Role of Leaders and Managers in Employee Development

Research Project

Contents
CHAPTER 1- INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................3
1.1 Research Aim and Rationale............................................................................................3
1.2 Research Questions..........................................................................................................3
1.3 Research Objectives.........................................................................................................3
1.4 Significance of the Research............................................................................................3
CHAPTER 2- LITERATURE REVIEW.........................................................................................4
2.1 Introduction of Literature Review....................................................................................4
2.2 Main Body (with Headings and Sub-headings)................................................................4
2.3 Conclusion of Literature Review......................................................................................5
CHAPTER 3- METHODOLOGY (500).........................................................................................6
3.1 Research Approach...........................................................................................................6
3.2 Research Strategy/Methods..............................................................................................6
3.3 Research Methodology.....................................................................................................6
3.4 Research Instruments/Tools.............................................................................................6
3.5 Sampling...........................................................................................................................7
3.5.1 Identifying Population and Research Site.....................................................................7
3.5.2 Sampling Strategy.........................................................................................................7
3.6 Ethical Implications..........................................................................................................7
Chapter-4 Findings (Data analysis and presentation)......................................................................9
CHAPTER 5- Discussion (Data interpretation)-200.....................................................................17
CHAPTER 6- Conclusion, Recommendations and Implications for Further Research-200.........18
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................20
Books & Journal...................................................................................................................20
APPENDICES...............................................................................................................................23

CHAPTER 1- INTRODUCTION
1.1 Research Aim and Rationale
“To analyse the role of leaders and managers in the process of employee development
in an organisation. A case study of Sainsbury.
Reason behind completion of this study:
The primary motive to conduct the present research is examining the role played by
leaders and managers in the procedure of employee development. Apart from this, it assist
equally in individual and occupational context. In relation to personal, it help in enhancing skills
such as time management, data interpretation, communication and so on. In context to
professional, it help in gaining knowledge about employee development strategies and
challenges faced by business entity due to which researcher is able to deal with problems arise in
future organization. Moreover, it will also assist in conducting future studies and grab
opportunities in an effective manner.
1.2 Research Questions
 What is the concept of employee development in an organisation?
 What are the strategies used by managers and leaders of Sainsbury for employee
development in an organisation?
 What are the issues faced by managers and leaders of Sainsbury while implementing
employee development strategies at workplace?
1.3 Research Objectives
 To know the concept of employee development in an organisation.
 To determine strategies used by managers and leaders of Sainsbury for employee
development in an organisation.
 To examine issues faced by managers and leaders of Sainsbury while implementing
employee development strategies at workplace.
1.4 Significance of the Research
Retail industry is quickly responding to the changes which are effecting on their present
functioning. In the present time, it is important for retail industry to attract and retain talent so

that they can execute activities and operations timely and effectively. There are various strategies
used by organization for employee development and also the challenges faced by companies
while implementing them. This research help in analyzing the role of leaders and managers
within the procedure of employee development in an organization.
CHAPTER 2- LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Introduction of Literature Review
Literature review involves the section of dealing with secondary resources available to
gather data (Boomaars, Yorks and Shetty, 2018). In addition to this, the section involves
different books, articles which are available online and is evaluated by researcher in order to
develop valid conclusion and give recommendations as well.
2.2 Main Body
Concept of employee development in an organisation
According to Ronald L. Jacobs, (2013), relationship between organizational performance
and employee development are highly related. It held belief that development of employee leads
to create positive contribution over organizational performance. This lead to create high work
performance with improving employee performance. This can lead high development of
employees professional performance. Employee development need to create a some importance
to organization due to their better performance within an organization ( Employee Development
and Organizational Performance: A Review of Literature and Directions for Future Research,
(2013). Employee performance of Sainsbury create an improvement in work performance for
enhanced productivity. This help them to handle the unexpected situations while performing as
an employee. Employee development also attracts new employee for improving loyalty that can
provide enhanced brand value of organization. Employee development help to retaining their
employee who can potentially provide improve engagement wi th motivation and better training.
This have high benefits to the organization that can lead to create high productivity and
profitability.
Strategies used by managers and leaders of Sainsbury for employee development in an
organisation
According to Alainia Conrad, (2021), there are different strategies which are generally
used by managers and leaders. It is for finding out the gap between talent and job requirement.

There is also use of right training tools that can help to provide better training according to
employees work. It can enhance the productivity of organization (Employee Development
Strategy: Staff Development that Actually Works, (2021). There is also use of learning
management program that develop staff development a strategy which can lead to create better
work performance and enhance high productivity of organization. Through this Sainsbury’s uses
different strategy for employee development that can lead to create high performance of
employee for enhanced productivity and high profit. Gap analysis able to find the gap between
employee work performance and performance needed for that particular work. This gap can be
fulfilled by better training and by employee development which can lead to create high profit to
business organization. Such type of a strategy are used by manager and leader of Sainsbury’s for
employee development that can lead to create high performance of employee for higher
productivity.
Issues faced by managers and leaders of Sainsbury while implementing employee development
strategies at workplace
According to Sarah Gallo, (2021), there are different issues generally faced by managers
and leaders while performing employee development which are having high impact over
organizational proper productivity and their performance. There are some of the issues like
managing communication between teams or other operational departments and issue of
understanding technology and digitalization. These are one of the most important issue faced by
Manager or leader within Sainsbury’s. Different technology and digitalization needs high level
of training and require high concentration for learning such technology and digitalization while
employee are not able to get such type of functions easily and effectively and this create a issues
while operating the technology (New Managers Must Conquer These 12 Challenges, (2021).
This create issue for manager and leader during enhancing productivity of company.
Communication gap has also major challenge for managerial leader to finish for creating better
teamwork while performing in the organization with employees high performance for high
productivity and profitability. These such issues are highly faced by managers and leaders while
implementing employees development strategy within organization.

2.3 Conclusion of Literature Review
It is summarised from the above discuss aspects of literature review that employee
development is one of the important talent management strategy which assist in attracting and
retaining skilled and talented employees at workplace. There are various strategies used by
Sainsbury for employee development such as training and development session, set standards,
reward and recognition and many more. While implementing this strategies, respective
organization face many challenges such as ineffective leadership, increase in cost, lack of
communication and many more. All these aspects have to be dealt by company in order to
maintain its effectiveness and productivity at marketplace.
CHAPTER 3- METHODOLOGY
3.1 Research Approach
It is referred as an important part of research methodology that is to be followed by
investigator for examining data related to topic (Burlacu, Truxillo and Bauer, 2017). The two
forms of research approaches are deductive and inductive. For the present study, deductive
approach is valuable and effective. This approach assist in getting data testing of numerical
information within less time and cost.
3.2 Research Strategy/Methods
It is mainly the way through which data is gathered for achieving research objectives. The
two forms of research method are primary and secondary. In the present study, both primary and
secondary methods are used. It helps in understanding an gaining in-depth knowledge about
topic which leads to development of valid conclusion.
3.3 Research Methodology
There are mainly two types of research method that is qualitative and quantitative. For the
present study, quantitative research method is applied by researcher as it help in gaining
information in the form of numeric which is based on facts and figures. In addition to this, it also
help in collecting data within less time and cost effective manner.
3.4 Research Instruments/Tools
It is basically a tool that is used to gather information which is both primary and
secondary. The different research instruments are interview, questionnaire, observation and so on
(Dimotakis Mitchell and Maurer, 2017). For the present study, a questionnaire is developed