Human Resource Management

UNIT I: Human Resource Function
Human Resource Philosophy – Changing environments of HRM – Strategic human resource management – Using HRM to attain competitive advantage – Trends in HRM – Organisation of HR departments – Line and staff functions – Role of HR Managers.
UNIT II: Recruitment & Placement
Job analysis : Methods - IT and computerised skill inventory - Writing job specification - HR and the responsive organisation.
Recruitment and selection process : Employment planning and forecasting - Building employee commitment : Promotion from within - Sources, Developing and Using application forms - IT and recruiting on the internet.
Employee Testing & selection : Selection process, basic testing concepts, types of test, work samples & simulation, selection techniques, interview, common interviewing mistakes, Designing & conducting the effective interview, small business applications, computer aided interview.
UNIT III: Training & Development
Orientation & Training: Orienting the employees, the training process, need analysis, Training techniques, special purpose training, Training via the internet.
Developing Managers: Management Development - The responsive managers - On-the-job and offthe-job Development techniques using HR to build a responsive organisation. Management Developments and CD-Roms - Key factor for success.
Performance appraisal: Methods - Problem and solutions - MBO approach - The appraisal interviews - Performance appraisal in practice. Managing careers: Career planning and development - Managing promotions and transfers.
UNIT IV: Compensation & Managing Quality
Establishing Pay plans : Basics of compensation - factors determining pay rate - Current trends in compensation - Job evaluation - pricing managerial and professional jobs - Computerised job evaluation. Pay for performance and Financial incentives : Money and motivation - incentives for operations employees and executives - Organisation wide incentive plans - Practices in Indian organisations. Benefits and services : Statutory benefits - non-statutory (voluntary) benefits - Insurance benefits - retirement benefits and other welfare measures to build employee commitment.
UNIT V: Labour relations and employee security
Industrial relation and collective bargaining : Trade unions - Collective bargaining - future of trade unionism. Discipline administration - grievances handling - managing dismissals and separation. Labour Welfare : Importance & Implications of labour legislations - Employee health - Auditing HR functions, Future of HRM function.