Browsing Thesis and Dissertations by Author "Pestonjee, D. M."
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Freedom Related Practices and Corporate Effectiveness: An Exploratory Study
Verma, Subir (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2003)This study explores the relationship between the practices embedded in the notion of freedom within the corporate context and corporate effectiveness. It hypothesizes that those corporate organizations that grant greater ... -
Implementation of quality management programmes as a process of planned organisational change
Jha, Vidyanand (1998)In the last decade, Indian organizations have been paying increasing attention to quality of products and services. Reasons for this focus on quality are increased competition and more demanding and discerning customers ... -
Influence of Organisational culture on Organisational structure
Reddy, K. Prathap (1988)Organizational structure has been one the popular topics of research for sociologists and organization theorists during the last few decades. There are two schools of thought in the literature on organizational structure; ... -
Learned helplessness in the banking sector: interaction of individual and role characteristics
Chawla, A. K. (1994)Learned helplessness (LH) syndrome is widespread in organizations. After repeated exposure to uncontrollable events, people come to expect that outcomes are not related to efforts. The expectation of uncontrollability leads ... -
Managers' satisfaction with performance appraisal system: an empirical study
Srinivasan, S. Murali (1994)Research about performance appraisal systems can be divided into four categories: those which focus on (a) rather cognitive processes and related issues; (b) rating scales, formats and methods; (c) the efficiency of the ... -
Political processes in grievance resolution: An empirical study
Varman, Rahul (1994)From its origins in law, the scope of the concept of "due process“ (the idea of procedural as well as substantive rights of citizens) has expanded to include work organizations. In the industrial organizations, considerations ... -
Purchase of branded agricultural inputs: a study of pesticide buying behaviour
Venugopal, P. (1994)The pesticide market in India is becoming highly competitive. The number of options available to a farmer for control of a pest could sometimes include over 140 pesticide brands. Farmers decision making on pesticides ...