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Coffee, tea or ..? : Gender and Politeness in computer mediated communication (CMC)
(2010-07-26)This study focuses on the influence of gender and politeness on writing style in CMC, specifically work related emails, in the Indian context. Gricezs Cooperative Principle (CP) and Leechzs maxims of Politeness have been ... -
Expanding financial services access for the poor: the transformation of SPANDANA
(2010-07-26)The paper traces the evolution of Spandana group of institutions. At the outset we explore the background of Spandana, the motivation for the promoters to set up the organisation and how it has aggressively grown from the ... -
Career drivers of new-age employees: implications for organisational reward and employee development systems
(2010-07-26)The paper conceptualises the linkages among individual career drivers, psychological contracts, and organisational reward and employee development systems. The model also incorporates employee reward preferences and ... -
Organisational citizenship performance in non-governmental organizations: development of a scale
(2010-07-26)The research design involved three broad stages: item generation, scale development and assessment of scalezs psychometric properties (reliability and validity). Fulltime and paid employees of several NGOs participated in ... -
Mediating effects in the relationship between 360-degree feedback and employee performance
(2010-07-26)360-degree feedback has been linked to several positive outcomes like improved performance, better interpersonal communication, smoother work relationships, etc. The paper empirically examines the mediating effects in the ... -
Revisiting appraisal politics from assessors' perspective
(2010-07-26)Past research on performance appraisal focusing on assessorzs ability to assess accurately has not made much progress because practitioners have not adopted most of the recommendations. One of the arguments has been that ... -
How close can you get - the effect of proxemics on LMX
(2010-07-26)The study of how human use space to communicate is termed as Proxemics. In an organizational setting, this behavior has been found to be culturally conditioned and thus may differentially affect the degree of mutual influence ... -
Women and formal and informal science
(2010-07-26)In this paper, we compare our insights from the formal scientific sector with our investigations in informal scientific sector. The effort to blend excellence in formal and informal scientific sectors would require overcoming ... -
Capacity management of intensive care units in a multi- specialty hospital in India
(2010-07-26)The paper describes the capacity management of Intensive Care Units (ICUs) in a 300- bed multi- specialty hospital where the alternative ICU is utilized when the appropriate ICU is full for a set of two types of ICUs. ... -
International transfer of technology to India: problems, prospects and policy issues
(2010-07-22)Transborder movement of technology is being increasingly felt in international business. A large proportion of worldwide international transfer of technology (ITT) occurs between industrially advanced countries. But for ... -
Women managers in transition: from homes to corporate offices
(2010-07-22)This paper discusses the shift of the Indian society from agrarian to industrial, and from rural to urban with reference to women in this process of transition. The career paths of women in management are classified in ... -
Production and Marketing problems of villagers in various Asian countries
(2010-07-22)The paper discusses technical, institutional and economic aspects of the Production and Marketing problems of Asian villagers. It argues that these aspects are manifestations of the structural deficiencies associated with ... -
Values in search of education
(2010-07-22)This paper is based on an amateur research effort to understand how social values are transmitted through non-formal education. The point of departure for the study lies in some currently expressed view on deterioration ... -
Multi-item (S, s) inventory model with poisson demand general lead time and adjustable reorder time
(2010-07-22)Stochastic Multiple Item Inventory System of (S, s) type is studied with general lead time distribution and Poisson demand. The demands occur according to Poisson process for one unit of a specific item at a time. The ... -
Public policy, focal faculties and innovative international competition:case of Indian civil aviation
(2010-07-22)In the early 1990s the concept of the firmzs focal faculties came into vogue. It helped to explain the phenomenon of innovative international competition. In the new civil aviation policy of the Indian government we have ... -
Economic reforms and institutions: a few issues and policy implications for India
(2010-07-22)In the absence of necessary institutional conditions, market reforms in developing economies cause rent seeking and unequitable distribution of income. This, in turn, could stun economic growth and also thwart the emergence ... -
Consistent measurement of fiscal deficit and debt of states in India
(2010-07-22)There are differences in the definition of debt used by different bodies like the state governments, Reserve Bank of India, the Office of Comptroller and Auditor General of India and the Eleventh Finance Commission. ... -
Harnessing wisdom for managing watersheds: honey bee perspective on innovations, institutions and policies for marginal environments
(2010-07-22)Participatory approaches for watershed management are now considered essential for sustainable natural resources management and yet there is very little opportunity for intellectual participation by the people. This ... -
Working capital management in Srilanka
(2010-07-22)The study provides an empirical evidence of working capital management policy and practices of the private sector manufacturing companies in Sri Lanka. The information and data for the study were gathered through questionnaires ... -
Marketing of fruits and vegetables in India: a study covering the Ahmedabad, Chennai and kolkata markets
(2010-07-22)There has been concern in recent years regarding the efficiency of marketing of fruits and vegetables, and that this is leading to high and fluctuating consumer prices and only a small share of the consumer rupee reaching ...