Innovative Talent Management in Retail: A Morrison's Case Study

This report investigates talent management strategies within the retail sector, specifically focusing on Morrison's, a major UK supermarket chain. The study explores the concept of talent management, examining its importance and various practices, including training, reward systems, and performance appraisals. The research addresses the innovative approaches Morrison's employs to enhance employee productivity, motivation, and retention. The report includes a literature review, research methodology, data analysis, and interpretation of findings. It identifies challenges in implementing talent management practices and offers recommendations. Ultimately, the report aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of how Morrison's strategically approaches talent management to gain a competitive advantage, covering aspects such as employee development, collaborative working, and innovative HR practices.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
PROJECT MANAGEMENT...........................................................................................................4
Project management plan.............................................................................................................4
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................5
Talent management practises and methods............................................................................6
RESARCH METHODOLOGY.......................................................................................................7
DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION.............................................................................9
Findings & results......................................................................................................................16
Recommendation.......................................................................................................................17
Reflection...................................................................................................................................17
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................18
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1
APPENDIX......................................................................................................................................2
Title - What are the types of new initiatives and innovative ways of working do companies put in
place to achieve a strategic approach to talent management?

INTRODUCTION
Talent management plays important role in the organisation rifle scope of HR process to focused
on developing, motivating, a tracking and retaining high performance from the employees. The
main focus of talent management is to improve performance of the business and make employees
more effective and productive the company can take competitive advantages.
This project will cover study of Morrison Which isn’t supermarket and 4th largest chain of
supermarket in United Kingdom and having heard reputation in this industry. Mainly they are
selling products like clothing, food and drink and also magazines and some devices. the
researcher of this report will identify the impact of talent management and it's important for the
organisation to take competitive advantages.
Aim
To identify the innovative and inventive ways to of working do retail industry put in the place of
achieving a strategic approach through the talent management. – Study of Morrison
Objectives
 ‘Concept of talent management
 To identify the methods of enhancing practises involved in talent management within the
Morrison.
 Importance of talent management
 New initiatives and innovative ways of working in the context of talent management
 To analyse the challenges faced by the organisation in implementing talent management
practises.
Research question
1) What is the concept of talent management ?
2) Methods and practises of talent management to improve productivity and efficiency in
work workers ?
3) What are the importance of talent management practises within the organisation ?
4) What are the innovative and initiative ways of working on the basis of talent
management
Background
The talent management plays very important role within their business and it is helping little
industry to grow effectively and it has also the he was changing business spare of the country

(Taherdoost, and Keshavarzsaleh., 2018). Human resource department is responsible too run
practises that can acquire skilful talent within the organisation and make employees more
effective through their training and development practises and many other practises are run by
them increase their satisfaction level for customers and employees both. From the last decades
there are rising changes of living organisation by the workers of various reasons some of them
are opportunities are less, competitive prices and many more other.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Project management plan
Project plan management plan is the formal document that is helpful in defining the project
activities and also shows what is going to be carried out by the researcher. Be proper project
management plan covers budget, timeline,! Goal, objectives, time , communication and it's
essential for keeping the project on the track. To be successful in the project it is necessary for
the researcher to conduct a project management plan so they can follow the proper steps of
project management and they can get success in there project and achieve outcome on the basis
of topic.
Time
Time is one of the most important factor of the project management that is helpful in achieving
the best possible deliverables from the project. it is necessary for the project manager to
complete the project within the given time so they can satisfy the needs and demand of the
project host and success can be achieved. to be successful in the project manager of this study
have three months of time do I do all outcomes of the talent management and importance of
talent manage.
Communication
Communication in the project is necessary becausr without having a proper communication
between the top managers like project manager and the lower level employees who are working
under the superiors are having a proper channel to communicate (Todorova., 2019). It is
necessary to flow the information from the down level 2 up level an app double to down level so
proper process and progress can be analysed. communication also create a good environment add
employees can work effectively and they will be more productive.
Risk and resources

Risk and resources are important part of the project management. In every project risk is always
associated with the event because There are many types of risk like, lack of availability of
resources, Operational risk and natural lizard and many other risk are also associated. it is
necessary for the project manager to identify the risk that are associated with the project and
according to that day also create a risk management or risk mitigation plan that is helpful to
overcome the risk or mitigate the risk. resources are necessary like equipment, Catherine and
many more other things that are necessary to make the project successful and project manager
can achieve success.
Quality
The project quality management is the process that is helpful in managing the quality of the
project and maintain throughout the project plan. it is necessary for the project manager to ensure
the quality expectations that should be meet with the objectives. This means that it might be
possible that reasonable and possible too high a quality, lower the grade product and but it will
never accept to have a low quality product or project outcomes. is necessary for the project
manager to complete the project within the given time so they can satisfy the needs and demand
of the project host and success can be achieved. to be successful in the project manager of this
study have three months of time do I do all outcomes of the talent management and importance
of talent manage.
Deliverable
The term deliverable is the part of project management that is helpful in describing the qualified
project outcomes and deliverables that they want to get in the end of this project (Cha, Newman
and Winch., 2018). project manager expects some of the deliverable after the end our completion
of the project and deliverables are the tangible or intangible in the nature. Here around some
deliverables of the project management of this study
 To be complete whole project of talent management within the three months of time.
 The project manager will able to identify the best possible outcome from the data analysis
so far.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Concept of talent management:
According to the views of Gallardo-Gallardo, Thunnissen and Scullion (2020) talent
management refers to a process which is concerned with brining and managing the talent. This

