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Human Resource Management is the process of managing people in organizations in a structured manner. It encompasses the management of people in organizations in the form of a collective relationship between management and employees. The present text is the most authentic presentation of contemporary concepts and practices in Human Resource Management. It is a matter of great satisfaction to bring out the present edition of Human Resource Management for the ...
The book Principles of Management is an attempt to present a clear and logical view of concepts, theories, and principles of management. In this book, it has been tried to analyse the role and importance of the practice of management from historical to modern perspectives. This book contains twenty-three chapters which include the meaning and process of management; historical roots of management thought; classical era of management; neo-classical era of ...
It is believed that human body is attained after going through 84 lakhs of forms as various types of living beings. It is extremely precious because we can acquire knowledge of self and elevate the soul in our lifetime. Knowledge of self is the only way through which we can be in communion with God and be face-to-face with Him. In order to achieve this stage, it is necessary to make knowledge of the self the most important objective of life and then to mingle it ...
Great Indian Novelists in English: A Critical Exploration, is an anthology of research papers contributed by teachers of English and research scholars hailing from different parts of India. It contains papers on the novelists of Indian Writing in English, i.e. Mulk Raj Anand, R.P. Jhabvala, Mahasweta Devi, Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Amitav Ghosh, Manju Kapur, Kiran Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri, Bharati Mukherjee, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Shobha De, ...
Literary Theory: Textual Application provides a critical and thorough presentation of contemporary theoretical perspectives on the different literary texts. It demonstrates how literary texts can be read from different theoretical approaches to develop skills at practicing literary theory. The book is aimed at developing the critical competence of the students by providing a sound grounding in literary theory and how it can be used in their writings. It contains ...
John Updike is undoubtedly one of the few great writers of the twentieth century, whose reputation has exceeded even his own early hopes and expectations. He is considered to be the most renowned and prolific among the Post-Modern American novelists. His celebrity status resides in his achievements as a writer whose masterpieces continue to be passed on to new generation of readers throughout America and the world. His reputation rests largely on his novels, ...
The book explores the shifting perceptions on the body and the self in the Indian socio-cultural and cultural situations from the psychological angle as reflected in the fictional work of Sudhir Kakar. It analyzes the themes of gender, sexuality and subjectivity in the selective novels of Sudhir Kakar. Sudhir Kakar is an Indian psychoanalyst, novelist and author in the fields of cultural psychology and the psychology of religion. His essays and novels are ...
The proposed book explains various aspects and methods of research. The subject matter is divided into 12 chapters, each dealing with pertinent requirements of research. Chapter 1 is an introduction to research, while chapter 2 describes various variables and their use in social research. Formulation of a research problem has been explained in chapter 3, and hypothesis and research questions have been taken up in chapter 4. Research design, types of research ...
Soft skills are the soul of any expression. They can be inculcated and attained by minute observation of one's own self. Lau Tse said, "Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."
The book aims at creating your own destiny with character, habits, actions and words. It will develop and ...
Feminist Approaches to Literature: Vistas and Perspectives offers an edited collection of discourses, which are specifically feminist in content, showcasing major strands of contemporary feminist analysis. Instead of trying to be rigid regarding the nature of feminism or feminisms, this book offers some new thoughts on the various directions of feminism which might be apparent in the future. In doing so, the articles differ from the more traditionally accepted ...
Contemporary Indian Women Novelists in English: New Perspectives attempts to study and analyse some prominent Indian women novelists whose contributions to English literature in general and Indian writing in English in particular are immense. The writers included in this anthology are: Anita Desai, Mahasweta Devi, Shashi Deshpande, Arundhati Roy, Bharati Mukherjee, Jhumpa Lahiri, Shobhaa De, Manju Kapur, Jai Nimbkar, Anuradha Roy, Meena Alexander, Lakshmi Kannan, ...
This book brings together critical articles on all the English works of the brilliant Indian writer Nirad Chaudhuri-from his Autobiography of an Unknown Indian-up to his last work, The East is East and the West is West. Though these chapters are independent in their chronological order, they are interconnected thematically.
Nirad Chaudhuri happens to be an important prose writer in the tradition of Indian English prose writers like Jawaharlal Nehru, Sri ...
The book Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel: Chanakya of Modern India highlights the indispensably wise, critical, mature, decisive, responsible, and steering leadership role played by Sardar Patel. The book covers the pre-independence and the post-independence scenario taking Sardar Patel at the central role and takes stock of the crucial period between 1945 and 1950 and the critical decisions taken at that time on which the future of India was to be built. It also covers ...
Banking reforms in India started in the real sense with the nationaIization of 14 banks in 1969 and six more in 1980, and licensing of a number of small private banks post liberalization. These new banks came to be known as New Generation tech-savvy banks. Following the merger of some banks, the banking sector was reviltalized and since then has registered a rapid growth with strong contribution from all the three types of banks, namely government banks, private ...
The book Economics of India: How to Fool all People for all Times has been presented in a series of articles and essays on different subjects of the Indian economy and attempts to provide a different view. Most of the subjects are contemporary and hence can be related with the controversies and the view being provided by the author. A lot of data has been used to substantiate the arguments made.
This book contains 37 chapters which have been grouped under various ...
The Combined Defence Services (CDS) examination is conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) twice every year for recruitment to officer cadre of the Army, Navy and the Air Force. There are three papers of objective type questions only: Paper 1 is on General Knowledge, Paper II is on General English and Paper III is on Elementary Mathematics, each carrying 100 marks.
Candidates qualifying the written test are interviewed by the Service Selection ...
The book is based on predictive geopolitics and focuses on the territorial supremacy of nations and superpowers-both onshore and offshore. It attempts to help the reader develop a world geopolitical view to interpret events and trends. From a realist geopolitical world view focusing on the Eurasian World Island and its surrounding maritime highway trade routes and chokepoints, the authors accept the lessons of macro-history to dramatically forecast that the ...