Effective HRM Practices

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Engineering education has a pivotal role to play in helping the country join the league of developed nations. An engineer must not only become a promoter of technology but its creator too, while keeping pace with its rapid change and advancement.

With annual availability of over a million and a half seats and still counting, India is reported to be one of the largest producers of engineering graduates in the world, where the rise has been phenomenal in the last decade or so.This quantity has raised quality-related issues with the low employability of engineering graduates becoming a matter of serious concern at the national level. Fortunately, state-owned tier-1 institutions have maintained their standards, and have carved a niche for themselves.

However, with private sector emerging as a major player in the field, shortage of qualified faculty coupled with inadequate attention to their HR-related needs appear to be the major causes for low quality turn out of engineering graduates, apart from various other reasons like poor infrastructure, and lack of industry interface etc. The faculty who churns out the engineer must be highly proficient in his job. So he deserves to be taken care of by the management if he is expected to remain productive. HRM as a functional discipline is generally a "taken for granted" activity in an educational institution and with the economic development of the country as a stake, engineering colleges can ill afford to treat it as such. There is yet another pressing need to make teaching an attractive career option for the educated youth as traditionally in our country it is rarely considered worthy of pursuit.

This book deals with the quality concerns of engineering education and addresses them through effective HRM practices for the faculty under the assumption 'quality teacher produces quality students'. It is sure to provide a one-point reference to the heads of engineering colleges.