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Working Papers | 1985

Approach and Avoidance Behaviour of Managers

Pareek Udai

Research on understanding, with a view to influencing, the behaviour of individuals in organizational settings is continuing for long. This paper analyses the employee behaviour in terms of his various needs or motives. It presents the validity and reliability measures of an instrument developed to operationalize the six needs or motives, namely achievement, affiliation, extension, influence, control and dependency on two dimensions-approach and avoidance. Finally, how the instrument can be used for self-analysis, individual counselling, training and OD are indicated.

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Working Papers | 1985

Manpower Requirement Planning: A Framework and Case Studies

Korgaonkar M G

This working paper deals with the problem of manpower requirement planning (MRP). A framework is elucidated for detailed MRP. The proposed framework is then applied to determine manpower requirements in 6 different industrial situations including both manufacturing as well as service organizations.

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Working Papers | 1985

The Biogas Program in India and China: A Comparative Analysis of Experiences

Moulik T K

This paper describes the historical processes and experiences in the biogas technology promotion programme in India and China. The comparative analysis of the experiences in India and China is an attempt to bring out the politico-historical, administrative and policy differences in rural technology transfer, promotion and management with particular reference to biogas technology under two distinct politico-social settings.

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Working Papers | 1985

Ethnicity - The Indian Situation

Pestonjee D M and Nair Vidya

The paper attempts to review some opinions about ethnicity. Its main focus is to bring to light the prevailing social and legal position of ethnicity in the Indian context. The paper can be useful for ISPE course. It can also raise issues of national integration.

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Working Papers | 1985

Managing Socio-Political Environment in India: A New Task for Top Management

Chaudhari Shekhar

A recent study of environmental scanning practices of larger Indian corporations (Dixit 1984) surprisingly finds a total absence of socio political factors in a list of twenty-five external factors considered to be most important by the sample of 24 companies. Though this study was conducted on a relatively small sample, it does indicate the contemporary belief of corporate management that socio-political forces in the external management are not very critical to the prosperity of the firm perhaps because according to them they can be managed easily. However, this paper takes the view that the nature of the socio-political environment is changing and is increasingly becoming adverse for the survival and prosperity of the firm. Hence business organizations would be required to devote an increasing among of time and energy towards understanding and anticipating the social consequences of their operations. The paper also discusses too approaches for responding to the new challenge: the "issues management" approach and the good corporate citizenship approach and suggests that the latter is the more creative and effective one?

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Working Papers | 1985

Poverty, Inequality and Development in Dual Economies with Urban Informal Sector

Das Gupta A and Gang Ira N

In this paper a general model of dualistic economies with urban informal sectors is proposed. The model is able to encompass a wide variety of distortions and institutional features which may affect such economies. Within this framework the two types of dualism, modern and traditional sector dualism, are distinguished and the implications of development patterns and productivity enhancing development policies for distribution are examined. It is show that traditional sector enrichment growth has the type of dualism present. However, Productivity enhancing development policies may have implications which lead to undesirable distributional and growth consequences even if they ostensibly promote growth in a desired target sector in a general equilibrium setting.

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Working Papers | 1985

The Indian and Chinese Growth Experience as Case Studies in the Application of the Feldman-Mahalanobis Model Strategy under a Wage Goods Constraints

Kumar Saurabh

The Feldman-Mahalanobis model has played a very important role in shaping the industrialisation strategies of China and India and, of course, earlier the Soviet Union. An unstated, but crucial assumption in this model is that there exists a sufficiently large surplus of wage goods in the final/agricultural sector for the wage goods constraint not to impose limitations on the industrialisation possibilities. The paper attempts to examine the validity of this assumption in both India and China. It is argued that the wage goods constraint has been significantly constrictive in both the countries. A simple theoretical model is also attempted to bring out the consequences of such a circumstance.

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Working Papers | 1985

Inflation Accounting: Perspective and Prospects

Gupta Ramesh

During the last two decades, there have been several proposals on how financial statements should be adjusted to show the effects of Inflation. The earlier suggestions were to adjust the financial statements using a general price index. Lately the emphasis has been on current value accounting. In UK's SSAP-16 (and more recently ED 35) USA's FAS-33, Canada's section 4510 of CICA Handbook were considered landmark at the time of their issuance. Yet, every one of these proposals is having an uneasy time and lacks general acceptance. The status of inflation accounting remains fluid and confusing. The accounting profession, realising that theoretically there is no right answer, has opted to experiment the different approaches. Abandoning the experiment may prove risky and costly, if high inflation is to return. One can only conclude that inflation accounting remains a controversial topic and is likely to continue to be so in the near future.

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Working Papers | 1985

Distribution and Development Effects of Tariff Subsidy Policies in a Small, Open Dual Economy

Das Gupta A and Gang Ira N

In this paper the effects of tariff cum subsidy policies in a small open dual economy with intersectoral migration are considered. The model used is an extended version of the mobile capital Harris-Todaro model of Corden-Findlay and McCool. Within this framework the effects of policies on unemployment, absolute incomes, inequality and development patterns are studied. The major results are that policies which result in traditional sector development are likely to reduce both unemployment and inequality. Furthermore, subsidies to traditional sector capital may be the best available subsidy in the presence of revenue constraints.

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Working Papers | 1984

Models of Productivity Measurement: A Study

Korgaonkar M G

The productivity Measurement has come a long way since the early attempts to define it as ration of outputs to inputs. Several complex factors have nevertheless continued to confound attempts to evolve sound measures of productivity. Nature of operations, types of outputs, quality and other structural changes of outputs over time, etc., are amongst such factors. The paper deals with models of productivity measurement at firm's level. The models can be grouped under four major categories: i) total productivity measures, ii) total factor productivity measures, iii) partial productivity measures, iv) composite productivity measures. A critical review is attempted to identify the main strengths and weaknesses of the suggested methodologies. The paper also discusses a comprehensive framework which attempts to relate the physical aspects of productivity measurement with the financial aspects. Other issues pertaining to the measurement problems are also considered. Finally attempt is made to identify areas needing further attention with regard to productivity measurement.

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