Human Resource Management Report: Dasin Holdings Pte Ltd Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Human Resource Management (HRM) policies at Dasin Holdings Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based shipping transportation company. The study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of existing HR policies and identify critical factors affecting their implementation. The report includes an introduction outlining the company's background, purpose, research objectives, and questions. A literature review explores relevant research on HRM in the shipping industry, emphasizing the importance of adapting HR practices to meet the evolving demands of the global market. The methodology section details the research design, employing both quantitative and qualitative methods to gather data through surveys and interviews. The report also addresses ethical considerations and presents a timeline for the research. Findings are expected to be presented in the form of bar graphs based on survey data, and the conclusion will draw from these findings to evaluate the effectiveness of Dasin Holdings' HR strategies and provide recommendations for improvement, referencing key academic sources.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction..................................................................................................................................2
1.1 Background............................................................................................................................2
1.2 Purpose/Aim of the study.......................................................................................................2
1.3 Research Objectives...............................................................................................................3
 To identify the critical factors affecting the effective implementation of HR management
policy of Dasin Holdings Pte Ltd.................................................................................................3
1.4 Research Questions................................................................................................................3
2.0 Literature Review......................................................................................................................3
3.0 Methodology..............................................................................................................................5
3.1 Research Design.....................................................................................................................5
3.2 Quantitative Research Method...............................................................................................5
3.3 Qualitative Research Methods...............................................................................................5
3.4 Data Collection Procedures....................................................................................................6
3.5 Ethical Issues..........................................................................................................................6
Timeline...........................................................................................................................................7
Findings...........................................................................................................................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
Reference.......................................................................................................................................10

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1. Introduction
1.1 Background
Dasin Holdings Pte. Ltd. is a Singapore based shipping transportation company that was
based established in the year 1992. The company is one of the biggest cargo transportation
shipping agent and provides shipping agency service. The main features of the ship chartering
and operations of the company is to deal with the large scale bulk carrier along with that of first
class service. One of the priority of the organization is to deal with the safety and environmental
protection. This helps to ensure full safety of the shipping crew members, which is also one of
the major features of the Human resource policy of the company.
1.2 Purpose/Aim of the study
The main purpose of this study is to identify and the importance of best possible human
resource policy that can be implemented within the strategy of the shipping management.
According to Karahalios (2014), the effective HR policies for the shipping companies need to
focus upon the assessment of capability of human resource capability and thereby ensure full
safety in the workplace.
The study will therefore aim to improve the effectiveness of the existing HR policies of
Dasin Holdings.

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1.3 Research Objectives
 To study the effectiveness level of existing HR management policy of Dasin Holdings
Pte Ltd.
 To identify the critical factors affecting the effective implementation of HR management
policy of Dasin Holdings Pte Ltd.
1.4 Research Questions
 What is the effectiveness level of the existing HR management policy of Dasin Holdings
Pte Ltd?
 What the critical factors affecting the effective implementation of HR management
policy of Dasin Holdings Pte Ltd?
2.0 Literature Review
From the research paper of Lee et al. (2014), it is evident that with the growing demand
of the consumer products and global trading all over the globe there is an increased rise in the
pressure for all the major shipping agents. The modern day transportation industry focuses upon
shipping of heavy cargos that can easily import heavy materials in all parts of the globe. This
situation of the modern day shipping industry has provided opportunity to shipping agents and
operators to expand the business. Ding et al. (2015), have added in the context that new types of
job profile are being introduced within the shipping industry that has helped to create new
demand of innovative HR policy.

