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Health Care for Indian Elderly: Time for a Shift in Policy?
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)The tremendous growth of the elderly population in India has led to an expansion of demand for health, housing accommodation and pensions for aging populations and is thus of crucial importance for governments, policy ... -
How can Predictive Analytics help E-Retailers?
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)The rapid emergence of e-commerce sites has made the web-space an exciting and interactive business platform for producers, marketers and consumers. In their quest for increasing their share of customers’ wallets, online ... -
How is Whatsapp driving Businesses to Enhance Conversion Rates: An Empirical Approach
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)Networking platforms have revolutionized the very concept of messaging services. While WhatsApp’s powerful features – like instant messaging & sharing, automatic contact addition, and WiFi operation – had already popularized ... -
HR Shared Services: The Big Picture
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Human Resource Shared Services (HRSS) as a rage has occupied huge space in all types of human resource magazines and conferences. It’s becoming a vogue among organizations in the west and gradually spreading in other parts ... -
HRM Configurations In Project Based Organizations
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)The dominant conceptualization of SHRM is unitarist and assumes intra organizational homogeneity of practices. It has been argued that HRM implementation is likely to differ in parts of the same organization. We use four ... -
Identification of Best Practice HRMs in NTPC With the help of Statistical Tools
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)The “common Sense of Belief” is that the way people are managed has positive correlation with People performance (Truss, 2001: 1124) and also people can provide a strong source of Competitive advantage to the organisation ... -
Identification of Critical Risk Factors for Nuclear Power Projects in India using Risk FMEA
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)Nuclear power is a reliable, do not have carbon emissions and is a most concentrated form of energy. The major drawback is a large amount of nuclear wastes are generated and disposal of these wastes is a major challenge. ... -
Identifying Determinants Of Intention To Sharing Knowledge Among Sales People
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)This article examines role of various economic, socio-psychological and organizational factors that influence a salesperson’s intention to share knowledge with others. The Theory of Reasoned Action was used as the theoretical ... -
Impact of a Sudarshan Kriya Based Occupational Stress Management Intervention on Physiological and Psychological Outcomes
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013-12-12)In a field experiment with 72 participants, we study the impact of Sudarshan Kriya on participants’ physiological and psychological variables. The intervention significantly reduced participants’ stress levels and blood ... -
Impact Of Learning Organization Attributes On Organization Performance: A Study Of An Indian PSU
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013)The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of learning organization dimensions on organizational performance in one of India’s leading PSUs using the ‘Dimensions of Learning Organization Questionnaire (DLOQ)’developed ... -
Impact of Organizational Culture and Structure on Organizational Commitment and Individual Performance: Mediating Role of Self Efficacy
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013)This study examines the impact of four types of organizational culture on the affective organizational commitment of the employees along with in-role and extra role behavior. We also measured the mediating effect of ... -
Impact of Personality and Belief Systems on Helping
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)We investigate the effects of sattva guna (a dimension of Indian personality theory) and beliefs in the law of karma (an essential aspect of Indian philosophy) on helping behaviors in teams. We studied a group of 292 ... -
Impact of Proactive Personality in predicting Training Outcomes
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)While past researches have extensively focused in the field of training transfer, there is little empirical work done examining the influence of personality. The purpose of the paper is to operationalize the personality ... -
Impact of Servant Leadership Style on Employee’s Intentions to Stay in Indian Organizations
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)The research paper attempts to study Servant leadership (SL) style in Indian organizations and its impact on employee’s intentions to stay with particular organization. The finding of the study indicates that there exists ... -
Impact of Stock Market Liberalization on Returns Volatility and Economic Growth: An Evidence from Asian Economies
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)The liberalization-privatization-globalization plays a role of catalyst and laid the pathways for economic development in emerging and developed economies. The financial market liberalization unlocked the new channels for ... -
Impact of the monthly, day of the week and trading month effects on Bombay Stock Exchange Indices Returns for the period 2000-2014
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)The paper investigates monthly, day of the week impact and trading month effect on Indian stock market, i.e. the Bombay Stock Exchange. The study is based on daily data across 19 indices of the Bombay Stock Exchange so ... -
Implementation and Validation of Multi Attribute Decision Making Technique for Supplier Selection in Supply Chain Management
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)In Today’s Competitive Environment it is impossible to successfully produce low cost & high quality product, without satisfactory supplier. Thus one of the important purchasing decisions in smoothly running Supply Chain ... -
Impression Management: Mitigating The Effects Of Sex-Stereotyping In Organizations
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)Sex-stereotyping is a major barrier to advancement of women in organizations. Since sex-stereotypes are based on role attribution, they are less amenable to change through measures such as legislation and education. Women ... -
Improvement in Economic Well-being: Does Inter-generational Occupational Mobility Matter?
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This study makes use of the Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS) data to look at the effect of inter-generational occupational mobility in India on perceptions of improved economic well-being. The study provides ... -
Improving Information Sharing in Groups by Using Dyads
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Present research focused on studying impact of preparation work (prework) in dyads on information sharing in groups. Stasser and Titus (1985) found that groups focus on common information during discussion and neglect ...