Elective-HRM & OB

MBA Syllabus

Elective Human Resource



III. HUMAN RESOURCE


1. STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
2. MANAGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
3. MANAGEMENT TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
4. LABOUR LEGISLATIONS
5. PARTICIPATIVE MANAGEMENT
6. GLOBAL HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
7. COMPENSATION MANAGEMENT
8. HUMAN RESOSURCE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
9. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANAGE AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES
10. MANAGING INTERPERSONAL AND GROUP PROCESSES
11. COUNSELING SKILLS FOR MANAGERS
12. MANAGEMENT OF COMPARATIVE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
13. MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT FOR TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
14. LEGAL FRAMEWORK GOVERNING HUMAN RELATIONS
15. HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT: STRATEGIES AND SYSTEMS
16. MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT

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1 STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

Course Objective:
This course is aimed at providing the students the inputs on how to link the HRM functions to the
corporate strategies to understand HR as a strategic resource.

Module 1
Introduction: The changing economic, business, technological, socio-cultural and political
environment and its implications for managing organisations and human resources; Business and
organizational restructuring and its implications for human resource management; Corporate
strategy and human resource management; The HRM and approaches to HRM; HRM in personnel
management; work organisation and systems; social organisation of the work place and its strategic
importance; Human resource policies; Integrating Human Resource Strategies with corporate
strategies; Human Resource Management as an approach to organisation design and the role of
HRM in organisation management;

Module 2
Human Resource Management in other countries; Human Resource Planning and its linkage to
corporate planning; HR planning process, techniques/methods; HR planning in an on going
organisation; integrating HR plans with other plans and management functions; Future directions of
HR planning; Developing HR information system.

Module 3
Managing Human Resources inflow Resourcing plans; Recruitment and selection
strategies; alternative to recruitment; selection methods and techniques; role of consultants and
assessment centers in recruitment and selection and retention policies. Developing Human
Resources Concept of HRD; HRD as a strategic approach to employee performance: HRD and
TQM; HRD experience in different industries; corporate training and development strategies.

Module 4
Performance management Concept, Philosophy, process: performance management appraisal:
team performance management and evaluation. Compensation and Rewards management
Reward strategies and philosophy; HRM approach to rewards management

Module 5
Strategic management of employee relations HRM approach to employee relations: HRM values
and employee relations; change management; creating employee commitment through the HRM
approach; HRM and culture management; employees involvement and participation in decision-
making and management of organization; negotiating employee relations: HRM and trade unions:
HRM changes in management control systems: HRM accounting.

Suggested Readings

1.Kenneth Andrew, A Concept of Corporate Strategy.
2. HRM by Gary Dessler
3.HRM by Decenzo and Robbins

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2. MANAGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

Course Objective
Organisational efficiency and performance are interlinked with Industrial Relations in a business
enterprise. This course provides the conceptual and practical aspects of IR at the macro and micro
levels.

Module 1
Industrial Relations Perspectives: Conceptual framework and approaches to industrial relations;
Influence of the emerging socio-economic scenario on industrial relations; Roles of
employer/management, trade union and government in industrial relations; IR at the shop floor,
Standing Orders, salient features of Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946.

Module 2
Trade Union and the employee: Structure, characteristics and functions of trade unions; Trade
Union Security; Theories and problems of trade unions; Recognition of trade unions as collective
bargaining agents; Essentials of Trade Unions Act, 1926; Principles of Employee Disciplining and
Grievance Handling.

Module 3
Industrial Unrests- causes and cures of industrial disputes; Bipartite and Tripartite machineries;
Collective Bargaining, Conciliation, Voluntary Arbitration and Adjudication; Collective
Agreements and settlements; Authorities for settlement of industrial disputes and relevant
provisions under Industrial Disputes Act, 1947; Awards and Writ of Certiorari; Productivity
Bargaining and Gains Sharing.

Module 4
Method of Direct Action: Purpose and relevance to other peaceful methods; Strikes, Lock out-
concept and elements, types and forms of strike, legal, illegal and unjustifiable strikes and lock
outs; protections to workmen and prohibitions on the right to strike and lock out.

Module 5
Employee Empowerment: Industrial Democracy, Workers Participation in Management;
Industrial Peace and International Labour Organisation; IR Policy, Additional Recommendations of
II National Commission on Labour; IR and Technological Change.

