Qantas Airways: HR Planning, Challenges, and Recommendations Report

This report presents an analysis of Qantas Airways' human resources challenges, focusing on HR planning and management. The report begins with an introduction that outlines the structure of the research essay, followed by a discussion of the current HR issues faced by Qantas. It assesses relevant HR literature and concepts to provide a framework for understanding the challenges. The report then identifies specific HR functions to address these challenges, drawing on both theoretical frameworks and practical applications. The analysis includes a review of the relevant HR literature, an assessment of the current situation at Qantas, and a discussion of the application of HR functions to address specific problems. The conclusion summarizes the key findings and offers recommendations for improving Qantas' HR practices. The report emphasizes the importance of linking theory to real-world scenarios and provides a detailed reference list to support the analysis.

Running Head: RESEARCH ESSAY QANTAS AIRWAYS
Research Essay - Outline
Qantas Airways Limited
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RESEARCH ESSAY QANTAS AIRWAYS 1
Introduction
- Introducing the company
- Brief outline of whole research paper
Current HR Challenges in Qantas
- HR issues in Qantas
- Current Position of Qantas regarding these issues
Relevant HR Literature Assessment
- Literature assessment relevant to Qantas’ current HR situation
- Relevant HR concept assessment in relation to Qantas’ situation
Addressing the Challenges
- First HR function to address challenge based on HR literature and concept above
- Second HR function to address challenge based on HR literature and concept above
- Third HR function to address challenge based on HR literature and concept above
Conclusion
- Summarize research with main points
- Review judgments
- Making recommendations
References
- Adding Relevant References
Tips from the lecture
For this essay, you should address 2 questions.
1. What is the complex or volatile factor…
2. …that leads to an HR planning challenge
- Necessarily calls for some description, but this needs to be purposeful
- Prove that it leads to an HR planning issue
a) Qantas say that it dose
b) The same factor has led to HR challenges for other firms in the industry
c) Theory predicts that a potential external factor would lead to HR issues (either for
firms in the industry or business more broadly

RESEARCH ESSAY QANTAS AIRWAYS 2
Requires you prove that the same conditions exist for Qantas exist at the moment as
existed for the other firm or are described as precondition by theory
Second questions:
As the manager at Qantas, what
- Relevant HR function
- What does theory say about when to use this functions? Under what circumstances will
that function help? using data and your knowledge of Qantas, do those circumstances
exist now? (both goodness of fit and benefits are required to justify your
recommendation)
Bringing in theory and application: adding value
- Assignments present a real world scenario
- Concepts/theory/ frameworks helps us understand those scenarios
a) Why is something happening?
b) Is the response a “good” or “bad” one?
c) What does theory suggest managers should do?
d) Wat does theory suggest is likely to happen exist
The company should do this because theory….
They should not do this because theory…
conclusion:
- key points
- do not just recycle the sentence
- reinforce your recommendations
Reference
 reference list is included in the word counts
 the research essay should include at least 10 reference
 the research essay should be no more than 2500 words including the reference list