process is having a main focus and comprised of recruiting the most talented and desirable
employees for the organization and then managing them by enabling and raising the level of
motivation and satisfaction among the employees so that they can retain in the organization and
become its assets. This means that talent management is not only concerned with brining the
talent but it also includes its management so that it will retain in the organization.
However, Claus (2019) also states that talent management is a broad concept which is not
only limited to attracting and retaining talent, but development is also an important part of it.
This means that in order to implement the concept of talent management, apart from brining and
retaining, Human Resource also need to focus over its development so that it will become talent
and asset in real sense. This can be done by many ways in terms of enabling training, appraising,
and various others. This means talent management concept can be brought up by combining the
every aspect right from attracting till their retention and development too.
Talent management practises and methods
According to the author Zwikael, chih and Meredith (2018) There are many turn management
practises for my 3rd that can be used by organisation to improve there employees performance
and productivity at the workplace. Some of the important talent management practises can
include, training and development for improvement in employees, reward management that is
used for motivating employees so they can be more effective in their works and they can work to
achieve those rewards, performance appraisal is also the practises of talent management and also
methods like key performance indicator, 360 degree feedback and many more other can be
useful to improve the performance of the employees. human resource management practises can
include recruitment and selection through the interviews and questions my thoughts and many
more other practises.
However , talent management practises can be ineffective if they are not implemented by the
leaders and managers of the company effectively. they should always take help of the human
resource department becausr mostly this practises are run by them and they should be involved in
this practises. there are proper processing processors that only knows why the human resource
department team and they can help to implement those practises effectively so performance of
the employees and productivity of the company can be improved so communicate a competent
advantage's within the market where they are operating their business and they can show their
presence. it is necessary for the company to take ideas from them and they should encourage

them for collaboration so together they will be more effective in their work and productive.
collaborative working is also a part of talent management where employees work in a team to
achieve a common goals And help company to achieve success in within their business where
they are operating their business.
Importance of talent management:
Stojanovska and Mitrevski (2020) illuminates that talent management is very essential for
company in terms of assisting it towards the direction of its objectives along with enabling its
success. As by this concept company is able to attract the talent within the organization which
will lead to raise in the performance and efficiency of the company with better moves. Talent
management also enable the company to garb its objectives because this concept is related with
workforce and if the workforce is efficient and talented then it will directly lead the company to
grab the success.
Khilji and Schuler (2017) also elucidates that the talent management will enable the
company to become the market player and the key competitor for other companies. This is
because with a higher retention rate the name and image of the company will automatically raise
which will itself lead it to garb the competitive advantage. In the same way with the possession
of efficient workforce, a company can become a market player with a high performance
capability.
Innovative and inventive ways working on the basis of talent management
As per the view of (Pramono., 2021) There are some innovative and inventive ways to working
on the basis of telling management that could be helpful for company to bring skillful employees
at their workplace and also they can achieve success in their business. to be working innovative
it is necessary for the company to make a innovative core value for their business and also hire
the people from the different prospective who can provide a better idea than better practises for
the talent management the company can acquire more talented skills at their workplace. to make
their employees inventive it is necessary for the company to take ideas from them and they
should encourage them for collaboration so together they will be more effective in their work
and productive. collaborative working is also a part of talent management where employees work
in a team to achieve a common goals And help company to achieve success in within their
business where they are operating their business. This process is having a main focus and
comprised of recruiting the most talented and desirable employees for the organization and then

