SCHOLARLY RESEARCH JOURNAL FOR HUMANITY SCIENCE & ENGLISH LANGUAGE

8486-8490

Authors: Shridevi P. Belwadi & Ramesh. M. N.

Belgavi city is known as the kundanagri, sugar bowl of Karnataka, sugar district. Belgavi is one among the fastest growing cities of Karnataka. The Nayak community more popular throughout the history Maharshi Valmiki, Bedar Kannappa, Eklavya, Guha, Shabri , Gandugali Kumar Rama, Veera Madakari Nayak, Sindhoor Laxman and many others belonged to the Nayak community. Political participation is a process of a group people .Before 1990 in this district political participation and development is very slow but at present time this district tribes has lot of political awareness and they are developing. Reservation is great opportunity for scheduled tribes it is help to them uplift and develop them political condition, economic condition and social condition. Tribes they are participating in political activities

8499-8509

Authors: Sukhraj Kaur

Education should impart values to promote a humanistic outlook of life and it is the duty of the teachers to impart such a value-based education. In order to perform this job successfully, a teacher is expected to possess desired qualities of character and be an embodiment of human values himself. Good teachers consider, ‘accountability’ as a part of their professional ethics. It also indicates the responsibility of the teachers to adherence to codes of practice and ethics of the profession. The teacher, thus, is considered as the unit of account. As the area of educational accountability is so vast; therefore this study was undertaken to explore the area of teacher accountability in context of value education. The sample is consisted of 200 secondary school teachers of Amritsar district, both from Government and Private sectors that was further divided into two equal groups : Rural and Urban. The descriptive research method was used. Teacher Accountability Scale for Value Education and Teacher Interpersonal Relationship Scale (both constructed by investigator herself) was used for data collection. Pearson Product Moment Correlation (r) was used to find out the degree of relationship between the criterion variable and independent variable whereas Mean, S.D. and t-test were applied to find out significant differences between criterion variable in terms of their locale and type of school. The findings of the present study revealed that Interpersonal relationship of the secondary school teachers plays a significant role in their accountability for value education. The study also found that there is no significant difference in the teacher accountability for value education among secondary school teachers with respect to their locale (rural and urban) and type of school (govt. and private).

8514-8526

Authors: Smt. Shahataj Begum & Smt. Vanisree. Y

Constructivism is a learning theory that states that one constructs knowledge and understanding of one’s environment through experiences. The present paper discusses about how an attempt is made to prepare a lesson plan for science teachers based on 5E’s model (one of the model of constructivism) on the topic “Food and its components”. This sample lesson plan will facilitate the science teachers in the implementation of constructivist approach in their classroom among these students than the traditional approach.

8535-8544

Authors: Sailendra Bhuyan

Today, determination of world environmental quality is a significant problem. This problem has resulted in a global effort to include aspects of environmental education in school curriculum at all levels in an appropriate manner. However, the objectives of environmental education cannot be realized by simply by infusing environmental concepts into existing curriculum. The effective infusion of environmental education into school programme is possible only when teachers have the required orientation. Therefore Pre-service teacher training on environmental education is necessary to make the teachers aware of: the goals and objectives of environmental education, the scope of curricular content and subject matter, proper methodologies to transfer knowledge and skills to students, and evaluation methods necessary to assess the effectiveness of learning outcomes (Rebello, 1994). According to Rebello any effective environmental education programme for preservice and in-service teacher education should consist of three basic elements: (i) The education needs (ii) A functional knowledge of environmental education and (iii) A grasp of educational methods and professional skills needed to impart cognitive, affective and psychomotor skills to the students. It is the teacher who would interpret and transmit the massage of EE to the students, whatever be the level of educational qualification one is concerned with. A teacher properly equipped with necessary knowledge, skills and attitudes, become an essential prerequisites for successfully introducing any programme of EE in schools. Thus, proper orientation of teachers into EE concerns is a matter of vital importance (Govinda, 1994).

