The Impact of Digitalization on HRM Practices at Sainsbury's

RESEARCH PROPOSAL

ABSTRACT
Human resources and its concerned practices plays a major role with respect to company
and its performance. Well adopted HR practices with regard to company may lead to have higher
employee’s satisfaction and level of motivation. Digitalization in the context of HR practices
evolved the execution of HR practices in terms of digitalized interviews and job training and
induction. This research will throw its light regarding the HR practices in the organization along
with a digital touch in terms of incorporating digital concept within the organization and
concerned practices. Likewise, an analysis regarding its critical impact over the HR practices
will also be included and part of the research in the context of Sainsbury.

Table of Contents
ABSTRACT....................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
Background..................................................................................................................................4
Rationale......................................................................................................................................5
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................5
RESEARCH METHOD..................................................................................................................8
1. Research design.......................................................................................................................8
2. Data collection and analysis....................................................................................................9
Ethical issues.............................................................................................................................10
Validity and reliability:..............................................................................................................11
Research limitation:...................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

TOPIC: The impact of digitalization on changing the HRM practices at Sainsbury’s
INTRODUCTION
Background
Human resource management is one of the major department with regard to any company.
Right from recruiting best employees for the company till maintaining their level of motivation
and ensuring their retention is covered under the part of human resource department. In order to
perform these functions HR adopt various practices in the organization (Armstrong, 2020).
Along with changing time and the world of digitalization, the practices of HR also evolved and
mould as per the need. With the inculcation of digitalization in the HR practices, the efficiency
and performance of the work also enhanced in terms of widening the scope. Now, along with the
practice of digitalization, best employees will be recruited which will again assist the company to
have better growth opportunity and success. Likewise, with the incubation of digitalization HR
practices in terms of availing training, ensuring security, communicating information and various
other practices also got evolved and mould to a better form. Under this proposal various aspect
concerning the research will be included with a formation of aims and objectives. Likewise, a
section of literature review will also be a part of the proposal. A detailed research methodology
will be included in the proposal with a detailed determination and discussion of every concerned
step. Lastly, timeline depicting the future course of action regarding the research will also be
included.
Aim:
To analyse the impact of digitalization on HRM practices: A study on Sainsbury
Objectives:
 To analyse the HRM practices at Sainsbury
 To study the concept of digitalization in HRM practices
 To analyse the impact of digitalization on changing HRM practices at Sainsbury
 To recommend the best ways of implementing digitalization in HRM practices at
Sainsbury
Research questions: