Research Report: Talent Management at Sainsbury's in the UK

This report investigates the role of talent management practices within Sainsbury's, a major UK retail company. It begins by defining the topic, outlining the aim to analyze the impact of these practices on the workforce, and providing background information on the importance of talent management for employee retention and organizational success. The report explores objectives, research questions, and the significance of the study, highlighting the challenges faced by Sainsbury's in implementing effective talent management. It includes a comprehensive literature review, discussing the importance of talent management for employee satisfaction and development. The methodology section details the research approach, including qualitative research methods, an inductive approach, and the use of interpretivism. Data collection methods, sampling techniques, data analysis approaches, ethical considerations, limitations, and the validity and reliability of the research are also discussed. The report concludes by summarizing the time frame of the research activities and references used to support the findings.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Topic................................................................................................................................................3
Aim..................................................................................................................................................3
Background......................................................................................................................................3
Rationale..........................................................................................................................................4
Significance.....................................................................................................................................4
Literature Review............................................................................................................................4
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY....................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Topic
To evaluate role of Talent management practices on employees by HRM in retail industry
in United Kingdom. A study on Sainsbury’s.
Aim
To analyse impact of talent managing practices on workers by Human resource
department of Sainsbury’s.
Background
Talent management refer to the process in which the organization have a team to manage
their talent of the organization. It is one of the major factors and role of the HRM to manage the
Talent of the organization. Talent management is very important for the organization and
Sainsbury’s always focus in developing their talent management process and improve their
process to impact the overall business as it helps in retaining the best of the employees in the
organization and help the organization in managing their talent management process. From last
decade there is rising chances of workers leaving firm because of various reason such as
company unable to competitive price, no opportunities etc. Company HRM analyse performance
of workers according to that they have given opportunities. Employees are one of the most
important part of the organization and Sainsbury’s always try to focus on their talent
management and retain their employees.
Objective
 To study concept of talent management practices use by HRM
 To identify methods for enhancing practices involved in talent management in
Sainsbury’s.
 To evaluate impact of talent management practices on workforce by HRM of Sainsbury’s
 To analyse challenges face by the firm in implementation of talent management practices.
Research Question
 What is the concept behind talent management practices?
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 What kinds of methods use by Human resource department of Sainsbury’s related to
managing talented.
 How talent management practices of HRM impact on workforce performance in
Sainsbury’s?
 What challenges organization face in implementation of talent managing practices in
Sainsbury’s?
Rationale
Sainsbury’s are trying a lot to manage their talent management and they are getting
unsuccessful in that and they are focusing more into developing the new ways to improve the
process. They are developing and implementing the various kind of management practices.
Significance
It will help the organization in understanding the situation and the issues the organization is
facing due to lack of talent management skills and not able to retain their employees. This data
will further help in future to the other readers and other scholars who will work on the same topic
of the research.
In last few year employees considered as potential resource and it become important for
organisation to gain their loyalty in changing business. There are number of talent management
practices that are available for Human resource management such as focusing on employees’
personal growth, providing friendly environment etc. Selecting one out of all according to firm’s
culture is important and it helps in improving efficiency, quality and productivity of work and
hence supports growth of organisation. It is important that talented and skilled work forced
recruited by Human resource department but it become difficult to take their confidence and
encourage them for working in company for many years. Talent management practices help
organisation in multiple way it improves output as well as impact on growth of firm. It also help
firm in gaining competitive advantage in time of globalisation. Sainsbury HRM use multiple
talent management practices but it is important that it positively impacting on workforce. Report
highly talent management practices that are used by Human Resource Management of Sainsbury
and its impact on workforce growth.
