‘Human Resource Development in the 21st Century’ contains select 28 papers. These papers written by a galaxy or renowned scholars and practicing administrators cover a wide spectrum of activities, approaches, practices, concepts, case studies and challenges to HRD with special reference to the 21st century. For the sake of convenience of the readers, these papers have been grouped into six units according to their specific areas of inquiry: Unit I deals with introduction, basic concepts and approaches. Unit II discusses case studies in technical areas like banking, human resource requirements for electronic hardware and software, Himachal Road Transport Corporation, H.P. SC/ST Development Corporation and HRD in Health Administration. Unit III contains studies in banking including cooperative banks. Unit IV contains case studies in local government with special reference to 73rd and 74th constitutional amendments. Unit V deals with case studies in Higher Education. Last unit, i.e., Unit VI deals with the case studies with special reference to the resource base of Himachal Pradesh. This unit has also got a papers which deals with HRD with reference to the resource base to Rajasthan. This book contains well researched articles fraught with highly thought-provoking and practical ideas. It is hoped this book will not only be useful to all organizations who can pick up sufficient hints and suggestions, but also to all management students specializing in HRD.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR P.N. Gautam
Professor P.N. Gautam, currently Principal Investigator, UGC Major REsearch Project, Department of Public Administration, H.P. University, Shimla, is a social career. He did his M.A. in Public Administration and Master of Education from Panjab University, Chandigarh. He obtained his Ph.D. dgree from the Panjab University, chandigarh. He obtained Postgraduate Diploma in Training and Development in Public Sector from Manchester University and Diploma in Training and Management from the Institute of Training and Development, Beaconsfield. He has been teaching Public Administration fof the last three decades. Formerly, he was a Professor and Chairman Department of Public Administration, H.P. University, Shimla, Director, H.P.U. Regional Centre, Dharmshala and Faculty H.P. Institute of Public Administration, Fairlawn, Shimla. He has also been an advisor to the Departments of Personnel and Training and Social and Women Welfare, Government of Himachal Pradesh. He has published about half a dozen books in Public Administration and contributed papers in many journals and magazines of repute. He is widely travelled and has also presented papers in many national and international seminars at different universities in India and abroad.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S.L. Goel
Dr. S.L. Goel, Emeritus Fellow UGC at Panjab University, and an eminent social scientist has been teaching Public Administration and Political Science for over thses decades. He has been a member of University Grants Commission, Govt. of India, New Delhi, Distance Education Council and a member of All India Board of Management under All India Council for Technical Education, Ministry of HRD, New Delhi. His field of specialisation is Public Administration and Management. He has been advisor to Himachal Pradesh and Haryana Health Departments under their USAID Programme. He has written a number of books on Management and Public Administration, foreign students for Doctoral research as well as conducted a large number of training programmes for senior administrators. He has been an elected member of the Senate of P.U., Chandigarh form 1984-88. He is widely traveled in India and Abroad. He was Chairman for UGC IXth Plan Allocation for the Universities in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh and Co-Chairman for Maharashtra. North-East Universities as well as with some Central Universities. He was Convenor UGC Tth Plan Committee for Jama Milia University, New Delhi, Chitarkoot University, Chitarkoot, Rajasthan University, Jaipur and all Colleges of Delhi University. He was a member of Xth Plan Committee at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in 2003. As a member of UGC, he was associated with a number of Programmes like Academic Staff associated with a number of Programmes like Academic Staff Colleges, Special Assistance Programme, Autonomous Colleges, where he contributed substantially. He has also published more than thirty books on other areas. He has been a Visiting Professor and a consultanat at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. He visited USSR under Indo-cultural Exchange Programme. He has also served as Professor of Public Administration at Haryana Institute of Public Administration, Chandigarh and in the capacity directed a number of Executive Development Rogrammes meant for Senior Civil Servants. He visited D.R. of Korea, Japan, Hongkong to study the system of Education. He was in Hungary, Switzerland, France, Italy and U.K. to study the health care system in these countries during the summer of 1999.
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