Vol. 6(12) December 2013
Organization maturity through consistency of its management
system
Závadský Ján and Droppa Milan
The paper introduces approach to the organizational development
based on the systematic management of the organization maturity. In the article
we present also the results of an empirical research focused on the consistency
of the process-based management system. Effectiveness of the various management
systems depends on many factors. One of them is the consistent definition of each
system elements. The main purpose of this study is to explore if the performance
management systems of the sample companies is consistent and how companies can create
such a system. The consistency in this case is based on the homogenous definition
of attributes relating to the performance indicator in the process based management
system. Establishing of such an approach to the organizational management requires
a very complex change which is impossible to perform at once. It is also impossible
to perform it as a single managerial decision with use of just the managerial power.
Such a change is a long term evolutionary process which ought to be carefully managed.
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Micro-Credit and Women’s Participation
Bera Sujata
The major promise of micro credit program is that it
makes Government development program more responsive to deliver services, specially
the financial services in favor of the poor and socially disadvantaged women. The
objective of micro-credit programme cannot be achieved without ensuring the participation
of socially disadvantaged women. Therefore, women’s participation seems to be a
major factor that affects sustainability of the programme. This paper attempts to
examine whether there is any association between concentration of poor and participation
of women in a state. In this process, the paper tries to trace the socio-economic
factors that determine women’s participation in micro-credit programme.
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Integral Leadership through Entrainment: Synchronizing
Consciousness
Danny Sandra and Sharda Nandram
This paper argues that leadership is an integral system
and that its components separately do not have the properties of leadership as a
whole. To study leadership in an integral way, the concept of consciousness is explained
as the core aspect of determining its components. Next, the concept of entrainment
is introduced to support and enrich the interconnectedness of the multi-dimensional
nature of consciousness. Entrainment refers to the synchronization process within
a person or in relationship to his environment. Four modes of entrainment are identified.
Inner symmetric or self-entrainment focuses on the harmonious interaction within
the body or organisation while outer symmetric entrainment focuses on the interaction
between them. The third and fourth modes are the inner and outer asymmetric entrainment.
These modes describe the phenomenon of entrainment with the environment. As a result,
Integral Leadership can be seen as a complex interaction of inner and outer harmonization
of consciousness through entrainment. If a leader intentionally integrates spiritual
techniques and values, then he intentionally fosters harmonization of his consciousness.
This means, he reaches an increased quality of interconnectedness between his levels
of consciousness. Entrainment will alter the leader’s consciousness, hence, he will
be able to perceive and able to attune to other rhythms in his environment. This
can eventually lead to group resonance through which collective consciousness emerges
resulting in higher organisational output.
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An instrument useful to determine localized social
network usage among organizations: A pilot study
Morrison R. G. and Hoover D. J.
It seems clear that social networking systems are here
to stay and many small organizations in many geographic areas are already embracing
these technologies into their operations. Because the HR professional is often the
point person for defending the organization, along with legal representation, it
is imperative that HR workers have a clear understanding of social networking use
and its implications. There are few sources of information that can be used to educate
an organization with regard to localized social network usage by organizations,
so this study is presented to provide a sample instrument to those that need it.
A short pilot study is performed to demonstrate how the instrument can be used,
as well as a few thoughts about how it can be improved.
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The problems and prospects of the small tea growers
in India with special reference to North Bengal Region
Biswas Debasish and Roy Nirmal Chandra
The entire economy of North Bengal is mainly dependent
on the four ‘T’s which are tree, tourism, tobacco and tea. Among all the ‘T’s, tea
is the prime one which leads the economy of North Bengal. Paddy field of North Bengal
is being replaced by the small tea gardens as it yields high profit. The cultivation
of tea for its commercial purpose is fast gaining popularity among the farmers.
On the other hand, the small tea growers are also facing a large number of problems
because of some legal lacunas. Tea growers are deprived of getting benefit from
different schemes of the Government. Due to absence of the factory of their own,
they are deprived of the real price of the green leaves. The present study was undertaken
to know the problems and prospects of the small tea growers in North Bengal. The
study was conducted in four districts (Jalpaiguri, Darjeeling, Cooch Behar and Uttar
Dinajpur). A sample of 150 small tea growers was selected randomly from these four
districts using proportional allocation techniques.
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The moderating role of promotional benefit level and
brand awareness on the effectiveness of price discount and premium
Mokhles Alnazer
This research uses a cross-sectional experiment to manipulate
promotional benefit level, type of promotion, brand awareness and measures consumers’
value perceptions and purchase intentions. The results obtained suggest that at
high benefit levels and moderate benefit level, price discounts are more effective
than premiums, also at high brand awareness level and low brand awareness level,
price discounts are more effective than premium.
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Performance Evaluation of SBI Mutual Fund selected
Schemes in relation to Risk-Return, Rivalry’s and Market Comparison
Thomas James
The financial system of a country is of immense use in
its economic development. Adequate capital formation is indispensable to economic
development and financial markets are of crucial importance for capital formation.
In this process of economic development, mutual funds emerged as strong financial
intermediaries and are playing a very important role in bringing stability to the
system and efficiency to resource allocation. This study is helpful in tracing the
performance of top mutual funds and to compare the mutual fund based on the risk
bearing capacity and expected returns of the investors and will also carry out an
analysis of the portfolio of the selected mutual fund.
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Impact of Global Financial Crisis in India
Seenivasan R.
Financial crisis in the market economies of democratic
countries are not unusual. It is also not unusual for such economies to make policy
correction and come out of the crisis. During this first decade of the 21st century
itself we have seen economies in the west go through two crises: the first was in
2000, the "dotcom bust" and the second was after the 9/11 terror attacks. But the
market economies came out of it: in fact we saw a boom between 2003 and 2008.
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