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Literature Review
As per the view of Zangirolami-Raimundo, Echeimberg and Leone, (2018), talent management
is very important for organizations to get the higher satisfaction and it is very important to have
the best of talent management in the organization which can help the Sainsbury’s in developing
there resources so that the resources can provide the better performance to the organization and
help the organization in development. Talent management is important so that the HRM can
focus more on the employees and make them feel more important and they want to make the
employees feel important in the organization.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research methodology refer to the process in which all the research is being done and the
process of research and data analysis, limitation are being found by the researcher. Research Type: Research type refer to the process in which the research is being
calculated by the process of which way it is being done. There are 2 kinds of
investigation type, one is quantitative and other is qualitative. In this research we will
take the qualitative research because it gives human psychology and beliefs in it. On
different mitt quantitative approach is done on numerical information and numerical
collection. The researcher is taking the qualitative research for this report. Research Approach: Research approach refer to the approach a researcher made in doing
the research on a particular topic (Dodds and Hess, 2020). Research approach are of two
type inductive and deductive. Inductive approach is done on human beliefs and
qualitative data and on other hand deductive approach is done on quantitative data. The
investigator will yield inductive because the search type is qualitative, and the deductive
approach is not taken as it is used in quantitative approach. Research Philosophy: Research Philosophy module be done in Interpretivism manner as
the search is done in qualitative form. It will show human touch and human belief's and
qualitative form of research include Interpretivism philosophy. Data Collection: Data collection is done in two ways one primary and other one is
secondary. In this the researcher will do both type of research. The research needs to be
done in depth and need both primary and secondary collection.
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 Sampling: Data sampling refer to the process in which the sampling of the data take
place from the market and other ways. The sampling of data will be doing in simple
random sampling and purposive way to do the sampling.
 Data Analysis: Data analysis refer to the process of analysing the data which is being
collected and sampled from the collected data. Data analysis will be done in thematic
way as the research is done in qualitative performing and type with inductive approach in
it, so the data will be analysed in thematic analysis. The researcher have taken 30
respondents (Mohajan, 2018). Ethical Consideration: Ethical consideration refer to process in which their searcher
proof that all the research is done in the ethic way of doing process. Ethical thinking will
be done by investigator and both the consent sort and statement form will be filled by
responder which display the evidence about research quality. RM Limitations: Research limitation refer to the process in which the researcher
provides the best of the research on the topic and it also reflect that the researcher have
done the best of the research in the giver limited resources and the limited time. The work
and the research is done in the limited time and resources which is given to the
researcher.
 Validity and Reliability: Validity and reliability refer to the process in which the
researcher provide the reliability of the research which is done on the talent management
in the organization in retail industry. Validity and reliability are important and the
researcher will provide all the process in the best ways to help the research get in better
way to completion.
 Research Philosophy: Research Philosophy can be referring as way of thinking of a
person related to research. There are two types of it namely positivism and interpretivism.
Former one focuses on facts and figure didn’t consider human emotions in the study
which gives more promising results while later one focuses on social world in the
research. Positivism has benefit that it will give accurate result when study emphasizes on
numerical, budgets etc. and hence used in accounting and budgeting or maths related
project. Interpretivism focuses on human behaviour which is very important for different
studies such as managing employees, training etc. Scholar has taken interpretivism for
conducting research as talent management more based on human behaviour than
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numerical. Sainsbury Human resource management focuses on employees behaviour and
according to talent management practices are introduced and hence it impact on
decreasing migration of talented and skilled workforce and increase efficiency, quality
and productivity of work.
Time Frame
Activity/Weeks 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th
Type of
Selection
Literature
Review(LR)
Research
Methodology(R
M)
Sampling
Questionnaire
Preparation
Collecting data
Data Analysis
Data
Rechecking
Final Report
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Mohajan, H.K., 2018. Qualitative research methodology in social sciences and related
subjects. Journal of Economic Development, Environment and People, 7(1), pp.23-48.
Dodds, S. and Hess, A.C., 2020. Adapting research methodology during COVID-19: lessons for
transformative service research. Journal of Service Management.
Zangirolami-Raimundo, J., Echeimberg, J.D.O. and Leone, C., 2018. Research methodology
topics: Cross-sectional studies. Journal of Human Growth and Development, 28(3), pp.356-360.
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