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Appraisal politics: revisiting from assessor's perspective
(2007-10-29)
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 ...
Technical call centres: beyond electronic sweatshops and assembly lines in the head
(2007-11-02)
Views on call centres as work systems represent a dichotomy. While, on the one hand, call centres are seen as
conforming to an engineering or mass service model, on the other hand, they are described as high commitment
service ...
Colloquium on union budget 2008 - 09
(2008-11-02)
This was the seventh Union Budget presented by the Finance Minister (FM),
Shri P Chidambaram. Since this one was the last regular Budget of the present
government before the forthcoming election of the Parliament, it was ...
An optimization based decision support system for strategic and operational planning with in process industries
(2004-10-25)
We describe how a generic multi-period optimization-based decision support system can be used for
strategic and operational planning in process industries. Built on five fundamental elements—materials, facilities,
activities, ...
Crisis and diversification in Punjab agriculture : role of state and agribusiness
(2004-10-26)
The farming crisis in post-green revolution Punjab has assumed serious proportions,
manifested in suicides by a large number of farmers. This paper examines the nature and
magnitude of crisis in the farm sector in the ...
Volatility models and their performance in Indian capital markets
(2005-10-27)
Estimation and forecasting of volatility of asset returns is important in various applications related
to financial markets such as valuation of derivatives, risk management, etc. Till early eighties, it was
commonly ...
South Africa and the AIDS epidemic diagnosis
(2004-10-26)
I
n summer 2002, President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa wondered what
he should do to contain the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
(AIDS) epidemic that had engulfed his country. One out of every nine
South Africans ...
A leap in the dark: the fiscal-monetary nexus
(2005-10-25)
The orientation of fiscal policy should be on fiscal correction and
long-term issues. Aggregate demand management is then the
exclusive domain of monetary policy which by initiating a softer
interest rate regime can ...
Reconciling dichotomous demands: telemarketing agents in Bangalore and Mumbai, India
(2007-11-08)
Though outsourcing has created enormous employment potential in India’s information technology enabled
services/business process outsourcing (ITES/BPO) sector, the implications for employees remain to be
understood. The ...
Understanding Indian economic growth: some observations
(2007-11-02)
The history of economic growth after
independence in India has been an
active field of empirical research leading to
debates on effectiveness of policy regimes.
The latest contribution by Balakrishnan and
Parameshwaran ...