Talent Management Strategies for Business Success: A Study on Amazon

This report explores the importance of talent management strategies for improving productivity in organizations, with a focus on Amazon. It aims to identify and evaluate talent management strategies and their implementation challenges, as well as provide recommendations for overcoming these challenges. The report also includes a project management plan, work breakdown structure, and Gantt chart.

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Table of Contents
TASK-A...........................................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO1..................................................................................................................................................1
P1 Aim & objectives....................................................................................................................1
P2 Project management plan.......................................................................................................3
P3 Work breakdown structure and Gantt Chart...........................................................................4
LO2..................................................................................................................................................5
P4 Research methodology...........................................................................................................5
LO3..................................................................................................................................................8
P5 Data analysis and interpretation.............................................................................................8
P6 Conclusion and recommendations........................................................................................16
LO4................................................................................................................................................17
P7 Reflection.............................................................................................................................17
TASK-B.........................................................................................................................................18
Performance review...................................................................................................................18
TASK-C.........................................................................................................................................19
TASK-D.........................................................................................................................................20
REFERENCE................................................................................................................................21
APPENDIX....................................................................................................................................23
Questionnaire.............................................................................................................................23
Project log book for week 1.......................................................................................................24
Week 2 Project log book............................................................................................................25
Project log book for week 3.......................................................................................................26
Week 4 Project log book............................................................................................................28
Project log book for week 5.......................................................................................................29
Week 6 Project log book............................................................................................................30
Project log book for week 7.......................................................................................................32
Week 8 Project log book............................................................................................................33
Week 9 Project log book............................................................................................................35

Project log book for week 10.....................................................................................................36

TASK-A
INTRODUCTION
Talent management is the scope of human resource process that is helpful in developing,
attracting, on boarding and retaining be high performance employees. Talent management aims
to improve the business performance through practises that makes employees more productive.
This report will cover study on Amazon Which is American multinational technology company
and having focus on ecommerce, artificial intelligence, cloud computing and digital streaming.
they are providing online shopping to the people and satisfying their needs and demand at their
home door.
The study will discuss on the importance of talent management strategies and how it is helpful
for the organisation to achieve success. main objectives of the study is too identify the talent
management strategies and implementation of strategies within organisation.
LO1
P1 Aim & objectives
Aim
To identify strategies of talent management for the improvement of productivity at the
workplace. Study of Amazon
Objectives
 To understand the concept of talent management
 To be evaluate Strategies of talent management to improve productivity of the
organisation.
 To identify challenges from the implementation of talent management practises at
workplace.
 To identify recommendation to overcome the challenge is from talent management
practises.
Research questions
1) Importance of talent management practises
2) Strategies related to the talent management for the improvement of productivity
3) Challenges from talent management
4) Ways to overcome from the talent management challenges
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LITERATURE REVIEW
Talent management importance
According to the author Prater, Kirytopoulos, and Ma., (2017) Talen management plays
important role For the organisation to improvement in their workplace planning. In a recent time
talent management practises are helping organisations to improve their profitability and they are
able to grow their businesses. some of the talent management practises like training and
development is helping employees to improve their skills and knowledge.
However, talent management practises can have some negative impact, it is necessary for the
human resource department of the organisation to have proper knowledge about implementation
of talent management practises because it requires high knowledge and time to be successfully.
Talent management strategies
There are various talent management strategies that are used by the organisation to achieve
success in their business. the talent management strategies can include development of
employees in their performance where they continuously monitor the performance of the
employees and provide training accordingly. on the other side training and development is also
part of their tenant management strategies that is help Time to motivate their employees and
bring more skilful implies because they get upper treated to develop.
However, strategies within the Talent management only work Of the company have proper
knowledge and understanding of talent management. without having knowledge and skills of
talent management strategies are waste. it is necessary for the person to develop understanding
about talent management strategies.
Talent management challenges
Implementation of talent management is not that easy becausr it can create various challenges for
the organisation in their implementation process. some of the common challenges that mostly
faced by the people from the talent management are- Lack of leadership is one of the challenge
that can affect the practises from the talent management (Livesey., 2017). It is necessary for the
leaders to have knowledge about current management. another challenge from the talent
management is the motivation employees. employees can be motivated due to the changes an
implementation of new strategies.
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P2 Project management plan
Project management Is the formal document that is helpful in defining the process and progress
of the project and activities that will be carried out by the project manager. this plan can include
the budget, scope, goals and deliverables to keep the project on that track.
