Employee Turnover at Sainsbury: A Case Study on Organizational Impact

This case study investigates the impact of employee turnover on Sainsbury's organizational performance and productivity. It begins by defining employee turnover and its causes, such as toxic work environments and lack of career growth opportunities. The study aims to identify the impact of employee turnover on Sainsbury's performance and productivity, evaluating the understanding of the concept, determining the impact on performance, and identifying strategies to reduce turnover. The research uses a deductive approach with a positivism research philosophy, employing surveys and literature reviews for data collection. Strategies such as work-life balance, training and development programs, and regular feedback are suggested to mitigate employee turnover and improve overall organizational outcomes. The study concludes by highlighting the importance of these strategies in enhancing employee motivation, morale, and retention within Sainsbury.

Research Methodologies
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Research Title:.................................................................................................................................3
Employee turnover and its impact on the organisation. A case study on Sainsbury.......................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Literature Review.............................................................................................................................4
Research Methodology....................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
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Research Title:
Employee turnover and its impact on the organisation. A case study on
Sainsbury
INTRODUCTION
Employee turnover is defined as the number of workers who quit organisation due to
number of factors such as toxic work environment, lack of competitive offer, lack of work life
balance, lack of opportunity for career growth and development etc (Maurer and Qureshi, 2021).
It is essential for an organisation to emphasize upon the cause of employee turnover and
implement strategies to reduce this rate in order to build a strong workforce. Present report is
conducted on Sainsbury which is operating its business in retail industrial sector with more
than111,900 employees.
Aim and Objectives
Aim
“To identify the impact of employee turnover on organisation performance and
productivity”. A case study of Sainsbury
Research Objectives
 To evaluate the proper understanding of the concept of employee turnover.
 To determine the impact employee turnover and its impact on Sainsbury performance and
productivity.
 To identify the strategies that can be implemented by Sainsbury to reduce the issue
employee turnover in order to increase overall performance and productivity.
Research questions
 What understanding do you have about the concept of employee turnover?
 What is the impact employee turnover and its impact on Sainsbury performance and
productivity?
 What are the strategies that can be implemented by Sainsbury to reduce the issue
employee turnover in order to increase overall performance and productivity?
Background and context of the research
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The selection of research topic is rational as it is associated with the key issue of employee
turn over which is important for all the size of organisation to keep a check and control. It is
essential for organisation to have proper understanding of the concept of employee turnover with
ethically viable strategies to reduce the rate of employee turnover, as it negatively impacts upon
organisation productivity and profitability. Current investigation is important to meet academic
purpose and educational background of researcher and will help organisation to determine
strategies through which the issue of employee turnover can be reduced.
Literature Review
To evaluate the proper understanding of the concept of employee turnover
As per the viewpoint ofAl-Dalahmeh and Héder-Rima, (2021) employee turnover is loss
of talent in the workforce over time. It includes any employee resignation, departure, retirements,
termination, location transfer or even death. Employee turnover is major concern of business of
all size whether it is large or small, as it affects organisation overall productivity and
performance. Furthermore it has been identified that there are number of reasons which can lead
to the departure of employee from an organisation some of the reasons include negative
workplace environment, lack of work life balance, lack of opportunity for growth or career
development etc. It is essential for business organisation to understand the causes of employee
turnover, as this will help them to undertake necessary changes in order to maintain their
workforce at desired level, as increase in the level of employee turnover will affect organisation
turn over brand image, productivity and profitability in adverse manner.
To determine the impact employee turnover and its impact on Sainsbury performance and
productivity
According to the viewpoint of Harrison and Carroll, (2021) employee turnover is caused
by individual seeking better benefits, improved work life balance, more opportunities and other
aspects. Employee turnover will significantly lead organisation to measure decrease in overall
productivity, increase in recruitment and selection cost, loss of sales and will impact overall
growth and productivity rate of organisation. Sainsbury is performing its operation on large scale
with number of employees. Thus, increase in employee turnover will negatively impact
Sainsbury in terms of overall decrease in organisation productivity and profitability, decrease in
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moral and motivation among workforce, decrease in brand image of organisation in retail
industrial sector, increase in recruitment and training cost etc.
Low workplace morale
Employee turnover will negatively impact on Sainsbury performance and productivity as
increase in labour turn over lower down workplace morale as high turnover rate increase
overwork of remaining employees in which they are required to overcome increasing workloads
and additional responsibilities due to lack of train or active workforce.This leadto words creating
bad workplace environment that will significantly reduce productivity and performance rate of
Sainsbury.
Impact of turnover on revenue
Increase in labour turnover direct impact upon the organisation profitability and revenue
it led organisation to make investments in hiring, training cost, recruitment and selection,
interview placing classified ads to attract new individual that will create additional expense up on
organisation and also make organisation to lost consumer base.
