Analyzing HRM Challenges and Strategies During COVID-19: UK Retail

This report examines the significant impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Human Resource Management (HRM) within the UK retail sector. It begins by outlining the aims, objectives, and research questions, focusing on the challenges faced by HRM departments in workforce management, strategies employed to mitigate the pandemic's effects, and the overall impact on the industry. The report details the research methods, including the qualitative approach, deductive methodology, and explorative research strategy utilizing questionnaires for data collection. Both primary and secondary data collection methods are employed, with a focus on a sample of 30 consumers analyzed through thematic analysis. The time scale for the research project is also provided, outlining key stages from topic selection to conclusion. The report concludes with a list of references, including books, journals, and online resources used in the research.

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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Aims.................................................................................................................................................3
Research methods............................................................................................................................4
TIME SCALE..................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
With the COVID 19 outbreak for bringing out the unprecedented times, companies
worldwide have taken up the step to revaluate their practices and sustain through tough times.
The sudden emergences for COVID-19 pandemic are dealing with sever blow to state economies
with business and workers. Human resource management have to look into the health care
capacity. HR have need to inform the different busines leaders on their path to respond and
recover and thrive up certain times. COVID-19 is causing up the high numbers of workers have
to look into the central role in keeping workforce engaged productive and resilient. HR leaders
have to turn up attentions towards recovering HR leaders putting the turn of attentions ensuring
the organization to pay up thrive.
Aims
To identify the challenges that COVID-19 has presented before the Human resource
department in workforce management in the retail sector of UK. A study on Argos for Research
Project Dissertation.
Objectives
 The impact of COVID 19 on workforce management.
 The challenges faced up human resources management in the pandemic situation.
 The different strategies used by HR departments to reduce the COVID-19 impact.
Research questions
 What is the impact of COVID 19 on workforce management?
 What are the challenges faced up human resources management in the pandemic
situation?
 How different strategies used by HR departments to reduce the COVID-19 impact?
Rationale
COVID 19 have been considered the recent topic impacting the different sector of the
economy. human resource departments have need to look into various strategies to reduce the
impact on the labour and workforce managements. Post COVID-19 and impact are gaining up
higher trend analysis to get into research dissertation in specific manner.
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Research methods
A research method is a strategy used to implementation with plan. There have to look
into research design and methods are considered to be different and closely related because the
research design has proper ensuring of data and reaching out specific answering of question.
Research approach
The study will be qualitative in nature following with deductive methodology turning out
to be best approach which is looking into the qualitative study pattern.
Research strategy
In this way, the research strategy will be explorative research taking up the major level of
emphasis of the questionnaire. Data will be basically accumulating through rendering suitable
and actual data looking in the major level of assistances covering aims and objective.
Research tools
For the data analysis, there will be looking into the both primary and secondary data
collection methods. primary method will make consumer to look into questionnaire survey and
secondary data to make proper understanding regarding research gaps in UK business industry.
Research sampling
There will be usage of no probability sampling taking up 30 consumers with help of thematic
analysis used in interpretation.
TIME SCALE
Week1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8
Topic Selection
Aim and
Objective
development
Research
Proposal
Literature
Review
Research
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Methodology
Data Collection
Data Analysis
Research
Outcomes
Conclusion
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Online
Cook, H., MacKenzie, R. and Forde, C., 2016. HRM and performance: the vulnerability of soft
HRM practices during recession and retrenchment. Human Resource Management Journal,
26(4), pp.557-571.
Huang, Q., Xing, Y. and Gamble, J., 2019. Job demands–resources: a gender perspective on
employee well-being and resilience in retail stores in China. The International Journal of Human
Resource Management, 30(8). pp.1323-1341.
Ali, M.J. and Akter, S., 2018. Human Resource Management (HRM) Practices: A Case study on
Arcadia Group, UK. Global Journal of Management And Business Research.
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