Scope
project management scope refers to the total amount of work that must be done in order to
deliver a product, outcome are services with the specific features and functions that can include
everything that must go into the project as well as the success of project. the scope of this project
is higher because there are higher chances of getting the better outcomes of the research because
Amazon is already using the and management strategies so they can improve their strategy more
better.
Time
It is necessary for the project manager to consider time so they can deliver outcomes effectively
within the given time. to complete this project on talent management the project manager of this
report will require three months of time so they will able to achieve this access (Galli., 2018)
Quality
Quality in the project management is important because it provides the best possible outcomes
from this study and without having a better quality project cannot be successful. The project
manager should always ensure the best possible quality should be provided by them so they can
get better quality.
Budget
Budget is always important part of the project management where it is the first priority of the
project manager to develop a budget for their plan. To make accurate and estimated budget the
project manager develop budget according to the inflation becausr there are higher chances to get
things more costlier which means that they have to pay higher (Jiang, J.J., Klein and Fernandez.,
2018).
Deliverables
Deliverables are the outcomes of whole study an the main focus of this project is to collect the
best possible deliverables For the whole project. The expected deliverables from the talent
management project is too get strategies that can be used by the selected organisation to achieve
success.
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Communication
Communication in the project is essential becausr without having a communication project
cannot be successful because all the information will be not get performance of the employees
and provide training accordingly. on the other side training and development is also part of their
tenant management strategies that is help Time to motivate their employees and bring more
skilful implies because they get upper treated to develop.
risk and resources
Risk can take place anytime an it is necessary for the project manager to be aware of risk and
they should always identify the possible risk so they can mitigate it. similarly resource is also
important because it will be needed during the work (Shumaev, and et.al., 2018).
P3 Work breakdown structure and Gantt Chart
WBS:
It is one of the major aspect and concept with respect to project management plan. As per
this concept the work concerning the entire project right from making of aims and objectives are
divided and presented in a hierarchical format (Burghate, 2018). This will lead to have
classification and dividation of work under the differ heads and sub heads. In simple terms WBS
is a structure that depicts the breaking of work and its presentation in under stable manner.
MSBP
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Gantt chart:
It refers to a chart that depict the related activities with respect to project and its
performance. Under this chart, activities are identified and presented along with time frame. This
means that from this chart not only activities but its approximate time frame will also be
analysed (Trojanowska and Dostatni, 2017).
LO2
P4 Research methodology
It refers to a process that include several steps which will lead to have a successful
accomplishment and performance of research. Research methodology has several steps which
depicts and lead the conduction of research in a defined manner. This is one of the essential
aspect of project management because it will lead to have a development of adequate framework
of research.
Research type:
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It refers to the type of research which is being carried out regarding the project. It is the
base on which entire research regarding the project is depend. It is generally of two types
including qualitative and quantitative. Qualitative research refers to that research in which there
is no use of any numerical data (Bansal, Smith and Vaara, 2018). Theories and non-numerical
data regarding the research is analysed. However, in case of quantitative research, numerical and
statistical data is used to carry out the research (Aspers and Corte, 2019). with respect to this
research qualitative mode is chosen so that the analysis of the concept of talent management will
be performed in-depth.
Research approach:
It refers to the plan and procedure which will be implemented in the research. it is usually
of two types including inductive and deductive. Inductive research refers to that research which
begin with research questions and accordingly data regarding the question and the research is
collected. After collecting data hypothesis and theories will be developed (Woiceshyn and
Daellenbach, 2018). While in case of deductive approach existing theories will be analysed
followed by formation of hypothesis. This will further guide data collection and analysis
(Azungah, 2018). In this research inductive research will be implemented so that qualitative data
will be analysed and justified adequately.
Research philosophy:
It generally includes belief of the researcher regarding the research. It can also be counted
as researcher perspective regarding the research. It is of two types: interpretivism and positivism.
Interpretivism refers to that philosophy in which researcher plays an important role in terms of
evaluating the facts and perspective. Here meaningfulness of the research is totally depend upon
the researcher and its interpretation (Ryan, 2018). On the other hand, positivism philosophy
works on the principle of scientific inquiry. This means that the researcher will work as per
finding and inquiry. There is no personal intervention. With respect this research, interpretivism
will be chosen so that the research regarding the concept will be justified and presented
adequately.
Data collection:
It is the process in which data related with the research will be collected by the
researcher. There are generally two sources and types of data i.e. primary and secondary.
