INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH -GRANTHAALAYAH

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Authors: Sufia Rehman *1, Dr. S. Shahid Mazhar

Internet apart from influencing life of people has also emerged as a key HR tool for acquiring talent. Traditional HR strategies are being modernized, driven by technology and innovations. The remarkable popularity of internet & Social Media Sites, lower hiring cost & res ponce time and competitive advantage has allured the recruiters not only to use it for effective branding but also for hiring. They offer a great source of talent pool, as almost every fresh graduate / professional has Social Media account. Professional networking with social media as a recruitment tool is influencing with offer of better platform to both recruiters and this study discusses the Impact & effectiveness of New Hiring Strategies. Their advantages and limitations over traditional methods and their role in making or breaking the job opportunity. The study used data from secondary sources also personal interviews with industry professionals and Job seekers were conducted. A comprehensive analysis of the new trends has been done and described through various graphs and diagrams. The findings of the survey show a significant change in trend from traditional recruitment methods to modern techniques. However there remains good scope for improvement in utilizing the various benefits of the new strategies

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Authors: Zuberi Singano Seguni

community-based area wide fruit fly suppression exercise involving simultaneous application by farmers of methyl eugenol-mediated mass capture of males of Bactrocera dorsalis fruit fly, crop sanitation by burial of fallen fruits and SUCCESS bait (GF 121)spot application of citrus tree crowns, was undertaken in three villages in Muheza district, Tanga region north eastern Tanzania. Male fruit fly numbers in methyl eugenol traps dropped significantly following application of the treatments from 970 flies per trap per week before application of treatments in July 2011 to 100 and 46 flies six and nine months after treatments at Kwabada village; 200 flies per trap per week before to 34 and one flies after treatment at Kwemsaa village and from 800 flies before to 64 and 50 flies per trap per week during the same period at Mlingano village. However, a fall occurred also in untreated orchards indicating a possible spill-over effect of the treatments due to the large area covered. Moreover, the treated areas might have acted as a sink that drew fruit flies from neighbouring untreated orchards into it. The drastic fall in trapped males may be associated with the effect of the treatments in reducing the number of flies so that fewer were available to fly into the traps. The collective and simultaneous application by farmers of fruit fly suppression over a large crop area is a robust strategy to manage fruit flies in citrus and other fruits orchards such as mango. The results suggest that farmers can successfully implement area-wide fruit fly suppression in smallholder citrus systems

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Authors: Ms. Tripti Chopra , Dr. Shine David

Industries are constantly trying to stay competitive by retaining its reputation in the market in which it is operating. Due to Globalization companies have to rethink their strategies and practices. A company’s strategy highly depends upon the use of application and the utilization of resources. Amidst all these HR factors tend to play a potential role in determining the effectiveness and competitiveness of an organization. HRIS is generally considered as managing people practices using IT enabled services. Thus it is a task of HRIS to cater to the needs of knowledge management .Knowledge management involves the practices which are utilized to get the right people at right time to train them and finally appraising their performance and reward them. This helps in keeping employees satisfied and happy. When the performance of an employee is evaluated a number of techniques are used to mine the utmost knowledge out of them. This is how HRIS is connected to Knowledge management. This empirical study is an effort in knowing the efficacy of data mining techniques in knowledge management and application of HRIS. The major focus of study is to know about the data base of employees for predicting the performance of employees and adopt a knowledge management strategy and the efficacy of data mining in doing so.

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Authors: Dr. Javed Khan

User awareness simply means to educate the user. Readers are not aware with the library procedures systems and collection. The topic of present study is “Awareness and use of E-Resources in Delhi university, Jamia Millia Islamia and jawaharlal Nehru: A comparative study” the main objective of the study is to find out the awareness and use of E-resources among the users of sample of selected universities and also provide the basic information about information sources and resources and how to exploit such resources effectively and efficiently. Through purposive sampling about 200 users from each university were selected for the proposed study. Sample of 600 users from Delhi University, Jamia Millia Islamia, and Jawaharlal Nehru University. The questionnaire was developed was researcher and used as a tool of data collection. Data was analyzed through percentage method. The main finding of the study is that it was found that UG & PG students of JMI, JNU and DU are 100% aware about the book service available in the library.

