This study aims to analyse the effect of hard HRM practices on group cohesiveness of the employees working in automobile manufacturing units at Thiruvananthapuram. Here, hard HRM practices namely human resource planning, staffing, training and developments, compensation, performance management and down sizing system have been taken as a independent variable. Group cohesiveness has been taken as dependent variable. For the above variables questionnaire has been developed by the researcher based on previous literature review. Questionnaire has been considered as a research tool for collecting primary data from the sample respondents. Descriptive research design has been used for this study. The sample of 335 employees have been surveyed with help of questionnaire. The collected data analysed with appropriate statistical tools like descriptive statistics, correlation and regression. The result of the study revealed that the automobile industry has frequently using hard HRM practices inorder to achieve the organization goal. Further, the study also found that hard HRM practices have been related with group cohesiveness of the employees. Staffing and compensation have been highly influence in group cohesion of the employees. So, it is revealed that hard HRM practices have the potential to improve and sustained organizational performance

Hard HRM, Group Cohesiveness and Employees Attitude.