Suggested Readings

Mamoria C.B. & S. Mamoria : Dynamics of Industrial Relations in India.
Pramod Varma : Management of Industrial Relations, Vora Publications,
Ahmedabad.
Tripathi P.C. : Personnel Management and Industrial Relations, Sultan
Chand & Sons Publications, New Delhi.
Ramaswamy E.A. : The Strategic Management of Industrial Relations,
Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
Niland R. et. al : The Future of Industrial Relations, Sage, New Delhi.
C.S. Vekata Ratnam : Globalisation and Labour-Management Relations
Response Books, New Delhi.

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3. MANAGEMENT TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

Objectives:
This paper is not pure academic oriented but practice based. It has been designed, keeping in view
the needs of the organisations. successful managerial performance depends on the individuals
ability to observe, interpret the issues and modify his approach and behaviour. All organisations
need to pay adequate attention to equip their employees. Rapid progress in technology has changed
not only in the physical facilities but also in the abstract qualities required of the men who are using
them. This paper will attempt to orient the students to tailor themselves to meet the specific needs
of the organisations in training and development activities.

Module I
Training: Introduction - Conceptual framework of training - approaches on training - Difference
between Training and Development - Training and applied psychology - principles of training -
Learning and skills acquisition - Transfer and retention of skills - Training practices in India -
Practices in PSU - Practices in Pvt. companies.

Module II
Need for Training - Methods of Identification of Training needs - Training policy - Planning and
organising the training programmes - Methods of Training - supervisory Development Programmes
(SDP) - Techniques of SDP - Training and education for operative personnel skill training, National
Apprenticeship Training - Workers education for operative personnel - Evaluation of the training
centre.

Module III
Management Development (MD) and Organisational Development (OD) - Difference between MD
and OD - Aims and objectives of MD and OD - Methods of MD -OD interventions - Succession
Planning and Career development.

Module IV
Professional bodies for Management Education and Training - AIMA, NIPM, ISTD, IIMS, School
of Management Studies, NPC, NITIE and ASCI - Training and TQM and ISO 9000 - Training Aids
- Types of aids and Audio visual aids - Budget Estimation on Training.

Module V
Role of Computers in Training - Training needs of 21st century.

Suggested Readings
1. Training Research and Practice - John Patrick
2. A Handbook of Training - Martin Stone
3. Handbook of Training Methodology and - Paul Choudhry
Management
4. Organisation Development - French and Bell

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4. LABOUR LEGISLATIONS

Objectives
Understanding of the legal framework is important for the efficient decision-making relating to
management and employees relations. The course aims to provide an understanding, application
and interpretation of the various labour laws and their implications for industrial relations and
labour issues.

Module I: Introduction
Importance of Labour laws - sources of Labour law - objectives of labour laws - History of labour
legislation in India - classification of labour laws - Labour laws in some countries particularly in
U.S.A, U.K and U.S.S..R.

Module II: Social Security Legislation
Workmen compensation Act, 1923 - E.S.I. Act 1948 - Maternity benefit Act, 1961 - Employees
Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provision Act, 1952 - Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972.

Module III: Labour Welfare Legislation
Factory Act 1948 - contract labour (Regulations and Abolition Act, 1970) - Plantation labour Act,
1951 - Mines Act, 1952.

Kerala Legislation:
Kerala Shops and Commercial Establishment Act, 1960 - Kerala Beedi and Cigar Workers Act,
1966 - Kerala Head Load Workers Act 1978 - Kerala Agricultural Labourers Act 1974 - Kerala
Toddy workers Welfare Fund Act, 1969 - Kerala Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1975 and other
welfare enactments.

Module IV: Regulative and other Legislation:
Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 - Trade Unions Act 1926 - Payment of Wages Act 1936 - Minimum
wages Act 1948- Payment of Bonus Act 1965 - Equal Remuneration Act 1976. Employment
Exchange
(Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Act 1939 - Apprentices Act 1961 - Maharashtra
Recognition of Trade Unions and Prevention of unfair Labour Practices Act 1971.

Module: V
Critical Evaluation of working of Labour Legislations in India - Changing Business Environment
and Labour laws - WTO and social clause.

Suggested Readings

1. Industrial Relations - a conceptual and legal frame work by A.M.
Sarma
2. Industrial and Labour laws of India by H.K. Saharay
3. Industrial law by Malik P.L.

