Managing Human Resources and Industrial Relations

Human resource management provides significant support and expertise in attracting, developing and retaining high caliber people for building competitive advantage for business. With people as prime drivers of competitiveness of business organizations, managers are constantly faced with human resource management issues and problems in decision-making which require a methodical and systematic approach. This book provides a contemporary and comprehensive review of essential HRM and IR concepts and practices, in order to provide rich insight into the vast and rapidly evolving subject of human resource management. Considering the intensely competitive nature of contemporary business, this textbook pays attention to the application of human resource management tools, techniques and approaches in solving human resource issues and problems in organizational settings and situations to help the present day students to become effective managers of tomorrow. The book has been primarily designed as a textbook for the postgraduate management students. It comprehensively covers the syllabi of various Indian management institutes and universities. It would serve as a valuable teaching aid and repertoire of knowledge resource for the faculty. Professional managers and consultants would find this book highly informative and would act as catalyst in fostering and leveraging human resource management systems and strategies in their organizations. The entire conceptual framework of the text has been divided into four parts comprising 24 highly informative chapters. The contents are self-explanatory and have been logically subdivided so that the readers can clearly understand the theoretical aspects and applications of the human resource management.