Human Resource and Personnel Management

Contents: Preface. 1. HR Management contributes to organizational success. 2. Strategic human resource planning. 3. Individuals jobs and effective HR management. 4. Global human resource management. 5. Equal employment opportunity. 6. Implementing equal employment. 7. Analyzing and identifying jobs. 8. Recruiting in labour markets. 9. Selecting and placing human resources.

Human resources are the most valuable and unique assets of an organization. The successful management of an organizations human resources is an exciting dynamic and challenging task especially at a time when the world has become a global village and economies are in a state of flux. The scarcity of talented resources and the growing expectations of the modern day worker have further increased the complexity of the human resource function.

Even though specific human resource functions/activities are the responsibility of the human resource department the actual management of human resources is the responsibility of all the managers in an organization. It is therefore necessary for all managers to understand and give due importance to the different human resource policies and activities in the organization.

Human resource management outlines the importance of HRM and its different functions in an organization.

It examines the various HR processes that are concerned with attracting managing motivating and developing employee for the benefit of the organization. The book discusses the issues in human resource management in a changing environment and suggests possible ways of leveraging and managing human resources. Changing trends in human resource management  have been explained using contemporary examples from Indian companies.