Syllabus of Paper 2 

Total marks: 100.
Number of questions: 100.
Negative marking: There is no negative marking.

Unit – I 

Schools of Management thought – Scientific Management School, Human Relations School, Behaviour School, System Approach, Function of Management – Planning: types, steps, organising, Direction, Control, Coordination, Communication.

Unit – II 

Personnel Management: Functions, Structure of Personnel Department, Line and Staff, Job Analysis, Manpower Planning, New Challenges. Recruitment and Selection, Placement and Induction. Wage and Salary Administration, Job evaluation, Methods of Wage payment linking wages with productivity. Grievance handling and Disciplinary action.

Unit – III 

HRD Concept, Importance, Evolution, Functions, Organisation of HRD Function. Performance appraisal, Training and Development, Quality of work life, Career planning, Quality circles. Training Programmes for workers, Management Development Programmes, Evaluation of training.

Unit – IV 

Organisational Behaviour: Concept, Importance, Evolution, Role, Group dynamics. Motivation, Leadership, Job satisfaction, Morale, Fatigue and monotony. Organisational change and Development, Organisational effectiveness.

Unit – V 

Industrial Relations: Concept, Scope, Approaches, Industrial Relations system. Industrial disputes: Causes, Effects, Trends, Methods and Machinery for the settlement of Industrial disputes. Workers participation in Management, Code of discipline, Tripartite bodies, ILO, Industrial relations and the new economic reforms.

Unit – VI 

Trade Unions: Meaning, Objectives, Functions, Theories, Structure of Trade Unions. Trade Union Movement in India, Leadership, Finance, Union Politics, Inter and intra-union Rivalry.

Unit – VII 

Labour legislation, Objectives, Principles, Classification, Evolution of labour legislation in India, Impact of ILO, Labour and Indian Constitution.

Unit – VIII 

Trade Unions Act, 1926: Industrial Employment (Standing orders) Act, 1946: Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. Minimum Wages Act, 1948: Payment of Wages Act, 1936: Equal Remuneration Act, 1976: Payment of Bonus Act, 1965.

Unit – IX 

Labour Welfare: Meaning, Definition, Scope, Theories, principles and approaches. Statutory and Non-statutory labour welfare: Intra-mural and extra-mural welfare. Agencies of Labour Welfare: State, Employer, Trade Unions, Voluntary Agencies.

Unit – X 

Labour Market, Features, Demand and Supply of Labour, Nature and composition of Indian Labour Force, Unemployment and Under-employment. Concepts of wages, State Regulation of wages, Fixation of wages, Wage theories, Wage differentials.