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5. PARTICIPATIVE MANAGEMENT

Objectives:
The objective of this paper is to provide inputs to the students on how to work in a dynamic and
empowered environment.

Module I:
Meaning of participative management - participative management as a concept - Economics,
Psychological, Social, Political viewpoints on this concept - Origin and growth of participative
management.
The need for participative management - the objectives of participative management
Approaches to participative management.

Module II:
Different types of workers participation in management - Informative participation, consultative
participation, Associative participation, Administrative participation and decisive participation, -
Bipartite forums in PSUs and private sectors to promote WPM - WCS, JMC, Shop councils, Joint
councils, workers representatives on the Board of Directors and other forums like QCS, TQM -
Employee stock -option.

Module III:
Structural arrangements for participative management - National level, corporate level, plant level,
zonal level and shop level - Role of external and internal factors in influencing the levels of W.P.M.

Module IV:
W.P.M. in India - Experiences of PSUS and private sectors - the participation of workers in
management Bill 1990 - Suggestions for improving the W.P.M. in Indian companies - W.P.M. in
abroad - Evaluation of W.P.M. in abroad - comparison of W.P.M. in India and abroad - Selected
studies on working of participative management in Indian companies.

Module V:
Training to make participative management more successful - Future of participative management.

Suggested Readings:
1.Workers Ownership and participative Management by A.K.Kedia.
2.Workers participation in Public Enterprises by S.P. Singh Sons and Surendra Nath.
3.Workers participation in management with Special Reference to India by G. Varandani.
4.Workers Participation in Management by DURGA PRASAD 1995

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6. GLOBAL HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Objectives
The objective of this course is to develop a diagnostic and conceptual understanding of the cultural
and related behavioural variables in the management of global organisations.
Course Contents

Module-I
Human and Cultural Variables in Global Organisations Cross-cultural differences and
managerial implications -- Cross cultural Research Methodologies and Hofstede Hermes Study.

Module II:
Structural Evolution of Global Organisations -- Cross cultural leadership and decision making
Cross-cultural communication and negotiation.

Module III:
Human Resource Management in Global Organisations: Recruitment and Selection.

Module IV:
Compensation and Appraisal in Global Perspective.

Module V:
MNCs and Compensation System.

Suggested Readings:

1. International Dimensions of Organisational Behaviour by Adler N.J.
2. Transnational Management: Text. Cases and Readings in Cross Border Management by
Barlett and Goshal.
3. Cultures Consequence: International differences in work related values by Hofstede G.
4. International dimensions of HRM by dowling P.J.

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7. COMPENSATION MANAGEMENT

Objectives
The course is designed to promote understanding of issues related to the compensation or
rewarding human resources in the corporate sector, public services and other forms of
organisations and to impart skills in designing analysing and restructuring reward management
systems, policies and strategies.

Module I
Conceptual and Theoretical understanding of Economic theory related to reward management;
Competitive Imperatives; Productivity, Quality, Service, Speed, Learning, Planning for Improved
Competitiveness; Diagnosis and Benchmarking- Determination of Inter and Intra-industry
Compensation differentials; Internal and external Equity in compensation system.

Module II
Understanding tools used in Designing, Improving and Implementing Compensation packages;
Compensation designs for Specific Type of Human Resources like Compensation of Chief
Executives, Senior managers, R & D Staff.

Module III
Understanding different components of compensation packages like fringe benefits, incentives and
Retirement Plans; Compensation Practices of Multinational Corporations and Strategic
Compensation Systems.

Module IV
Statutory Provisions governing Different Components of Reward systems.

Module V
Working of different Institutions Related to Reward System Like Wage Boards, pay Commissions
etc.

Suggested Readings:
1. Reward Management: A Handbook of salary administration by Armstrong, Michael and
Marlis
2. Wage and Salary Administration by Leonard R,Bergers
3. Wage and Salary administration by Rock Micton

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8. HUMAN RESOSURCE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

Objectives
The objective of this paper is to develop a conceptual as well as a practical understanding of
Human Resource Planning, Development in organisations.

Module I:
Macro Level manpower Planning and Labour market Analysis - Organisational Human Resource
Planning -- Stock Taking -- Work Force Flow mapping -- Age and Grade Distribution mapping.

