Research topics - HR Part - 1

Research Topics on HR area*

(*Collected from internet for reference purpose, it requires necessary changes)

1.            HR Management in Small Organizations

2.            HR Management in the 21st Century: Challenges for the Future

3.            The Impact of Information Technology on HR Management: Opportunities and Challenges

4.            Demographics of the Workforce: Analysis of Trends and their Implications for HR

5.            HR as a Strategic Business Partner

6.            HRMS: Purposes and Uses

7.            International Outsourcing: When Does It Make "Cents?"

8.            HR Ethics: An Examination of Key Issues

9.            Preparing for a Career in HR Management

10.        HR as a Profession - A Look at Professional Associations and Certifications

11.        HR Competencies

12.        Global Competitiveness and Strategic HR

13.        Organizational Effectiveness and Strategic HR

14.        Environmental Scanning: How to Do It and What to Look For

15.        Assessing the Internal Workforce for HR Planning

16.        Forecasting HR Supply and Demand

17.        HR Planning in Mergers and Acquisitions

18.        Managing a HR Surplus Situation

19.        Measuring HR Effectiveness Using HR Metrics

20.        The Psychological Contract: The Changing Nature of Employee-Employer Expectations

21.        Generational Differences: Challenges for the Organization

22.        Understanding Job Satisfaction, Loyalty, and Commitment

23.        Understanding, Measuring, and Controlling Employee Absenteeism

24.        Understanding, Measuring,  and Controlling Employee Turnover

25.        Understanding Individual Employee Performance Factors

26.        Understanding Drivers of Employee Retention

27.        Managing and Measuring Employee Retention

28.        An Evaluation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: Has It  Accomplished Its Purposes?

29.        What Is and What Is Not a Bona-Fide Occupational Qualification (BFOQ) under EEO Laws

30.        Understanding Legal Standards Applied to Two Types of Discrimination: Disparate Treatment and Disparate Impact

