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Working Papers | 1975

Information Systems for Control of Development Activities: A Conceptual Framework

Camillus J C, Asopa V N, and Kaul Mohan

The paper reviews the district environment and emphasizes the importance of information and control systems for better planning and implementation of developmental programmes. A conceptual framework for the design of information systems for the control of developmental activities at the district level of government is proposed. The framework developed recognizes the special attributes of developmental activities which demand a departure from the traditional planning and control frameworks employed in commercial situations. A three-dimensional matrix for identifying and organizing the universe of information required for control of developmental activities is proposed. This matrix recognizes the importance of developmental objectives and requires an identification of programmes intended to serve each objective or set of objectives. It further specifies the parameters in relation to each programme which are required for decision making and takes into account the implications of the functions and hierarchical levels of officials in terms of their information needs.

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Working Papers | 1975

Stewart Maturity Scale Manual

T. V. Rao

This manual describes a scoring system for TAT stories and other verbal fantasy material to assess the Psychosocial Development of any individual. There are four stages of development parallel to those outlined by Freud and Erickson. Practice stories accompanying this manual are available separately. Only trained psychologists familiar with TAT scoring systems can use the system described here after achieving the recommended level of reliability on practice stories. This system is useful to locate the maturity level (psychosocial, emotional etc) of any individual. Research results are available on youth and adult groups.

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Working Papers | 1975

Structure of Demand for India Exports of Selected Engineering Goods 1961-71 (Global)

Wadhva Charan D

Engineering goods have been a very important dynamic element in the changing structure of India's exports during the last decade. In this research project, we have empirically estimated price and income elasticities of demand for our exports of 48 selected engineering goods to the world market as a whole. This analysis of demand for exports of 48 selected engineering goods from India during the period 1961-71 confirms the hypothesis hat most of the engineering products hold a great potential for growth of exports in the coming years. This study would help the exporters and policy makers to understand the structure of demand for our exports of engineering goods and to formulate a strategy for the growth of such exports during the coming years.

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Working Papers | 1975

Psychological and Organizational Factors in Successful Entrepreneurship: A Small Sample Survey

T. V. Rao, Rao K Dinker, and Chudgar Amita

This study on 16 small industry entrepreneurs (9 successful + 7 unsuccessful) focused on identifying some personal background attitudinal, organizational and managerial variables that discriminate the successful group from the unsuccessful group. Success in entrepreneurship was identified through the records of a financing agency and were later confirmed at the end of the interviews that success was associated with survival of the enterprise and profit making and thereby repayment of loans. Of the background variables studied no clear patterns emerged differentiating the successful from the unsuccessful on age, education, urban exposure, father's education, and type of industry. There was a trend towards more successful entrepreneurs coming from families with business background and starting the industry during a period of industrial activity. An examination of career decision information given by the entrepreneurs was found to support the propositions made by Rao (1974). However, the sequential stages in the development of the entrepreneurs did not emerge clearly. The two groups did not differ significantly on attitudinal dimensions like internal locus of control, adoption propensity, attitude to workers, interpersonal trust, consultation in decision making and compromise of value system, although trends in certain directions were observed. In terms of their organizational characteristics, successful entrepreneurs were found to score better on operations management, production function and finance function. They also showed tendencies to score better on several other organizational dimensions. More research in these directions with well defined criteria of success are likely to help identify potential entrepreneurs and design entrepreneurial development programmes.

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Working Papers | 1975

Cross Cultural Surveys and Interviewing

Pareek Udai and T. V. Rao

Survey and interviews are the most widely used methods in cross cultural research. Some basic questions about designing of surveys have been raised. A paradigm of interview as a form of communication has been proposed. The relevant factors in relation to the interviewer's background, questions asked, respondent's background, interview and its setting, questions understood, respondent motivation answer given and answer understood have been discussed in relation to the paradigm. This interviewing process has been discussed in details (purpose, preparation of the schedule, sequencing, questions and responses, structure and scaling). The other topics covered are treating data from interview, interviewer related factors, respondent related factors, cultural factors and authenticity of interviews. Selection and training of interviewers are also discussed.