managing them by enabling and raising the level of motivation and satisfaction among the
employees so that they can retain in the organization and become its assets. This means that
talent management is not only concerned with brining the talent but it also includes its
management so that it will retain in the organization.
However, to be innovative and work it is necessary for the leaders and managers of the company
to be effective and they should be involved with the employees. communication by the Leaders
and managers is important because they are inspiration of the employees and if they will
communicate with them then they will automatically innovative in their work can always come
up with a new inventions that will be helpful for the company too the competitive advantages
within the market where they are operating their business.
RESARCH METHODOLOGY
Research methodology is the appropriate process in which all the necessary activities of the
project management or topic related study include in which they perform different different
activities. are using the research methodology tools researcher can collect, organise and process
the data and identify the informative data that can be helpful to make their research successful
and they are able to achieve effective results. here are some types of research and other forms of
research within the methodology (Maurya, and Agarwal., 2018).
Research type
It is a process of performing the research in a particular way and there are two types of research
that is qualitative and quantitative. the qualitative research data refers to the no numerical data or
theories that are being used by the researcher to conduct the research to make it success. on the
other side, Quantitative research that refers to the numerical data that is being collected by the
researcher in the form of numbers and figures. to make this study successful researchers has
chosen the quality research type to make their study successful.
Research approaches
There are two type of research approaches that are being used by the researchers to make their
study successful. Inductive and deductive are research approaches in which inductive is based on
human beliefs while the directive approaches are based on numerical data or scientific data that
is proven by scientist. To make this study successful researcher of this report has taken the
inductive approach is which means that researcher will conduct report . based on human beliefs.
Research philosophes

Research philosophy are in total 5 type of research philosophies But mainly interpretivism and
positivism are being used by the researchers to conduct their research. The interpretivist research
philosophy is totally based on principles that are stayed with the researchers performs a
particular role in the social world. it's totally depend on researchers on interest and they deal with
the facts man make decision of the human actors at the centre of scientific explanation. on the
others positivism is the view all factual knowledge by the researchers by their observations that
includes the trustworthiness an measurement. To make this study successful the researcher of
this report has chosen interpretivism method.
Data collection
Data collection is more one of the most important part of the research methodology in which data
is being collected by the researchers are using the two methods mainly that are primary and
secondary data collection method. Primary search data- Primarily said data is first handed data
that is fresh and New data that is collected by the researchers by themselves. They take help of
the questionnaires and interviews to collect fresh data so they can get better and best possible
data related to their topic (Anlesinya, and Amponsah-Tawiah., 2020Secondary research data
collection method
Secondary data collection method is commonly used method in which researcher take help of the
published articles, in formation an Internet sources too contact the researchers. this is effective
research method that could be helpful for the researcher save their time by collecting data from
the Internet sources. It is necessary for the researcher to provide credit to the authors for using
their personal information.
To make this study successful researcher of this report will use both primary and secondary data
collection method so they were able to collect best possible data related to the talent
management.
Data sampling
Data sampling is the process of selecting candidates for the study by the researcher. there are two
type of sampling methods that mostly used by the researchers are random sampling and simple
random sampling. Non probability sampling to the selection of candidates done randomly from
the large from the large group of people our population, while non probability sampling Is the
method in which all the members of the population have equal chances to get selected in the

study. to make this study successful researcher of this report has used random sampling and
they have selected total 30 participants to make this study successful.
Data analysis
Data analysis is the process that add researchers to collect information from the raw data.! it
helps to simplify the complicated data into the simple so it says I can use it to get the result. in
this research study researchers will use thematic analysis and question I method to achieve
success in this report.
Validity and reliability
Validity and reliability is the last app in which researcher identify the valid sources that could be
used to get the best possible information about the research topic while the reliability refers to
the using the reliable source that are connected with the talent management
DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
Data analysis:
It is an important part of research wherein data regarding the research will be collected
and then analysed followed by making of interpretation (Munch, 2017). With regard to this
research data is being collected by the mode of questionnaire and then it is analysed by with the
making of themes and interpretation.
Theme 1: Talent management
1. Do you follow and implement the
concept of talent management?
Respondents
a) Yes 25
b) No 5
Total 30

a) Yes b) No Total
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
Respondents
Interpretation:
From the above chart and graph it is analysed that out of a sample of 30 employers of
Morrison majority including 25 out of 30 agree that they implement and follow the concept of
talent management. As talent management is the base that will lead the company towards the
direction of its objectives along with enabling it success. Thus, it can be evaluated from the
analysis that the Morrison is a follower of concept of talent management.
Theme 2: Advantages of talent management
2. What advantage you have seen after
implementing talent management in
organization?
Respondents
a) Retention rate raise 7
b) Raise in the performance of a company 3
c) Sales and revenue raise 4
d) All of above 16
Total 30

a) Retention rate raise
b) Raise in the performance of a company
c) Sales and revenue raise
d) All of above
Total
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
Respondents
Interpretation:
From the above chart and graph it can be found that out of a sample of 30 employers
majority of them are in favour that talent management bring various advantages in the form of
raising sales, revenue, performance as well as retention rate ion company. This is being clear
with the analysis also that out of 30,16 employer said that company got all the advantages from
implementing talent management concept.
Theme 3: Involvement of employees
3. Do you allow employees to share their
views and perspective with regard to way
of working?
Respondents
a) Yes 26
b) No 4
Total 30