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Process consultation for managing change in a voluntary agency
(2010-03-20)This paper is intended to share some experiences of the author in offering process consultation to a voluntary service agency introducing change in the total organisation. The emphasis of the paper is mainly on the process ... -
Transforming the rural poor: the big push revisited
(2010-03-20)The paper reexamines the logic and relevance of the big push in transforming the rural poor. Theories of circular causation of poverty and immanent economic controversies, such as the critical minimum effort, balanced vs. ... -
Food riots: an analysis of price movements of essential commodities 1971-73 with tools for policy analysis
(2010-03-20)Data analysis techniques must be appropriate to the purpose of the analysis. Policy analysis, in particular, requires analytic techniques which are parsimonious and robust. Data available on the price of 22 essential ... -
Management in our backyard
(2010-03-20)The paper describes the tentative conclusions from interviews with a variety of individuals with respect to indigenous modes of management and also from the study of the annual reports of about 200 companies. Evidence ... -
The flow of funds in Indian manufacturing sector
(2010-03-20)Econometric model portraying the behaviour of flow of funds in manufacturing sectors has been developed. Given the balance sheets constraint, decisions to acquired physical assets and other decisions about source and ... -
Educational tasks in development programmes
(2010-03-20)In the developing countries and those undergoing rapid change, the part played in the social field by education is of vital importance.This paper has looked at the educational tasks that confronts the grassroot level ... -
Productivity as a function of job satisfaction and ego - strength
(2010-03-20)The purpose of the present study is to find out the relationship between job satisfaction, ego-strength and job performance. The S-D Employees Inventory has been administered as measure of the workers' satisfaction. To ... -
Project-linkage programme understand the process of evolution and review of pilot project experience
(2010-03-20)'Project-Linkage', is a new program initiated by Government of Gujarat with an objective of linking rural development with industrial development. Specifically, the programme attempts to build linkages which will facilitate ... -
Impact of housing investment on income and employment generation
(2010-03-20)An attempt has been made in this paper to examine the impact multipliers of housing investment in relation to the corresponding multipliers for investment in other sectors of the Indian economy. It seeks to measure the ... -
Impact of cropping pattern on agricultural production
(2010-03-20)The objective of the paper is to examine the effect of cropping pattern along with other yield increasing inputs upon agricultural production. The paper first compares the cropping pattern index with fertilizer, irrigation ... -
Integration theoretical analysis of expected job attractiveness and satisfaction
(2010-03-20)Two experiments were performed to study job evaluation processes, using methods of information integration theory. Prospective job seekers rated hypothetical job descriptions according to (a) how much they would like to ... -
Workers' cooperative - an Indian experience
(2010-03-20)The history of industrial cooperative is a record of the efforts of the cooperators to bring about harmony between capital and labour. Workers' cooperatives in India are found in (a) Traditional Industries, (b) Small Scale ... -
Multidimensional inputs and reward allocation: an integration-theoretical analysis
(2010-03-20)Many situations require us to distribute rewards and resources between different members of a group. The members are often described with respect to their age, sex, experience, personality, and productivity. Distribution ... -
Role of women in risk adjustment in drought prone regions
(2010-03-20)In the wake of extreme environmental fluctuations inherent in arid and semi-arid ecological regions it is inevitable that different classes of rural households evolve over a period of time specific risk adjustment strategies. ... -
Medium to long term impacts of falling energy prices and welfare changes in agriculture sector
(2010-03-20)Since the first energy price shock of 1973 a number of studies have reported the impacts of rising energy prices on agriculture sector. However, in the recent years real energy prices are falling in the international market. ... -
Technology development and diffusion in tree growers cooperatives in a coastal saline region of Gujarat: a learning environmental approach
(2010-03-20)This paper examines the nexus between new technology for an open access land resource and an institutional set-up for establishing and managing tree plantations as a common pool resource. The Vankars, a scheduled caste of ... -
Approach to the design of corporate identity
(2010-03-20)The corporate form of organization is being used in many spheres of economic and social activity. Public enterprises and development corporations have swelled the ranks of the mass of existing private sector companies. All ... -
Analysis of a two-unit parellel redendant system with phase type failure and general repair
(2010-03-20)Explicit expressions for the Laplace transform of the reliability and availability of a general two-unit parallel redundant system are obtained. The Mean time to system failure and steady state availability are deduced as ... -
Emerging economic environment
(2010-03-19)This paper examines the likely developments on the industrial front on the basis of a diagnosis of recent economic developments. Special attention is paid to the possibility of an industrial recession emerging in 1975. The ... -
Decision process of individuals under conditions of risk: an experimental study
(2010-03-19)Theoretical models in finance are many a time based on unrealistic assumptions about the behaviour of individuals. Empirical validation of the models is expected to vindicate the assumptions. However, in most situations, ...