Personality Dimensions as a correlate of Work Engagement: A Study of working women in Indore city

Abstract Work engagement is a vital HR variable for all organizations to sail through in this cut-throat era of competition as engaged employees are brand representatives and help the organization deliver superior performance to gain competitive advantage. Different personality dimensions relate to satisfaction in a particular task (Judge, Heller & Mount, 2002), predict job performance Read More …

Redefining Indian Exports and Imports: A study on the Post BRICS Scenario

Abstract Since late 1990s, the economies of developed nations, especially G7 group of nations started to collapse, followed by failure of long-term capital management, where the Russian economic crisis has started to affect the entire Asian continent. The need for stronger groups was felt from developing economies to counter the western economic sovereignty which resulted Read More …

Paradoxical Performance – Indian Power Sector in need of interventions

Abstract The Indian Power Sector responded positively to the policy reforms initiated in 1991 in the economic and industrial sectoral domains. The opening up of the power sector witnessed immediate interest and caused almost a gold rush kind of situation. Though the enthusiastic entry happened in tranches that are separated by settling period, overall the Read More …

Transformation of NMIMS – A Case Study on making of an Institution

Institutions are an outcome of a leader’s dream, vision and strategy. In the context of knowledge organizations like educational institutions, which involve talent management, its intangibility, values and culture define the institution. These characteristics differentiate it from all other forms of organization. For example, the culture of collegiality and consensus building helps in making a Read More …

The Long and the Short of It: Do Public and Private Firms Invest Differently?

Abstract Using data from U.S. corporate tax returns, which provide a sample representative of the universe of U.S. corporations, we investigate the differential investment propensities of public and private firms. Re-weighting the data to generate observationally comparable sets of public and private firms, we find robust evidence that public firms invest more overall, particularly in Read More …

Validity of Altman’s “Z” Score Model in Predicting Financial Distress of Pharmaceutical Companies

Abstract Prediction of financial distress has been a major concern for all companies since the financial crisis of 2008. Financial distress is detrimental to big and small organisations alike. It is costly because it creates a tendency for firms to do things that are harmful to debt holders and non financial stakeholders, impairing access to Read More …