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Approved/Accepted
Your project is accepted and you are allowed to start working on your project. There
are some problems which have been identified in the document. Kindly make sure that
these identified areas should be improved in the final project according to the given
comments. Follow the APA style for giving references of the information in the project.
Strictly follow the guidelines and format. An irrelevant assignment will be rejected.

Modify your study to HR Practices rather HR Audit of the

company. It is difficult for you to do Audit of three organizations
in this short time because Audit is time consuming activity. So
study the HR practices of all the three selected companies and
do the Comparative Analysis of the HR practices of all three
selected organizations. Modify the topic, objectives and all the
parts of your work according to this dimension (Comparative
Analysis of HR Practices of all three organizations) in the final
draft of the project. In this case you can seek guidance through
email.
Wish you good luck for your project.

Final Proposal

Comparative Analysis

Of

HR Audit Practices

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On

 Pak Elektron Limited (PEL)

 Cool Industries (Pvt) Limited
 Orient Group Of Companies

Submitted By: Syed Faisal Bukhari

(Mc 080204636)

November 22, 2009

Table of Contents

 Introduction -------------------------------------------------------------- 3

 Background--------------------------------------------------------------- 4

 Objective------------------------------------------------------------------ 5

 Importance---------------------------------------------------------------- 6

 Project Proceeding------------------------------------------------------- 7

 Data Collection Source---------------------------------------------------9

 Data collection Tools/Instruments-------------------------------------10

 Participants----------------------------------------------------------------10

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 Field Work/Data Collection-------------------------------------------- 12

 Data Processing/Analysis----------------------------------------------- 12

 Bibliography --------------------------------------------------------------13

INTRODUCTION
I choose the topic of HR Audit for my Final Project. It’s just because of most of
the well organized & well established companies make this practice to improve
their atmosphere as better working condition for the employees. Actually I think
so if the companies follow the proper HR strategies then the worker prefer them
to work with. I choose this topic because it’s my personal area of interest.

HR Audit is a process which providing a quick way to take stock of a company’s

human resources and practices with an eye towards improving them. In HR Audit
we measure the performance of companies in eight key areas which includes.

 Child labor
 Forced labor
 Health & Safety
 Free occasions and collective bargaining
 Discrimination
 Disciplinary practices

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 Working hours
 Compensation

I want to do this research because this research includes the audit of all the HR
topics which I studied in MBA. And it’s an opportunity for me to learn, check out &
to ensure the effective utilization of human resource. This research is also helpful
for me to check how human resource department manage & prepare to meet the
potential challenges and opportunities.

Background

HR Audit helps an organization to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of

HR Department. Now a days every popular public and private sector
organizations having a HR Department for better findings and utilization of
manpower but in most of the organization HR Managers did not respond as well
as they have the liability. In small and middle level private and public sector no
authority given to the HR Department except conducting an interview.

Initial findings I have in the leading home appliances industries with direct
competition which I selected for my project. In PEL there is a HR department but
running in the pressure of labor unions but works better. Working atmosphere
and remuneration are well organized according to the qualification, experience
and rank. But in Orient Group Of Companies no appointment letter to be issued
to appointed person from HR department which is basic and organized
documents which shows the relationship with the company and secure the
employees toward employer. Cool industries also having the HR Department in

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competition level. It is also working for better working conditions and benefits of
the employees. These are the initial findings after taking basic information about
performance of HR Department. But the question is that “Are employees satisfied
and love to work for employer or just work for fulfilling the daily needs of Life”.

According to these situations I am preparing a questionnaire to check the

satisfaction level of the employees in all three companies (i.e. satisfied due to
group name, Remuneration and reward system etc.). And is HR Department
helps them to make satisfied.

Objective

The purpose of this project is to check the effectiveness of HR Department in all

of three companies which are in direct competition in the field of home
appliances. After completing the survey I will summarize al the data and give
points to the companies according to the fulfilling of HR parameters. Which
company got maximum points it will be consider or mark as best company in the
field of HR. At last I give some recommendation how these companies improve
their HR working to satisfy their employees and some focusing points for the
management.

To achieve the objective I will conduct the interview from all level employees from
all three companies (for this purpose I will take samples from each department)
to check out the major responsibilities of HR Department, their fulfilling ratio, and
employees perception about HR. And I also collect the suggestion from

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employees how they can satisfy if they are not and the points to which they can
work better.

