Evaluating Talent Management Strategies at Morrison UK: A Report

This report delves into the realm of talent management, exploring its significance in attracting and retaining skilled employees, with a specific focus on Morrison UK, a leading supermarket chain in the UK. The report begins with an introduction to talent management and outlines the aims, objecti...Read More

TALENT MANAGEMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Section 1..........................................................................................................................................3
Aims and Objectives....................................................................................................................3
Project Management Plan (170)..................................................................................................4
Gantt Chart and WBS..................................................................................................................4
Section 2..........................................................................................................................................5
Literature Review........................................................................................................................5
Research Methodology................................................................................................................8
Section 3........................................................................................................................................10
Findings.....................................................................................................................................10
Recommendations......................................................................................................................10
Section 4........................................................................................................................................11
Appendix 1: Performance Review Report.................................................................................11
Appendix 2: Project Log-Book..................................................................................................11
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................12
References......................................................................................................................................13

Introduction
Talent Management is the process that evolves in attracting and retaining highly
experienced and talented employees, influencing their skills and continuously encouraging them
to give their best performance in the workplace (van Zyl, Mathafena and Ras, 2017). This
research project has wide scope in current and future scenario because talent management has
become hot topic for the people across the world. In this research report will discuss about
impact of talent management strategies on organization’s recruitment and selection strategy with
the support of real-life organization example i.e. Morrison UK. It is a supermarket plc. trading
company which is a fourth largest chain of supermarket in the UK. In this research will include
aims and objectives of the company that are completely based on framed research topic.
Section 1
Aims and Objectives
Aim
“To evaluate which talent management strategy is followed by organization to attract and
retain people. In the case study of Morrison UK”.
Objectives
 To understand the concept of talent management.
 To evaluate the impact of talent management strategies that company uses to attract and
retain people.
 To identify the challenges that Morrison can face due to the talent management strategies.
 To recommend the solutions to the company based on the challenges that have been
identified.
Research Questions
 What do you mean by the talent management?
 How will you evaluate the impact of talent management strategies that company uses to
attract and retain people?

 What challenges that can face by the Morrison due to the talent management strategies?
 What are the solutions that can be recommended to the company in order to deal with
identified challenges?
Project Management Plan (170)
 Scope: The research topic is “which talent management strategies, use by the company to
attract and retain people” has become one of the most discussing topics currently which
has wide scope in United Kingdom market. The reason behind is that these talent
management strategies assist companies to attract and retain highly skilled people in the
business through which organization’s enables to gain number of commercial benefits in
the business market (Samuelsson and Martea, 2020).
 Resources: Internet, social media, Journals & Books, online published research papers
from 2010 to 2020 years etc. are using to collect adequate information over the proposed
research topic.
 Communication: Open communication method will follow by the Morrison so that
workers and employees can directly communicate with each other regarding their issues
and resolves them by developing creative solutions.
 Quality: Qualitative research method is using for this research assignment so that quality
can be maintained while collecting information over the proposed research topic.
 Cost: The cost of project is properly dependent on research methods. This research
project requires estimated € 6000 sum.
 Risk: The risk factor of the research project is limited availability of resources but it can
be minimized by using available resources effectively.
 Time: Overall research project will take around 9 weeks effectively.
Gantt Chart and WBS
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Conclusion
Work Break Down (WBS)
Section 2
Literature Review
Theme 1: Understand the concept of talent management

According to Poisat, Meyand Sharp, (2018)talent management is the concept by which
company and business identify and develop skilled employee who can have profitable impact on
the company’s and their productivity. It has become one of the key components of HRM because
it supports to determine the number of vacant positions in the company, hiring suitable
candidates for the vacant position and develop the major skills and expertise of the applicants to
match the desired job posts such that employees can be retained in the company for the long-
term and at the same period the business objectives and goals are gained satisfactorily. Other
Sobolieva and Lyzunova, (2019) stated in books, there are various stages such as planning,
attracting, selecting, developing, retaining and transition in the talent management process that
can be implemented by company which is known as the talent management process model. This
process model is undertaken by the organization. Planning is the primary step in the process of
talent management in order to identify the human capital requirement, develop the job
description and key roles and propose a workforce plan for the recruitment purpose. Attracting is
the second process in which includes external or internal recruitment methods. With the support
of recruitment strategy, HR seeks for the suitable candidates to fill in the vacant job position.
Thus, different steps of talent management use by the companies to attract and retain right talent
for the vacant position.
Other Maheshwari and et.al., (2017) have been criticized about talent management in
their published research papers that talent management process is too lengthy process due to this
HRM at different companies have to adapt different HRM practices. So, it is important for the
human resource management to follow all stages of the talent management effectively in the
company.
Theme 2: Evaluate the impact of talent management strategies that company uses to attract
and retain people
As per the view of Jooss, Burbach and Ruël, (2019) there are various strategies of talent
management such as detailed job descriptions, person-organization fit, collaborate-coach-evolve,
reward and recognize right and opportunities for continuous improvement. Most of the
companies uses detailed job description strategy in the business practice. It is a well-informed,
highly detailed job description that involves job title and location, skills required, reporting lines,
salary and benefits and, tools and benefits which is used by HR management to attract talented