Primary data refers to first hand and authenticated form of data. It is directly collected from
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source and hence counted as most valid and true form of data (Center, 2020). Secondary data is
that information which is gathered from secondary sources including books and journals and
other researcher findings. It is already researched data and hence readily available and less
costly. In this research a combination of both primary and secondary data will be inculcated so
that qualitative research of the project will be performed adequately and desired outcome will be
grabbed. It is also to be noted that, in order to collect primary data there are various modes
including interview, observation, questionnaire and various others. But regard to this research
questionnaire will be used wherein question regarding the concept of research will be asked from
respondents.
Sampling:
It is one of the important aspect with regard to research. Sample refers to a group of
people that shows and depicts the characteristics of entire population. It is one of the major
technique which save time and enable primary mode of research (Wu and et.al., 2017). it can be
performed by many manner but in case of this research a simple random sampling of 30
employees of the Amazon is included. Simple random sampling refers to that sampling in which
there are equal chances of selection of the respondent.
Data analysis:
As per this aspect the collected data regarding the research will be analysed and
interpreted its outcome. Without this task research will not be able to accomplish. It can be
performed by two modes including SPSS and thematic test. SPSS is generally used to analyse the
numerical data. However, thematic test is used to analyse the qualitative data. By making of
theme regarding the concept data of the research will be analysed. In this research thematic test
will be adopted so that qualitative data will be analysed and justified.
Ethics:
Ethics are the major and important element with respect to every research. This is
because implication of ethical consideration will lead to have raising of valid of the research.
Ethics are the moral values and principles that will lead to have better performance of research
(Resnik, 2018). In order to achieve and implement ethical consideration in this research, prior
permission of the respondent will be taken regarding the availing of data. Likewise, ethical forms
will also be filled by the respondent so that the research will be ethically valid and true. Also an
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option of withdrawal of consent is also enabled to respondents so that they will be not forcefully
participate in research and their ethics and moral values will not be hurt.
Reliability and validity:
It is very essential that the research must be reliable and valid so that the concerned
people including other researcher, companies and various other will be able to trust over the
research. in order to ensure reliability and validity only authenticated sources and authors views
are being inculcated in the research. Also, data is collected only from reputed websites and only
copyright data is being used in the research in order to make it more valid and reliable. Also to
ensure more reliability and validity primary research is also used along with secondary research
so that authenticity of data will be maintained.
LO3
P5 Data analysis and interpretation
It is an important aspect with respect to every research. Under this data regarding the
research is collected and analysed with the drawing of interpretation. Data analysis is an
important aspect because it will enable the researcher to have knowledge and justification
regarding the entire research.
Theme 1: Talent management initiative
Q. 1. Do you follow any talent management initiative in workplace?
Option Response
a) Yes
b) No
25
5
Total 30
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a) Yes b) No Total
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
Q. 1. Do you follow any talent
management initiative in workplace?
Interpretation:
As per the above table and graph it is interpreted that the company usually adopt the
talent management practices in its workplace. As out of a sample of 30 employees, majority of
employees including 25 say yes while 5 said no. These findings clearly show that eth company
take adequate talent management initiatives in the workplace with reference to attraction and
management of employees along with their retention in the company.
Theme 2: Equal distribution of salary:
Q. 2. Do you make fair and equal distribution of salary among employees?
Option Response
a) Yes
b) No
22
8
Total 30
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Q. 2. Do you make fair and equal
distribution of salary among
employees?
a) Yes b) No Total
Interpretation:
From the above data and graphical representation, it is clearly understood that they
company follow and implement the practice of equal and fair distribution of income among the
employees. This is also clear from the finding which shows that from a sample of 30 employees
majority of 22 responds in favour while 8 are in against with the implication of this practice.
Since, majority of employees are in favour this means that company is a follower of making
equal and fair payment practice.
Theme 3: Raise in sales and revenue capacity of company:
Q. 3. According to you by raising and retaining talent, did you notice any change in
sales and revenue earning capacity of company?
Option Response
a) Yes it increased at consecutive rate
b) It remains same as before
c) No it slopes down
20
6
4
Total 30
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a) Yes it
increased at
consecutive
rate
b) It remains
same as before
c) No it slopes
down
Total
0
10
20
30
Q. 3. According to you by raising and
retaining talent, did you notice any
change in sales and revenue earning
capacity of company?
