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Simple tool for benchmarking early literacy skills in Indian languages
(2010-01-16)India's literacy rate has been rising rapidly. Unfortunately we are in the dark about the literacy levels of the so - called literates. A simple, quick, and easy to administer tool for measuring literacy skill is described. ... -
Building a world class organization: challenge and opportunities
(2010-01-16)This paper was presented by the author at the World HRD Congress held in January 2001 at Mumbai. The paper reflects upon past, present and future of Indian organizations. Indian organizations have not been able to keep ... -
A study of organisational role stress in relation to job burnout among university teachers
(2010-01-16)The present study investigates the relationships between organizational role stress and job burnout among university teachers. The sample consisted of (N=300) university teachers, which has been classified into three groups ... -
Strengths and weaknesses of family business: Indian context
(2010-01-16)The paper examines the location and status of family businesses in the industrial context of India. Indian Family businesses shifted from trading and distribution to manufacturing. The shift demanded changes in leadership ... -
Axiomatic analysis of vote aggregators
(2010-01-16)In this paper a model for the aggregation of ballot profiles is considered. In this framework some new results are obtained: the characterization of oligarchic aggregators, the characterization of the plurality aggregator ... -
Justifiable preferences for freedom of choice
(2010-01-16)In this paper we say that a preference for freedom of choice is justifiable if there exists a reflexive and complete binary relation on the set of alternatives, such that one oppurtunity is atleast as good as a second, if ... -
Business logic for dotcom businesse
(2010-01-16)The rise and fall of a number of dotcoms has attracted a lot of attention in business press, but there does not seem to have been any in depth study to understand the economic logic of dotcom businesses. A close analysis ... -
Influencing human resource management practices in subsidiaries by parent companies: evidences from India
(2010-01-16)Effective management of trans frontier operations of Multinational Companies (MNCs) requires integration of subsidiaries for global competitiveness and autonomy of subsidiaries for local responsiveness. With the increased ... -
Public systems group: a review of research
(2010-01-16)This working paper gives a review of the work done in different fields of PSG over the years from 1975 to 1993. It consisted of two sections. Section I is the review itself which gives a flavour of the kind and variety of ... -
Identification of best practices: a study of passenger car dealers in India
(2009-12-16)Automobile manufacturers and car dealers entering fast growing, emerging markets often face several crucial decisions. A key question in this context is: what are the characteristics of an efficient dealer? In this paper, ... -
When literacy campaigns gave birth to a women movement: the case of jago bahana in dumka (Bihar, India)
(2009-12-16)Total and Post Literacy Campaigns have launched incidental processes of women s empowerment in almost every district that witnessed this uniquely Indian innovation. However, these processes have generally tended to fade ... -
Competitiveness of Indian manufacturing: findings of the 1997 manufacturing futures survey
(2009-12-16)This paper reports the findings of a survey to study the competitiveness of Indian manufacturing sector. The paper conceptualizes these findings in terms of priorities of Indian manufacturing firms, the programmes that ... -
Same language subtitling: literacy development in India through film songs
(2009-12-14)India s efforts in basic primary and adult education are turning an increasing number of non-literates into semi- and neo-literates. But due to a serious lack of literacy skill practice opportunities, many relapse into ... -
Computer simulation of hospital systems
(2009-12-14)Hospital Management is an area of considerable importance to governments health authorities and the general population. Governments all over the world are concerned about providing quality health care to their people. The ... -
Strategic partnering in telecom software: northern telecom technology network in India
(2009-12-14)Inter-firm linkages are becoming strategically important for transfer and development of technological capabilities. In this paper, we present how one such network of partnership between a MNC and some Indian software firms ... -
Coastal shipping: scope of integrating with the national transport network
(2009-12-14)Coastal shipping constitutes about 30% of the total traffic handled at our ports. Exhibit 1 gives data for the past two years for the major ports, the Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) ports, and the non-GMB minor and intermediate ... -
Theoretical and policy making contributions of research on agricultural economics: a success or failure or neither?
(2009-12-14)This paper discusses following five issues by briefly considering the historical context of agriculture, innate biological nature of production process in agriculture, and initial conditions that agriculture inherited at ... -
Attitudes towards work and family roles and their implications for career growth of women
(2009-12-14)In this paper the authors attempted to understand attitudes towards work and family roles of professional men and women in India. Propositions based on the adult development theories of men and women, regarding reward value ... -
Can targeting work in food security programmes? a study of consumer behaviour and the fair price shop system for food in India
(2009-12-14)In most major subsidised food distribution programmes, targeting of benefits to the principal beneficiaries is significant problem. For India s public distribution system for foodgrains which works through an immense network ... -
Managerial compensation in India: a test of alternative models
(2009-12-14)This study attempts to econometrically model the determinants of managerial compensation in the Indian economy making use of a pooled cross-section and time-series data base that consists of 157 managers from eight companies ...