Effective Talent Management Strategies for Successful Organisations

Contents
Research Proposal Form..................................................................................................................2
Section One: Title, objective, responsibilities.............................................................................2
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Section Two: Reasons for choosing this research project...........................................................3
Section Three: Literature sources searched.................................................................................3
Section Four: Activities and timescales.......................................................................................4
Section Five: Research approach and methodologies.................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
Research Ethics approval form........................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12
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Research Proposal Form
Student Name: ______________________ Student ID: ____________
Centre Name: _____________________
Tutor: ________________ Date: ___________________
Unit: ____________________
Proposed Title: __Effective talent management strategies for successful organisations
Section One: Title, objective, responsibilities
Title or working title of the research project (in the form of a
question, objective or hypothesis)
Introduction
Talent management refers to the process of attracting and retaining
employees at workplace. Main purpose of this project is to identify
the different strategies of managing talent (Anlesinya and Amponsah-
Tawiah, 2020). Burberry is a chosen fashion house for this report.
Aim: “To examine the various strategies of talent management in improving the
productivity of an organisation”. A study on Burberry.
Research objectives (e.g what is the question you want to answer?
What do you want to learn how to do? What do you want to find
out?):
Research Objectives:
 To determine the role of talent management in enhancing the productivity of an
organisation.
 To assess the effective strategies of talent management adopted by Burberry to
improve the performance of human resource.
 To identify the issues faced by Burberry while implementing talent management
strategies.
Research Questions:
 What are the roles of talent management in enhancing the productivity of an
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organisation?
 What are the effective strategies of talent management adopted by Burberry to
improve the performance of human resource?
 What are the issues faced by Burberry while implementing talent management
strategies?
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):
The topic is chosen to carry out research to understand the various strategies of talent
management for successful organisation. The main cause to select this topic is it would
help in achieving perspectives: personal and professional (Cascio and Aguinis, 2018).
From the personal perspective it would help me in applying such strategies and adopting
same features in self personality. From professional perspective it would help me in
creating good professional career and developing great personality according to the
profession.
Section Three: Literature sources searched
Use of key literature sources to support your research question,
objective or hypothesis:
Roles of talent management in enhancing the productivity of an organisation
According to Ogbari and et. Al (2018), talent management plays an important role in an
organisation to increase the productivity of an organisation because it manages people
who are responsible for taking out production activities of an organisation. Talent
management continuously make effort to retain and develop employees so that
productivity can be maximised.
The effective strategies of talent management adopted by Burberry to improve the
performance of human resource
According to Mupepi (2017) Burberry has also adopted effective strategies of talent
management so that every employee knows about their roles and responsibilities they
have to perform. Some of the strategies adopted are: description of jobs in detail,
candidate that fits according to the nature of organisations, providing opportunities for
future development and improvement. These are the strategies used by Burberry to retain
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employees in the workplace. Managers of Burberry clearly focuses on providing
description of various vacant positions in details so that candidates who are approaching
for that particular position so that candidates do not misinterpret the job description. And
they also focus on selecting candidates who can adjust in the culture of organisation.
Issues faced by Burberry while implementing talent management strategies
According to Cascio and Aguinis (2018), issues faced by Burberry while implementing
talent strategies are: inexperience with automated technology, high employee turnover as
current employees are not satisfied with the organisation, inefficiency and
ineffectiveness of leadership as to carry out the activities of talent management it is
necessary to have strong leaders.
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):
Aims and objectives
Literature review
Research methodology
Submission of proposal
Approval on proposal
Data collection
Data analysis
Conclusion and recommendations
Submission of the final project
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Milestone one: Literature review
Target date (set by tutor): 1-12-2020
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