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With the growing informalisation of the workforce, workers' representation through the trade unio... more With the growing informalisation of the workforce, workers' representation through the trade unions have witnessed a dynamic downturn in recent years. The trend started since late 1990s, but became widespread across the globe since then. One of the dominant tendencies in this context, that have become growingly visible in the emergence of non-unionised organisations. In this evolving situation, few research findings have however identified, recommended different possibilities through which employees' voice and representation can be heard. The dominant recommendations for such purposes have been identified as adopting multi-channel model of employee representation, using partnership route through consultative approach, experimenting with distributive new management model etc. The present article has attempted to discuss these emerging dimensions of employee voice representations in the non-unionised organisation scenario from different research perspectives.

2014 International Conference on Engineering and Technology (ICET), 2014

Mangalmay Journal of Management & Technology, 2013

Micro-finance refers to small savings, credit and insurance services extended to socially and eco... more Micro-finance refers to small savings, credit and insurance services extended to socially and economically disadvantaged segments of society. The women artisans from Shantiniketan leather cluster, which has the long tradition of leather bags and other accessories manufacturing, have changed their lives and their socio-living condition in many aspects by adopting the way of selfhelp group formation under different coordinating agencies, specially the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) since 1992. These self-help groups have been extended soft loans of various nature through the respective coordinating agencies and the initiative has added different new positive dimensions in respect to the members of such groups. This structured questionnaire based feedback based empirical study attempts to evaluate the level of positive change occurred in the life of other-wise under-privileged rural women artisans engaged in leather craftsmanship under several self-help groups coordinated by different coordinating NGOs at the grass-root level.

Journal of Management & Public Policy

In India, coal mining came under the Government ownership and control in 1956. Previously it was ... more In India, coal mining came under the Government ownership and control in 1956. Previously it was completely owned by the private sector. United Coal Limited (UCL), a new public-sector company was formed in 1980 to provide better operational and organizational efficiency in the coal sector. Within a short span of time, UCL became the largest coal producer in the world and was awarded the prestigious ‘Maharatna status’ by the Government of India. UCL had 85 mining areas under operation in ten states of India. However, the company faced some major challenges, hence after. UCL also decided to downgrade 225 mines, which translated to a loss of around 1080 crores and loss of employment of 15000 workers. Another issue that UCL experienced was the rampant corruption in the coal block allocations and pilferage during the transportation of coal.

The Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017

The concept of green HRM has emerged with the initiation of Green Movement, the rapid growth of w... more The concept of green HRM has emerged with the initiation of Green Movement, the rapid growth of which was witnessed during 2000-2010 in almost all industries across India. In the present study, 139 respondents from the private sector banking and 116 participants from the private sector health care organizations of 6 different organizations from each sector were surveyed through a structured questionnaire on the relevant green HRM issues and practices from two major cities of India, viz. Kolkata and Delhi. The study is intended to evaluate the effectiveness of different Green HR practices in terms of cost-benefit, employee engagement and reachability and employer branding perspectives, as practiced in these organizations.

Management Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy, 2013

The ambitious drive of the Government of India to transform the Indian economy from a cash based ... more The ambitious drive of the Government of India to transform the Indian economy from a cash based economy to a cashless economy was contingent in a big way on the people's acceptance of cashless modes of transactions, adaptability to cashless transactions and change in the transaction behavior of consumers and retailers, besides several other factors. As the small retailers form the bulk of the Indian retail sector, their ability to go cashless, their psychological preparedness and their willingness to adopt cashless transactions become an issue of prime importance in the movement towards cashless. The present study was conducted to assess the awareness of the small retailers regarding the cashless transaction and its modes, to understand their apprehensions and perceived convenience in dealing with a cashless system of the transaction and to measure their extent of participation in cashless transactions. The study was conducted in Bareilly, an important city in the state of Uttar Pradesh, with a population of around ten lakhs. Data for the study was obtained from 117 retailers using a structured questionnaire. The study found that though a significant number of small retailers were aware of the possibility of the cashless transaction and its modes, their frequency of engaging in cashless transactions was abysmally less as compared to that of cash based transactions. They were found to believe that dealing with cash was easier in comparison to handling cashless transactions. Fear of losing money due to the faulty transaction was found to be a major deterrent in going cashless amongst the small retailers surveyed during the study.

Technology, Innovation, and Enterprise Transformation, 2015

Technology innovation is not just a result of funds invested in research and development of a fir... more Technology innovation is not just a result of funds invested in research and development of a firm; it is a culmination of long-standing investments in well-thought-out processes, plans, and strategies. The chapter aims to address these aspects of technological innovations. The innovation process is a unique one, and each firm has a different style of bringing in innovation as per their requirements. These diverse innovation requirements are a direct consequence of the organizational structure and the innovation philosophies that those structures have embedded in them. Based on academic research done over the past decades on topics of organizational impact of innovation, the authors analyze the different innovation philosophies that organizations have, the processes that organizations use to promote innovation, as well as the drivers that impact these philosophies and processes.

