Training and Development's Impact on Motivation at Sainsbury

This report investigates the impact of training and development initiatives on employee motivation, focusing on Sainsbury as a case study. It aims to identify the importance of training and development within the workforce, analyze the strategies adopted by businesses, evaluate the challenges encountered, and recommend new strategies for Sainsbury. The research employs a qualitative approach, utilizing inductive reasoning and interpretivism philosophy. Data collection involves both primary and secondary sources, with non-purposive sampling used to gather responses from 30 participants. Thematic data analysis is applied to interpret the findings, while acknowledging limitations related to the scope of the retail industry, capital constraints, and ethical considerations. The report provides valuable insights into enhancing employee motivation through effective training and development programs within a competitive retail environment.

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TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
Rationale..........................................................................................................................................5
Literature Review.............................................................................................................................5
Research Methodology....................................................................................................................6

REFRENCES...................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development holds huge importance within significant business
aspects in competitive industry within recent time period, where retail industry is diversely
growing. Training and development have specific influence on employee motivation, within
business parameters where Sainsbury being one of the best retail companies is bringing varied
strategies for enhancing training methods. Sainsbury is one of the largest retail companies having
large variety of products and services, for extended customers range and also has huge
workforce. The proposal will identify recent working aspects on new findings, methods used by
businesses within recent time for improvising further extended improvised advancement,

Aim: The aim of conducting research is to analyse impact of training and development on
employee motivation. A study on Sainsbury.
Objectives:
 To identify importance of training and development within workforce.
 To analyse strategies of training and development adopted within recent business.
 To evaluate challenges within training and development for workforce.
 To recommend new strategies for training and development at Sainsbury.
Research questions
 What is the importance of training and development within workforce?
 What are the strategies of training and development used within recent businesses?
 What are the challenges found in companies within training and development for
workforce?
 What are some of the strategies used in training and development at Sainsbury?
Rationale
The rationale behind taking this topic for research is that training and development has
significant impact on motivation factors among workforce, which further plays essential factor in
recent retail companies. The training and development strategies, extensively enhance working
strength for advancement among employees based on critical functional working rise based on
fundamental business positionings. It holds huge importance for companies in recent time, for
extended commercial growth development and optimised expansion among working expertise
goals innovatively (Syahruddin, Hermanto and Wardini, 2020).
Literature Review
Aim of researching secondary resources, is to synchronise new findings based on accurate
working results and develop informative analysis goals within extended time.
Importance of training and development within workforce
As per the views of Almalki (2021), training and development can be analysed to be one
of the most essential aspect within business for competitive workforce development within
companies in recent time period. It can be analysed to be highly essential for employees to get
proper advanced training, with varied aspects of development competencies which enhances
productive goodwill. Companies within recent time are taking best steps for advancing training

and development, based on advanced corporate strengthened vision to enhance strengthened long
term vision competencies.
Strategies of training and development adopted within recent business
As noted by Goswami and Saha (2021), research explains strategies of training and
development are highly diversified where companies in recent time are investing towards
structural innovation, on place job placement for stringent creative advancement. Methods of
training and development further signifies that developed scope plays keen role for extended
technical development among recent business aspects. Onboarding training, compliance training
and service training enhances pace for companies to leverage strengthened vision profoundly on
extensive working scope profoundly. It critically plays keen role for gaining working
engagement profoundly worked on, for longer goodwill evolvement and building motivated
workforce diversely.
Challenges within training and development for workforce.
As per the views Meijerink, Beijer and Bos-Nehles (2021), of challenges of training and
development are related to competent analysis where there is high risk of new capital
investments and efficient working pace extensively required for companies to further advance
on. The challenges of training and development, also correlates on extensive new commercial
benchmarks strengthening extensive functional pace goals within longer extended time period.
By analysing and focusing on challenges within training and development, company businesses
are able to develop critical working expansion based on stringent parameters for attending key
competencies in longer time period.
Research Methodology
Research type: There are two types of research types, which are qualitative and quantitative
where qualitative research is based on analysis of descriptive data which is non numerical and
presented in theoretical format which makes it easy to understand. Quantitative research type is
presented in numerical format, with graphs and figures based on accurate findings. The recent
report will be vitally using qualitative research type for gaining analysis on training and
development, impact on employee motivation.
Research approach: There are two types of research approaches which are inductive and
deductive, where inductive research is based on developing specific theory for qualitative based
research. Deductive research approach aims at testing existing theory and is less accurate for

findings to be specific. For recent research, inductive research approach has been taken which
will enable findings to be significantly accurate and diversified.
Research philosophy: Interpretivism research philosophy is based on principle which states that
research performs specific role in gaining research results based on productive findings.
Research will be presented by taking up interpretivism research philosophy, for more accurate
results in present study.
Data collection: For this research primary and secondary data collection methods will be used on
for gaining accurate results productivity as per new long term goals . Also, by vitally using
primary and secondary methods of research, more accurate working results will be worked on for
optimised work competencies (Wijayanti and et.al., 2020).
Sampling: Non purposive sampling will be done in recent research, where it is form of non-
probability sampling which relies on gaining results synchronised. Sample size of 30 respondents
will be taken, which will enable to develop understanding on response within company
strategies.
Data analysis: Thematic data analysis will be done within recent research, where specific aspects
related to figures and depictive charts shall be presented for findings to be developed on.
Research limitations: The research is limited to retail industry businesses where it will be only
researching on Sainsbury company training strategies. Also, capital and cost factors are limited
for research to gain accurate working findings.
Ethical considerations: There will be ethical methods of research used on within research,
where employees will be signing ethical forms of research. Accurate non biased results will be
used on within research, where plagiarism will be avoided for effective results. Ethical methods
of research will be worked on, for gaining accurate detailed findings.

REFRENCES
Books and Journals
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Goswami, S. and Saha, R. C., 2021. Impact of Training on Organisational Productivity. Asia-
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Meijerink, J. G., Beijer, S. E. and Bos-Nehles, A. C., 2021. A meta-analysis of mediating
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Syahruddin, S., Hermanto, H. and Wardini, A. K., 2020. The Influence of Communication,
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