Research Project: Contemporary HR Practices for Employee Retention

This project investigates contemporary Human Resource (HR) practices aimed at enhancing employee retention and engagement. It addresses the critical issue of employee turnover and how strategic implementation of HR practices can enable businesses to retain valuable employees. The project emphasizes HR practices related to employee engagement and retention, using literature sources for data collection and thematic analysis. It highlights the importance of investing in employees for increased productivity and benefits for peer colleagues and researchers in the field. Objectives include developing an understanding of contemporary HRM practices, their role in employee retention and talent management, and HRM strategies for optimizing staff performance. The research employs a qualitative approach with an inductive method and exploratory design, utilizing secondary data for reliability and cost-effectiveness. Ethical considerations include consent forms and comprehensive referencing.

Project Title*
To investigate the contemporary Human resource practices for enhancing employee retention and
engagement. Outline Proposed project will emphasis HR practices related to employee engagement
and retention.. For this purpose, literature sources will be used to collect the data. The analysis will
be based on themes.
2Project Summary*
Project will discuss the issue regarding employee turnover, as how implementation of
human resource practices enable business to retain their potential employees. It is
important topic which helps the business sector to invest on their employees for the
productivity of industry, and it is also beneficial for the peer colleagues and researcher
who are conducting their research study in this field. Project objectives are to develop
understanding about contemporary HRM practices and how it helps in employee
retention and talent management HRM strategy for staff performance optimisation.
Project also lay out the literature review in which it includes the authors different
argument over the topic.
3Start and End dates
4Explain the research method you will use and the rationale for
your choices
Study will follow the qualitative research study and follow the inductive research
approach because it consists of specific observation. It also follow the exploratory design
due to cost efficiency and interpritivism approach for data interpretation. Report will
cover the secondary data collection because of data reliability and cost or time
efficiency. Secondary data is efficient in providing data in no time also with this analyst
will be able to cover the wide range of information. For ethical concern consent form will
be provided to participants and list of references will also provide at the end.
5What are the planned or desired outcomes of the research?
To identify an intervention which helps in employee retention for the business.
6Professional Code of Ethical Practice*
Are you required to use a professional code of ethics and conduct relevant to your profession?
Yes
No
e.g. British Psychological Society, Health Care Professions Council National Health Service, Ministry of Defence, the Law Society
7Are you sourcing secondary data?*
Yes
No
e.g. information from web sites, journal articles, archives
Please provide details (,,,,,,,,,data from internet, websites, published article review,,,,,)
03 Mar 2022
03 Mar 2023

8This investigation will NOT involve the collection of data from
human participants, though it may collect data about individuals
from published matter (e.g., previously published interviews or behavioural data)*
Yes
No
Project Detail
1What is the purpose of this study?
To investigate the contemporary Human resource practices for enhancing employee retention and
engagement.
2Why have I been chosen for this study?
Rationale for selecting this study is to understand how HR practices allows the
businesses to accomplish their goals by engaging their employees with their resources.
In this study secondary data will be collected from the existing sources in order to
arrange the study information. With this businesses are able to apply the human
resources strategy to retain their employees.
3What does this study involve?
This study will involve secondary data method in which literature review will be done
which helps in obtaining efficient information for the research, as secondary data will also
help in filling the gaps in research. This study will explore the range of secondary data
method to collect the information which helps in drawing conclusion.
The whole study should take approximately e.g. 15 minutes
4What are the benefits of participating in this study?
No participation involve
5What are the risks associated with my participation?
There is no participation involved in this research it will be a completely based on
secondary data method.
6Data collection and protection information
Data is collected from secondary sources only
who will have access to the data?
Researcher and organisations
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Data Analysis
1Are you using an external research instrument or validated
scale?*
Just answer yes or no
Instrument is the general term that researchers use for a measurement device, for example a
survey, questionnaires, rating scales
Yes
No
2Are you sourcing primary data involving participants?*
Yes
No
3Are you dealing with sensitive data?*
[The help record for this question is either incomplete, not published or unavailable. Please refer to
your Ethics Administrator for guidance}
Just answer yes or no
Yes
No