Impact of Talent Management on Business: Google LLC Project

This project delves into the critical role of talent management in business success, using Google LLC as a case study. It begins with an introduction that outlines the background, rationale, aims, objectives, and research questions, alongside a comprehensive project management plan including cost, scope, time, quality, communication, risk, and resource considerations. The project utilizes a work breakdown structure (WBS) and a Gantt chart to visualize the project timeline and activities. A literature review explores key themes such as the positive influence of talent management on employee skills and the challenges and barriers encountered. The research employs a qualitative methodology, specifically interpretivism, with an inductive research design and random sampling, collecting primary data through interviews and observations and secondary data from various sources. Data analysis is conducted using the thematic method. The project explores the role of leaders and managers, the impact on employee performance, the challenges of talent management, and effective strategies. The findings highlight the importance of talent management in fostering employee development and overall organizational growth, while also acknowledging limitations and offering recommendations for future research. The project concludes with a personal reflection and a comprehensive reference list.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
1. Background..............................................................................................................................3
2. Rationale..................................................................................................................................3
3. Aim and objectives..................................................................................................................3
4. Research questions...................................................................................................................4
5. Project management plan.........................................................................................................4
6. WBS and Gantt chart...............................................................................................................6
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................8
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY....................................................................................................8
DATA ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION.....................................................................................10
7. Questionnaire.........................................................................................................................10
8. Themes...................................................................................................................................11
9. Research findings & outcomes..............................................................................................16
PERSONAL REFLECTION.........................................................................................................16
CONCLUSION, LIMITATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS..............................................17
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................18
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Topic: Managing a successful business project - Talent management
INTRODUCTION
Background
Talent management is one of major tasks to a venture and company in this dynamic
world. Proper management of talent gives opportunity to a company for gaining profit margins
and positive outcomes in market place. Currently talent management has enabled different
organisations for achieving a very talent and skilled workforce (Baker and Kelan, 2017).
Basically, most businesses in market takes different steps towards developing such technique and
strategies which can promote talent management in workplace. This research project is
completely about the impact of talent management on different organisation. Literature review
also has been included in this report for showing the effectiveness of managing talent
management. Different data collection methods have been used here for collecting data through
various sources to complete this existing research report in proper manner.
Rationale
The talent management topic is very important to be discussed, so that this existing
research report is completely based on the impact of talent management on an organisation. Top-
level management of each and every venture have to use adopt and implement different
strategies for systematically managing talent of employees in its workplace. Currently Google
LLC is very big technology company which is able to provide the best internet services in across
the world, and has workforce of 114,101 employees. So that, talent management is very
necessary task to this American company as well (Pauli and Pocztowski, 2019). Nowadays, this
venture is on the top of internet industry, and the proper talent management is one of main
reasons behind is high reputation in market. No business can survive in market place without
managing talent of its workers and employees, because employees are main resource to an
organisation who worked very hard to achieve organisation’s final target on time. This is the
main reason that, the topic of talent management is very necessary to be discussed through this
research project. Research enables to access such data and information which can make our
existing factors relating to business much better.
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Aim and objectives
Aim:
 To analyse the role of leaders and line managers in ‘employee development and well-
being’ through talent management. A case study of Google LLC.
Objectives:
 To know that leaders and line manager promotes talent management in workplace or not.
 To analyse how the talent management influence performance and productivity of
employees in workplace.
 For knowing about different challenges and barriers of talent management.
 To identify various productive strategies of talent management to an organisation.
 For analysing the impact of employee development and well-being on the all over growth
of an organisation.
Research questions
 How leaders and managers of an organisation can play an effective role in the
management of talent in workplace?
 Can step of talent management can positively influence to performance and productivity
of employees?
 What are the main challenges and barriers of talent management?
 What are the key strategies to an organisation for managing talent within workplace?
 Can step of employee development and well-being provide huge growth to an
organisation within market place.
Project management plan
Project Management Plan
A project management plan has always included different important aspects of the
research project, like; cost, scope, time duration, quality, communication, risk and required
resources. No project can be completed without considering these different aspects (Amankwah‐
Amoah, 2020). This project management plan has provided a specific framework to complete
various activities of research on time with effective productivity.
