Second Year - Collateral Reading Topics

Howdy,

In the second year, you will be placed in industrial settings, and by the end of your third semester, the placement season will also commence. Therefore, everyone must focus on your learning, which will ultimately aid in securing a placement. This year, you will need to engage in collateral reading related to HR practices and labor laws. These topics are highly beneficial in shaping your career in HR.

I understand that you don't need to cover all the collateral readings listed below, but you will be required to complete approximately 30 collateral readings including both your third and fourth semesters. Kindly shortlist your collateral reading topics based on industry practices and what you deem important for your career.

I'd like to express my gratitude to all my classmates who promptly shared their respective collateral reading topics. I hope you make the most out of this...

1. Welfare Provisions under Factories Act-1948
2. Six Thinking Hats
3. Collaborative Intelligence: Humans and AI Are Joining Forces
4. What is Supply Chain Management?
5. The Kirkpatrick Model of Training Evaluation
6. Employee Value Proposition (EVP)
7. e-Pehchan Card
8. Best Industrial Relation Practices
9. HR Governance
10. G7 AI Principles and Code of Conduct
11. How to Win Negotiation
12. Ways AI changing HR Department
13. Machine Learning & HRM
14. SIX Sigma / SIX Sigma in HRM
15. Quality Circle
16. ISO 9000/01/02/03/04 certification
17. Charter of Demands
18. Performance Management & Performance Appraisals
19. Performance Management System
20. Bell Curve tool of Performance appraisal & It’s Advantages and Disadvantages
21. Pride PMS
22. Talent Management
23. Challenges & Opportunities of Talent Management in India
24. CSR Strategies
25. Emotional Intelligence
26. Artificial Intelligence
27. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
28. Role of HR in Managing DEI in India
29. Impact of Technology in HR practices
30. Employee Relation / Employee Relation in India
31. Compensation & Benefits in India
32. Compensation & its types
33. Training and Development & Learning & Development (L&D)
34. Strategic Learning & Development
35. Methods of Training Evaluation 
36. Contract Labour & Regulation
37. Various Types of Leaves (CL, PL, SL)
38. KRA, KPA, and KPI 
39. Attrition & Retention / Attracting & Retaining Talent / Retention Strategies 
40. Leadership Style
41. Role of HRM in Leadership Development
42. Conflict Management
43. International HRM
44. Attitude & Stress
45. Business Excellence
46. HRIS (Human Resource Information System)
47. Employee Engagement
48. SIX Ways in which Employers’ benefit from Apprenticeships
49. NAPS (National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme)
50. Employee Development Plan
51. Psychological Safety
52. Green HRM
53. Culture Fit Vs. Culture Add
54. Why do employees leave their Jobs & Strategies to prevent quitting?
55. Succession Planning
56. Manpower Planning
57. Recognizing High-Potential Employees
58. The 9-Box Grid Model for Talent Management 
59. Environment Protection Act-1986
60. Competency Based Recruitment
61. Decoding Bhagwad Gita & Concepts connected to HR Perspective (GEO Article)
62. Mahabharat and Management
63. Industrial Relation & it’s evolution
64. Payroll software
65. How to overcome Human Resource Trouble
66. Behavioral Event Interview
67. Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation
68. Job Evaluation 
69. Hay Method of Job Evaluation
70. Great Place to Work Certification
71. HR Audit
72. Growth Mindset
73. HR Metrics
74. Job Enrichment
75. GenZ and Workplace anxiety
76. Generation Gaps at Workplace / Multi-generation workforce
77. Millennial Vs. Boomers – 5 Stereotypes that aren’t true (Forbes Article) 
78. Sandwich Feedback Approach
79. Poka Yoke
80. DISC Profiling in HRM
81. Organizational Health
82. Pulse Survey
83. Balance Scoreboard
84. HR Trends 
85. Employee Life Cycle
86. PMRPY & ABRY Govt. Schemes
87. PF Trust
88. Director Industrial Safety and Health
