Reading in Personnel Management (4 Volumes)

One of the most crucial aspects of management studies is that of personnel and manpower. The personnel function has two major aspects, first, the responsibility of all managers and supervisors for the way in which they manage their people into an effective, efficient and optimal task force, and, secondly, the highly specialised responsibility which concerns the personnel head himself, in the task of advising the company?s directors, formulation of personnel policy, and planning and supervising the producers by which this policy is carried into effect. The emergent role of the personnel and HRD consultant too is of immense significance in the practices of modern industry and management. The present publication brings into focus these several aspects of the modern practices in the area of human resource development and personnel management. It provides selective readings on various aspects and the efforts of the publisher has been to cater to both the lay student and the aspiring management expert. It is hoped that the present publication will be readable as well as useful, and also a meaningful contribution to the contemporary literature on the subject of manpower and personnel management.

K.V. Ramani (b. 1945) holds a Master’s degree in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, and a MBA degree from the same university. He has worked at middle and senior levels of Century Rayons, Ashok Leyland and United Breweries. He has also made meaningful contributions in terms of research and development in association with CAPEXIL, the Indian Textile Research Association and the Cotton Mills Federation of India. He is the author of the widely acclaimed industry guide on Creative Approach to Industrial Relations (1988) and of at least a dozen papers published in leading Indian journals of management and industrial development. His other edited works include Corporate Policy Making and Planning and the Integrated Enterprises. Presently, he is a known management consultant and also Executive Secretary with one of the three all India associations of consultancy organisations.