Vol. 3(5) May 2010
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.
Full Text
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.
Full Text
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.
Full Text
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.
Full Text
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.
Full Text
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.
Full Text
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.
Full Text
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.
Full Text
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.
Full Text
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.
Full Text