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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 …


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 …


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 …


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 …


Workplace Spirituality: A Study In An Indian Pharmaceutical Organization, Monica Kunte Apr 2022

Workplace Spirituality: A Study In An Indian Pharmaceutical Organization, Monica Kunte

Management Dynamics

The ever more prevalent forces of global competition, downsizing, and reengineering are increasing the levels of uncertainty in many aspects of people's realities, and have generated a workforce who seek value, support, and meaning in their lives. With diverse workforce the question of managing employees with various religious beliefs and spirituality practices at workplace is being seriously considered in corporate world. This study defines spirituality and religion from the perspective of the workplace and documents the increasing importance of this phenomenon. The objective of the study is to explore the importance of spirituality, religion and the emerging trends of the …


Communication As The Mainstay Of Entrepreneurial Leadership: A Conceptual Framework, Roshan Lal Sharma, Manpreet Arora Apr 2022

Communication As The Mainstay Of Entrepreneurial Leadership: A Conceptual Framework, Roshan Lal Sharma, Manpreet Arora

Management Dynamics

Leadership and entrepreneurship, despite being discrete concepts, have to coalesce for sure success of any venture. Communicative ability, nevertheless, is critically crucial for a leader to build successful enterprise. It thus becomes imperative to understand the symbiotic relationship obtaining within this triumvirate namely commimication, leadership and entrepreneurship. This paper views this relationship as communicative entrepreneurial leadership on the basis of critical survey of studies conducted by scholars concerning these areas. There have only been few and sparse studies available on entrepreneurial leadership with communication as their locus. This paper is conceptual and aims at positing that communication skills are the …


Constrained By Choice - An Assessment Of The Challenging Barriers Of Women In Workforce, B. Aiswarya, G. Ramasundaram Apr 2022

Constrained By Choice - An Assessment Of The Challenging Barriers Of Women In Workforce, B. Aiswarya, G. Ramasundaram

Management Dynamics

The status of women in modem India is a sort of paradox. If on one side she is at the peak of ladder of success, on the other hand, she is mutely suffering the barriers afflicted. As compared with past, women in modem times have achieved a lot but in reality, they have to still travel a long way. Some researchers had focused on differences on career progress of women, identifying reasons like less education, seniority, training and experience. Some studies have also indicated that the women managers are confronted with stractural barriers. In career choices women tend to be …


Factors Affecting Online Consumers Purchase Intention, Shahnawaz Alam, Vikram Bansal, Abhijit Ghosh Apr 2022

Factors Affecting Online Consumers Purchase Intention, Shahnawaz Alam, Vikram Bansal, Abhijit Ghosh

Management Dynamics

Innovation in technology has enhanced many fields. The sector which is highly influenced by technological development is online retailing. The rapid spread of E-Commerce provides great benefits both for consumers and sellers. On the other side, the complexity of online marketplaces produces new issues and challenges. These escalating concerns about E-Commerce can restrict its growth and discourage consumers from performing online activities. This paper aims to examine the factors which affect the Indian online consumers' purchase intention on the basis of framework proposed by the authors in the form of 3R's (Reliability, Risk and Responsiveness) of online shopping. Since this …


Characteristics Of Effectively Farmer Groups To Manage Agricultural Machinery Rental Business: A Multi-Case Study Approach, Sri Hanggana, Suwarto Suwarto, Bandi Bandi, Sapja Anantanyu Apr 2022

Characteristics Of Effectively Farmer Groups To Manage Agricultural Machinery Rental Business: A Multi-Case Study Approach, Sri Hanggana, Suwarto Suwarto, Bandi Bandi, Sapja Anantanyu

The Qualitative Report

The Ministry of Agriculture provides machinery grants to farmer groups to accelerate agricultural mechanization and rental business capital. Therefore, this study aims to identify the characteristics of farmer groups that were effective in managing agricultural machinery rental businesses. This study used qualitative methods, a multi-case approach, and thematic analysis. The locations were the farmer groups in Kebakkramat District. The Informants from agricultural extension civil servants were selected according to their place of duty. Informants from the chairpersons and members were determined using the snowball sampling method. The data collection techniques used in-depth interviews and focus group discussions. There were two …


A Study Of Value - Added Efficiency In The Indian Banks, Shireen Rosario, Chandra Sen Mazumdar Apr 2022

A Study Of Value - Added Efficiency In The Indian Banks, Shireen Rosario, Chandra Sen Mazumdar

