Browsing 3rd Biennial Conference of the Indian Academy of Management (IAM), 2013 by Title

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    • 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 ...

    • "Family Owned Businesses: Issues Relating To Succession Planning" 

      Yadav, Preeti; Singh, Jeet (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      In the lives of family owned businesses, the issues of successors and succession reigns supreme. While more is written about this area of family business than any other, it is often the most neglected area of activity by ...

    • Fastfood work: McJobs in India 

      Bathini, Dharma Raju (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      This study explores the nature of fast food work in the Indian context using an qualitative case-study approach. To understand the context, the production and service systems at an India based fast-food chain outlet are ...

    • Financial Inclusion, Gender and Economic Impact on Poor Households 

      Swamy, Vighneswara (Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)
      This primary research has examined the question: “In the context of gender dimension what is the evidence of the impact of the financial inclusion programs on poor households represented by women relative to that represented ...

    • Foreign Direct Investment and Infrastructure Development: Evidence from India 

      Kaur, Manpreet; Yadav, Surendra S.; Gautam, Vinayshil (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      The availability of developed infrastructural facilities is a sine-qua-non of progress of the economy. Adequate infrastructure is necessary not only to facilitate domestic investment but also to woo foreign investment. In ...

    • Greenfield Airport Development in India: A Case Study of Bangalore International Airport 

      Gupta, Alok; Agrawal, Smita (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      Government of India (GOI) is promoting Public Private Partnership (PPP) for development of Airports in India. Successful implementation of PPP depends on the efficient distribution of project risks among stakeholders. ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Identifying Determinants Of Intention To Sharing Knowledge Among Sales People 

      Palo, Sasmita; Charles, Linu (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 

      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 ...

    • Impact Of Learning Organization Attributes On Organization Performance: A Study Of An Indian PSU 

      Mishra, Bijaya; Bhaskar, A. Uday (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 

      Biswas, Sesadri; Challil, Gloryson R. B. (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 

      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 ...

    • Impact of Proactive Personality in predicting Training Outcomes 

      P. B., Srikanth (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 

      Kashyap, Vaneet; Rangnekar, Santosh (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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Improvement in Economic Well-being: Does Inter-generational Occupational Mobility Matter? 

      Nanarpuzha, Rajesh (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 

      Shatdal, Arvind; Vohra, Neharika (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 ...

    • Indian Military Leadership: An Exploratory Study 

      Fisher, Kelly; Billing, Tejinder; Chhina, Harry (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      This paper is based on an exploratory study of Indian military leadership that was delimited to the indigenous perspective and veterans’ own interpretations of effective military leadership when preparing and leading ...

    • 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 ...