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Appraisal politics: Revisiting from assessors' perspective
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2007)
Politics is a bane of administrative systems such as performance appraisals. It not only debilitates the system's credibility in the eyes of various stakeholders, but also adversely affects the employees' morale and the ...
Measuring Complexity in Financial Data
(FRONTIERS MEDIA SA, 2020)
The stock market is a canonical example of a complex system, in which a large number of interacting agents lead to joint evolution of stock returns and the collective market behavior exhibits emergent properties. However, ...
Water ATMs of Indian Railways: Causing a Silent Revolution
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018)
Using 'appreciative inquiry' in India to improve infection control practices in maternity care: A qualitative study
(Co-Action Publishing, 2015)
Background: Infections acquired during childbirth are a common cause of maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity. Changing provider behaviour and organisational settings within the health system is key to reducing ...
A multi-tier linking approach to analyze performance of autonomous vehicle-based storage and retrieval systems
(Elsevier Ltd, 2017)
To improve operational flexibility, throughput capacity, and responsiveness in order fulfillment operations, several distribution centers are implementing autonomous vehicle-based storage and retrieval system (AVS/RS) in ...
Increasing smallholder farmers' market participation through technology adoption in rural Timor-Leste '
(John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2021)
This study examines the role of high-yielding maize varieties as one of the key drivers of smallholder farmers' market participation in a highly subsistence rural economy. The analysis is based on the End-of-Program Survey ...
Donning the mask: Effects of emotional labour strategies on burnout and job satisfaction in community healthcare
(Oxford University Press, 2016)
Emotional labour involves management of one's emotions to match the demands of their roles. This emotion display involves just expression (surface-level emotional labour) or experience in addition to expression (deep-level ...
Beyond job security and money: Driving factors of motivation for government doctors in India
(2014)
Background: Despite many efforts from government to address the shortage of medical officers (MOs) in rural areas, rural health centres continue to suffer from severe shortage of MOs. Lack of motivation to join and continue ...
Integrated Decision Support Models for Manufacturing: An Example from the Electronics Industry
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 1998)
In response to increased competition, shorter product life cycles, and more demanding customers, manufacturers in many industries have been forced to adopt a service orientation to be more responsive in meeting customer ...
Two Organizational Roles: Manager's and Leader's
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 1998)
In this decade? leadership has been one of the most popular topics with speakers and writers on management. It is by its nature a somewhat enigmatic concept and? therefore? not largely amenable to research. Still? it has ...