Role of Talent Management in Sainsbury's

This report explores the role of talent management in Sainsbury's and its impact on future growth and development. It examines talent management frameworks and the issues faced by Sainsbury's in managing talent at the workplace. Primary and secondary research methods are used to gather data, and appropriate analytical tools are applied to analyze the findings. The research aims to determine the significance of talent management in improving business performance.

Unit 11- Research
Project

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................1
P1: Produce a research proposal clearly defines a research question or a hypothesis supported
by literature review.................................................................................................................1
Research Aim:..................................................................................................................................1
Research objectives:.........................................................................................................................1
Research Question:..........................................................................................................................1
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................2
Role of talent management in a company..............................................................................2
Impact of talent management on future development and growth of Sainsbury’s.................2
Talent management frameworks and its significance in improving business performance...3
To know about the issues faced by Sainsbury’s at the time of managing talent at workplace.
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P2 Examine appropriate research methods & conduct primary & secondary research.........4
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................5
P3 Conduct primary and secondary research using appropriate methods for a business
research project that consider costs, access and ethical issues...............................................5
P4 Apply appropriate analytical tools to analyse research findings & data...........................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
P5: Communicate research outcomes for intended audience.................................................9
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
P6: Reflect on effectiveness of research methods applied for meeting of research project...9
P7: Consider alternative research methodologies & lessons learnt......................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Talent management is a process in concern with filling of various vacant positions in
organisations. It is associated with recruitment of suitable candidate who is able to perform the
assigned roles & responsibilities. Sainsbury's is second largest chain of supermarket across UK it
was founded in the year 1869 by John siansburys and became one largest grocery stores in year
1922. Present report is based on identification of the role of talent management in sainsbury's
and its impact on future growth & development of business. Further there is examination of the
talent management framework for the purpose of its significance in improvement of business
performance (Pandita and Ray, 2018). There is also need to make a detailed evaluation of the
issues faced by Sainsbury's for the purpose of managing talent at workplace. There is application
of primary and secondary methods of research for the purpose of reaching to such outcomes and
drawing relevant conclusions.
Task 1
P1: Produce a research proposal clearly defines a research question or a hypothesis supported by
literature review
Research Aim:
“To determine the role of talent management and its future implications for enhancing
performance of staff members within a company”. A case study on Sainsbury’s.
Research objectives:
 To identify the role of talent management in a company.
 To determine the impact of talent management on future development and growth of
Sainsbury’s.
 To examine talent management frameworks and its significance in improving business
performance.
 To know about the issues faced by Sainsbury’s at the time of managing talent at
workplace.
Research Question:
 What is the main role of talent management in a company?
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 What is the effect of talent management on future development and growth of
Sainsbury’s?
 How talent management framework improving the business performance of Sainsbury’s?
 What are the issues faced by Sainsbury’s at the time of managing talent at workplace?
LITERATURE REVIEW
Role of talent management in a company
According to the viewpoint of Taylor (2018), Talent management is important process
which result as attracting and retaining high quality employees in order to achieving organisation
goal and objectives. It includes talent management plays vital role in order to developing skill
ion order to effectively providing training programmes for employees. It involves HR manager
retaining loyal and hard worker employees as well as motivating and encouraging employees in
order to effectively performing business functions. The main purpose of organisation in order to
retain the employees for longer period of time in order to gaining competitive advantages as well
as enhancing profitability and productivity of company. Talent management plays vital role in an
organisation in order to effectively implementing which result as improving business
performance, gaining competitive advantages, new innovation in product and services,
productive teams, increasing revenue, developing brand image and many others. It is essential
for each and every organisation in order to HR manger formulating new strategies in order to
sustain and survive in the marketplace.
Impact of talent management on future development and growth of Sainsbury’s
According to the Claus (2019), it includes impact of talent management on whole
company because without the employees organisation cannot survive and sustain in the market.
