In today’s corporate world, employee management is first and the foremost concern of any organization. An organization can easily churn out the best out of their employees by improvising the strategic development within the human resource norms. This book comprehensively discusses the strategic management functions that are designed to meet the business objectives effectively.

This textbook explains the concepts of human resource management (HRM) and human resource development (HRD), and shows how they supplement and complement each other. The book explicates how sourcing, retention, development, compensation and performance are driven by the strategic business needs in an organization.

Divided into four parts, the book explicates strategic developmental aspects of the people (training and development) vis-à-vis organizational behaviour, culture and leadership as well as primacy of technology in training as well as the concepts of human resource management and human resource development. The special feature of this book is a chapter on Competency Mapping, which is a tool to identify accurate skills for developing competency requirement within the employees.

This book is intended for the postgraduate students of Human Resource Development (MHRD). However, it will be equally useful for the students of Human Resource Management as well as the practising managers.

KEY FEATURES :

Interspersed with the cases from various national and international organizations

Presents key concepts for practical application of Human Resource Management techniques in actual business organizations

Review questions to check students’ comprehension of the subjectAbout the AuthorKESHO PRASAD is a Management Consultant specialized in the areas of human resources and general management. Earlier, he worked as Additional General Manager at BHEL, Haridwar. He received his Degree from the University of Patna and Diploma in Personnel Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, and PG Diploma in Business Administration from the Leeds College of Commerce, UK.

Having worked for various reputed industrial organizations and two World Bank projects, Kesho Prasad has rich experience in several areas of human resource management, training and development, and industrial relations.