Human Resource Management

Effective Human Resource Management is pivotal in optimizing employee performance and fostering a positive organizational culture. It involves strategic recruitment, training, and development practices that align with an organization’s goals and comply with labor regulations.

Human Resource Management

1 Human Resource Management- Meaning, Nature, Scope and Significance

  1. Understanding HRM
  2. Role of the HR Manager
  3. Future Challenges to HRM

2 Strategic Human Resource Management

  1. Scope of Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM)
  2. Literature on SHRM
  3. Approaches of SHRM
  4. Models of SHRM

3 Human Resource Planning and Strategy

  1. Manpower Planning
  2. Shortcomings of Manpower Planning
  3. Manpower Planning in the Civil Service

4 Job Analysis and Job Design

  1. Job Description
  2. Job Specification
  3. Job Design

5 Recruitment, Selection, Appointment and Promotion

  1. Essentials of Recruitment
  2. Steps in Recruitment
  3. Methods to Ascertain Merit

6 Performance Appraisal

  1. Introduction
  2. Requirements of Performance Appraisal
  3. Objectives of Performance Appraisal
  4. Approaches of Performance Appraisal
  5. Need for Performance Appraisal
  6. New Imperatives
  7. Performance Measurement
  8. Performance Management
  9. Traditional Methods of Performance Appraisal
  10. Modern Methods of Performance Appraisal
  11. Performance Appraisal of Public Services in India
  12. Proposed Improvements

7 Remuneration and Salary System

  1. Introduction
  2. Wages and Salary
  3. Principles of Remuneration
  4. Methods of Determining Salary Structure
  5. Role of Central Pay Commissions

8 Rewards and Incentive Management

  1. Introduction
  2. Motivation and Incentives
  3. Justification of Incentives
  4. Incentive Plans
  5. Social Security
  6. Shortcomings of Incentive Plans
  7. Conclusion

9 Employee Benefits

  1. Introduction
  2. Meaning of Employee Benefits
  3. Types of Employee Benefits
  4. Pension Scheme
  5. Voluntary Retirement
  6. Conclusion

10 Training and Development

  1. Introduction
  2. Meaning of Training
  3. Training, Development and Education
  4. Importance of Training
  5. Assessment of Training Needs
  6. Learning & Teaching
  7. Steps in Training Programme
  8. Training Methods
  9. Causes for Failure of Training
  10. Evaluation of Training
  11. Conclusion

11 Redeployment and Reskilling

  1. Understanding Redeployment
  2. Redeployment: Guiding Principles
  3. Redeployment: Key Issues
  4. Redeployment Policy Framework
  5. Redeployment in India with Special Reference to VRS and NRF
  6. Reskilling: Meaning and Importance
  7. Reskilling Process
  8. Reskilling through Distance Mode

12 Learning and Development

  1. The Meaning of Learning and Development
  2. Need for Learning and Development
  3. The Nature of the Learner
  4. The Outcomes of Learning
  5. Theories of the Process of Learning
  6. Elements in the Process of Learning
  7. The Concept of Development

13 Management Development

  1. Meaning and Definition of Management Development
  2. HRM and Management Development
  3. Approaches to Management Development
  4. Considerations for Effective Management Development
  5. Management Education and Training
  6. Issues and Controversies in Management Development
  7. Evaluating Management Development

14 Employee Capacity Building Strategies

  1. Objectives of Capacity Building
  2. Significance of Capacity Building
  3. Process of Capacity Building
  4. Strategies of Capacity Building
  5. Promoting Overall Human Capacity Building
  6. Conclusion

15 Total Quality Management

  1. Concept of TQM
  2. Concept of Quality
  3. Advantages/Benefits of TQM
  4. Differences between TQM and Traditional Management
  5. Awareness of TQM
  6. Framework of Implementing TQM
  7. Roadblocks in Implementing TQM
  8. TQM in India

16 Employee Health and Safety

  1. Job Stress and Burnout
  2. Computer Related Health Problems
  3. Noise Control
  4. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
  5. Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
  6. Violence in Workplace
  7. Health Promotion
  8. What Causes Unsafe Acts
  9. Management Commitment and Safety
  10. Safety Policies and Discipline
  11. Awareness

17 Human Resource Management and Employment Involvement

  1. Workers’ Participation in Management (WPM)
  2. Historical Background
  3. Objectives of Worker’s Participation in Management
  4. Forms of Participation
  5. Institutional Arrangements for WPM
  6. Collective Bargaining
  7. Trade Union Theories
  8. Trade Union Movement in Selected Countries
  9. Quality Circle (QC)
  10. Quality Circle Process

18 Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations

  1. Industrial Peace
  2. Labour Policy
  3. Defining Grievance
  4. Methods of Conflict Resolution
  5. Labour Laws
  6. Administrative Arrangement

19 Discipline and Grievances

  1. Aspects of Discipline
  2. Progressive Discipline
  3. Approach of Negative Discipline
  4. Reasons of Indiscipline
  5. Discipline in Civil Service
  6. All India Civil Service Conduct Rules, 1968

20 Assessing Human Resource Management Effectiveness

  1. Clarifying Concepts
  2. Purposes of Assessing HRM Effectiveness
  3. The Four C’s Model
  4. Effectiveness Standards
  5. Assessing Effectiveness of HR Management
  6. Process Perspectives for Effectiveness