Book Reviews : B.R. Virmani, Managing People in Organisation: The Challenges of Change, New Delhi, Response Books, 2000, pp. 237

Abstract

During the turbulent times, organisation finds new ways to manage businesses. In this exercise, developing and managing human resources forms the major component of organisational development and in this exercise, the only constant thing that is visible today in all walks of life is CHANGE. Change has changed almost all in various ways of life. The unappreciable challenges and uncertainty been faced by the organisation in the present century requires a whole relook at how human resources is managed and taken care of in the organisation. There is a perpetual question for every person as to ’where now from here’, and it has been the great endeavour for every management thinker to find an answer for this. An entire paradigm shift from vibrarian type of management to people-centric organisation, where people are considered, as the most important asset of the organisation has been the prime concern of most management. Professor Virmani in his book ’Managing People in Organisation: The Challenges of Change’, brings out the true pic-ture of how change has influenced in various fields and has highlighted how the managing style, HRM, HRD issues of the past and what is required in the present scenario. He clearly writes through his observation, how change is affecting the whole gamut of industrial life and how this change has asked for different outlook while managing human resources. He begins with the Indian experiment, the culture that regulated different types of firms and different kinds of managerial practices that