Vol. 2(5) May 2009
Organizational Effectiveness: Identifying Communication
Challenges faced by Software Engineers working in the IT Organizations in India
Sethi Anjanee, Jain Neera and Rathore Shyamli
As an information society takes shape, propelled by rapid
changes in information and communication technology, organizations today constantly
grapple with the daunting challenge to make communication effective for overall
Organizational Effectiveness . Today’s IT organizations in India have to come to
terms with a diverse work culture across countries, a global workforce and increased
complexity of work that requires more coordination and interaction, simultaneous
distributed work process as well a much faster pace of work. It is in this context
that the study attempts to address the communication challenges faced by the Software
Engineers working in leading IT organizations in India. The current study proves
as a starting point for thinking about innovative ways to overcome the challenges
faced in an IT enabled environment. Further, researchers must account the limitations
of the theories designed for face-to-face communication when they explain the challenges
in mediated communication in organizations.
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Indian B-Schools: Admissions and career orientation
Malhotra Gunjan
The increasingly global nature of firms and businesses
requires that business school graduates be ready to take up challenges associated
with increasing competitive nature of the business as it is done today. It then
hardly matters, whether the fresh B-School graduate is working in a domestic firm
or a multi-national company because every job demands in varying degree, elements
of timely decision making and making sense of opportunities in the context of changing
goals, constantly questioning one’s “dominant logic” in the context of a changing
environment, and revisiting “deceptively simple questions” about what we think to
be true about markets and the firm. In this context it becomes relevant to find
out the type of career profiles B-School students look for and the inner attributes
that are preferred and given more importance by them. This paper attempts to seek
the relationship between the admission criteria in premier Indian B-Schools and
the career attractiveness of the students in these schools.
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Corporate Reporting: Past, Present and Perspective
Bhatt Sandip K. and Mistry Dharmendra S.
Recently, demand of disclosure of information of companies
has increased and failure of the companies in stock exchanges has also added much
to this demand. In our research, we tried to focus on future of corporate reporting
system on the basis of past and present system thereof. We analyze the status of
development in corporate reporting and financial reporting standards and focus on
the issues requested and their implications. Also, the paper allows new approaches
regarding quality information reporting and its implementation into entities financial
statements, ensuring promises for future research.
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Styles of Managing Interdepartmental Conflict Across
various Conflict Fields
Polychroniou Panagiotis V.
This study investigates how sales managers in Greek organizations
handle conflict with their peers from other functional departments across various
conflict fields. The findings suggest that sales managers are oriented to integrate
ideas with those of their peers across strategic and important conflict fields in
order to come up with the best possible solution for a given problem. On complementary
basis sales managers prefer using compromising, avoiding and obliging for handling
conflict regarding minor and day to day issues. Some implications of the study are
discussed including the need to take into consideration the importance of each conflict
field in order to manage conflicts and attain common goals. The study reveals how
the sales manager deals with interdepartmental conflicts. In this way, it would
be possible to develop models for handling interdepartmental conflict.
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Coins, Gains, Pains and Mains of Open Sourcing
Magesan A.A.
Economies of different countries face many challenges
due to stagnant or shrinking economy, bleak economic forecasts, shrinking budgets
and increasing pressure on business. India is not immune of these challenges. With
more than three-quarters of Indian developers resorting to open sourcing, India
is well positioned to meet the challenges by providing more job opportunities, technological
support, expertise and solutions for the sustenance and growth of both public and
private sectors.
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Inflation and Stock Indices: A Comparative Look
Singh Bhartendu
This research paper investigates the reasons behind the
volatility of BSE Sensitive Index (SENSEX). The paper assumes Rate of Inflation
(based on Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers and Wholesale Price Index)
as independent variable while 30 scrips based Bombay Stock Exchange Sensitive Index
(SENSEX) as dependent variable. The study is done on the hypothesis that there is
no impact of independent variable on the dependent variables. This study concludes
that there is a statistically significant impact of Inflation on Stock Indices.
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Can Value Check at Entry Level be an Effective Tool
to curb Unethical Corporate Practices?
Kumar Harish and Kujur C.
Corruption has almost become a way of life. It has touched
almost all aspects of life. This is reflected in the erosion of the value system
at individual, organizational and societal levels. Corruption at organizational
level is evidenced in unethical practices in business organization. Unethical practices
in business are leading to misery and pains and depriving individuals of their rights
in society. Solution to this epidemic is difficult but not impossible and is urgently
required to be sought. This paper attempts to examine the reasons responsible for
corruption in organizations and suggests certain workable measures with special
reference to value check.
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Factors affecting Consumers Satisfaction towards Advertising
Media: A Comparative Study between Traditional Advertising and Online Advertising
in Malaysia
Idris Izian, Haque Ahasanul, Mohd Shukri Ab Yajid and Khatibi
Advertising plays an important role in daily life. It
is able to generate sales and brand recall towards certain products and services.
By understanding consumers’ attitude towards advertising, designers and marketers
can better strategize their advertising designs. A better understanding of interactivity
can also help to improve the effectiveness of interactive media such as the internet.
These attitudinal relations should play an essential role in consumer’s decisions
on which media to choose based on the benefits that the media provide.
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Sumo Grande: Seeding Activity to the High-end Tourist
Market
Seshanna Sudarshan
Tata Motors has segmented, targeted and positioned selected
products according to their features and brand equity in the market. Products such
as the newly launched Indigo CS, Palio MultiJet, Safari Dicor, and Sumo Grande are
thus positioned exclusively for sale in the high-end tourist market, that is, for
fleet operations only. Bangalore being the IT hub in the country, possesses a strong
market potential for automobile brands to promote their products heavily in the
fleet operations space, given that a large number of employees in the IT and ITes
sectors commute from home to office on a daily basis. This focus of the paper is
to examine the market potential of the Sumo Grande – a repositioned product- in
the commercial segment based on a product seeding approach. The findings of the
paper test the market penetration strategy of the product by adopting a quantitative
research methodology. The paper presents an analysis and interpretation of primary
data collected through a sample survey of potential fleet operators based in Bangalore
city. The research methods and business recommendations contained in the paper have
been presented to executives at Tata Motors, which have been verified and approved.
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Ethical Practices in Life Insurance Sector at Kolhapur
Chavan V.M. and Paliwal M.N.
Ethics is the methodical and systematic elaboration of
the norms and values in our daily activities. Ethics is the discipline that examines
one’s moral standards or moral standards of society. This paper deals with the research
endeavor to identify the various ethical/ unethical practices of Life Insurance
Services in Kolhapur city. The study was undertaken in two phases. The first phase
included review of relevant literature and experts’ opinion to evaluate the role
of ethics in Life Insurance Sector, whereas the second phase involved primary data
collection from the various stakeholders of Insurance Companies (broadly Branch
Manager, Functional Level Manager, Advisors and Clients). Forty one ethical/ unethical
dimensions were identified and the elicited opinion of the respondents was analyzed.
The model was tested with KS test for the relationship between Insurance Management
and Ethical Practices and was found to be dependent on each other. The present study
explores rampant unethical practices being followed in the Insurance Sector. The
authors have suggested measures which would help resolving ethical dilemmas and
which ultimately would help in minimizing the unethical practices in the Insurance
Sector.
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