Research Methods in Business Practice

This report discusses the research problem of managing crop harvesting in the UK agriculture sector through the pandemic from a human resource hiring perspective. It covers literature review, dataset identification, quantitative analysis, visualisations, findings and conclusion. The report highlights the lack of skilled and experienced employees in the agriculture sector and the difficulty in retaining them. It also suggests various strategies for human resource management to hire employees for crop management. The data set is sourced from the Office of National Statistics website.

Research Methods in
Business Practice

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Business research problem...............................................................................................................1
Literature Review covering concepts, models and theories.............................................................2
Identify dataset sourced from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) website..............................4
Quantitative analysis of the dataset using tools and techniques......................................................4
Visualisations of data drawn from the quantitative analysis...........................................................6
Findings drawn from the quantitative analysis of the dataset..........................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................8

Introduction
The following report is based on the research problem of managing the crop harvesting in
the United kingdom agriculture sector through the pandemic from an human resource hiring
perspective. Human resource management is defined as the management who manages the
employees and staff so that they can get motivated and encouraged in doing the work in a
successful manner. There are various functions of human resource management such as
recruitment and selection along with the induction program and training and development
sessions which is followed by the performance appraisal and compensation and also the exit
interviews and many more. The agriculture sector in the United Kingdom has the major
functions of crop management in which the employment is required on a large basis with the
specific skills and experience. Therefore human resource management assumes the problem in
hiring the employees who have good capabilities to manage the crop in the agriculture sector in
the United kingdom. Therefore The following discussion is based on the in-depth analysis of
business research problems and the literature review which covers the different concepts and
models along with theories so that the identification of data set sources from the office of
national statistics website can be better examined. Moreover, discussion is also made on the
quantitative analysis of the data set using different tools and techniques in which the research
methodology is described. The report also views the visualisation of data drawn from the
quantitative analysis and also the findings on from the quantitative analysis of the data set with
proper conclusion. These are the entire outline of the structure which helps investigators to cover
every aspect of a research problem which further helps in the future research either on the basis
of primary or secondary data collection. Moreover it is essential to have the proper facts and
figures so that the data can be analysed in an authentic manner and the theories can be examined
and written by the well known authors. Hence it is crucial to cover all such aspects for a better
successful generation of the report.
Business research problem
The business research problem is based on the crop management in the agriculture sector
in the United kingdom from the perspective of human resource hiring. This research problem is
basically because of the covid-19 pandemic. It has resulted in the lockdown and imposed the
restrictions on various sectors in the United kingdom because of which the industries have to be
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closed for some time so that the disease cannot spread across the country. Because of this
situation most of the sectors have suffered losses and many organisations have laid off their
employees due to losses they were suffering. This has resulted in unemployment but when
employment was needed in terms of crop management in the agriculture sector then the human
resource hiring was not strategic and they were facing the problem of lack of hiring and the lack
of sufficient human resources for the crop management in the agriculture sector (Kumar,
Mangla, Kumar and Song, 2021). These are all the outcomes of over 19 pandemic which has
resulted in the losses of the agriculture sector and also the lack of skilled and experienced
employees hiring in the crop management field. Moreover human resources were also lacking in
the strategies of retaining the employees but were unable to provide the enough salaries to them
due to pandemic and therefore this has also resulted in the unemployment because employees
were leaving the organisation due to lack of motivation of doing the smart work and this has
ultimately result in the lack of productivity and low sales and the revenue generations (Moore,
Kling and Raman, 2020). Lockdowns have resulted in the virtual conference meetings and
virtual communication among the organisations in the agriculture sector which was lacking the
performance appraisals and many more. Because of such situations human resource management
was unable to perform the strategic hiring and other functions of human resources such as
training and development sessions and many more. Therefore the current report is based on the
business problem of not only the management of human resources but also the crop management
in the agriculture sector in the particular country of the United kingdom.
Literature Review covering concepts, models and theories
Agriculture in the United Kingdom has 69% of the entire country's land area which
employs 1.5% of the employees that are around 476000 people who contributes to 0.6% of the
entire gross value added that is 9.9 billion pounds sterling. Moreover, agriculture is considered as
reactivity which occurs mostly in the rural locations and concentrates on the crops and the wetter
west. According to the data of 2020 it was approximately 70% of the entire area of the United
Kingdom which is used as the agricultural ground and also has contributed to the gross domestic
product of the economy in a large manner (Galanakis, 2020). Agriculture consists mainly of 4
sectors that is the crop management and fisheries along with the aquaculture which is followed
by the forestry and livestocks. The current report and data analysis are totally based on the crop
management and employment in the agricultural sector in the United kingdom. In the context of
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the human resource hiring program then they follow the different types of strategies that can help
them in hiring the employees who can manage the crop in the agriculture sector in a strategic
manner. It is important for the human resource hiring managers to treat their candidates like the
customer so that they can respect the time and be hospitable as per the needs and requirements.
Moreover, it is crucial for the human resource management to make use of social media or
applications because the internet reaches faster than the traditional way of hiring which results in
the large number of applications and ultimately helps in the experience selection of employees.
Human resources must implement an employee referral program so that the employees already
working in the organisations can talk to their relatives and their friends to work in the agriculture
sector and they can get some of the pay because of the employee referral program because this
motivates the employees to refer more about the organisation. Human resources must create the
