HR Outsourcing and its Impact on Woolworth: A Business Research Proposal

Business research

Table of Contents
1.0 INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................1
2.0 PROJECT OBJECTIVE............................................................................................................1
3.0 PROJECT SCOPE.....................................................................................................................1
4.0 LITERATURE REVIEW..........................................................................................................2
4.1 Human Resources (HR) outsourcing.....................................................................................2
4.2 Different types of HR outsourcing and factors affecting the selection of particular HR
outsourcing in the Woolworth.....................................................................................................2
4.3 HR outsourcing supports the growth of the Woolworth........................................................3
5.0 RESEARCH QUESTIONS.......................................................................................................3
5.1 Primary research questions....................................................................................................3
5.2 Secondary questions..............................................................................................................3
6.0 RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY.....................................................................4
6.1 Type of study.........................................................................................................................4
6.2 Research philosophy..............................................................................................................4
6.3 Research design.....................................................................................................................4
6.4 Research approach.................................................................................................................5
6.5 Data collection.......................................................................................................................5
6.6 Sampling................................................................................................................................5
6.7 Data analysis..........................................................................................................................6
7.0 RESEARCH LIMITATIONS....................................................................................................6
8.0 TIME SCHEDULE....................................................................................................................7
9.0 CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................8

1.0 INTRODUCTION
Human resource outsourcing is used to achieve the cost and time efficiencies in the
organizations (Bratton and Gold, 2017; Marchington et al., 2016). It provides an opportunity to
manage the contacts with external resources and third parties for the effective handling of HR
functions, tasks and operations. Further, with the help of the HR outsource the managers can
grow their business instead of focusing and spending on the HR tasks. In this context, the current
business proposal is based on the ‘Outsourcing and HRM in Woolworth, Australia which is a
chain of super market grocery store chain. For the purpose of the report, a literature review has
been done with related references. Further, research design and methodologies has been applied
for the findings. At the end, research limitations and time schedule has been prepared for the
effectiveness of proposal.
2.0 PROJECT OBJECTIVE
The proposal of outsourcing and HRM in Woolworth has several objectives which are
helpful to achieve the main aim of the business that is to manage the human resources and its
impact on the performance with the help of the HR outsourcing-
Aim
To analyze the role of HR outsourcing help in managing the human resources and
performance of the Woolworth
Objectives
 To understand the concept of human resource outsourcing.
 To identify different types of HR outsourcing and factors affecting the selection of
particular HR outsourcing in the Woolworth.
 To assess the HR outsourcing support for the growth of the Woolworth.
 To recommend different ways to manage the human resources in the Woolworth by using
outsourcing
3.0 PROJECT SCOPE
The project proposal is basically based on the outsourcing and HRM in the Woolworth
company which is beneficial in the form of availability of skilled employees. The HR
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outsourcing provides an opportunity to the business owner to hire the competent workers from
the outsiders that would provide a positive healing to the organization’s productivity. Further, if
Woolworth would apply the HR outsourcing approach then the company would be able to deal
with the rapid changes in market dynamics as well as global competitive pressures. Apart from
this, HR professionals of the Woolworth would be capable to move from the regular
administrative role to more strategic role. In this regard, with the help of employment of HR
outsources, company would be coherent to devote the critical internal resources to the core
business like talent and technology. Hence, Woolworth has wide scope with respect to HRM and
outsourcing because human resources are the major pillars for the growth and success of the
company.
4.0 LITERATURE REVIEW
4.1 Human Resources (HR) outsourcing
HR outsourcing is referring to the competitive method which is helpful to manage the
costs and assign the core resources for the company (Marchington et al., 2016). In this, the
company develop contacts with third parties to manage and handle the business HR functions
and operations. With the help of HR outsourcing, company can focus on the strategic initiatives
instead of managing the transactional activities in operations of human resources. In this context,
HR outsourcing provides an opportunity to manage the existing talented employees rather than
hiring new works for the organization (Gospel and Sako, 2010). At this juncture, Woolworth
which is an Australian company focusing on the HR outsourcing to manage the human resources
and its impact on the performance of the company as well as employees.
4.2 Different types of HR outsourcing and factors affecting the selection of particular HR
outsourcing in the Woolworth
HR outsourcing can be different types such as tactical outsourcing, payroll services, risk
management, hiring, transformational, health care benefits, employee counselling etc.
(Armstrong and Taylor, 2014). In this context, Susomrith and Brown, (2013) asserted that
tactical outsourcing is used by the organizations on the basis of traditional way. In this the
companies take the decisions to buy which is based on the cost factor. Moreover, this type of
outsourcing is preferred to provide liberty to staff members to emphasis on the central business
capacities. However, Glaister (2014) stated that transformational outsourcing is used to
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