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and making plans to ensure that a competent, stable work force is
employed.
Unions frequently develop because employees are frustrated in achieving
important goals on an individual basis and unionizing is the only countervailing
technique available to achieve these goals.
3.5 KEY WORDS
Job Design:It is a core function of human resource management and it
is related to the specification of contents, methods and relationship of
jobs in order to satisfy technological and organizational requirements as
well as the social and personal requirements of the job holder or the
employee.
Industrial Relations: Also called employment relations, it is the
multidisciplinary academic field that studies the employment relationship;
that is, the complex interrelations between employers and employees, labour/
trade unions, employer organizations and the state.
3.6 SELF ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS AND
EXERCISES
Short-Answer Questions
1. What do you mean by the commodity approach to HRM?
2. What is the difference between proactive and reactive approaches to HRM?
Long-Answer Questions
1. Discuss the selection and staffing model of HRM in detail.
2. Explain how personnel research and compensation are significant as a model
of HRM.
3.7 FURTHER READINGS
Aquinas, P. G. 2005. Human Resources Management: Principles and Practice.
New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House Pvt Ltd.
Decenco, David A. and Stephen P. Robbins. 1989. Personnel/HRM, 3rd Edition.
New Delhi: Prentice-Hall of India.
