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A Glimpse of Human Resource Management (Thought and Practice) by Mohammad Mosaddek Hussain. Name of publication: Pranto Prokason. Date of Publication: Ekushey Book Fair-2012. Cover design: Arup Mandi. Price 250/-only. 
Ours is a world of management. So without learning how to manage ourselves we can hardly step forward towards our goal.
The author of the book, "A Glimpse of Human Resource Management (Thought and Practice)", Mohammad Mosaddek Hussain has elaborated with a preface that this book deals with the interaction between strategy and general management with a special focus on the people management (Human resource management) in the organisational setting.
This approach is adopted for its relevancy to the managers in general…Topics contained in this book provide a sound base in theory and practice of practical management especially in the general context as viewed and other practitioners in this field. The articles (in the book) highlight significant ideas, issues and concepts currently being studied with respect to management of human resources in different types of organisations or companies.
Moreover the book deals with a highly complex, constantly changing and expanding field of general people management. To this fact, human resource management involves several cmplexities in the form of multidimensional reactions and individual and group relationships. The concepts of general management and people management have changed tremendously from the scientific management to the human relation approach and recently there is a trend to the behavioural Science approach. A great deal of knowledge available in this regard founded on research results in developed countries."
This book contains 19 chapters with articles relative to modern scientific management for the students of management. All these articles toeing empirical studies on the concerned subjects appear to have been underscored from the roots.
The students of management will have enough scope of having fruits of research-oriented works of the author. From elementary knowledge this book spares higher studies and scopes for research further in the field of management. This will also be worth of using by the research scholars, managers, executives of higher echelon in the company management and other business sectors.
The author, having his wide experience in the management education, training, and working in different enterprises, institutions of management, delivered modern aspects of different managerial activities, mode of performances with progressive outlook in the field of human resource development, in this book. All articles of this book are explicitly elucidated for the readers, will not have any difficulty to understand the chapter-wise articles.
The printing of the book is fine on the offset paper having well hard bound with good cover design. This deserves wide publicity and circulation for the benefit of all readers of management that's necessary in all walks of our life.
Thanks Mohammad Mosaddek Hussain for presenting such invaluable book to us.

Reviewed by M. Mizanur Rahman.