From the analysis it has been identified that employee turnover directly impacts on
productivity and performance of Sainsburythat will not only make organisation to face low level
of revenue workplace or l reduction in marketing return on investment and decrease in product or
service quality but also make a company to reduce consumer base.In this it is essential for
organisation to undertake advantage of effective strategies to overcome employee turnover.
To identify the strategies that can be implemented by Sainsbury to reduce the issue employee
turnover in order to increase overall performance and productivity
According to the viewpoint ofAgina and Abdelhakim, (2021) employee retention strategies
will allow organisation to significantly reduce the rate of employee turnover. In this it is essential
for Sainsbury to emphasize upon strategies like hiring right individual and placing them at the
right place, keeping compensation and benefits competitive by evaluating competitors,
encouraging generosity and gratitude, recognise and offer reward to talented and hardworking
employees, offer flexibility to maintain work life balance, pay attention to employee engagement
and efficiently prioritise employee happiness along with profitability. With the help of these
strategies Sainsbury can not only reduce the rate of employee turnover but can also overcome
this issue in well-defined and effective manner.
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Work-life balance
It is one of the most effective strategy that will allow company to reduce employee
turnover.A healthy work-life balance is important element for job satisfaction.In this Sainsbury
by offering flexi-work hours to employees can allow them to better focus and increase higher
efficiency.It has been evaluated that flexible work schedules have ability to enhance overall
productivity and performance of employee.In this, leaders and manager of respective company is
required to consider team skills and potential and assigned work appropriately in order to
enhance overall productivity.
Training and development programs
By offering training and development programs allow companies to display commitment
of organisation to employee.In this Sainsburyresource manager can allocate resources in order to
project a career path to employees in order to provide them a purpose by setting
direction.Manager of Sainsbury by implementing individual development plan can allow
employees to fulfilshort- and long-term career goals which will help employees to improve their
current performance. With the help of training facilities Sainsbury can enhance self-growth
ability of employees through which they can assure their commitment of workers towards
organisation.
Regular feedback
Regular feedback not only allow organisation to identify key problems which is affecting
employees or organisation performance but it also allows managers and leaders of company to
identify employees prospective.With the help of regular feedback Sainsbury leaders and
managers can acknowledge strength and weakness of employees and can also address the key
issues that they are facing in organisational workplace structure.Regular feedback will help
organisation to boost motivation level among employees that will eventually head towards
increased in retention. Sainsbury managers and leaders can take feedback from employees in the
form of survey or on one-on-one session in order to identify their feeling.This will help
Sainsbury to acknowledge efforts and work of employees in an effective way.
With the help of taking advantage of above-mentioned started a Sainsbury can significantly
reduce the issue of employee turnover and can maximize overall productivity and performance
of equation.Furthermore, it has been underlined that with the help of implementing above-
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mentioned strategies Sainsbury can retain workers for longer period of time and can significantly
enhance their overall motivation and morale towards organisation.
Research Methodology
Research methodology is termed as a specific technique or procedure which is used to
evaluate select process and analyse information associated to the research topic.Research
methodology effectively allow readers to make critical evaluation of the overall validity and
reliability of study.This will help researcher to take use of appropriate research methods in order
to fulfil research objectives in a reliable and systematic manner.It has been evaluated that
research methodology play important role in research as it provides work plan of research and
allow investigator to choose appropriate methods techniques and tools to find relevant solution
of the problem.
Research Philosophy:
Resort philosophy is defined as a belief about the manner in which data about the
phenomena is required to be allocated, evaluated and utilised.With the help of research
methodology investigator can reveal the assumptions about the research and can apply
appropriate method to fulfil research objective.
In order to conduct current investigation on Sainsbury researcher will undertake use of
positivism research philosophy as it lead towards objective nature of investigation that support
more scientific and practical way to fulfil research objectives.
Research Approach:
Research approach is a plan of procedure which in is inclusive of step of broad
assumptions to detail methods of data analysis, collection and interpretation.With the help of
selecting appropriate research approach investigator fulfil research objective in an appropriate
manner.
Inductive and deductive are two form of research approaches out of which investigator
with the help of deductive approach will conduct current investigation as it is more justifiable
and appropriate to accomplish present research objectives and provide better testing of numeric
facts and data.
Research strategy:
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It is most important aspect of research in which investigator is required to select
appropriate research strategy according to selected topic (Joecks, 2021). In terms with present
research investigator with the use of survey will obtain information from sufficient sample size
and collect information from large number of populations in order to draw valid conclusion.
Data collection methods:
Data Collection is termed as a process to collect, measure and analyse effective and
accurate information and data to fulfil research objectives.With the help of taking advantage of
effective data collection method investigator can accomplish research with valid and effective
sources answer as well asinformation’s.