The founders of Adobe John Warnock and Charles Geschke left their jobs at Xerox as they did not r... more The founders of Adobe John Warnock and Charles Geschke left their jobs at Xerox as they did not receive any encouragement for their research efforts from the management of the company. As on 2010, Adobe had an annual turnover of over $3 million. The other side of the story is that in USA only the venture capital industry has produced 35 percent return on investment by taking frustrated R&D people and their rejected ideas out of large companies, and financing the commercialisation of those ideas during the same period as per the industry report. Thus, intrapreneurship has become a very important strategy for talent management in the era of ‘talent war’ across the globe. The most simplified definition of intrapreneurship can be given as the practice of entrepreneurship by employees within an organisation. In India, the intrapreneurial culture is fast catching up. Today most of the big Indian business houses are practicing this culture in one form or other with the multiple objectives ...

Emerged in the old forms of traditional measurement sources of different sub-functions, HR analyt... more Emerged in the old forms of traditional measurement sources of different sub-functions, HR analytics have come a long way today. It has passed through the phases of measuring the sub-functions of HR, staffing technique and criteria effectiveness, introducing comparative bench marking on functional parameters of HR at the industry level, predictive and prescriptive analysis etc. Different experiments, academic researches such as ‘Money ball’ experimentation by Oakland A, USA; ‘Project Oxygen’ by Google etc. and emergence of big-data era have added many twist and turns in the evolution of HR analytics till day. However, the continuum is still not ended and several growth possibilities are yet to be explored as there is a good deal of confusion remains regarding the specific focus areas. Still majority of the Fortune 500 companies are restricted to traditional analytics practice and have not shifted to the advanced HR analytics, though a MIT study has shown specific proof of better impact caused by HR analytics in progressive firms. Finally, it can be concluded that the factors like choosing the right purpose and moment of interventions, adopting appropriate methods of analytics, collaborative interventions, scaling up of HR as a point of interventions are properly required to implemented for optimum impact to be caused by HR analytics in the organizations.

Journal of international business research, 2020

Training needs are being regularly assessed for the operational level employees across banking se... more Training needs are being regularly assessed for the operational level employees across banking sector in UAE. These banks have sufficiently large number of employees, who are employed at the branch level and engaged in daily banking operations like transactions across teller counters, processing papers on credit application, selling financial products like mutual funds and insurances etc. Performance of these large numbers of employees plays a very critical role in setting the direction of not only the respective branch performance, but also of the overall organization as a whole. Therefore, regular training is required for the continuous improvement in the performance of this category of workforce and both local and foreign banks design and develop the training programs according to their respective priorities. Based on the feedback of 498 operational employees of 16 branches of four major banks, two each from local and foreign bank categories, located in emirates of Dubai, the pre...

Training & Development Journal

Journal of Information Privacy and Security, 2013

Information security and privacy continues to be a major concern around the world. As the world b... more Information security and privacy continues to be a major concern around the world. As the world becomes more dependent on technology in order to carry out its various activities, it is also increasingly getting exposed to the dangers that continue to trouble these technologies. From credit card fraud to impersonation to cyber bullying to phishing the list of information security and privacy challenges is ever expanding. In a span of more than two decades the Web has changed the behavior of people around the globe. From making travel reservations online to buying merchandise of choice to sharing photographs and videos online, the Web has permeated all spheres of life and continues to impact the daily activities of millions of citizens around the globe. Although members of the global community continue to use these emerging technologies every day, the awareness about the threats lurking behind these technologies is still in its infancy. Since Web based technologies are still immature, our knowledge about the flaws and shortcomings of these technologies is limited. At the same time, the awareness about threats and how to deal with them among the users is rather scant due to a variety of reasons that range from user callousness to lack of concerted efforts by regulatory agencies to lack of awareness building initiatives, among others. From corporations to governments, an urgent need of the day is to understand the evolving nature of the information security and privacy challenges for the emerging technologies and to initiate appropriate actions to handle them.

Adhyayan: A Journal of Management Sciences, 2016

Micro-finance refers to small savings, credit and insurance services. These services are extended... more Micro-finance refers to small savings, credit and insurance services. These services are extended to socially and economically disadvantaged segments of society. The women artisans from Shantiniketan leather cluster, who have a long tradition of manufacturing leather bags and other accessories, have changed their lives and their socio-living condition in many aspects, by adopting the ways of self-help group formation under different coordinating agencies (specially the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) since 1992). These self-help groups have been extended soft loans of various natures; through the respective coordinating agencies. These initiatives have added different and new positive dimensions in respect to the lives of members of such groups. This structured and questionnaire based feedback empirical study, attempts to evaluate the level of positive changes that occurred in the lives of under-privileged rural women artisans, engaged in leather craftsmanship under several se...