Interpretation:
As per the finding of the above graph and table it is clearly interpreted that company has
experienced a growth with regard to sales and revenue with the implication of talent management
aspect. As 20 employees notice a rise in sales and revenue, while 6 feels no change however 4
said that they saw a declining slope. As majority of employees from the sample of 30 are in
favour and experienced a rise and upward movement of sales and revenue percentage then it is
clear that with the implementation of talent management in terms of raising and retaining talent
company achieve growth.
Theme 4: Involvement of employee’s views:
Q. 4. Do you involve employee’s views while taking decision?
Option Response
a) Yes
b) No
21
9
Total 30
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Q. 4. Do you involve employee’s views
while taking decision?
a) Yes b) No Total
Interpretation:
As per the above finding from tabular and graphical representation of data it is interpreted
that the company involve and consider the views of employees while taking decision. This
means it make its decision with the consideration of employees views. This is also clear from the
finding of sample which shows that out of 30, majority of 21 are in favour while 9 are in against
of this statement. Being a majority favour, it clears that the company involve employee’s views
and perspectives while taking decision.
Theme 5: Talent management strategies:
Q. 5. What talent management strategies you generally implement in workplace?
Option Response
a) Adequate recruitment
b) Enabling career advancement
opportunities
c) Organizing training sessions
d) All of above
4
5
5
15
Total 30
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a) Adequate recruitment
b) Enabling career advancement
opportunities
c) Organizing training sessions
d) All of above
Total
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Q. 5. What talent management
strategies you generally implement in
workplace?
Interpretation:
The company adopt many practices including appropriate recruitment, organization of
training session and various others with regard to implementation of talent management in the
organization (Narayanan, Rajithakumar and Menon, 2019). Since, as per the above data it is
concluded that out of 30 employees, 4 said that they adopt adequate recruitment policy, a
combination of 5 employees favours the practice of enabling career opportunities and training
session organization, while 15 said that all of the practices are adopted by company for executing
talent management concept. As majority of the employees said that they adopt almost every
practice so it can be concluded that the company follow every practice.
Theme 6: Challenges in the implementation of talent management:
Q.6. What challenges you generally face while implementing talent management in the
workplace?
Option Response
a) High compensation demand
b) Low morale and interest
c) Lack of leadership
d) All of above
6
4
5
15
13

Total 30
a) High compensation demand
b) Low morale and interest
c) Lack of leadership
d) All of above
Total
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
Q.6. What challenges you generally
face while implementing talent
management in the workplace?
Interpretation:
From the above table and graph it is clear that company face many challenges including
high compensation demand, low morale and lack of leadership as a challenge while
implementing talent management concept. As out of 30 employees majority of 15 employees
favour all the above challenges which the company face while executing talent management so it
would be right to said that the execution of this concept bears many challenges with regard to
company.
Theme 7: Tactics of overcoming the challenges:
Q.7. Which tactics you have adopted for overcoming the challenges of talent
management?
Option Response
a) Enabling development opportunities with
relevant learning
b) Enable guidance
c) Implement accountability matching to
responsibility
5
6
4
15
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d) All of above
Total 30
Q.7. Which tactics you have adopted
for overcoming the challenges of talent
management?
a) Enabling development opportunities with relevant learning
b) Enable guidance
c) Implement accountability matching to responsibility
d) All of above
Total
Interpretation:
From the above data and graphical representation, it is clear that out of the sample of 30
employees, 5 said that they enable development opportunities with relevant learning, 6 said that
they enable guidance, 4 are in favour of assigning accountability while majority of 15 are in
favour of implementing every tactics with regard to overcoming of the challenge. This means
that an inculcation of all the practices will enable the company to overcome the talent
management challenges.
Theme 8: Additional talent management strategies
Apart from the above strategies, an adoption of several other practices in terms of enabling
adequate reward system as per employees performance, timely performance appraisal, learning
through coaching, positive work and employees friendly culture, enabling continuous learning
and training, availing adequate motivation means including financial and non-financial
motivation are some additional practices which company can adopt in order to raise the
employees motivation and satisfaction level and thereby their retention (Borisova and et.al.,
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2017). Thus, it will lead to enhancement of employee’s performance which will further enhance
Amazon’s performance and productivity too.
P6 Conclusion and recommendations
From the above research it is concluded that talent management is not just bringing talented
employees within the organization but it also includes their management in terms of retention
and availing growth opportunities so that their performance will be raised and the actual concept
will be implemented. Talent management plays an important role with respect to raising
productivity of company including Amazon too. This is because with the engagement and hiring
of talented workforce company can easily direct its moves towards the direction of its objectives.
