Masters of Business Administration:HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Course Objective: To help the students develop an understanding of the management of human resources and develop abilities and skills required to manage them.

Course Contents

Unit 1: The Field of HRM:
Overview
Concept and Functions
Personnel to HRM
ASTD HRM Model

Suggested Cases:
- Demands of Employees Wife
- Authority of Personnel Manager at Regional Level.

Unit 2: Acquisition of Human Resources:
Objectives
Human Resource Planning
Job Analysis, Job Description, Job Specification
Job Design- Nature, Job Characteristics, Reengineering Jobs.
Recruitment, Promotion, Transfer

Suggested Cases:
Job Specification
Which is more important – Recruiting or Retaining?
Unit 3: The Human Resource Organization:
Structure of Human Resource Management
Selection
Induction
Placement
Formulation and Essentials of Sound HR Policies

Suggested Cases:
How to select a new employee?
Introduction of Induction

Unit 4: Development of Human Resources:
Training and Development
Evaluation of Training
Performance Appraisal
Introduction to Career and Succession Planning.

Suggested Cases:
Evaluation of Executive Development Programme
Career Opportunities

Unit 5: Maintenance of Human Resource:
Job Evaluation
Designing and Administering Wage and Salary Structure
Grievance Handling Procedure.

Suggested Case:
Parity-Is it Fair or Unfair?

Unit 6: Separation Processes:
Turnover, Retirement, Layoff
Retrenchment and Discharge
VRS- Mechanism, VRS in Public and Private Sector
Rehabilitation of Surplus Employees.

Unit 7:
Emerging Trends and Challenges in HRM
International HRM- Cultural Differences and HRM
International Policy- Recruitment, Selection, Training & Development.

Suggested Case:
- The Case of Hushed Relationship