Employee Development and Well-being: A Research Proposal on ASDA

This research proposal explores the crucial role of line managers and leaders in fostering employee development and well-being within ASDA. The study aims to determine how these leaders influence employee growth and overall well-being. Objectives include understanding the concepts of employee development and well-being in an organizational context, specifically within ASDA; identifying issues related to employee development and well-being; and analyzing potential improvements. The rationale highlights the significance of understanding these factors for both personal and professional growth, with research questions focusing on the roles of managers and leaders, existing challenges, and potential solutions. The literature review covers the definitions of employee development and well-being, the impact of managers and leaders on these factors, and common issues such as communication gaps and heavy workloads. The methodology employs a positivism research philosophy, a deductive research approach, and a quantitative research choice, utilizing a survey strategy with a sample of 40 managers. Data collection will primarily involve questionnaires, and a random sampling method will be used. The proposal references various scholarly sources to support its arguments and methodologies.

RESEARCH PROPOSAL

RESEARCH PROPOSAL TEMPLATE
Name:……………………………………………ID:……………………..

Title: Title: The role of line managers and leaders in employee development and well-being.
Aim:
The aim of this project is “To determine role of line managers and leaders in employee
development and well-being.” A study on ASDA.
Objectives:
 To understand the concept of employee development and wellbeing in context to
organisation.
 To determine role of line managers and leaders in employee development and well-
being in ASDA.
 To identify the different issues faced through ASDA in employee development and
well-being.
 To analyse the different ways through which employee development and well-being can
be improved.
(a)Rationale: The rationale for selecting this topic that it provides the better understanding regarding the
employee development and wellbeing in context to organisation. Employee development is related
to working with staff members in order to improve and enhance the existing skills so that they can
meet with the objectives and mission of company. The present investigation is mainly conducted in
personal and professional context (Abid and et. al., 2020). In the personal context, understanding
about the employee development and wellbeing can be improved. Other than this, in professional
context, the present investigation helps in enhancing skills and knowledge of an investigator. This
will help in increase the research skills so that researcher can able to conduct the similar kind of

(b)Research
Questions
(c)Significanc
e of the
research
d)Literature
review:
investigation in future.
 What is employee development and wellbeing in context to organisation?
 What is the main role of line managers and leaders in employee development and well-
being in ASDA?
 What are various issues faced through ASDA in employee development and well-
being?
 What are the different ways to improve the employee development and well-being?
The significance of this research is that it provides the in- depth understanding related to the
employee development and well-being. The effectiveness of employee development and well-being
will be examined by using the different scholars. In this section, there has been chosen the case
study on ASDA about the employee development as well as wellbeing within an organisation.
Company provides the development programmes to its employees so that they can perform in
better manner and attain the organisational objectives. Conducting the present investigation is
beneficial for the researcher to understand the way to conduct research and enhance the skills to
perform the similar kind of research in future. It provides the detailed and in- depth understanding
about the employee development and well-being in significant manner. The management of ASDA
company is focused about the employee’s stress, their expectations and working environment so
that they can able to work effectively for attaining the set aim and objectives.
Employee development and wellbeing in context to organisation.
On the basis of Jeffrey Pfeffer (2021), Employee development is related to process of working with

the staff members to make improvement, enhance and also refine the existing skills. It is joint
initiative of staff members and employer in order to upgrade existing knowledge and skills of a
person. The employee development is continues learning that mainly nurtures the professionals and
assists them the progress on individual career path. Prioritizing the employee development assures
that skills of team members continue to be evolve as per the best practices. On the other hand,
employee wellbeing is all about the way expectations, duties, working environment and stress level
of the staff members impact on the overall health. Company require to understand that the
employee wellbeing is encompasses more than the physical health. Promoting the employee
wellbeing can help in prevent the stress and develop positive working environment where company
can be thriving.
Role of line managers and leaders in employee development and well-being in ASDA.
Hannah Jordan (2021) stated that management plays a necessary role in influencing the experience
of staff members at workplace. The behaviour of management in ASDA towards employee
development and wellbeing is critical. This manifests in the factors for an instance productivity,
employee performance, job satisfaction and others. Other than this, Key component for attaining
healthy working environment is the leadership (Marescaux, De Winne, Forrier, 2019). They play
an essential role in improving the wellbeing of staff members through reducing emotional
exhaustion. Leadership can impact on the employee wellbeing and employee development in many
ways from causing the stress to increasing positive wellbeing. Focus of a leader is to guide the
employees and also motivate them to be work effectively. This is essential for them to be aware
about the behaviour and skills that enable them to manage teams in such a manner that help in
promote their wellbeing and development. Determined specific behaviour managers require to

