Human resources make the difference to societies and organizations. If two countries have roughly equal resources but different levels of development, the difference is accounted by its human resources. In a knowledge economy, scale and success are a function of the ability and attitude of people. The volume is useful in addressing some of the vital issues relating to international human resources, cross-cultural management and training and development leveraging the potential of information technology. The papers deals not merely with HRD issues concerning managers and professionals, but also the workers. It deals with the challenges for HRD arising out of globalisation, technology and competition. Some of the chapters specifically take stock of the current status of the profession, competency requirements, emerging challenges and future roles and future of HRD itself. Human Resource Development-Challenges and Opportunities is an effort in the direction of raising certain queries and concerns in the field, as a contribution towards enabling human resource development to become more accountable and integrated part of organizational life. The work is also directed at engaging in deeper meaningful debate to construct workable, effective and useful approaches, in an effort to strengthen the future of human resource development. It is hoped that his volume will serve to highlight a need for further paradigm exploration in the study of organizations and their management.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Neelu Rohmetra
Dr. Neelu Rohmetra is Professor in the Department of Management Studies, University of Jammu, with over sixteen years teaching and research experience in Management. She speicalises in Human Resource Development and Organisation Behaviour. Dr. Rohmetra is the winner of prestigious AICTE CAREER AWARD FOR YOUNG TEACHERS below 35 years of age for the years 1999. She has been the Visiting Fellow to EAP-European Schol of Management, Oxford, UK, in 1998. The Commonwealth commission in UK also selected her in 2001 under the Post-Doctoral Research Programme, as Senior Fellow at Department of Management Leaerning, Lancaster University, UK. She is also the winner of Fulbright Visiting Lecturer Felowship for the year 2001-02. Dr. Robmetra is the author of books entitled: Human Resource Development in Commercial Banks in India (1998) and Cucltural Paradigm in Managing People and Organisations (2005). She is also the Associate Editor (wish Prof. Vipin Gupta as Editor) for the book titeld: Transformative Organizations Across Globe (2004). Dr. Rohmetra is member Interntionsl Editorial Boards of two International Journals: " International Journals of cross cultural Management" and 'Human Resource Development International'. Her papers have been published in journals of national and international repute. She has been member 'PROJECT GLOBE-A 60 Nation study on Cross-Cultural Leadership', developed by Prof. Robert House at Whearton Business School, USA. She is also working as the Coordinator for the newly constituted Jammu Chapter of National HRd Network. Recently, her research proposal titled: "Evaluating Human Resource Function For Enhancing Performance Using HRD Scorecard Model: The Case of Select Indian and Foreign Banks In India", has received funding under University Grants Commission's Major Research Project Scheme for promoting research.
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