CAB CALLING
Introduction
An organization is made up of a number of people who strive to achieve the organization’s goals. Human resources have a significant bearing on the profitability, efficiency and overall organizational effectiveness. Human beings differ from one another in their basic mental abilities, skills, approaches, qualifications and also behaviour which account for their complex behaviour patterns and psychological makeup. Such difference gets multiplied when they interact with one another in a group or in an organization. This generates different styles of management, values, feelings, beliefs and opinions of the employees. They must be groomed in order to take risks, think innovatively, and handle new problems. In the competitive environment, employees of any business organization are the key factor for deciding the success of the firm, in general, and cooperatives in particular. It is understood that cooperative banks approach human resource management (HRM) from the wrong perspective and their financial performance suffers as a result. Instead of focusing on how to execute strategy through the performance of the employees in many cooperative banks, the first priority is cost control and the focus often begins with the HR function.
July-September, 2008
Human Resource Management in Cooperative Banks in India: Issues and Challenges
Dr.N.Ramu*
Indian cooperative banking movement has passed through hundred years of its existence. At the same time, human resources management has been a neglected field in cooperative banks over a period of time and poor image of cooperative bank employees in the society affects their morale. Only recently has there been a greater recognition of this function. In this paper, an attempt has been made to analyze the practices of human resource management and the challenges faced in recruitment and