Cost: Cost always plays an excellent role in a project work, because by suing the cost or an
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appropriate budget, all activities of research project will be simply conducted. In the present
research project, there was the cost of £5250 required to collect data in proper manner. By using
this amount or cost, all necessary activities of project were conducted productively. On the other
side, there was additional cost of £89,500 required to employ all finding and outcomes of
research project in the daily operations of Google LLC.
Scope: Scope of this research project was really too large, because there was required to visit lots
of different places to collect appropriate data. Many books and journals, articles and newspapers
were collected by visiting many locations. There was required to visit headquarter of Google
company also to take interview of different employees of this company for knowing their
opinions on the talent management.
Time: The time period of total 6 weeks was required to complete this research on the topic of
talent management. On the other hand, there are one year will be required to successfully
implement different changes relating to talent management within the organisation.
Quality: Quality control while data collection is one of major tasks in this work, so that thematic
data analysis method has been used for maintaining effective quality in collected data. Basically,
quality control activity contributes in providing accurate data on any topic (Rodríguez-Sánchez
and et.al., 2020). So that, by considering quality aspect, there are lots of accurate, meaningful
and logical data has been collected.
Communication: Proper communication skills are highly required for completing a research
project in decided time period. By using well-developed skills of communication, different data
from different sources has been successfully collected (Wilcox, 2016). Basically, communication
has helped in interacting with employees of Google in the interview session.
Risk: This was the prime responsibility while completing this work that, systematically dealing
with different risk factors. For example; There was risk of time period exceeded, fear of stolen of
collected data is another risk, etc. are some major risk factors in this research work. However, all
these factors of risk were successfully handled during data collection process.
Resources: Searching, adopting and using appropriate resources is very necessary task to a
researcher, so that there were many effective resources chosen for collecting data on the talent
management. In this project work, mainly internet, books & journals, an assistant, vehicles,
articles, blogs, informative videos and newspapers was played an excellent role in collecting
appropriate data.
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This project management plan was fully considered for completing this research project.
Basically, the plan has helped in identifying which are the best ways and activities that can
contribute in achievement of research objectives on time.
WBS and Gantt chart
WBS
Work breakdown structure (WBS) is very helpful tool for this research project, because
this provides proper sequence & segregation formation for different activities. WBS has mainly
provided the proper framework to conduct all activities of project in a proper channel. This tool
is contributed in covering activities of project in the way of hierarchical structure (Mohammed,
Baig and Gururajan, 2019). This structure has projected each level of project activities.
Gantt chart
Gantt chart has also played an effective role for existing work, because it has enabled in
covering various activities in a sequential flow. The proper sequence of all activities and
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operations has contributed in achieving final target of research on time. A very effective Gantt
chart for this work is attached below;
Timeline
Activity
in Weeks
1st Week 2nd Week 3rd Week 4th Week 5th week 6th week
Aim & objectives
Project Management
Plan
Research Methodology
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Data collection
Data Analysis
Research finding &
outcomes
Reflection
Submission
LITERATURE REVIEW
Theme 1: Talent management very positively influence skills, talent and knowledge of
employees
According Rutledge and et.al. (2016) to talent management plays an excellent role in
positively influencing skills, talent and areas of knowledge of employees and workers. This is the
main reason that, currently top-level management within most organisations takes different
productive steps towards talent management. This is very beneficial to a company or a business
in the terms of gaining an effective workforce in this dynamic world. After managing talent of
employees, most companies are gaining huge competitive advantage in workplace. Basically,
talent management function promotes a skilled and talented workforce in a workplace, so that
after having very talented and skilled employees, an organisation can simply take very
productive work from them. Talent management contributes in improving all over growth of
organisation as well.
Theme2: Kay challenges and barriers in the talent management
As illustrated by Kasemsap (2017) there are always many factors and aspects exist within
the business environment of an organisation which can negatively affect to the process of talent
management. In other words, these types of factors and aspects known as barriers and challenges
for the talent management. For example; poor strategies of talent management, less interest of
upper management, and improper employee engagement are main barriers or challenges of talent
management function. In this situation, top-level management of an organisation have to take
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quick actions towards dealing with these all challenges in effective manner. This is very
necessary to an organisation for managing talent of all employees and workers in very productive
manner. Kasemsap (2017) said that a business has to follow the theory talent management as
well. The concept of talent management is very simple that, employer within business have to
maintain an effective relationship with its employees by using well-developed communication
skills. This step of management will motivate to employees for developing own talent as well as
skills.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research Type
Qualitative method of research has been used in present project work, because this
method helps in collecting data through interview, meetings, observation, books & journals,
articles and newspapers. There is qualitive method of research is also very helpful to different
people for completing a research project work, because this method has enabled in numbers and
statistics. However, qualitative project work used here, because this has played an excellent role
in gaining data through organisation’s employees.
