IBPS HR Specialist Officer Exam Topics

I want to give IBPS specialist officer exam for HR Officer so please give me topics to cover for preparation of exam?

[Raman Vij]

Here I am giving you topics to cover for preparation of IBPS specialist officer exam for HR Officer.

Professional knowledge (HR):
Principles of management
Leadership styles
HR Planning
Job analysis (Procedures, Methods and techniques)
Job design (Meaning and techniques)
Recruitment and selection (Procedure, Process and barriers)
Interview (Types of tests, Types of interviews and limitations)
Placement (Induction, procedure and benefits)
Training and development (Types and methods)
Performance appraisal (Process, uses and techniques)
Promotion, transfer and demotions (Types, policies
Job evaluation (Pre-requites, principles and process)
Compensation (Theories of wages, compensation administration and criteria to develop compensation plan)
Motivation (Theories, Importance, Factors impacting)
Industrial relations

Factories act
Industrial relations act
Gratuity act
Provident fund act
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Quantitative Aptitude
Arithmetic (Time and work, Time and distance, Percentages)
Algebra
Probability
Financial Maths (Simple and compound interest, Profit and loss, Partnership, Allegations)
Data interpretation
Geometry basics
Simplifications

Reasoning:
Seating arrangement
Syllogism
Data sufficiency
Machine input output
Series
Blood relation
Problems based on ages
Logical deductions
English
Reading comprehensions
Vocabulary
Para jumbles
Cloze test
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General awareness:
Current affairs (Special GK digest will be uploaded soon)
Awards and honors
Popular books and their authors
Countries and their capitals
Sports updates
Banking terms
Various financial instruments

Will you tell me which are the topics that are included in the IBPS HR Specialist Officer Exam syllabus as I am looking for the same ?

[Raman Vij]

As you want I am here providing you syllabus of the IBPS HR Specialist Officer Exam.

Syllabus:

Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management: Introduction, staffing, manpower planning, performance appraisal, wage and salary administration.


Human Resource Development: Strategies and Systems: Human resource development process. Training, coaching, mentoring, counselling,career planning and development, aligning strategy with HRD activities. Assessment Techniques .Tools like In Basket Exercises, Critical Incidence Technique, Types of Interviews etc. Performance Management System, Balance Scorecard etc. and Career Development.

Human Resource Information System: Human Resource Management-Systems Approach, strategic Role of Information in HRM, Information Technology-Concepts & Issues, HRIS Implementation and Control, Designing an HRIS Department, Compensation and Benefits Management, Training and Development, HR Planning and Analysis.

Transactional Analysis- Understanding TA- life stages- father, child and adult, different types of transactions, use of TA for improving behavior.

Recruitment & Selection- Understanding the staffing process, recruitment- internal and external sources, advantages and disadvantages, selection process, interview process, probation, internal mobility.

Training and Development- Key training issues, training need analysis, clarifying the objectives of training, designing effective training programmes, implementing training . training methodology, conducting training, trainer behaviour, evaluation of training, Models of measuring Training Effectiveness.

Rewards & Recognition- types of rewards,monetary and non monetary, performance reward,
Incentives,- individual, group and organization based incentives

Performance Management & Appraisal: goals and objectives, Planning performance, self appraisal performance analysis, performance ratings techniques, self appraisal performance analysis, performance ratings techniques, using performance management data for HR decisions,Types of Performance Management System

Management of Compensations and Benefits: wages and salary concepts, Factors affecting wage and salary, legislative measures, job evaluation, components of compensation, linking rewards with performance, indirect or fringe benefits.

Mobility of Personnel and Retirement-transfers, promotion, demotion, separation.

Business Policy and Strategic Analysis
Basic Concepts of Strategic Management, Strategy Formulation- Strategy Formulation: Situation Analysis and Business Strategy,Strategy Implementation and Control- strategy Implementation: Organizing for Action, Strategy Implementation: Staffing and Directing, Evaluation and Control, Other Strategic Issues- Strategic Issues in Managing Technology and Innovation, Strategic Issues in Entrepreneurial Ventures and Small Businesses, Strategic Issues in Not-For-Profit Organizations. HR Scorecard, HR Audit, HR issues in Merger and Acquisition.

Emotional Intelligence and Managerial Effectiveness: Concept of EI, theories.

Managing change and organizational effectiveness: Understand the dynamics of change, reasons for change, diagnosis for change, resistance to change, change agents, forms of interventions, models of change, implementing change in organizations.

Management Process and Organizational Behaviour: Values and Personality, Attitudes and job satisfaction, Perception and individual decision making,Motivation in the Workplace, Learning, Attribution.

Managing Interpersonal and Group Processes: Foundations of Group understanding work teams, communication, leadership, Stress Management, Decision Making and Creativity, Power and politics,conflict and negotiation.

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

Collective Bargaining and Negotiation process: Nature, Conditions for successful bargaining, Advantages and current trends in bargaining, Issues for concerns for employers, negotiation objectives, negotiation process-reactions, discussions, and style, Theories of Collective Bargaining.

Conflict Management - definition, intervention process, sources, reasons and different levels of Conflicts.

Grievance Management: Concept of Grievance, Causes of Grievance, Need for a Grievance Redressal Procedure, Steps in a Grievance Redressal Procedure, Legislative Aspects of the Grievance, Redressal Procedure in India.

Industrial Relations & Trade Unions: Nature, concept, models and theories of IR, Collective
bargaining, industrial disputes, workers participation management, employee discipline, grievance handling, trade unionism, development of unionism, structure and types of unions, trade unions act, issue of registration and recognition, problems of unions in liberalised economy.

Labour Laws: Introduction; Regulatory laws-Trade union act 1926, ID act 1947, Industrial
employment act (standing order act) 1946, Protective laws- Factories act, 1948, Wage laws -minimum wages act, 1948, payment of wages act, 1936, Equal remuneration act, 1976, The payment of bonus act, 1965, Social security laws- EPF act, 1952, ESI act, 1948, workmen.s compensation act 1923, Maternity benefit act, 1961, payment of gratuity act, 1972, Contract labor laws Contract labour act 1986, Bonded labour system act 1986, child labour act, 1986. Apprentice Act.1961.

Discipline : Principles of Natural Justice, Disciplinary Proceedings, Domestic Enquiry.

Personnel problems and employee counseling -Labour turnover, absenteeism, alcoholic and drug abuse. Employee health, safety and welfare.