Talent Management and Research Methods: A Case Study on Swain and Jones

Unit 11- Questions

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
1. Literature review on the topic of talent management..................................................................3
2. The different type of research methods with their advantages and disadvantages......................5
3. Forming a questionnaire on defined objectives ..........................................................................6
4. Explaining how research methods help in achieving objectives...............................................10
5. Alternative methods that could have used ...............................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Talent management is that important aspect that is adopted by an organisation with the
purpose of recruiting and retaining best talent in the workplace (Meyers and et. al., 2020). With
the assistance of talent management, the objectives of business could be easily achieved by
organisation. In simpler words, talent management is the process that works for maintaining the
whole workplace (Ahammad and et. al., 2018). The present report covers the information about
the topic of talent management. The chosen organisation for the report is Swain and Jones. The
company works under motor dealership and it has currently 42 employees.
MAIN BODY
Research Aim
To determine the impact of talent management process on managing and organising their
current as well as new employees in the workplace. A study on Swain and Jones
Research Objectives
 To enhance the basic knowledge of talent management within an organisation
 To identify the impact of talent management process within Swain and Jones
 To discern the different types of talent management strategies adopted by Swain and
Jones to attract and retain employees
Research Questions
 Explain the basic aspects related with talent management and used strategies by company
along with its impact over company?
1. Literature review on the topic of talent management
Explain the basic aspects related with talent management and used strategies by company along
with its impact over company?
According to Gallardo-Gallardo, Thunnissen and Scullion (2020), in this modern time the
company is adopting talent management process in the workplace so that they could maintain
and manage employees. Talent management is defined as the framework that assists in
recruiting, selecting, acquiring and retaining employees in the workplace. It is defined as the
combination of human resource process in which human resource department assist in acquiring
best candidate for the company. Some of the significant aspects related with talent management
are:

 Planning: This is known as one of the important aspects because in this goals and
objectives are made in relation to the needed workforce and development of employees.
 Attracting talented candidates: The other aspect of talent management is attracting
talented employees and for this the talent management process make different techniques.
With this company gets talented and knowledgable employees (Jayaraman, Talib and
Khan, 2018).
 Training and development: Another significant aspect related to talent management is
training and development. This is the aspect of talent management process that assists in
improving knowledge and skills of employees.
According to Anlesinya and Amponsah-Tawiah (2020), there are different types of talent
management strategies that help in attracting and retaining talented talent in the workplace. Some
of the talent strategies adopted by adopted by Swain and Jones are explained below:
 Organising sessions of learning and development: Learning and development is one of
the strategies that are adopted by Swain and Jones. This particular strategy is focused
towards improving skills and knowledge of employees so that they could improve their
efficiency.
 Offering benefits and rewards: Another talent management strategy adopted by Swain
and Jones is offering benefits and rewards. Rewards and benefits help in improving
motivation among employees because in this they get monetary as well as non-monetary
benefits.
 Timely appreciation: One of the significant strategies related with talent management is
timely appreciation. In this Swain and Jones provide appreciation to employees at right
time so that employees could believe that they are important for the organisation (Cascio
and Aguinis, 2018).
 Giving feedbacks and reviews: The other strategy related to talent management is giving
feedbacks and reviews to employees. This helps in determining problems and issues at
right time so that changes could be made.
According to Painter‐Morland and et. al., (2019), the above defined strategies of talent
management it could be determined that there is positive impact of talent management strategies
for attracting and retaining employees in the organisation. The strategy of talent management
that is learning and development improves the knowledge and skills of employees. This has