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    • HRM Configurations In Project Based Organizations 

      Mathew, Jossy; Srinivasan, Vasanthi; Gooderham, Paul; Croucher, Richard (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 ...

    • Individual pay, performance and career stages: A study in the context of the Men’s cricket team of India 

      Balasubramanian, Girish; Gloryson, Chalil R. B. (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      Extensive research has been done in the field of professional sports and interesting implications have been drawn for organizations. Using Cricket as a professional sport we study the linkage between pay, performance and ...

    • Effectiveness of Performance Management Systems in the Indian Construction sector 

      Rai, Soumi; Lele, Vishwanath (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      This exploratory study seeks to specifically understand Performance management systems, their applicability and effectiveness in relation to the Indian construction sector . The sample for the study consisted of 138 employees ...

    • Perceived Differences In Culture, Environmental Hostility And Firm Performance: A Study Of Indian Organizations Using Competing Value Framework 

      Singh, Harpreet; Challil, Gloryson R. B. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013)
      This paper explores a relationship between corporate culture and the performance of the firm within the context of varying environmental hostility. We collected data from 70 firms and tried to identify the impact of ...

    • Effects of TQM on Perceptual HRM 

      Jain, Ankur (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      This paper examines the effects of TQM practices practiced by software organizations on perceptual HRM within India. The study sample consisted of 324 employees, resulting in a response rate of 81 percent. A questionnaire ...

    • Role of Communication in the Large-scale Construction Projects in India 

      Rajhans, Kirti (Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013-12-12)
      The large scale construction projects require efficient interaction and coordination of multiple stakeholders during the entire life cycle of the project and hence the role of effective communication management is crucial ...

    • An Empirical Study on Corporate Social Responsibility, Intention to Quit and Job Embeddedness 

      Ghosh, Debjani; Gurunathan, L. (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      Systematic research regarding the effects of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on organization stakeholder groups, like employees, remains sparse. This paper examines employee’s reaction to CSR programmes at the ...

    • Influence Of Relational Mentoring On Role Based Performance 

      Srivastava, Sushmita; Thakur, Munish Kumar (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 ...

    • HR Shared Services: The Big Picture 

      Madhu Bala; Jomon, M.G. (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 ...

    • Organizational Structure Factors And Job Involvement Among Employees: Mediating Role Of Psychological Contract Fulfillment 

      Sharma, Abhishek (Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)
      Present study was conducted on medical staff working in not-for-profit, teaching & non-teaching, public hospitals (N=300) in northern India. Results revealed that structural factors (Co-ordination & work autonomy) significantly ...

    • Impression Management: Mitigating The Effects Of Sex-Stereotyping In Organizations 

      Hodigere, Renuka; Bilimoria, Diana (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 ...

    • Communities-of-Practice: Powerful or Powerless? 

      Thomas, Nobin; Vohra, Neharika (Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)
      The extant literature provides evidence that control measures employed in Communities-of-Practice (CoP) have undergone significant changes with the evolution of the concept. When it started as a self-organized group, its ...

    • Factors Affecting the Work Attitudes of Indian Reentry Women in the IT Sector 

      Ravindran, Bharathi; Baral, Rupashree (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      Women’s increased participation in today’s labor force has not essentially guaranteed a continued presence for working women in the Indian IT sector. Hence, the current study aims at finding the effect of organizational ...

    • A Content Analysis of Female Portrayals in Indian Magazine Advertisements 

      Kumari, Shyama; Shivani, Shradha (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      Since 1970’s several research studies have been conducted by the developed countries on portrayal of women in advertising however very few researches can be traced in developing nations particularly in case of India. The ...

    • The role of traits, values and self-efficacy beliefs in volunteering 

      Bathini, Dharma Raju; Vohra, Neharika (Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)
      Recent literature on prosocial behavior has emphasized on the joint role of traits, values and self-efficacy beliefs in prosocial behavior. Even though some attention has been paid to studying the role of traits and values ...

    • Do Family Firms Learn? A Relational View 

      Thomas, Nobin; Vohra, Neharika (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      Though theoretical contributions have enriched organizational learning literature for over five decades, it is surprising to find that organizational learning has rarely been studied for family firms. When two out of every ...

    • Impact of Personality and Belief Systems on Helping 

      Mulla, Zubin; Krishnan, Venkat (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 ...

    • Managing Emotions: Emotional Labor Or Emotional Enrichment 

      Chandwani, Rajesh (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 ...

    • Interrelatedness of family and small business 

      Murthy R, Venkatesha; GD, Bino Paul (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. ...

    • Impact of a Sudarshan Kriya Based Occupational Stress Management Intervention on Physiological and Psychological Outcomes 

      Mulla, Zubin; A., Vedamuthachar (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 ...