candidates for the vacant job positions. Authors said in Books that most of the companies have
used job description talent management strategy and have succeeded to attract and retain talented
people in the company. There are some other strategies i.e. opportunities for continuous
improvement that also uses by the organization. This strategy supports in managing talent needs
to be put in the context of future perspective. For the constantly improvement of the company,
there is required to the scope and opportunity for the constantly development of it’s staff. So,
most of the companies conducts training and development session for the staff so that individuals
can improve their working efficiency. Thus, different strategies of talent management lead
positive impact on organization’s recruitment and selection strategy because these companies
enable to recruit only those candidates who posses’ suitable talent and skills for the designated
posts and retains them in the company for long period. In addition, talent management strategies
have led various positive impact for the company such as it gets highly competitive workforce in
the workplace which supports company to gain competitive edge over the competitors in the
business sector. With the support of talent management, companies enable to conduct creative
training session for the employees and encourages them to learn new skills and improves existing
one. Thus, company enhance competency level of workforce in the business.
ŞEKEROĞLU. and ÖZER, (2019) have quoted about impact of talent management
strategies that organization uses to attract and retain in their published articles that talent
management strategies require effective HRM practices then company can have positive impact
from the talent management. There are various companies which have practiced talent
management strategy to recruit highly talent candidates in the company but they have become
failed.
Theme 3: Identify the challenges that Morrison can face due to the talent management
strategies
Illustrated by Ansar and Baloch, (2018) there are various challenges that can face by
Morrison in the company due to the talent management strategies such as company needs highly
skilled and talented human resource management so that they can coordinate each strategy of
talent management with traditional recruitment strategy. Higher demand for the compensation,
lack of leadership, high employees’ turnover etc. are the other challenge of the talent

management strategies that can face by the Morrison while practicing them into business
practices. Due to this, it can get negative impact on it’s business performance as well.
However Rana, (2017) has suggested several solutions to deal with challenges that arises
while implementing TM strategies in their published research papers. Upper management of the
company needs to work with HR management while implementing TM strategies then HR can
effectively coordinate job description strategy with tradition recruitment strategy. In addition,
HR managers needs to adapt good leadership style accordingly organization situation because
team management always focuses on making workforce competitive so they always stay engage
staff within business activities. Such activities often develop pressuring situation for the
employees in that state they do not get support of any senior authorities which ultimately lead
frustration in them for the job and last, they leave the job. So, it is important for the HR
management of the Morrison company to understand needs of employee’s time to time then they
can maintain wellbeing of each employee in the workplace.
Research Methodology
There is use of different methods is very important to a person for collecting appropriate
data for a research work (Benschop and van den Brink, 2018). There are some major techniques
and methods of research has been discussed below which has been contributed in completing
existing research work on the topic of talent management.
Research Type
It is a systematic procedure of searching ideas, thoughts that helps company to increase
its potential level in the business market. Qualitative and quantitative are the two-type research
that helps in improving the performance of the business by creating effective theories and
methods (Van den Brink and Benschop, 2018). While quantitative research method is mainly
focused on practical aspects so it provides mathematical figures which can be measured by
experts in the organization effectively. Qualitative research method will use for this research
assignment because quality is important while collecting information.
Research Philosophy
It has been defined as the belief of scholar for collecting, analysing and using different
data for a research project. There are generally two types of philosophies of research exists in

market place; interpretivism and positivism (Lätti, 2017). The interpretivism philosophy
generally contribute in considering social world for the purpose of study. On the other hand,
positivism philosophy plays role in observing which is very important in research project. In this
project work, interpretivism philosophy has been chosen for research as a specific area of study
for studying about the social world and humans. This philosophy will contribute in positively
affecting to behaviours of employees as well in the workplace of Morrisons.
Data Collection
Data collection is very important part of a research project, in which this data collection
activity was also played an excellent role existing work about the talent management. However,
during the collecting the data, each researcher has to use various techniques of data collection,
otherwise it cannot be succeeded for gaining appropriate data for its research work. There are
generally two types of data collection techniques available in marker place, named; primary data
collection technique and secondary data collection technique. These both techniques play an
excellent role to a researcher for gaining appropriate data on time for the research work (Lumby
and Coleman, 2016). For example; primary technique helps in achieving data through taking
interviews, meetings, observation, and the secondary technique contributes in collecting data
through books & journals, articles, magazines, internet blogs and videos etc. Basically, there was
only secondary technique of data collection has been used in present research work.
Ethical Consideration
There was all ethics relating to research work has been considered while completing
present work on the topic of talent management. For example; names of authors have been
properly mentioned in while including different literatures within this report. On the other side,
there was not any informal way used during accessing sources to the data collection. No person
harmed or abused for completing existing research work on time.
Research Limitation
During conducting different practices for collecting data, there was a huge complex
situation faced, because when anyone has many of sources to collect the data on talent
management topic, then it will be confused in choosing appropriate data (Viehoff, 2019). On the
other side, time exceed is another key limitation of this work, because there were huge efforts
required for completing each activity of research work on time.

