Research Proposal Form for Talent Management at Sainsbury

Research Proposal Form
Student Name: ______________________ Student ID: ____________
Centre Name: _____________________
Tutor: ________________ Date: ___________________
Unit: ____________________
Proposed Title: ___Talent Management
___________________________________________
Section One: Title, objective,
responsibilities
Title or working title of the
research project (in the form of a
question, objective or hypothesis)
Title –Talent management
Research aim
To identify the impact of staff motivation
schemes to employee retention. A study
on Sainsbury.
Research objectives (e.g what is the
question you want to answer? What
do you want to learn how to do?
What do you want to find out?):
Research objectives –
The research objectives in context of
this study are as follows:
 To study the concept of talent
management
 To identify the impact of staff
motivation schemes to employee
retention
 To determine the challenges that
Sainsbury can face in the process
of implementing staff motivation
schemes to retain employees
along with strategies to overcome

them.
Research Questions –
The key questions of research related to
this study are as follows –
 What is the concept of talent
management?
 What is the impact of staff
motivation schemes to employee
retention?
 What are the challenges that
Sainsbury can face in the process
of implementing staff motivation
schemes to retain employees
along with strategies to overcome
them?
Section Two: Reasons for choosing
this research project
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Reasons for choosing the project
(e.g links to other subjects you are
studying, personal interest, future
plans, knowledge/skills you want to
improve, why the topic is
important):
The main reason behind selecting this
topic is that, respective topic is use of
my personal interest as I am planning to
make my career in retail industrial
sector. With the help of evaluating and
gathering information through this
research I can recognise the importance
of talent management along with the
strategies which helps in motivating
employees and assist the organisation
to retain them for longer period of time
for higher productivity. Beneficiary
within this research is employees and
retail industry as they may get to know
about the concept of talent
management and various types of staff
motivation scheme to retain employees
that will significantly help them to
assure more growth.
Section Three: Literature sources
searched
Use of key literature sources to
support your research question,
objective or hypothesis:
1. Concept of talent management
As per the view point of Osland, 2022
process in which organisation engage in
the process of attracting, selecting and
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retaining skilled and talented employees
for longer period of time with an aim to
accomplish business goals and
objectives. This process involve HR
activities across the employee life cycle
in which human resource manager of
company undertake use of workforce
planning, learning and development,
employee engagement, recruiting,
performance management, succession
and retention in order to manage
organisational workforce in a well-
defined and effective manner. The main
aim of talent management is to manage
workforce for higher productivity and
profitability. This will significantly allow
organisation to maximize
competitiveness in industry with the
help of the following activities with
experienced and skilled employees.
2. Impact of to employee retention
As per the view point of Pérez-López and
Navarro-Mateos, 2022Talent
management is defined as a in order to
retain employees, motivation plays
important role in which organisation
with the help of taking advantage of
employee motivation scheme can
effectively boost employees productivity
and can encourage them in a well-
defined and effective manner. Monetary
and non-monetary are different type of
employee motivation scheme which
assist organisation to promote
sustainable long-term motivation among
workforce. This will significantly assist
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