A Study of Human Process Research Practices Employed by the Construction Organisations in India

Abstract

The best performing organisations always aspire to create good human resource development (HRD) climate in the teams. To achieve this state the management needs to employ good HR practices on a continuous basis across the organisation. For their effective implementation, management need to have information and feedback about the performance of existing processes and systems. The practice of collecting process data in a scientific manner and further applying it to diagnose the HR problems and  organizational issues is a key aspect in ‘human process research’ .This study attempts to investigate the extent of such action research practices employed in construction organisations in India. Another objective of the study is to find out an association that exist between such practices score and the size of the organisations. For this study primary data has been collected through a structured questionnaire survey in which 100 professionals working in the construction organizations (Contractors, Consultants, and Developers) were selected by random sampling method. The data collected was analysed through the application of percentages and the one way ANOVA, Correlation technique using the statistical application. The study has revealed that only 41% of organisations are meeting the set expectations of implementing ‘Human process research’ practices for understanding the processes, systems and challenges in the construction organizations in India. The organisations were categorized into three classes for exploring the significant differences in the scores of practices. From this study it has been observed that there is no significant difference in the ‘Human process research practices’ among the small sized organization (upto 134 employees), medium sized organisations (up to 135-5000 employees) and the large sized organisations (more than 5000) employees. The study also revealed that there is no significant relationship exists in the scores of practices and the size of organisations.

Keywords: HRD, Human process research, HRD Climate, Organisational surveys.