Research Proposal Form: Employee Motivation in an Organization

Research Proposal Form
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Section One: Title, objective, responsibilities
Introduction
In the present business environment, an organization is mainly depends on the motivation
level of its staff members for it’s effective performance. Employee motivation plays a vital
role in an organization in order to raise performance and gain higher growth as well as
success at marketplace. It is important for the company to encourage employees as it
helping raising performance, providing satisfactory service to customers, decline employer
turnover rate, decrease cost, increase profitability, help in attaining competitive advantage
and many more. For the present study, Sainsbury’s is taken into consideration. It is the
second largest supermarket of UK thst offer its product as well as services in more than 19
countries and has around 1,19,000 talented staff members which is one of the reason of its
success. The report will analyse the impact of staff motivation schemes used for employee
retention within an organization. Along with this, research methods used to conduct study
is elaborated in the report.
Research aim
“To analyse the impact of staff motivation schemes to employee retention in an
organisation”. A case study of Sainsbury’s
Research objectives
 To know the importance and impact of employee motivation schemes in context to organisation.
 To determine staff motivation schemes used by Sainsbury’s for retaining and satisfying employees
of organisation.
 To examine the issues faced by Sainsbury’s while implementing staff motivation schemes at
workplace.
Research questions

 What is the concept and importance of employee motivation in context to organisation?
 What are the staff motivation schemes used by Sainsbury’s for retaining and satisfying employees
of organisation?
 What are the issues faced by Sainsbury’s while implementing staff motivation schemes at
workplace?
Section Two: Reasons for choosing this research project
Reasons for choosing the project (e.g links to other subjects you are studying,
personal interest, future plans, knowledge/skills you want to improve, why the
topic is important):
One of the main objectives of conducting this study is to analyze the impact of staff
motivation schemes used by an organization in order to retain employees at workplace.
This study help researcher in both personal and professional context. In context to
professional, it help in gaining knowledge about strategies used by employees for
motivation which help in performing job properly in the organization it works in future. In
context to personal, it help investigator to enhance skills such as data analysis, data
interpretations, data collection, communication, time management and many more.
Moreover, it also help investigator to gain opportunities in future and conduct study
systematically and properly.
Section Three: Literature review
Use of key literature sources to support your research question, objective or
hypothesis:
Literature review
Talent management
According to Asdar (2018), talent management is defined as the process of
attracting, developing, retaining talented staff members within the organisation for
longer time period. In addition to this, it is considered as an important aspect
within an organisation as it help in increasing productivity, develop brand image,
enhance market and gain higher profitability in an effective manner.
Concept and importance of employee motivation in context to organization
As per the view point of Aziri, (2019), it is analyzed that employees are the asset of an
organization in order to gain higher growth and success at marketplace. It is important for a
business entity to motivate its staff members on a continuous basis as it help in employee
retention and satisfaction at workplace. In addition to this, it also assist an organazation to
cut down the cost of hiring new employees, maintaining its brand image, maintaining

performance, increasing profitability and many more (Aziri, 2019.). Moreover, it is
determined that with the help of staff motivation schemes, company such as Sainsbury is
able to provide effective service to its customer which is one of reason for its higher
growth and attainment of competitive advantage at marketplace.
Staff motivation schemes used by Sainsbury’s for retaining and satisfying employees
of an organization
According to Hanaysha and Hussain (2018), it is determined that there are various
employee motivation scheme used by an organization with an objective to satisfy and
retain employees for longer time period. One of these scheme is providing incentives equal
to the inputs they put in order to meet with the targets and attain objectives. It help in
motivating staff members to implement activities in a proper and systematic manner which
leads to increase in performance and profitability of a company (Hanaysha and Hussain,
2018). Another technique is providing training end development session, it help staff
members to gain both personal and professional growth in an effective manner. Apart from
this, there are also other strategies and schemes used such as allow participation of
employees in decision-making, equal pay, maintaining equality, providing timely
incentives and bonus, appraisals, promotions and many more.
Issues faced by Sainsbury’s whole implementing staff motivation schemes at
workplace
As per the view point of Lasrado and et. al., (2017), it is analyzed that there are various
issues faced by an organization at the time of executing staff motivation techniques at
workplace. One of the issue is non acceptance by employees as there are many staff
members who is not agree with the scheme given by company which in turn develop a
negative mindset of employees towards organization and decline their performance level as
well (Lasrado, Gomiseck and Uzbeck, 2017). In addition to this, lack of communication
among employer and employees is also the issue faced while implementing staff
motivation techniques. There are also other problems faced such as dissatisfaction among
employees, non participation of staff members, lack of resources, lack of time and so on.
The earlier studies state about staff motivation schemes used by companies but
have lack information regarding its impact on employee satisfaction and retention.
In addition to this, there is no information regarding challenges faced by
companies because of implementing staff motivation techniques. In order to find
this research gap, the present investigation is conducted.
REFERENCES
Books & Journal
Aziri, J., 2019. Employee Motivation Incentives and their Impact on the Organization's
Productivity. Texila International Journal of Management. Retrieved from:
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org/93f9/7059d9b1302f037adf5ee2050779d2360, 715.
Hanaysha, J.R. and Hussain, S., 2018. An examination of the factors affecting employee
motivation in the higher education sector. Asia-Pacific Journal of Management
Research and Innovation, 14(1-2), pp.22-31.
Lasrado, F., Gomiseck, B. and Uzbeck, C., 2017. Effectiveness of employee suggestion
schemes–from critical success factors to outcomes. International Journal of
Quality and Service Sciences.
Alhassan, N. and Greene, E., 2020. Individual Approach to Employee Motivation: Is It
Worthwhile in the 21 st Century?. International Journal of Global
Business, 13(1).
Section Four: Activities and timescales
Activities to be carried out during the research project (e.g research,
development and analysis of ideas, writing, data collection, numerical analysis,
tutor meetings, production of final outcome, evaluation, writing the report):
Project formulation and Project Planning - 1 week
Literature Review- 1 week
Methodology- 1 week
Data Collection and Analysis- 2 week
Discussion of the results- 2 week
Report writing- 3 week
Presentation of the project to the Board of Directors- 1 week
Gantt chart is defined as a bar chart which shows the overall schedule of a project. In
addition to this, it involve the starting and ending time of every activity of research that
help research to complete investigation within given time frame.
Task Week 1
01/03/2021
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Week 2
08/03/20
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15/03/20
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19/04/20
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26/04/20
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17/05/20
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