According to the design cycle of the adopted design science
approach (Hevner, 2007; Hevner et al., 2004), in order to
justify/evaluate the proposed artifact, which is the novel
framework for HR-planning, and to determine the potential
relationships between the constructs in this framework, it is
required to be applied within a relevant contextual environment.
Considering the main objective of this research that is to
develop a HR-planning framework for effectively managing
human resources in projects, exploratory testing (Eisenhardt,
1989) of the framework within the construction industry of
Iran is fulfilled and PLS analysis (Gefen et al., 2000) is
applied to evaluate the framework and its applicability. This
could also help better comprehending the extent to which
the proposed framework could be applicable in real-world