Talent Management as a Lever for Cultural Change: A Study on Morrison

This research aims to investigate the role of talent management as a lever for cultural change within Morrison. The objectives are to identify talent management practices, examine their significance, and discern challenges faced. The research methodology includes a positivism philosophy, deductive approach, survey research strategy, quantitative research choice, and cross-sectional time horizon. The data will be collected through a questionnaire from 30 employees of Morrison using random sampling. The research will take 20 weeks to complete.

PROJECT PROPOSAL FORM
Section One: Title, aims, objectives
Research Title: Talent management being used as a lever for culture change:
Research aim
To investigate the role of talent management as a lever for cultural change within an organisation.
A study on Morrison.
Research objectives
 To identify the practices of talent management used within Morrison for managing business
functions.
 To examine the significance of talent management strategies within Morrison for lever of cultural
change.
 To discern the challenges faced by Morrison while developing talent management strategies for
cultural change.
Research question
 What are the practices of talent management used within Morrison for managing business
functions?
 What is the significance of talent management strategies within Morrison for lever of cultural
change?
 What are the challenges faced by Morrison while developing talent management strategies for
cultural change?
Section Two: Reasons for choosing this project
The main reason for selecting the research topic is to identify the impact of talent management for levering
the cultural change within the organisation. In fact, with the help of this two main objective can also be
accomplished that is personal and professional. In respect to the personal objective it will assist in gaining
more knowledge which will help them to see how managing the talents in organisation help to lever
culture. This will also help them to enhance their skills so that more talent management strategy can be
knowing which will act as a motivational factor in dynamic cultural change. On the other hand, with
respect to the professional aim it will 151help me to know the different job opportunity that is available to

them so that they can built their professional career. They will also aid in developing more attractive
personality which can manage the talent within the companies (Berger, 2020).
Section Three: Precedents and sources(literature review 400-500 words)
What are the practices of talent management used within Morrison for managing business
functions?
According to Ansar and Baloch (2018), there are various talent management practices that can be adopted
by Morrison for managing their business function in effective manner. The foremost practice that they
design by Morrison is to identify those employee according to the job description. This will help them to
bridge the gap between attracting and hiring staff. This will also help to get right candidate at right job
which will help in developing appropriate strategy according to the area or activity. Another practices that
they adopt is recruiting diversify pool of candidate so that cultural diversity can be enhanced. This will aid
Morrison to interact their business function with Multiple cultures.
What is the significance of talent management strategies within Morrison for lever of cultural
change?
As per the view of Gallardo-Gallardo, Thunnissen and Scullion (2020), there are many benefits of talent
management strategies that can be gained by Morrison for lever of cultural change. The benefit that they
earn is with the strategic talent management companies can accomplish their vison which assist them to
have diversified workforce. This diversified workforce helps them to build a strong working surrounding
that will work effectively and efficiently. Secondly, the advantage that they can it help them to gain more
success than that of their competitors as diversified employee will help them to make a strong presence in
the market and adopt various cultural changes approach.
What are the challenges faced by Morrison while developing talent management strategies for
cultural change?
As per the view of De Boeck, Meyers and Dries (2018), there are various challenges that are being faced
by Morrison when they try to develop talent management strategies which could help them in cultural
change. First, challenge that is faced by them is poor hiring strategy. In this the problem that they face is
what attract one may not attract other person or nation. So this become problematic as they need to build
different strategy according to the culture they are looking for. Another issue that is encounter by them is
employee turnover and resistance to change in their culture. As Morrison are wants diversifies culture so
that they managerial function can be perform but the workforce is resisting this and as a result employee
turnover is increasing.

Section Four: Activities and timescales(200-300 words)
Activities to be carried out during the project
How long this will take?
Part1 -activities 20 weeks
Part2

Section Five: Research methodology
It can be defined as a systematic procedure to identify, analyse and interpret information. This section
helps them to attain aims and objective in effective and efficient manner. There is various procedure that is
to be followed in research methodology which are;
Research philosophy: There are two types of research philosophy that is positivism and Interpretivism.
As per the current research topic Positivism philosophy will be selected as it helps them in gathering
quantitate data (Kumar, 2018).
Research approach: Deductive and inductive are the two research approach to test the theories and
hypothesis. In current investigation, Deductive approach will be chosen to test quantitative data so that
existing theories and hypothesis based on numerical data can be tested.
Research strategy: There are variety of research strategy some of them are survey, action research,
experimental, systematic literature review, action research and many more. In current research topic the
chosen research strategy is Survey. This is being selected as it helps in gathering data from wider section
(Snyder, 2019).
Research choice: Quantitative and Qualitative are the two forms of choices. Quantitative collects
numerical data and qualitative gathers data in words or statement. Further they are divided into subparts
which are Mono method, mixed method and Multi method. In present investigation the type of research
choice will be Quantitative and in that mono method will be chosen because it helps in gathering only
single kind of information.
Time horizon: Cross sectional and longitudinal are the two time framework. As per the requirement Cross
sectional time horizon would be selected because information need to be gathered in shorter time period
and in one go.
Data collection: It is the technique of gathering appropriate information from various sources. The
sources to collect data are Primary and secondary. In current investigation primary sources will be chosen
to gather first hand data which is fresh. The research instrument that will be used to collect data will be
Questionnaire (Pandey and Pandey, 2021).
Sampling: it is the technique of selecting respondent from whole population. There are two ways to select
participant which are probability and non-probability sampling. In present research probability sampling
will be chose and in that random sampling will be selected so that applicant can be chosen in equal and

fair manner. The sample size will be 30 employees for the Morrison (Zangirolami-Raimundo, Echeimberg
and Leone, 2018).
Milestone one:
Milestone one target date (set by tutor):
Milestone two:
Milestone two target date (set by tutor):
Comments and agreement from tutor
Comments (optional):
I confirm that the project is not work which has been or will be submitted for another qualification
and is appropriate.
Agreed by:
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References
Books and Journals
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approach. CRC Press.
Basias, N. and Pollalis, Y., 2018. Quantitative and qualitative research in business &
technology: Justifying a suitable research methodology. Review of Integrative
Business and Economics Research, 7, pp.91-105.
Berger, L.A., 2020. Talent Management: Handbook. MGH.
De Boeck, G., Meyers, M.C. and Dries, N., 2018. Employee reactions to talent management:
Assumptions versus evidence. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 39(2), pp.199-213.
Gallardo-Gallardo, E., Thunnissen, M. and Scullion, H., 2020. Talent management: context
matters. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 31(4), pp.457-
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Jayaraman, S., Talib, P. and Khan, A.F., 2018. Integrated talent management scale:
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Kumar, R., 2018. Research methodology: A step-by-step guide for beginners. Sage.
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Pandey, P. and Pandey, M.M., 2021. Research Methodology Tools and Techniques.
Pandita, D. and Ray, S., 2018. Talent management and employee engagement–a meta-analysis
of their impact on talent retention. Industrial and Commercial Training.
Snyder, H., 2019. Literature review as a research methodology: An overview and guidelines.
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Sparrow, P., 2019. A historical analysis of critiques in the talent management debate. BRQ
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pp.356-360.

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