Vol. 8(11) November 2015
Corporate Growth Planning: Concepts and Issues
Mridula Sahay
Growth is an innate aspiration and need for an individual,
a family, any organization including a business corporation or a nation to remain
healthy or towards fullness or fulfillment. This paper discusses the growth philosophies
for business and its concepts and approaches to planning to bring out some of the
recent progresses in ideas and methodologies along with encumbrances in present
planning processes. It also talks about an approach for quantifying the business
and its environment.
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Internal Branding: A Review of Indian Hotel Industry
Kumar Varun, Bhargava Indu and Khare Ashish
Recently the present government has discussed its dream
of making India a 20 Trillion Economy. The focus of the government is on increasing
the GDP of the country with focus on all three sectors Manufacturing, Agriculture
and Service. Hotel and Tourism industry is a part of Service Sector, which has witnessed
a tremendous growth recently not only from domestic customers but also from international
customers.
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A Study on Awareness about Pension Plans among Working
Individuals
Jhalani Rajeev and Kaushal Rahul
Pension plans are the most common and convenient way
to fund post retirement years. There are various kinds of pension plans available
to choose from. Sometime it is offered by employer and some time it is bought by
employee himself. It may be of defined benefit type or may be of defined contribution
type. Whatever be the case, pension plans play a very significant role in overall
financial planning of an individual. But when it comes to the level of awareness,
pension plans stand far below among working individuals as compared to other investment
tools that too when they already hold one or some other kind of pension plan/s.
The most obvious reasons attributed to this issue are the time lag between the contribution
periods and benefit period and new laws that make the operations of pension plans
schemes ever changing. After 2003 most of the pension plans in India are defined
contribution type or hybrid type but individuals who enrolled for pension plans
before 2003 are still eligible for defined benefit pension plans. Present research
paper focuses on the level of awareness about pension plans among working individuals.
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