Syllabus and Reading List

Syllabus and Reading List

Human Resource Development: Concept, significance, scope and status; Strategies for formulation of human resource development programmes; Career planning and career development; Human resource accounting.
Human Resource Management: Introduction, concept, functions, scope and significance of Human Resource Management; Organization of Human Resource Management; Qualities of Human Resource Manager and his role in industry; Professionalization of Human Resource Management in India.
Manpower Planning: Meaning, objectives and significance; Steps in manpower planning; Quantitative and qualitative aspects of manpower planning; Recruitment, interviewing, selection, induction and placement.
Manpower Training and Development: Concept, purpose, and methods of training; Executive development programmes and their evaluation; Performance Appraisal; Counseling and employees communication system; Promotion, demotion and transfer; Employee morale, motivation and productivity; Executive stress.
Employee Remuneration: Wage plans and policies, profit sharing and incentive plans, Compensation Package and terminal benefits.
Industrial Relations: Concept, scope, significance and determinants; Industrial Unrest, Industrial disputes and their prevention; industrial discipline; trade unions, collective bargaining; Worker’s participation in management; Employee welfare, personnel policies.
An overview of laws relating to recruitment and related aspects: The Employment Exchanges (Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Act 1959; The Apprentices Act 1961; The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act 1946.
An overview of laws relating to payment of wages, bonus etc.: The Payment of Wages Act 1936; The Minimum Wages Act 1948; The Payment of Bonus Act 1965; The Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 1952; The Employees’ State Insurance Act1948; The Payment of Gratuity Act 1972.

Reading List
Human Resource Management by Mirza S Saiyadain
Human Resource Management: A Contemporary Perspective by Ian Beardwell & Len Holden
Human Resource Management: Perspective for New Era by Debi S Saini & Sami A Khan
Personnel/Human Resource Management by David A DeCenzo & Stephen P Robbins
Readings in Human Resource Development by T V Rao
Industrial Relations by Arun Monappa