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Working Papers | 2000

Harnessing Multiple Mental Models and Creating Opportunities for learning about Human Resource Issues among District Health officers

Neharika Vohra

This paper describes and evaluates the experience of using soft systems methodology (SSM), a problem structuring method of soft operations research (OR), to create learning opportunities about "people issues" among District Health Officers working in the government health system. A one-day workshop on human resource issues was facilitated using SSM. The workshop was part of a ten-day training program, titled "National Health Programmes and Management Issues in Health Organisations", for District Health Officers from two states of India, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat. SSM was preferred over a simple discussion or a question answer session because it allowed participants to engage in self-learning and coordinate multiple perceptions of a given situation. Rich picture building one of the tools of SSM was used for facilitating the workshop. The use of SSM helped generate a creative learning situation and provided both the participants and the trainers an opportunity to understand human resource issues faced by those working in the government health department.

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Working Papers | 2000

Transparancy in Economy: Curbing Corruption

Singh J P

Transparency International's year 1999 Corruption Perception Index places India as the 28th most corrupt country in the world. This is a Slippage Improvement of six positions over 1998 achievement, notwithstanding addition of new countries to the list. This international honour has merited a very serious attention of the government and, understandably, several of its departments are working overtime to look into the matter. The paper looks at some of the alternatives available for implementation, though in a satirical vein.

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Working Papers | 2000

Vote Aggregators : Some Axiomatic Characterizations

Lahiri Somdeb

In this paper a model for the aggregation of ballot profiles is considered. In this framework three new results are obtained: the characterization of oligarchic aggregators, the characterization of the plurality aggregator and the non-existence of a vote aggregator which is anonymous and yet preserves proximity.

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Working Papers | 2000

A Requiem for Shareholders? The Acc Takeover an`d the Issues in Perspective

Venkiteswaran N

Working Papers | 2000

Corporate Governance for Shareholder Value

Venkiteswaran N

In the last few years there has been serious debate about the generally poor quality of corporate governance in Indian companies and the need to improve the same. This has led to the publication of a recommended code of corporate governance by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). More recently, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) formed its own committee on corporate governance and its recommendations are sought to be implemented through amendments to the Stock Exchange Listing Agreement. This paper traces the emergence and spread of the shareholder value and corporate governance movements in other countries and examines the structural reasons that may have contributed to the serious governance problems in Indian companies despite convergence of management dominant equity ownership. It is argued that while CII and SEBI initiatives might be welcome, they seem to address only the form and not the substance in relation to corporate governance. Some suggestions for further improvement of the SEBI guidelines (under the new clause 49 of the Listing Agreement are given. The corporate governance charter issued by Warren Buffet (called the Owners' Manual) to the shareowners of Berkshire Hathaway is discussed by way of illustration to highlight the fact that good corporate governance is essentially a question of managerial attitude and goes often beyond regulatory fiats.

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Working Papers | 2000

Wheat Economy of India: A Study Of The Growth, Development and International Trade Prospects

John Mellor, Zhang-Yue Zhou, and Vasant P. Gandhi

India is now the second largest producer of wheat in the world even though it is only the seventh largest in land area. It produces about 70 million tons of wheat per year or about 12 per cent of the world production. Being second largest in population, it is also second largest in wheat consumption, after China, with a huge and growing wheat demand. What is the nature of the wheat economy of India? How has wheat production increased in India? Will it be able to keep pace with consumption growth? What are the prospects and the market environment for international trade? This paper seeks to explore and examine these issues. Analysis indicates that depending on the rate and nature of economic growth, a 4 to 5 per cent annual rate of growth in the demand for wheat is likely in the near future, given the population growth and the income elasticity of demand. Wheat production may be expected to grow at about 2 to 3 per cent per year considering the various constraints. The outcome will depend substantially on the rate and nature of economic development in India. Good performance in economic development will lead to a deficit whereas slow economic development will lead to a surplus. Promoting rapid economic development which includes the poor and particularly the rural poor will lead to significant growth in demand.

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Working Papers | 2000

Resourcefulness: A Proximal Conceptualisation of Entrepreneurial Behaviour

Kumar E Sendil and Misra Sasi B

This paper highlights the confusions surrounding prevailing conceptualizations of entrepreneur/entrepreneurship that have limited our understanding and predictability of the phenomenon. An alternative conceptualisation viewed as Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness that integrates cognitive as well as motivational aspects and focuses on entrepreneurial behaviour is proposed. The model is deemed proximal rather than distal in nature.

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Working Papers | 2000

Semiotic Analysis

Kaushal Geetika

The present study is an application of the principles of semiotic analysis to the content and the expression of the advertisement of Horlicks produced in 1994. The study derived a framework for semiotic analysis, which included, observing the traits of focal character, the technical aspects, surroundings and the background. On the basis of this framework, the meaning of the advertisement (as emerging from cultural stereotyping by Indian audience) was understood. It was concluded that the advertisement appealed only to traditional Indian housewives.

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Working Papers | 2000

Emotional Intelligence

Dholakia Jigisha

We, as individuals, would have often felt that there is something much more than our 'traditional intellect' or IQ, which opens the golden gates of success. This paper has attempted to answer as to what is this 'something'. It is the 'intelligence of the heart' or EQ-"knowing how you and others feel and what to do about it". An understanding of the components of Emotional Intelligence enables us to appreciate the importance of our feelings. By managing our feelings and taking charge of our lives, we can integrate our intelligence (IQ) and our emotions (EQ) to provide ourselves with directions. The paper then goes on to include some Research Findings of various studies done on EI, thereby bringing home the advantages of high Emotional Intelligence.

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Working Papers | 2000

Theoretical and Policy Making Contributions of Research on Agricultural Economics: A Success or Failure or Neither?

Desai B M

This paper discusses following five issues by briefly considering the historical context of agriculture, innate biological nature of production process in agriculture, and initial conditions that agriculture inherited at the time of Independence in 1947: (1) Strengths and weaknesses of major research in agricultural economics, (2) Strengths and weaknesses of agriculture, (3) Impact on the political will of India to develop agriculture more rapidly, (4) Changes required in research in and policies for agriculture and those in other major branches of economics for more rapid sustainable development of agriculture, and (5) A brief epilogue on the title of the paper.

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