International Journal on Arts, Management and Humanities

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Authors: Pawan Kumar and Kamal

ABSTRACT: The aim of the paper is to investigate the factors influence the price decision, selection of distribution channels by the SSI. In the era of globalization small manufacturers are facing lot of problem in area of marketing mix such as product planning and positioning, pricing and distribution issues. The entrepreneur’s perception relating to these various issues have been highlighted in this paper. A number of statements indicating the marketing mix issue have been developed and the respondents were asked to express their level of agreement/disagreement with this statement on five point Likert scale the major finding reveals that small manufacture are not using well versed with the marketing mix techniques and do not use latest marketing tool such as e-marketing or web marketing. The promotion of the products by advertising is not prevalent among these units. The major findings reveals that government policies is not favorable for the small scale industries and government not providing any financial help to the small scale industries .The promotion of the products by advertising is not prevalent among these units.

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Authors: Sheetal Thakur

ABSTRACT: Social exclusion and unequal development assuming an intimate relation between the social form of relations and the corresponding character of economic development is not only significant from the point of view of the constitutionally recognized excluded categories and classes of people but also has in its scope the cause of other disadvantaged segments of population. It implies that the processes such as liberalization, privatization and globalization, which are expected to ensure equity, parity and fair competitions, are in fact at crossroads due to the conditions that have emerged contrary to the expectations. Resultantly the chances of social exclusion for the socially marginalized disadvantaged and disabled, also including physically and mentally disabled have increased considerably. Though this paper does not deal with constitutionally identified categories like SCs and STs as exclusive categories but looks at disabled children as a form of exclusive category, who and whose families due to stigma attached with them are forced to suffer from social exclusion. This paper, a maiden attempt while highlighting, the plight of these children and their families also make a strong case that they be extended the benefit of inclusion policy and thus save these children from their continuous exclusion.

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Authors: Pandya Kaushik Vasudevbhai

While modern societies face growing concern about global environmental issues, developing countries are experiencing complex, serious and fast-growing pollution problems of their own. The potent combination of industrialization, urban development and mass consumption trends is exacerbated by foreign companies operating with little regard for the impact on the local environment. Environmental pollution is more than just a health issue; it is a wider social issue in that pollution has the potential to destroy homes and communities. Pollution problems are also closely tied to the mode of development in developing countries. Despite this, many developing countries either have not developed environmental pollution control measures, or have not provided adequate implementation structures to ensure that policies are effective. During the period of rapid economic growth after the Second World War, Japan experienced a variety of terrible environmental problems on a scale unprecedented in the world. These environmental problems can be attributed to the prevailing emphasis at the time on economic growth and profits at the expense of public health. For this reason, the government was unwilling to pursue environmental strategies. Worsening environmental problems led to the emergence of numerous victims’ groups and turned the tide of public opinion, so that governments at the prefectural and national level were forced to act. Eventually, after much trial and error, effective strategies for dealing with environmental pollution were put in place and as a result the quality of the environment began to improve. By describing Japan’s experiences with respect to the problems caused by the initial reluctance to address environmental issues, as well as the success of subsequent environmental initiatives, it is hoped that we can help to prevent worsening health problems in developing countries and promote sound and healthy social development. Pollution may be defined as an undesirable change in the physical, chemical or biological characteristics of air, water and land that may be harmful to human life and other animals, living condition, industrial processes and cultural assets. Pollution can be natural or man-made. The agents that pollute are known as pollutants (Trivedi & Jain, 2007).

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Authors: Dr. J. Venkatesh

ABSTRACT: Safety and seclusion features interrelated to RFID are, though, ahead noteworthy significance as the nonexistence of good security and retreat is moderately accountable for investment back the great level accomplishment that are requisite for the earlier revealed RFID request. Since RFID is a wireless structure devoid of any usual safety controls, label can be interpreted, customized, influenced, or immobilized with no substantial, and so visible, contact. The isolation issues have been recurrently glorified in the medium by assured persons and cluster that are beside the use of RFID, in meticulous in buyer products, as they imagine it to disobey their isolation. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tools assure remuneration that ensues from being capable to recognize and follow individual goods in profitable supply chains. This assist in account management, decrease robbery, can be used in concurrence with other antenna technology to spot dented goods, and promises cost reductions. The purpose of this manuscript is to categorize impending threats to profitable supply chains associated to the use of RFID technology.