Management Dynamics

Purpose: This paper explores the importance of Intellectual Capital (IC) in the Indian Banking Industry and compares the efficiency between Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) banks and Private Sector banks, by employing Value Added Intellectual Coefficient (VAIC) method. Methodology/approach: Using Path Analysis, the study verifies the influence of VAIC on the profitability and market value of the Indian banks. Using simple averages and graphs, VAIC of PSU and Private Banks are compared. Quarterly results are used to verify the impact of COVID on the VAIC of banks. Findings: Human Capital Efficiency (HCE) is the largest element that contributes to the VAIC …


Toroots: Marketing And Promoting The Experiential Travel And Tourism, Shailesh Pandey, Prashant Chaudhary, Pooja Darda Apr 2022

Toroots: Marketing And Promoting The Experiential Travel And Tourism, Shailesh Pandey, Prashant Chaudhary, Pooja Darda

Management Dynamics

With the extensive influx of start-ups in the already cluttered Indian travel and tourism sector; it was increasingly becoming challenging for experiential tourism players to carve a niche for themselves. Mr. Naveen, founder of ToRoots Explorers Pvt. Ltd., a start-up company in Pune (India) offering "experiential tourism" realised that travellers were not only demanding conventional sightseeing tours but preferably looking for meaningful, memorable and transformative tourism experiences. Customers were spoilt for choices in terms of wide array of travel and tourism packages and experiences available. Since its launch in June 2016, the start-up firm faced challenges in terms of amplifying …


Karma Yoga: The Science Of Human Excellence, V. Janaki Tenneti, Murali Tenneti Apr 2022

Karma Yoga: The Science Of Human Excellence, V. Janaki Tenneti, Murali Tenneti

Management Dynamics

Deep down every individual in an organization wants to derive maximum satisfaction through his or her performance. It happens only when he/she excels in the role in terms of both efficiency and effectiveness. Research proves that the effectiveness of the work depends not only on the external motivating factors like incentives but it is connected to the ‘inner world’ of the person. It is here, culture comes into the picture because, it has a major role in shaping the values and morals of a person. The doctrine of Karma Yoga can be regarded as the core of the Indian philosophy …


Arbitrage Pricing Theory And Its Relevance In Modelling Market, Anuradha Yadav, Pooja Srikanth Hegde Apr 2022

Arbitrage Pricing Theory And Its Relevance In Modelling Market, Anuradha Yadav, Pooja Srikanth Hegde

Management Dynamics

This research compares the Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) to the Capital Asset Pricing Theory (CAPT) by looking at numerous macroeconomic factors that affect market security prices and determining how APT explains the majority of the returns. The goal of this study was to look at the fundamental aspects (revenue, assets, liabilities, and growth potentials) in order to compute the intrinsic value based on the investor's risk tolerance. The BSE and NSE websites were used to get month-by-month secondary data over a period of ten years (2010–2020), which included the share price returns of TATA Motors and Eicher Motors as well …


System Dynamics Modeling To Understand The Impact Of Covid-19 On Indian Economy, Anuja Shukla, Neha Tomer, Preeti Singh Apr 2022

System Dynamics Modeling To Understand The Impact Of Covid-19 On Indian Economy, Anuja Shukla, Neha Tomer, Preeti Singh

Management Dynamics

COVID-19 has led to a severe health crisis. This sudden and wide impact of corona virus has brought the global economy to its knees. The virus has spread across the world through the chain of transmission. In India, the first case of COVID-19 was reported in the month of February 2020 and has spread drastically within past four months. As a preventive measure, the government announced complete lockdown in the month of March 2020 to stop this pandemic situation in India (Suri, April 30, 2020). This invisible virus has compelled many business organizations to shutdown their respective activities and to …


Editorial, Anubhav Mishra Apr 2022

Editorial, Anubhav Mishra

Management Dynamics

No abstract provided.


Flipkart : Driving Ecommerce During Covid-19, Aishwarya Kalakata, Apoorv Anand, Pranav Saxena Apr 2022

Flipkart : Driving Ecommerce During Covid-19, Aishwarya Kalakata, Apoorv Anand, Pranav Saxena

Management Dynamics

Covid 19 pandemic presented humanity with unprecedented challenges which put millions of livelihoods at risk. The economic and social disruptions impacted the lives of millions of people across the country . Like most companies, the surge of unexpected cases (and orders) initially caught Flipkart off guard. Nationwide lockdowns caused orders per day to go down to zero in some regions, only to see an unforeseen surge come in the next few months. While business was on a rollercoaster , there was also the challenge of running a huge organization remotely - thousands of employees including the on ground delivery personnels.