Likewise, with the staff retention company will still direct its moves towards its goal. It is also
understood from the research that with the adoption of various practices including training and
development, motivating employees from time to time, performance appraisal and various other
strategies plays an important role in terms of raising the productivity of the employees and as a
result the productivity of the entire organization also improves and raised.
In addition of this it is also concluded that the implication of talent management in the
Amazon has put a positive impact over the company in terms of enhancement of its productivity.
This is also well clear from the data collection and interpretation aspect of the research which
shows positive and favourable outcome with regard to this statement.
Likewise, this research also summarizes the various aspect regarding project development
plan and its associated concept of cost, time, risk and various other. A detailed knowledge
regarding the research methodologies and its steps is also summarizes in the research in order to
raise knowledge regarding methodology.
Along with this it is also understood that the implication of talent management in the
organization also includes several challenges including leadership, high compensation demand
and various others also act as hindrance in the path of its implication in the organization.
However, with adequate moves and strategies these challenges will be overcome and meted.
Recommendation:
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 In order to have further raising and enhancement of productivity it should be
recommended to Amazon that it will make sure more retention of employees in the
organization.
 Likewise, it is also recommended that implication of adequate leadership concept will
enable the Amazon and its employees to have better work performance.
 It is also recommended to Amazon that focus over hiring of talented employees along
with enabling adequate opportunities regarding career enhancement and growth will
enable the company to have high productivity.
 It is also recommended that Amazon should have to focus towards the creation of
employee’s friendly culture and positive with flexible work environment in the
workplace so that better retention can be grabbed.
 Organization of training and skill development sessions are also recommended to
Amazon so that performance of employees and their skills will be sharpening up and
better productivity of business can be achieved.
 It is also recommended to Amazon that it should focus over the concept of performance
appraisal and appraising good efforts of employees so that they will be motivated and
take more efficient move. As a result their performance will be raised.
LO4
P7 Reflection
From the above research I learned many new things and concepts. This research enable me
to create knowledge regarding the actual making and execution of the project management plan.
from this research I learned that how aims and objectives regarding the topic are made and
prepared and how on the basis of those aims entire research is carried out. From this research my
level of knowledge regarding the various aspect of project management plan in terms of cost,
time, risk and various other raised. This research also helps me to understand about the various
steps regarding eth performance of research through research methodology. With this concept I
learned that how research is actually performed and how practically an organization link to a
research.
Along with my level of knowledge, communication, leadership, teamwork, presentation and
various other skills also developed. This is because while performing this research I learned that
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how information is actually communicated and language is formed for delivering the
information. Likewise, I also learn team spirit and teamwork within this research because when I
got practical exposure I experienced real team management. Also my presentation skill got a
tremendous development because with the presentation section of the research I learned the
actual presentation skill that how data is presented among the concerned person. Likewise, my
analytical and interpretation skill also developed when I performed data analysis and
interpretation section of research and now I’m able to interpret the complex to complex data. I
also learned time management and cost saving skill while pursuing this research that how within
the limited and prescribed time research and its aspects are performed and how with adequate
cost best outcome of the research is produced. I also learned primary data collection technique
when I collect data from respondents by the way of questionnaire. This research along with
enhancing my skills also helped me to develop practical exposure and dealing.
This research also taught me that how the talent management and productivity is linked with
each other along with its practical implication on Amazon. Through this research I raised my
level of knowledge regarding the performance of work and understanding about research
methodology and its steps. Overall this research helped me to enhance my knowledge level along
with learning of many new skills with a nourishment of some of my existing skills. This research
also enables me an opportunity to learn the concept of research and handle the future research
projects with more perfection and resulted oriented approach. This research also supports my
future academic pathway by delivering knowledge regarding actual research.
TASK-B
Performance review
The project was supposed to accomplish the relationship between talent management and
productivity. This project aims to analyse the strategies of talent management that will lead to the
raising of productivity so it would be right to said that the project was accomplish with a finding
that there is direct relationship between them.
Yes, project succeed in its aim in terms of its accomplishment. This is known and justified
with the outcome of both the primary and secondary research which truly denotes its outcome
with respect to aim accomplishment. Primary and secondary research concerning the project is
the assessment with reference to the aim accomplishment and justification.
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The planned steps and the methodologies regarding the project work well. This means that
the planned steps regarding the project enables a framework that lead to the performance of the
research in a defined manner. Various activities of the project including initiation, determination
of activities and strategies along with desired outcome truly signify and directed as per aim of
project. They are designed and perfumed as per framework of project management plan and the
various aspect regarding these steps are also accomplished.
