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Hope to despair: the experience of organizing Indian call centre employees
(Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 2013)
The rapid growth of India's IT Enabled Service-Business Process Outsourcing (ITES-BPO) sector has drawn the attention of several researchers whose foci have spanned varied aspects. This paper analyses whether UNITES really ...
Corporate governance: changing trends in interpreting fiduciary duty
(Vikalpa, 2014-03-08)
The author discusses the need for corporate directors to know the concept of fiduciary to be more aware of the obligations, duties and liabilities imposed by it. He cites the task of the directors who take decisions for ...
An empirical study of the dimensionality of organizational justice and its relationship with organizational citizenship behavior in the Indian context
(International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2013-09-15)
Cross-cultural research shows that while the concerns about organizational justice may be universal, operationalization of justice standards is highly particularistic (Greenberg 2001). The present study explores the ...
Expiration-day effects and the impact of short trading breaks on intraday volatility: evidence from the Indian market
(WILEY, 2013-01-19)
One distinct feature of the Indian stock market is the large trading volume of single stock futures, which are cash settled on the basis of the volume-weighted average spot prices of the underlying stocks during the last ...
Price of freedom: are we willing to pay anything and how much?
(International Journal of Public Policy, 2013-05-11)
Freedom is one of the most frequently used words; however, the notion of freedom has become convoluted in recent times. In this study, we examined if freedom is really important to individuals and the price an individual ...
Workplace bullying in the context of organizational change: the significance of pluralism
(Industrial Relations Journal, 2014-05-01)
The presence of depersonalised bullying during organisational change, highlighted through empirical research on lay-off procedures in India's information technology sector, underscores the rhetoric of unitarist human ...
The effect of continuous auditing on the relationship between internal audit sourcing and the external auditor’s reliance on the internal audit function
(Springer-Verlag, 2013)
Prior research indicates that external auditors are willing to rely to a greater extent on the work of the internal audit (IA) function when the function has been outsourced, or co-sourced, as opposed to maintained in-house. ...
Breathers releases outlets and pauses: employee resistance in the context of depersonalized bullying
(Nova Southeastern University, Inc., 2013)
Introduction The study of workplace bullying, which originated in Scandinavia in the 1980s with the work of Heinz Leymann who used the term "mobbing" to describe the phenomenon (Einarsen, Hoel, [...]
Drawing on a study ...
Discrete optimization: tabu search for the single row facility layout problem using exhaustive 2-opt and insertion neighborhoods
(European Journal of Operational Research, 2013)
The single row facility layout problem (SRFLP) is the problem of arranging facilities with given lengths on a line, while minimizing the weighted sum of the distances between all pairs of facilities. The problem is NP-hard. ...
Beyond job security and money: driving factors of motivation for government doctors in India
(Human Resources for Health, 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 ...