8552-8564

Authors: M. A. Abdulkadir, Jacinta A. Opara , Rasheedat Abdullahi Jimoh, Abdulsalam Abdullah, Ukah Anyalewachi Andy & Ekundayo Babatunde

This paper assessed the knowledge of preventive measures of contraceptives use among women in Kwara State, Nigeria. A Proportional sampling procedure was used for 378 respondents between the ages of 20-44 in the selected Local Government Areas in Kwara State. Questionnaire was used to collect the data in this study and the demographic variables were analyzed using frequency and percentage distribution, statistics of mean and standard deviation.The hypotheses one were tested with chi-squarestatistics. Hypotheses twoand three sought for differences among the age groups and marital status in their knowledge ofpreventive measuresof contraceptives risks respectively; hence analysis of variance was used to know whether significant differences existed between knowledge and prevention. The result of the findings revealed that knowledge ofpreventive measuresof contraceptives among women in kwara state are high. On the basis of the findings, it was therefore recommended that health talks about preventive measures of contraceptives risks should be discussed during antenatal and post natal clinics, women shouldalso consider their health status and understand the risk involve in each method to take preventive measures.

8573-8582

Authors: Babita

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8597-8602

Authors: Sanjeev Sagar & Jitendra Pratap Singh

In India, the Problems related to health and medical care are vast and varied. To meet the health requirements of our people and to make available the benefits of modern health services to the people living in the remotest parts of our country, an elaborate health organization set up has been established in our country. Efforts are made to gauge and tackle various health problems of our country through/this setup.

8608-8613

Authors: Mrs. Bhagyashri Deshpande & Mrs. Sayli Bapat

India is the second largest populated nation in the World. Though, it is treated as one of the fastest developing countries, with rising GDP, the nature of Industries in India is traditional and LaborIntensive in the majority. Study of working Conditions especially in the Labor Intensive Organizations is an interesting exercise. With the help of personal visits and observations along with opinions collected from workmen the research work can be conducted. The present research paper is an outcome of the first hand study about the opinions expressed by labor on their working conditions in a Pune based Labor Intensive Organization.

8618-8622

Authors: Seema Rani

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8627-8634

Authors: Francis Mutua

Students’ academic performance is key in every academic institution. The aim of this study was to establish the perception of teachers on instructional media on academic performance of Kiswahili students in public secondary schools in Kathiani sub-county.The students’ performance in Kiswahili remains a top priority for educators in Kenya because when students get good grades, they become competitive in the world of work and may have better employment opportunities. The study adopted a descriptive survey design and the system theory was used to investigate on how perception of teachers affects the academic performance of Kiswahili students. The researcher used simple random sampling techniques to sample 20 public secondary schools to be used in the study out of the 50 secondary schools in Kathiani sub-county. Simple random sampling technique was used to select a total of 200 Kiswahili students and 40 Kiswahili teachers from the 20 selected public secondary schools. The study used questionnaires as the research instruments. There was a questionnaire for students and the teachers. Data was analyzed with the aid of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The study found that the use of instructional media can enhance learner’s performance as the lessons are always interesting, it makes the topic to be better understood, and also the content become more familiar to the students. Instructional media also improves the learner’s memory. The study established that majority (60%) of the teacher respondents indicated that instructional media are used in teaching Kiswahili. The study concluded that the performance of Kiswahili was good due to the use of instructional media in teaching and learning. The study also concluded that the instructional media the teacher mostly used in teaching Kiswahili was textbook. It is therefore clear that the schools in Machakos have inadequate instructional materials needed for learning. The study further established that majority (71.2%) of the respondents indicated that instructional media enhances the learning of Kiswahili subject. Teachers’ perception on the use of media improves learner’s motivation and Kiswahili performance. The study recommended that the school principals should encourage Kiswahili teachers to use instructional media with the aim of raising the academic performance of the schools as it has been proved that instructional media in teaching and learning enhanced the performance of the students.

8639-8650

Authors: Mrs. Seema Agarwal, Prof. P. K. Nayak & Prof. Parvati Yadav

IN MARATHI

9360/9367

Authors: Sukanya P. Bhate

IN MARATHI

9376-9391

Authors: Namrata Shrivastava

This paper basically highlights the determinant factors of Foreign Direct Investment and how these factors are affecting Foreign Direct Investment which is the most important factors of economic growth. The study intends to examine the relationship between Foreign Direct Investment inflows and its selected determinants are. The study is based on the secondary time series data collected for thirty five years ranging from 1980-81 to 2014-15. The collected data was analysed by using linear and Log -Linear regression analysis. The results revealed that Foreign Direct Investment inflows exhibited a mixed pattern. A significant relationship was found between MSIZE, EXP as % GDP, FOREX, and EXTDEBT and these variables were positively related. IIP, REER, and TRADEOPEN were found statistically significant and however its coefficient was bearing negative sign. Equations were formulated using the regression analysis and they were found to be of good fit to predict the Foreign Direct Investment inflows. Appropriate measures should be taken by the policy makers to improve these variables under study which will result in increased foreign capital inflow in the country.

