Human Resource Management Strategies and Practices in British Airways

Human Resource
Management

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The report is in the context of British Airways which is a multinational organisation in
the hospitality sector. This report clearly defines detailed investigation of different human
resource strategies and practices used by the firm. Human resource strategies involves different
hiring inspiring policies, job design strategies HRM and personal management strategies, the HR
model and how different environmental factors impact the HR plan of the business, the report
also details about different organizations using good HRM practices. To the end the report also
delivers certain recommendations that the firm could adopt in order to enhance the performance
and its efficiencies.

Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.............................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................4
Determine how HR strategies were changed by the firm. Use of concepts of strategic HRM
should be evident.........................................................................................................................4
Evaluate the impact of environmental factors on culture and HR plan of the selected business
organisation..................................................................................................................................5
Use an HR model and determine how value was created by the firm.........................................6
With the help of Storey’s 27 points of difference between HRM and Personnel Management as
a benchmark and discuss what is being practiced by the firm?...................................................7
Determine the job design strategies of the selected business organisation.................................8
Determine the hiring and firing strategies of the selected business organisation during this
period...........................................................................................................................................9
Discuss a corporate examples of different firms using good HR practices and literature to
justify your stand.......................................................................................................................10
Give certain suggestions / recommendations would you make to employers regarding HRM
practices to ensure that the organizational performance is high?..............................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Human capital is an important asset to any organisation which needs to be smartly used
towards accomplishment of organizational objectives, this is when the concept of human
resource management came that includes to manage, maintain and develop the workforce of an
organisation. The report is in the context of British Airways which is a multinational airline
based out of United Kingdom. The organisation is in the hospitality sector headquartered in
London, UK, the organisation came legally existence in the year 1974. The airline flies in 184
different destinations with 254 flight size. The key people associated with the organisation are
Sean Doyle and Stephen William Lawrence Gunning. Taking British Airways as the chosen
organisation, with the help of that the report will be supported by relevant and real life examples.
The report covers different human resource strategies taken by the business organisation, how
cultural factors affect the business performance, HR model that the business use in order to
Generate value, difference between human resource management and personnel management,
job design strategies, hiring and firing strategies, examples of different firms using good HR
practices, recommendations given to the employer pertaining to the HRM practices financing the
business performance (Analoui ed., 2017).
MAIN BODY
Determine how HR strategies were changed by the firm. Use of concepts of strategic HRM
should be evident.
Strategic human resource management is defined by developing The human resource
practices into the business. These HR strategies adopted by British Airways, are discussed
below:
Individual development: The human resource manager focuses on developing the workforce of
the organisation wherein the manager looks after each and every individual in an organisation
contributing towards business objectives. Individual development in the association helps to
accomplish both personal and professional objectives of an employee where an is groomed and
delivered appropriate training and guidance so that the employee work as per the standards and
expectations of the organisation (Crawshaw, Budhwar and Davis eds., 2020).