HRM Strategies for Employee Retention and Growth at Sainsbury's

This report delves into the Human Resource Management (HRM) challenges faced by Sainsbury, particularly in retaining employees. It begins by providing background information on Sainsbury's operations and the significance of employee retention for the company's success. The report evaluates current approaches to employee retention, such as mentorship programs, compensation strategies, perks, health and safety measures, job security, feedback mechanisms, and training and development initiatives. It then proposes an innovative solution centered on providing meaningful opportunities for employee growth, including training programs, educational courses, and career development services. The suggested solution is evaluated for its benefits and potential drawbacks, and a personal reflection on the issue is provided. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of HRM in managing individuals and highlights the potential of the innovative solution to improve employee retention and engagement at Sainsbury. Desklib provides access to similar solved assignments and resources for students.

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents.
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY .................................................................................................................................3
Background..................................................................................................................................3
Current approaches......................................................................................................................4
Innovative solution.......................................................................................................................5
Evaluating suggested solution......................................................................................................6
Reflection.....................................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
HRM is comprises strategic activities which comprises managing various individual
working in the company for achieving profits. The function of the business helps in gaining
competitive advantages by employing skilled personnel in the company for working efficiently
and earning profits. Sainsbury established as the second largest supermarket store selling various
food and non-food products to large number of consumers. This report provide details about the
HRM issues faced by the company. Also, evaluating various approaches to the current issue
faced by th company. Further, providing innovative solution for the issue for the issue faced by
the company. Lastly reflecting on the personal and employment issues faced by the organisation
currently.
MAIN BODY
Background
Sainsbury is recognised for dealing and supplying products as established as retailers for
selling products to all the consumers in operating dynamic market. The company has mainly
started and expanded its operations from retail to service to financial services by selling the
quality products to al the consumers for providing better satisfactions and serving better products
to consumers. The company is mainly selling various products to the consumers in the market
mainly retailing by selling electrical products, beauty products fresh fruits and vegetables and
toys with providing other financial services to the consumers (Alsawalhah, 2020). The issue
faced by the company is retaining employees for working in the company. Retaining competent
and potential employees for increasing sales aids in supporting company and achieving success.
This is the main challenge faced by the HR in the company as for retaining right talents for the
right job and retaining better opportunities for working and gaining profits.
This issues mainly arises as because of higher expectation of employees working in the
company, also expecting high job opportunities with unrealistic expectation for gaining better
salary. As retaining employees and other personnels In company is very important as it helps in
achieving productivity by working constantly and efficiently. Working with high retention rate
on the company helps in achieving more profits and productive employees which supports
company in achieving success (Arya and Rangnekar, 2022). There are various factors which
mainly impacts the retention of employees in the sainsbury as mainly the acknowledgement at
work providing extra benefits and expecting benefits to employee, setting mission and objective

in aligning the goals and clearly communicating for achieving the targets(Employee Retention –
Challenges, 2022).
Current approaches
Various approaches and academic concepts for the issue as of retaining employees for working
in the company are as follows:
Mentorship programs: mentorship programs given to employees by effectively
mentoring helps in grasping and diversifying career opportunities. This helps in better
engagement and retaining employees for working better in the company with providing career
opportunities.
Employee compensation: Compensating employees with providing salary and various
monetary and non monetary incentive helps in motivating and better engaging for achieving goal
and working effective by increasing earning and giving opportunity
Perks: Providing various perks and benefits to employees as by assuring health care
insurance, holiday day off, holiday packages , various discount offers and bonuses for
recognising extra efforts and establishing the employee benefits programs helps in retaining
employees and engaging results in better productivity for Working in the company.
Offering health and safety: offering health and safety benefits to the employees working
in company aids in supporting and promoting wellness of employees (Čizmić and Ahmić, 2021).
The healthier and happier employees results in working efficiently and providing better working
with safer conditions aids in retaining personnels for working with satisfaction workplace and
healthier environment.
Job security : With providing job security to employees working in company helps in
motivating better for working and creates a sense of security helps in enabling employees for
working hard and aids in retention.
Providing feedback constantly: this academic concept explains about the constantly
feedback helps in engaging employees by regular communication about the working and meeting
the desired standards for meeting the goals (10 Tips for Great Employee Retention, 2022).
Regularly providing feedback to employees helps in improving the expectation and building
better relations for improving the performance and working effectively.
Training and development: training and development is an approach for retaining
employee as by training helps In providing necessary skills and abilities for better working and