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Authors: Dr. Sanjay Sharma* and Dr. Sushil Dubey**

ABSTRACT: Language is the most important tool of communication but its careless use can be dangerous. According to Jonathan Swift "Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style” [1]. Infact, words are one of our main means of adjusting to all the situations in life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be. Often, it is said that "Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure” [2]. This paper attempts to focus on some common errors of words, grammar etc. with some good examples.

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Authors: Kingsley Chidozie Akwu and Felix Aromo Ilesanmi

ABSTRACT: Preliminary investigation on roads in Jimeta, Adamawa State, Nigeria reveals that there appears to be no reliable and sustainable arrangement for road infrastructure maintenance in the State and that infrastructure finance arrangement appears to be one of the key problems. This study was then set to establish the state of Jimeta roads, need for road infrastructure maintenance and the best finance option that can be utilised. Data collection was done by updating the Jimeta Street Guide Map and preparing an inventory of the observed conditions. Questionnaires were administered on 240 residents of the roads selected by simple random sampling technique while 20 infrastructure officials of the State and LGA offices ranked suggested infrastructure options. The percentage statistic was used to analyze the data obtained, while the mean was used to evaluate the finance option proposed. The findings of the study are that about 80% of the roads in the study area need maintenance, and that a hybrid of Public-Private Partnership road infrastructure finance option is best suited for their finance and was recommended.

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Authors: Ghanshyam Singh Soni, Jyoti Puri and Raj Soni

ABSTRACT Basal metabolic rate is influenced by different procedures practiced in yoga that may have stimulatory or inhibitory effects. In daily life however, these procedures are usually practiced in combination. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the net change in the basal metabolic rate (BMR) of individuals actively engaging in a combination of yoga practices (asana or yogic postures, meditation and Pranayama or breathing exercises) for a minimum period of six months, at meditation hall, Department of Yoga & Naturopathy, Manav Bharti University, Solan, Himachal Pradesh. The measured BMR of individuals practicing yoga through a combination of practices was compared with that of control subjects who did not practice yoga but led similar lifestyles. The BMR of the yoga practitioners was significantly lower than that of the non-yoga group, and was lower by about 13 % when adjusted for body weight (P < 0.001). This difference persisted when the groups were stratified by gender; however, the difference in BMR adjusted for body weight was greater in women than men (about 8 and 18% respectively). In addition, the mean BMR of the yoga group was significantly lower than their predicted values, while the mean BMR of non-yoga group was comparable with their predicted values derived from 1985 WHO predictive equations. This study reveals that there is a significantly reduced BMR, probably linked to reduced arousal, with the long term practice of yoga using a combination of stimulatory and inhibitory yogic practices.

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Authors: Shikha Seetha

ABSTRACT As globalization and competitiveness become the benchmark of any MNC, it becomes obviously important for employees to be equipped with good communication and soft skills. Therefore engineering graduates require an ever increasing range of skills to maintain relevance with the global environment of the era. Increasing pressures and challenges arising from the broadening roles of engineers has enhanced the need for the Indian engineers to acquire good English communication skills. Good English Communication Skills are a vital element of an engineer’s profession and the lack of such skills only undermines the image of an engineer. A number of engineering faculties in universities fail to address this need for the introduction of such courses. There is a growing expectation that universities should directly meet the needs of industry standards and deliver global engineers who are not only competent in technical skills but also in non-technical skills such as communication skills. In the present scenario professional engineers certainly need effective and impressive communication skills. There is a great need to frame course material and develop methods and strategies to enhance various skills of communication of engineering graduates. This paper reviews the importance of these skills for engineers with an emphasis on how such communication courses can be designed and incorporated into the engineering curriculum. The different methods of teaching communication skills and its assessment are discussed in the paper for enhancing communication of technical students.

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Authors: Dr. Rajeev Jain

ABSTRACT “Nobody in this world is stress free. Stress is a part of day-to-day life, which cannot be avoidable. Stress is the outcome reaction that will be shown out by anyone when faced by a different situation, which is apart from the normal ones. During the past decade, the private sector had undergone rapid and striking changes due to emergence of globalization, liberalization and increased competition. That is why the employees in the private sector are experiencing a high level of stress. The percentage of female stress is higher than the male workforce proved from the research. In the work place, everybody is facing the problem of stress. Stress is not always negative, sometimes positive also. Like in giant companies usually a Manager delegates certain responsibility to their subordinates, which in turn aid subordinate to upgrade their skills and improve efficiency (This is positive or Eustress). On the other hand, many times stress occurs due to excessive work load which hampers individual as well as Organization performance (This is called negative/distress).From the study, it is clear that stress directly affects job performance. Up to certain level stress is required to perform their best, such stage is known as Optimum level of stress and after that it has negative impact on the individual job performance. In addition to that, it also create labor related problems i.e a high rate of absenteeism , attrition, turnover, declining productivity, health problems and many more. The main causes of stress within the organization are: 1. Gender bias system. 2. Lack of management support. 3. Too much or too little work. 4. Conflicting demands. 5. Role conflict and ambiguity, overload. Among all these, occupational stress is the major one. Specially, occupational stress is found higher among women employees. Such type of stress is the outcome of role ambiguity, role conflict and due to lack of senior level support. Hence its an hour of today, to formulate and redesign effective HR strategies which can overcome the problem of stress effectively.

