PACIFIC BUSINESS JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

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Authors: Pooja Luniya, Dr. Manoj Verghese

This paper tries to know how consumer's traditional planned shopping beehaviour is shifting to impulse behaviour. Through this study we tried to find what impulse buying is, its types and various factors influencing impulse buying behaviour. For this we have reviewed the literature to gain insights of impulse buying behaviour. Findings show that there are various determinants which compel or force a consumer to act in an impulsive manner.

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Authors: Amanpreet Kaur, Dr. Baljit Kaur

Public borrowing is one of the major instruments of resource mobilizatiion which divert the flow of resources into right channels, especially in case of developing economies. Given the current drive towards government borrowings there is a need to have an understanding of the factors which influence public debt. The aim of the present paper is to analyze the empirical relationship between public debt and economic growth in India. The present study covers the period of 32 years (i.e., from 1981-82 to 2012-13). To achieve this objective, the trends in public debt, investment and GDP for a period of 32 years' regular time series have been analyzed. Granger's causality analysis has been carried out in order to examine the cause and effect relationship between economic growth and public debt. Furthermore, Multiple Regression has been worked out to investigate the indirect relationship between economic growth and public debt. The present study provides us the evidence of positive, but indirect relationship between public debt and economic growth via investment. The results show the positive and statistically significant relationship between public debt and investment and also Public debt effects the economic growth significantly.

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Authors: Dr. Shakeel-ul-rehman

Stress is a psychological, physical or emotional reaction, resulting from aan individual's response to environmental anxiety, conflicts, pressures and similar other stimuli that intimidate a person's ability to manage. When a person face a situation which brain is incapable of handling, it puts the body on alert by secreting required hormones for fight-or-flight situation, such as, rapid heartbeat, increased blood pressure, condensed blood supply to the skin, increased respiration, and additional release of sugar into the system to coup up with the additional energy requirement. The word Stress is derived from the Latin word “Stringer” meaning to draw tight. There are many definitions of stress, such as tension or pressure to medical explanation for the physiological response of human body to certain stimuli. Stress has different meanings to different people. From a common perspective, stress can be described as feeling tense, anxious or worried, or having the depression. Scientifically these feelings are manifestations of the stress experienced an intriguingly complex programmed response to the perceived threat that can have both positive and negative results (Ivancevich & Matteson, 1996). Murtaza & Siddiqui, (2011) describes that causes of stress are diverse but include: Social Stressors (associated with family life, marital relationships, isolation, rejection etc), Occupational Stressors (too much or too little work, over promotion or under promotion, conflicting job demands, incompetent superiors, working accessing hours and interactions between work and family commitments etc), and Environmental Stressors (arising from extremes of temperatures and humidity, inadequate lighting and ventilation, noise etc). In context to this the present research is survey based and intends to study stress causing factors among women in Salem city through a structured questionnaire. Major dimensions of stressors like; sociological factors, psychosomatic factors and family and relationship related factors have been investigated, moreover some mental and physical stress management strategies to cope up adopted by women have also been covered under the study.

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Authors: Dr. Rekha Mehta, Akansha Jain

The foreign institutional investment had a very significant impact on tthe domestic stock market and real economy since their arrival in India in 1993. FII investment in India is responsible factor in determining foreign exchange reserve in India. Fluctuation in FOREX, actually disturb the economic stability through this paper we study the impact of FII on Foreign exchange reserve and examine the causal relationship between these two factor. For this purpose Granger Causality test is used with unit root test. Along with these test, statistical tool are also used.

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Authors: Dr. Barkha Gupta

Quality of work life (QWL) is one of the major parts for the employees'' motivation in organizations. People can deliver their best potential if the QWL is improved and satisfactory. The concept of Quality of Work Life deals with the issue of how rewarding or satisfying the time spent in the workplace is. As such, Quality of Work Life may reflect working conditions and contextual issues such as relationships with work colleagues and the intrinsic satisfaction of the job itself. Growth of Insurance sector is expected to be US$ 350-400 by 2020 and it is also expected that Indian Insurance market will reach the top 3 insurance market in the world. To achieve those insurance companies must have to reduce the attrition rate, which is very high in present conditions. This research study attempted to find out the impact of age, income, gender and experience on Quality of Work Life of Insurance sector employees. Data was collected from 151 Insurance sector employees of Indore city. T-test and One way Anova was used for data analysis.

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Authors: Dr. Biswajit Prasad Chhatoi

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to measure/assess relationship beetween profitability and dividend payment in select Indian iron & steel industry. Design/Methodology/Approach: The researchers collect, compile and analyze publically available data like; EPS, DPS, and Payout Ratio of selected companies from the annual reports over the period 2004 to 2012. Descriptive as well as inferential statistical tools are used to arrive at any conclusion. The hypotheses are tested with 95% of significance level. Findings: The results suggest that the dividend decision is greatly influenced by profitability of the firm. Research Limitations: The study depends more on empirical procedures rather than a theoretical justification in the anomalies on dividend policy. The research is totally based on publically available information and limited with regard to the time span and sample size. Practical Implications: Dividend decision is directly associated to the financing and investment decision, it becomes crucial for a firm to decide optimum dividend decision to the shareholders. This also makes a judicious balance between the retention and shareholders' satisfaction. Originality: The present study concentrates on matters like; do the companies belonging to the same industry declare similar percentage of dividend? Is the growth rate fluctuate, when dividend is declared? Do the dividends declared by the companies differ significantly from one company to other?