Human Resource Planning & Development

1. Basics of Human Resource Planning: Macro Level Scenario of Human Resources Planning - Concepts and Process of Human Resource Planning – Methods and technniques – Demand Forecasting – Methods and techniques – Supply Forecasting .

2. Human Resource Development Strategies, Design and Experience: Human Resource Development: An Overview – Human Resource Development: Strategies – Human Resource Development Experience.

3. HRD and the Supervisor: Line Managers and HRD – Task Analysis – Motivational Aspects of HRD – Developmental Supervision – Counselling and Monitoring.

4. Comparative HRD Experiences: HRD Overview in Government and Public System – HRD for Health and Family Welfare – HRD in Other Sectors (Defence, Police, Voluntary Organisation and Panchayati Raj Institutions) – HRD in Service industry – Comparative HRD – International Experience.

5. Main Issues in HRD: HRD Culture and Climate – HRD for workers – HRD/OD Approach to IR – Organizing for HRD – Emerging Trends and Perspectives.

Organization Dynamics & Change Management

1 Group Dynamics: Understanding Groups – Phase of Group Development – International Trust – Group Cohesion and Alienation – Conformity and Obedience.

2 Role Dynamics: The Concept and Systems of Roles – Role Analysis – Organisational Stress and Burnout – Coping with Stress and Burnout – Role Efficiency and Role Flexibility.

3 Power Dynamics: Power & Politics in Organisations – Bases of Power – The Process of Empowerment – Decentralisation & Delegation – Transformational Leadership.

4 Organisational Dynamics: Organisational Culture – Social Responisbilities of Organisations – Organisational Ethics and values – Process of Learning Organisations.

5 Inter-Organisational Dynamics: Cross Cultural Dynamics – Management of Diversity – Strategic Alliances – Coalition Formation.

Labour Legislation & Industrial Relations

Unit – I: Industrial Relations – Definition and Main Aspects: Definition – Evolution of Industrial Relations – Dominant Aspects of Industrial Relations – Nature of Industrial Conflict – Industrial Disputes – Interests and Rights Disputes – Results of Industrial Conflict.

Unit – II: Industrial Disputes: Strike – Causes of Strikes/Industrial Disputes – Forms of Strike – Settlement without State Intervention – Settlement under the Influence of the State

– Adjudication or Compulsory Arbitration in India – Adjudication/Compulsory Arbitration vs Collective Bargaining – Different Methods of Dispute Settlement in India – Machinery for the Prevention and Settlement of Industrial Disputes in India.

Unit – III: Collective Bargaining: Meaning of Collective Bargaining – Importance of Collective Bargaining – Factors Influencing Bargaining Units and Levels – Growth of Collective Bargaining in India – Recommendations of the Second NCL (2002) – Participation in Management – Schemes of Workers’ Participation in Management in India – Work Committees (1947) – Joint Management Councils (1958).

Unit – IV: Principles of Labour Legislation: Other Institutions Controlling Human Behaviour – Declining Influence of Religious Orders and Social Customs – Rise of Modern Social Legislation – Social Legislation and Labour Legislation – Forces Influencing Modern Social and Labour Legislation – Forces Influencing Social and Labour Legislation in India – Indian Constitution and Social and Labour Legislation – Principles of Modern Labour Legislation – Types of Labour Legislation.

Unit – V: Labour Legislation in India: Factory Legislation Definitions – Payment of Wages Act, 1936 – Minimum Wages Act, 1948 – Equal Remuneration Act, 1976 – Legislation Preceding Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 – Enactment of Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 – Evolution and Growth of Social Security Legislation in India – Workmen’s Compensation Legislation in India (Main Provisions) 

Organizational Behaviour

UNIT – I: Organisational Behaviour: Definition and Scope, Approaches to Orgnisational Behaviour, Elements of Organisational Behaviour, Human Relations Movement and Behaviouralism.

UNIT – II: Foundations of Individual Behaviour: Personality, Learning, Attitudes, Stress; Job Satisfaction. Foundations of Group Behaviour: Process of Group Formation and Types of Groups. Conflicts, Defense Mechanism, Transactional Analysis, Johari Window, Force Field Analysis.

UNIT – III: Motivation: Types of Motives, Theories of Maslow, Herzberg, McGregor, job enlargement, job enrichment.

UNIT – IV: Leadership: Concept, Classical Studies on Leadership, Theories of Leadership; Leadership Styles.

UNIT – V: Organisational Climate: Concept, determinants, Organisational Culture.

Employee Compensation Management

UNIT - I: Employee Compensation Management: Concept; Significance, Wage Concepts: Minimum Wage, Fair Wage, Living Wage, Wage Theories, Wage Policy in India.

UNIT – II : Wage Determination: Wage Determinant Methods, Job Evaluation, Wage Differentials; Wage Fixation: Statutory Wage Fixation, Wage Boards; Collective Bargaining; Adjudication; Pay commissions.

UNIT - III: Wage Components: Significance and Evolution of D.A:. Principles and Norms of Wage Fixation; Methods of Wage Payment: Time, Piece Rate and Incremental Time Scales;

UNIT - IV: Incentives: Principles, Procedure for Installing Incentive System, Wage Incentive Systems in India, Linking Wages with Productivity.

UNIT - V: Managerial Compensation: Recent Trends in Managerial Compensation in Indian Organizations and MNC’S; Role of H.R. Department in Compensation Management.