Sanjeev Kumar Singh
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Around the world, millions of men and women work in poor and hazardous conditions. Every year, more than 2 million people die of work-related accidents and diseases. Human suffering has no measurable cost, unlike economic losses. Estimates, for example, from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Norway put the direct cost of accidents in billions of dollars. In many developing countries, death rates among workers are five to six times those in ...
The book examines the concept and evolution of Special Economic Zones (SEZs), overviews the international experiences with SEZ experiment and critically evaluates the performance of the Chinese experiment of SEZs to provide insights into their potential for promoting industrial and economic development in India. SEZs lead to a marked development of human skills, infrastructural developments and FDI inflow, provided it is backed by a strong policy framework that ...
The scope of human development is not restricted to the rise or fall of national incomes but includes people or the real wealth of nations and the freedom of individuals and human rights. Development widens people choices while its objective is to create an enabling environment for people to enjoy long, healthy and creative lives. The Human Development Index measures the non-income dimensions of the quality of life and comprises three basic components-health, ...
The male "breadwinner" model, on which much of trade union organization was based, has become increasingly inappropriate. Due to globalization, structural changes, the trend to individualism, new information and communication technologies, demographic changes, the more widespread adoption of neoliberal policies, changes in the character of work and the reform of production regimes, trade union membership and density have declined. The book serves to ...
Competition, coordination, maintaining creativity and excellence, local flexibility and the like are all attributes necessary for an HR manager at a time when his company has decided to "Go Global". The ever-expanding scope of global competition is forcing a continuous re-examination of how human resources can best support the rapid pace of business globalisation. With increasing globalisation, the thrust is now on competency-building and managing ...
Ergonomics is that branch of science which seeks to turn human-machine antagonism into human machine synergy. Ergonomics is more than improving health and safety, illness and injury through redesign of the workplace. It is simultaneously concerned with business efficiency optimization, improving productivity and cost-effectiveness through optimizing the match between the systems (organizations, environments – physical, psychological and social) and the people ...
Collective bargaining is an essential feature of the concept of Social Partnership, towards which labour relations should strive. Collective bargaining replicates the processes by which conflict is and should always be resolved in a democracy; it projects democratic values into the workplace; it preserves the autonomy of social forces as against the pervasive influence of the State; it makes the conventional market place techniques of economic ordering in a ...