Research Methodology For Investigating The Impact Of Recruitment And Selection On Employee Performance

Research Methodology

Discuss about the Methodology Business And Management Contexts.

Research methodology recognizes several types of research approaches, strategies and designs that requires being trailed in order to attain suitable results for the research (Clark & Creswell, 2014). In addition, the suitability gathered responses of the research greatly depend of on a particular research methodology that was designated by the researcher for gathering suitable research results (Azhdarzadeh et al., 2015). Moreover, such identifications have facilitated the researcher in attaining a particular path that facilitates in attaining authenticity and actuality within the research. The paper has an intention to explain the research methods that were employed in investigating the impact of recruitment and selection process on the employee performance within the hospitality sector. Through selecting the suitable process of research methodology the research provided a correlation between the performance of employee and recruitment along with selection process. The research methodology selected in this research will explain the research method, population, sampling technique and population sample, data analysis technique and ethical considerations in the paper.

Interview research method or strategy was employed in exploring the impact of selection and recruitment process in employee performance (Boons et al., 2015). This is for the reason that this method facilitates in attaining highly relevant information on the research subject. Semi-structured interviews include numerous questions that facilitates in explaining the areas to be investigated. In addition, this also facilitates the researcher or the interviewee to diverge for attaining an idea or response in great detail (Bryman & Bell, 2014). The flexibility of interview research method in comparison to the structured interviews facilitated information discovery that was vital for gathering relevant data from the participants.

Qualitative research methodology was employed in the research of recruitment and selection process in the employee performance. This research methodology was deemed to be suitable in this exploration because of several advantages associated with it. One among such advantages include the subject materials that might be analyzed in increased detail (Clark & Creswell, 2014). Several research opportunities can follow a particular pattern of data collection, questioning along with reporting information. Qualitative research focusses less on the data metrics that is being gathered and more on the details of the aspects those can be gathered from such information. This can facilitate for the data to attain an improved level of detail within it that can offer increased opportunities to attain insights from it at the time of the research. This research method is also deemed to be suitable for the reason that the questionnaire had the open ended questions (Dumay & Cai, 2015). Considering the same, the open-ended structures of the qualitative research make it likely to attain superficial response along with rational viewpoints in order to collect information from emotional response of the individual. This is extremely vital to such form of research as it is an emotional response that generally affects an individual’s behavior and decisions. Another reason for employing qualitative research method is that it can save great amount of costs for smaller sample sizes are employed in this type of research.

Interview Research Method

Non-probability sampling method was employed in the investigation of recruitment and selection process and its impact on employee performance. Different types of non-probability sampling that can be employed in this research are convenience sampling, purposive sampling and quota sampling and snowball sampling. Quota sampling technique was used in this research. This sampling method has been used for the reason that the groups that were selected in this study were proportional to the groups within the population.  This sampling technique was used for the reason that it attains its control from the researcher’s judgement (Matthews & Ross, 2014). Within the non-probability sampling, the cases are chosen on the bases of availability along with the judgement of the researcher. The sample size selected for this research includes 11 employees and 5 managers from a huge respondent population.

Primary as well as secondary data collection methods have been used in this research of exploring the effect of selection and recruitment process on the employee performance. Primary data for the research has been gathered from interview conducted with the employees and the managers of the selected organization (Matthews & Ross, 2014). Secondary data for this study has been selected from the reliable and authentic government websites, journals, articles and books related with the recruitment process and employee performance (Clark & Creswell, 2014). For this reason, taking into account the research subject, the researcher took the decision to carry out both the primary and secondary research rather than selecting just one option. Employing both the data collection techniques can be useful in maintaining the data authenticity and reliability (Dumay & Cai, 2015). Primary data is gathered in this research for the reason that it can offer most authentic and real time data for successful completion of the research. In addition, secondary data is also collected for the reason that it is quick, easy and extremely cost effective to attain. However, in collection of primary data the researcher was cautious regarding the high costs associated with this type of research (Clark & Creswell, 2014). Considering the same, this type of data is also gathered from website of the selected company along with previously published reports from the company.

The data analysis techniques those are employed in investigating the impact of selection and recruitment process on the employee performance are open coding and axial coding (Taylor, Bogdan & DeVault, 2015). Open coding the general things along with axial coding data analysis technique was employed in this research. In this open coding evaluation, the researcher made numerous attempts for reading by means of reading through the data certain times. This is helpful in generating tentative labels for several data that summarizes the factors that are evidenced to take place. This is not just dependent on a present theory that is just not focused on the meaning that is gathered from the data. This process of data analysis will facilitate in recording the examples of the participants as well as maintaining the properties related with all the codes. Moreover, axial coding data evaluation was used by the researcher in the study (Wiek & Lang, 2016). This is for the cause that the axial coding evaluation was used by the researcher of this research.

Qualitative Research Methodology

To maintain the reliability and validity of this research, the researcher has considered to maintain certain ethical considerations. In the research of selection and recruitment process within the employee performance, the researcher has attempted to gather relevant data from the most authentic sources along with the human responses (Sutrisna & Setiawan, 2016).  Moreover, the researcher has also made great attempts in sustaining the reliability of the collected data through employing the most suitable data analysis technique for better data interpretations. In addition, the researcher has also made attempts to employ highly important and authentic websites in attaining the data along with selecting the research respondents for dealing with the research concerns (Clark & Creswell, 2014). The researcher has also attempted to maintain the transferability of the current research through ensuring that the study is conducted to the degree to which the findings of the qualitative research can be generalized or transferred within different settings or context (Sutrisna & Setiawan, 2016). From a qualitative perspective transferability is primarily deemed to have the responsibility of conducting the generalizing.

Despite of several implications of the research, the study had certain limitations. One of the limitations of this research is that as the study has employed qualitative research method, it is highly relied on individual skills of the researcher (Meyer, 2014). This research was highly influenced by the personal biases of the researcher. Moreover, the qualitative research needs a labor intensive evaluation process like recording and categorization. In addition, distinct findings are attained relied on the same data relied on the individual characteristics of the researcher. Another major limitation of this research is that this research needs effective planning to make sure that the results gathered are accurate (Neuman, 2016). However, there is no way to evaluate the qualitative data in mathematical manner that might impact the reliability of the research to some extent.

Questionnaire research instrument has been employed in investigating the impact of recruitment and selection process in employee performance. The researcher has considered to gather primary data for this study from 11 employees and 5 managers of the selected company. In carrying out the research, the researcher has developed a planned questionnaire that encompassed open-ended along with close-ended questions (McCusker & Gunaydin, 2015). In such context, it is gathered that interview is the best strategy to collect the needed qualitative data as it facilitated the researcher to obtain significant data from a selected sample size. For this research, the interview questionnaire has been developed relied on the research aspects for collecting highly suitable information. The researcher invited the individuals from the selected company that included the employees and the managers for filling up the questionnaire through employing the social media platform (Navickis-Brasch et al., 2014). In addition, the researcher has also distributed the questionnaires through e-mail to all the respondents. Moreover, the respondents have been provided with a time duration of seven days in order to fill up the questionnaire. The questionnaire will include 20 open ended questions.

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