BA Business: Research Proposal on Training Impact at ASDA (LSC UoS)

This research report investigates the impact of training and development on employee productivity and growth, focusing on Asda as a case study. It outlines the research rationale, aim, and objectives, including understanding the impact of training on employee growth, examining strategies used by A...Read More

Research Methodologies On Impact
of training and development on the
productivity and growth of
employees.
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Abstract
The main objective of the study is to investigate the impact of different training and
development process for make an impact on the employee's performance and growth. This is the
factor is related to quantitative in the nature as the researcher is collected all the primary sources
from the use of questionnaire. The data have been checked through statistical software to find the
training and development on the employee's performance and productivity. This research consist
the training and development session and its impact on the employees performance and
productivity for the growth and discussed sources in an effective management practices. This
research proposal is helpful for completing effective and efficient research and measure the
information in an effective and appropriate ways.
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Table of Contents
Abstract............................................................................................................................................2
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
Background of the research.........................................................................................................4
Research rationale.......................................................................................................................4
Literature review..............................................................................................................................5
Research Methodologies..................................................................................................................8
Research philosophies.................................................................................................................8
Research approaches...................................................................................................................8
Research choice...........................................................................................................................9
Research Strategies.....................................................................................................................9
Data collection techniques and analysis......................................................................................9
Sampling...................................................................................................................................11
Ethical consideration.................................................................................................................11
Validity and reliability..............................................................................................................11
Research limitation....................................................................................................................11
Research timescale.........................................................................................................................12
References......................................................................................................................................14
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Introduction
Background of the research
The main objective of the companies is basically related to improving their performance
in an efficient manner. For this companies try to manage their performance management system
and comes in the form of management reform to address the concern of employees and make
growth in the organisation. This research include the two main terms training and development,
these terms are helpful for the growth to achieve organisational performance and make
interrelationship among the employee's productivity and company's growth. It can be said that
employee's training and development are the two main programmes that are essentials for the
success of the business activities (Ali and Anwar, 2021). This actually provide the opportunities
for the growth of employees but to improve their skills and enhance the productivity of the
company's culture. The chosen company for this research is Asda, a British supermarket
company that headquartered is in Leeds, England. The company is founded in 1949 and they are
operating under the Walmart company of UK (Areola, Perono and Ilagan, 2021). Asda is using
different strategies to promote their employees with effective training and development sessions.
This report includes the aim and objective of the research proposal, a critical discussion on the
secondary data and choice of research methodologies to make appropriate selection for
conducting the research.
Research rationale
The main purpose of the study is to investigate the major impact of training and
development session on the employees productivity for the growth of the employees. The chosen
organisation is Asda, as they are the one who are providing major strategies and approaches for
their employees performance and productivity. As its core improvement and performance are
related to the different training sessions and activities which actually provide the improvement in
employee's work. All of these are related to showing performance contribution to the growth of
organisation and implement the expertise management system in training and development
activities. Further, meaning, different strategies and challenges faced during the training and
development are the significant attention portion of the areas (Bhatti, Soomro and Shah, 2021).
This research proposal is helpful for maintain the sustainable organisation and see the continuous
growth in training and development session in invaluable employees. This development growth
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is again helpful for analysing the situation and make appropriate employees growth and skills to
refill the data over the period of time.
Research Aim: “To evaluate the impact of training and development on the productivity and
growth of the employees. A study on Asda”.
Research Objectives:
 To understand the impact of training and development on the growth of employees.
 To examine different strategies used by the company for providing sufficient training to
their valuable employees.
 To determine the major challenges faced by Asda, while using training and development
session at workplace.
Research Questions:
 What do you understand by the impact of training and development on the growth of
employees within an organisation?
 What are the major strategies used by Asda for providing sufficient training to their
valuable employees at their workplace?
 Which challenges are faced by Asda, while using different training and development
session?
Literature review
What do you understand by the impact of training and development on the growth of employees
within an organisation?
According to Dempsey, (2021), training and development plays an essential role in
enhancing the performance of the employees through improving their skills and capabilities. It is
analysed that employee training and development program are important for the overall growth
and success of the business. Employee development is an continuous process focused on
enhancing the performance of the employees using various techniques like coaching, training,
sessions, leadership and mentoring effectively. Training involves the process of teaching new
and advance information related to required work to be done by the employees (Suwanto and
et.al., 2021). It helps in improving the knowledge and skills of the employees, it is the main
responsibility of the human resource department who are also considered to be responsible for
planning and determining these task in the business organisation. Offering regular training and
development helps in improving the productivity and performance of the employees leading
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them to achieve desired goals and objectives (Dieppe, Francis and Kindberg-Hanlon, 2021).
Business organisation like Asda uses various kinds of in person and online training and
development programs for their employees which leads the employees to perform better and
effectively handle the customers satisfying their needs also. There are various kinds of training
programs are used such as in house training, third party training and also off-site training to
enhance the skills of employees.
