Human resource development, industrial relations, and management in the Philippine setting

the long version

The book started with the author’s lecture notes way back in 1979 when he started teaching Management. It combines the perspective of academe and practitioner with the writer having worked with the following organizations: Bancom Realty Corporation in Makati as Assistant Project Manager doing project feasibility studies and managing housing projects; J. Walter Thompson Company (Manila) Ltd. as Account Manager; and Black Mountain Inc as Personnel and Administrative Manager. Written in a modular format, the topics include Human Resource Development (HRD) as it relates to Human Resource Planning, Training Strategies, Workplace Development, Post Employment and Corporate Social Responsibility. The guidebook was written primarily for a blended face-to-face and online mode of teaching at the University of the Philippines School of Labor and Industrial Relations (U.P. SOLAIR) and U.P. Open University. Most of the modules and articles in this handbook were researches and papers presented and published locally and abroad. Among the readings are on Employee Benefits Management, Positive Discipline, Succession Planning, Fitness in the Workplace, and Quality Management and Employee Participation.