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Authors: Sakshi Jhamb* and Bibhu Prasad

INTRODUCTION This paper focuses on the achievement and performance of Nationalised Banks vis-à-vis Private Sector Banks. The parameters selected for evaluation of performance of various categories of banks are Profitability and Productivity. An Eleven year period (2000-2001 to 2010-2011) has been selected for evaluating the performance. The logic of selection of this period is to find out the impact of government’s decontrolled and liberalized policies on Nationalised banks as compared to other categories of banks like Private Sector Banks. The other reason is that the new Private Sector Banks, which are having major share in asset holding, started their business commercially from the year 1996 onwards; to segregate the overall result of the new Private Sector banks it is more appropriate to select this period.

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Authors: Munish Sabharwal & Prof. Anoop Swarup

ABSTRACT The main objective of this research paper is to observe whether the selected Indian Banks have any effective Disaster Management System with reference to Disaster Avoidance, Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) and Business Continuity Plan (BCP) as per RBI guidelines and other international standards. This was pursued by conducting structured interview of branch heads of the selected 16 scheduled banks of Meerut (U.P.). The researcher with the help of a questionnaire inquired from the branch heads of selected banks and compared the responses with the desired state using GAP Analysis Worksheet. The study indicated that the most of the banks selected by the researcher in his research backup its data at a Remote offsite location, have a BCP / DRP Plan available with them on software but they do not apply Disaster Management System as per RBI -“Guidelines on information security, Electronic Banking, Technology risk management and cyber frauds” and other international standards. The study concludes by providing recommendations to the Indian Banks.

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Authors: Dr Kanchan Bhatia* and Prof Prashant Jain**

ABSTRACT According to Peter Drucker 'an organization is like a tune; it is not constituted by individual sounds but by their synthesis. The success of an organization will therefore depend on its ability to measure accurately the performance of its members and use its objectivity to optimize them as a vital resource. The performance appraisal plays a very important role in success of any organization. It not only motivates the enmployee but also improves the productivity level of any organization. Though the need of Performance appraisal is generated in every organization but there is a difference in mechanism in public and private sector. This research paper is an attempt to highlight various dimensions of appraisal in both the sectors, do comparative analysis and suggest some corrective measures for betterment. The analysis is done on the telecom sectors of Bhopal city including BSNL and AIRTEL [1].

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Authors: R.K. Singh, A.Kulshretha and R. Chaudhary

ABSTRACT Liberalization, globalization and the disappearance of the License Raj have changed the corporate scenario. There is a remarkable change in the way the companies are looking at employee’s performance. Being loyal, punctual and not taking leave are no longer the attributes of a good employee. Value addition has become the sole criteria for performance appraisal. The compensation structure has also undergone a major transformation over a last decade. The shift to performance based pay or variable pay has become widely prevalent in Indian companies. Every salary hike has been literally linked to performance. The key challenge to many Indian companies is how to survive in the new economy. In this competitive scenario performance management system(PMS) acts as an important tool to leverage performance of the organization . Unfortunately many Indian organizations especially the public sector industries like power distribution companies, ONGC etc. had not moved on and are still operating the old performance management process even though other aspects of their structure and management process might have changed significantly after economic reforms. Survey of Fortune 500 or 1000 companies indicate a high degree of dissatisfaction with the performance appraisal systems. This is probably because in the absence of a carefully structured and implemented system of appraisal people tend to judge the work performance of others, including subordinates, naturally informally and arbitrarily which tends to create serious motivational, ethical and legal problems in the work place. In some cases though the appraisal systems are well designed but do not get implemented properly due to poor monitoring and follow-up. Thus the present study has made an attempt to understand the importance of PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT and need to nurture performance culture in the organization. This report concentrates on the study of the Performance Appraisal System (PAS) being practiced in ONGC and to check its effectiveness, also to suggest more feasible ways of improving and strengthening the Performance Appraisal System.