Strategies for Attracting and Retaining Talent in Sainsbury

This report explores the strategies used by Sainsbury to attract and retain talent in their workplace. It discusses the meaning of talent management, various strategies employed by the organization, challenges faced, and the impact of talent management on organizational success. The research is based on primary and secondary methods, and includes a work breakdown structure and Gantt chart for completion.

Talent Management

Contents
Title: “To determine different strategies that helps an organisation in attracting and retaining talent in their
workplace in relation to Sainsbury.”................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1...........................................................................................................................................3
PI The project aims and objectives for a chosen scenario......................................................3
P2 A project management plan that includes the time, quality aims, communication and risk and resources that
are required.............................................................................................................................5
P3 The work breakdown structure and Gantt chart that provides the timeframe and stages for completion 6
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P4 Small scale research that will use primary and secondary methods that are appropriate for meeting aims and
objectives of the research.......................................................................................................6
TASK3.............................................................................................................................................7
P5 Present the findings and data using appropriate tools and techniques..............................7
P6 Recommendations based to the research conducted.......................................................13
P7 Reflect on the values of undertaking the project and and to meet the stated objectives. 13
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15
Books and Journals...............................................................................................................15

Title: “To determine different strategies that helps an organisation in attracting and retaining talent in their
workplace in relation to Sainsbury.”
INTRODUCTION
Talent Management is an important process in an organisation that helps to manage the talent of the workforce
in the organisation. The better the human resource of the organisation is managed better is the productivity in the
organisation. For an organization to be successful it is vital to manage the talent of the employs working in the
company (Latukha, 2016). There is direct relationship between the motivation of employees and the success of
the organization. So the employees are given proper training and development so that they can walk accordingly
and in hands their talent. It is equally important to understand the skills of employees and allot them work
accordingly. The report is based on research that is done upon Sainsbury which is one of the largest supermarket
chains in United Kingdom. The company is operating since 1869 and had global present with around 1400 stores
that a present throughout the world. Sainsbury has more than 116000 employees that are managed and lead to
success of the company. There are many approaches that are used for managing the talent and organization to
achieve the goals and targets effectively in future. Data from both primary and secondary research is used. Also
there is Gantt chart and questionnaire that will elaborate the research further.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
PI The project aims and objectives for a chosen scenario
Aims and objectives of research
Research aim
To determine different strategies that helps an organisation in attracting and retaining talent in their workplace in
relation to Sainsbury.
Research objectives:
To understand the meaning of talent management.
To determine different strategies that can be used by organisation to retain talented workforce.
To evaluate various challenges that comes in path of organisation while retaining talent in the organisation.
Research questions:
Elaborate the meaning of talent management.
What are various strategies used in an organisation to retain talent?
What are the different challenges that an organisation face while retaining the talent?
Literature review
According to Latukha and Selivanovskikh, 2016 Talent management is a systematic process that is used by the
organization to retain more customers and also to recruit skilled employs that fill the vacancy. It is also necessary

for an organization to engage its employees so that they work in favour for the organization. The more the
employees will be engaged in the organization's the better will be the position of organizations in the market.
Organization's make different strategies and implement them to retain their talented employees for long period of
time. It is important to understand the needs and wants of the employs and in satisfying those help and the
company to retain the employees organization. To make the employs feel valued functional talent management
strategy is yse that increases the respect of employees and they feel personal touch while working. Group
recruiting strategies are used to fill the vacancies with right personnel as it helps the organization to be successful
and have talented and skilled workforce that are able to manage the organization successfully. Following these
strategies help the organisation to retain the talent in the organization.
According to Chen, Lee and Ahlstrom (2019) talent management is a significant process in an organisation that
can efficiently help a company lower its employee turnover rate and also increase the level of employee
satisfaction. It will ultimately help to improve the organization's productivity along with its profitability. There are a
variety of techniques that can be implemented by an organization's human resource management to ensure that the
talent is efficiently managed. In order to maintain them for a longer period of time, it is important that the workers
in the company are continually motivated. There are various methods along with motivation, such as delegating the
supervisors job to the subordinates. It will help to generate good relations between the employer and the employees,
which can also create an organizational success in the workplace. It is a a good way to ensure that talented
employee can be kept in a company for a long period of time. By Providing the employees with training and
development programmes it would also help them in personal growth that will contribute to organisational growth.
In an organization that they can stay with the organization for a longer period of time, when an individual finds
personal growth as well as professional growth. Giving the companys workers with decision-making authority will
make them feel respected in the organization and give them personal touch, which would also improve their social
life along with professional life balance. All these are various techniques that can be used by organization to retain
the customers and become successful in their operations as well.
Any company that operates globally needs to ensure that they maintain talent in the organization for a longer period
of time, as per Neri and Wilkins (2019). It is also seen that the introduction of various talent management
strategies in a company tends to improve the organisation's standard according to which they work. However when
these practices are followed, there are a numerous of challenges that are faced by leaders and managers of the
organization need to work on them. It is also seen that these activities can include different management costs,
efforts and time in an organization. The company recruits a large number of employees in the organisation
worldwide and in this report Sainsbury is taken into consideration. It can also be seen how the employees belong to
different cultures and work in the company. It is also shown that employees belong to different cultures and values
in the company, which makes it more difficult for the organization to understand the different needs of all the
employees. It is a difficult task for management to know the perception level of all the employees that will help the
organization take certain decisions and make strategies to retain them for a longer period of time. The use of
different training and development programs within an organization generally needs expert advice, and is normally

