River Island: Technology, Employee Roles & Workplace Change

This report investigates the impact of technology on workplace transformation, focusing on River Island as a case study. It explores the concepts of workplace transformation, identifies the specific impacts of technology on employee roles and collaboration within River Island, and suggests ways the company can improve organizational performance through workplace transformation. The research employs a positivism philosophy and a deductive approach, utilizing a survey strategy with quantitative data collected from primary and secondary sources. Probability sampling is used to select 30 managers from River Island. The anticipated outcome is that implementing the right technology will increase productivity, boost employee engagement, and improve the company's success rate. The report references various academic sources to support its analysis and findings.

Research Proposal
Identify the impact of technology and the requirements needed for
employees to carry out their roles and collaborate in workplace transformation.
A case study of River Island

Table of Contents
• Background of the project
• Research questions
• Research aim
• Research objectives
• Literature review
• Methodology
• References

BACKGROUND OF THE PROJECT
• Workplace transformation is a process of changing the working pattern and style
within workplace in order to improve the performance and productivity of business.
• The research is based on the impact of technology and the requirements needed for
River Island’s employees to carry out their roles and collaborate (Hicks, 2019).

Research questions
• What is the concepts of workplace transformation.
• What are the impacts of technology and the requirements needed for River
Island’s employees to carry out their roles and collaborate.
• What are the different ways could be used by River Island to improve
organizational performance by following workplace transformation.

Research Aim
• To identify the impact of technology
and the requirements needed for
employees to carry out their roles
and collaborate in workplace
transformation. A case study of
River Island.

Research Objectives
• To explain the concepts of workplace transformation.
• To identify the impacts of technology and the requirements needed
for River Island’s employees to carry out their roles and collaborate.
• State the different ways could be used by River Island to improve
organizational performance by following workplace transformation.

LITERATURE REVIEW
• As per the opinion of George and Bajbair (2021), workplace transformation is a
process of changing the workspace in order to accommodate different kinds of
workers, work and technology. It drives an opportunity to move to new and unique
models of working and business performance.
• According to Marsh (2021), there is a huge impact of technology within workplace
as it can influence the performance and productivity of business.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
• Research Philosophy: Positivism philosophy
• Research Approach: Deductive approach
• Research Strategy: Survey strategy
• Research Choice: Quantitative
• Data Collection: Primary and Secondary
• Sampling: Probability sampling is used for selecting 30 managers of River Island
• Time Horizon: Cross-sectional

ANTICIPATED OUTCOME
Organisation can gain various benefits through implementing right technology within
workplace as it helps in increasing the productivity, boost employee engagement and
also the success rate of company goes high.

TIMESCALE

References
• Allen, J., Rivkin, I. D. and Trimble, J. E., 2022. Relational methodology. Cultural methods in
psychology: Describing and transforming cultures, pp.174-207.
• George, S. and Bajbair, S., 2021, December. Human Resource Practices Leading to Employee
Engagement During Digital Workplace Transformation: Evidence from Bahrain's
Telecommunications Sector. In 2021 International Conference on Decision Aid Sciences and
Application (DASA) (pp. 365-369). IEEE.