Factors Affecting Employee Performance in Business Organisation: Aldi

This report explores the factors affecting employee performance within business organizations, focusing on a case study of Aldi. It addresses the importance of employee performance and productivity, identifies various factors influencing performance within Aldi's working environment, and examines strategies to enhance employee performance. The research methodology employs a deductive approach, utilizing surveys and literature review for data collection. Ethical considerations are addressed, and potential limitations such as time and resource constraints are acknowledged. Expected outcomes include providing insights into employee performance benefits and enhancing understanding of factors impacting employees, offering valuable information for both the organization and students. Desklib provides access to this and similar solved assignments.

Research Proposal
(Title : Factors affecting employees
performance within business
organisation. A study on Aldi)
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Table of Contents
Introduction .....................................................................................................................................3
Background of the Research...................................................................................................3
Research Question..................................................................................................................3
Research Aims and Objectives...............................................................................................3
Literature Review ............................................................................................................................4
What is the importance of employees performance and productivity within an organisation?. .4
What are the various factors affecting employees performance and productivity within Aldi
working environment?............................................................................................................4
What are the strategies through which employees performance can be raised within Aldi
working environment?............................................................................................................4
Methodology ...................................................................................................................................5
Research Approach.................................................................................................................5
Research Strategy...................................................................................................................5
Methodology & Tools............................................................................................................5
Sampling Approach................................................................................................................6
Ethical Considerations............................................................................................................6
Conclusion ......................................................................................................................................6
Limitations of Proposed Approach.........................................................................................6
Expected Research Outcomes................................................................................................6
References .......................................................................................................................................7
Books and journals.................................................................................................................7
Research Ethics Checklist Form RE1........................................................................................8
This project also confirms with “UoB Research Ethics Framework”. ..................................9
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Introduction
Background of the Research
Performance of employees is a measurements of how well an employees is working
towards achievement of organisational goals and objectives. Employees performance should be
very effective and it should be lead to the development of business goals. Performance of
employees could be calculated through their reporting managers, employees themselves and
colleagues through which they are working. Some of the technologies which are coming in
organisation in order to develop their productivity and potential (Lartey, 2021). There are certain
factors through which employees performance can be enhanced these are job satisfaction, morale
and company culture and employee engagement etc. the organisation selected within a given
proposal is Aldi. It is the one of the German family owned discount supermarket chains which is
having 10,000 stores in 20 countries. It was founded in the year 1946. this proposal includes
research aim and objectives, literature review and research methodology.
Research Question
 What is the importance of employees performance and productivity within an
organisation?
 What are the various factors affecting employees performance and productivity within
Aldi working environment?
 What are the strategies through which employees performance can be raised within Aldi
working environment?
Research Aims and Objectives
Aim : “To determine the factors affecting employees performance within business organisation”.
A study on Aldi.
Objectives :
 To determine the importance of employees performance and productivity within an
organisation.
 To analyse various factors affecting employees performance and productivity within Aldi
working environment.
 To examine the strategies through which employees performance can be raised within
Aldi working environment.
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Literature Review
What is the importance of employees performance and productivity within an organisation?
From the views of Alharafsheh, Harahsheh, and Alrawashedh, (2021) Employees
performance and productivity is the best options for the organisation in enhancing their
performance. It will helpful in enhancing organisational productivity and their profitability.
Productivity at workplace is helping organisation ins developing their positive environmental
and creating friendly environment within an organisation. In relation with Aldi, there managers
are working towards enhancing employees potential and it helps them in reducing employees
turnover of the organisation. It also engage employees in building relationship with their leaders
and managers.
What are the various factors affecting employees performance and productivity within Aldi
working environment?
According to Javadi Khasraghi, and Hirschheim, (2021) There are certain factors which
can influence em,employees performance such as no job satisfaction- when employee are not
getting good job satisfaction, then this may be resulting in decreasing their motivation and it
impact their performance. The other is negative working environment- if employees are not
getting friendly and positive working environment, then this may be resulting in decreasing their
motivation and their productivity decreases. Also, it will sometimes resulting in leaving from
organisation. In context with Aldi, they have faced these issues and some of the factors which
Aldi employees are facing are low morale and non clearance of goals and objectives of business.
If employees are not given clear tasks and goals which they have to perform, then this may
results in creating confusion among them and reducing their performance. Also, if they are not
having proper guidance to follow their goals and objectives, and they are not enhancing their
morale. Then this may be reduces employees morale and values of company. So, it is important
to enhance employees morale and productivity.
What are the strategies through which employees performance can be raised within Aldi working
environment?
According to the views of Amri, and Ramdani, (2021) This is the most important to
enhance organisational productivity and performance. Managers of Aldi are using various
strategies in order to enhance their employees productivity and performance. These are providing
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rewards and recognition- it is one of the best method to enhance employees motivation and
productivity because it helps in development of the employees performance and retaining them
for longer duration. The other strategy which is used by managers of Aldi is involving in
decision making process. It is said that if employees are engaged within the organisational
performance. Then this may increasing in confidence of employees and helping them in
enhancing their productivity and performance. Further, if employees are involved in decision
making process, then there is a enhancing in engagement with leaders and managers and
developing their confidence (Tarigan, Mochtar, and Siagian, 2021). This automatically results in
enhancing productivity and performance of employees and achieving organisational objectives as
well.
