Journal of Management Research and Analysis

63-66

Authors: R. Ganapathi

Quality of work life is a philosophy, a set of principles, which holds that people are the most important resource in the organization as they are trust worthy, responsible and capable of making valuable contribution they should be treated with dignity and respect. The exploratory factor analysis shows that work environment, salary, personal growth and job security are the factors affecting quality of work life of workers in construction industry. The regression analysis indicates that salary, work environment, job security and personal growth are having positive impact on job satisfaction of workers in construction industry. In order to improve the quality of work life of workers in construction industry, it is important to identify and then try to satisfy worker’s important needs through their experience in their working environment. The construction industry must ensure that workers are getting sufficient salary and other benefits should be paid based on the performance of the workers and it will motivate them to perform well.

74-81

Authors: Thankachan Jose Kaitharath

As per the 2001 Census results (Provisional), 285 million out of 1027 million persons lived in urban areas. In other words, slightly more than one-fourth of India's total population was enumerated in urban areas. When compared with the urban population projections made by the Experts Committee on Population Projections appointed by the Planning Commission (1987), enumerated urban population and level of urbanisation are on the lower side. This slackening of urbanisation process noticed during the last decade has posed some serious questions to the scholars studying this phenomenon. It has been contended that this could be due to a decline in natural growth rate and rate of immigration. The paper gives a brief account of historical perspective of Indian urbanization and its trends in contemporary scenario. It analyses various components of urbanization and the favourable as well as unfavourable consequences. The paper tries to analyze and infer the relationship of urbanisation with various economic variables like per capita income, rate of employment and Percentage of Population below Poverty Line and understand its impact upon those variables. It also analyzes and makes inferences on the relationship between urbanisation and human development index and understands its implications. Finally, the paper draws conclusions on sustainable urban systems. Effect of urbanisation with each variable has been weighed and findings are drawn. The methodology adopted for this paper is review of literature.

88-94

Authors: Jayant Sonwalkar, Chandan Maheshkar

Marketing is an applied discipline (Brown, 1996) and pedagogy can be considered as a set of theories, principles and practices used to teaching any area of study. In case of determination of pedagogy for teaching ‘Marketing Management’, stakeholders’ convictions (students, teachers, industry professional) play important role. The results indicated that the MBA students, MBA teaching faculties and industry professionals having different convictions about how Marketing Management taught more effectively with aligning the skills required by the profession. The study has found comparatively high dispersion between the convictions of teachers and students, low dispersion between teacher and industry professionals and explicitly high dispersion between students and industry professionals towards pedagogical consideration for teaching marketing management.