done in the organizations. It is important to know the challenges and find solutions that will help the organization to
be successful in retain the employees.
P2 A project management plan that includes the time, quality aims, communication and risk and resources that are
required.
Project management plan is used for researchers or managers who want to conduct a research as the plan
helps them to know about the different strategies that are available and will help them to conduct the research.
While conducting a research it is important to make use of project management plan. The elements that are
included in the plan are discussed below:
Scope: The research will help to know about the strategies that can be used by Sainsbury in future to attract more
customers and to retain their workforce telling me. Also the challenges that are faces by the organization to
implement these strategies.
Project Cost: The amount that is required to successfully conduct the research is called project cost To come to the
conclusion of this resort 700 will be required to conduct research successfully.
Communication: Effective communication is vital for Texas off upper deck management plan. There are various
parties that are involved in project management plan so a proper communication between them is necessary to
achieve success in that plan.
Project resources: To accomplish our resort successfully it is important and essential too use the required
resources such as operational resource human resources and technical resources optimally used and gain success in
the result. Mobile phones computer systems stationery items and research team has conducted this research
successfully.
Project risk: there is technical risk involved in the project so to avoid that there is need of proper communication
and using them in effectively in technical way is important. Also it is important to maintain confidentiality of the
result of respondents while conducting research and to protect the data.
Time: The time frame in which the research should be conducted comes under this element. There is need of
significant time to complete the research successfully. Following the time frame makes the target to be
accomplished on time and overall growth of organisation can be achieved.
Quality: one of the most important factors in conducting the research in maintaining quality. As it is important to
know about the reliability of the research conducted. Quality should be maintained while collecting the data and
that helps to give suggestions and recommendations that are required. Quality can be maintained in numerous ways
like benchmarking and scorecard that will help the research to be successful.
Work breakdown structure: to accomplish the research in a successful way it is helpful if the work is divided in
smaller tasks. As it will help the researcher to complete the investigation successfully and gain effective results.
The above mentioned is project management plan that is required to be followed by the organisations to achieve the
goals and objectives.

P3 The work breakdown structure and Gantt chart that provides the timeframe and stages for completion
Gantt chart is a graphical tool that is used by a researcher to analyse take all the activities the top performed
are divided into sub activities and not accomplished within a limited time frame that is the success conduction of
the research is achieved. Competing very activity on time is important and to achieve a big task dividing it is small
parts makes it easier to achieve the task.

TASK 2
P4 Small scale research that will use primary and secondary methods that are appropriate for meeting aims and
objectives of the research
Research methodology includes different ways in which a research is conducted. It includes all types of
studies like ethics, data collection tools, various studies and other related factors that are included to conduct the
research (Bukharina, 2017). The various aspects that are used to conduct the research are described below:
Data resources: All the resources that are required to conduct the research are called data resources. Basically
there are two methods for data research that are primary and secondary. Under primary research first hand data is
used and collected through different ways like interview, questionnaire and observations. Another method is
secondary research that is use of already published data that is in articles and journals which helps the conduct of
research successfully. It is easy to conduct the research appropriately as it helps to generate successful outcomes.
Sampling: sampling means selecting samples from the population to conduct the successful research. It is not
possible to study the whole population the methods under this are profitability and non-profitability method
(Gandy, Harrison and Gold, 2018). Under this random sampling is used and around 40 employees are randomly
selected that belong to Sainsbury.
Ethics: This includes all the principles, morale that is to be followed while conducting the research. There is
requirement of informed consent, anonymity, confidentiality, declined risk of harm, no deceptive practices all this
should be reviewed by the researcher. To conduct the research successfully it is essential to follow the research
successfully.
Reliability and validity: The data should be reliable as results of the research will depend on the data and
information used (Mousa and Ayoubi, 2019). So the data research should be conducted accordingly as the
organisation will rely on the research and will make the strategies based on that.
Data collection tools: There are various tools that are available to make research and collect the information. This
is the responsibility of the researcher to use the right tool and in an appropriate way to achieve the goal of the
research and suggest the strategy that would help the organization. Under this research a questionnaire is made to
conduct the research successfully and the questions are stated below:
Questionnaire
Q I .) Do you know the meaning of talent- management used in an organisation’?
a) Yes
b) No

