Browsing Working Papers by Author "Chhokar, Jagdeep S."

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    • Accident rates and safety practices in road transport corporations 

      Chhokar, Jagdeep S.; Gopalakrishnan, C. (2010-07-20)
      This paper attempts to understand and explain the variation in accident rates among various Road Transport Corporations in India. It is based on data concerning accident rates and safety practices, collected from five Road ...

    • Action tendency measure of job satisfaction: a cross cultural validation 

      Chhokar, Jagdeep S. (2010-07-27)
      Job satisfaction has been of interest to organizational researchers for a long time. However, success in measuring it has been limited. There have been suggestions that its assessment through "action tendencies' may be ...

    • Attitude toward computers: development of a scale 

      Chhokar, Jagdeep S.; Bhatnagar, Deepti (2010-07-20)
      This study reports the development of an instrument to measure attitude toward computers. The importance of attitude in attaining the full potential of computerization is highlighted and possible uses for the attitude ...

    • Emerging environment for business in India: a scenario 

      Chhokar, Jagdeep S.; Dixit, Mukund R. (2010-03-23)
      The environment for doing business in India has changed substantially in the last couple of years and is likely to change almost radically in the coming years. This paper discusses some of these changes and develops a ...

    • Industrialisation strategy of Gujarat: performance and an agenda for future 

      Chhokar, Jagdeep S.; Dixit, Mukund R.; Sarkar, Mitali (2010-03-24)
      This paper outlines the salient features of the industrialization strategy that Gujarat appears to have followed since its inception. The results which this strategy has produced are also discussed. The paper goes on to ...

    • Integrative strategy for performance enhancement in organizations 

      Chhokar, Jagdeep S.; Wallin, Jerry A. (2010-03-14)
      Cognitive and acognitive are two basic approaches to the study of human behaviour in organizations. Most of the literature has treated these approaches as mutually opposing and contradictory. The authors suggest that this ...

    • Management of intangibles in Indian railways 

      Bhatnagar, Deepti; Chhokar, Jagdeep S.; Raghuram, G.; Bhandari, R. R.; Nigam, A. K.; Thomas, K. M. (2010-04-01)
      Managing intangibles is a major challenge before organizations. Increasingly there is an appreciation that for managing hard performance parameters, the softer aspects of management need to be looked into. In fact, several ...

    • Preferred organizations: Perceptions of prospective managers 

      Chhokar, Jagdeep S. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-06-01)
      Formal management education in india has come a long way since its inception in the early sixties. Starting with the setting up of the indian institute of management in calcutta in 1961 today there are more than sixty ...

    • Safety at the work place: a behavioural approach 

      Chhokar, Jagdeep S. (2010-03-14)
      The most common and popular approaches to safety have been technologically and engineering oriented. Recent resarch, however, indicates that it is possible to develop an effective approach to occupational safety based on ...

    • Safety management in transportation 

      Mathew, Dilip; Chhokar, Jagdeep S.; Jain, Rekha; Raghuram, G. (2010-03-21)
      This paper presents a framework for identification and analysis of issues in Safety Management in Transportation. The paper analysis Safety Management in the three modes of transport namely Road, Rail and Air. Safety ...

    • Setting up an irrigation cooperative: a feasibility study 

      Kolavalli, Shashi; Chhokar, Jagdeep S.; Naik, Gopal; Saha, Jahar; Bhat, Ramesh (2010-03-23)
      The objective of the study was to examine the feasibility of setting up an irrigation cooperative in Hadgood village in Kheda district of Gujarat. A sample of 80 households, chosen at rando, was studied and households ...