Method Study Design
The researchers were interested in investigating whether competency,
education,experience, age and hierarchical level of human resource manager
relate to practice ofSHRM of listed firms and whether these five variables
have a significant joint impact onthe practice of SHRM of those firms, rather
than establishing definite cause effectrelationships among the variables.
Hence, the type of investigation of this study is correlation rather than causal.
Nature of the study was analytical or hypotheses testingas this study
attempted to analyze the relationships between the dependent
variable(practice of SHRM) and the independent variables. Time horizon of
the study was cross-sectional due to the reason that the data for this study
were collected at a single point intime (Sekaran, 1999; Zikmund, 2000).
When the main focus of the study was considered‘cross-sectional’ rather
than ‘longitudinal’ was an appropriate strategy. For the purpose ofcollection
of primary data on which this study was based largely in order to
achieveobjectives of the study, a self-administered questionnaire was used.
Hence the researcherinterference on normal flow of events was minimal