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Rural finance in contemporary times: Interface with microfinance
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2005)
In India, when we talk about rural finance, the stereotype offered is that of a banking system that fails to reach out to the poorer clients and, when it does, fails to recover the money so disbursed. The counter-point ...
Implementation of vrs in India
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2003)
In today's Indian business environment, inter-organization rivalry has become intense. Most of the organizations in the erstwhile protected business environment had focused on production volumes, not necessarily on ...
Lessons from experience: A new look at performance management systems
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2008)
The concept of performance appraisal has changed over the years. Performance has been usually equated with annual appraisals which measure the entire year's effort of an employee in terms of numbers. This paper points out ...
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL)
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2002)
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) embarked upon a major change initiative towards the end of 1996. It planned an enterprise-wide integration through Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). The objectives were to ...
The kinder cut: A macro communication strategy for delivering news of job termination
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2003)
A Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) ought to be good news for employees; it gives them the freedom to retire early with a substantial sum of money, tax free, as compensation. But, in many Indian companies, VRS is retrenchment ...
Enercon India: Project planning
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2007)
Building world class educational institutions in India: Challenges and prospects
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2007)
Manager as a trainer, a coach, and a mentor
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2005)
This paper argues that for effective development of managers, training programmes are far from sufficient. The major development of managerial capabilities, in fact, takes place not so much as a result of training programmes ...
Lucas-TVS limited: A journey towards manufacturing excellence
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2000)
The case featured in this issue of Vikalpa discusses the journey embarked on by the top management of Lucas-TVS Limited in 1985 to make their firm a world-class manufacturing organization. The company's oldest plant at ...
Where there is no anesthetist - increasing capacity for emergency obstetric care in rural India: An evaluation of a pilot program to train general doctors
(John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2009)
Objective: The lack of anesthesia providers in rural public sector hospitals is a significant barrier to providing emergency obstetric care. In 2006, the state of Gujarat initiated the Life Saving Anesthetic Skills (LSAS) ...