Training and Development:Theories and Applications by Dipak Kumar Bhattacharyya, Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd., 2015, Pages 312, Price Rs. 350/-

One of the key areas of human resource management interventions in the organisations, training and development play a major role in ensuring demand-abilities fit, maintaining work motivation and satisfaction, and developing the leadership pipeline. But to be effective, training and development programmes needs to be designed with an expert understanding of the latest research and practice trends and their underlying theoretical premises. Prof. Bhattacharyya's book is a useful handbook in this direction - maintaining a useful balance between the research foundations of training practices and practical guidelines for managers.