1. Emotional intelligence and the dynamics of performance management.
2. Knowledge management and organisational renewal.
3. Competency management and trouble-shooting problem employee.
4. Transactional analysis and the HR practice.
5. Gender balance and sustainable/learning organisation.
6. ISO 10015 and employees training and development.
7. The practice of ‘balance score card’ in the organisation.
8. Implications of 360 0 feedback model on employee job performance.
9. Test/examination and career advancement
10. Merger and acquisition: effect on any HR function
11. Human resource diversity and effects on organisational (i)success, (ii)survival (iii)development etc
12. Hostage taking and effect on industrial relations in oil industry.
13. Organisational social responsibility: effects on organisational effectiveness.
14. Pension management.
15. National Health Insurance Scheme – its implications.
16. Culture.
17. Employment strategy and globalisation.
18. Sickness record management.
19. HR strategies and business objectives.
20. Health and safety at work.
21. Empowerment.
22. Acceptability of HR functions.
23. Information communication technology
24. PESTLE analysis and organisational development.
25. SWOT analysis and employee renewal

N.B.
SWOT = Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
PESTLE = Political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental contexts.
The suggested areas would be made available to students during the Social Research Methods Course.