PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT IN INDIA AND WORLDWIDE: The Past, Present, and Future
Author: Rana Som
ISBN: 978-0192883773
Price: Rs. 1445.00 • ✓ 100% Genuine Publisher Edition
Book Overview
Personnel Management is a business function and business is a value-adding activity. A business, be it agriculture, manufacturing, mining, trading, or any other activity, is a process of conversion for the purpose of satisfying human needs and thereby adding value. Such conversion takes various forms. It may be in terms of quantity, quality, time, or space. All such conversions are done primarily through human effort. Therefore, the need for personnel management arose since the time business activities required organized application of human effort. The history of personnel management is thus very old. Incidentally, persons are generally averse to physical and repetitive work. It had, therefore, been a challenge for those managing other people to get the work done by them when it was not inspiring in terms of work content or remuneration. This book, in a historical perspective, explains how the personnel managers handled the challenge in different ages, and how the evolving socio-economic environment influenced their approaches and actions. A lot has changed in terms of personnel management over the years. With economic liberalization, personnel management is no longer a job of managing persons. This book also covers the larger activities of organizational management and beyond. In the days to come, personnel managers will have to be messengers of social harmony and growth, and an embodiment of trust. And then they will be able to serve the organizations and their employees the best.
Browse this title within our Analysis & Strategy collection. Edition details: Images in this review, English, 160 pages. Reference ISBN: 978-0192883773.
About the Author
Rana Som, Former Chairman & Managing Director, National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC), Government of India Rana Som is a former Chairman & Managing Director of India's largest iron ore mining company, National Mineral Development Corporation. He is now associated with a number of companies as a director on their boards. Som holds a post-graduate diploma in Personnel Management. He has been a speaker at various forums in India and abroad. He has also been a judge for the Platts Global Energy Awards, responsible for selecting the best companies and best managers in the world in the metals and the mining sector every year.
Book Specifications & Quick Facts
- Reading Level
- Students & Academic Researchers
- Language & Format
- English • Images in this review
- ISBN Reference
- 978-0192883773
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
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What is this book about?
Personnel Management is a business function and business is a value-adding activity. A business, be it agriculture, manufacturing, mining, trading, or any other activity, is a process of conversion for the purpose of satisfying human needs and thereby adding value. Such conversion takes various...
Who should read this book?
Essential reading for students, entrepreneurs, and curious minds seeking practical life insights, productivity principles, and deeper intellectual perspectives.
Why Readers Pick This Edition
- You’ll appreciate this book as a premium reference that goes beyond theory to show how personnel management evolved across eras and economies. By tracing practices from early industrial systems to modern global organizations, it helps you understand why HR works the way it does today. Ideal for management students, educators, and professionals, it strengthens your conceptual clarity, enriches exam answers, and sharpens your strategic thinking about people as the true drivers of business value.
- Published by OUP Oxford.
- Language: English.
- Page count: 160.
Catalog Description
Personnel Management is a business function and business is a value-adding activity. A business, be it agriculture, manufacturing, mining, trading, or any other activity, is a process of conversion for the purpose of satisfying human needs and thereby adding value. Such conversion takes various forms. It may be in terms of quantity, quality, time, or space. All such conversions are done primarily through human effort. Therefore, the need for personnel management arose since the time business activities required organized application of human effort. The history of personnel management is thus very old. Incidentally, persons are generally averse to physical and repetitive work. It had,...
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