Research Methodology: Importance of Human Resources and Strategies Development in South Africa and Seta’s

Research methodology

TABLE OF CONTENTS
3. Research paradigm.................................................................................................................3
4. Scope of research...................................................................................................................4
5. the sequence of research activities for collecting information/data.......................................4
6. Time frame.............................................................................................................................5
7. Research participants.............................................................................................................5
8. List the resources....................................................................................................................7

3. RESEARCH PARADIGM
The present investigation has been done on the basis of interpretivism paradigm, the same
will be applied in order to describe the underlying meaning of (Importance of Human
resources and Strategies Development in South Africa and Seta’s). The rationale of using this
paradigm is to interpret the reality, through qualitative method, in form of interview with the
managers of Seta’a. The reason behind using this design is to facilitate better comprehension
of the existing situation.
The current investigation has considered the exploratory research design, because the
research problems are to be addressed in form of interview and with the help of secondary
data analysis obtained from the literature review. The exploratory research design is best
suitable with the qualitative and inductive reasoning (Alvesson and Sköldberg, 2017). The
interpretivism paradigm emphasizes on qualitative study over quantitative study. Further, it
assists in developing theories, as the existing theories are insufficient to analyze the intricacy
of the situation being examined.
The study will take inductive approach, to develop an ideal data base and behavior of
research participants will assessed to reach at a valid conclusion. For this task, range of
observation is approached from specific to general.
The research will be purely based on qualitative methods, qualitative interview will be
conducted to obtain relevant data, and the same will be observed with the identification of
themes. The research method will emphasize on specific information and data, as it is a pure
observational study conducted to assess the importance of HR and strategies development.
The qualitative data will be taken into account; sine the main purpose of the study is to
describe the phenomena on the basis of the perception of managers in a given situation
(Taylor, Bogdan and DeVault, 2015).
Following to this, purposive sampling will be given more significance; it is because the
investigation will be primarily conducted to fulfil the cited purpose. This sampling type is
employed as it is highly appropriate to answer the research questions (Walliman, 2017). The
data will be collected through primary as well as secondary data collection method. For the
secondary sources, books, journals, Seta’s annual reports will be considered. On the other
hand, the primary data will be collected through interview held from the managers of Seta.