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Understanding Why Some Whistleblowers Are Venerated And Others Vilified, Christopher D. E. Atkinson, Eric D. Wesselmann, Daniel G. Lannin Apr 2022

Understanding Why Some Whistleblowers Are Venerated And Others Vilified, Christopher D. E. Atkinson, Eric D. Wesselmann, Daniel G. Lannin

Heroism Science

Whistleblowers are individuals who witness a moral infraction committed within their organization and report this infraction publicly to hold the group accountable. Whistleblowers often face ridicule, vilification, and exclusion both within their group and sometimes within broader society. Thus, whistleblowers put themselves at personal risk to adhere to their moral code and protect others; these criteria commonly classify someone as a hero. We argue diverse reactions to whistleblowers are influenced by numerous situational factors that influence perceptions of a whistleblower’s intentions as well as the expected consequences of their whistleblowing. Whether a whistleblower is viewed as a virtuous reformer (i.e., …

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Analyzing Adoption Of Smart Cities Through System Dynamics, Gazal Singh, Sanjay Bhushan Apr 2022

Analyzing Adoption Of Smart Cities Through System Dynamics, Gazal Singh, Sanjay Bhushan

Management Dynamics

Smart city is one of the important part of construction sector that are initiated under Make in India National Program and part of Digital India Initiative. As stated in their objective India’s Smart City vision is part of a larger agenda of creating Industrial Corridors between India’s big metropolitan cities in India. Its other objectives also include giving a Sustainable System to cities there by giving a clean, green and quality life to its citizen. The application of Smart Solution will provide a core infrastructure which can bring sustainable and inclusive development. These developments include incorporation of new technology; technologies …

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Productiveness Vs Productivity, Lalit Kumar Apr 2022

Productiveness Vs Productivity, Lalit Kumar

Management Dynamics

Productivity and productiveness are different; Productivity refers to person’s capacity to effectively and efficiently achieve goals without wasting time, effort and resources. Productiveness being acceptance of morality and choosing to live the productive work and creating the image of one’s own values – that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind. It is when the person thinks that nothing more is possible to you and nothing less is human. Despite being an effective measure of Performance, Productivity may not provide a complete picture of things, especially when it comes to human beings as a resource factor. …

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Efficiency Of Black And Scholes Model For Pricing Options At Indian Stock Market, Vaibhav Kaushik Apr 2022

Efficiency Of Black And Scholes Model For Pricing Options At Indian Stock Market, Vaibhav Kaushik

Management Dynamics

Black and Scholes model was developed for valuing the options in derivatives market in the year 1973. This model became the prime tool for pricing options but because of its deficiencies it forced researchers to find out new model for pricing options (Rubinstein, 1985; Hull and White, 1987; Wiggins, 1987; Dumas, Fleming and Whaley, 1998). Option pricing is proven to be very challenging task during high volatility situations whereas Black and Scholes option pricing model is not proven a successful predictor for determining approximate price of the options. Even empirical evidences support that Black and Scholes model produces some biasness …

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Understanding Psychological Contract:Long-Term Investment For Business Sustainability, Kainat Akhtar Usmani, Farhina Sardar Khan Apr 2022

Understanding Psychological Contract:Long-Term Investment For Business Sustainability, Kainat Akhtar Usmani, Farhina Sardar Khan

Management Dynamics

Business sustainability is the body of knowledge which include knowledge of proven traditional practices that are widely applied, along with knowledge of innovative and advanced practices yet that has seen only 0f limited use. Sustainable businesses take a long-term view of profitability. For this the one more important concept emerges in HRM is of Psychological contract. This paper describes the psychological contract at the workplace, which results from the successful execution of work by collaborative efforts. The purpose of the study is to understand the importance of psychological contract in organization for both employer as well as employee and its …

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Role Of Ngos In Skill Development And Promotion Of Micro-Entrepreneurship Among Women:A Study Of Allahabad District, Shefali Nandan, Anjali Kushwaha Apr 2022

