Talent Management Research Project Report - BTEC Unit 11, 2020/2021

This report presents a research project on talent management, focusing on employee engagement and workforce challenges faced by companies. The research employs a mixed-methods approach, including qualitative and quantitative research methods, to analyze data collected through questionnaires. The report delves into the research methodology, including research type, philosophy, and approach. The data analysis section interprets findings related to workforce shortages, talent management strategies, employee recognition, and satisfaction. Key themes explored include the impact of talent management on employee motivation, productivity, and sales. The report includes recommendations, conclusions, and reflections on the research process, supported by references and ethical considerations. The research highlights the importance of talent management in addressing workforce shortages and enhancing overall organizational performance. The study utilizes both primary and secondary data collection methods. The research includes a declaration to validate the findings.

Research Project

Executive summary
This report stated about the analyse of talent management as engaging the employees and their
growth opportunities, this report has research methodology, data interpretation, recommendation
and reflection about the topic. This report included questionnaire to get the better outcome
about the research.

Table of Contents
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................5
Research methodology ....................................................................................................................5
Data analysis....................................................................................................................................7
RECOMMENDATION.................................................................................................................15
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................15

Reflection ..................................................................................................................................16
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................17

MAIN BODY
Research methodology
Research methodology is known to be the particular methods which is being used to
identify, for recognising, collecting and analysing the relevant information about the topic
which is being selected by the researcher (Snyder, 2019) . Research methodology evaluates the
reader as well to gain the knowledge in deep due to the research methodology. For the research
methodology, different qualitative and quantitative research have been used to get the knowledge
in deep.
Research type- Research type shows the method through which the data is being collected and
gathered by the researcher which will help the researcher to attain their objective of the research.
Research type mainly categorised into two parts - qualitative and quantitative research.
Qualitative research is concerned theories and humanities it do not considerer any type of
numerical and statistical data. Qualitative research is good for getting in- depth knowledge about
the selected topic and also refer the insight and problems which is related with the topic as the
researcher involves various theories and get the result of any problem by going in deep of every
issue. On the one hand, quantitative research is totally opposite in nature and it does not believe
in theories and assumptions. This research type is fully based on measurements, numbers and
statistical. Quantitative research uses numerical analysis so that the researcher gets accurate
result of the topic. The outcomes and result which is collected from quantitative research is large
in size, data which is gathered by the research generally present in theform of charts, graphs, and
in tabular form so it become easy for the researcher and the reader as well. In this report the
research types has been used to get the better result and knowledge.
Research philosophy – This is the pillar of entire research, and the whole research is based on
research philosophy only. Mainly there are two type of philosophy have been used for the
research. Interpretive theory and positivism theory (Ørngreen and et.al, 2017) . Interpretivism
theory is linked with qualitative research, which is fully based on the various assumptions and
beliefs so that the research will get more precise and relevant data which makes their research
more deep and relevant. As the name concern positivism philosophy provides more genuine,
updated and true facts about the topic so the research can implement such facts for better
understanding. This philosophy uses the numerical figures and data to provide exact and true
information and facts. This philosophy provides correct data to researcher which makes their

research more relevant and it gives importance to the research. As this research report includes.
Interpretivism research but if the positivism research then the entire research will become
lengthy and time consuming. Apart from this, positivism research works on scientific methods
and the analysed result from this research philosophy are very unrealistic and also complex in
nature.
Research approach - The research approach is related to strategies, plans and policies to the
research which speaks about the wide range of assumptions and different types of method which
implemented by the researcher for the collection of the data (Zangirolami and et.al, 2018). This
research approach is also divided into two parts – inductive research and deductive research.
Deductive research includes test and also it is concerned with the checking of availability of
assumptions. It shows that the assumption are valid or not as per the research. Whatever theories
have been used by the researcher is being verified by deductive research. To get the accurate
result, researcher goes through to all the past researches so that they may get the best result.
Inductive research is based on the view, observation and monitoring of the theories and
assumptions which have been taken by the researcher. Inductive approach has been implied in
this research. The main reason behind not using deductive research approach is that it is hard to
understand for the reader apart from this those who are new and younger learners they do not
cop-up the concept of this approach.
Data collection - it is referred as the procedure of identifying, collective, measuring and
analysing the data which is used in the research. This is also come in two various methods –
primary research and secondary research. Primary research is totally based on the researcher, in
which researcher they collect and gather all the relevant data for the research. Sources also
selected by the researcher, it is in the hand of the researcher who will be part of their study and
who are not, and this method help the researcher to meet its demands. This assists the researcher
to collect the accurate data. It provides depth knowledge to the researcher. The common and
widely used methods for primary research are interview and survey. But secondary method is
opposite to this, in this method researcher collect the data from the newspaper, internet and
magazines. Secondary data is those which are already collected by others and available for
further usage. Primary data collection method has been used in this report. As the secondary
data was not providing the accurate answer of researcher’s specific questions, because the