9405-9413

Authors: Anita Swami

The following study focuses on knowing the student teachers‘perspective regarding the two-year B.Ed. program as prescribed by National Council of Teacher Education (NCTE). The major findings ofthe study revealed that the students’ find the two-year B.Ed. program to be very good with respect to the depth of the course and its applicability to real life situations. But at the same time 50% of the students’ feel that the two-year program is difficult and more time consuming in comparison to the one year B.Ed. program.

9422-9431

Authors: R. M. Bahlerao & Mr. Manikandan. N. Iyer

The main purpose of this research paperis to study about the impact of monetary policy instrument of Repo Rate on the GDP growth rate. This paper analyses the changes that have taken place in the Repo Rate and quarterly GDP growth rate in India for the period 2001-2011. Monetary Policy refers to a policy introduced by the Central Bank or monetary authority to control money supply with an overall objective of maintaining price stability and promotion of economic growth. Since, independence, the RBI has been using different policy instruments to achieve the above objectives of monetary policy. During the period 1951-1990, the RBI has been using Bank rate, CRR and SLR for achieving the above objectives. During 1990s, when the government of India initiated economic reforms of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation, bank rate was still considered and used as a significant monetary policy instrument. But, with the recommendations of Narsimhan Committee, Repo Rate went on to become the most significant monetary policy instrument in India’s Monetary Policy. This research paper uses Granger causality Test. This test is widely used in Econometrics to study the time series data. The test results shows that whenever there is change in the Repo Rate introduced by the RBI, it brings about a significant change in the Quarterly growth rate of GDP.

9453-9460

Authors: Mohammad Saheel khan

In this paper author try to establish the relationship of science communication with the mother tongue. The child starts learning with their mother tongue because child learns the things and established relationship with the language and the object from the lap of the mother. Ghandhigi realized that the greatest handicap of the prevailing system of education was that learning was being imparted through the medium of English. If we taught the children in other language rather than mother tongue it will affect the understanding level, precision of thought and clarity of ideas. On the other hand Mother tongue would enable the children to understand the rich heritage of people’s ideas, emotions and aspirations, to express freely, he express his ideas in easy way and understandable. He or she will be able to express his views in speaking and writing. The student will able to use the list of contents and the indices, and to consult dictionaries and reference books in his own language. The national poet and Nobel laureate Ravindra Nath Taigore express his views in support of mother tongue when the Nizam of Hyderabad established Osmaniya University and makes its medium of instruction Urdu. Thus the Urdu plays an important role in communicating and understanding the science. Here we discuss the role of Urdu in science communication.

9464-9470

Authors: Dheeraj Kumar

IN MARATHI

9475-9490

Authors: Ms. Jaspreet Saini1 & Gaumit kauts

The present study is an attempt to study the expectations of adolescent students from their parents and teachers and academic achievement in relation to their stress among male and female adolescent students. For this a sample of 800 adolescent students was drawn from schools and colleges of Jalandhar city through multistage random sampling. For data collection scale for stress was adopted from Bisht Battery was used. Scales of expectations from parents and teachers were prepared by the investigator. The obtained data were analyzed with the help of Two Way Analysis Of Variance. The data revealed that there is no significant difference between the expectations of adolescent boys of 9 thclass and 1st year class with high stressand low stress from their parents an teachers. Similar in the case ofadolescentsgirls of 9th class and 1st year class with high and low stress, they also expects same from their parents and teachers. The data also revealed that the low stressed group of adolescent boys’ academic achievement is higher than high stressed group of adolescent boys. It also revealed that academic achievement of low stressed group of adolescent girls is higher than the academic achievement of high stressed group of adolescent girls.

9498-9503

Authors: Kailas Sahebrao Daundkar

Science is systematic enterprise that build and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanation and prediction about universe so experiencing such beauty concept mapping is useful to understand the various concepts of science subject easily. An attempt is being made to find the effectiveness of concept mapping for Science subject of 9th standard student. The objective of the research to develop concept mapping teaching program and find its effectiveness. Multi-method research was adopted, by using survey method, researcher identifies the difficult units and teaching method use by the teachers with help of Questionnaire to Science subject teachers. Researcher developed concept mapping teaching program for Science subject of 9 th standard student. Researcher also used Experimental Method and Science Interest test as a data collection tool. So researcher developed concept mapping is useful as a teaching method to learn the concepts of Science of students very easily.