Role Of Ngos In Skill Development And Promotion Of Micro-Entrepreneurship Among Women:A Study Of Allahabad District, Shefali Nandan, Anjali Kushwaha

Management Dynamics

Entrepreneurship is a catalytic agent for promoting economic independence among women. Skill development forms an important prerequisite towards entrepreneurship development. This case-based study makes an attempt to identify the role played by Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in promoting micro-entrepreneurship among women through skill development. It identifies the type and the nature of skills imparted by NGOs to women and the types of economically viable activities started by these women after skill development. The paper also aims at identifying the role played by the NGOs in sustainability of these businesses. It is an exploratory, qualitative research, where multiple-case study method was used. …

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Service Quality Measurement In Indian Hotels:Factor Structure & Scale Validation, Nasir Mohd, Adil Mohd Apr 2022

Service Quality Measurement In Indian Hotels:Factor Structure & Scale Validation, Nasir Mohd, Adil Mohd

Management Dynamics

With the rapid growth of hospitality industry, many hoteliers have developed their online capabilities and evolved into competitive dual-channel service providers. In such a case, strategic consumers have more options to book a hotel enabling them to choose the best time and the best channel. This study aims at measuring service quality being offered by traditional hotels in Allahabad with the help of SERVPERF model. Besides, it also attempts to investigate the dimensionality, item structure and psychometric properties of the SERVPERF scale in Indian hotel industry. Findings reveal that SERVPERF scale fails to hold all the original items and hence, …

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Global Connections And Industry Exposure-A Survey Based Study On Emerging Trends In Higher Education, Ritu Sharma, Chaitanya Vyas Apr 2022

Global Connections And Industry Exposure-A Survey Based Study On Emerging Trends In Higher Education, Ritu Sharma, Chaitanya Vyas

Management Dynamics

In recent years there has been a growing interest observed in investigations associated with global university ranking. Reaching out to students’ perception of university ranking has become a key factor affecting admission strategies. This paper studies factors of importance and interests for University students in India. In addition to faculty profile, research, placement records, and infrastructure; internship opportunities provided by the university during the program, types and number of International collaboration and opportunities, infrastructure facilities and support for higher education offered by the university are new emerging decision criteria. The present paper is based on a study conducted on a …

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Gendered Sustainable Development:Issues And Challenges Faced By Women Workers In Call Centers, Khushboo Agnihotri, Sachin Kumar Srivastava Apr 2022

Gendered Sustainable Development:Issues And Challenges Faced By Women Workers In Call Centers, Khushboo Agnihotri, Sachin Kumar Srivastava

Management Dynamics

The business process outsourcing and call centre industry in India has a high prospect in present and coming future. As women are an essential part of this industry, presently, women workers comprise of nearly one-third of all the call centers and BPO’s Indian labor force. Nevertheless, regardless of such an important economic input of women to this industry, quite a few issues and challenges are encountered by women. From having suffered some form of workplace sexual harassment during the course of their work to challenging social dogmas and taboos related to the women in India. Women within the age group …

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Decoding Diverse Dimensions Of Entrepreneurial Leadership With Special Emphasis On Persuasive Communication, Manpreet Arora, Roshan Lal Sharma Apr 2022

Decoding Diverse Dimensions Of Entrepreneurial Leadership With Special Emphasis On Persuasive Communication, Manpreet Arora, Roshan Lal Sharma

Management Dynamics

This paper seeks to study diverse dimensions of entrepreneurial leadership with special emphasis on persuasive communication, which we believe is critically crucial. In fact, it is persuasive and empathetic, rather than coercive and hegemonic communication, which ensures success of any business venture. After dealing with implications of the term, ‘leadership’ and its theorization by scholars over the years, its entrepreneurial aspects will be discussed. Entrepreneurial leadership cannot be imagined without its communicative dimension. The premise of this paper is that persuasive communication holds the key to successful entrepreneurial leadership. Thus, we intend to privilege communicative persuasiveness as the core of …

