The study assesses the impact of human resource management practices that are recruitment and selection, training and development and performance appraisal on employee's job satisfaction. Using random sampling method, the sample data of 400 employees (teaching/non-teaching staff) was collected from Government and Private affiliated higher educational institutions of India using questionnaire method. Descriptive and inferential statistical techniques such as t-test and correlational analysis were applied to analyze the data. The study reveals that all the HRM practices implemented in the study area does not highly correlated to both the teaching and nonteaching employees equally. However, it was also found that performance appraisal practices have no significant differences among government and private universities. The conclusions indicate there was a significant impact of overall HRM practices on job satisfaction among teaching and non-teaching staff of both the government and private institutions. Later, suggestions were made for the high-performance HR practices and employee's job satisfaction, limitations of the study are disclosed, and future research directions for the academics are mentioned.