Optimum use of manpower is a very vital question in the survival and growth of an organization. Development of manpower is very essential to achieve better equilibrium in the organizations. Almost all the large sized organizations have a separate HRD department. Business organizations need to understand the new conceptual framework of human resource management and accounting. The book will be of great use of scholars, students and teachers of commerce, management and public administration, to various business organizations and government departments and will be a good reference book for all HRD training programmes.

Table of Contents:
Preface Part I : CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK OF HUMAN RESOURCE ACCOUNTING : 1. Human Capital and Accounting/P.K. Verma 2. Third Wave and Human Resource Accounting/Dinesh K. Gupta 3. The Lev and Schwartz Model Based Human Resource Accounting System and the use of Appropriate Discount Rate/Dinesh K. Gupta 4. Human Resource Accounting in India : Some Issues/Dinesh K. Gupta 5. A Logical Case for Standardization of Human Resource Accounting Practices in India/Dinesh K. Gupta 6. Performance of Business Performance Criteria/Manoj Anand and Ajay K. Garg 7. Human Resource Accounting and Auditing/S.L Goel Part II : EFFECTIVENESS OF TRAINING : ON THE JOB AND OFF THE JOB : 8. Training of Manpower for a Globally Competitive India/S.L Goel 9. Effect of Training : Learning Self-growth Skills/Vidhu Mohan 10. Human Development Through the Process of Training, Re-training and Re-deployment : A Myth or Reality/Binay Kumar 11. Effectiveness of Training : On-the-job and Off-the-job Training/K.S. Kang 12. Training for Performance Improvement : A Case Study/K.S. Kang 13. Effectiveness of Training : On-the-job and Off-the-job/Vinod K. Shartna 14. Making Training Effective/M.M. Singh 15. Effectiveness of Training/Gurbir Singh Sekhon 16. Training for Creativity in the 21st Century/P.K. Vasudeva 17. Training of Administrative Staff in the Indian Universities : A Case Study of the Centre for Work Study in Educational Administration/Shital Prakash 18. Quality Control in Higher Education in Third Millennium/Asha Sethi 19. Improving Career Development Programmes Through Benchmarking/Meenakshi Malhotra 20. Importance of Effective Training Programme for the New Recruits/Japan Dutta Part III : OPTIMUM UTILISATION OF MANPOWER AND LIBERALISATION PROCESS : 21. Optimum Utilisation of Manpower and Liberalised Economy/Charu Hurria 22. Optimising Manpower Utilisation in Steel Industry/Sonita Kataria 23. Work Force Restructuring Under Liberalized Economy/R.K. Sapru and B.B. Goyal 24. Human Resource Dimensions of New Economic Policy/P.P. Arya 25. Restructuring-a Competitive Advantage : A Trade Union's View/P.P. Arya 26. Labour Management Strategies and Liberalization of Indian Economy/P.P. Arya 27. Organisational Commitment and Job Involvement as Related to Role Stress Amongst Middle Level Managers/Harinder M. Sandhu, J.M. Jerath and Promila Vasudeva 28. Manpower Planning in a Globalised Economy : Challenges before Indian Educational System/Inder Prabha Sharma 29. Application of Somatic Ink-blot Series in Understanding the Personality, Screening During Selection and Behaviour Modification/B.L. Dubey 30. Computers in Human Resource Management/Indu Garg Part IV : THE INDIAN WORK CULTURE AND MEASURES TO IMPROVE ITS COMPETITIVENESS : 31. Role of Organisational Work-culture in Optimising Human Performance/B.D. Singh 32. The Indian Work Culture and Measures to Improve its Competitiveness/Amar Deepika 33. Transformation of Work Culture-a Priority Agenda for Organisational Growth/A.C. Verma 34. Indian Work Culture and Measures to Improve its Competitiveness/Rajinder Singh 35. The Indian Work Culture and Conceptual Frame for the Objectives : Entrepreneurial Society/P.C. Suri 36. Work Values in Two Indian Organisations/Anupama Gandhi 37. Trade Unions and Work Culture/P.P. Arya 38. Cultural Transformation : Acquisition and Merger-a Case Study/Rajneesh Tiwari and Binay Kumar 39. Human Resource Development and Economic Efficiency of Industrial Sector in Developing Countries/Yash Pal Bhagat 40. Enhancing Managerial Effectiveness : The Technological Imperatives/Anupama Kaushik and Sanjeev K. Sharma 41. Indian Management Practices/Kapil Jaspal and Amandeep Jaspal 42. Human Resource Management and Accounting-a Summary of Issues and Prospects/P.P. Arya Participants and Contributions