Browsing Thesis and Dissertations by Author "Gupta, Parvinder"
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Beauty service work as dirty work: Understanding employees' lived experiences
Mendonca, Avina Jenifa (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)Beauty service work, an emergent industry in the contemporary business context, has earlier been studied as bodywork and interactive service work. The present study explores the subjective experiences of beauty service ... -
Governing subjectivities: investigating employment relations in the Indian information technology (IT) sector
Banday, Muneeb Ul Lateef (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)The objective of this thesis is to study employment relations in the Indian IT industry. Drawing from Foucauldian scholarship on governmentality in organizational studies, employment relations are understood as practices ... -
Redefining dignity in the context of precarity: Indian security guards’ interface with their clients, suppliers and unions
Chakraborty, Saikat (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)Precarity, marked by uncertainty, instability and insecurity has become a significant feature of contemporary work and employment. This is particularly applicable to India, where 93% of the workforce (which includes those ... -
The Role of 'Contact' in shaping and reducing inaccuracies in gender stereotypes of women managers
Basu, Sujoya (2003)Various theoretical perspectives in gender literature have tried to answer questions like “why are women treated differently in organizations?" and “what is responsible for the different t:raits and characteristics exhibited ... -
A study of career mobility decisions of dual career couples
Saxena, Richa (2009)Presently, women in India comprise approximately thirty one present of the total workforce including rural and urban sectors (Budhwar, Saini & Bhatnagar, 2005). This statistics indicates a major social change in the country ... -
The trajectory of forgiveness in workplace bullying: a hermeneutic phenomenological study of target coping
Mishra, Nidhi (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)Forgiveness as a coping strategy in the context of workplace bullying has been largely overlooked, being evidenced by only few studies (D'Cruz & Noronha, 2012a and 2018b). Alternatively, forgiveness which is often ...