A Research Report on HRM Practices for Improving Employee Performance

This research report explores the impact of Human Resource Management (HRM) practices on employee performance. It identifies various HRM practices, such as training and development and performance appraisal, that can be adopted by organizations to enhance employee performance. The r...Read More

RESEARCH
METHODOLOGY

Table of Contents
TOPIC..............................................................................................................................................3
LITERATURE REVIEW ...............................................................................................................3
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY.....................................................................................................4
Research type...............................................................................................................................4
Research Philosophy....................................................................................................................4
Research approach.......................................................................................................................4
Research design...........................................................................................................................5
Data collection.............................................................................................................................5
Data Analysis...............................................................................................................................5
Ethical issues ...............................................................................................................................5
REFERECNES................................................................................................................................6

TOPIC
To identify different HRM practices that can be adopted by organization for enhancing
employee performance.
Background of the study
HRM practices plays keen role for adapting towards enhanced employee performance
significantly within employee performance horizons rapidly. The HRM practices has been
identified as one of the most intricate aspect, which further builds stronger vision for
strengthening vital productive benchmarks and also deliver best working aptitude.
Research aim and objectives
Aim – To identify best HRM Practices that can be adopted by organisations for enhancing
workforce performance rise.
Objectives
 To determine best HRM practices that are being conducted in companies for motivating
employees significantly.
 To identify strategies used in HRM for improvising employee development in company.
 To analyse challenges within HRM strartegic implementation.
 To recommend new strategies which further advances HRM strategy formulation rise
significantly.
Research questions
 What are the best HRM practices that are being conducted in latest companies for
motivating employees ?
 What strategies are being used in HRM, for improvising employee development in
company business scenarios ?
 What are the challenges within HRM strategic implementation ?
 What new recommendations can be given to HR professionals within business
scenarios ?
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Ratioanle
The rationale behind conducting research can be understood that HRM latest practices,
further plays strong role for determining vision-oriented growth for motivating competencies.
Also, delivering new strategic pathways holds specific importance for new HRM strategies,
where expertise-oriented goals further forms specific role for competitive business development
and also to develop primitive reach dynamically.
LITERATURE REVIEW
According to the view of Mira, Choong and Thim, (2019) human resource management a
vital and important role within an organization that can directly help in enhancement of overall
performance of employees. There are many different kinds of HRM practices and methods that
can be focused upon and adopted by organizations for enhancing overall performance of
employees in an appropriate manner. First and the foremost important type of HRM practice that
directly influence employee performance is training and development. Provision of effective
training and development to employees can directly help in enhancement of their existing skills
and knowledge that can further help organizations in enhancing overall performance of
employees. This is because training and development provision directly help employees in
gaining understanding of their job roles and responsibilities in an appropriate and accurate
manner. Whereas another appropriate HRM practice that can help in enhancement of employee
performance is performance appraisal. It can directly help in rewarding employees as per their
performance which further helps in motivating employees so that they can work upon themselves
and bring improvement within their overall performance themselves.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research type
Research type selected fir this research project of business is qualitative research type. In
this type of research only textual or non- numerical data or information is collected. Qualitative
research type is an appropriate type of research that can be sued by the researcher because it can
directly help in providing detailed insight of impact of HRM practices upon employee
performance.
Research Philosophy
Research philosophy that has been selected for this research is interpretivism research
philosophy. It is an appropriate research philosophy that can be adopted for this business
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research project because this philosophy can directly help in interpreting all the main elements of
the research in order to integrate and enhance human interest into the research study (Sekaran
and Bougie, 2019). It is mostly used in qualitative research studies for interpreting all the main
elements for achievement of main research objectives of the research.
Research approach
For this research, inductive research approach has been selected and adopted by the
researcher. It is an appropriate research approach for this business research project. It is an
appropriate approach that can be adopted as it can directly help in proposing appropriate
observations and theories at the end of the research that can directly help in achievement of
desired aim and objectives of the research.
Research design
For this research, exploratory research design method has been selected by the researcher.
Selection of this design method is appropriate because it can directly help in exploring research
question so that overall solution or conclusion to existing problem can be identified (Yeomans,
2017).
Data collection
For this research, secondary data has been focused upon to be collected by the researcher.
Collection of secondary data can be done through different methods such as books, journal,
articles, online portals, organizational websites etc.
Data Analysis
For analysis of secondary data collected, thematic data analysis method has been selected
by the researcher. It is an appropriate method to be selected for analysis of secondary data
(Yeomans, 2017). This method will directly help in segregating collected data into common
themes so that main research questions can be answered in an appropriate manner.
Ethical issues
Ethical issues associated with this research project are: it is important to site all the data
used of other researchers. None of the data of others researchers should be used as one’s own
data. All the data used should be authentic and should be from authentic website.
Data analysis techniques and expected outcomes
The data analysis techniques can be understood and segregated into thematic analysis,
which uses qualitative analysis of data presented in thematic format and displayed among
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competent pathways. Another technique is SPPS which is used for presenting quantitative data
findings. Excpected outcomses from thematic analysis is that data is presented in format of
themes and charts, figures and pictorial representation and SPSS presents detailed analysis
formed up in quantitative analysis format.
Time frame
Activities Week1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5
Setting topic,
aim and
objectives
Literature
review
Research
methodologies
analysis
Submission
Feedback from
professors
CONCLUSION
From the recent research analysed within business targets, it has been concluded that HRM
strategies adopted by companies further plays stronger role for determining longer
employee commitment diversely. Also companies are adopting to new innovations diversely
in HRM Strategies for determining new extensive working pathways strategically, which
further enhances new abilities diversely.
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REFERECNES
Books and Journals
Hameed, Z., and et. al., 2020. Do green HRM practices influence employees' environmental
performance?. International Journal of Manpower.
Manzoor, F., and et. al., 2019. An examination of sustainable HRM practices on job
performance: An application of training as a moderator. Sustainability, 11(8), p.2263.
Mira, M., Choong, Y. and Thim, C., 2019. The effect of HRM practices and employees’ job
satisfaction on employee performance. Management Science Letters, 9(6), pp.771-786.
Sekaran, U. and Bougie, R., 2019. Research methods for business: A skill building approach.
john wiley & sons.
Yeomans, L., 2017. Qualitative methods in business research.
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