The various kinds of training and development includes the management training, sales
training, new employees training, mentoring program and so on. Offering training helps the
employees to be prepared for the new roles and responsibility also effectively learn about any
kind of technology update or advancement (Rožman and Štrukelj, 2021). It is also essential in
order to prepare the employees for the new environment more effectively and efficiently.
Training and development programs helps employees to determine their strength as well as the
area needed to be improved by them through proper performance review. The review also helps
the employees to determine the areas they can use additional educational opportunities and
support. Proper training and development also helps in enhancing the productivity of the
employees as the trained employees use their full potential in achieving desired goals and
objectives and enhancing the overall performance of the organisation. It helps in measuring the
performance results of the employees which leads to determining the level of improvement of the
employees, accordingly offering the pre and post training assessments (Fu and et.al., 2021). The
enhancement in the employees productivity is the measurement of effective training and
development. In context to Asda, it will help employees to enhance their task management
individually or in a team through having clarity of roles and responsibility. With increasing use
of the technology and up gradation, proper training helps employees to effectively handle the
technological changes. With the increasing cost of the employee turnover, business organisation
are continuously looking for the ways to retain employees on board for long period of time. In
case of Asda, proper training and development program will help in enhancing the performance
of the employees as well as satisfying their needs. This will help in retaining them for long
period of time.
What are the major strategies used by Asda for providing sufficient training to their valuable
employees at their workplace?
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As per the review of Bleich (2021), to create a happy and productive workforce for
further training and development process. There are different approaches that are used by the
Asda for improving their employees and make training session to enhance their productivity
within their workplace. Some of the strategies which are used by Asda for improving their
employee's knowledge are explained below:
 Instructor- led training: This is one of the traditional training strategy that is used by
the company for occurring that is used for the complex nature. Instructor give the training
to the employees of asda and provide them a regular guidelines about their own policies
and rules that are prevailing within the company (Park, 2021).
 E-Learning: This is beneficial for the Asda, during covid-19 as most of the employees
are using online videos, courses and training session in the right time. This method is
helpful in minimising the time and cost of the respective company. It will be helpful for
employees and engaged with the training session and bring their employees motivated
with the help of effective growth in employees personal and professional development.
 Simulation employees training: This strategy is provided by the company to their
employees through a computer, argument and virtual reality device (Miry, 2021). This
would be helpful for the company to start their initial cost for producing software,
technology up-gradation and high stakes fields in an effective manner. This is one of the
highly effective and reliable staff training within the Asda company as it is helpful for
their management team to work with the customer's need and complete their basic
demand (Top 10 Types of Employee Training Methods, 2021).
Which challenges are faced by Asda, while using different training and development session?
According to the view of Andriotis (2021), many of the companies are facing different
type of challenges while applying the training and development session within their company.
These challenges for completing to applied workplace challenges in training and development at
workplace challenges for the growth of training and development session. Some of the major
challenges are:
 Hectic employees schedules: When the employee of the company are busy in their
hectic schedules or with family issues. Then the training and development sessions are
not that effective for them. Even in this time, these training sessions can make the
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employees more frustrated and resist in their personality. So this is the biggest challenge
that the company facing while providing trainings.
 A dispersed workforces: A rise in the remote area and decentralized work led to the new
challenges for employees of the company (Mori and Stroud, 2021). Training sessions
may be dispersed workforce is quite hard and arise misunderstanding in the
communication process.
 Different learning habits: There are different learning preferences which are related to
different employees of the company. So, it is very difficult for the company to manage
and understand in an effective manner that are assumed for the growth of same
knowledge and learning habits (Training and development challenges and solutions in
the workplace, 2021).
Research Methodologies
Research philosophies
This is the procedure that is adopted by the researcher to collect and evaluate the brief
information about the different research topic. The two main philosophies are interpretivism and
positivism philosophies. interpretivism claims for the individual own perception and understand
the basic reality. Whereas, positivism assume that the knowledge of the individual is related to
independent to the chosen subject which being studied in this research (Hughes and Barlo,
2021). Hence, the researcher opted positivism philosophy as it is effective and valuable for this
present study. It takes less time and resources for attaining valuable data and positive result.
With the help of this philosophy, researcher is able to complete information for the further
research methods.
Research approaches
This stage us used to investigate with the objective and evaluate the desired information
that must be related to the particular topic. The two main approaches are deductive and
inductive, and in the present study deductive approach is used by the investigator. The main
reason for choosing this approach is, it is effective, helpful in evaluating the quantitative data in
less time and time period (Rasulov, 2021). This approach is mainly used in collecting numerical
data along with different information where the researcher a better explanation for the use of
casual relationship among variable concepts.