Vocational Courses give some amount of technical skills for students to be able to work in indust... more Vocational Courses give some amount of technical skills for students to be able to work in industry. However, to achieve higher income and higher sense of achievement, a bachelor’s degree is imperative these days. Many students who have completed their vocational courses thus join Top UP Programme to achieve this goal. In computing curriculum, an advanced module “Web and Systems Based Programming” is introduced to them which has a Summative Assessment that includes a Report and an advanced Website creation. Being from varied universities, their curriculum not necessarily have included the prerequisite modules and skills. These technologies are also important for these Computing would-be-graduate soon for their Employability in Industry. As a tutor and evaluator, it poses a challenging task to make such Top UP students in par with the regular students. The undertaken Action Research (AR) Project aimed to make Top Up students work on the current trends of Web Development Technologies ...

Journal of Case Studies, 2018

UAE is one of the most dynamic aviation markets in the world, with three world class airports, in... more UAE is one of the most dynamic aviation markets in the world, with three world class airports, including the busiest airport of the world; millions of passengers travelling through these airports and many highly competitive local and international airlines operating from here. Etihad Airways is one of the frontrunners among them. The intense competition has forced all the airlines operating from UAE to continuously become more innovative and best in service delivery. Etihad is also encountering some challenges since its inception and still has emerged as one of the most profitable and fastest growing airlines in the world. The present paper has taken Etihad as a case study and analyzed the same with relevant strategic model such as PESTLE model. Different recommendations have been developed at the end of the discussion and those can be further used in future.

The Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 2012

Introduction The Kolkata leather industry has been divided in to different sub-sectors such as ta... more Introduction The Kolkata leather industry has been divided in to different sub-sectors such as tannery units (medium and small scale), export oriented leather goods manufacturing units, fabricator of leather goods and units catering to indigenous market, fabricator of industrial gloves, small, medium and large scale footwear manufacturers, house-hold manufacturing units and merchant exporters etc. The available data shows that the trends in the employment creation by these subsectors are not uniform. The lack of uniformity seems to be natural as the number of units in each type of sub-sectors widely varies across leather industry in Kolkata. For example, the number of micro-enterprises across sub-sectors of Kolkata leather industry has been maximum creating highest number of employment whereas the number of large scale units in the leather industry has been very limited. Table 1 shows the trend in employment creation in the sub-sectors over the years. During 2007-2009 period employm...

Journal of Applied Management and Investments, 2016

The positive and negative stories on effects of globalization on working class in both developed ... more The positive and negative stories on effects of globalization on working class in both developed and developing countries are available in plenty in the research field. But, the most of this literature has the limitation of failure to deliver a comprehensive and unbiased picture on the issue. Most of the available papers could not overcome biasness of being ideologically influenced with parochial motives. Therefore, the present paper attempts to describe effect of globalization on universal job scenario (both in terms of job-abolition and job-creation) and the impact on employment situation from a relatively neutral perspective, by reviewing academic literature and available survey reports and findings.

The paper discusses regarding the impacts of the culture on managerial decision making on the top... more The paper discusses regarding the impacts of the culture on managerial decision making on the topic of the human resource management and people management for the implementation of the international business growth strategies. The study presents a brief analysis on a selected organization working in the software development and network security industry named as Sez-Craft. Sez-Craft is a Dutch company which is based in Amsterdam and operates across the globe. The company is able to decentralize their entire business operations with the hope of increasing the flexibility and efficiency of their business actions. In doing so, the company faced considerable amount of necessity of managing their human resources in an appropriate manner and manage the impact of cultural differences in expanding their business. The study shows that the impact of the culture is significant in various fields of business such as expatriate exchange, workforce diversity and team performances. The paper also h...

Compliance with regulatory needs and framing an appropriate legal system have emerged as one of t... more Compliance with regulatory needs and framing an appropriate legal system have emerged as one of the major challenges in recent times. Not only the different legal systems practiced in various parts of the world such as common law, civil code and religious law but also the employment standards and recommendations propagated by international organizations are being considered for developing countries by HR leaders. Supranational binding regulations and extra-territorial laws have become growingly significant over time to influence regulatory frameworks, policies and practices in international HR. In spite of many developments and multiple influences on international labor and employment regulations, challenges of adjustments due to commercial diplomacy have posed biggest threats to the interests of the working populations globally.

Advances in Knowledge Acquisition, Transfer, and Management