Human resource planning covering definition (assessing organization’s HR needs, forecasting future demand and supply), meaning, objectives/aims, importance, limitations, HRP process (project HR supply, forecast HR needs, compare forecast with supply, plan policies and programs, evaluate effectiveness), HR forecasting (three major steps), planning for anticipated shortages (transfer, train, overtime, increase productivity, hire part-time/temporary/permanent, subcontract, capital substitution).
Linear programming applications covering introduction to LP (allocation of limited resources, linear functions), terminology (cost/profit coefficients, technological coefficients, resource coefficients, decision variables), transportation problem, marketing research problem, model example (TechEdge Company PC manufacturing, LP formulation, graphical solution method, corner point analysis, optimal solution determination), important terms (constraint boundary, corner-point solutions, feasible solution, infeasible solution, feasible region, CPF solution, adjacent solutions).
Introduction to operations research covering course introduction, genesis of OR (WWII origins, post-war growth), features of OR (scientific method/research, search for optimality, algorithmic, cross-functional, broad applicability), steps in OR implementation, important problem features (decision variables, parameters, objective function types, constraints, relevant data), formulation of mathematical model, solving and testing model, application, prerequisites (elementary row operations, Gaussian reduction), characteristics of OR, examples.
Industrial law case studies covering 4 short cases: Case 1 – Poisonous gas leakage, occupier liability, M.C. Mehta vs Union of India judgment on hazardous activities; Case 2 – Laboratory assistant chemical consumption, workmen’s compensation eligibility; Case 3 – Employee increment withholding, deduction from wages under Payment of Wages Act 1936; Case 4 – Tobacco leaf processing, manufacturing process definition under Factories Act 1948.
Contract Labour Act welfare provisions covering sections 16-21 (canteen requirements, rest-rooms, other facilities, first-aid facilities, liability of principal employer, responsibility for payment of wages), inspector appointment (Section 28), maintenance of registers and records (Section 29), general information about contract labor entitlements, guidelines, risks involved in engaging contract labor.