compiling job descriptions which must be detailed and specific to the roles and responsibilities
which must also mention the salary packages and other essentials for better displaying of the job
descriptions in order to have a large number of applications for the job of crop management in
the agriculture during pandemic. It is important for the job description to have the title as specific
as possible and also having the opening with the captivating summary which must includes the
essentials and also highlighter the culture of the company (Lowenberg‐DeBoer, Behrendt, Ehlers
and Olagunju, 2021). Human resource must also make use of the sponsored jobs to stand out in
the covid 19th and the mix for better and its strategic hiring and they can also check the resumes
who have posted online (Kumari, Venkatesh, Deakins and Kamble, 2021). Further more human
resources must also consider their past candidates and must also attend the industry related meet
UPS so that they can include the pears in the interview process for the strategic hiring of the
candidate in the domain of crop management in the agricultural sector at the time of covid 19 in
United kingdom. Setting the recruitment coal is important for the human resource which must be
based on the smart goals and its stands for the specific and measurable along with the achievable
and realistic and time based objectives. There are different theories and concepts of recruitment
and hiring which must be adopted by human resource management in the domain of crop
management. It includes the on demand recruitment and contingency hiring along with the
retained Research and exclusive requirements which is followed by the recruitment process
outsourcing and outplacement executive search. These are all the techniques which must be
adopted by the human resource as strategic hiring.
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Identify dataset sourced from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) website
Data sets which are identified are sourced from the office of the national statistics
website. It is the executive office in the United Kingdom who has the authority of statistics and
also the non ministry of department which has the responsibility to report directly to the United
kingdom parliament. It is considered that they contain the well authentic data which are primary
as well as a secondary research information so that the better its analysis and the future
considerations can be undertaken in order to have the strategic decision making within the
organisations and businesses in the United kingdom. The current report has the data set and the
graphs from the office for national statistics website based on the topic of crop management in
the agriculture sector in the United kingdom during the pandemic with the perspective of human
resource hiring (Pasha, Zia-ur-Rehman and Kamran, 2020).
Quantitative analysis of the dataset using tools and techniques
Research methodology
Research methodology used in the current report is divided into 6 aspects. Research
philosophy is a first aspect which is divided into 3 categories that is positivism and realism along
with interpretivism. The current research choses the positivism research philosophy. Research
approach is the second aspect in which it is again divided into three categories that are deductive
and abductive along with the inductive. The current research choses the inductive research
approach. Research choice is the third aspect which is divided into three categories that is the
mono method and mixed method along with the multi method. The current research choses the
mono method that is quantitative research. Research strategy is the fourth aspect which is
divided into 8 categories. It includes the experiment and survey along with the archiver research
and case study which is followed by the ethnography and action research and also the ground it
theory and narrator enquiry. The current research choses the survey research strategy. Research
time horizon is the fifth aspect and is divided into two categories. Cross sectional and
longitudinal categories. The current research choses the cross sectional which is a short term
investigation as the research time horizon. research techniques and procedures is the sixth aspect
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which is further divided into two categories. That is the primary and secondary type of data
collection. The current research choses the primary type of data collection which is a direct
collection of information so that the authentic opinions can be gathered from the people in the
form of survey and hence its visualization is done in the form of graph and tabular data sets
(Mishra, Singh and Subramanian, 2021).
Source :
https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeety
pes/adhocs/
13308informalemploymentintheagriculturalandnonagriculturalsectorsbysexcountryandregionofth
euk2012to2020
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Visualisations of data drawn from the quantitative analysis
Source :
https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeety
pes/adhocs/
13308informalemploymentintheagriculturalandnonagriculturalsectorsbysexcountryandregionofth
euk2012to2020
Findings drawn from the quantitative analysis of the dataset
Findings drawn from the quantity and cells of the data set presented above I such that the
data set contains the data from the year 2012 to the year 2020. It has a category of non
agricultural sector in the United kingdom and agriculture sector in the United kingdom. It has
analysed the data in the format of thousands. Number of people in employment are recorded
along with the number of people in informal employment are also recorded which is also
followed by the percentage of employed people in informal employment are also recorded in the
data set. Graph is represented by these data sets so that it can be viewed and can be concluded
accordingly.
Conclusion
It is concluded that management of the crop in the agriculture sector in the United
Kingdom is difficult for human resource management as they are lacking skilled and experienced
employees. Staff and employees are considered as the greatest assets of the companies because
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they produce producer productivity for the organisation and are important to manage to boost the
sales and revenue generation of the company. The reason being is that some of the employees are
difficult to retain and some of the employees leave the organisation as they found something
more good in other sectors. This is because crop management becomes difficult for the
employees in the United kingdom and their agriculture sector is lacking in this particular domain.
Therefore the above discussion analyses this problem in an in depth manner while covering the
concepts and models along with the theories of literature review and human resource practices
while hiring and recruiting the employees for the crop management in the agriculture sector of
the United kingdom. Moreover it is important and significant to assess the identification of the
data set source from the office of national statistics website in order to have the strategic data set
using tools and techniques. It is crucial and vital to evaluate the visualization of the data drawn
from quantitative analysis. Moreover it is imperative to examine the findings done from the
coordinator analysis of the data set. Hence the public discussion covers all such areas in order to
better understand the business research problem based on the management of crops in the
agriculture sector in the United kingdom in the perspective of human resource hiring.
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References
Books and Journals
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Kumari, S., Venkatesh, V.G., Deakins, E. and Kamble, S., 2021. Agriculture value chain
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