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Research choice
It is an important source for the growth of research methodology, that include
quantitative and qualitative research choice. Both are used and work in an effective manner but
on the basis of the research topic or chosen approaches, quantitative research choice is used and
provided for the reliable information in less time and cost saving approach. Hence, the researcher
choose the quantitative research choice, as it is helpful for providing effective methods and
gathering in collecting data through systematic manner. Moreover, it is said that the use of this
research choice is appropriate to make selection in quantitative research data and gives more
effective and reliable sources to generalized the result (Haynes and Smith, 2021).
Research Strategies
There are different research strategies, which is helpful in completing research with right
source of information. The main research strategies are action research, case study, experiment,
survey and etc. In this present study, survey is chosen for assist the information and collect the
data from the large population size. The main reason for collecting information and use new and
fresh data from the respondents.
Data collection techniques and analysis
There are different option which are used for collecting primary and secondary data by
effective manner. In order to complete this study, both methods are used by the researcher. In
order to collect primary data, interview, questionnaire, focus group, observation and records
(Salman, Eldessouki and Elnassag, 2021). Researcher use the Questionnaire method for
completing the data collection techniques and analyse that collection in effective management
system. Some of the advantages and disadvantages are discuss below:
Type of data collections Advantages Disadvantages
Survey/ Questionnaire This is a very standardization
process, that helps in
collecting information from
large group and easy to
control. Further, this method is
inexpensive and provide
opportunities for many
This method have
disadvantages like prone to
error, require a separate way to
collect and interpreted the data
and a time consuming method.
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researchers to take right
decision at right time.
Interview This method is allow more
clarification in collecting
information, high rate of
responsive nature, easier to
reach those consideration
method, easier from other
methods.
This method also considered
as the biasses process, slow
method for collecting data,
belongs to only smaller sample
and size for the growth in
different manner.
Observations This method is basically
related to effective setting and
natural method, evaluator to
make more identity and remain
different methods, can be
related to make data collection
method and analyses on the
basis of smaller units.
This method have cons related
to less control over the natural
environment, required more
skilled observer and not so
realistic for the use of large
group people.
Focus group This method is collectively
generate the fresh ideas, allow
clarification, efficiency to
getting information from
number of people, less
expensive. In last this method
have its personalized
approach.
This method is basically
related to time consuming
method, more expensive,
subjective interpretation, lack
of confidentiality and many
more ways are considered. All
of these are included under the
heading of disadvantages of
focus group.
Here, the researcher choose the questionnaire method, for conducting research in primary
method. On the other hand, secondary data will be collected through the articles, books, journals
and many more ways (Bögenhold, 2021). Both the methods for collecting information are used
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and important for valuable researcher in order to achieve objectives. This method is helpful for
collecting data and gain the reliable sources with unbiased and accurate information.
Sampling
It is basically helpful in completing the procedure and select the size of sample within the
total population through two main methods, probability and non-probability sampling method. In
this present study, probability sampling method is chosen by the researcher, as it help the
investigator to select the large scale population in less time period (Naderi-Azad and et.al.,
2021). The researcher choose the 40 respondents as the sampling size to gather the related
information to attain the objectives. The respondents are the employees of Asda and the reason
behind this is they have the good idea about the company's training and working culture.
Ethical consideration
Ethical consideration is helpful for the researcher to complete the study in appropriate
timescales. This must be take care that research participants should not be subjected to harm in
any different ways. Another approach is, researcher should follow full consent from the
participants that is related to prior to the study (Cha and et.al., 2021). In last, it should be
considered that the protection of the privacy of participants that has to be ensured by the
researcher. These ethical practices are helpful for the investigator to complete the study without
facing any type of issue or challenges in the research topic.
Validity and reliability
These two terms are related to the valid information, as they are consulting to the major
approaches for conducting the research. For using the valid and reliable data, researcher choose
the questionnaire and literature review that provide the valid and reliable data for the successful
completion of study. These two are associated to the effective growth and completion of the
challenges in effective sources that are used to complete the research in appropriate manner.
There are some major challenges which are faced by the investigator to work in different manner
and make sure for achieve research objective in efficient manner (Jayachandran, 2021).
Research limitation
This study is related to make different elements of managing human resource
management when it comes to managing training and development sessions. This study is
conducted in Asda company as their management team provide the sufficient management and
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training sessions. Furthermore, collecting information, communicate the information to the
respondents and design the questionnaire are the major limitation of this research (Miry, 2021).
In order to complete this research, investigator have to make improvement on the research
limitation and carry out the basic activities which is helpful in completing study on time.
Research timescale
This is referred to the time zone of the research, it is one of important source for
completion of the activities on timely basis. There are two main approaches that are used by the
researchers such as longitudinal and cross-sectional. In this study, researcher use the cross-
sectional timescale as it is taken into the consideration for assist the activities in achieving time
period and complete activities in the set time frame (Park, 2021). Furthermore, it will be helpful
for the researcher to complete their activities and allocate the funds and resources in the research
without facing any type of issues. For this researcher choose the Gantt chart, as it will be helpful
in identifying the stages and time period of the activities decided for the present study.
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