Human resource management and its function in UK multinationals

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CHAPTER 4: ANALYSIS

Researcher planned the questionnaire into three parts. In part one: the first 5 questions were general ones about age, gender, positions in the organization and their working area. In part two(from question 6 to 12), researcher asked the respondent about their position in their organization, no of employees, their working experiences, international experience(if any) and kinds of problems they face during their international working period. In part three(from question 13 to 32), researcher has been asked different questions about HRM activities like importance of activities, training needs, training and development methods and evaluation of the training and development. Questionnaire was send to different respondents and numbers of responses were 42.

Figure 4.1: Response rate of employee age group

The above graph shows the age group of the questionnaire respondents. About forty five percent of the respondents belonged to the age group of 31-40 years. About 26 percent of the respondents belonged to the age group of 25-40 years, about nineteen percent belonged to above forty while only ten percent belonged to the age group of 18-25 years.

Figure 4.2: Percentage distribution of participant's gender

The above graph shows the gender distribution of the questionnaire respondents. About sixty nine percent of the respondents were male and about thirty one percent of the respondents were female.

Type of Employee

Frequency

Sales

18

Manufacturing

15

Purchase

-

Administration

4

IT

3

Other

2

Total

42

Figure 4.3: Results of Employee types

The above graph shows the type of department in which the questionnaire respondents worked. The respondents belonged to different departments like sales, manufacturing, purchase, IT and other. The majority of the respondents i.e. 18 out 42 worked in the sales department. About 15 out of 42 worked in manufacturing department, about 4 out of 42 worked in administration and about 5 worked in IT and other department.

Position in the Organization

Frequency

Percent

Sales Assistant

12

28.57%

Supervisor

17

40.48%

Store Manager

11

26.19%

Professional/Administrative

2

4.76%

Technical/Clerical

-

-

Total

42

100%

Table 4.4: Employee positions result

The above graph shows the designation of the questionnaire respondents in their organizations. The respondents had different positions in their companies which included Sales Assistant Supervisor, Store Manager, Professional/Administrative and Technical/Clerical. About forty percent of the respondents were at supervisor level, about 28 percent respondents were at sales assistant level, about 26 percent respondents were store managers and only 4 percent were professionals.

Figure 4.5: Percentage distribution of employee work experience

The above graph shows the experience of the respondents in terms of percentage. About forty percent of the respondents had more than five years experience, about 20 percent respondents had 2 to 5 years experience, about 25 percent respondents had 1 to 2 years experience and only 10 percent were fresh.

Table 4.6: Summary of participant's international experience

International experience

Frequency

Yes

17

No

-

Difficulties in communication/working

Frequency

Yes

17

No

-

Types of Difficulties

Frequency

Cultural difference

11

Language problem

6

Type of experience

Frequency

Working abroad as an employee

13

Working abroad as an expert

5

The above tables show the Summary of participant's international experience. About 17 of the respondents said that they had international experience. About 17 of the respondents said that during their international experience they faced difficulties in communication/working. About 11 respondents said that they had culture related problems in their international career whole about 6 had ...