The major problem that arise includes shortage of time and cost. However, it is adequately
tackle with the moulding of project activities like inculcation of secondary research wherein
already researched data is used to support this project. This technique not only save time but it
also save the cost of inculcating more primary modes. Yes, these issues are identified at
appropriate time and it was timely solved too during the conduction of project. this is understood
from moulding of steps of project with the inculcation of secondary research concept.
The undertaking of this project enabled me to learn various skills including
communication, leadership, teamwork, presentation, analytical and interpretation and various
other skills too. this project also helped me to raise my level of knowledge regarding the
conduction of research and its aspects.
I will rate myself as 5 out of 4.5. This is because this project enables me to flourish my
skill and learn new skills. Also I had devoted my full concentration and focus towards obtaining
the desired outcome of the project. Thus, with respect to this project I will rate 4.5.
My strength includes my skills, concentration, my devotion and resulted oriented
behaviour. These strengths enable me to have successful conducting of the project.
Likewise, low presentation skill, time management, and communication are some of my
weakness that may affect my performance and this research too.
This will lead to play a major role in my future performance and development. This is
because this project taught me lots of concepts and developed many skills will definitely further
assist me to have better handling of research project and the enhancement of my academic
career.
This project and the successful outcome of the project will proves to be very useful for
the organization and its performance because it will enable it analyse its own performance and
the impact of talent management concept over the employees performance. This will enable it a
chance to raise and improve its productivity.
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My performance within this project is counted as good because I tried to cover every
aspect and point with respect to this research and the concerned topic. I also gathered relevant
data for the project and make it adequate analysis. Thus, I tried my best and my performance was
good.
TASK-C
Continue in presentation
TASK-D
Project log book: In appendix
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APPENDIX
Questionnaire
Questionnaire
PART-A
Name:
Age:
Sex:
PART-B
Q. 1. Do you follow any talent management initiative in workplace?
a) Yes
b) No
Q. 2. Do you make fair and equal distribution of salary among employees?
a) Yes
b) No
Q. 3. According to you by raising and retaining talent, did you notice any change in sales and
revenue earning capacity of company?
a) Yes it increased at consecutive rate
b) It remains same as before
c) No it slopes down
Q. 4. Do you involve employee’s views while taking decision?
a) Yes
b) No
Q. 5. What talent management strategies you generally implement in workplace?
a) Adequate recruitment
b) Enabling career advancement opportunities
c) Organizing training sessions
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d) All of above
Q.6. What challenges you generally face while implementing talent management in the
workplace?
a) High compensation demand
b) Low morale and interest
c) Lack of leadership
d) All of above
Q.7. Which tactics you have adopted for overcoming the challenges of talent management?
a) Enabling development opportunities with relevant learning
b) Enable guidance
c) Implement accountability matching to responsibility
d) All of above
Q. 8. According to you which additional strategies would be implemented in addition to
execute talent management in organization….
Project log book for week 1
No. Planned Activities Action Plan
1 Update your last week’s work In the last week I make identification of
research topic and develop aims and
objectives.
2 Problem encountered and how did you
handle the problem?
Problem in identification of topic.
By deep research and knowledge
grabbing.
3 Task for this week What have I learnt about myself this
week?
Feel good and challenging. Yes, it was
useful for completing the task.
According to me I performed good. I
contribute a major part of research. I will
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improve my research finding and scope.
It will help me to carry out as many as
research I can.
4 Risk issues identified. Points to consider:
Yes, I find issue due to my knowledge
lacking.
Identification of most appropriate topic
from the most wide concept of talent
management.
5 Plan your tasks for next week Points to consider:
Development of project management plan
will be on priority.
Yes, I am performing my activities with
required time.
6 Project plan status till date (on/ahead /
behind)
If behind, why?
Its status is on.
Week 2 Project log book
No. Planned Activities Action Plan
1 Update your last week’s work I performed preparing project management
plan with preparation of WBS and
Gantt chart.
2 Problem encountered and how did you
handle the problem?
What barriers did you face?
Synchronization and classification of
activities along with systematic
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arrangement.
How did you overcome them?
By practicing and carefully analysing the
related aspects and steps.
3 Task for this week What have I learnt about myself this
week?
I feel somewhat tense because I was afraid
that whether I would be able to perform
the task or not. yes I find it useful because
I learn many things.
I perform average to high. I contribute a
lot in order to make the plan systematic. I
will improve my time management skill.
