Analyzing Strategic Talent Management at Rowlinson Knitwear: A Report

This research project analyzes the innovative and new ways of working to attain a strategic approach to talent management within an organization, specifically focusing on Rowlinson Knitwear. The report begins with an introduction outlining the research aim, rationale, research questions, and objectives. It then delves into a literature review, exploring the importance of innovative talent management strategies and the specific approaches used by Rowlinson Knitwear. The review also addresses the challenges faced in implementing these strategies. The methodology chapter details the research approach, strategy (survey), and methodology, including data collection methods and sampling. The report then presents the findings, followed by a discussion of the results. Finally, it concludes with recommendations, implications for further research, and a list of references and appendices.

Research Project

Contents
TITLE: "To analyse the innovative and new ways of working to attain a strategic approach to
talent management within an organisation”. A study on Rowlinson Knitwear 3
Chapter 1- INTRODUCTION 3
1.1 Research Aim: 3
Rationale for the research 3
1.2 Research Question: 3
1.3 Research objectives: 3
1.4 Significance of the research 4
Chapter 2- LITERATURE REVIEW 4
2.1 Introduction of Literature Review 4
2.2 Main Body 4
Importance of innovative ways to talent management 4
Innovative and new ways used by Rownlinson Knitwear to attain strategic approach to talent
management in an organisation 5
Challenges faced by Rowlinson Knitwear while implementing strategic approach to talent
management at workplace 5
2.3 Conclusion of Literature Review 5
Chapter 3- Methodology 5
3.1 Research Approach 5
3.2 Research Strategy/Methods 6
3.3 Research Methodology6
3.4 Research Instruments/Tools 6
3.5 Sampling 6
3.5.1 Identifying Population and Research Site 6
3.5.2 Sampling Strategy 6
3.6 Ethical Implications 6
Chapter 4- Findings 6
Chapter 5- Discussion 14

Chapter 6: Conclusion, Recommendations and Implications for Further Research 16
REFERENCES 18
Books & Journal 18
APPENDICES 1 20

TITLE: "To analyse the innovative and new ways of working to attain a
strategic approach to talent management within an organisation”. A study
on Rowlinson Knitwear
Chapter 1- INTRODUCTION
Talent management is defined as a strategy or system which is used by an organization to
effectively hire, recruit, retain and develop staff members. In addition to this, the main purpose
of talent management is to enhance performance and productivity of employees prevailing at
workplace(Albert, 2019). It is important for an organization to make use of effective methods of
talent management as it help in attaining strategic approach and competitive advantage as well.
For the present study, Rowlinson Knitwear is taken into consideration. The company produces
school wear and knitwear for school students and is founded in the year 1972. The company
conduct its business in UK and focusing on expanding its business. The report will analyze the
new and innovative ways of working to achieve strategic approach to talent management within
an organization.
1.1 Research Aim:
“To analyse the innovative and new ways of working to attain a strategic approach to
talent management within an organisation”. A study on Rowlinson Knitwear.
Rationale for the research
One of the main reason of choosing this project is to identify the new and innovative ways
which is used by organization for attaining strategic approach to talent management. In addition
to this, it help researcher to gain insight about importance of talent management and the
challenges faced by companies by implementing strategic approaches of talent management.
This research help investigator in both personal and professional context. In context to
professional, it help researcher to deal with the issues and retain at workplace in future. In
relation to personal, it help researcher to improve and learn skills such as time management,
problem solving, data analysis, data interpretation and many more. Apart from this, it also help
investigator to conduct future studies in an effective and appropriate manner.

1.2 Research Question:
 What is the importance of innovative ways to talent management?
 What are the innovative and new ways used by Rownlinson Knitwear to attain strategic
approach to talent management in an organisation?
 What are the challenges faced by Rowlinson Knitwear while implementing strategic
approach to talent management at workplace?
1.3 Research objectives:
 To identify the importance of innovative ways to talent management.
 To determine the innovative and new ways used by Rownlinson Knitwear to attain
strategic approach to talent management in an organisation.
 To examine the challenges faced by Rowlinson Knitwear while implementing strategic
approach to talent management at workplace.
1.4 Significance of the research
In the present time period, It is important for an organization to have competent workforce
which can retain for longer time. For this, organization make use of new and innovative ways of
talent management as it help in attaining strategic approach, increase productivity, increased
profitability, attainment of competitive advantage and many more. It also help company to retain
and attract talent which leads to increase in performance and brand image of organization at
marketplace. Therefore, this is study assist in analyzing the new and innovative ways of working
to achieve strategic approach to talent management within an organization.
Chapter 2- LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Introduction of Literature Review
Literature review defined as a secondary research method where data is gathered from
existing books, journals, articles and many more. The main objective of literature reviews to
understand the gap within the research by analyzing the previous studies(Bissola and Imperatori,
2020). In the present study, the main gap is too analyze the new and innovative ways of talent
management which help an organization to attain strategic approach. In order to bridge the gap
of research, some of the research question will be answered by literature review and are as
follows:

2.2 Main Body
Importance of innovative ways to talent management
According to Amy, (2019), various innovative ways used in the talent management plays
an essential role in retaining and motivating workforce for a longer period in the organization
effectively. As per the author there are various innovative ways used in order to retain employees
and enhanced their talent such as on boarding and training under this the labor platforms allows
manager to create essential personalized, effective and quick on boarding experience so as to
create and generate greater amount value. In addition to this developing the on boarding agenda
allows goggle to enhance the productivity and profitability of the workforce by 15%. Under this
essential training is provided to the employees in order to improve their skills and performance
which leads to retaining them for the longer period of time(Bonsu, 2019). In addition to this
another innovative way for the talent management is the measures of success rate, under this the
employees are rated according to their performance in order to give them rewards accordingly.
This manager needs to divide the goals in terms of effective KPI and relate them with the ROI
which describes the proper success rate at different level of the transformation. The effective use
of the innovative talent management in the organization helps retaining the present employees in
the company for longer period of time and motivating them to continuously work towards
achieving desired goals and objectives. It also helps in saving large amount of money which
could be otherwise spend on the employees turnover. As per the author the various innovative
ways used leads to the higher rate ROI and customer satisfaction in the organization.
Innovative and new ways used by Rownlinson Knitwear to attain strategic approach to talent
management in an organisation
According to Prarthana Ghosh, 2021, Talent management will start with hiring the right
people and keep them productive. It will help an organisation to attract, develop and retain a
workforce for achieving higher success. It refers to a process by which an organisation will
effectively assemble the whole workforce for its business needs and continuously motivate them
for remain productive and stay in organisation for long period of time. In context of selected
company they will use various innovative strategy for attaining better talent management in their
organisation. They are discussed below (Valamis group, 2021).
Hire only top employees- First strategy that is adopted by selected company is that they
will only hire the top and talented employees for their organisation. This will help company to

gain the benefit of high skill and knowledge of talented employees. The employees will perform
well & probably reach high performance at faster rate. It will help the selected company to grow
faster and make company to more prepare to face the challenges and risk. This talent
management strategy will help company to achieve competitive advantage in market through its
highly efficient and productive employees.
Hire promising specialists & develop them- Another important strategy that selected
company will used to attain strategic approach to talent management is to hire the promising
specialists. Through this company is able to save money on salaries and their employees has a
potential to become a skilled and loyal professional(Chaudhary, 2019). Through this company
will easily find the top talent for company which will save both cost& time for company.
Challenges faced by Rowlinson Knitwear while implementing strategic approach to talent
management at workplace
It is determined that there are various issues faced by respective organization while
implementing strategic approaches to talent management. One of the major challenge is increase
in cost as it impact directly on revenue in a negative manner. In addition to this, it is analyzed
that there is increase in employee turnover ratio due to new talent management strategies. Apart
from this, it is analyzethat disagreement among employers and employees take place which
affect adversely on the performance of an organization. There are also other challenges faced
such as offering satisfactory salaries, encouraging passion, maintaining performance and many
more(Graessley and et. al., 2019). It is important for higher authorities of respective company to
focus on resolving this issue in order to retain talented and competent staff members for longer
time.
2.3 Conclusion of Literature Review
By analyzing the above data, it is concluded that it is vital for an organization to adopt new
and innovative ways of talent management in order to attract and retain staff members for longer
time period. Along with this, it is analyzed that there are various new ways of talent management
that assist in attaining strategic approach to talent management such as provide career and
learning opportunities, allow participation in decision making, offering impressive salaries and
many more. It has been determined that respective organization face challenges while executing
new strategies of talent management such as increase in cost, disagreements among employer
and employees, ineffective communication and so on.

