Browsing 3rd Biennial Conference of the Indian Academy of Management (IAM), 2013 by Issue Date
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Role of Leadership in Business Model Innovation: A Case of an Entrepreneurial Firm
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)This paper explores the relationship between leadership and business model innovation in an entrepreneurial firm. The literature shows that, the role of leader in Business Model Innovation is important and unexplored ... -
Organizational Structure Factors And Job Involvement Among Employees: Mediating Role Of Psychological Contract Fulfillment
(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 ... -
Three Factor Model of Employee Passion: An Empirical Study in Indian Context
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)The purpose of the study was oriented towards operationalization and generalization of the construct of employee passion in Indian context. Based on the past literature proposed by Zigarmi et al., 2011 and expert opinion, ... -
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 ... -
Greenfield Airport Development in India: A Case Study of Bangalore International Airport
(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. ... -
Psychological Contract Fulfilment and Its Impact on Employees’ Job Attitudes: Does Generations Make Any Difference?
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)In recent years, there has been, particularly among human resource management practitioners, a view that inter-generational differences exist among employees which provide challenges to employers in effectively managing ... -
Foreign Direct Investment and Infrastructure Development: Evidence from India
(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 ... -
Factors Affecting the Work Attitudes of Indian Reentry Women in the IT Sector
(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 ... -
Communities-of-Practice: Powerful or Powerless?
(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 ... -
Fastfood work: McJobs in India
(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 ... -
The crippling effect of diversity of emotional intelligence on team performance and the moderating role of a leader in managing emotions
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2013)Many researchers assert the importance of emotional intelligence on team performance, without actually hinting at the effect of diversity of emotional intelligence on team performance. We develop a theoretical model which ... -
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 ...