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Working Papers | 1975

Research Relevant to Population Education: Survey from India

Pareek Udai and T. V. Rao

After discussing a general modular paradigm of population education consisting of curriculum building, system building and diffusion process, the relevant researches from behavioural sciences are reviewed. These researches relate to socio-economic status and religion, family structure variables, community and culture. Researches in the field of cognitive development, student attitudes and motivation, family life and family planning are also discussed. Studies on teacher attitude and their family planing behaviour, teaching methods, tribal education and diffusion process are included. Reviewing of these researches, the current status of population education and its future needs are suggested.

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Working Papers | 1975

Assessment of the Requirements of Seeds of High Yielding Varieties of Major Cereal Crops

Asopa V N

The paper aims at assessing the requirement of high yielding seeds of major cereal crops in 1985 and the corresponding requirement of foundation and breeder seeds. Five major cereal crops-wheat, paddy, maize, bajra and jowar are considered. The estimation model attempted to project area under High Yielding Varieties (HYV) in 1985 by fitting trends based on the extension of area under the HYV programme between 1965-66 and 1970-71. The seed demand was projected on the basis of the extrapolated area projections based on the trends fitted. The projected area was multiplied by the state specific seed rates which were kept constant. The area under HYV and hybrids of major cereal crops will go up from 28 million acres in 1969-70 to 121 million acres in 1985. About 71% of this area will be occupied by paddy and wheat, the remaining area being diverted to the production of maize, jowar, and bajra. According to these estimates, the total seed demand is likely to increase from 5.5 lakh tonnes in 1969-70 to about 18.6 lakh tonnes in 1985. If 50% of this demand is added as reserve stock for unforeseen eventualities, the total demand will move up to about 28 lakh tonnes. About 3.8 million acres will be required under certified seed production by 1985. The corresponding demand for foundation seed, which is derived from the demand for certified seed, works out to be 79,000 tonnes. About two lakh acres will be required to produce this quantity of foundation seed. The demand for breeder seed which is derived from the demand for foundation seed, is estimated to be 3,500 tonnes by 1985. Thus as compared with the present production facilities for foundation and breeder seeds, the future facilities will have to expand almost three times. In financial terms, the volume of business of certified seed will increase from Rs 100 crores to Rs 345.5 crores in future. The volume of business for foundation seed will increase from Rs 7.7 crores to Rs 22.1 crores. The financial values for breeder seed could not be estimated.

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Working Papers | 1975

Industrial Relations in Government: Dynamics and Key Issues

Verma Pramod and Mookherjee S

This paper attempts to review the dynamics of employee relation in government as it exists today in India. In recent past, India has witnessed a sizeable increase in its governmental workforce, a notable growth of trade unionism among civil servants and a substantial amount of industrial disputes in government. It is argued that economic dissatisfaction of the central government employees due to relatively low emoluments compared with non-government organization and a gradual fall in real income is the main source of conflict in government. Government employee as an individual is no different from a private employee in his hopes and aspirations for higher salary and better standard of living. So long as government as employer is unable to fulfil its employees' minimum economic need an overt employer-employee conflict is inevitable. It is suggested that employee unrest in government could be avoided by developing an effective dispute settlement machinery like Whitleyism in Great Britain, recognizing employee's right to form and join association according to one's own choice and changing legislation in favour of employees' current need. In so far as the central government is uncompromising in favour of the changing need of the employees and remains complacent with its traditional sovereignty attitude employee unrest will continue unabated.

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Working Papers | 1975

An Econometric Approach to Evolve Viable Cattle Development Financing Schemes

Misra P N and Srivastava Uma Kant

This paper attempts to a) arrive at estimates of marketed surplus of milk, b) to simplify the computational methods for pooling cross section and time series data, and c) to determine the terms of repayment of loans (particularly the number of years and the percentage of amount to be deducted from the sale proceeds). We believe that the findings will be useful to financial institutions in evolving cattle development schemes.

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Working Papers | 1975

Role Set Based Assessment Center Approach to Personnel Selection

T. V. Rao

This paper presents a role set based assessment center approach to personnel selection. According to this approach an assessment center should be established in any organization interested in personnel selection and appraisal on a continuing basis. The assessment center should reflect either in its members or in its methods experience from the members of the roleset of the facal position for which a candidate is being assessed. Experience of using this method in a training organization in their selection of faculty is described. Several techniques used in the process along with involvement of members from the role sets of faculty in this organization are described. The costs involved while establishing this system are very marginal in view of the systematization that takes place in appraisal and training value it has for members of the role set.

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