Dr. Ananda Das Gupta has been engaged in teaching and research for more than twenty-five years at different universities and institutes across India and is currently Head of the Human Resource Development area and Chairperson of the P Fellow (Doctoral) Programme at the Indian Institute of Plantation Management, Bangalore, a National Autonomous institute under the Ministry of Commerce, Government of India. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode and the Indian Institute of Management, Rohtak. He has also been the Mentor Faculty at Indian Institute of Management Sirmaur.

Dr. Das Gupta did his doctorate as a UGC research Fellow. He has published many papers in various refereed journals and has four books to his credit in the areas of organizational development, strategic human resources management, corporate social responsibility and business ethics. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Business Ethics in Developing Economies, and serves on the Editorial Boards of leading international journals. He is also on the International Editorial Board for Encyclopaedia on Corporate Social Responsibility, published in five volumes by Springer.

He has been the Project Director of ICSSR (Indian Council of Social Science Research) and was the National Co-ordinator: Tea Productivity Council of India, sponsored by Government of India Besides, he has been associated with IJSE since long as a reviewer and as a Guest Editor for the Special Issue on India of International Journal of Social Economics, Emerald Group, England. 2008.

His areas of Research interests are: Social justice; inequality; disability; poverty, Labour; employment; trade unions; income; wages; industrial relations, Common good; community; social capital; citizenship; civil society, Ethical and moral theory; social philosophy, Voluntary associations; NGOs; social movements and Environmental economics and ethics; sustainable development.

1Introduction to Strategic Human Resource Management 2 Strategy: Concept and Process3Strategic Human Resource Management: Concept and Process 4Formulating and Implementing HR Strategies 5Roles in Strategic HRM 6Improving Business Performance through Strategic HRM 7Strategies for Improving Organizational EffectivenessConclusion, Recommendation and Key Issues Recommendation Changing Role of HR Key Issues Bibliography