Table of Contents
(Caselet at the end of each chapter)

Chapter 1: THE TWINS
:

Employer Value Proposition

Employee Value Proposition

Chapter 2: The 3 ‘T’s’:

Talent Acquisition

Talent Development

Talent Management

Chapter 3: All about Competencies

Chapter 4: Compensation & Benefits

Chapter 5: Organizational Development

Chapter 6: Change Management

Chapter 7: HR Analytics

Chapter 8: Exit (Bye Bye)

Chapter 9: Strategic HR

Chapter 10: Challenges in Today’s Human Resource Ma
nagement

bout the Book
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“Reality Bytes – The Role of HR in Today’s World”
This book is my debut as an Author. It is a humble
attempt to further my quest to
learn & give back to the budding HR fraternity.
There was a time when machines or equipments were t
he most important asset/resource
an organization could possess. People were more or
less required only to run these
machines and maintain them. But as we raced through
time, we have left all those traditional
thoughts far far behind.
Today and in the future too, the single-most compet
itive edge for an organization is
its
“
people”
. In today’s dynamic times, managing turnover in te
rms of people is as critical as
increasing business turnover. This is because, insp
ite of being the most valuable resource,
manpower is also the most difficult to manage, main
tain & retain, and many organizations fall
short of managing their people well.
Probably the reason for this is that formal educati
on in HR does not prepare the young,
would-be HR manager or even a line manager who need
s to be an HR manager in his own
right to manage people, to face and deal with the R
eality at the Workplace. This book has
been written to achieve this very purpose.
‘Reality Bytes – The Role of HR in Today’s World’ h
as something for everyone –
whether an HR student, a budding early career HR ma
nager(1-3 years), a line
manager who needs to be an HR manager in his own ri
ght to manage people or
even a teacher or an entrepreneur trying to underst
and what HR is all about.
This book is for you!
With the market for talent available in the country
as well as abroad, today’s employees are
besieged with offers and have a huge choice as comp
ared to earlier times. The new thought
that this book tries to bring forth is that today,
the employee is less of an employee and
more of a customer for the organization. Needless t
o say, he/she is second to no other
business customer in importance.
Finding and attracting this ‘talented customer’
to the organization, developing his/her skills and
keeping him/her
interested and happy in order to achieve business r
esults is what HR is all
about today.
The book gives the reader a clear idea of the strat
egic role that HR plays in attaining the
business goals of the organization. It tries to hig
hlight relevant concepts and makes them
easy for the reader to understand.
Beginning with the Employer and Employee Value Prop
ositions (which is where the
employee is introduced to the organization) and end
ing with the challenges faced by HR, it
tries to cover all aspects of HR that are relevant
today and tomorrow as well. It is meant to
be a simple contemporary ready reckoner covering th
e employee life cycle in an organization (‘What’ & ‘Why’ aspects) and balancing
them with practical caselets illustrating
concepts that work in organizations in today’s time
s. The caselets also aim at getting the
reader to think and find his/her own solutions base
d on learning/s in each chapter.
Key points (leads) which are thought-provoking and
bring out the crux of the matter have
been separately highlighted to give them prominence
.
The book is being published by Vishwakarma Publicat
ions