31.        The Civil Rights Act of 1991 - How Does its Changes Effect the Workplace

32.        Laws on Gender Discrimination: Pregnancy Discrimination and Pay Equity

33.        Who's Disabled and Who's Not: A Look at EEOC Guidelines and Court Decisions

34.        Age Discrimination in Employment: ADEA and OWBOA Requirements

35.        Immigration Reform and Control Acts - Requirements and Issues in the  Workplace

36.        Key Issues with Religious Discrimination in the Workplace

37.        Genetic Bias Regulations - What are the Workplace Issues?

38.        Regulating Your Physical Appearance: Dress Codes, Height/Weight Restrictions, and Other "Appearance" Issues

39.        Sexual Orientation Discrimination and the Law

40.        Military Status and the Law

41.        Equal Employment Opportunity Enforcement: Agencies, Policies, and Processes

42.        Compliance Approaches to the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection  Procedures

43.        Understanding Validity Concepts and Equal Employment

44.        The Case for Continuing Affirmative Action

45.        The Case Against Affirmative Action

46.        The Glass Ceiling, Glass Walls, Glass Elevators: Breaking the Glass

47.        Sexual Harassment and Workplace Relationships

48.        Religion and Spirituality in the Workplace

49.        Approaches to the Management of Diversity

50.        Diversity Training:  The Positives and Negatives

51.        Nature and Consequences of Job Design

52.        The Relevance of the Job Characteristics Model of Job Design

53.        Job Design Issues for Team-Based Work

54.        Job Design, Work Schedules and Telework

55.        Task-Based and Competency-Based Job Analysis: How to Choose

56.        A Comparison of Three Approaches to Gathering Job Information:  Observation, Interviewing, and Questionnaires

57.        Computerized Job Analysis: Advantages and Disadvantages

58.        Behavioral and Legal Aspects of Job Analysis

59.        Labor Markets and Recruiting Issues

60.        Organization-Based vs. Outsourced Recruiting

61.        Regular vs. Flexible Staffing: Making Use of Contingent Workers

62.        Recruiting Source Choices: Internal vs. External Recruiting

63.        College Recruiting: Maintaining a Corporate Presence on Campus

64.        Internet Recruiting: Advantages, Disadvantages, and Legal Issues

65.        Recruiting Evaluation and Metrics

66.        The Employment Selection Process: An Overview of Key Issues

67.        Realistic Job Previews: Should You "Tell It Like It Is?"

68.        Selection: Preemployment Screening

69.        Selection: A Close Look at the Use of Application Forms and Resumes

70.        Selection: A Close Look at Employment Testing

71.        Selection: A Close Look at Employment Interviewing

72.        Selection: A Close Look at Background Investigations

73.        Drug and Genetic Testing in Selection: Legal, Ethical, and Privacy Issues

74.        Staffing Global Assignments: Selecting and Placing Global Employees

75.        The New Context of Training and Performance Consulting

76.        Training and Organizational Strategy

77.        Training Needs Assessment

78.        Learner Readiness and Learning Styles

79.        Orientation: Training for New Employees

80.        Training Delivery: A Comparison of Selected Training Methods 

81.        E-Learning:  Development, Advantages and Limitations

82.        Evaluation of Training: Levels, Metrics, and Design Issues

83.        Training for Global Assignments

84.        Organization-Centered versus Individual-Centered Career Planning

85.        Global Career Development

86.        Special Career Issues: Career Plateaus and Dual-Career Ladders

87.        Career Issues for Dual-Career Couples

88.        The HR Development Process and Organizational Strategy

89.        Development Needs Analyses: Tool and Techniques

90.        Succession Planning: Insurance for the Organization's Future

91.        Job-Site Development Approaches

92.        Off-Site Development Approaches

93.        Management Development Models

94.        Performance Management: Linking Rewards to Performance

95.        Legal and Effective Performance Appraisal Processes

96.        Who Conducts Appraisals? Advantages and Disadvantages of the Options

97.        360 o Evaluation: The Pros and Cons of Multi-Source Performance Appraisal

