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Synopsis This is a treatise on Managing Industrial Sickness with special emphasis on its impact on the personnel of sick companies. Most of the public sector undertaking in India are facing the problem of survival in the contemporary era of globalization and liberalization. Sick units are a products of external pressures as well internal weaknesses. This book is based on an analysis of feeling of and problems faced by the employees of different sick public sector enterprises. Several employees, in the middle of their service career, laden with enormous family responsibilities, suddenly become jobless because of closure of sick units. This is a serious problem.

Investigation of the major reasons for industrial sickness, and analysis of the HR consequences of industrial sickness and a critical study of the effectiveness of governmental remedial procedures are the core areas discussed in this book.

The author discusses and brings out in a logical and lucid manner various aspects of industrial sickness and also suggests measures to mitigate the sickness syndrome in state enterprises. The suggestions and recommendations of the author are very useful, both from the perspectives of the management of sick enterprise as well as from the employee welfare.

This book can serve as a valuable reference for students, teachers and researchers in the field of management and Public Administration.