Creating Wealth through Strategic HR and Entreprenurship

by C Gopalakrishnan, Upinder Dhar

In the modern competitive scenario, Human Resource Management in organizations has gained strategic importance. The objective of the organizations in a dynamic environment is to acquire and retain their best human resources which would help the organization to compete globally. Innovation and intrapreneurship help the organizations to get mileage and hence we see that business ventures are no longer restricted to traditional ways of doing business. Economic analysts state that small firms contribute more to economic growth and vitality and this facilitates many individuals to become Entrepreneurs. The book contains some of the selected papers presented at the Nirma International Conference on Management (NICOM 2009) held in January, 2009, at the Institute of Management, Nirma University of Science and Technology, Ahmedabad, on the theme of 'Strategic Human Resource Management and Entrepreneurship in the Changing Business Scenario'. The contents of the book have been organized under ten sections viz., Managing Corporate & Workforce Performance; Talent Acquisition & Management; Organizational Culture & Dynamics of Change; Value Based Management & Ethical Issues; Managerial Creativity & Organizational Growth; Entrepreneurship; Family Business; A Strategic Perspective; High Technology, Startups & Entrepreneurship; and Intrapreneurship.

612 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2009