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Working Papers | 1985

The PI Motive: A Base for Development

Khandwalla P N

The paper presents the relevance, conceptual foundations, and operational measure of an important motive of professionals, and one that may be critical for socio-economic transformation. It is labelled the pioneering-innovating (PI) motive. The strength of the PI motive is assessed vis-a-vis five other motives for a sample of 750 professionals and professionals-in-the-making. Five hypotheses concerning the PI motive are tested. Four are supported while one receives mixed support. Several implications of the findings are discussed.

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Working Papers | 1985

How Fairly is the Fair-Sex Treated? An Agenda for Research on Managerial Women in a Male-Dominated Organization

Deepti Bhatnagar

Though Indian women have been joining managerial ranks in growing numbers, little research has been conducted to investigate their problems in the male-dominated world of work. Based on a review of literature, this paper suggests workplace integration, non-availability of mentors, problems of token status, conflict between sex-roles stereotypes and work roles, sexuality and the workplace, evaluation and attribution of women's performance, problems of playing the leader and differential treatment in personnel mattes as some of the issues which need immediate attention of researchers.

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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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