Section 3
Findings
It has analyzed from the above discussion that talent management is the effective process
for the Morrison company which supports company to attract and retain talented people in the
business. From the interpretation of 3rd theme, it can be analyzed that talent management is not
supported company to recruit and retain talented employees in the business but also it helps in
developing scale of skills in individuals so that each employee can perform multiple job
responsibilities effectively. Thus, talent management minimizes high investment of capital on
training and development and minimizes productivity of lower skilled or unskilled employees in
the workplace. With the support of 2nd theme, it can be analyzed that talent management
strategies leads positive impact on the company’s performance which adapts these strategies to
attract and retain people in the business. For example, traditional recruitment and selection
strategy are still following by the company to recruit new candidates for the designated posts but
unable to recruit right talent for the particular job posts (Rana, 2017). But job detail recruitment
strategy is the TM strategy that uses by Morrison company to recruit only talented candidates
accordingly proposed vacant job As resulted company enables to hire highly skilled and talented
employees who are completely suitable for the designated job posts. Thus, this TM strategy leads
positive impact on it’s business performance because company enables to achieve all short-term
and long-term goals within timeframe with the support of talented and potential workforce.
However, it also has been analysed challenges that can face by the Morrison like higher
employees’ turnover, higher compensation demands etc. with the support of 3rd theme. But it can
overcome these issues by applying recommended strategies in the business in effectively
manner.
Recommendations
 360 Degree Feedback Strategy is one of the most effective strategy that can be
undertaken by management of Morrison to analyze effectiveness of TM strategies on it’s
business. This strategy allows management to gather reviews from the employees about
their performance which they experience after training session of talent management.
Thus, company can make employees feel that they are valuable part of the business. So,
company should implement this strategy in the business.

 Effective leadership is another effective approach that must implement by the
management of Morrison because it will support to understand actual needs of employees
in the company. In addition, managers can support those staff who are actually feeling
pressuring situation and frustrating from the job due to excessively engage with employee
activities.
Section 4
Appendix 1: Performance Review Report
Student Name:
Project Title: Talent Management
What was the project supposed to accomplish?
Got the task to complete a research report the topic called; Talent Management. This is
very important topic to be discussed, because it aware us about the importance of talent
management.
Did the project succeed in its aims? How do you know? Specifically, please outline any
evaluation and assessment undertaken.
Yes, this project has been successfully achieved its aim, because that all-important
information has been included in this report which based on talent management.
What things do you think worked well and why? Evaluate all aspects of the project (e.g.
initial inception, project activities and project outcomes) from a range of perspectives.
There were many activities conducted for completing this project work, for example;
data collection, preparation of project management plan, analyse data etc. These all activities
have been their great contribution in overall achievement of aim of this project.
What problems emerged during the project and how were they tackled? Was there timely
identification of issues and resolution during the project process?
There were many problems has been faced during the completing this project work.
For example; problem relating to time exceed, problem relating to data stolen etc.
What did you learn from undertaking the project?
I have learnt many new things with the support of this project work. For example; I
have learnt that, talent management is very important way to a business for gaining an

effective workforce.
How would you rate your performance as Project Manager?
I like to rate my self 8 out of 10 as the project manager, because currently I have
enough skills and capabilities for making a project work on any topic. I have appropriate data
collection skills as well.
What strengths and weaknesses of your performance did you identify?
Currently decision-making skills and data collection skills are my key strengths, and
there are my problem-solving and conflict management skills are not good, so these are my
weaknesses.
Appendix 2: Project Log-Book
Student Name:
Project title:
Update on weekly research/tasks achieved Points to consider:
What have you completed?
An effective research project on the topic of “Talent Management”.
Did you fulfil task requirements?
Yes, I have fulfilled all requirements of given task.
Are you on track and within deadlines set?
I was followed a proper schedule for managing time every minute during the
preparation of this project work.
Did you need to make any changes to your project management plan?
No, I don’t want to make any change within this project management plan, because it
is very effective in order to complete a research work.
Any risks and/or issues identified? Points to consider:
Did you identify risks/issues with a lack of skills required for undertaking research/tasks?
I have faced issues/risks due to lack of skills during completing my task, like; I was not
able to solve different challenges and issues due to lack of appropriate problem-solving skills.
Did you identify any additional risks/issues that have an impact on the project management
plan?
No, I did not identify any additional issue or risk that have an impact in the plan of

project management.
Problems encountered Points to consider:
What barriers did you face? How did you overcome them?
I have faced barrier relating to corona virus pandemic, because this barrier was become
barrier to me for visiting one place to another. However, I have successfully overcome this
barrier by having proper mask and sanitizer facility.
New ideas and change of project direction
I will always be depended in the technology for gaining appropriate outcomes. On the
other use newly, developed strategies will improve my direction of new project.
Conclusion
This research assignment has been summarized that it is crucial to have the talent
management at Morrison so that it can gain all proposed goals and objectives of the company’s
and they can have better outcomes for the good future. It is essential for the company to
implement TM strategies effectively for the long period. It has been concluded that company
requires to lead several changes in the HRM practices while adopting TM strategies then it will
enable to have lots of benefits in its business.

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