content specific information is necessary for the researcher. Apart from this, the accuracy of
secondary data is also missing which is why secondary data has not been used.
Sampling - from two methods samples get collected i.e. probability and non probability
sampling. In probability sampling all the resources collected randomly without considering any
fixed criteria. But in non – probability sampling, sources and respondents collected in the basis
of some criteria. In this report, probability sampling has been used and 20 respondents have
been taken and they are the employees of the company.
Data analysis- Qualitativedata analysed by using different tools and methods like – thematic
data analysis method (Nayak and et.al, 2021). On the other hand quantitative data uses various
quantitative tools like – SPSS, Excel etc. But in this report research will use thematic data which
is based on different themes, graphs and pie-charts; this makes the entire research valuable and
relevant.
Ethical consideration- This is being used in the research to know that is this research valid or
not, and it describes that the researcher has followed all the standard and rules while preparing
this research. It also explains that when the researcher was finding the data, they have followed
the standard and collected data is not copied and duplicate from any source. In this report
declaration is also mentioned which shows the reliability of the research.
Validity and reliability – This method is used for testing the information which is being used by
the researcher in the research and the collected data is totally reliable and the data do not get
misrepresented by the researcher. It shows that all the data which is mentioned in this research is
collected from different sources.
Data analysis
Data analysis is one of the important part of research where the data which is gathered by
the researcher is evaluated and form meaningful data which gives meaningful conclusions and
provide the relevant findings. In the current investigation, questionnaire is used to collect the
necessary information and the collected information is analysed using thematic test technique in
the following ways. Primary data is collected through questionnaire and secondary data is
gathered through literature review.
Theme 1: Majority of employees feel that the company is mainly facing workforce shortage
challenge.

What challenges related to talent management faced by Tesco? Frequency
 Low employee engagement 2
 Workforce shortage 15
 Global competition 3
Total 20
Interpretation:
From the above bar diagram it can be observed that out of 20 respondents 15 respondents feels
that company is facing workforce shortage as the challenge of the talent management. 2
respondents said that low employee engagement is the challenge and 3 said that global
competition is the challenge which company is having when it comes to talent management.
Talent management is not easy to do and due to this Tesco is facing shortage of staff due to
which its supply and other business activities are affecting and that is directly affecting sales of
the company.
Theme 2: giving training and by recruiting top performer employees company do talent
management.

How talent management is done by Tesco ? Frequency
 Giving training to employees 5
 Recruiting top performer employees 5
 all 10
Total 20
Interpretation:
From the above pie chart it can be interpreted that out of 20 respondents 10 feels that talent
management is done by Tesco through training and hiring top performer employees. 5 said that
by recruiting top performer employees company does talent management while 5 feels that
through training the employees talent management is done by company. As Tesco believes that
providing training to employees will help them in performing efficiently and hiring top
performer workforce will help company in achieving their goals.
Theme 3: The employees of Tesco agrees that their hard work is recognized and
appreciated by the organization.
Is your hard work is recognized and appreciated by Tesco ? Frequency
yes 18

no 2
Total 20
Interpretation:
From the above picture it can be said that 18 respondents put of 20 feels that Tesco recognize
and appreciate hard work of their employees. Only 2 respondents feels that company does not
appreciate hard work of their employees. So it can be said that Tesco give value to their workers
because company very well knows that human resource is one of the important asset.
Recognizing hard work of workers will increase their motivation.
Theme 4: Through talent management Tesco is able to raise employees motivation,
productivity and also raise their sales.
What are the benefits which Tesco is getting through talent management? Frequency
 Raising employee productivity 2
 Increasing sales and profits 3
 Enhancing motivation and efficiency 4
 all 11
Total 20

Interpretation:
From the above diagram it can be said that out of 20 respondents 11 agrees that with the help of
talent management company is able to increase motivation and productivity and also increases
their sales and profits. Whereas 4 feels that through TM Tesco is only able to increase
motivation, 3 said that they increase sales and 2 feels that company is able to raise employee
productivity via TM. As when motivation of employee increase then it automatically increases
their productivity which results in increasing sales and profits.
Theme 5: majority of respondents are strongly satisfied with the TM strategy of company.
Are you satisfied with the talent management strategies of company? Frequency
 Satisfied 4
 strongly satisfied 15
 dissatisfied 1
 strongly dissatisfied 0
Total 20

Interpretation:
From the above pictorial presentation it can be said that our of 20 respondents 15 respondents
said that they are strongly satisfied with TM strategy of company. 4 said that they are satisfied
whereas 1 respondent is dissatisfied but no one is strongly dissatisfied with TM strategies of
Tesco. Company knows the value of talent management and made TM related strategies so that it
can be achieved. Nowadays talent management is very important for companies and every
company is practising it. As talent management helps in retaining employees and company want
to reduce employee turnover rate so that can able to retain high performer workforce.
Theme 6: majority of respondents said that company follow compensation and rewards
strategy.
which talent management strategy is used by Tesco ? Frequency
 Provide coaching 3
 providing compensation and rewards 15
 giving career planning 2
Total 20