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CHAPTER 4

ANALYSIS , PRESENTATION AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA

The developments in the field of human resource management (HRM ) are now well documented (see for example , Legge 1995 Poole 1999 Poole Warner 1998 Schuler Jackson 1999 Sisson Storey 2000 . Nevertheless , the debate on HRM issues continues even though its focus has changed over time . The main issue which occupied academics in the 1980 's was the evolution of HRM . In this regard , the debate was mainly on the exploration of the salient aspects of the transformation of personnel management into HRM . Having

done so , it moved on to issues pertaining to the incorporation of industrial relations into HRM (Guest 1991 then the integration of HRM into business strategies , devolvement of HRM to line managers (Brewster et al . 1997 Budhwar Sparrow 1997 , and finally seeing HRM as a source of competitive advantage for organisations (see for example , Barney 1991 Schuler MacMillan 1984 Wright et al . 1994

There is an ongoing debate regarding the contribution of HRM to a firm 's performance (Guest 1997 Huselid 1995 MacDuffie 1995 Schuler Jackson 1999 . The HR department began to really emerge during the second decade of the twentieth century with drastic changes in technology , the growth of organizations , the rise of unions , and government concern and intervention concerning working people . In line with this section 's subject , HR strategies of different organisation particularly in the Hospitality industry of Pakistan play an important role to their business strategies . Basically , this chapter of the study discusses the findings based on the collated information on the survey conducted by the researcher . This chapter is divided into several parts , which correspond to the questionnaires designed . The first part provides a general of the respondents . Particularly , it discusses the respondents ' age in table 1 , gender in table 2 , educational attainment in table 3 , and number of years in the company in table 4 . The second part discusses the respondents ' perception regarding the satisfaction of HR strategies on their respective hotels in accordance to business processes . The third part of the chapter discusses the perception of the respondents regarding the problems and solutions they encountered in HRM strategies of their company . Finally , the last part of the chapter illustrates the statistical analysis of the gathered data

Part 1 . Demographic Pro of the Respondents

The pro of the respondents is looked upon in terms of age , gender educational attainment , and length of service in the company

Table 1

Age of the Respondents

95 Respondents

Table 1 shows the age range of the respondents . Forty-three percent (43 .2 ) of the respondents were 36-45 years old , showing that most of them were at the middle age . Almost thirty-three percent (32 .6 ) of the respondents were between 26-35 years old . Nineteen percent (18 .9 ) of the respondents were between 46-55 years old . Respondents ' aged 16-25 is 2 .1 of the respondents who are 56 and above status . The apparent diversity of the maturity of the respondents reflects several implications in the study 's findings . In...