98.        Category Scaling Methods versus Comparative Methods of Appraisal

99.        Identifying, Monitoring, and Overcoming Rater Errors

100.    Keys to Carrying Out an Effective Appraisal Interview.

101.    Compensation Philosophies: Entitlement versus Performance Philosophy

102.    Global Compensation Issues

103.    Market Competitiveness and Compensation

104.    Competency-Based Pay: The Pros and Cons

105.    Compensation Fairness: External/Internal Equity and Procedural/Distributive justice

106.    The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Key Provisions and Requirements

107.    An Assessment of Job Evaluation Methods

108.    Valuing Jobs Using Market Pricing: Advantages and Disadvantages

109.    Keys to the Effective Use of Pay Surveys

110.    Broadbanding: Advantages and Disadvantages

111.    Special Issues: Red and Green Rates and Pay Compression

112.    Ways to Determine Pay Increases for Employees

113.    Developing Successful Pay-for-Performance Plans

114.    Variable Pay Plans: Types, Successes and Failures

115.    Developing Effective Individual Incentive Systems

116.    Sales Compensation Plans:  Balancing Base Pay and Commissions

117.    Successful Group/Team Incentives

118.    Sharing the Wealth: Profit-Sharing and Employee Stock Plans

119.    ESOPs: Advantages and Disadvantages

120.    Elements of Executive Compensation for U.S. and Global Executives

121.    Debating the "Reasonableness of Executive Pay Plans"

122.    Benefits Design and Organizational Strategy

123.    Security Benefits: Mandated and Voluntary

124.    Retirement Benefits and Age Discrimination Issues

125.    Pensions: A Comparison of Defined Benefit, Defined Contribution, and Cash  Balance Plans

126.    Controlling Health-Care Benefits Costs

127.    Consumer-Driven Health (CDH) Plans

128.    Health-Care Legislation: COBRA and HIPPA Provisions

129.    Analyzing Financial Benefits

130.    Analyzing Family-Oriented Benefits

131.    Benefits for Domestic Partners and Spousal Equivalents: An Explosive Issue

132.    Analyzing Time-Off Benefits

133.    Flexible Benefits Plans: Advantages and Disadvantages

134.    Workers' Compensation Issues: Scope, Costs, and FMLA

135.    The Occupational Safety and Health Act:  Standards and Recordkeeping

136.    The Occupational Safety and Health Act: Inspections and Violations

137.    Building an Effective Safety Program

138.    Contemporary Workplace Health Issues

139.    An Assessment of Wellness and Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs)

140.    Violence in the Workplace:  Protecting Employees

141.    An Overview of Security Management

142.    Global Health, Safety, and Security Issues

143.    Employee's Rights, Implied Contracts, and Employment Practices Liability Insurance

144.    Employment-at-Will, Wrongful Discharge and the Courts

145.    Complaint Procedures and Due Process

146.    The Emergence of Alternative Dispute Resolution as Due Process

147.    Privacy Rights and Employee Records

148.    Employees' Free Speech Rights: Whistle-Blowing, E-mail, and Voice Mail

149.    Legal and Ethical Aspects of Workplace Monitoring of Employees

150.    Investigating Employee Misconduct

151.    The Pros and Cons of Employer Drug Testing Programs

152.    Key Principles Underlying HR Policies, Procedures, and Rules

153.    Guidelines for Writing and Disseminating Employee Handbooks

154.    Positive versus Progressive Discipline Approaches

155.    Global Labor Union Issues

156.    An Analysis of Union Membership Trends in the United States

157.    The History of Organized Labor in the United States

158.    The National Labor Code

159.    Unfair Labor Practices by Employers and Union

160.    Employer Strategies and Tactics During a Union Organizing Campaign

161.    Collective Bargaining Issues: Management Rights and Union Security

162.    Bargaining Impasse Resolution Methods, Strikes and Lockouts

163.    The Anatomy of a Strike (Select and analyze a recent work stoppage)

164.    Union Management Cooperation: The Pros and Cons

165.     Keys to Effective Grievance Management

166.     A report on employees motivation

167.    A report on recruitment and selection process

168.    A report on training effectiveness at xyz corporation

169.    A report on Conflict Management mechanism in xyz org.

170.    A Study on Role of Recruitment and Selection

171.    Performance appraisal at accenture

172.    An overview of HR process & attrition analysis

173.    Analysis of performance management at NDPL

174.    A report on Bonus Act 1965

175.    Business Communication - Effective Listening

176.    Channel Development at MAX New York Life

177.    A report on Competency Mapping

178.    Developing a Time Investment Strategy

179.    Employee Job satisfaction at XYZ

180.    A project report on Employee Retention

181.    employees family welfare in spinning mills

182.    Employees Remuneration

183.    Research project on Human resource outsourcing

184.    HRM Training & Development

185.    HRM in private sector banks

186.    Human Resource Outsourcing

187.    Report on Indian telecom industry-airtel

188.    A Report on Employee turnover in IT industry

189.    Job satisfaction and Conflict resolution MODES IN THE MINDA GROUP

190.    Report on organizational communication

191.    Analyzing Performance Appraisal System

192.    Performance appraisal at L & T

193.    Performance appraisal at TCS

194.    Performance Management System of NTPC

195.    Principle of Management - AIRTEL

196.    Project Report on Cyber Crime

197.    Public Relations in LIC

198.    A Project Report On Quality of Work Life

199.    quality of work life in dell and INFOSYS

200.    Quality of work life in maintaining work life balances at ACC

201.    Report on recruitment and selection

202.    An overview of HR process & attrition Analysis

203.    Employee retention strategy

204.    Recruitment process at ICICI prudential

205.    Retention Strategies in BPO sector

206.    Study on Absenteeism of Workers

207.    Training and development

208.    Training and Development- Indian Oil

209.    Employee Relation and Employee Communication

210.    Managerial myopia, CEO compensation structure and earnigns management byR&D cuts Shared Team Leadership Project Report

211.    Motivation to work: diffrences between managers and workers

212.    Culture: A strategy for managing change

213.    Researchers' Motivational Preferences - From a Need Theory Perspective

214.    Differential Effects of Institutional Socialization on Value Orientations in Naval Academy Midshipmen

215.    Leadership in Foreign owned Subsidiaries

216.    The Human Resource importance for learning and competence development within two organizations

217.    Motivation and Work -Investigation and Analysis of Motivation Factors at Work

218.    How to Introduce and Manage Organizational Changes

219.    Human Resource Management in Project-Based Organisations: Challenges, Changes, and Capabilities

220.    Rewarding and Recognizing Employees: How IT professionals in Sweden and in Finland are motivated and prefer to be rewarded

