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Declining work motivation in India: How to get the reluctant horse to drink?
(2010-03-12)4he general feeling about the increasing organizational inefficiency and low morals is that there is an overall lack of proper work ethic in Indian Society. There is also a general consensus of views regarding this state ... -
Network planning model for power generation and transmission system: a suggested module for WASP programme
(2010-03-12)This paper describes a network planning model formulation for power generation and transmission system planning in detail, illustrated by an application for the Northern regional power network in India. The network planning ... -
Linear programming model for optimal water transmission system: a case study for Ahmedabad
(2010-03-12)This paper presents a methodology for the optimal design of a water transmission system, given a source of supply and demand values for water from various zonal divisions in the city. The Linear Programming Model developed ... -
Simulation model for sizing decision in a large irrigation/power project in India
(2010-03-12)This paper describes our experience with construction and use of a simulation model for a large Irrigation and Power Project in a state in India. The project has an estimated outlay of Rs.5000 million (U.S. $ 5 billion) ... -
Survey of research in business policy in India (1970-1982)
(2010-03-12)Business policy is taken as the study of how chief executives and general managers, with responsibility for several functions or businesses, shape and accomplish organizational purposes, policies and objectives. To determine ... -
Viability and equity objectives of institutional credit for agriculture
(2010-03-12)Institutions providing agricultural credit in India have been concerned with both the objectives of viability and equity of their operations. The attempts to reorganize the size of both the primary agricultural credit ... -
Planning for rural roads in India
(2010-03-12)This paper summarises our experience in developing an interactive decision-support system for planning rural roads in one district in India. The aim of this research was to explore the potentialbenefits to be obtained from ... -
On methodologies for policy analysis
(2010-03-12)Policy analysis as a major form of applied social science is a comparatively recent phenomenon in public systems. This paper examines the nature of methodologies in policy analysis and their relationship to social science ... -
Crisis responses of competing versus noncompeting organizations
(2010-03-12)The purpose of the paper is to identify responses of organizations undergoing crisis when they are subjected to either much competition or little competition. -
Education for development: some experiences from an action research project
(2010-03-12)The concept of action research emerged out of disillusionment with research contributing to the improvement of a practice, or resulting in social action. The gap between research and action, between theory and practice, ... -
Improving the effectiveness of public managers: can MBO help?
(2010-03-12)The purpose of this article is to review some aspects of managerial process as observed in one specific governmental programme. -
Note on two - phase method for a class of metric models in individual scaling
(2010-03-12)This working paper the authors discuss the typical problem in individual scaling viz., finding a common configuration and weights attached to dimensions for each individual from the given interpoint distances or scalar products. -
Industrial man of India
(2010-03-12)In this paper, the author primarily deal with those industrial men who are more directly involved in industrial activity. -
Positioning strategy and multiattribute information processing
(2010-03-12)The concept of positioning a brand in the mind of the buyer has evolved from the search for the most effective advertising strategy. The view that consumption objects are not notionally perceived as products but as ... -
Prospects of growth in fertilizer consumption in the Western region
(2010-03-12)Fertilizer consumption in the Western Region has come a long way in the last two decades - from less than 100000 tons in the early 1960s to about 550,000 tons by the early 1970s and further to about1.2 million tons by the ... -
Arrangements governing international trade in textiles: a summary view of issues and perspectives
(2010-03-12)This study has primarily been concerned with the issues and perspectives on the historical evolution and working of the arrangements governing international trade in textiles, particularly the latest such arrangement, ... -
Culture as a moderating factor on the effect of contextual variables on operating organizational structure
(2010-03-12)Organizational structure has been the focus of many studies in recent years. In most of these studies, the impact of culture on organizational structure is not considered. This paper argues that cultural values of the ... -
Using personality traits to explain consumer behaviour: an experical examination
(2010-03-12)The use of personality theory in consumer behaviour research has met with more disappointments than success. The belief that individual differences in brand preference or choice behaviour are caused by personality differences ... -
Interstate variation in female labour force participation rates in India - an analysis of the 1971 census data
(2010-03-12)This paper made an attempt to isolate the influence of structural differences in female population on the FPR in different states and theiry measure the extent of the actual regional variations in the female labour ... -
Economics of sustained rapid growth in India's fertiliser consumption
(2010-03-12)This paper presents a framework to discuss economics of sustained rapid growth in Inida's fertiliser consumption. Major considerations suggested by the framework are then discussed against the backdrop of the past growth ...