89. VRIO Framework
90. 5S Framework 
91. 6S Lean Management / Lean Management
92. 5 P's of Marketing
93. 4’C of Onboarding
94. Employee Branding: As Marketing Strategies
95. What is Interview & its types? 
96. Recruitment & various methods of Recruitment / Recruitment Metrics
97. Reward and Recognitions 
98. Employees’ Rights & Responsibilities
99. VUCA Vs. BANI / VUCA World 
100. Learning Agility
101. Individual Development Plan (IDP) / Performance Improvement Plant (PIP)
102. Compensation Administration
103. Employee Grievances
104. HR Analytics
105. Skills & Competency Mapping / Skills Matrix & Competency Matrix
106. Industry 5.0 Vs Industry 4.0
107. Uses of AI in HRM
108. Management by Objectives (MBO)
109. Deloitte India Global 2023 Gen Z and Millennial Survey
110. Competency Based HRM
111. FIRO-B Model
112. HR Governance, A Theoretical Introduction
113. ESG Principles 
114. Strike, Lockout, Layoff, and Retrenchment
115. Duties of Welfare officer
116. Kaizen
117. Soft Skills and Its Application at Workplace
118. Motivational Theories
119. TNA, TNI, and TNE
120. HR Transformation / Redesigning HR Department  – By Dave Ulrich
121. Organizational Culture – OB book by Stephen Robbins
122. Action Learning – (Indeed.com)
123. People Management
124. Scrum Project Management
125. Mental Health at Workplace
126. How to implement OKR’s 
127. Global Labour Market Landscapes 
128. How Netflix Reinvented HR
129. HR Recruitment in Pharmaceutical
130. HR Subsytems (Each HR Subsytem in Detail in separate Collateral Reading)
131. Role of HR in Change Management
132. Employees Wellness Programs
133. Ethical Issues in HRM
134. Building a Reservoir of High potential women and Diverse group
135. Downside of AI Monitoring
136. Fortune 500
137. What is SAP HR (HCM)?
138. Why one should build a Career Portfolio and not Career Path?
139. Japanese Management Style
140. HR Model by David Ulrich
141. Personal Management
142. Should we hire Industry Hoppers? (HRKatha Article) 
143. How to gauge the effectiveness of HR initiatives?
144. Various Forms (Form 11, Form 2, Form F, Form 35, etc) 
145. Various form under PF Act.
146. Domestic enquiry and it’s procedure
147. Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
148. HR Budgeting
149. The benefits of AI in L&D
150. People centric business for Sustained Growth
151. The Four Worlds of Work in 2030
152. Calculating ROI of Employee Engagement
153. Strategic Human Resource Planning
154. BCG Matrix
155. Hybrid Workplace Model / Remote Workplace
156. Workplace Inclusion
157. Lean Thinking & Methods – 5S
158. Fluid Workforce
159. Using AI in Employee Relation
160. Effective Team building in the workplace
161. How HR helps companies to remain competitive in global market
162. Benchmarking Techniques
163. International Organization for Standardization 
164. Flexible Work 
165. 70-20-10 model of learning and development
166. Interview Taking Techniques 
167. Employee Empowerment
168. Etiquettes of an HR Manager/Personnel
169. Knowledge process outsourcing (KPO)
170. Collective Bargaining & Negotiation
171. Cost per Hire / Recruitment Cost
172. McKinsey 75 Model
173. Professional Tax in Gujarat
174. Various Salary Slips Components (Basic Pay, DA, PF, Conveyance Allowances, HRA, etc)
175. Supplier Responsibility Guidelines (SRG) & SRG Audit
176. 3 Signs that Managers, not employees, are the problem with Performance Management
177. Glassdoor's Workplace Trends
178. Employees Hierarchy of Needs - Building a fulfilling workplace
179. Women's Reservation Bill
180. The Power of Engaged Employee
181. HR Digital Transformation
182. HR Leaders need to advocate balancing automation with the human touch
183. Employee Upskilling
184. Agile Values and How Internal Audit Can Apply Them?
185. Will we shift from "Days off" to "Days on"?
186. Creating Neuro Inclusive Hiring Process
187. Gig Workers

Other than above these, you can do the collateral reading on various Labour laws & Labour Code.

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