Sainsbury's Modern Workplace Roadmap: Key Considerations & Analysis

This research report evaluates the concept of a modern workplace and its impact on organizational productivity, focusing on Sainsbury's. It identifies key considerations for building a roadmap to a modern workplace, emphasizing the importance of digital technologies in empowering remote workers, providing cost benefits, and facilitating employee connectivity. The report also addresses the challenges of developing a modern workplace, such as complexity, lack of control, security concerns, and employee resistance, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Strategies to overcome these challenges are explored, highlighting the role of digital technologies in enabling flexible work arrangements and maintaining business operations. The research concludes that digital technologies are crucial for navigating the modern business environment and overcoming pandemic-related obstacles in building a modern workplace.

Research Project

Table of contents
TITLE OF RESEARCH
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
Literature review
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION
 In today’s business environment digital technologies is playing important role which
is significantly transforming the manner in which workplaces in turning into modern
workplace and allowing employees to conduct roles and responsibilities in more
flexible manner.

TITLE OF RESEARCH
Topic: What are the key considerations for building a roadmap to a modern
workplace?
 Research aim:
 “To evaluate about the concept of modern workplace along with analysing its
impact on organisation productivity. A research project on Sainsbury.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
To understand talent management concept.
To determine the challenges of implementing
talent management strategies.
To identify the strategies of talent management
through which TESCO can manage talent in
effective ways.

Literature Review
 Importance of digital technologies in the process of building a modern
workplace
As per the viewpoint of Bennett and McWhorter, 2021 digital technology
is playing important role in today's business environment as it not only empower
remote workers but also provide cost benefits to organisation and help them to
connect with employees in any situation.
 Need of technology for employees during the time of global pandemic to
conduct roles and responsibilities.
According to the viewpoint of Hensmans, 2021 covid-19 pandemic halt
business operations in nearly all industrial sectors and impacted negatively on
organisation. In order to manage employees performance roles and responsibilities
and other activities technology is significantly needed for employees during the time
of global pandemic in order to conduct roles and responsibilities in a flexible manner.

Cont..
 Challenges of developing modern workplace along with suitable strategies to
overcome it
According to the viewpoint of Philip and Gavrilova Aguilar, 2021 in the
process of developing modern workplace there are a number of challenges that
Sainsburys can face. Coronavirus not only affected organisation productivity but
also impact upon the manner in which company is conducting their roles and
responsibilities. Sainsbury can face significant challenge in terms of greater
complexity, lack of control, security concern and employee resistance.

Conclusion
 Challenges of developing modern workplace along with suitable strategies to
overcome it
Thus according to the above mentioned analysis it has been concluded
that, in order to perform business operations in modern business world and
overcome the challenges that has been imposed by the global pandemic covid-19
digital technologies is playing significant role which helps in building a modern
workplace environment.

REFERENCES
 Rangraz, M. and Pareto, L., 2021. Workplace work-integrated learning: supporting
industry 4.0 transformation for small manufacturing plants by reskilling
staff. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 40(1), pp.5-22.
 Selimović, J., Pilav-Velić, A. and Krndžija, L., 2021. Digital workplace
transformation in the financial service sector: Investigating the relationship
between employees' expectations and intentions. Technology in Society, 66,
p.101640.