THE BUSINESS OF HR IN BUSINESS SCHOOLS

The Industry believes that business schools do not practice what they preach in terms of utilizing best practices. Every organization is composed of people and utilizing their services, developing their skills, motivating them to enhance their level of performance and ensuring that they remain committed to the organization are essential for the accomplishment of organizational objectives. The author of the book emphasis on the importance of B-School human resources ( both teaching and Support Staff) in development of good practices and effective implementation of the same for better performance and result. A book of 193 pages, divided scholarly into elven chapters makes logical presentation. The author in a very lucid manner describe the management education in India, he highlights the contribution of the then Prime Minister Shri. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in creating centers of academic excellence outside the university system which resulted in setting up of IIT's, IIM's and NIT's and also points out that The Indian Institute of Science {IISc} Bangalore was the first in offering a programme in Industrial' Management in the year 1948 and the Andhra University at Visakhapatnam was the first to start a full time postgraduate management programme in 1957. The book also brings out the biggest strength of Indian Management Education that is the Cost involved in turning out a graduate which is a fraction of what are costs outside India and the biggest challenge is the scarcity of faculty.