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Working Papers | 1985

Research Methods for Human Resources Management

Verma Pramod and Sivakumar A B

The objective of this paper is to highlight research methods which are relevant to the understanding of personnel decision making. These methods have been briefly discussed and illustrated by specific studies published in journals/documents. It is suggested that personnel research at the organizational level will facilitate decision making in utilizing and developing human resources.

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Working Papers | 1985

Talent and the Pioneering-Innovating Motive

Khandwalla P N

The paper argues that the wish to pioneer and innovate is essential if talented persons are to give their best to society. The paper reports the relationships between the pioneering-innovating and five other motives, namely, growth, effectiveness, conscientiousness, status, and safety, for a sample of 750 Indian professionals, and relationships between these motives and environmental characteristic, long term career choices, fluency, blockage, initiative, etc., for smaller samples of professionals. The paper also presents some intriguing data on the differences in correlations between the six motives under conditions of high and low conflict among motives. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of the findings for the nurturance of talent.

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Working Papers | 1985

Innovation in Elementary Education in India

Agrawal B B, Maru Rushikesh, and Subramanian Ashok K

This paper reviews major innovations in primary education in India. The innovations are organized from most simple to the most complex. At the end, the authors have attempted to summarize lesson from the experiences of various innovative projects.

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Working Papers | 1985

Investment Opportunities and Gordons Stock Valuation Model-A Note

Ragunathan V and Srinivasan G

The traditional stock valuation model incorporating growth opportunities, fails to recognise the investment opportunities constraint. As a result the conventional model fails to provide an optimum reinvestment ratio and instead provides merely a limit for the same. This note recognises the opportunities constraint explicitly and in the process provides an expression for optimal reinvestment ratio.

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Working Papers | 1985

Support Systems for Agricultural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Desai G M

Poor agricultural growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is sometimes attributed to the absence of major technological breakthrough. It must be recognized that there is enough scope to raise agricultural production under the prevailing technological environment by removing many deficiencies in the agricultural output marketing and input supply systems. The importance of this strategy cannot be overemphasized as it will improve the agricultural performance in the short-run and facilitate the spread of new technologies when they become available. This brief paper is based on the experiences of Asian countries in tackling the deficiencies in support systems for agricultural development. The three major arguments are as follows. First, an objective assessment of the slack in the existing production system may be crucially important in generating meaningful policy responses. Second, it seems useful to distinguish between marketing systems for food vis-à-vis commercial crops like cotton, tobacco, coffee and cocoa. Although deficiencies in all these systems may be similar, their origins and solutions could be quite different. Third, the questions of how to remove various deficiencies in policies seems much larger and far more complex than just of government's direct involvement in these systems and "faulty" price policies.

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Working Papers | 1985

People Participation in Irrigation Projects: Changing Patterns of Himachal Pradesh in India

Shingi P M

The concept of peoples' participation in national economic development has gained renewed significance in recent years. This paper, using a case method of analysis, studies the charging patterns of peoples' participation in irrigation projects of the Himalayan ranges in India and identifies factors which provide or retard participatory behaviour. Three case studies include (1) a century-old community irrigation system showing signs of impending breakdown; (2) a locally managed irrigation system which was handed over to the government for its maintenance and operation; and (3) an irrigation system sponsored by the government to encourage collective ownership and local participation. Through limited in scope, these case studies indicate that medium or long term participation depends on (a) the degree of dependence on the gains from the activity in which participation is required; (b) the degree of dependence on the group effort to achieve those gains; (c) the degree of certainty that the gains would be achieved; (d) the degree of certainty that the common sources would be managed properly; (e) the degree of certainty that the gains would be distributed equitably; (f) the degree of perceived or likely presence of the exploitative element; and (g) the degree of certainty that return would be commensurate with risk and investment, i.e. the opportunity cost of time and efforts.

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Working Papers | 1985

Issues in the Development of the Most Disadvantaged Groups in South Asia

Bhatt Anil

The paper discusses the efforts made in the development of the most disadvantaged groups (MDGs) in South Asia. It delineates four broad factors-the social political context of deprivation, the role of the central levels of political and administrative leadership, management and administration of development of the MDG and technology and research-as impeding the development of MDGs. It argues that a major policy thrust which provides differential services through a separate and differentiated administrative set up which involves the MDG as active and participant group rather than recipient group is called for if the efforts for the development of the MDG is to show any substantial results. This paper was presented as a key paper at the expert group meeting on the cross-national project on the development of the MDG held at Asian Pacific Development Centre, Kuala Lumpur on 29-31, May, 2985.

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Working Papers | 1985

Discrimination Against Female Workers: An Exploratory Note

Verma Pramod and Thakore Tejal

The objective of this paper is to present a brief review of the literature pertaining to the problem of discrimination. It also provides some data on the implementation of Equal Remuneration Act in Gujarat. Finally, an outline of an action research is suggested.

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Working Papers | 1985

India Trade with South and South East Asia: Scope for Further Cooperation

Wadhva Charan D

This paper briefly examines the current status of India's trade relations with two developing sub-regions of Asia, namely, South Asia and Southeast Asia. South Asia covers seven countries who have recently loosely grouped themselves under "South Asian Regional Cooperation" (SARC) and are likely to formally launch "South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation" (SAARC) in December 1985. These countries are : Bangladesh, Bhutan , India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Southeast Asia covers five countries belonging to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), namely, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. This paper explores the progress and prospects for "South-South" cooperation in trade and trade-related areas. For analysing trade relations, we have employed two analytical measures, namely, (I) Kojima indices of trade intensity; and (ii) Wadhva index of trade reciprocity. This paper indicates that good scope for further cooperation in trade and trade related areas exists both between India and other South Asian Countries as well as between India and Southeast Asian Countries. However, considering the geopolitical and structural economic realities, we have recommended that the multilateral approach being followed under "SARC" (where trade cooperation is not being currently considered) should be supplemented by carefully formulated moves/further moves for bilateral cooperation in trade and trade-related matters. We have also recommended taking strong diplomatic initiatives by India to strengthen trade cooperation with the fastest growing ASEAN region especially through bilateral moves. We have also pleaded for strengthening trade cooperation between India and a Newly Industrializing Country of Southeast Asia, namely, South Korea.

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Working Papers | 1985

A Lower Bound on Fleet-Size in Variable-Schedule Fleet-Size Problem

Ankolekar Suresh and Patel Nitin R

This paper discusses an approach to compute a lower bound on fleet-size in variable-schedule fleet-size problem. The lower bound is computed in two stages. In stage one, a fixed-schedule fleet-size problem is solved for a relaxed set of trips where each trips is assumed to be departing at its latest permissible departure time and yet arrive at earliest arrival time resulting in reduced elapsed time. In second stage the lower bound is augmented by the minimum additional fleet-size required to make each trip individually restorable to its original elapsed time.

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