Talent Management Strategies for Business Success: A Study on Amazon

Managing a successful
business project

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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