Module II:
Models and Techniques of manpower demand and supply forecasting-- Behavioural Factors in
HRD -- Wastage Analysis Retention -- Redeployment and Exit Strategies.

Module III:
Career Management, Career Planning and Career Development.

Module IV:
Performance Planning -- Potentials Appraisal -- HRD Climate.

Module V:
Human Resource Information System -- Human Resource Accounting.

Suggested Readings:
1. Strategic HRM by Mabey and Salama
2. Development Human Resources by Mabey and Thompson
3. Human Resource Information System: Development and Application by Kavanagh M.J.

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9. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANAGE AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES

Objectives
The objective of this paper is to prepare students as organizational change facilitators using the
knowledge and techniques of behavioural science.

Module I:
Organization Change: An overview:

Module II:
Approaches to Problem Diagnosis- Some major Techniques of Planned Changes.

Module III:
Steps in OD -- General OD Competencies, OD Skills.

Module IV:
Designing Interventions Interpersonal Team, Inter group.

Module V:
Evaluation of OD, Ethics of OD Professional, Future of OD.

Suggested Readings:

1. Organisational Development by French and Bell
2. An experiential approach to O.D. by Harvey and Brown
3. Consultants and Consulting Styles by Dharani Sinha P.

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10. MANAGING INTERPERSONAL AND GROUP PROCESSES

Objectives
The purpose of this course is to advance understanding regarding interpersonal and group processes
and help the participants to examine and develop process facilitation skills mainly through
laboratory and other experience based methods of learning.

Module I : Nature of Groups at work:
What is a group? Definition, Types of groups, Dynamics of group formation, structure and
dynamics of work groups, group cohesiveness.

Module II: Group Vs Teams:
Concept of Teams, Distinguishing Team from groups, types of teams Dysfunctions of groups and
Teams, Dynamics of Informal groups

Module III: Effective Team Performance:
Creating Teams, making Team successful obstacles to success, Training in Team skills Developing
successful teams.

Module IV: Individual Performance in groups:
Interpersonal communication, - Johari Window, Interpersonal awareness, Social facilitation, Social
loafing Interpersonal Trust, - Interpersonal conflicts, Group decision making, Group Synergy

Module V: Intervention Techniques:
Counseling Techniques, Grid Management, Transactional Analysis, Sensitivity Training, Process
Consultancy, Skill development techniques.

Suggested Readings

1. Bennis, W G Essay in International Dynamics U.S.A Dorsey Press, 1979
2. Kolb, D etc. Organizational Behaviour: An Experiential Approach 5
th
ed. Englewood Cliffs,
New Jersey, Prentice Hall, Inc. 1991
3. Kolb, D etc. Organizational Behaviour : Practical Readings for management 5
th
ed.
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice Hall, of India. 1991
4. Mainiero, L A & Tromley C I Developing managerial Skills in OB New Delhi, Prentice hall
of India, 1985
5. Moore, M D netc. Inside Organizations: Understanding the Human Dimensions London,
Sage 1988

The list of cases and specific references including recent articles will be announced in the class at
the time of launching of the course.

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11. COUNSELING SKILLS FOR MANAGERS

Objectives
To develop basic skills among students to independently handle a wide range of employee
counseling and performance counseling.

Module I: Emergence and Growth of Counseling Services; Approaches to Counseling;

Module II: Counseling Process Beginning, Developing and terminating a counseling relationship
and follow up

Module III: Counselors Attitude and Skills of Counseling; Assessing Clients problems

Module IV: Selecting Counseling Strategies and Interventions Changing Behaviour through
Counseling

Module V: Special Problems in counseling; Application of Counseling to Organizational situations
with a focus on Performance counseling.

Suggested Readings
1. Cormer, L.S. and Hackney, H. The Professional Counselors Process Guide to Helping
Englewood Cliffs, New jersey, Prentice hall Inc. 1987
2. Maclennam, Nigel, Councelling for managers Aldershot, Grover, 1996
3. Moursund, J The Process of Counseling and Therapy 2
nd
ed. Englewood Cliffs, New
Jersey, Prentice Hall Inc. 1990.
4. Munro, C A etc. Counseling: A Skills Approach, Methuen, 1980
5. Reddy, Michael, Counseling at Work, British psychological Society and Methuen, London
and New York, 1987

The list of cases and specific references including recent articles will be announced in the class at
the time of launching of the course.

