Employment in public enterprises

The book has been divide in parts. The first part delves on the shifting emphasis on employment objective, employment strategies
adopted during different plans, technological choices, supposed incongruity between growth and labour- absorbing technology and employment-investment relation etc. traced from the commencement of the First Five Year Plan right upto the Mid-term Appraisal of the Seventh Five Year Plan. Importance of wage policies, personnel relations, employee participation and human
resource development for productivity improvement and creation of employment opportunities sustainable at rising levels of per capita real wage have been duly emphasised at appropriate places.
Part 11 of the book deals with various aspects of employment in Industrial and Commercial Undertakings of the Central overnment and evaluates the pace and the pattern of employment generation in these undertakings in the light of policy statements laborated in various plan documents. Crucial features of employment in these enterprises such as, declining employment-investment
ratio, eroding employability of fixed assets, marked variation in capital intensity and per capita emoluments in different industry groups, dwindling share of manpower cost in revenues and value added, improvement in employee welfare expenditure and employment to backward classes etc. have been statistically highlighted. The data presented in the book also reveals that employment growth in organised private sector has lagged far behind the slow employment generation in the public sector.