Impact of Covid-19 on Sainsbury: Pre and Post Covid Profit

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Table of Contents
Topic :- “To investigate the impact of Covid -19 on Sainsbury by collecting the pre-Covid profit
and post-Covid Profit”.....................................................................................................................4
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
Research aim .........................................................................................................................4
Problem statement..................................................................................................................4
Research Objectives: - ...........................................................................................................5
Research Questions................................................................................................................5
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................5
Explain about impact of Covid -19 on Sainsbury?.................................................................5
What are different changes that has happened in relation to profit in Sainsbury?.................5
How training and development process impacted during the time of Covid-19 in Sainsbury? .6
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY.....................................................................................................6
Research analysis ...........................................................................................................................7
FINDINGS ......................................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
REFRENCES...................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

Topic :- “To investigate the impact of Covid -19 on Sainsbury by collecting the
pre-Covid profit and post-Covid Profit”
INTRODUCTION
Covid-19 is one of the biggest disaster that has taken place in the history of world which
has impacted economy of various organizations and countries all over the world. In this situation
various kinds of issues has been faced by organization in relation to activities conducted by an
organization. Covid -19 has made profit to be impacted in more effective manner over bith
positive and negative manner. In other words Covid-19 has made organization face lot of
challenges as government took harsh steps which reduced productivity in an organization. This
impacted performance of various activities related to employees staffing, staff development,
performance management with compensation management and encouraging involvement of
employees in decision making with innovative ideas. Before Covid-19 situation were much
better and employees were able to complete task. This situation has made organization develop
different strategies that has made organization grow in different style. The organization taken for
whom research has been conducted is Sainsbury.
Research aim
Identification of impact of Covid-19 on Sainsbury in relation to its post covid and pre
covid profit.
Problem statement
The study has to be done on the basis of research that is based upon showing impact of
Covid-19 upon an organization like Sainsbury in relation to pre Covid profit and post Covid
profit. Main thing that is to be covered is based upon impacting of Covid-19 upon profit of an
organization. In this productivity over employees and development of working is been discussed.
Main problem which is required to be addressed in the study is based over Covid-19 and its
affects within an organization like Covid-19. Also it has helped in attain sustainability in
business environment. This is because with the globalisation as well as enhancement of
technological sector the business environment has now become dynamic where stakeholders and
other intangible factors require an organisation to continuously improve its offering. This can be
in term of launching a new product, improving existing product, brining new technology or
innovation, enhancing the manner in which customers are being served in order to provide

maximum satisfaction to stakeholders. For adopting these changes an organisation require to
start its work within the organisation by arranging resources and enhancing quality of work that
customer deliver. Hence this study helps in resolving the problem in which an organisation can
improve its employees’ performance.
Research Objectives: -
 Developing and understanding importance over impact of Covid-19 upon Sainsbury
 Determination of various changes in relation to profit of Sainsbury
 Determine the impact of training and development programs within Covid-19 period on
Sainsbury.
Research Questions
 Explain about impact of Covid -19 on Sainsbury?
 What are different changes that has happened in relation to profit in Sainsbury?
 How training and development process impacted during the time of Covid-19 in
Sainsbury?
LITERATURE REVIEW
Explain about impact of Covid -19 on Sainsbury?
According to Thongkoo, Panjaburee and Daungcharone, (2019) Covid-19 is considered
to be one of the most drastic pandemic situation that has happened all over the world. It has
impacted Sainsbury in a way that it helped in developing new strategies as porcesses were going
online. Also various difficulties were faced in communicating with employees as sometimes they
were not available. Processes that taken place in an organization become slow which made
production to be reduced and selling decreased. Due to this employees performance was
negatively impacted. In this situation tendency upon production reduced and made performance
management, recruitment process, developing learning skills, performing data analysis become
very slow in Sainsbury.
What are different changes that has happened in relation to profit in Sainsbury?
According to Song and Wen, (2018) Covid-19 has been impacting profit of Sainsbury in
a way that before Covid-19 profit was high and after covid it reduced. It happened because sales
of the retailer reduced and all things become online. After this online selling was boosted due