Human Resource Management in Cooperative Banks in India : Issues and Challenges

The paper poses the question what are the human resource management policies of cooperative banks in India and is cooperative banks practices still relevant today? Why should policy makers / regulators pursue it in development strategies? In what way are cooperative banks different in terms of human resource management practices? What are the remedial measures to be addressed so as to allow cooperative banks to operate and grow correctly? This article proposes a reflection both on research opportunities and on the management challenges of cooperative banks with particular emphasis on human resource management issues