Research Philosophy
Interpretivism and positivism are two key philosophies, in which philosophy of
interpretivism has been used in existing research work. The main reason behind choosing this
philosophy is that, it contributes in studying social world and behaviours of people (Mohammed,
Baig and Gururajan, 2020). Philosophy of positivism is also very helpful in the analysis of
different facts, observations, etc. but this has not adopted for completing this project work.
Research Design
Inductive, deductive and abdicative, these are key designs of research, in which the
inductive design of research has been used for completing this research project work. Basically,
this design contributes in maintaining accuracy in the collected data.
Research Sampling
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Random sampling method has been used in this project, because it was helped in taking
interview of 10 random workers and employees of Google LLC. In this interview sessions, a
questions was used to ask some necessary questions which has based on the talent management.
However, other both methods of sampling are also very productive.
Data Collection
Primary data collection and secondary data collection are two main method under the
qualitative research methodology, so that these all methods of data collection were completely
used in the present project work. Basically, primary method has helped in gaining data through
interviews and observations (Berger, Berger and Education, 2018). Then, the secondary data
collection method has helped in collecting data from books & journals, articles and blogs etc.
Data Analysis
For analysing collected data which was collected through questionnaire, there are
statistical and thematic two very effective methods available, but only thematic method of data
analysis has used while completing this work. Basically, this method has supported for analysing
data by diving data into themes which has based on questions of the questionnaire. This method
is really helpful to present work, because different themes provides accurate, productive and
informative data.
Ethical Considerations
All ethics and legal considerations relating to research project has fully considered during
the execution of different research activities. For example; not forced to any worker or employee
of Google for giving opinions on asked questions of questionnaire (Nzonzo and du Plessis,
2020). There are proper references has been attached below for giving credit to all authors of
books and journals, articles and magazines.
DATA ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION
Questionnaire
Name
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Gender
Age
Q1. Your top-level management promotes talent management in workplace?
 Yes
 No
 Not sure
Q2. Can you agree with this statement that, your top-level management need to
continuously take steps towards talent management?
 Of course
 No
 Not sure
Q3. In your opinion, what are main challenges and barriers for the talent
management?
Low interest of the management?
 Low interest of the management
 Poor management strategies
 Lack of knowledge
Q4. Talent management is very necessary to improve your performance and
productivity in workplace?
 Yes
 No
 Not know
Q5. How talent management affects your skills, knowledge and talent in daily
operations?
 Positively
 Negatively
 No impact
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Themes
Theme 1: Your top-level management promotes talent management in
workplace?
Frequency
 Yes 7
 No 2
 Not know 1
Total 10
· Yes
70%
· No
20%
· Not know
10%
|Top-level managment promotes talent
management
Interpretation: 7 out 10 random employees of Google LLC said that, their top-level management
always promotes talent management in workplace. Then, 2 employees of company said that,
their management not thinks about managing talent of employees. Rest one out of ten employees
said that, they not know about their upper management manages talent in workplace. This data is
enough to show that, top-level management of company really take steps towards managing
talent of employees, because there was 7 out of 10 employees said that yes.
Theme 2: Can you agree with this statement that, your top-level management
need to continuously take steps towards talent management?
Frequency
 Of course, 6
 No 1
 Not know 3
Total 10
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60%
10%
30%
Top-level management need to continuously take
steps towards talent management
· Of course · No · Not know
Interpretation: 6 random employees of company said that the management have continuously
take different productive steps towards managing talent at workplace. One of ten employees have
given answer in no, and lastly, 3 employees of venture are not known that, their upper
management have to continue managing talent or not. In this situation, top-level management at
Google need to continuously take various productive and effective steps towards managing talent
in workplace, because most employees expect this thing from the management.
Theme 3: In your opinion, what are main challenges and barriers for the
talent management?
Frequency
 Low interest of the management 3
 Poor management strategies 4
 Lack of knowledge 3
Total 10
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