DOI: 10.36347/sajp

Pages: 110-112

The practices of managing people have changed as per current scenario. The basic duties of human resources management involves staffing activities such as hiring and firing, keeping personnel records and organizing other personnel activities. But currently public and private organizations can no longer afford to look at people as a commodity to be exploited to exhaustion and then discarded. The purpose of this study was to analysis of current human resource management practices on academic level. The study used a descriptive research design; different respondents were selected using stratified random sampling method. Data was collected using semi structured questionnaires and was analyzed using descriptive statistics. The findings suggested that training, motivational programmes, development programme (staff development and quality improvement programme, workshop, seminar, conferences), award and supervisory support are the currently utilized H. R. management practices at academic level. It also revealed that performance appraisal and employee participation in decision making have been practiced to a very little extent. The concluding section recommends that higher authority should carefully re-evaluate the extent to which innovative HR practices could be implemented within their departments. Study also suggests that the HR policies should be executed properly as meant for the specific purpose so to get maximum benefits of such management practices.