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Labor Market outcome for Vocational Training in India- Does Safety net Theory holds true
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
This work is an attempt to explore and examine why people join Vocational Education and Training (VET) by looking at the labour market outcome for VET trained people. Emerging literature on the performance of VET in European ...
Managing Emotions: Emotional Labor Or Emotional Enrichment
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)
Concept of ‘emotional labor’ has undergone many transformations since Hochschild (1983) described it. Researchers have broadened its scope by including emotion management by professionals in different roles, exploring its ...
Influence Of Relational Mentoring On Role Based Performance
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
Relational mentoring process denotes high quality mentoring on the mentoring continuum and it encompasses traditional or average quality of mentoring. Although, the undercurrent of support provided through relational ...
Carved in Stone: Discursive Pragmatism and the Dabbawala Discourse
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
The study examines the discourse that has been generated around the Dabbawalas’ processes, their reception, assessment and applicability. The questions that this study raises are: Is the discourse generated around the ...
The Role of Talent Management in Enhancing B2B Relationships in Offshoring Organisations: Evidence From Indian IT Services Sector
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
This paper argue that for firms which are already global in nature, talent management (TM) serves as the mechanism for leveraging the organisations global mindset (GM) in improving its relationship quality (RQ) with client ...
Measuring Consumer spirituality through a valid scale
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
Spirituality has hardly received any attention from the marketing and consumer behaviour scholars. This study seeks to bridge that gap by addressing the issue of consumer spirituality and its measurement through CONSPIRIT ...
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 ...
Interrelatedness of family and small business
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
We present a view that social construct-family- is closely intertwined with the economic construct-small business-. We also demonstrate that the notion of family is deeply entrenched in the thoughts of small business owners. ...
Navigating Cultural Diversity through Cultural Intelligence: A Case of Hospitality Industry in India
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)
The global cultural experience has become terribly complex due to the growing need for organizations to handle the pervasiveness of cultural diversity in multinational organizations. Consequently, it becomes important to ...
Mixing tradition with enterprise: The case of English Apprenticeships
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
The paper is an empirical critique of the use of tradition in the field of apprenticeship education in England. The paper briefly traces the history of apprenticeship schemes over the last 300 years in order to provide ...