8870-8887

Authors: Shri. Shaikh Shahid Hajaratali & Shrimati. Radhika Inamdar

IN MARATHI

8896-8901

Authors: Neelam k. Sharma

The purpose of the present research paper is to look into depth of Dr. Johnson‟s critical learning, shown in his greatest work of criticism The Lives of The Poets. In it he expresses his views on 52 poets. The Lives maintains a happy balance between biography and criticism. This paper also studies Dr. Johnson‟s noticeable views on Paradise Lost.

8909-8912

Authors: Prakash A Jagtap

IN MARATHI

8922-8930

Authors: Nain Singh & Yudh Veer

This study was conducted on 600 Scheduled Castes Senior Secondary School Students of Kullu and Mandi Districts of Himachal Pradesh to find out the differences in the problem solving ability of these students in relation to their gender and district they belong to.The results of the study revealed that neither the gender nor the district of the senior secondary scheduled caste school students have any effect on problem solving ability of these students.

8942-8953

Authors: Sarika Gupta & Kavita Verma

IN MARATHI

8964-8971

Authors: Bibhakar Vishwakrama & Yashvinder Kapil

In the past few years, focus on children with disabilities has resulted in greater awareness and increased sensitivity towards these children. Central and State Governments have taken a number of initiatives to improve the enrolment, retention and achievement of children with disabilities. Research conducted earlier has evident that there are three important areas to be focused upon which are structural and environmental modifications, social and policy changes and lastly improved institutional resources. Inclusive education in Government schools of Chandigarh is largely facilitated by centralized scheme SSA & RMSA now merged into single scheme called Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan. This paper is an attempt to highlight the status of inclusive education including challenges and their possible remediation from the perspective of various stake holders of inclusive education functioning in Chandigarh. School structure in Chandigarh involves model and non model schools excluding private schools. Stakeholders of inclusive education basically are the group who can even be called as prosumers includes CWSN children, peer group, both general and special education teacher, head of the school or Principals and supportive staff. To begin with head of the school, principals acknowledges the role of resource room in effective implementation of inclusive education involving children with disabilities whereas they require some orientation about legislations and schemes such as universal design of learning and differential instructions. Some schools in Chandigarh still do not have barrier free infrastructure. Support extended by administration is adequate but teachers should be indulged more into capacity building programmes. Interaction between general and resource teachers need to be improved for better coordination. CWSN studying in these schools have admitted that they enjoy and participate in various classroom activities. Adequate arrangements for therapeutics, medical care etc to be made for CWSN at School as well as for home based education. Efforts to be made by the CWSN In-charge towards adapted curriculum best suitable for the CWSN.

8982-8988

Authors: Ananda Gangurde

NA

8305-8311

Authors: Manoj Sama Padavi

IN MARATHI

8319-8330

Authors: Rachna Sharma

A textbook is used for the formal study of a subject as it is written according to the syllabus and gives the outline of the course. It is an imperative reference and resource for students' learning in any educational system therefore it is necessary to analyze this resource. The present paper presents content analysis of NCERT Science textbook of 6th grade to study the scope of developing desirable values in students. Findings reveal that the content of NCERT Science Text Book has many obvious and hidden values in almost all the topics which may be taught while teaching learning process. Science subject has a full scope of recognition of values, ideal acts of valuing, and moral and character education; the only need is, teacher is required to understand the hidden values in given content and find innovative methods to impart the same to students.

8338-8346

Authors: H. K. Pandey & Col Shantonu Roy

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8352-8361

Authors: Mrs. Vaishali. C. Achakanalli & S. I. Kumbhar

Children show good performance when their surrounding environment is good positi9ve and supportive towards them. Physical, psychological moral and spiritual development makes children competent conscious and makes them able to understand their capabilities. On the other hand broken families, detrimental environment, lack of basic requirements lack of parental guidance and care etc. are some of the socio0-economic factors that caused for increasing juvenile delinquency in the society. Through the present study focus has been throw on the some major socio-economic and psychological factors that caused for juvenile delinquency and various measures taken by government for the rehabilitation of child criminals.

