Human Resource Management: Concept, Functions, roles, skills & competencies.
The changing environment of HRM – globalization, cultural environment, technological advances, workforce diversity, corporate downsizing, changing skill requirement, Work life balance.
HR role in gaining competitive advantage. HRM issues in Indian Organizations

Human Resource Planning: Process, Forecasting demand & supply, Skill inventories
Human Resource Information System (HRIS), Job analysis – Uses, methods, Job description & Job specifications. HR accounting, Recruitment, Selection & Orientation: internal & external sources, e- recruitment, selection process, orientation process.

HRD definition, goals and challenges, Human Resource Development (HRD) audit concept, Training: Concept, Needs, Systematic approach to training, Methods of training. Management development: Concept & Methods.
Performance management system: concept, uses of performance appraisal, performance management methods, factors that distort appraisal, appraisal interview. Career planning: career life stages.

Compensation: Steps of determining compensation, job evaluation: concept, methods. Components of pay structure, factors influencing compensation levels, wage differentials & incentives, profit sharing, Employees’ stock option plans, Rewards, Fringe Benefits

Industrial Relations: concept, Trade unions role, types, functions, problems. Grievance: concepts, causes & grievance redressal machinery. Industrial dispute: concept, causes & machinery for settlement of disputes-, Discipline: concept, aspect of discipline & disciplinary procedure, Collective bargaining- concept, types, process, problems, essentials of effective collective bargaining .