indiatogether.org), life expectancy of Indian population is 63.7(word bank). India literacy rate is 69.5(world valve survey, 2006-7). The national language spoken in India is Hindi, by almost 30 per cent of Indian population apart from it there are other 14 languages recognized Indian constitution. English is India second language Administrative Language; it is most important language for national, political, commercial purpose. ( Budhawar and Saini, 2004) 80.5 per cent of Indian society is Hindu. Hinduism is divided into numerous caste and sub caste and includes various sects. Indian society comprises of Muslims, Christians 2.3, Sikhs 1.9, Scheduled cast 16.2 along with Jain and Parsi. (census 2001,world value survey).
CULTURE.
It is crystal clear that human resource management can help the MNC's to attain competitive advantage in the industry, but only little establishment gain the desire result. (Pfeffer, 1998). Research shows that the MNC's which gain competitive advantage are those who work in alignment of host country's culture and contextual global functioning environment of MNC's (Ahmad & Schroeder, 2003). .
Hofstead Research, 1991's is used as lens to probe deep into critical HR practices, culture context and Indian employee. Hofstede's model (1991) presents ranking of Indian culture in reference to on five dimensions "power distance, Uncertainty avoidance, individualism, Masculinity, long-term orientation (Thomas, 2008). Indian culture ranks relatively highly on Power Distance (77) compared to a world average of 56.5 that indicates the inequality is in terms of power, position, status in the society. A society where might is right, and job vacancy are provided on basis of nepotism, Indian society was based on caste system; basically divided into four sect Brahmin, Kshatriya, kayasth, shudra, for its proper functioning .but in due course of time, it had taken a hideous form, where Brahmin are considered as high class and Shudra as "untouchable" low caste.