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It is also relevant to mention with the new forms of working profile, it is highly essential
to introduce the new forms of working styles that is needed to deal with the emerging challenges
within the shipping industry. With the introduction of the gas-carrying capacity, the shipping
industry has been able contribute majorly to the growing environment concerns. Nevertheless,
the organizational structure of the shipping company has to be modified that is needed for
smooth performance (Cahoon et al. 2014). The introduction of intrinsic and extrinsic practice of
workforce has proved to be highly effective for providing the motivation for the workforce
within the shipping and transportation industry.
The change within an industry is believed to be one of the major challenges for the HR
department of the respective organization (Kiessling and Harvey 2014). Hence, it is highly
essential for the HR department to fully evaluate the new demand of the organization and
introduce new tools and techniques of the HR policy. It is also essential for the employees of the
organization to have effective knowledge and awareness about the new change that has been
introduced within the system. As mentioned by Stone and Deadrick. (2015), the workers of the
shipping agents need to have proper awareness about the rising of the environmental issues that
is one of the major purpose of the new organizational structure. The HR policy also needs to
focus upon providing with the high level of customer service that will help to manage the
complex and vast network of the shipping agents.
The future research work will thereby help to discover effective ways to deal with the
rising challenges of the HR department of the shipping industry.
3.0 Methodology

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The research methodology section provides the basic structure and guideline steps and
the framework that is needed to conduct the work of investigation.
3.1 Research Design
There are three types of Research Design including explanatory, exploratory and
descriptive. In order to deal with the human resource policy of Dasin Holdings Private Limited,
it is important to use the descriptive form of Research Design which will help to analyze all the
underlying situation associated with the new policies of human resource development.
3.2 Quantitative Research Method
The major purpose of quantitative research methods to analyze the statistical information
in the form of numerical evaluation. It is also believed to be one of the empirical way to
approach and conduct investigation on a certain subject. It can also help to derive hypothesis and
formulate effective ideas. The mathematical and statistical tool is an important component of the
quantitative research methods. This type of method is mainly used to analyze the information
that has been collected from the survey of a particular group and sample.
3.3 Qualitative Research Methods
The aim of qualitative research method is to analyze the behavior of the sample size in
the investigation. This type of method is mainly used to generate and analyze data from the
interview, which can be conducted in structured or semi structured method. It is also possible to
obtain descriptive result in qualitative research methods (Liamputtong and Serry 2013).

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For the given research work the investigators will use both form of qualitative and
quantitative research methods, which can help to analyze both primary and secondary form of
information.
3.4 Data Collection Procedures
The given research work will use both primary and secondary form of data. The primary
data will be collected from the interview of the managers in Dasin. Survey will also be
conducted upon the employees of the company.
On the other hand, in order to collect the secondary data, the researchers will focus on
previously conducted research work relevant to human resource policy.
3.5 Ethical Issues
The research what is based upon human subject, it is essential for the researchers to get
proper approval from the ethics committee to ensure validity of the research.

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Timeline
The timeline for the research is 7 weeks
Parts of the Research
1st week
2nd week
3rd week
4th week
5th week
6th week
7th week
Selection of Research Topic 
Data collection from Primary sources  
Creating Research framework 
Literature review   
Selection of Research Design  
Selection of the Appropriate Research
Methods
 
Primary and Secondary data analysis  
Analysis & Interpretation of Data
Collection
 
Findings 
Drawing of Conclusion 
Draft Formation before final submission    
Submission of Final Research work    

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Findings
As data will be collected in the forms of survey of 100 participants the same will be
represented in the form of bar graph. It will therefore be possible to bring about the relationship
between the dependent and independent variables related to the human management factors. The
secondary data will help to evaluate out the themes related to the human resource management of
Dasin Holdings.
Conclusion
The conclusion will be drawn from the above findings and will be related to the
respective research objectives. It will therefore be possible to evaluate the effectiveness of the
HR strategies of Dasin Holdings. The recommendations will also be provided to improve the
effectiveness of the current HR strategies.

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Reference
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Ding, M.J., Kam, B.H., Zhang, J.Y. and Jie, F., 2015. Effects of human resource management
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Karahalios, H., 2014. The contribution of risk management in ship management: the case of ship
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Kiessling, T. and Harvey, M., 2014. Human resource management issues associated with the
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Lee, C.B., Wan, J., Shi, W. and Li, K., 2014. A cross-country study of competitiveness of the
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Liamputtong, P. and Serry, T., 2013. Making sense of qualitative data. Research methods in
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Stone, D.L. and Deadrick, D.L., 2015. Challenges and opportunities affecting the future of
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