Chapter 3- Methodology
Research methodology is one of the important factor within a research as it assist in
conducting study with the help of proper tools and in best possible manner which is supported by
strong evidences. In addition to this, it is vital for investigator to use effective research methods
so that reliable and valid conclusion can be drawn. For this, research onion framework is
followed by researcher that involved different layers and is given below:
3.1 Research Approach
It refers to a plan and a procedure which is used by the researcher for effectively
conducting the research work. It was based on the nature of the research problem which is being
address in this report. The plan and procedure is used by the researcher for effectively analyzing
the research information that will be based on the qualitative & quantitative data. Research
approach is divided into two parts which are deductive & inductive research approach(Groutsis,
O’Leary and Russell, 2018). Deductive research approach will help the researcher in effectively
analysis the quantitative data. On the other hand inductive research approach is used by the
researcher for analyzing the qualitative data. For this research report the researcher will use the
deductive research approach because it will help researcher to generalize research findings to a
certain extent.
3.2 Research Strategy/Methods
It is considered as an important part of investigation by which data is collected and
analyzed through different methods such as case study, survey and many more. For the present
study, survey is used by researcher. The main reason to use this as a research strategy is it help in
collecting primary and secondary information. Apart from this, it also assist in gaining in-depth
knowledge regarding topic due to which research objectives are achieved timely.
3.3 Research Methodology
This part of research methodology mainly focuses on the data which is required to be
collected. The two forms of research methods are quantitative and qualitative. In regards to the
present study, quantitative method is appropriate for the research as it help in gathering
numerical information and consider less cost and time as well(Guérin-Marion, Manion and
Parsons, 2018). In addition to this, it also assist researcher in collecting data from authentic and
reliable sources.

3.4 Research Instruments/Tools
There are mainly two forms of research tools associated to data collection which is primary
and secondary. In context to the present study, both methods are used by researcher in order to
draw valid conclusion. In order to collect primary data, questionnaire is developed which assist
in gaining in-depth knowledge about research topic. On the other hand, secondary data involve
various articles, journals, websites and many more. These methods help researcher to develop a
positive outcome and achieve objectives timely.
3.5 Sampling
It means selecting a group of people from the whole population for collecting the
information related to research. Research sampling is divided into two parts which are
probabilistic & non-probabilistic method. Probability sampling means every member of the
target population has a chance to being included in the sample. While on the other hand in non-
probabilistic sampling, the sample will be selected on the bases of random criteria. This method
will not provide equal chance to the member of population of being including.
3.5.1 Identifying Population and Research Site
For the present study, 15 employees of Rowlinson knitwear is taken into consideration as
respondents. The mean reason behind choosing employees are they have knowledge regarding
working and about the policies which help in collecting data systematically and effectively.
3.5.2 Sampling Strategy
For this present research study, probabilistic sampling method is used because it will leads
to higher quality findings as it will provide an unbiased representation of the population.
3.6 Ethical Implications
It is important for researcher to follow all the ethical considerations associated to
investigation in order to implement activities in a systematic and ethical manner(Rezaei and
Beyerlein, 2018). There are various ethical consideration which is required to be followed such
as confidentiality, informed consent, anonymity and many more. All this will help researcher to
implement activities without any issues and discrepancies.
Research limitation: it is analyzed that every study is associated with some kind of
limitation that is insufficient funds, high risk, lack of time and many more. It is important for

researchers to develop a backup plan in order to deal with such issues before conducting research
on implement results activities. This assist in declining the level of risk and help in achievement
of objectives timely.
Chapter 4- Findings
Frequency table:
Q1. Do you have knowledge about talent management? Frequency
a) Yes 10
b) No 5
Q2. What are the advantages gained by an organisation due to talent
management?
Frequency
a) Increase productivity 5
b) Decline employee turnover ratio 3
c) Development of brand image 4
d) Employee retention and satisfaction 3
Q3. As per your view point, is talent help respective organisation to
retain competent workforce in organisation?
Frequency
a) Yes 11
b) No 4
Q4. What are the new ways used by Rownlinson Knitwear to attain
strategic approach to talent management in an organisation?
Frequency
a) Providing career and development opportunities to employees 4
b) Offering Impressive salaries 4
c) Allow participation in decision making 4
d) Focus of employee satisfaction 3
Q5. As per your view point, is above mentioned new ways of talent
management help Rowlinson Knitwear to achieve strategic approach?
Frequency
a) Yes 12
b) No 3
Q6. According to you, what is the impact of innovative ways of talent
management on the productivity and performance of employees of
Frequency

Rowlinson Knitwear?
a) Positive impact 8
b) Negative impact 4
c) Neutral 3
Q7. Does talent management strategies is effective for Rowlinson
Knitwear in attracting talent at workplace?
Frequency
a) Strongly agree 8
b) Agree 5
c) Disagree 2
Q8. What are the Challenges faced by Rowlinson Knitwear while
implementing strategic approach to talent management at workplace?
Frequency
a) Increase in cost 6
b) Offering satisfactory salaries 2
c) Disagreements among employer and employees 4
d) Increase in employee turnover ratio 3
Q9. According to you, is it important for Rowlinson Knitwear to
focus on resolving above issues for talent acquisition and
management?
Frequency
a) yes 12
b) No 3
Data presentation and interpretation
Q1. Do you have knowledge about talent management? Frequency
a) Yes 10
b) No 5

Q2. What are the advantages gained by an organisation due to talent
management?
Frequency
a) Increase productivity 5
b) Decline employee turnover ratio 3
c) Development of brand image 4
d) Employee retention and satisfaction 3