Contents: Preface. Acknowledgements. List of contributors. 1. Influence of changes on HR Practices/Neha Sharma and Sushmita Singh. 2. Privatisation of higher education: paradigm shifts in the education sector/Puja Khatri and Aparna Mishra. 3. Impact of environment on organisations' efficiency/Shailaja V. Bendigeri and D.N.S. Kumar. 4. Mergers and acquisitions--the strategic move/Brijesh Kumar. 5. Unravelling the Nitty-Gritty of strategic change management/Noopur Agrawal. 6. Critical evaluation of faculty turnover in self financed professional institutions/Deepali Monga and Bhavana Jaiswal. 7. Emerging challenges in various training programmes for rural women's upliftment in Bihar--a micro analysis/Sanjay Kumar Jha and Anil Chandra Pathak. 8. Organizational change for sustenance/Sameer S. Hebbalkar and Sushman Yadal. 9. Performance management: prospective goal and basic steps in organisation/Rasheedul Haque. 10. Career planning management and BPO Industry/Mehboob Alam and Rasheedul Haque. 11. HRM Issues in a knowledge-based organisation/S. Husain Ashraf. 12. Changing HR Practices in Insurance Industry--after liberalization/Zaid Ahmad Ansari. 13. Human Resource Management: an emerging and contemporary issue/D.N. Sah, Satyajeet Kr. Bhagat and Kamal Kant Mandal. 14. Focus on "Resistance to Change" in Organisation/Naveen Kumar Mishra. 15. SSIs in Post Globalisation era in changing scenario/Rahul Singh. 16. Creativity vital for sustainable development/Rajeshwari R.R. and Kumar D.N.S. 17. Quality improvement through benchmarking: a key to success/Sushama Yadav. 18. Impact of changing nature of work on Employee well being/Kalpana Singh. 19. The Indian Human Resource: managing challenges of change/P.K. Poddar and Sadanand Jha. 20. Organisation development through managing change/Rohini Durge. 21. Challenges of change in changing business scenario/Sanjay Kumar. 22. Higher education in India Challenges and Opportunities under the regime of globalization/Adesh Sharma.

"In the globalised era there is a need of global human resource. A global human resource needs to have the skills and credibility to carry out a global agenda which will lead the organizations to strategic mission. A major strategic reorientation of human resource will take place when the structure of existing workforce will be modified and reengineered to achieve the dramatic improvement in the output. The book covers various issues of Organisational Change: Contemporary Issues. It will be of great benefit to the academicians, corporate practitioners, consultants and researchers to formulate/redesign the business objectives and strategic in the changing business environment." (jacket)