providing the opportunities for advancements, with rendering development opportunities to
employees aids in better engagements by grasping better career options and increase employee
retention for developing career.
On boarding and proper orientation : Employee onboarding helps in retaining
personnels as the retaining employees for working and providing better services in company is
supported by string onboarding. As it help in engaging employees with communicating and
familiarizing with all the polices and structures fallowed by the company helps in increasing
productivity in working and retaining employees.
Innovative solution
Various innovative solution for resolving the issue as of retaining employee in company are as
follows:
The innovative solution and step taken by the sainsburry as of resolving this issues as
providing meaningful opportunities to grow in grasping career opportunities. As by providing
meaningful opportunities for growing in company helps in retaining employees by developing
better career option. As by providing opportunities helps in growing and grasping better career
options. Sainsbury is setting various programs as for retaining employees by providing
opportunities to grow as by setting continuously training programs and educational courses for
making career and grasping opportunities for working in the retail sectors. Also, organizing the
career development and counselling services by asking questions to employees for developing
career and growing in the retail business for servicing better within industry. Organizing web
based course for employees working at different department, as by training on the job and
specifying the mentorship program helps in developing skills and enhancing career (Hamid and
Hosna, 2021). With adapting this solution in the Sainsbury helps in providing growth and
development opportunities helps in encouraging employees for performing better and aids in
building competencies for preparing the better career positions to be grabbed in the future course
of action.
With adapting this solution for solving the retention issue helps in engaging better to the
employees as hen employees feel values about the growth and development in the company
helps in building better relation and strengthening relations for working better in the company.
Thus, when the lack of the opportunities available to grow for employees in company hinders the
improvement in performing the specifies task and job also aids in disengagements and arises

stress which results in conflicts working in the company (Gould-Werth, Morrison and Ben-
Shalom, 2018). With this solution helps in retaining employees with providing greater growing
and meaningful opportunities for grasping better career option by developing skills and abilities
for working in the futures .
Evaluating suggested solution
The solution as of providing meaningful opportunities for growth in business while
working in company. The main benefits of this solution for retaining employees as it aids in
supporting employees by grasping better skills and capabilities while working in company. Also,
it supports in increasing productivity by providing trainings and opportunity for growing in the
career while working in the Sainsbury. Furthermore, it helps in lowering the stress of employees
as by providing job security to the employees and various development for acquiring new skills
and abilities for working and better grasping the new opportunity at the new post within
company helps in better engaging employees for growing the new opportunity. This growth
opportunities helps in developing sense of identifying by giving recognition for working better in
company . Moreover, aids in accessing and gaining new skills with using new equipments and
machines helps in better understanding working practices and aids in handling work life
balances. Thus, by providing growth opportunities helps in retaining employees by better
engagement in the company.
Whereas it also gives negative impact for balancing the work-life easily by some
employees. But this sources is ineffective for some employees as for providing growth
opportunities to employees working in the company does not results effective for growth to all
the employees. For this proving training and development to those for which this solution is
ineffective helps in retaining the personnels on the company .
Reflection
As an employee of the company, I have noticed this issue arises in the organization for
retaining employees as for working and serving for long term. This issue mainly arise because of
lack of opportunities available for growth and also less recognition of employees working and
giving extra efforts. With adapting the solution as of providing meaningful opportunity for
growing within business, as while working in Sainsbury has helped me in retaining and engaging
for working better with grasping new skills and abilities for working at other position and

developing career with advancing options. Thus, This solution helped the company in retaining
potential employees for serving consumers by operating in the dynamic market.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it can be concluded that HRM is described as the process of
managing individual for performing various job in the company. The company is facing issue in
retaining employees for serving consumers discussing various approaches available for the
resolving the issue , taking innovative solution as of providing meaningful opportunities to
employees help company in better retaining and more engagement for serving at long term.

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