8372-8378

Authors: Sapna Sen

The present research study was undertaken to investigate teaching effectiveness of senior secondary school teachers and how it is influenced by gender, teaching experience and educational qualification. Descriptive survey method was employed for the present investigation. Multistage sampling technique was used to select the sample of 187 senior secondary school teachers from Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh. Teacher Effectiveness Scale by Parmod Kumar and D. N. Muthawas used to gather the data. The data were analyzed with the help of descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings of the study shown that teaching experience has no significant impact on teaching effectiveness of senior secondary school teachers. Male and female teachers do not differ significantly from each other with respect to their effectiveness in teaching. High qualification has nothing to do with the effectiveness in teaching in case of senior secondary school teachers. The educational implications have been discussed in the end of the research paper.

8386-8394

Authors: Suman Kumari & Vishal Sood

For measuring computer proficiency of elementary school teachers, the present task was undertaken to construct and standardize computer proficiency scale. For this, data were collected from elementary school teachers by adopting multistage and stratifed random sampling technique. An item pool was created initially by consulting various sources and theoretical and empirical literature available in the concerned area. This item pool was put to evaluation and criticism by technical as well as language experts. The preliminary draft of computer proficiency scale was further subjected to item analysis to select only highly discriminating and valid items. The reliability of scale was established with the help of test-retest and Cronbach’s Alpha method which were found to be appreciably high. The validity of computer proficiency scale was ascertained and norms were established for interpretation of obtained scores on the scale. In the last, conclusions have been presented and applicability of computer proficiency scale has been discussed.

8405-8412

Authors: Bapusaheb Ganpat Chougule & Mali Rupali Babanrao

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8423-8428

Authors: Ms. Pratibha M. Anpat & Dhananjay Bagul

In Today’s competitive environment, the challenge is not just retaining talented human resources, but truly engaging them, capturing their minds and hearts at each stage of their work lives. A well designed Job can foster employee well being and engagement. While designing jobs, individual employee’s motivational needs should be taken into consideration, so as to help employees experience sound social interactions, scope for personal development which can further lead to Job satisfaction and engagement. However, for this, it is necessary to understand how the construct employee engagement is defined and to study the major job design factors that influence engagement at work. The study of concerned literature review aims to understand how the construct of Job design and Employee engagement can be applied at organizations for improved productivity, profitability and employee turnover.

8434-8436

Authors: Reena Trivedi

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8445-8454

Authors: Javeed Ahmad Puju & Mehmood Ahmad Khan

The present investigation has been carried out by following the objectives to study the learning styles and study habits of specially abled students viz. visually impaired and orthopedically challenged of college going s students. The investigators have selected 200 specially abled students (100 visually impaired and other 100 orthopedically challenged) students form various govt. degree colleges in Kashmir province. The data was collected by using Dunn and Dunn learning style inventory and Palsane Sharma Study habit inventory by following purposive sampling. The collected data was analyzed by using some statistical techniques. Some of the major findings have been drawn form the present study that there is significant difference between visually impaired and orthopedically challenged college going students on their learning styles and study habits.

8460-8465

Authors: Ms. Padmavati Tubachi & Praveenkumar kumbhargoudar

The concepts defining information, information needs, information seeking and information use have undergone significant evolution since they were first introduced. A number of information seeking and retrieval studies seem to focus on these concepts, albeit in different ways. It is widely understood that concepts form the basis for describing and explaining phenomena and processes in a field of study. Within the field of Information Science, many of the concepts used need to be understood in terms of research context, as a variety of meanings can be attached to most concepts. This in turn may be of interest to researchers and students within this field. The article concludes that context should be the foundation for any research within this field, with the observation that many of the models discussed describe general information seeking behavior, without catering for variations.

8471-8480

Authors: Geeta Rani

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7792-7799

Authors: Koushik Monda

This paper mainly deals with how geography helps to construct the value-based knowledge among the school students. At the present time geography is one of the most important social science subject at school education system. The main aim of education is all round development which is impossible without value-based education. School is the miniature of society from where socialization starts. One of the basic factor for socialization is presence of value-based knowledge among the pupil. In this paper, the Researcher tries to show how geography takes crucial role to transmit values among the pupils in practical and theoretical ways. To maintain the nation harmony and integrity value-based curriculum is utmost necessary indeed. The Researcher also show different branches of geography reflect the different kinds of values.