Importance

In human resources audit we usually involve review of all HR policies, practices,

and procedures, whether or not they are formal. It includes reviewing documents,
interviewing human resources professionals from different areas of the
organization, interviewing some managers at different levels of the organization,
and possibly interviewing in-house employment counsel.

An effective HR audit will culminate in a well-organized report. The report

includes not only the specific results of the audit, but also a list of recommended
actions. The recommended actions which suggested might be in shape to
change the policies and procedures of the company and to design training

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courses targeted to minimize risk or writing a series of employee communications
to address some of the issues discovered.

Project Proceeding

1. Acknowledgement
2. Executive Summery
3. Introduction:

 Pak Elektron (Pvt.) Ltd

i. Company Profile
ii. Products

 Orient Group Of Companies

i. Company Profile
ii. Products
 Cool Industries (Pvt.) Ltd
i. Company Profile
ii. Products

 HR Audit

4. Structure Analysis:

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 Pak Elektron Structure
 Orient Group Structure
 Cool Industries Structure
 Analysis

5. HR Audit Analysis :
 Comparative Approach
o Area of HR Audit
I. Audit Of Functions Of HR
i. Objective Of each activity
ii. Responsibility of performance
iii. Reviewing the performance
iv. Action plan to achieve goal
v. Follow up of action plan

II. Audit Of Managerial Compliances

i. Personnel Policy
ii. Procedures
iii. Legal & Welfare provision

III. Audit Of Environmental Culture

IV. Audit Of Industry Strategy
i. SWOT Analysis

6. Data Processing and Analysis

7. Observation
8. Recommendation
9. Reference
10. Appendices

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Methodology
Data Collection Sources

Primary Source:

 Observation

 Communication

i. Personal Interview
ii. Telephonic Interview

 Self Administrated survey

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Secondary Source:

For Human Resource Topics:

 Human Resource Handouts use different books for consultation.

For Related Company Information:

 HR Policies Detail
 Annual Reports
 Companies Profile
 Conduct Interviews
 Questionnaire

Data Collection Tools/Instruments

I will conduct structured interviews for data collection tools. For this purpose I
also prepare a questionnaire to be filled by myself while conducting interviews .I
will send you the copy of my planned questionnaire later because some topics
are under discussion & related questions are also remaining to do but I will
submit it soon.

I will choose interview & questionnaire process both because in HR Audit both
HR Department & Workers are important. To talk with HR department & Top

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managers of other departments I will prefer structured interview & for workers I
will prefer a questionnaire to get the feedback.

Participants

I want to conduct interview with the following staff.

 HR Manager

 HR Executive

 Top Level Managers (Production, Maintenance, Accounts)

 Middle Level Staff (Production, Maintenance, Accounts)

 Low Level Staff (Production, Maintenance, Accounts)

 Workers

Target Population

Qty.

Sr. Managers & Managers 16

Executive 30

Labor Having 1 Year & Less experience 40

Having less than 3 & more than 1 year 60
Having 3 years & above 100

Sampling Frame

Qty.

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Sr. Managers & Managers 10

Executive 15

Labor Having 1 Year & Less experience 20

Having less than 3 & more than 1 year 25
Having 3 years & above 30

Increase the sample size as you are studying three different organizations so you
should take big sample.

* Sampling frame is for all three companies.

Fieldwork /Data Collection

When the data about related topics concern I collect this data through websites,
reference books & handouts etc. And the data about company & their policies I
think so the management of all three companies is so cooperative. For this
purpose I also conduct interviews with top managers & staff and fill out the
questionnaire to correspond with workers.

The quality of answers will be check through cross questioning and during the
interview with other staff. In the filling of questionnaire I select a sample from
different departments with a same designation & authorities.

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Data Processing & Analysis

After the filling of questionnaire & structured interview answers I will put this
information into the computer with excel format which help me to point out some
common activities which take place in all three companies & the mind structure of
the workers about the loyalty of company (i.e. Pay structure of the company ,
Benefits etc).

Analysis of gathered data with the requirements of HR strategies & my area of

audit will be possible at computer after the processing of data.

Bibliography

 Ulrich, David & Wayne Brockbank. (2005) the HR Value Proposition:

Harvard Business School Press.
 Charles J. Fombrun, Noel M. Tichy & Mary Anne Devanna. (1984)
Strategic Human Resource Management: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
 Dr. Muhammad Anwar , Research Method (STA 630): Virtual University Of
Pakistan.
 Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed , Human Resource Management (MGT 501) : Virtual
university of Pakistan.

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