Measuring Instruments for Human Resource Management and Employee Happiness

K.I. Uresha

Department of Human Resource Management, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0532-355X

H.H.D.P.J. Opatha

Department of Human Resource Management, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5243-0868

DOI: https://doi.org/10.20448/journal.500.2020.73.180.187

Keywords: Instrument, HRM, Employee Happiness, Measure, Organization, HR professionals.


Abstract

A contextual endeavor is made to discover trending and highly focused sector on measuring Human Resource Management (HRM) functions together with employee happiness. Although in the present-day human resource professionals accept the essentiality of sound human resource management and employee happiness in achieving organizational strategic objectives successfully, they are continuously struggling to assess these two areas as there is a knowledge gap on measuring instruments. This study was carried out to address the contextual niche on measuring human resource practices along with employee happiness and aimed to answer three research questions as there is a significant need to assess these areas practically. An extensive inspection of literature has done to answer the research questions of the study i.e. (1) what is HRM? (2) what is employee happiness? (3) how to measure HRM and employee happiness? The desk research strategy was adopted to answer these research questions. As a response, two comprehensive research instruments were developed to assess human resource management practices in an organization together with employee happiness.

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