A UGC fellow in 2003 and an academician hence, Ekta Sharma has been engaged in post-graduate teaching and research activities. She earned her doctorate from the University of Rajasthan in 2005. She has work experience of over 15 years and is currently Assistant Professor at Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad University.


 

1 Strategic Human Resource Management-An Overview


2 An Investment Perspective of SHRM


3 The Human Resource Environment


4 Formulating Strategy: Aligning HR Strategy to the Organisational Strategy


5 Work Force Planning


6 Implementation of Strategy: Hiring to Firing


7 High Performance Work Systems


8 HR Metrics


9 HR Outsourcing


10 Strategic Alliance: Role of HR


11 HR Branding


 

Rich pedagogical features include chapter objectives, chapter-opening case studies, real-world examples, summary, review questions, skill-development exercises, and chapter-ending cases.


Skill-development exercises such as student assignments appear at the end of each chapter and allow readers to participate in a real-life situation and apply learning from the chapter.


Industry and Research Insights to help student understand the real- time market environment


Comprehensive case study at the end of the book to visualize the whole of Strategic Human Resource Management


Interviews of HR professionals, primarily from Indian companies.


Online resources Instructor resources are uploaded for the ease of class room discussions