What is meant by Personnel Research in a firm?

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What do you understand by Personnel Research?

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personnel research means investigation and analysis of personnel and human behaviour with a view to set the guidelines for the future. According to Michael I. Jucius, "Personnel research is the task of searching for and analysing fact to the end that personnel problem may be solved or guidelines governing those solutions may be deducted."
In other words, research is purposive; it seeks to answer specific questions and is not merely an accumulation of unstructured observations. Personnel research is a systematic enquiry into any aspect of the broad question of how to make more effective an organisation's recruitment selection and development programmes and how it may fully utilise human resource.