Browsing Working Papers by Author "Rao, T. V."
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Performance appraisal of human resource development function in Indian organisations: a preliminary survey
Rao, T. V. (2010-03-22)The HRD function has gained a lot of momentum in the last decade. An earlier survey conducted in 1984 indicated that a number of HRD sub-system were being initiated in Indian industry. A detailed questionnaire was developed ... -
Planning and management for excellence and efficiency in higher education
Rao, T. V. (2010-03-21)Higher education has multiple goals of character building for social development, skill building for national development and teacher competency building for education development. Higher education today faces many ... -
Practice stories
Rao, T. V. (2010-03-13)This is a continuation of Technical Report No. 77. There are 5 sets of practice stories. Scoring system is described at the end of each set. Reliability coefficients have to be computed on the basis these stories and the ... -
Process consultation for managing change in a voluntary agency
Rao, T. V. (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 ... -
Psychological and organizational factors in successful entrepreneurship: a small sample survey
Rao, T. V.; Rao, K. Dinkar; Dixit, N. (2010-03-13)This study on 16 small industry entrepreneurs (9 successful + 7 unsuccessful) focused on identifying some personal background attitudinal, organizational and managerial variables that discriminate the successful group from ... -
Psychological maturity and motivational profiles of management students
Rao, T. V.; Vijayasree, P. (2010-03-13)This study was undertaken to assess the motivational patterns and psychological maturity of management students. -
Psychology of work: individual in organisation
Rao, T. V. (2010-03-13)Work is an important aspect of life and behaviour. Most active part of peoples lives go in work and work-related activities. Hence it is but natural for psychologists to study this important dimension. -
Research relevant to population education: survey from India
Pareek, Udai; Rao, T. V. (2010-03-14)After discussing a general modular paradigm of population education consisting of curriculum building, system building and diffusion process, the relevant researches from behavioural sciences are reviewed. These researches ... -
Role of welfare officers in family planning and welfare
Verma, Pramod; Rao, T. V. (2010-04-17)This study aims at sharing the experience of conducting a phased action research in family planning and welfare. The rationale for action research lies in the increasing gap between efforts to create positive attitude ... -
Role set based assessment center approach to personnel selection
Rao, T. V. (2010-03-21)This paper presents a role set based assessment center approach to personnel selection. According to this approach an assessment center should be established in any organization interested in personnel selection and appraisal ... -
Stewart maturity scale - Indian adaption
Rao, T. V. (2010-03-13)This manual describes a scoring system for TAT stories and other verbal fantasy material to assess the Psychosocial Development of any individual. There are four stages of development parallel to those outlined by Freud ... -
Strategies of development human resources: an analysis of experiences from fourteen organizations
Rao, T. V. (2010-03-15)HRD function has got a good deal of attention in the recent past and is continuing to get more. The instruments of HRD are many. The HRD instruments should lead to the generation of HRD processes like role clarity, performance ... -
Structured interviews and FRM acceptability
Pareek, Udai; Rao, T. V. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1974) -
Survey of strenghs and weaknesses of senior executives as perceived by them and their juniors
Rao, T. V.; Selvan, Tamil S. (2010-07-27)Survey of strengths and weakness of senior executives was undertaken in the context of increased use of self-awareness and personal growth programmers in the country and the use of open appraisal systems to enhance development ... -
Use of non-cognitive instruments in personnel selection and appraisal
Rao, T. V. (2010-03-14)This paper discusses the scope for using non-cognitive instruments. The instruments have been dealt with at three levels: self, social interaction, and person-organization interaction. Examples have been cited where scope ... -
What employers value in the MBAs they recruit: rebalancing the management education curriculum
Rao, T. V.; Saxena, Siddhartha Satish; Sherry Chand, Vijaya; Narendran, Rajeshwari; Bharathan, Kandaswamy; Jajoo, B. H. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)This paper seeks to answer the question, “In the Indian context, what insights can employers offer on the knowing, doing and being dimensions of the formation of an MBA graduate, that management education institutes can ...