This will enable me to handle and make
future research plan in an more efficient
manner.
4 Risk issues identified. Yes I find issue with the lack of my time
management skill.
No there was no project issue except its
broad activities.
5 Plan your tasks for next week Preparing research methodology.
No I have no adequate time but I will
manage with more efforts.
6 Project plan status till date (on/ahead /
behind)
If behind, why?
Project status is behind because I gave
excess time in making project
management plan.
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Project log book for week 3
No. Planned Activities Action Plan
1 Update your last week’s work I prepare research methodology.
2 Problem encountered and how did you
handle the problem?
Points to consider:
What barriers did you face?
I face identification of adequate modes
and mediums regarding research
methodology. Determination of
appropriate type, approach also act barrier.
How did you overcome them?
By analysing and comparing it with topic
and concept requirement.
3 Task for this week What have I learnt about myself this
week?
I feel good because I learned adequate
methodology. Yes, I find it very useful
because it enable me to learn many new
aspects.
I perform very well. I contribute with
successful determining research
methodology. I will improve my speed
and analytical skill.
This will enable me to handle my future
project very easily.
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4 Risk issues identified. No, because I had adequate knowledge
regarding methodology.
No such issue because all were prepared
and made as per plan.
5 Plan your tasks for next week Performing secondary research.
Yes, now I have adequate time for
completion.
6 Project plan status till date (on/ahead /
behind)
If behind, why?
Its status is on because everything is done
as per time.
Week 4 Project log book
No. Planned Activities Action Plan
1 Update your last week’s work I perform secondary research.
2 Problem encountered and how did you
handle the problem?
Points to consider:
What barriers did you face?
I face the barrier of collecting adequate
and relevant data with respect to research.
How did you overcome them?
I overcome them with the deep analysis
and approaching various aspects and
sources.
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3 Task for this week What have I learnt about myself this
week?
I feel good because I took it as challenge
and tried by best. Yes I find it useful
because it has a major role in supporting
research.
I perform to be best level. I contribute
major supporting material with regard to
research. I will improve my knowledge
and approach with respect to research.
This learning enable me to handle future
project because secondary research is the
major part of every research.
4 Risk issues identified. I find the issue of collecting data with my
lack of my reaching approach to access
data.
No because it was a major part and
support the entire project.
5 Plan your tasks for next week Data collection will be on priority.
Yes I have appropriate time for upcoming
tasks.
6 Project plan status till date (on/ahead /
behind)
If behind, why?
Project plan status is on because
everything is performing as per plan.
Project log book for week 5
No. Planned Activities Action Plan
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1 Update your last week’s work I had started collected primary data with
the preparation of questionnaire.
2 Problem encountered and how did you
handle the problem?
Points to consider:
What barriers did you face?
Determination of best questions and
setting out best question relevant to
concept.
How did you overcome them?
I performed hit and trial method and
ultimately make the adequate question.
3 Task for this week What have I learnt about myself this
week?
My feeling was challenging because I
need to perform primary research. Yes, it
is very useful because I learned practical
exposure.
I performed very well because I made
good questionnaire. I contribute a major
section of primary research. I will more
broader my scope of primary data
collection.
Through this learning I would be
practically able to know real execution of
research topic in organization.
4 Risk issues identified. Yes I find risk because of low knowledge.
No issue arise because it is a major part of
research which is needed to be done.
5 Plan your tasks for next week Approaching employees of organization
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and collecting data.
Yes I have adequate time for the task.
6 Project plan status till date (on/ahead /
behind)
If behind, why?
Its status is on because everything is on
time.
Week 6 Project log book
No. Planned Activities Action Plan
1 Update your last week’s work In the last week I completed my majority
of work including preparing of project
management plan till collecting data.
2 Problem encountered and how did you
handle the problem?
What barriers did you face?
I face the main barrier of shortage of cost
and time element.
How did you overcome them?
I overcome those barriers by moulding my
research accordingly so that with low cost
and time I can produce best outcome. For
this I integrate secondary research
3 Task for this week What have I learnt about myself this
week?
I feel knowledgeable while performing the
task because this tasks and project raise
my knowledge scope. Yes I find useful for
completing the tasks because it will lead to
the achievement of final outcome of the
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project.
I had performed very well and justified the
task. I contribute my finding regarding the
concept of talent management and its
relation with productivity. In the next
week I will improve my primary research
in terms of limiting its to the necessary
scope and data gathering requirement.