221.    Executive Coaching as a Developmental Experience: A Framework and Measure of Coaching Dimensions

222.    How to motivate assembly line workers

223.    Managing Performance in Intermediate Care Services - A Balanced Scorecard Approach

224.    Leadership styles and E-commerce adoption: An analysis of Thai food exporters

225.    "Red Envelop" incentive measure for chinese employees

226.    On-the-Job Training: The Case Study of Alfa Laval at the Ronneby Manufacturing Unit

227.    Modern Human Capital Management

228.    Line Managers Perception of Change at Ericsson

229.    Employee Remuneration Project

230.    Performance Appraisal System

231.    Development of leadership capacities as a strategic factor for sustainability

232.    Employees Resistance Towards Organizational Change

233.    Total Quality Management and human resource department

234.    Scooters India Ltd. : The Case of an Extraordinary Turnaround

235.    Understanding State Goal Orientation: Leadership and Work-Group Climate as Key Antecedents

236.    TMT Diversity, CEO Procedural Fairness, and TMT Conflict

237.    The relationship between leader core self-evaluations, team feedback, leader efficacy, transformational leadership, team efficacy, team goals, team action and transition processes, and team performance

238.    Performance tip-sharing: When, and how, do employees share their insights?

239.    Perceived organizational support: linking human resource management practices with important work outcomes

240.    Internal Team Leadership: An Examination of Leadership Roles, Role Structure, and Member Outcomes

241.    The Influence of Career Identity and Social Networks on Career Transition Magnitude

242.    How do we get from there to here ? understanding the black box in strategic HRM research from resource- based and social exchange perspectives.

243.    The Moderating Role of Industrial Experiences in the Job Satisfaction Intention to Leave Relationship : An Empirical Study among Salesmen in India

244.    Reward systems in Russia: a study from a Swedish perspective

245.    Empowerment in the consumer service sector: from the perspective of management and frontline personnel in the insurance industry

246.    How coaches motivate teams

247.    Employee motivation in medium-sized manufacturing enterprises: two case studies from northern Sweden

248.    International human resource training in Swedish MNCs: three case studies

249.    MNCs' management of human resources in India: case studies of two Swedish companies

250.    Problems faced by dual working couple in XYZ city

251.    Gender biasness in organization – apperception of employees

252.    A study on Emotional Quotient  in Organization

253.    The Changing Dynamics of Talent Acquisition

254.    The New Realities of Talent Management : From workforce planning to performance measurement, a practical approach to managing the talent lifecycle in a slowing/growing economy

255. Discuss the effects of global competitiveness on strategic human resources.

256. Understanding the connections between job satisfaction, loyalty of the worker to the company, and commitment.

257. Understanding employee turnover and learning to measure and control it.

258. Forecasting and predicting the supply and demand cycle within human resources.

259. What are the effects of absenteeism in a specific industry?

260. How does at-work childcare compare to regular daycare when compared to the satisfaction of employees with working while their young children are in care?

261. Discuss compensation packages and the effect of corporate employee benefits being offered in order to retain human resources

262. What issues do family business owners face in the field of family business consultants?

263. With the recent legislation to prevent bullying in schools, will the workplace be next to adopt stricter rules and regulations to prevent bullying and harassment in the work environment?

264. Cultural diversity in the workplace: what are the advantages and disadvantages; what are the rewards and challenges?

265. How have company’s performance evaluation systems grown and changed over the last decade?

266. Has the act of whistle blowing increased in recent years, or are industries being sloppier about meeting their construction and design standards?

267. What is employee empowerment and how is it a key factor in helping organizations become more effective?

268. How does sexual harassment affect workplace relationships?

269. When comparing internal and external recruiting source choices for Universities, which tends to be the most fruitful?

270. What are the advantages, disadvantages of internal recruiting and what legal issues may arise?

271. Compare career planning that’s centered around organizations and career planning centered around individuals.