This book is concerned with Modernising Management and Human Resource respectively to prepare the country to enter into the 21st century adequately equipped with the new methods and skills mentioned herein. Some of the skills that the present managers lack are entrepreneurial skills necessary for survival in a competitive, continually developing service economy, strategic planning skills for effectively meeting long term customer needs, and analytical and synthesizing skill for conceptualizing how one manages in an environment in constant change. All these are exactly described in this volume. Also the implications of shift from industrial to information technology, conventional technology to high-tech, short to long term planning, and representative to participatory management are described. The new skills and values to be acquired by effective managers in terms of computer literacy, technological knowledge, negotiation skills, psychological understanding of individual and group motivation, ability to assess changing values, culture, ethics, ethos, etc. are vividly delineated. The Japanese system of both corporate management and Human Resource Development and their possible adoption and adaptation to Indian conditions have been discussed at length.

This book deals with New Technologies and Production with the latest technologies concerning New Materials Super-conductors, Supercomputers, Industrial, Micro, Hybrid and Medical Electronics, Neural Networks, Data Storage Systems, New products and processes. Latest advances in Communication and Information Technology is well explained in this book. The book highlights Advanced Materials Technology viz. Intelligent materials, memory metals, composites of sorts, new magnetic materials, ceramics, Alloys of Aluminium, Titanium, Magnesium and so on. Special properties like corrosion resistance, high stiffness, formability etc. are also discussed. Environmental Pollution and Protection as well as Industrial Technology is also included in this book. Harnessing Human Protection deals with understanding human brain and its faculties. New understanding in Human faculties for HRD, the mechanics of the brain, its functioning, the dynamics of human motions, application of latest tools like SQUID etc. are also discussed in this book.

This book primarily deals with the methodology of teaching of commerce and lays stress on the fundamentals of modern philosophy of education. Stress has been laid in the text on the specific techniques in commerce teaching. It highlights the scope of formal teaching techniques and also points out their limitations. Detailed discussion about various teaching aids in commerce has been included to emphasis their importance in teaching of commerce.

The concept of District Industries Centres (DICs) came into being as a brain child of the Industrial Policy Statement of 1977 to facilitate industrial development in the small scale sector for fulfilling the twin purposes of the development of semi-urban as will as rural areas and also the economic and sociological growth of the small entrepreneur. The DICs act as a nodal agency at the pre-investment, investment, post-investment stages and play a vital role in the industrial development at the district level thereby contributing indirectly to the economic development of the state and the nation. They have completed more than a decade of service and the present book is an in depth study of the working of DICs in Andhra Pradesh covering the overall performance and also providing suggestions for improvement and better effectiveness.