A Study Of Performance Indicators Of Technology Business Incubators (Tbis) In India, Vishal Gandhi, Asif Ali Syed, Sudhir Kumar Apr 2022

A Study Of Performance Indicators Of Technology Business Incubators (Tbis) In India, Vishal Gandhi, Asif Ali Syed, Sudhir Kumar

Management Dynamics

A business incubator is characterized as a point of contact between the market and the entrepreneurs' proposed business concepts. It includes provision of differential facilities like infrastructure, mentorship, capital and expertise so that there is effective utilization of creativity and ability . This research work assess the performance of technological business incubators (TBIs) based on no. of patent granted, support services offered by TBI, services offered in TBI, selection criteria for incubate, exit criteria for incubatee, academia linkage, corporate linkage, nature of functioning as a performance indicator . Partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) was employed for testing the …


Pandemic Has Recaste Media Template, Virendra Singh Rawat Apr 2022

Pandemic Has Recaste Media Template, Virendra Singh Rawat

Management Dynamics

In August 2021, nearly 200 million people globally were believed to have had Covid-19 since the first case was reported in China in late 2019. The reported global death toll topped 4.26 million even as the World Health Organisation (WHO) expressed grave concern over the coronavirus, its mutations and the ever growing list of symptoms. The Covid-19 pandemic has rightly been regarded as the worst disaster befalling the global social and economic landscape in the last almost 100 years. Whilst previous natural or manmade disasters viz. earthquakes, floods, epidemics and World War I/II were largely confined to a continent or …


Editorial, Anubhav Mishra Apr 2022

Editorial, Anubhav Mishra

Management Dynamics

No abstract provided.


Impact Of Age And Social Distancing On Covid-19 Epidemic In India, Harish Kumar, Sini V. Pillai, Vipin H Apr 2022

Impact Of Age And Social Distancing On Covid-19 Epidemic In India, Harish Kumar, Sini V. Pillai, Vipin H

Management Dynamics

Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease with Acute Intense Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), and the World Health Organization (WHO) has proclaimed Covid-19 as a pandemic. The virus can spread quickly through close contact and via respiratory droplets induced when people cough or sneeze. The respective officials have promoted social Distancing, and governing bodies as a precautionary measure to prevent this novel disease as social contacts between people have a solid assortative structure in age. A mathematical model is used to predict the transmission of the disease, including age and social contact structure. In the research …


A Study On Factors Affecting Consumer Churn In The Indian Telecom Industry, Uday Arun Bhale, Harpreet Singh Bedi Apr 2022

A Study On Factors Affecting Consumer Churn In The Indian Telecom Industry, Uday Arun Bhale, Harpreet Singh Bedi

Management Dynamics

Factors affecting consumer churn is important to study in order to reduce the consumer churn for a particular brand in telecom industry. As per research by Verint® Systems Inc with 34000 consumers would wide published in the Forbes 2019, consumer retention is on declining trend, study shows that two third of customers are willing to change the product and service, which may results in churn for existing company. In mobile industry as per data by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India for March’20, 5.74 Million unique porting requests has been generated by Indian mobile consumers which shows the consumer’s intention to …


Impact Of Technology On Child Psychology During Covid-19, Anuja Shukla Apr 2022

Impact Of Technology On Child Psychology During Covid-19, Anuja Shukla

Management Dynamics

Covid-19 has impacted the education industry. Young students are exposed to technology for longduration since education has shifted to online mode. They are also an avid user of social media. The cumulative effect has increased the interaction time with technology which leads to stress. The paper suggests some coping strategies such as involvement in creative activities, objective-oriented communication with parents.


Social Listening: A Strategy To Bond With The New Age Customers, Tapish Panwar, Kalim Khan Apr 2022

Social Listening: A Strategy To Bond With The New Age Customers, Tapish Panwar, Kalim Khan

Management Dynamics

The good old days for businesses where they were only concerned with conceiving and communicating a message to its target audience are long gone. The conversations since then have turned into two ways between the business and the customer, and vice versa. While businesses are gearing up to this new reality, a new conversation reality has emerged where the conversations are happening among customers about brands, but without them. Businesses are losing control of the narrative and the conversations have become more interactive and engaging instead of preachy and one-sided as they used to be. Essentially, conversations are happening on …


Editorial, Anubhav Mishra Apr 2022

Editorial, Anubhav Mishra

Management Dynamics

No abstract provided.