It involves most of organisation using human effort in order to achieving organisation goal and
objectives. Sainsbury's is one of the leading supermarket chain in UK in order to serves the wide
range of products and services. There are ample numbers of advanced technology in order to
operating with the help of human effort in order to enhancing profitability and productivity of
company. Talent management is process which refers to various success factor such as strength,
productivity, challenges and many others (Vaiman, Collings and Scullion, 2017). It is effectively
and efficiently developing various tool and techniques in order to successful achieving growth in
the market. It is process which are huge impact on organisation profitability because organisation
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essential to managing human resources in order to achieving success and growth of company. It
includes various system, process, method and procedure in order effectively implementing talent
management process. It is essential for successful planning in order to improving employees
performance.
Talent management frameworks and its significance in improving business performance
According to the viewpoint Elegbe, (2016), talent management framework is essential
tool and techniques in order to effectively implementing in order to retaining talented employees
because improving business performance and smoothly run the organisation functions. Most of
organisation utilisation talent management framework in order to successfully attain organisation
goal and objectives. In talent management framework utilisation various approaches in order to
achieving company profitability and productivity. Talent management framework is effectively
and effectively adapting in order to reducing overall cost and improving organisation
performance. It is tool which are utilising by organisation such as attract the best talent,
developing healthy relationship with employees, motivating and encouraging employees,
identifying skill gap, boost employee performance, employment engagement programmes, retain
talented employees, improving organisation performance. All this measures are effectively
applied in talent management framework in order to improving business performance.
Organisation run the employees engagement programmes in order to increasing job satisfaction
between the employees. HR manager providing healthy working environment for workforce
which result as achieving positive outcomes.
To know about the issues faced by Sainsbury’s at the time of managing talent at workplace.
As per the view point of Top Echelon, 2020, it is determined that there are various issues
faced by an organization while managing the tenant at workplace. One of the top challenge is
increase in employee turnover rate as it arise an issue for retaining talent for longer time period
at workplace. In addition to this, it is analyzed that sometimes leaders lack In order to motivate
and encourage staff members because of there ineffective communication skills and leadership
skills. This decline the productivity and efficiency of employees to bring out innovation and put
their efforts in order to attain objectives. Moreover, sometimes employees are not agree to work
on the terms and conditions of company as they are not satisfaction and did not prefer to work
with the organization. Furthermore, another challenge that is faced by company is the demand of
higher compensation reward that affect directly on the profitability of the organization. It is
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analyzed that sometimes the creativity and that innovation level of employees is decline if the
company did not allow them to participate in the decision making process and share their
thoughts to others (Humphries, 2017). Another issue is inappropriate output and input that is
employees did not get rewards, appreciation and recognition as per the efforts they put in order
to meet with the targets and attain objectives on set time period. All such challenges occur an
issue for the company to acquire and retain talent at workplace which impact in the productivity
and profitability of respective organization.
P2 Examine appropriate research methods & conduct primary & secondary research
Research methodology is defined as a method that assist researcher to collect data and
information in a proper manner. Research methodology involved research design, research
philosophy, data collection tools and so on. The different techniques which is used in the present
research as mentioned below:
Research philosophy: There are two main forms of research follows of philosophy that is
interpretiviusm and positivism research philosophy. For the present investigation, positivism
philosophy is taken as it focuses on various aspects and also help in attaining positive results in
less time and resources.
Research approach: Investigators mainly uses two forms of research approaches such as
deductive and inductive (Daniel, Kumar and Omar, 2018). Herein, deductive approach is used as
it exists in figuring out in formation which is based on figures, statistical data and many more.
Data collection: There are mainly two sources of data collection that is primary as well as
secondary methods. In the present research, both the primary and secondary data is used In order
to collect information about research topic. In Context to primary data, it is the information that
is collected for the first time and is original in nature. There are different methods of collecting
primary information such as sampling, interview, questioner and many more. On the other side
secondary information is already collected by professional, Books, articles, Internet and so on.
Sampling: Non probability and probability are two main effective techniques of sampling.