Q2.) What are the various strategies used in Sainsbury’s to manage talent in the organisation ?
a) Performance assessment
b) Providing effective compensation
c) using of appropriate recruitment and selection method
d) Developing job description
Q3.) How the use of talent management helps in bringing profits for business’?
a) High level of consumer satisfaction
b) Attract and retain talented staff
c) Proper execution of activities
Q4 What are the potential benefits of talent-management in an organisation‘?
a) Attain job satisfaction
b)Boosting morale and confidence
c) Professional growth and development
Q 5.) what are your views regarding the ways in which Sainsbury‘s is identifies talent in the
organisation‘?
a) By results
b) By competencies
c) By potential
Q6.) what are the major challenges faced by Sainsbury's while managing the
Talent?
a) Rise in employee turnover
b)High compensation demand
c) Lack of leadership
TASK3
P5 Present the findings and data using appropriate tools and techniques
Interpretation and findings:
Question 1

Do you know the meaning of talent- management used in an
organisation’?
Frequency
A yes 28
b No 12
A yes
b No
From the above data it is seen that 70% of the employees are aware of the meaning of talent management as used in
the organisation whereas 12 employees i.e. 30% are not aware of the same.
Question 2
What are the various strategies used in Sainsbury’s to
manage talent in the organisation ?
Frequency
Performance assessment 10
Providing effective compensation 10
Use of appropriate recruitment and selection method 12
Developing job description 8

Performance assessment
Providing effective
compensation
Use of appropriate
recruitment and selection
method
Developing job description
The above pie chart shows that 25% employees of Sainsbury believe that the company uses performance
assessment as a major strategy to manage talent. Same number can be seen for providing effective compensation.
Whereas 30% are of a view point that company uses appropriate selection and recruitment process. Remaining 20%
are with developing job description.
Question3
How the use of talent management helps in bringing
profit for business?
Frequency
High level of customer satisfaction 13
Attract and retain talented staff 10
Proper execution of activities 17
High level of customer
satisfaction
Attract and retain talented
staff
Proper execution of
activities

It can be interpreted that majorly proper execution of activities helps in bringing profits in a business. 13 out of 40
employees believe that it is high level of customer satisfaction that helps in bringing profits and remaining 10 thinks
that attracting and retaining talented staff will help the company.
Question4
What are the potential benefits of talent management? Frequency
Attaining job satisfaction 15
Boosting morale and confidence 12
Professional growth and development 13
Attaining job satisfaction
Boosting morale and
confidence
Professional growth and
development
15 out of 40 employees of Sainsbury believe that attaining job satisfaction is the most potential benefit of talent
management whereas 12 out of 40 believe in boosting morale and confidence and remaining 13 employees thinks
of professional growth and development.
Question5
What are your views regarding the ways in which
Sainsbury is identifying talent in the organisation?
Frequency
By results 16
By competencies 10
By potential 14

By results
By competencies
By potential
Sainsbury uses different ways and 16 out of 40 employees gave the answer as by results that is the company most
of the time uses results and compare them and then identifies talent. 10 out of 40 employees believe in
competencies and 14 employees out of 40 by potential.
Question6
What are the major challenges faced by
Sainsbury's while managing the talent?
Frequency
Rise in employee turnover 15
High compensation demand 10
Lack of leadership 15
Rise in employee turnover
High compensation
demand
Lack of leadership

Above data shows the challenges faced by Sainsbury while retaining talent and 15 out of 40 employees gave rise in
employee turnover and lack of leadership each as the answer. Remaining 10 were with thr high compensation
demand of the employees.

P6 Recommendations based to the research conducted
RECOMMENDATIONS
After the successful completion of the research following are the research, the strategies that
Sainsbury should use as follows:
 The organisation should adopt fore flexible working environment to motivate the
employees and to retain them.
 The duties and responsibilities should be delegated to the employees so that there is need
of belongingness in the organisation and they are engaged towards the work.
 It is important understand their skills and knowledge that would help them to allot the
duties accordingly. The training and development programmes will enhance their skills
and knowledge to add more to the employees.
P7 Reflect on the values of undertaking the project and and to meet the stated objectives
I conducted the research by following the research methodology and in a fair way so as the
strategies suggested can help the organisation to manage the talent so as to retain the employees
in the organisation. The relevant information is used and the data results are reliable. The
information is collected through random sampling from the employees of Sainsbury and
communicating with them for collection of data was a difficult task for me. I worked on my
communication skills to talk to the employees and I studied various methods to conduct the
research successfully. I understood the situation of Sainsbury and then talked with employees to
make the strategies that are beneficial for the organisation. This research helped me to know
about my weakness and then also worked upon them. The research helped me to develop my
practical knowledge and improve my decision making skills.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it can be concluded that talent management is important for an
organisation to attain the goals and objectives of the organisation successfully. The workers
should be treated with respect and should give proper training so that the employees are
motivated and work for the growth of the organisation. Research is being conducted to analyse
and find out the strategies that are required fair the benefit of Sainsbury. The organisations face

many challenges while conducting their operations and to retain the customers for the growth of
the organisation.

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