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Impact Of Motivational Factors On Teachers Of Higher Education, Jayanti Srivastava, Farhina Sardar Khan Apr 2022

Impact Of Motivational Factors On Teachers Of Higher Education, Jayanti Srivastava, Farhina Sardar Khan

Management Dynamics

Since teaching is one of the most important and noble profession in the world it is very important to continuously evaluate the system to brings in better prospects for a teacher. Teaching fraternity is the pillar of educational system of any Nation. Teachers play an imperative role in building the personality of individuals. The paper helps us in assessing that how teachers’ motivation level is critical for the successful functioning of educational system and for improving the quality of educational institutions. Being a multifaceted phenomenon, motivation brings along a wide range of struggle for both employers and employees. The aim …

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Attitude Of Mothers Towards Tv Ads:A Comparison Of Working And Homemaker Mothers, Amardeep Kaur Ahluwalia, Kamal Preet Apr 2022

Attitude Of Mothers Towards Tv Ads:A Comparison Of Working And Homemaker Mothers, Amardeep Kaur Ahluwalia, Kamal Preet

Management Dynamics

Purpose: To study the attitude of working and homemaker mothers towards TV advertising and its effect on their children. Methodology: Self structured questionnaire and convenience sampling technique was used for data collection. The Sample comprises of 400 mothers (age: 25 to 45 years) of children (age: 8 to 16 years). The response was generated regarding 32 statements related to different aspects of TV advertising measured on a five point Likert Scale. Findings: Factor Analysis of working mothers revealed 8 dimensions while homemaker mothers revealed 7 dimensions. Both mothers find TV ads informative for their children. The attitude of working mothers …

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Workers Perception Of Welfare Facilities:A Comparative Study Of Sugar Mills Of Punjab, Gurpreet Randhawa, Ashutosh Gupta Apr 2022

Workers Perception Of Welfare Facilities:A Comparative Study Of Sugar Mills Of Punjab, Gurpreet Randhawa, Ashutosh Gupta

Management Dynamics

Purpose: The study aims to examine and compare the workers’ perception towards various labour welfare facilities provided in the co-operative and private sugar mills of Punjab state of India. The study also examines the association of perception scores for welfare facilities with the personal characteristics of workers. Methodology: Data was collected from 490 workers (280 from co-operative sugar mills and 210 from private sugar mills) with the help of a structured questionnaire. The sample was drawn using referral sampling method. Findings: Results showed that out of 29 welfare facilities examined in this study, facilities like canteen, medical, sitting, drinking water, …

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A Framework Of Cultural Intelligence In Context To Leaders, Teams & Organizations, Aditi Sharma Dogra, Varsha Dixit Apr 2022

A Framework Of Cultural Intelligence In Context To Leaders, Teams & Organizations, Aditi Sharma Dogra, Varsha Dixit

Management Dynamics

Rapid globalization has led to richness in diversity of workforce in today’s organization. Borderless economy has resulted in imparting international experience and exposure to the workforce further enabling them to handle international projects or assignments effectively. There is an essence of competent Leaders who can lead such diverse teams to drive the organization towards growth with varying environment. In this paper, an attempt has been made to develop a conceptual model based on the challenging issue of whether today’s organization be called a culturally intelligent organization. This is done by building and integrating various constructs to study the relationship between …

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An Analysis Of Employee Empowerment And Job Satisfaction:A Review, Anu Kohli, Alka Sharma Apr 2022

An Analysis Of Employee Empowerment And Job Satisfaction:A Review, Anu Kohli, Alka Sharma

Management Dynamics

Employee empowerment is considered as an important human resource management practice because of its assumed relationship with job satisfaction. This research paper reviews the literature related to the relationship between employee empowerment and job satisfaction. Various definitions, approaches and dimensions of employee empowerment and job satisfaction are considered for the period 2000 –2015. Studies pertaining to individual level, work unit level and organizational level have been included in order to examine the relationship between them. Literature shows positive relationship between employee empowerment and job satisfaction in different sectors like hospitality, BPO, banking, and educational sector. It can be concluded that …