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Authors: Thewodros Bekele Tolera

The status of occupational injuries in workplaces in general is ill defined in Ethiopia. Pocket studies indicate that occupational injury due to an unsafe working environment is increasing. Construction industries are growing industries region wise that has higher rate of work-related injuries. Knowing the associated factors of work-related injuries can be a critical step for improving the working condition of workers in the sector. Objective: This mini research aimed to evaluate occupational hazards and to describe factors affecting its happening among construction workers’ in Addis Ababa housing and construction project sites. Institutional based cross-sectional study design was employed to assess occupational injuries among randomly selected construction workers from June 30 –July 20, 2014. A structured questionnaire based interviews, work environment observation were used to collect the data. The response rate of this study was 82.7%. The majority of respondents were male which account 74.7% and 60 (96.8%) respondents were not using personal protective devices all the time while they are on duty. Out of the total participants, 67.7% of the workers experienced occupational injuries at least once in the last 12 months. Moreover, the three leading cause of injuries were puncture (21.0%) followed by hand injury (11.3%), and back pain (9.7%). Increased rate of work related injury in construction workers was observed and implementation of basic occupational health and safety services is required together with regular supervision to ensure and promote work place safety. So Preventive measures concerning functional occupational health and safety programs are essential to safeguard the health and safety condition of workforce in construction industries.

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Authors: Sarada P. V.

Transgender is a group whose identity is beyond the notion of conventional gender structures. Mostly they possess male physique and female behavioral traits whose life is complex with conflicts and ridicules. Their existential dilemma revolves around their neglected and unacknowledged sexual identity. Here the Endeavour is to delve deep into the real sociological positions of transgender in Indian society. i.e., their role definitions played within family and within society. Being transgender is treated as a curse to a family and their existence is relegated to the margin. The marginalised role of transgender could be deciphered by looking at the life of hijras in cities like Bombay and Calcutta.

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Authors: Dr. Amrit Patel

Every year some parts of India witness droughts and floods directly impacting on food output. India experienced two drought years [July2014-June15 & 2015-16] impacting on low food output followed by 2016-17, a year of severe floods. As 36th World Food Day (WFD) will be observed on 16th October, 2016 India can size and capitalize this opportunity to redouble its efforts in creating awareness among all stakeholders by mounting a massive campaign to improve crop productivity per unit area and resources and eliminate hunger, poverty and rural unemployment. India could not achieve Millennium Development Goal-1 to half the percentage of hungry people by 2015. It has now committed to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal-2 target to “end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture” by 2030. In this context, this development perspective article highlights the current Indian scenario and suggests specific aspects to achieve the SDG-Goal 2 and make India free from hunger by 2030.

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Authors: Ajra Khan 1, Shail Bala Sanghi

The present paper is based on extensive survey. Collection of ethnobotanical information and natural dye yielding plants Rajgarh District (M.P.). The study reports 15 natural dye yielding plant species belong to 13 families. Along with their botanical name, local name, family, habit, dye yielding plant parts used are mentioned in the paper. Apart from, medicinal uses, it also describes preparation of dyeing stuff. Use of mordant’s and specific dye utilization to serve various purposes, including several of the new dye resources.

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Authors: Muhammad Shafeeque A P 1, Thomachan K T

This paper examines the role of commodity futures market as an instrument of hedging against price risk. Hedging is the practice of offsetting the price risk in a cash market by taking an opposite position in the futures market. By taking a position in the futures market, which is opposite to the position held in the spot market, the producer can offset the losses in the latter with the gains in the former. Both static and time varying hedge ratios have been calculated using VECM-MGARCH model. Variance of return from hedge portfolio has been found to be low. Further hedging effectiveness has been observed to be around 12%.