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12 MANAGEMENT OF COMPARATIVE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

Objectives

Recent years have witnessed an increasing degree of globalization of economies, Appreciation of
Industrial relations policies and practices of major economies would be necessary efficiently in the
liberalized environment. This course aims to familiarize students in the major industrial relations
systems operating in different economic, political and cultural contexts.

Course Contents

Industrial Relations and Globalization; Emerging Trends in Industrial Relations, Trade Union
Strategies Towards Liberalization and Technological Change; Employee Response to Industrial Re-
structuring and Organisatoional Re-engineering; Emerging Trends in Collective Bargaining and
Negotiation; Productivity Bargaining and Wage Negotiations; Employee Empowerment and
Participative Decision Making: Labour Flexibility and Gain sharing Changing Role of the State
and Industrial Relations in the Developed, Newly Developed and Developing Economies.


Suggested Readings

1. Adams, R J & Merltz N.M. ed. Industrial Relations Theory: Its Nature, Scope & Pedagogy,
LMR Press/Rutgers University 1993
2. Bamber, G J & Lansbury R D ed. International and Comparative Industrial relations: A
Study of Industrialized Market Economies London, Routlege, 1993
3. Davis, E M & Lansbury, R D ed. Managing Together Consultation and Participation in the
Workplace, Melbourne, Longman, 1996
4. Frankel, S & Harrod, J Industrialisation and Labour Relations: Contemporary Research in
Seven Countries Ithaca, ILR Press, 1995
5. Gardner, M & Palmer, G. Employment Relations, Industrial Relations and Human Resource
management in Australia Ithaca, ILR Press, 1995
6. Jacoby, S M The Workers of nations: Industrial Relations in Globalized Economy, Oxford,
Oxford University Press, 1994
7. Locke, R etc. Employment Relations in a Changing World Economy, Cambridge, MIT
Press, 1995

The list of cases and specific references including recent articles will be announced in the class at
the time of launching of the course.

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13 MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT FOR TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE

Objectives:
Recent years have witnessed rapid technological changes affecting industry and business in
different ways. This course aims to discuss the major aspects of technological change and the kind
of human resource management strategies and steps which may equip the organization and its
human resources to adequately cope with such changes.

Course Contents
Manpower management in the 21
st
Century Environment Context of Human Resource
management: The Emerging profile of Human Resources; Special Features of New Technology;
Concept and Process of Technological Innovation, Organisational Implications of Technological
Change; Human Resource Implications of Technological Change; Performance/ Potential
Evaluation in the Context of New Technology; Technology Transfer with Human Face New Issues
in Manpower Training and Career Development.

Suggested Readings

1. Clark, Jon managing Innovation and Change, University of Southampton, 1995
2. Clark, Jon Human Resource Management and Technological Change, London, Sage, 1993
3. Campbell, A and Wamer, M New Technology, Skills and Management, London, Routledge,
1992
4. Rastogi, P N Management of Technology and Innovation, New Delhi, Sage,1995
5. Warner, M. New Technology and manufacturing Management, London, Wiley, 1990
6. Womack, J P etc. The machine That Changed the World. New York, Maxwell Macmillan,
1990
7. Whittaker, D H Managing Innovation Cambridge University Press, 1990

The list of cases and specific references including recent articles will be announced in the class at
the time of launching of the course.

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14 LEGAL FRAMEWORK GOVERNING HUMAN RELATIONS

Objectives
Understanding of the legal framework is important for the efficient decision making relating to man
management and industrial relations. The course aims to provide an understanding, application and
interpretation of the various labour laws and their implications for industrial relations and labour
issues.

Course Contents
Emergence and Objectives of Labour Laws and their Socio-economic Environment; Industrial
Relations laws Laws Relating to Industrial Disputes, Trade Unions, and Standing Orders; Laws
Relating to Discharge, Misconduct, Domestic Enquiry, Disciplinary Action; Social Security Laws
Laws Relating to Workmens compensation, Employees State Insurance, Provident Fund, Gratuity
and maternity Relief; Wages and bonus laws the law of minimum wages, Payment of Wages,
Payment of Bonus; laws Relating to Working conditions The laws Relating to Factories,
Establishment, and Contract labour; Interpretations of labour laws, their Working , and implications
for management, Union, Workmen; The economy and the Industry.