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Organizational Trust And Job Satisfaction:Analyzing Gender As A Moderator, Lalit Kumar Yadav Apr 2022

Organizational Trust And Job Satisfaction:Analyzing Gender As A Moderator, Lalit Kumar Yadav

Management Dynamics

Organizational trust is one of the most fundamental concepts in evoking positive work related attitude among employees. Trust is a formidable building block between employee and organization. This study examines the relationship between organizational trust and job satisfaction, which is considered as one of the most critical work attitude in an organization. It also examines the role of gender as a moderator between organizational trust and job satisfaction. Data is collected from National Capital Region (NCR) of India. The respondents were part of organizations that come under the umbrella of Tourism industry. Statistical techniques like simple linear equation and hierarchical …

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Is It Really Good To Be Emotionally Intelligent? A Review Of Literature, Vibhuti Gupta Apr 2022

Is It Really Good To Be Emotionally Intelligent? A Review Of Literature, Vibhuti Gupta

Management Dynamics

Emotional Intelligence, as a field of study, has both proponents as well as opponents. Some researchers strongly support it while others simply reject it. The researchers, who support Emotional Intelligence, argue that it is important to be emotionally intelligent because it has direct impact in both personal as well as professional life. However, researchers who do not support it have criticised it in terms of its role, scientific validity and validity of the measurement scales. The paper, based on review of literature, throws light on arguments, both for and against Emotional Intelligence, its importance in organizations like job performance, job …

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Factors Influencing The Purchase Decision Of Rural Consumers:A Study In The Rural Markets Of Gujarat (India), Indra Meghrajani Apr 2022

Factors Influencing The Purchase Decision Of Rural Consumers:A Study In The Rural Markets Of Gujarat (India), Indra Meghrajani

Management Dynamics

The paper is an attempt to understand the purchase behavior of rural consumers with reference to selected FMCG product. This is done by studying factors influencing their purchase decision, counterfeit products and their use, and the role of retailers in influencing the purchase decision of rural consumers of Gujarat. There is a wide availability of counterfeit products in the rural markets of Gujarat and the people are sometimes kept away formt the genuine products. The marketing implications got for the study contributes towards understanding the profile of the villagers. The demographic profile is very important to the marketers to study …

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A Study Of The Impact Of Transformational Leadership, Organizational Learning, And Knowledge Management On Organizational Innovation, Md. Aftab Uddin, Luo Fan, Anupam Kumar Das Apr 2022

A Study Of The Impact Of Transformational Leadership, Organizational Learning, And Knowledge Management On Organizational Innovation, Md. Aftab Uddin, Luo Fan, Anupam Kumar Das

Management Dynamics

Purpose: This study aims at finding the potential impact on organizational innovations and corporate performance through the influence of transformational leadership on knowledge management and organizational learning. Methodology: Stratified random sampling was used to collect 273 usable responses from 500 respondents for using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The deductive approach was adopted under positivism philosophy. Findings: The Result shows that transformational leadership, organizational learning, and knowledge management significantly predict corporate innovation and those, in effect, foster organizational performance through organizational innovation. Implication: One of the implications of this study is the role of transformational leadership is worth evident through empirical …

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Antecedents Of E-Satisfaction In Online Retailing:An Empirical Study, Urooj Ahmad Siddiqui, M. S. Khan Apr 2022

Antecedents Of E-Satisfaction In Online Retailing:An Empirical Study, Urooj Ahmad Siddiqui, M. S. Khan

Management Dynamics

Purpose: the main purpose of the study was to examine the factors that affect customer satisfaction in online retailing in Indian context and identify the relative influence of factors. A theoretical model was derived in accordance with the literature and was tested empirically. Methodology/Approach: the data was collected convenience through a structured questionnaire administered through both personal and online mode. Exploratory Factor Analysis was done to measure the latent constructs and establish the structure of factors. The proposed model and impact of each factor on e-satisfaction was tested through Multiple Linear Regression. Findings: it was found that the antecedents of …

