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Provision of anaesthesia services for emergency obstetric care through task shifting in South Asia
(2009)
Anaesthesia is required for certain procedures in emergency obstetric care, such as caesarean section and the repair of ruptured uterus. Task shifting for provision of anaesthesia has been implemented in public sector rural ...
BHP limited: Risk management strategy
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2002)
BHP Limited, a global natural resource company based in Australia, has traditionally hedged its market price risks with derivatives. Based on the analysis of a 'Cash Flow at Risk' model, which exploits the diversification ...
Measuring Retail Service Quality: An Empirical Assessment of the Instrument
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2006)
Retailing in India is growing at the rate of about 18-20 per cent per annum. As part of its strategy to gradually open it up to foreign competition, the government is also in the process of increasing foreign direct ...
Maternal health in Gujarat, India: A case study
(International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, 2009)
Gujarat state of India has come a long way in improving the health indicators since independence, but progress in reducing maternal mortality has been slow and largely unmeasured or documented. This case study identified ...
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)