ASSAM UNIVERSITY SYLLABUS (NON - HONS): HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (5th SEM - CBCS PATTERN)

B.Com: Semester V

Paper B.C. 5.1 (a): HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Internal Assessment -30

Term End Exam - 70

Marks: 100

Lectures: 65

Objective: The objective of the course is to acquaint students with the techniques and principles to manage human resource of an organisation

Unit 1: Introduction

13 Lectures              20

Human Resource Management: Concept and Functions, Role, Status and competencies of HR Manager, HR Policies, Evolution of HRM, HRM vs HRD. Emerging Challenged of Human Resource Management; Workforce diversity; Empowerment; Downsizing; VRS; Human Resource Information System.

Unit 2: Acquisition of Human Resource

13 Lectures                   20

Concept and Importance; Identifying Training and Development Needs; Designing Training Programmes; Role-specific and competency-Based Training; Evaluating Training Effectiveness; Training Process Outsourcing; Management Development; Career Development.

Unit 3: Training and Development

13 Lectures                     20

Concept and Importance: Identifying Training and Development Needs: Designing Training Programmes; Role-Specific and Competency-Based Training; Evaluating Training Effectiveness; Training Process Outsourcing; Management Development; Career Development.

Unit 4: Performance Appraisal

13 Lectures                       20

Nature, objectives and importance; Modern techniques of performance appraisal; Potential appraisal and employee counseling; job changes – transfers and promotions; Compensation; concept and policies; job evaluation; methods of wage payments and incentives plans, fringe benefits; performance linked compensation.

Unit 5: Maintenance

13 Lectures                       20

Employee health and safety; employee welfare; social security; Employer-Employee relations – an overview; grievance-handling and redressal; Industrial Disputes: Causes and settlement machinery.

Suggested Readings:

1. Gary Dessler. A Framework for Human Resource Management. Pearson Education

2. DeCenzo, D.A. and S.P. Robbins, Personnel/Human Resource Management, Pearson Education.

3. Bohlendar and Snell, Principles of Human Resource Management, Cengage Learning.

4. Ivancevich, John M. Human Resource Management. McGraw Hill.

5. Wreather and Davis. Human Resource Management, Pearson Education.

6. Robert L. Mathis and John H. Jackson, Human Resouurce Management. Cengage Learning.

7. T.N. Chhabra, Human Resource Management, Dhanpat Raj & Co., Delhi

8. Biswajeet Pattanayak, Human Resource Management. PHI Learning.