Download or read book HANDBOOK OF HRM PRACTICES: Management Policies and Practices written by S.K. SHARMA and published by Global India Publications. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book introduces the essential elements of human resource management (HRM), its origins and applications. HRM is viewed as an all-embracing term describing a number of distinctive approaches to people management. It helps you to understand and evaluate the different and sometimes ambiguous views of HRM by investigating its origins, explanatory models, tehnology and practice. The chapters address a number of specific issues like fundamental concepts of HRM, distinction between HRM from other approaches to managing people-particularly personnel management, the coherent and integrated approach to managing people, the purpose of human resource management (HRM), how it developed, and the range of tasks covered by human resource specialists.