7808-7814

Authors: Monika Agarwal

This study has been conducted to know the reaction to frustration of the students joining coaching institute of medical and engineering. through random sampling technique 120 students are selected. for collection of data standardized tool- “reaction to frustration scale” by dr. b. m. dixit and the dr. d. n. srivastava has been used. The study reveals that girl aspirants of coaching (medical and engineering) are more reactive to frustration in comparison to boy aspirants to coaching (medical & engineering)

7839-7851

Authors: Malathi Iyer

Ancient Vedas in their Sanskrit texts have given rainfall prediction techniques on specific days yielding useful results. India has predominantly rain nurtured Agriculture and hence is solely dependent on rainfall and rainfall prediction has utmost importance. Amongst various astrometeorological methods for rainfall forecasting Parasar Muni, Aryabhatt, Varaha Mihira found out the science to predict and measure rains. The Krishi Parashara gives simple models for predicting rains. Rainfall prediction is important by modern as well as astro-meteorological methods. Every village had been following the rainfall prediction. Today climatology applies to different areas, but the Vedic method helps to predict rainfall on a daytime to hours of daylight basis whether a specific vicinity would get rains or not. For that, the viewer must be present on the place on specific days. Rainfall over an area is very significant from water management forecasting and regulation aspect. The forecast of rainfall adds and helps in scheduling the activities of farmers, real estates, supply of water, cultivation management, engineering department and others. long term forecasting and planning can be accomplished by two methods, namely Vedic method of forecasting and scientific weather forecasting. Traditional projections are based on systematic annotations and skill using blends of floras, faunas, pests, climatological and astral indicators, and almanacs or Pachanga’s over a period of time. The traditional weather estimates can be checked on past records of climate prevailed in the area using mathematical models. During the study, the rainfall calculations by one of the traditional methods of Akshaya Tritiya is studied in wisdom by seeing the actual rainfall over Govardhan Eco village at Wada for 6 years. The basic aspect used by the predictors is the wind direction. The basic aspect used by the predictors is the wind direction. This technique has made GEV an award winning eco community and has impacted the lives of over 350 tribal farmers in Wada Taluka. Charts showing the movements of prediction and actual were drawn which indicated the same pattern in both. The ancient approaches of forecasting rainfall cannot be altogether overlooked and there is need to identify and assess the old literature and techniques of spoken civilisations across varied climatic zones.

7857-7862

Authors: Navin Verma & Col Vineet Nehra

India’s energy needs are a crucial element. The country today is the fourth largest consumer of energy in the world, soon likely to become the third. Oil constitutes nearly one-fourth of Indian energy consumption. Over three-quarters of that oil comes from abroad—a share that is only expected to increase. India has significantly reduced its oil imports from Iran, mostly as a result of sanctions, but also because of the availability of other import sources and India’s preference for diversifying its dependence as much as possible. However, Iran still accounts for 6% of total Indian oil imports. There have been additional causes for strain in the India-Iran relationship—some that have played out quite publicly, thus shaping the Indian public’s view of Iran. In 2012, a terrorist attack on an Israeli connected with the embassy in Delhi raised hackles.

7868-7874

Authors: Ramyadnya Maurya

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7887-7889

Authors: Tak Ravisha Dhanraj

NA

7899-7915

Authors: Ram Surve

In general, diversity refers to the ways that people in organizations differ. That sounds simple, but defining it more specifically is a challenge because people in organizations differ in many ways-races, gender, ethnic group, age, personality, cognitive style, tenure, organizational function, and more. Also in recent years the understanding of the term diversity has expanded to include not only organizational members but also people who constitute the external customers (suppliers, consumers, regulators, etc.) of the organization. Managing diversity means establishing a heterogeneous workforce to perform to its potential in an equitable work environment where no member or group of members has an advantage or a disadvantage. Effectively managing diversity helps organizations to identify and capitalize on opportunities to improve products and services, attract, retain, motivate and utilize talented people effectively; improve the quality of decision-making at all organizational levels; and reap the many benefits from being perceived as a socially conscious and progressive organization. The paper is an attempt to evaluate the structural process followed by the selected Indian corporations to initiate the diversity management practices to enhance its global competitiveness. Organizations in India have entered the fray with the right approach and are slowly but surely getting equipped, through their diversity management interventions, to take on the diversity challenge and turn it into a golden opportunity.