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The pathology of performance appraisal system-insights from supreme court rulings
(Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 2014)
Performance management, like other management practices espouses that control is necessary to
enable subordinates to achieve their potential, and that without such control, production would be suboptimal
or abysmally low ...
Improving service system performance using estimates of waiting time probabilities
(International. Journal. of Automation and Logistics, 2014)
Queue length distributions provide insight into the impact of service
system design changes that go beyond simple performance measure averages;
however, such distributions are difficult to estimate when service times are ...
What makes a team work?
(2011-05-03)
Teams are increasingly becoming an essential COl:lponent of organizations
across industries. A lot has been written on team work in the recent years.
\Vhile the importance of teams in organizations has largely been ...
New markets for smallholders in India: exclusion, policy and mechanisms
(Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 47, Issue No. 52, 29 Dec, 2012, 2012)
The gradual withdrawal of the state from agricultural markets and the emphasis on the role of the private sector has meant the entry of corporate and multinational agencies through the opening up of procurement, wholesale ...
Right to education act and public private partnership (PPP)
(2010-02-20)
Two comments on our article (“Feasibility
of Implementation of Right
to Education Act”, EPW, 20 June
2009) by Padma M Sarangapani (EPW, 24
October 2009) and Vimala Ramachandran
(11 July 2009) make similar points.
Some ...
Trends in regional disparity in human and social development in India
(2011-04-29)
Trends in regional disparity in numerous social and human development indicators, other than
state income, are examined with a statistical significance test. No support was found for the
impression about increasing ...
Regional sources of growth acceleration in India
(2011-04-29)
Gujarat, West Bengal, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala
and Tamil Nadu were the major contributors to the
growth acceleration in India after 1991-92. Although
regional disparity may increase temporarily, the causality
test ...
Determinants of B2B salesperson’s performance: a review and synthesis of literature
(2010-01-15)
Review articles on B2B salespersons’ performance in the recent past have been limited. This paper seeks to provide a review, focusing on
the conceptualizations of the salespersons’ performance construct, and its determinants, ...
Speed of adjustment and inflation-output trade off in India
(Journal of Quantitative Economics, 2012)
This paper estimates the short-run aggregate supply curve for the Indian
economy over the period 1950-51 to 2008-09. Methodological improvements in
this paper include the technique of estimating adaptive expectations, ...
Innovations for the poor by the poor
(International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development, 2012)
The concern for inclusive or harmonious development is being
articulated worldwide. There is a belated realisation that for extreme
affordability, there is no choice but to learn from green grassroots innovators
and ...