RESEARCH IN HUMAN RESOURCE HRM 558

RESEARCH IN HUMAN RESOURCE

Human resource defines the strategies and plans necessary to implement the company’s vision, mission and goals. More specific, human resource strength in decision making and implementation of strategies and hiring processes is detrimental to the company’s bottom line. In this paper I will address the goals of research in HR, the comparison of primary and secondary research and an explanation of how reliability and validity are used and why they are important to human resource research. To determine what the goals of research in human resource is, a clear understanding of what the problem/concept is, and realization of what consequences if any may result. “Research is essential for understanding even everyday basic phenomena that needs to be handled by individuals and organizations”. (Sekaran 1992). Once, human resource has defined the qualitative (how and why) and quantitative (how much/how many) data, human resource can then predict, plan, strategize and