Suggested Readings

1. Ghalye, B R Law and Procedure of Departmental Enquiry in Private and Public Sector.
Lucknow, Eastern law Company, 1994
2. Malhotra, O.P. The law of Industrial Disputes Vol. I and II Bombay N.M. Tripathi, 1985
3. Malik, P.L. Handbook of Industrial law Lucknow, Eastern Book, 1995
4. Saini, Debi S. labour Judiciary, Adjudication and industrial Justice, New Delhi, Oxford,
1995
5. Saini Debi S. Redressal of labour Grievances, Claims and Disputes, New Delhi, Oxford &
IBH, 1994
6. Seth, D D Industrial Dispute Act 1947 Vol. I & II Bombay N.M. Tripathi, 1995
7. Srivastava S C Industrial relations and labour law, New Delhi, Vikas, 1994

The list of cases and specific references including recent articles will be announced in the class at
the time of launching of the course.

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15 HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT: STRATEGIES AND SYSTEMS

Objectives
The purpose of this course is to facilitate and understanding of the concepts, methods and strategies
for HRD.

Course Contents
Field of HRD Concepts, Goals, Challenges; HRD Climate and Practices in India; Staffing HRD
Function; Developing HR Strategies; HRD System Design Principles; Design & Administration of
Select HRD Systems; HRD for Workers; HRD Intervention; HRD Approaches for coping with
Organisational Changes; Case Studies of HRD in Indian Organisations.

Suggested Readings

1. Dayal, Ishwar Successful Applications of HRD, New Delhi, New Concepts, 1996
2. Dayal, Ishwar, Designing HRD Systems, New Delhi, Concept, 1993
3. Kohli, Uddesh & Sinha, Dhami P. HRD Global Challenges & Strategies in 2000 A.D.
New Delhi, ISTD, 1995
4. Maheshwari, B L & Sinha, Dhami P. Management of Change Through HRD New Delhi,
Tata McGraw hill, 1991
5. Pareek, U. etc. managing Transitions: The HRD Response New Delhi, Tata McGraw Hill,
1992
6. Rao T V etc. Alternative Approaches & Strategies of Human Resource Development,
Jaipur, Rawai, 1988
7. Silvera, D.N. HRD: The Indian experience, Delhi, New India, 1991.


The list of cases and specific references including recent articles will be announced in the class at
the time of launching of the course.

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16 MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT

Objectives
The purpose of this course is to advance an understanding of concepts, methods, and strategies
underlying the development of executives.

Course Contents
Field of HRD: Definition, Objectives and Functions of HRD Professionals; Open Systems Theory
Perspective for Training; Strategic Planning Approach; Organizational Environment and Training;
Principles of Learning: Learning and Behavior, Teaching/Learning Debate, Training and/or
Development; Management Development - Perspectives, MD and management education pitfalls,
continuing need, need for effective MD, MD Policy and committees; Planning the Strategies and
Programme to reach MD objectives; Training methodology An overview of the training process;
management Effectiveness Audit and, Management Inventory; Training needs Assessment and
Training objectives; Designing training for effective learning Methods of MD including Training
to: Human Relations, leadership, team Work, Communication and creativity; conduction of MD
Programme Role of Programme Co-ordinator, trainee, top Management; Evaluation; Getting
Management Training to Pay-Off.

Suggested Readings:

1. Bienvenu, B J New Priorities in Training 1969, American Management Association.
2. Binsted, Don Developments in interpersonal Skills Training 1986 Gower, London
3. Brinkerhoff, Robert, Achieving Results from Training How to evaluate HRD to Strengthen
programs and Increase impact. 1987, Jossey bass, San Francisco.
4. Craig, Robert L. Training and Development Handbook , 3
rd
ed. 1987. McGraw Hill, New
York
5. Kinlaw, Dennis c. Developing Superior Work terms: building Quality and the competitive
Edge. 1991, University Associates,California
6. Lynton, rolf P and Pareek, Udai, Training for Development Richard d Irwin, Homewood,
Illinois,
7. Singh, P.N. Training for management Development 1984 Forum of Asian managers,
Bombay

The list of cases and specific references including recent articles will be announced in the class at
the time of launching of course.