Research Project: HRM Practices Impact on British Airways Employees

This research project investigates the impact of changing Human Resource Management (HRM) practices on employee performance, using British Airways (BA) as a case study. The project aims to analyze the relationship between HRM practices and employee performance, exploring the changing ...Read More

RESEARCH PROJECT
Presenting Outcomes the Research
Investigation
TASK 4

RESEARCH TITLE
Impact of changing Human Resource Management practices on
employee performance: A case study of British Airways.

RESEARCH AIM AND OBJECTIVES
Aim:
“To analyze the impact of changing HRM practices on employee performance: A case
study of British Airways”.
Objectives:
To explore the changing HRM practices at BA.
To evaluate the relationship between different HRM practices and employee
relationship at BA.
To analyze the impact of changing HRM practices on employee performance at BA.
To recommend ways through which HRM practices can be improved to enhance
employee performance at BA.

RESEARCH QUESTION
Research questions:
The following will be the research questions for the study:
•What are practices followed by BA in context of changing HRM practices?
•What is the relationship between different HRM practices and employee performance?
• What are the impacts of changing HRM practices on employee performance?
• What are the ways through which HRM practices can be improved to enhance
employee performance at BA?

RESEARCH PROJECT SPECIFICATIONS
 Introduction
 Objectives
 Scope
 Method

FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO RESEARCH
PROJECT SELECTION
• Achieve the requirement
• Availability of past researches
• Current issue

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
 Research philosophy: Interpretivism research philosophy
 Research design: Descriptive research design
 Research approach: Inductive research approach
 Research techniques: Qualitative research technique
 Data collection methods: Primary and Secondary data collection method
 Analysis of data: Thematic technique

MATCH RESOURCES TO RESEARCH
QUESTION
 Financial Resources
 Human Resources
 Time Resource
 Physical Resources

Theme 1: Human resource management contribute major
role in enhancing employee performance.

Analysis of Theme 1
Analysis: As per the collected data, it has been determined that human resource
management plays an effective role in enhancing the performance of employees as
15 out 20 respondents stated that they are agree upon this statement. However, 3 out
20 employees of British Airways determined that HRM practices do not help in
improving the performance of employees and remaining 2 respondents were not able
to say anything regarding subject matter.

Theme 2: Changing and adaptive HRM practices are more
significant to enhance employee performance.

Analysis of Theme 2
Analysis: According to the survey, it has been identified that changing and adaptive
HRM practices are more beneficial in enhancing the level of employee performance
as compared to traditional HRM practices. 18 out of 20 employees of British
Airways have belief that changing and adaptive HRM practices are helpful for them
in terms of improving their performance.

Theme 3: Applying innovative and adaptive HRM practices
in competitive business environment assist in enhancing
employee performance.

Analysis of Theme 3
Analysis: Here, 13 out of 20 employees were in the favor of statement and thus, they
believe that in this competitive environment, it is essential for the management of
company to adopt innovative and adaptive HRM practices for the purpose of
improving employee performance. However, 4 respondents were not in the favor of
statement and 3 were not able to say anything about the same.

Theme 4: Effective implementation of changing HRM
practices are correlated with increasing performance of
employees.

Analysis of Theme 4
Analysis: According to collected data, it has been evaluated that 14 out of 20 employees
have belief that there is a correlation between changing HRM practices and
employee performance. On the other hand, 4 employees stated that they do not think
that both the functions have any correlation and at last, there were 2 employees that
had nothing to say about the same.

Theme 5: Motivational practices have direct impact on
enhancing employee’s morale to perform better.

Analysis of Theme 5
Analysis: By considering the responses of employees at BA, it has been determined that
motivational practices directly focus to enhance the moral of employees as such
statement was agreed by the 13 out of 20 employees of BA. Along with this, 4
employees were disagree upon the same and 3 were neutral.

Theme 6: Changing training method imparts knowledge
and skills to employees thereby enhance their performance
to greater extent.

Analysis of Theme 6
Analysis: According to collected data, it has been identified that 75% employees of BA
were agree upon the fact that changes in training methods leads to enhance the
performance of employees by increasing their skills. However, 15% employees were
disagreeing on the statement and 10% were neutral to say anything.

Theme 7: Availability of proper appraisal system helps in
determining the performance level of workforce in an
effectual manner.

Analysis of Theme 7
Analysis: Here, it has been evaluated that 85% respondents think that availability of
proper appraisal assists in determining and appraising the performance of employees
in an effectual manner. However, 10 % respondents think that appraisal system has
no role in enhancing the level of employee performance and 5% respondents were
neutral for the same.

Theme 8: Rendering proper incentives properly as per
every extra of employees inspire to perform work with high
integrity and beyond capacity.

Analysis of Theme 8
Analysis: As per the collected data, it has been identified that 16 out of 20 employees
were agree upon the statement which defines that by rendering proper incentives,
employee can inspire to enhance the level of their performance. However, 2
employees are BA was disagreeing upon the statement and 2 were neutral for the
same.

USE OF AGREED FORMAT FOR
PRESENTING OUTCOMES
Format
• Data collected and analyzed make use of presenting outcome in different forms.
• Firstly, the presentation of abstract, referencing, section heading and appropriate
subject to audience has been considered for presenting the data collected.
Media
• Another source which reflect the agreed format for presenting the information.
• It is regarding the research outcome is inclusive of journal publication, professional
body conference, documentary, press report etc which has been used to produce the
effective outcome.

REFERENCES
Argyrous, G., 2011. Statistics for research with a guide to SPSS. 3rd ed.
London; sage.
Bryman, A., 2012. Social Research Methods. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Corbin, J. and Strauss, A., 2008. Basics of qualitative research:
techniques and procedures for developing grounded theory. London:
SAGE.

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