Perspective Of A Young Mind During Covid Times - Shattered Dreams, Mariyam Rafi Apr 2022

Perspective Of A Young Mind During Covid Times - Shattered Dreams, Mariyam Rafi

Management Dynamics

No abstract provided.


A Study Of Stakeholder Management In Information Technology (It) Projects With Work From Home (Wfh) During Covid-19 Times, Muralidhar Deshpande Apr 2022

A Study Of Stakeholder Management In Information Technology (It) Projects With Work From Home (Wfh) During Covid-19 Times, Muralidhar Deshpande

Management Dynamics

The project stakeholder management in IT (Information Technology) projects is a key activity to improve the value in project management and to bring about more value add project results. There are various definitions and views about the stakeholder. The stakeholder(s) consist of either individuals or group of individuals, who have capability to influence and/or get influenced by results of the projects. The major debate presented in this paper is that the good stakeholder management has led to project success or failure in general and organizational efficiency in particular. There will be shift from office to Work from Home (WFH) due …


Impact Of Economic Policy Uncertainity On Key Economic Indicators Of India, Shireen Rosario Apr 2022

Impact Of Economic Policy Uncertainity On Key Economic Indicators Of India, Shireen Rosario

Management Dynamics

Purpose: With the help of the newly developed Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) index, this paper attempts to find the influence if any, of the EPU on stock markets and certain key economic indicators in India. Methodology /Approach: The focus is on the influence of EPU on the stock markets, industrial production, new capital issues, exports and bank credit to commercial sector. Monthly data of economic indicators is collected for 66 months from January 2014 and tested with OLS and Quantile regression. Findings: It is observed that stock market, Industrial Production, new capital issues and bank credit are negatively related to …


A Study On Upcoming Global Human Resource Challenges And Concerns During Covid-19 Outbreak, Shalu Pandey, Roopali Bajaj Apr 2022

A Study On Upcoming Global Human Resource Challenges And Concerns During Covid-19 Outbreak, Shalu Pandey, Roopali Bajaj

Management Dynamics

COVID-19 outbreak gave birth to various problems in human life and to world economy. Each and every individual is getting affected by this phenomena. This outbreak has slowed down the economy by shutting down the businesses in order to contain the spread of novel coronavirus. Companies started searching new ways of working, they identified different online platforms and work from home opportunities for their employees. This study focuses upcoming global human resource challenges during COVID-19 outbreak. The researcher has also tried to assess the effect of various factors on human resource in this pandemic situation. A structured questionnaire was framed …


Withering Covid 19 Storm: Survival Strategies Employed By Informal Traders In Masvingo Urban, Zimbabwe, Takupiwa Nyanga, Herbert Zirima, Nhamo Mashavira Apr 2022

Withering Covid 19 Storm: Survival Strategies Employed By Informal Traders In Masvingo Urban, Zimbabwe, Takupiwa Nyanga, Herbert Zirima, Nhamo Mashavira

Management Dynamics

COVID 19 has shaken and destabilized the whole world and caused untold suffering of the human kind. It has caused serious business and social tremors that have resulted in several huge financial, materials, psychological and social losses throughout the world. The main thrust of this study was to explore the survival strategies that were employed by informal traders in Masvingo urban, Zimbabwe. A qualitative approach, which utilized a multiple case design, was utilized to carry out the study. The study population comprised all cross border traders in Masvingo urban. A sample of 15, 9 female and 6 Male, informal traders …


Determinants Of Public Construction Works Contract Performance Application: An Empirical Survey, Geleta Demera Gomero, Mohd Abass Bhat, Kefyalew Obssilencha Apr 2022

Determinants Of Public Construction Works Contract Performance Application: An Empirical Survey, Geleta Demera Gomero, Mohd Abass Bhat, Kefyalew Obssilencha

Management Dynamics

The overall purpose of the study was to identify determinants of public works contract performance, in Benishangul Gumuz Region. The researchers used survey method for the study and data were collected from the target population by means of self-administrative questionnaire and sample was selected by using stratified sampling. Descriptive and inferential analysis was employed to analyze the determinants of public construction works contract performance. The consequence shows that all determinants like contractor performance, consultant performance, contract management, and risk management significantly and positively affects public works contract performance; on the other hand cost overrun significantly and negatively affects public works …