Browsing Working Papers by Author "Khandwalla, Pradip N."

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    • Organizational Goals as Determinants of Lower Management Job Satisfaction 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2012-09-27)
      Questionnaire based data from 47 Indian corporations indicated interesting casual linkage between the goals of top management and the level of job satisfaction of the relatively lower level of management various job factors. ...

    • Organizations of the future: a strategic organization perspective 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-03-14)
      In the light of research on organizational design, the paper outlines an effective design for the strategic organizations of developing societies. Strategic organizations are defined as those organizations with the mission ...

    • Performance determinants of public enterprises 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-03-13)
      The paper is a summary of a report submitted to the World Bank on the performance determinants of Indian Public enterprises. The study was based on intensive case studies of four engineering enterprises, all attached to ...

    • Phases of divergent thinking 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-03-13)
      Twenty-one subjects were given the divergent thinking task of listing green, funny, and liquid objects and asked to think aloud. Their protocols were analysed and five phases and 23 sub-phases of divergent thinking were ...

    • PI motive: a base for development 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-03-13)
      The paper presents the relevance, conceptual foundations, and operational measure of an important otive of professionals, and one that may be critical for socio-economic transformation. It is labelled the pioneering-innovating ...

    • The PI style of management 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-03-13)
      The pioneering innovation (PI) mode of management was identified from corporate policies data supplied by the top management of 75 Indian organizations. The paper presents the determinants and organizational consequences ...

    • Properties of competing organizations 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-03-13)
      Competition is a pervasive feature of all societies in which the desired things of life are provided by alternative sources. The need to withstand competition must inevitably affect the structure and functioning of competing ...

    • Recharging Indian bureaucracy 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2009-12-14)
      Failure of bureaucracy has prompted many efforts at reforming it. But administrative reform has failed in many developing countries, including India, for a variety of reasons. The costs of the bureaucracy s malfunctioning ...

    • Regeneration of strategic organizations 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-03-21)
      One way of increasing the social responsiveness of OB, especially in the Third World, is to increase its contribution to the effectiveness of strategic organizations, that is, organizations set up to, or desiring to, achieve ...

    • Revitalizing the state 4. reinventing the democratic state 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-07-26)
      Although democracy evolved in the West, in this century it has been adopted by scores of developing societies, with several relapses to despotism and recoveries from it. The most common form of democracy is liberal democracy, ...

    • Revitalizing the state: 1. models of the modern state 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-07-26)
      In this paper the complexity of the modern state is examined with reference to the pressures under which it operates, and the mechanisms it employs of differentiation and integration. The reasons for the very large increase ...

    • Revitalizing the State: 2. resharing the bureaucracy 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-07-26)
      In Virtually any king of modern state, there is a huge role for the bureaucracy. The bureaucracy is intended to be a rational system of administration. But it is prone to many bureaupathologies, and increasing size tends ...

    • Revitalizing the State: 3. fragmenting the state for innovation 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-07-26)
      Organizational research indicates that large organizations involved in many different activities can counteract the diseconomies of size and complexity, tendency to bureaucratization, and to increasing resistance to ...

    • Revitalizing the State: 5. slimming the state for effectiveness 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-03-31)
      Beginning with the eighties there has been a growing perception, in developed and developing countries alike, that the modern state has extended itself beyond its governance capacity. In many countries the state is perceived ...

    • Revitalizing the state: 6. the performance of the Indian state 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-04-03)
      The performance of a state depends upon how effectively it copes with its crisis points. These crisis points can arise because of arbitrariness, excessive bureaucratizaiton, insufficient democratization, insufficient ...

    • Revitalizing the state: 7. options for India 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-04-03)
      Successful experiments in governance the world over suggest a number of options for revitalizing the Indian state. Several options are first considered for revamping the political system. These include options for achieving ...

    • Strategic developmental organizations: some behavioural properties 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-07-27)
      OB research in the Third World has not been sufficiently socially responsive. It can make amends by fing on the organizational behaviour of strategic developmental organizations. The latter are organizations that have or ...

    • Study of organizational policies 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-03-12)
      Two period data on 51 items of management policy were obtained from the top managements of 75 Indian organizations (mostly private and public sector corporations). The policy items were classified into those relating to ...

    • The style of corporate management goals, strategy structure and performance 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-03-13)
      Using cluster analysis of questionnaire data from the top managements of 103 Canadian companies, seven styles of corporate top management were identified. Each style was a particular configuration of the orientation to ...

    • Talent and the pioneering innovating motive 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-03-14)
      The paper argues that the wish to pioneer and innovate is essential if talented persons are to give their best to society. The paper reports the relationships between the pioneering - innovating and five other motives, ...