Paper personnel planning are the crux of corporate development. The present book focuses on various crucial issues viz., Models for Manpower Planning: Dimensions of Recruitment and Training Decisions; Industrial Change and Labour Policy: A Comment on Redundancy Practices; Industrialisation and Foundations of Indian Trade Unions; Labour Education and Industry Environment; Psychology of Employee Initiative and Productivity; Construction of Long-term HRD Systems; Employee Morale: An Evaluation of Wages and Incentives Approach; Optimizing Human Resource Deployment-Individual and Group Behaviour; Organisational Culture Commitment and Compensation; Practical Format for Employee Evaluation; Labour Absorbing and Labour Releasing Effects; Technological Manpower; Parameters and Profitability, etc. The present work will be useful for students, teachers, administrators, policy-planners and practicing managers.

The parameters of human resource management in government systems are brought to the focus in the present work. The articles, papers, reviews, abstracts and discussion notes contained in this book, attempt to capture the dynamics of manpower planning, personnel recruitment and deployment and evolving HRD policies and strategies which need to cater to development needs and orientation, i.e., the larger national perspectives. Different themes, viz., Gov. and committed HRD; Govt. and management norms; Organisational approaches to MBO etc. are elaborately discussed. This work will prove useful and informative for the students, teachers, administrators, policy planners and management personnel in different public and private enterprises.

Human resources are the most valuable resources of a company as they provide it with strategic advantage and competitive edge. There is nothing great about the statement because there are many examples of organizational success woven around people. With the invent of the globalization the concern for managing HR has augmented many fold. Organizations are bound to manage people more judiciously since ever so as to respond to the shift in the environment meaningfully. It appears to not only be difficult rather impossible to cope up with the 21st century organizations with 20th century feudal mindset managers. This book is an endeavour to highlight the changing profile of HR Function and touch upon many other HR related issues. This piece of work will not only be of immense help to the organizations in learning where they are and where they should be in dealing with their internal customers but also help in shaping their HR Function as per the need of hour. This book will tremendously be useful to teachers, trainers, practicing managers, researchers, students and professionals having expertise and interest in the subject.