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Effect Of Salesforce Control System And Supervisory Behaviour On Job Satisfaction Of Salespeople:A Review Of Studies, Zoha Fatima, Khalid Azam Apr 2022

Effect Of Salesforce Control System And Supervisory Behaviour On Job Satisfaction Of Salespeople:A Review Of Studies, Zoha Fatima, Khalid Azam

Management Dynamics

A salesforce control system is an organization's process to monitor, direct, evaluate and reward salespeople (Anderson and Oliver, 1987). It has an impact on salesforce job satisfaction, job performance as well as on the results achieved by the organization. Due to its importance in affecting salespeople and organizational variables, sales organizations are making efforts to choose the right kind of salesforce control system (either behaviour based or outcome based or hybrid salesforce control system). Moreover, the other factor that is closely related to salesforce control system and which has important influence on salesforce characteristics like job satisfaction is supervisory behaviour …

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The Effects Of In Store Music On Shopping Behaviour In A Retail Setting, Ratul Kapoor, Rashmi Apr 2022

The Effects Of In Store Music On Shopping Behaviour In A Retail Setting, Ratul Kapoor, Rashmi

Management Dynamics

This article extends research linking shopping behaviour to music as an environmental stimulus. Spanning across five sports apparel stores shoppers shopping in a real retail experience reported their perception of time spent inside the store, their overall hearing/aural rating on a ten point bi polar scale and the actual time spent in the store was noted down. Also their level of music familiarity was asked on a 5 point bi polar scale and the tempo of music in each store was analyzed. Results show that music familiarity has a positive relationship with the perception of time. The subjects reported shopping …

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Demographic Characteristics & Organizational Commitment:Studying Interaction Effect Among School Teachers, Lalit Kumar Yadav Apr 2022

Demographic Characteristics & Organizational Commitment:Studying Interaction Effect Among School Teachers, Lalit Kumar Yadav

Management Dynamics

Organizational commitment is one of the most researched areas in behavioral studies. As commitment to an organization is the backbone for any effectively functioning organization, commitment has received a very special attention by practitioners in an organization. Age, organization tenure and gender are antecedents to organizational commitment. This paper studies commitment with relation to gender, age and organization tenure among private school teachers in Lucknow, India. The study also looks into the interaction effect of gender with age and organizational tenure in understanding commitment. Analysis of data is conducted with statistical tools like independent t test, one way ANOVA and …

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Issues In Management Education Among Sfis In Gujarata, Nidhi Srivastava, Siddarth Singh Bist Apr 2022

Issues In Management Education Among Sfis In Gujarata, Nidhi Srivastava, Siddarth Singh Bist

Management Dynamics

Objective:To study critical trends prevailing in Management Education and its effect on Business School with specific focus on Self Finance Institutes of Gujarat. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to understand and analyze contemporary issues in Management Education with specific focus on SFIs in Gujarat. The paper is comprised of viewpoints of Senior Academicians of the system. Methodology:The methodology applied is exploratory research, by reviewing the relevant literature on the subject and by interviewing, Eminent Senior Academicians of the system. Findings:The findings indicate a downfall in admissions to management institutes due to compromise in quality of student, increased student's …

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A Study On Work Life Balance Of Pharmacy College Teachers In Kerala, J. S. Dhanya, D. Kinslin Apr 2022

A Study On Work Life Balance Of Pharmacy College Teachers In Kerala, J. S. Dhanya, D. Kinslin

Management Dynamics

Objective: The satisfaction in a job or work would be depending on many factors like remuneration, work conditions, growth prospects, support for teachers and other related factors. One of the most important such factors as found from the result of much research conducted in this domain is, Work Life Balance (WLB). Introduction: Work Life balance can be described as a measure of the balance that exists between the job and the personal life of an employee. Much study has been conducted in this regard as the clash between personal or family life of an employee and the work is said …

