Managing Change, Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Development
Contents: Series editor's introduction/Rakesh Hooja. Introduction: managing change, organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Development/Rakesh Hooja and Girish K. Srivastava. I. Managing change in government: 1. Reengineering public administration/K.B.C. Saxena. 2. Creativity/Pradip N. Khandwalla. 3. New public management: emerging concerns/Ramesh K. Arora. 4. Better governance through accountability and transparency/N. Vittal. 5. Administrator as manager/I.C. Srivastava. 6. Management in government/B.R. Virmani. 7. Managerial excellence for effectiveness/N.K. Kulshrestha. 8. Inventory management and control techniques/Girish K. Srivastava. 9. Developing management competence/Hans C. Blaise. 10. Managerial effectiveness: attitudinal model/R.H. Joshi. 11. Improving individual effectiveness in government/N. Vittal. II. Organisational behaviour: 12. Motivation/M.L. Mehta. 13. Work motivation/Jagdish C. Kukar. 14. The styles of leadership/G.P. Pilania. 15. Theories of leadership: a conceptual overview/Asha Hingar. 16. Discussing leadership/Rakesh Hooja. 17. The decision process in administration/Kamlesh Gupta. 18. Training for organizational development through self-development/Anita. 19. Anatomy of conflict and its management/H.C. Suman. III. Human Resource Development: 20. Demystifying human resource development/Udai Pareek. 21. Approaches to human resource development/Asha Hingar and Sangeeta Sharma. 22. HRD climate in public enterprises: a case study/C.M. Mahajan. 23. Job selection, job satisfaction and career commitment/R.P. Jaiswal. 24. Role of academic institutions in human resource development/Meena Sogani and Sangeeta Sharma. 25. HRD-OD interface/J.P. Singh.
"This book looks at length at the three interrelated issues, namely, managing change in government, Organisational behaviour, and Human Resource Development in the Indian context.
Various aspects of themes related to creativity, managerial effectiveness, accountability and transparency, motivation, leadership, decision-making process, managing conflict, management in government, administrator as manager, managerial excellence, reengineering public administration, new public management, human resource development, job satisfaction and career commitment, training, and the interface between HRD and organizational development, have been examined from theoretical and conceptual viewpoints as well as the possibilities of practical applications by administrators and managers.
With 25 papers arranged into three sections on managing change in government, organisational behaviour, and Human Resource Development, the book promises to be relevant for administrators, managers, social scientists, academics, students, scholars and the intelligent laymen." (jacket)
