A Need Based Approach for Technical Education in India
Raghunadhan T, A H Sequeira
Technical education in the country has been tuned for a great amount of acceleration and is galloping towards a target in tune with the International level. On spring of such rapid progress, the concept of quality of education requires more attention. Corporatizations has emerged as a supplementary measure for complementing the governmental initiatives, this introduced a new arena of profit oriented education. This necessitated an imperative need for the evaluation of the situation and to assess the fact that whether the out turn from these educational institutions are absorbed by the economy for the effective utilization and/or for the research needs of the country. The results throw light to the reality of ever widening gap between the supply and the demand, polarizing phenomena of educated Professional unemployment. A probable solution for confronting this challenge is by fine tuning the professional education system to a result and research oriented one with active participation of different sectors of the economy.
About Efficiency of Agribusiness Organizations
Hrabrin Bachev
Unprecedented development in the theory of economic organizations in past decades has brought about to significant evolution in understanding of the essence and efficiency of agribusiness organizations. Nevertheless, the traditional approach for assessing efficiency of economic organization is (through “technical or financial efficiency” of production factors, “productivity of employed resources”) is widely used. Consequently, it cannot be explained: why there are so many organizations performing with great variation in efficiency for a long period of time. This paper incorporates achievements of interdisciplinary New Institutional Economics and suggests a framework for assessing the efficiency of organizations for agribusiness and innovation. According to this new approach we have to study firm and farm as a governing rather than as production structure; assess comparative efficiency of alternative market, contract, internal, and hybrid modes of governance; take into account transaction costs and institutional, behavioral, dimensional, technological and natural factors; enrich (reformulate) criteria of economic efficiency of business organization; and better determine effective horizontal and vertical boundaries of business organizations. Specificity in the area of agri-business research and innovations is also clarified. Effective boundaries of different governing modes are assessed, and needs and forms for public intervention in agrarian research and innovation are clarified.
Key Words: Modes of governance, Agribusiness organizations, Agrarian innovations
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Achieving Balance in Work-Family Conflict through the Influences of Family Supportive HRM: A Conceptual Framework for the Organizations of Bangladesh
Nadia Newaz Rimi
The inclusion of a female in the workforce has brought the issue of work-family conflict (WFC) within the research paradigm. Most studies on WFC have been conducted on Western countries. Recently researchers of Asian developing countries are also showing their interest in studying WFC, its predictors and outcomes. However, In Bangladesh, study on WFC is very limited. The present paper reviews extant literatures on WFC to give a broader view on WFC through accumulating the scattered research findings so that employers and employees of Bangladesh can have a better idea of addressing WFC with possible strategies. The paper contributes to the existing literatures by proposing a new dimension of research area: managing WFC through family supportive Human Resource Management (HRM) among organizations in Bangladesh. A proposed Family Supportive HRM (FSHRM) Model is presented and related hypotheses are formed to support WFC policy making for the organizations of Bangladesh. Future empirical study on this area is thereby sought from the local researchers to incorporate local characteristics in addressing WFC. Thus, WFC from the developing country perspective is added.
Key Words Work-Family Conflict, family supportive HRM, Developing country, Bangladesh
Crucial Aspects of History and Evolution of Banking System in India with Timeline
Sagar Suresh Dhole
Globally, the history of banking has much in common, as it evolved with the moneylenders accepting deposits and issuing receipts in their place. The intension of this paper is to bring out some vital, fascinating facts based on Indian central banking enquiry committee, which describes that history and evolution of the Indian banking system that was far beyond the medieval time. The minute vital details of the history and evolution of banking sector in India have been consolidated in this paper with the timeline to present the comprehensive depiction of the evolution of the banking sector. It has been revealed that India‟s US$ 1.25 trillion banking industry is the backbone of the economy and continuing flourishing with a strong foothold. The sector emerged to be resilient during the global financial turmoil and proved its mettle when the developed economies were shaking during the year of 2008. Capturing major events of the Indian banking industry, this paper expects to add value to the knowledge of banking history and abet the readers to understand the evolution of the banking industry of a nation which is justifiably looking forward to be one of the largest economy in the
The Influence of Marital Status and Age on the Perception of Fast Food Consumer in an Emerging Market
Madeline Melkis, Mohd Faiz Hilmi , Yanti Mustapha
Fast food restaurants, due to its fast and quality services, attract consumers. But do all consumers have similar perception on services and quality related variables? This study examines the influence of marital status and age on product, price, service quality, environment and satisfaction on consumers patronizing fast food restaurants. The result shows that there is a significant difference in the perception of service quality of fast food restaurant between single and married consumers. In addition to that, customers from different age group have a significant difference in perception of satisfaction and price of the food bought from the fast food restaurant.
Keywords Fast food restaurant, Satisfaction, Malaysia
Paper type: Empirical Paper