper execution of
activities
Interpretation:
From the above pie chart, it is concluded that there are different advantages that Sainsbury
has after managing the talent retention. There is need to manage the work within company
and evaluating talent retention so that organisational activities are conducted properly. There
is need to manage the organisational work so that benefits can be managed. These include
higher customer satisfaction, retaining and attracting top talent and proper execution of
activities. Most of the respondents think that proper execution of activities are achieved by
adopting the talent retention strategy.
Question: 4
What do you think are the benefits of talent-management for employees in
an organisation?
Frequency
a) Attain job satisfaction 15
b) Develop morale and confidence 12
c) Professional growth and development 13

a) Attain job satisfaction
b) Develop morale and
confidence
c) Professional growth and
development
Interpretation:
From the above diagram, it is concluded that there are lot of benefits that a company has by
adopting the talent retention. There is need to manage the organisational strategies to achieve
talent retention strategies. There are different benefits that Sainsbury can have by talent
retention such as attaining job satisfaction, developing morale and professional growth and
development. It is seen that there are 12 respondents who believe it develops moral and
confidence in the employees while 13 respondents are of opinion that it helps in professional
growth. This provides analysis that talent retention provides lot of advantages to the
company.
Question: 5
As per your opinion, what are the different activities conducted by
organisation for adopting talent retention?
Frequency
a) By results 16
b) By competencies 10
c) BY potential 14

a) By results
b) By competencies
c) BY potential
Interpretation:
From this pie chart, it is concluded that there is need for Sainsbury to know different ways to
know what are the factors that are affecting talent retention. It is seen that there is need to
evaluate and analyse different factors that are affecting the management of company to adopt
the organisation. From this pie chart, it is concluded that 40% of respondents think that talent
retention is managed by this. There is need to evaluate and adopt new ways to manage
competency within organisation. There are approximately 25% of employees believe that
competency in the organisation helps in identifying talent in the organisation.
Question: 6
Do you think following are the challenges and problems faced by
Sainsbury in managing employee retention?
Frequency
a) Raise in employee turnover 15
b) High compensation demand 10
c) Lack of leadership 15

a) Raise in employee
turnover
b) High compensation
demand
c) Lack of leadership
Interpretation:
It is analysed that from the 40 respondents, there are 15 respondents who think that there is
raise in employee turnover. High compensation and lack of leadership are other factors that
talent retention of Sainsbury has to manage. There is need to manage the employees so that
there is evaluation of employees retention strategies.
Recommendation and conclusion
It is recommended for Sainsbury to manage employee retention. It is concluded that
all employees of Sainsbury are provided various rewards and gifts to increase employee
engagement. It is concluded that Sainsbury has to focus upon managing the employee
retention so that goals are attained. Training and development is provided to employees and
staff of Sainsbury so that proper management of company can be present. There is need to
manage employee retention and managing the business activity properly.
Reflection
I have conducted this research in order to know more about the method of employee
retention. There are different ways which are used by companies to complete researches. I
have used both primary and secondary data for completing the research properly. I have good
communication and decision making skills which have helped me to complete the research in
less time. I have completed the research in proper manner to have effective management.
There is need to complete the research in proper manner for managing the work. There are

several ways used by me to complete the research. I have seen that completing the research is
necessary for managing the research skills and getting proper outcomes.

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