adopt to prevent and also minimize stress in those they are mainly manage. In context to this,
leadership development provides the people necessary attributes and skills they require to be
effective leader for an instance motivation, communication skills and decision making skills in
better manner. Improving the employee development and wellbeing is helpful in enhance employee
motivation and sustain them at workplace for longer time period.
Different issues faced through ASDA in employee development and well-being.
On the basis of Sara Ana Cemazar (2020), managers used to focus on the health benefits regarding
employee wellbeing. Developing the employee benefits strategy is cost effective as well as
impactful is balancing act. Lack of the effective communication arising the issue in employee
wellbeing and development. There is a need to ASDA organisation to realise that effective
communication strategy is creative, segmented and multi-channel over campaign period is
necessary for the employee participation. On the other hand, heavy workloads result in the work
overload and also long hours. This can lead to the negative outcomes consisting physical health
consequence’s and severe adverse mental health. The staff members in the high pressure roles and
fast paced work environment may be minimum inclined in order to take holiday entitlements. In
context to this, work environment that mainly fosters the trust where the employee relationship
provide support can be conducive to better employee wellbeing and development. Poor relationship
and mistrust with the colleagues, superiors and subordinated can be lead to the poor
communication and minimum job satisfaction.
Different ways through which employee development and well-being can be improved.
On the basis of JAMES BALL (2021), positive wellbeing is better for the managers and employees

alike. For improving the employee development and wellbeing, company enhancing effectiveness
of the training programmes. It is beneficial for company to enhance employee development and
wellbeing. Other than this, there are some ways given below that improve employee development
and well-being:
Develop comfortable working environment- Comfortable and relaxed working environment
could have significant impact on the wellbeing of staff members. it is necessary for ASDA
company to provide the positive working culture and communicate with then in positive manner.
This will help in motivate employees and enhance their performance level (Zhang and et. al.,
2020).
Encourage employees to focus on physical health- In this, physical health is key factor in the
wellbeing and there are many initiatives that managers can be implement to encourage physical
health among team. It will help in develop the positive impact on their mind set and focused
towards attaining organisational objectives within given time period.
Methodology
(How are you
going to
conduct your
research?)
Research methodology is allowing to study regarding phenomenon that learned regarding in
linguistics content in area. In doing the research methodology, will be the research onion used by
consisting different layers. The research onion is mainly explaining stages by which researcher
should pass when develop better methodology. Research onion was developed through Saunders
et. al., 2007. Benefit of research onion is that this develops series of the stages in which various
data collection methods can be effectively illustrates and understood steps through which
methodological study can be explained. Different layers consisting in research onion mention
below:
Research philosophy- In conducting the present investigation, there will be the positivism

research philosophy used. The main reason behind conducting the investigation is that it analyses
the opinion and viewpoints regarding the specific subject area. The main benefit of using
positivism research is that vigorous process of setting the hypothesis, experimentation to test
hypothesis and deep analysis in order to measure outcomes.
Research Approaches- Inductive and deductive are two different research choices (Miao and Cao,
2019). In this research, there will deductive research approach used. The reason to use this
approach is that it provides the specific information in detailed manner about the role of line
managers and leaders in employee development and well-being. This research approach is based on
the quantitative research method and also provide the theoretical approach. It is one that people are
related with the investigation. An investigator studies what others have been done reads the
existing theories of phenomenon. It tests the hypothesis that emerge from theories.
Research Choices- There are quantitative and qualitative are two different types of research
choices. In this, quantitative research choice will be used because it provides the authentic and
accurate information. This method provides the exact facts and figures regarding role of line
managers and leaders in employee development and well-being. The main benefit of using the
quantitative research method is that it collects the observable data to answer research questions by
using the statistical technique (Pradhan and Hati, 2019).
Research strategy- In conducting the present investigation, there will be survey as research
strategy used. It is mainly used because it provides the more information from large number of
respondents. The main benefit of using survey strategy is that it is time saving and cost saving. The
survey research is unique way of collecting the information from large cohort. It is having the large
population and better statistical power. This provides the ability to collect large amount of the data

and information and also having availability of
Data collection methods- There are primary and secondary two different types of data collection
methods. The primary method provides the new information regarding particular subject area. On
the other hand, secondary method consists of existing sources such as articles, internet, books and
articles. In this research, primary method will be used because it is time saving and cost saving
(Wieneke and et. al., 2019). Under this method, questionnaire will be developed because it
provides the response of the chosen participants. Through using this method, more information can
be gathered from the large number of people in limited time period and it is cost effective also.
Sampling- It is related to process used in the statistical analysis to pre- identified observation from
whole population. In conducting the research, there will be 40 sample size chosen and they are the
managers of company. For selecting the respondents, random sampling method will be used. The
main reason to use this method is that it is time saving and cost saving. This sampling method helps
in provide the equal chance to chosen respondents and reduce biasness.
Time horizon-

Sources of
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