To conduct research with appropriate information and adequate data invest gettable and
take advantage of both primary and secondary source of data collection method in order to have
valid and authenticated source of information to conduct research (Nayak and Singh, 2021). In
terms with primary research investigator with the use of questionnaire will acquire reliable data
from respondents. While in terms with secondary research investigator with the help of literature
review viewpoint of authors to draw valid confusion on the selected research topic.
Sampling:
To conduct present research investigation researcher with the help of viable sample size
from large set of population will select 50 participants those who are employees of company. In
this with the help of random sampling method investigator selected respondents in order to
evaluate data in an unbiased manner and ask for their opinion with the help of questionnaire.
Target Group:
Target group of present research is group of individuals with common interest this
research targets individual or organisation those who are affected by the same problem, as it will
provide them effective strategies to overcome the issue in effective way.
Data analysis procedure to be adopted :
Data analysis is very important part of the research and it is crucial that right and accurate
procedure has been adopted by the researcher in order to analyse collected data. In this research
report, investigator is consider survey that is helpful for collected information from the
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respondents as well as analysing its in correct and accurate manner. for data analysis,
quantitative and qualitative research has been taken into consideration. Through the support of
quantitative research investigator will be able to represent and analysing collected data in
systematic format and procedure. This helps in analysing information through the support of
statistical and numerical data. This assist in gather appropriate information for the analysed data.
qualitative research helps in analysing data through the support of proper theories and concepts.
Through this researcher will be able to analyse appropriate and in depth information about the
topic.
Possible ethical issues that need to be considered in this research:
There are several ethical issues that could be lead to have negative impact on overall
research practices. Ethics play important role in research practices as it is significant for
providing right and accurate guidance to the researcher for successfully and effectively conduct
practices. It is crucial for researcher to consider ethical issues in order to deal with them in
significant manner (Nayak and Singh, 2021). It has been analysed that major ethical issues is
related to the leaking of important data about the research. Due to this ethical issue crucial
information about the research can be leaked and misused. It is important that researcher is
consider right approach in order to keep important information safe. The collected data is saved
on the laptop of researcher and only research has access to use it. It is crucial that research
practices are performed though right and authenticated manner so that researcher is able to
reduce the risk of conducting research practices. It is important that respondents has well aware
regarding the process of data collection as well as they are participating with their own will.
Research methods:
There are different types of research methods that assist in collecting right and accurate data. it is
essential that researcher is consider effective data collection method with the motive of
accomplishing desired outcomes of the research. Research method can be describe as the process
of collecting information from several sources so that right and authenticated data could be
collected which is according to the requirements of the research (Arini, 2020). It is crucial that
research method is significant for ensuring the research was both valid as well as reliable.
Research data collection methods are majorly classified into two parts that is primary and
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secondary. To conduct research with appropriate information and adequate data invest gettable
and take advantage of both primary and secondary source of data collection method in order to
have valid and authenticated source of information to conduct research Both of these are explain
below in detail –
 Primary research method – This is refer as the method of collecting and gathering
accurate information about the research topic. Primary research method is consider as the
way of collecting first hand and original information which is not used before in any
research. There are several sources of collecting primary research such as survey,
questionnaire, experiments, observation and many more. The main advantage of
considering primary research is that it supports in collecting accurate and authentic data
which is according to the requirements of research topic.
 Secondary research method – Secondary method of data collection can be describe as the
approach that helps in finding required set of information and taking right decision for
research. This is refer as gathering information from the primary data which is already
gathering by the primary researcher. There are number of sources that assist in collecting
secondary research data such as books, journals, news paper, articles, business paper,
government documents and many other. All of these are helpful for finding right
information about the topic. The main advantage of secondary research is that it is cost
effective and help researcher save time to gather required information.
Limitations of the research:
The major limitation of this research is lack of time to conduct research practices. In this
research, investigator does not have sufficient amount of time to perform research activities. This
will lead to have negative impact on research task as well as accomplishment of desired
objective. It is crucial for researcher to overcome limitation of the research with the motive of
attaining desired goals (Fleming and Kowalsky, 2021). By enhancing time management skills
researcher will be able to overcome this limitation of research and timely attain set objectives.
Timescale:
It is important for researcher to develop a proper timescale in order to successfully and
effectively conduct research practices. There are different tools and approaches that could be
consider by investigator in order to properly timescale task of the research.
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Gantt chart – This is refer as the significant tool that helps researcher to classify different task of
the research in appropriate and accurate manner. Gantt chart is consider as the bar type graphical
representative structure that helps in showing task which needs to be performed in the research
along with its start and end time.
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Work breakdown structure – This is very useful tool that helps in successfully and effectively
managing different research practices. work breakdown structure is consider as the approach
that helps in dividing large task into smaller parts so that each and every task could be completed
in right and appropriate manner (Morris, 2020). This tool is effective and useful for increasing
efficiency of the research and timely accomplished desired goals.
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