This learning enable me to handle my
future research work and enhance my
academic line of career.
4 Risk issues identified. Yes, with a lack of presentation and
interpretation skill I found issue in
undertaking the research.
There is no such project issue, however
collection of primary data from employees
of company occurs as issue but with
effective communication it is soughed out.
5 Plan your tasks for next week The analysis of the collected data and its
interpretation with lecturer approval is in
priority.
Yes, I had set adequate time with respect
to every task of project.
6 Project plan status till date (on/ahead /
behind)
If behind, why?
Its status is on and it is pursuing as per
plan.
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Project log book for week 7
No. Planned Activities Action Plan
1 Update your last week’s work I performed analysis of collected data.
2 Problem encountered and how did you
handle the problem?
What barriers did you face?
I face barrier while interpreting in terms of
preparation of adequate themes and its
representation.
How did you overcome them?
I overcome them by practicing and
performed as per my classroom teaching.
3 Task for this week What have I learnt about myself this
week?
I feel good because I accept it as
challenge. Yes I find it useful because
through this actual finding is achieved.
I performed very well. I contribute the
actual meaning and concept of research. I
will improve my knowledge level.
This will be very useful for future because
through this I would be easily interpret the
detailed data.
4 Risk issues identified. Yes initially I find issues but not later.
no there is no issue because without
primary research, project will be
incomplete.
5 Plan your tasks for next week Making recommendation and conclusions.
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Yes I have adequate time for upcoming
task.
6 Project plan status till date (on/ahead /
behind)
If behind, why?
As everything is one time so project status
is on.
Week 8 Project log book
No. Planned Activities Action Plan
1 Update your last week’s work I make conclusion and recommendation.
2 Problem encountered and how did you
handle the problem?
What barriers did you face?
I face the barrier of synchronizing the big
data.
How did you overcome them?
With my intelligence and analytical skills I
make overcome those barriers.
3 Task for this week What have I learnt about myself this
week?
I feel good because it raise my knowledge.
Yes I find it useful because without this
project will be incomplete.
I performed to my best level. I contribute a
major part in terms of concluding every
aspect. I will improve my further deep
analysis skill.
Through this learning I will be able to
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perform any research project with drawing
of adequate conclusion.
4 Risk issues identified. Yes I find some issue because I had no
knowledge regarding synchronization of
large data.
No because, without conclusion project
will be incomplete.
5 Plan your tasks for next week Making reflection for sharing my
experience.
Yes, I have appropriate time.
6 Project plan status till date (on/ahead /
behind)
If behind, why?
Project status is on.
Week 9 Project log book
No. Planned Activities Action Plan
1 Update your last week’s work I completed my self-reflection.
2 Problem encountered and how did you
handle the problem?
What barriers did you face?
I did not find any barrier but effective
communication can be counted as barrier.
How did you overcome them?
I overcome by practicing it in order to
present experience in appropriate form.
3 Task for this week What have I learnt about myself this
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week?
I feel good because I express by thoughts
and views. Yes because its my own
experience which will enable other
researchers also to understand the
experience of research.
I make performed very well. I contribute
my own thoughts and thinking. I will
improve any correction if made by
lecturer.
This will enable me to have idea of
handling future project too.
4 Risk issues identified. No because in this I only make my
experience to be presented.
no because it enhance the project
adequacy.
5 Plan your tasks for next week Making correction of lecturer if any,
otherwise submission.
Yes I have enough time.
6 Project plan status till date (on/ahead /
behind)
If behind, why?
It is on.
Project log book for week 10
No. Planned Activities Action Plan
1 Update your last week’s work Make correction and submission.
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2 Problem encountered and how did you
handle the problem?
What barriers did you face?
No such barrier except making correction.
How did you overcome them?
It was overcome by making changes in it
because it enables me to have better
presentation of report and research.
3 Task for this week What have I learnt about myself this
week?
I feel good because it raise my knowledge.
Yes I find it useful because through this I
learned a lot.
I performed outstanding. I contribute a
new aspect with regard to researcher and
corporate world. No such improvement in
next week.
I will be able to handle future project with
efficiency and perfection. This will also
help me and assist me to handle any kind
of research work because I had developed
adequate knowledge and efficacy.
4 Risk issues identified. No issues are identified with regard to
skills and project.
5 Plan your tasks for next week No task because project complete.
No need of time for future completion
because project is over.
6 Project plan status till date (on/ahead / Its status remain on till the completion
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behind)
If behind, why?
because everything and every task of the
project was made completed on time.
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