Methodology
Research Approach
Research approach is regarded as the plan which is a detailed structure of a particular
topic. It is consisting of two methods (Mawoli, and Olanrewaju, 2021). These are inductive
approach and deductive approach. In this present research, researcher is using deductive
approach which resulting in analysing the information and achieving research aim and
objectives. This is to avoid risk and also it helps in analysing data and information in most
effective way.
Research Strategy
Research strategy is developing a plan and setting goals to conduct a research. It includes
various strategies such as case study, experimental research, survey, literature review and action
research etc. these helps in collecting data and information in effective manner. Within this
research, researcher is using surveys and literature review (Lee, Choi and Kang, 2021).
Literature review is presented through analysing diverse books and articles and on the other hand
survey is conducted through questionnaire which results in achievement of reliable data and
information., it develops ore effectiveness and achieves research objectives as well.
Methodology & Tools
There are various types of tools and techniques which can be used to obtain. There are
various types of tools which can be used within researches re questionnaire, interview and
observations. Within current research, questionnaire is sued to collect data and information
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which used graphs and charts as well. Also, there is a use of quantitative method in order to
collect numerical information. As this helps in collecting data true and reliable and achieving
research aim and objectives in most effective manner (Ali, and Anwar, 2021). There are close
ended questions which is consisting in questionnaire and it is being helped in developing various
knowledge.
Sampling Approach
The sampling is method of selecting some of the samples from large number of set. In
this probabilistic sampling is used to select a samples because this helps in selecting a sample
effectively. Also, in this random sampling is used to select a sample. The sample size taken is 40
employees of Aldi.
Ethical Considerations
There are some of the ethics which are to be followed by researcher such as there should
be consent of respondents of sharing their answers to the audience (PRAMONO, Sondakh, and
PURWANTO, 2021). Further, there should be confidentially maintained by the researcher and
they should not bias with the results as well. There should be proper evaluation of the answers so
that true interpenetration should be maintained.
Conclusion
Limitations of Proposed Approach
Some of the limitation should be having of this research is that there could be lack of
time management by researcher and there could be lack of financial resources (Swani, 2021).
Also, there could be some of the answers which can hurt respondents and audience.
Expected Research Outcomes
Some of the expected outcomes for this research is that it will be helpful for the
organisation in getting to know about employees performance benefits and their advantages.
Further,. It will helps in enhancing knowledge about students and getting to about the details of
factors which can impact employees factors.
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References
Books and journals
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employee engagement. Journal of Human Resource and Sustainability Studies, 9(02),
p.135.
Alharafsheh, M., Harahsheh, A., Lehyeh, S.A. and Alrawashedh, N., 2021. The Impact Of
Entrepreneurs Characteristics Of Private Jordanian Universities Leaders On Strategic
Performance: The Mediating Role Of Strategic Planning. International Journal Of
Scientific & Technology Research, 10(1), pp.299-309.
Javadi Khasraghi, H. and Hirschheim, R., 2021. Collaboration in crowdsourcing contests: how
different levels of collaboration affect team performance. Behaviour & Information
Technology, pp.1-17.
Mawoli, M.A. and Olanrewaju, B.T., 2021. Comparative Analysis of Employees Commitment in
Old and New Generation Banks in Ilorin Metropolis. KIU Journal of Social Sciences,
6(4), pp.179-188.
Lee, W.R., Choi, S.B. and Kang, S.W., 2021. How Leaders’ Positive Feedback Influences
Employees’ Innovative Behavior: The Mediating Role of Voice Behavior and Job
Autonomy. Sustainability, 13(4), p.1901.
Ali, B.J. and Anwar, G., 2021. A study of knowledge management alignment with production
management: A study of carpet manufacture in Kurdistan region of Iraq. Ali, BJ, &
Anwar, G.(2021). A Study of Knowledge Management Alignment with Production
Management: a Study of Carpet Manufacture in Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences, 6(2), pp.346-360.
PRAMONO, R., Sondakh, L.W., BERNARTO, I., JULIANA, J. and PURWANTO, A., 2021.
Determinants of the small and medium enterprises progress: A case study of SME
entrepreneurs in Manado, Indonesia. The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics, and
Business, 8(1), pp.881-889.
Swani, K., 2021. To app or not to app: A business-to-business seller's decision. Industrial
Marketing Management, 93, pp.389-400.
Amri, A. and Ramdani, Z., 2021. Effect of organization commitment, work motivation, and
work discipline on employee performance (case study: pt. pln (persero) p3b Sumatera
upt Padang). International Journal of Educational Management and Innovation, 2(1),
pp.88-99.
Tarigan, Z., Mochtar, J., Basana, S. and Siagian, H., 2021. The effect of competency
management on organizational performance through supply chain integration and
quality. Uncertain Supply Chain Management, 9(2), pp.283-294.
Almutairi, S.S., 2021. Development of a survey instrument for measuring the perceptions and
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rights and laws. International Journal for Quality Research, pp.73-88.
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RESEARCH ETHICS CHECKLIST Form RE1
This checklist should be completed for every research project which involves human
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Before completing this form, please refer to the University Code of Practice on Ethical
Standards for Research Involving Human Participants. The principal investigator and,
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Section II: Project Details
5. Project Title: Factors affecting employees
performance within business
organisation. A study on Aldi
Section III: For Students Only:
6. Course title and module name and
number where appropriate
BSc (Hons) Business Management
BMP6001 Dissertation
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School/Centre: Regent College London
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This project meets the standard set by UoB policy named “Code of Practice for Research
Students and Supervisors 2019-20”.
This project also confirms with “UoB Research Ethics Framework”.
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