The purposes of research programs undertaken under this subpart are to stimulate and conduct personnel management research which:
    
    
        
        (a) 
         Develops new knowledge, techniques, and materials about personnel management;
     
    
        
        (b) 
         Seeks solutions to personnel management problems;
     
    
        
        (c) 
         Provides a factual base to support existing or proposed changes in personnel management policies, techniques, and materials;
     
    
        
        (d) 
         Modifies or develops personnel management systems which improve the management of the Federal Government's human resources;
     
    
        
        (e) 
         Gathers, makes explicit, systematizes, and transmits the knowledge and techniques of practicing managers for the guidance of others and as a factual basis for research needs determination;
     
    
        
        (f) 
         Develops new methods or provides new standards for conducting personnel management research; or
     
    
        
        (g) 
         Designs systems for the assessment and transmittal of relevant personnel management strategies.