Professional human resources management systems in Indian Universities are vital in achieving goals of the National Education Policy 2020. Elaborate (200 Words)
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KEY POINTS
· To successfully implement the recommendations of the New Education Policy 2020 (NEP, 2020), the top priority for the Ministry of Education and the University Grants Commission (UGC) is to transform the higher education sector in India.
· Currently it lacks quality and suffers from falling standards, inadequate human resources, and an absence of professional expert systems.
· The importance of Human Resource Management (HRM) and its existence in the university system, particularly given the changing academic environment worldwide.
· The existing Establishment Department plays a very minimal role in human resource management, such as assisting in issuing the job contracts/appointment letters, assisting in the recruitment and promotion processes, maintaining the attendance and personnel records etc.
· There are efficient HRM polices for teaching and non-teaching employees, including focused and targeted training programmes. Given the swift changes and substantial global transformation in the universities, particularly during the last few decades.
· The core responsibility of strategic HRM could be to exhibit progress in the transformation of HRM strategy development and practice proactive HRM instruments, such as recruitment and selection of employees, institutional rules and regulations.
· To sum up, there is a dire need to develop a sound and proactive professional HRM team in Indian universities that could take initiatives toward developing high-performing institutions and shift from transactional to strategic and transformational HRM.
