Browsing Working Papers by Author "Maheshwari, Sunil"
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Career effectiveness and its determinants
Maheshwari, Sunil; Krishnan, T.N. (2010-04-05)Study of careers has become an important aspect in the fast changing organizational context. It has come to be increasingly recognized at present, that career management is the responsibility of both the individual as ... -
Challenges in sustaining a hospital: lessons for managing healthcare institutions
Maheshwari, Sunil; Bhat, Ramesh (2009-09-03)One of the important components of the private health care sector has been health care facilities set up by corporate sector. The financial sustainability of these facilities is closely linked to the financial performance ... -
Commitment of State Health Officials: Identifying Factors and Scope for Improvement
Maheshwari, Sunil; Bhat, Ramesh; Saha, Somen (2009-07-24)Commitment, competencies and skills of people working in the health sector has significant impact on sector performance and its reform process. The current paper is a part of broader multi state studies carried out by the ... -
Contracting-out of Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) Services through Mother NGO Scheme in India: Experiences and Implications
Bhat, Ramesh; Maheshwari, Sunil; Saha, Somen (2009-08-13)Partnership with NGOs in delivering and provision of Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) services through mother NGO (MNGO) in the un-served and under-served regions is one of the important initiatives in India. The scheme ... -
Directions for Reforms in the Health Sector: Reflections from a State in a Developing Country
Maheshwari, Sunil; Bhat, Ramesh; Saha, Somen (2009-09-04)Meeting the health care needs of population goes beyond mere budget allocations. The organisation of programmes and commitment of people working in the health sector has significant bearing on sector performance and its ... -
Dynamics of Team Teaching and Research in a Management School: Learning and Imperatives
Maheshwari, Sunil; Dixit, Mukund R.; Jain, Abhinandan K.; Bhat, Ramesh (2009-08-13)This paper discusses the experience of team teaching to address the issues of integration of academic inputs by bringing multi-disciplinary perspective together and thereby enhance learning experience of participants. The ... -
Ethics in Organizations: The Case of Tata Steel
Maheshwari, Sunil; Ganesh, M. P. (2009-09-03)The concern for ethical decision-making among the regulators, social groups and managers has substantially increased since failure of some of the prominent business organizations like Shell and Enron owing to strong social ... -
How does it matter to be owned by government? Rejuvenation of a government owned automobile company in India
Maheshwari, Sunil (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2001-11-01)Governments undertake two roles relating to business environment. First, they frame rules, procedures and policies to regulate the business environment. Second, they invest resources in PSEs for political, ideological, ... -
Human resource issues and its implications for health sector reforms
Bhat, Ramesh; Maheshwari, Sunil (2009-09-02)Given the growing complexities and challenges the health sector faces, reforms in this sector are inevitable. Often health sector reforms aimed to address many of these deficiencies and ensuring effectiveness and efficiency ... -
Human resource issues in maternal and neonatal health in india
Maheshwari, Sunil; Mavalankar, Dileep (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-04-05)One in seven women die from complications related to pregnancy or delivery in some of the African countries, compared to one in many thousands in Europe and North America. More than 95 per cent of maternal deaths occur in ... -
Human Resource Practices and Commitment of Senior Officials in Health System: Reflections from a Progressive State in a Developing Economy
Maheshwari, Sunil; Bhat, Ramesh; Saha, Somen (2009-07-25)It is widely recognised that the commitment and competencies of people working in the health sector has significant bearing on sector performance and its reform process. The current paper attempts to analyse the commitment ... -
Implications of Human Resource Practices and Other Structural Factors on Commitment of Public Medical Professionals in India
Maheshwari, Sunil; Bhat, Ramesh; Dhiman, Amit (2009-08-03)In this paper we focus on often neglected issue and inadequately studied area of commitment of public sector health professionals and some of the issues surrounding human resources as its determinants. The paper argues ... -
Influencing human resource management practices in subsidiaries by parent companies: evidences from India
Maheshwari, Sunil (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 ... -
Labour reforms: a delicate act of balancing the interests
Kaur, Rupinder; Maheshwari, Sunil (2010-04-03)In this study we examine the issue of the need of labour reforms in the globalised economy. The two legislations discussed in detail are: Chapter VB of Industrial Disputes Act, 1947- provisions relating to layoff, retrenchment ... -
Maternal Health Financing – Issues and Options A Study of Chiranjeevi Yojana in Gujarat
Bhat, Ramesh; Singh, Amarjit; Maheshwari, Sunil; Saha, Somen (2009-08-08)Government of Gujarat announced a “Chiranjeevi Yojana” in April 2005 to improve access to institutional delivery and at the same time provide financial protection to poor families in Gujarat. The scheme covers below poverty ... -
Organizational decline and turnaround management: empirical study of a government owned automobile company
Maheshwari, Sunil (2010-01-16)Performance of an organization is an outcome of its series of action choices in response to the changes in business environment or independently. Such choices are influenced by the leadership characteristics, organizational ... -
Provision of Reproductive Health Services to Urban Poor through Public-Private Partnerships: The Case of Andhra Pradesh Urban Health Care Project
Bhat, Ramesh; Mavalankar, Dileep; Maheshwari, Sunil; Saha, Somen (2009-08-13)Andhra Pradesh had initiated the Urban Slum Health Care Project to provide basic primary healthcare and family welfare services to urban poor living in slums in 2002. As of now, the project has established 192 Urban Health ... -
Public-Private Partnership, Contracting Arrangements
Bhat, Ramesh; Huntington, Dale; Maheshwari, Sunil (2009-08-22)Strengthening management capacity and meeting the need for Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) services is a major challenge for the national RCH programme in India. Central and state governments are working through ... -
Public-Private Partnership, Contracting Arrangements and Managerial Capacity to Strengthen RCH Programme Implementation Lessons and Implications from Interventions in India
Bhat, Ramesh; Huntington, Dale; Maheshwari, Sunil (2009-08-31)Strengthening management capacity and meeting the need for Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) services is a major challenge for the national RCH programme in India. Central and state governments are working through ... -
Response to increasing competition by business organizations in India: voluntary retirement schemes and their outcome
Maheshwari, Sunil; Kulkarni, Vilas (2010-01-16)Companies in India have responded to the challenges of globalization in various ways. One of the strategies to survive in the market was to reduce the cost by reduction in the number of employees with the help of Voluntary ...