This document discusses personnel records, audits, and research. It defines records management as the planned control of records including decisions about retention, transfer, microfilming, and destruction. It notes that personnel records and reports provide managers with information about human resource use. It then discusses the essential characteristics of good records and reports, types of personnel records, principles of record keeping, the significance of personnel records for functions like auditing and research, what a personnel audit involves and its scope, how personnel research is conducted, and techniques used to carry out personnel research like surveys and statistical studies.