In the present research, probability type of sampling is used by investigator as it assist them to
select large sample size (Bairagi and Munot, 2019). 30 employees of Sainsbury is selected on
random basis. The main reason of selecting probability sampling is it does not require additional
time, cost as well as resources of investigator.
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Research instrument: There are various research instrument that help in collecting
information about specific topics such as survey, interview, questionnaire, focus groups and
many more. For collecting information, questionnaire is chosen as a research instrument as it
assist in gathering numerical information within less time.
Task 2
P3 Conduct primary and secondary research using appropriate methods for a business research
project that consider costs, access and ethical issues.
Ethics: These are the moral principles which are researchers must apply, irrespective of
place or time. There are various principle of ethics which must be followed by investigator such
as avoiding deceptive practices, risk of harm, protecting confidentiality, obtaining informed
consent, anonymity and so on. This assist researcher in completion of activities in men ethical
and systematic manner.
Reliability and validity: It is another methodology which is based on the questionnaire and
are useful method in order to collect data that in turn help researcher to test validity and
reliability of results.
Cost, access and ethical issues: For conducting an investigation, the researcher have to put
emphasize on various aspects for attaining appropriate research results. For this, the researcher
required sufficient amount of funds as it helps in collecting primary and secondary data in an
appropriate manner (Ndlovu-Gatsheni, 2017). In addition to this, assist regarding some sources
are also undertaken by researcher in advance as it is beneficial for the completion of research in a
proper manner. Apart from this, there are a number of ethical practices that is important to follow
by investigator in order to complete study that is informed consent, authenticity, confidentiality
and so on.
Questionnaire
Q1) Do you have knowledge about talent management in an organisation?
a) Yes
b) No
Q2) According to you,what is the importance of talent-management at workplace?
a) Drives Innovation
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b) Retention of top talent
c) improvement in business performance
Q3) As per your view point, what is the impact of talent management on future growth and
development of Sainsbury's?
a) Positive impact
b) Negative impact
c) Neutral
Q4) What are the challenges faced by Sainsbury's at the time of managing talent in
organisation?
a) Lack of leadership
b) Increased employee turnover
c) Higher total compensation reward
Q5) According to you, which strategic approach of talent-management is beneficial for
Sainsbury's?
a) Performance assessments
b) Developing job description
c) Effective compensation
Q6) Does talent-management assist an organisation to improve its productivity level?
a) Agree
b) Disagree
Q7) Provide suggestions to Sainsbury's in retention of talent within hospitality industry.
P4 Apply appropriate analytical tools to analyse research findings & data
Data analysis & findings:
Q1) Do you have knowledge about talent management in an organisation? Frequency
a) Yes 25
b) No 5
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Interpretation: From the above graph, it is analysed that out of total 30 participants, 25
respondents have the knowledge about talent management. On the other hand, the remaining 5
respondents have no idea about this concept.
Q2) According to you, what is the importance of talent-management at
workplace?
Frequency
a) Drives Innovation 10
b) Retention of top talent 10
c) improvement in business performance 10
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Interpretation: By analysing the above graph, it is stated that 10 participants perceive that
talent management drives innovation at workplace. In addition to this, the other 10 respondents
said that it help in retaining top talent at workplace. The remaining 10 participants stated that
there is improvement within the business performance due to talent management.
Q3) As per your view point, what is the impact of talent management on
future growth and development of Sainsbury's?
Frequency
a) Positive impact 15
b) Negative impact 10
c) Neutral 5
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Interpretation: The above graph state that out of total 30 respondents, 15 Participants
said that there is positive impact of talent management on the growth and development of
respective organization. In addition to this, the 10 respondents perceive that there is negative
influence of talent management and the remaining 5 participants stated that there is no impact of
talent management on future development and growth of Sainsbury’s.
Q4) What are the challenges faced by Sainsbury's at the time of managing
talent in organisation?