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Hubris Of Fmcg Companies Shattered By Saffron Robed Man:A Strategic Management Perspective At Baba Ramdev's Patanjali Ayurved Ltd, Suyash Bhatt, Richa Bhatt Apr 2022

Hubris Of Fmcg Companies Shattered By Saffron Robed Man:A Strategic Management Perspective At Baba Ramdev's Patanjali Ayurved Ltd, Suyash Bhatt, Richa Bhatt

Management Dynamics

This paper corroborates various theoretical principles of strategic management to the actual approach used by PatanjaliAyurvedLtd. (PAL). We would like to examine reasons success of PatanjaliAyurvedLtd. (PAL). We propose a model called 5 C - Model (credence, culture,consistency, contentment and cost) to understand the PatanjaliAyurved's success. There is little or no innovation in this market over last few decades which is why companies like Colgate have dominated the oral healthcare segment, HUL and P&G have dominated the homecare segment, Nestle has dominated the instant food segment for decades put together. These companies have had a long learning curve and have …

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Investment Preferences Of Women:A Comparative Study Of Women Stock And Non Stock Investors, Mandeep Kaur, Tina Vohra Apr 2022

Investment Preferences Of Women:A Comparative Study Of Women Stock And Non Stock Investors, Mandeep Kaur, Tina Vohra

Management Dynamics

With the changes in the social structure of a society, the individuals need to manage their wealth and resources in such a way so as to ensure that the various personal and family goals that arise during their lifetime are met. This calls for a choice of investment options that would meet the individual's needs and personal preferences. Since the investment preferences of women are different from that of men, therefore, the financial institutions need to target women as a separate market segment.Moreover, although the involvement of women in various sectors has grown over the past few decades, their participation …

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Consumer's Behaviour While Purchasing Apparels In Sale Period, Meenakshi Kukreja, Rashmi Apr 2022

Consumer's Behaviour While Purchasing Apparels In Sale Period, Meenakshi Kukreja, Rashmi

Management Dynamics

Consumer behaviour study is an effort to comprehend the buying pattern of the final consumer. Consumer's frequency of purchase and buying habits depict how sellers and marketers are promoting their product and luring customers time and again through their attractive sales promotion deals. Brain finds pleasure in the pursuit of inexpensive, and by tapping on the same idea, sellers are introducing repeat sales and low price deals along with added benefits to make their customers loyal towards them, thereby making the competition between physical and online retail store fierce day by day. This study examines the impact of influential determinants …

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Effectiveness Of Human Resource Information System On Hr Functions Of An Organization, Siddharth Pani Apr 2022

Effectiveness Of Human Resource Information System On Hr Functions Of An Organization, Siddharth Pani

Management Dynamics

HRM (Human Resource Management) is particularly imperative in a learning based economy, where thoughts and mastery are extraordinarily esteemed, and an imaginative and inventive workforce is important to meet the difficulties of this new economy. Productive and compelling administration of human capital is progressively a basic and complex procedure. Thus, there has been a significant increment in the quantity of associations assembling, putting away, and examining data with respect to their HRs using a product which is HRIS (Human Resource Management System). The developing significance of HRIS is because of the acknowledgment of HR experts that IT (Information Technology) and …

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Leveraging Business Analytics For Marketing Decisions In Retail Banking, Prakash Singh Apr 2022

Leveraging Business Analytics For Marketing Decisions In Retail Banking, Prakash Singh

Management Dynamics

In a service based economy, companies strive to continue deriving revenue by creating and nurturing long term relationship with clients. A case in point is Retail Banking, where customer value is of utmost importance. In today's hyper-competitive environment, banks are aggressively leveraging their customer base to engage in revenue driving activities such as cross selling and up-selling. To be successful, it is imperative for banks to embrace the power of analytics to gain insights and appropriately evaluate risks and opportunities-enabling more efficient decision making in the quest to enhance share of the wallet. This paper examines the various applications of …

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