Frequency
a) Lack of leadership 13
b) Increased employee turnover 9
c) Higher total compensation reward 8
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Interpretation: By analysing the above graph, it is perceive that one of the challenge faced
while managing talent in organization is lack of leadership that is said by 13 respondents. Along
with this, increase employee turnover and high compensation reward is also the issues faced by
respective organization while managing talent in organization and is perceived by 9 and 8
participants respectively.
Q5) According to you, which strategic approach of talent-management is
beneficial for Sainsbury's?
Frequency
a) Performance assessments 12
b) Developing job description 8
c) Effective compensation 10
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Interpretation: From the above graph, it is analyzed that out of total 30 participants,
12participants perceive that performance assessment is one of the strategic approach of talent
management. On the other hand, 8 participants consider developing job description as a strategic
approach of talent management and the remaining 10 respondents out of total 30 said that
effective compensation is one of the beneficial and feasible strategic approach of talent
management for Sainsbury’s.
Q6) Does talent-management assist an organisation to improve its
productivity level?
Frequency
a) Agree 24
b) Disagree 6
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Interpretation: The above graph stated that talent management help a business entity to
enhance their productivity level and is stated by 24 participants from the total 30 respondents. In
addition to this, the remaining 6 participants is not agree with the point.
TASK 3
P5: Communicate research outcomes for intended audience
Stakeholders: in the present research work stakeholder are playing a very crucial role in
completion of the whole research work in a systematic manner, some of the major stakeholders
includes, government, employees, managers and others associated individuals, all these are
majorly associated with present research work and are assisting in the process of talent
management in organisations. There were 20 employees of sainsbury's selected as respondent in
the present research work (Taylor, 2018).
Communication of research outcomes: For the purpose of communicating the research
outcomes there can be use of many different way by the researcher. Such as there can be
application of spoken words, written report, presentation report. For the purpose of
communicating of the outcomes in a more effective manner it is necessary that all the outcomes
are communicated in a more effective manner (Gupta, 2019). So there is need to support the
developing data in a more accurate manner by use of written report as a way of communication
of the relevant research outcomes.
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Convincing argument: The present research report is based on retail sector that is
Sainbury's. Where there is analysis of different strategic approaches for the purpose of reaching
to relevant conclusion according to laid research objectives (Maurya and Agarwal 2018). With
the application of effected talent management strategies that can be attracting of talent and
further it can be retained for a longer time duration in organisation in order to enhance he present
performance level of organisations.
TASK 4
P6: Reflect on effectiveness of research methods applied for meeting of research project
It can be said that from the above research I had a opportunity to get a detailed overview
of the concept of talent-management in organisation. It had to face some of the issues related to
limited of availability of time period during the course of research work as there were four major
objectives that were to be achieved. I focussed on my communication skills that helped me in
performing my assigned work. I followed all the ethical principles in the course of whole
research work and there was used of a questionnaire for the purpose of collecting relevant
information from the target segment of respondents. This method was very time consuming and
had an associated cost but it lead to development of positive research outcomes.
P7: Consider alternative research methodologies & lessons learnt
The alternative methodology that there can be use of interview as a method of collecting
information from the respondent. It is a type of primary method of collecting information where
there can be use of personal view points of respondents on various associated topics. This
method can be applied for the purpose of dealing with different problems for solving of complex
issues and collecting of most reliable form of information (Tafti, Mahmoudsaleh and Amiri,
2017). It has a certain associated demerits that is high cost and time investment but this method
is suitable for the purpose of analysing the view points of respondents individually so that there
can be analysing of issue according to the respective opinion of target segment of respondents.
CONCLUSION
From the above discussed aspects of the present research work it can be said that there
are several issues that are faced by organisation while they are managing their workforce. It
includes issues related to poor hiring strategies, ineffective leadership and high employee
turnover. These issues have to be dealt in order to ensure that present workforce is properly
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managed in organisations. The main strategic aim of talent management process is to effectively
manage employees so that capabilities and skills can be developed to retain them for a longer
time period.
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