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Working Papers | 1990

An EOQ Model Under Price Change Anticipation for A System with Insufficient Storage Capacity

Shah Nitin and Shah Y K

When a price change is announced in an inventory system, a one time decision has to be made to purchase a large quantity Q' before the price change becomes effective, to take advantage of current lower price. In this note, we consider a system having a limited storage capacity W<< Q', so that additional units are required to be stored in rented warehouse. Optimum value of Q' and corresponding gain are determined. The model is illustrated with an example.

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Working Papers | 1990

MOU: More Memorandum than Understanding

Murthy K R S

The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Government of India and public enterprises is the latest technique adopted to improve management of these enterprises. Will the MOU's improve the situation? Based on the experience so far, as also international experience with MOUs and management of large diversified corporations, this paper discusses why MOUs may not achieve the results expected and indicates the direction in which solutions should be sought.

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Working Papers | 1990

Leadership and Human Resource Management Styles of Senior and Top Level Managers

T. V. Rao, Selvan Tamil S, and Kumar G Arun

This paper reports in detail a Leadership Styles Questionnaire (LSQ) developed to measure the Benevolent, Critical and Developmental styles of manages. This questionnaire has two forms; one for self-assessment and the second for assessment by others (subordinates, boss and colleagues). This questionnaire is being used as a training instrument to help managers review and reflect about their own people management and leadership styles and beliefs underlying these. The instrument was used first on 74 senior managers to assess their own styles and the styles of their seniors. Subsequently it was used on 67 senior managers who were also assessed by their subordinates (n = 540). It was also administered on 96 top level managers who were assessed also by their subordinates (n = 871). In all the cases it was used as a training instrument. This paper presents the data available from all these groups and offers suggestions for using LSQ as a development tool in training programmes, counselling, appraisal and OD. The data indicate that the leadership styles of senior executives as well as top level managers is predominantly "Developmental". The data also suggest that Indian managers seem to be sensitive to the perceptions of their subordinates as there was a good degree of congruence between their perceptions and those of their subordinates. In cases where the managers were perceived as "critical" by their subordinates, the managers were found to be less sensitive to such perceptions. These were however, only a few in number. Detailed data are presented in this paper for use by those interested in using the LSQ.

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Working Papers | 1990

A Study of the Training Needs of IAS Officers (10-16 Years Group)

Joseph Jerome

The study has made an attempt to gain an insight into the training needs of IAS Officers in the 10-16 years category from their own point of view. Data for the study was generated from programme feedback reports, exploratory interviews and through Training Needs Case Studies of officers in the category.

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Working Papers | 1990

Computer Graphics, Peripheral Vision & Non Euclidian Geometry

Jayanth R. Varma

Computer graphics in Decision Support Systems is often confronted with the task of providing the decision maker with a visual picture of some object which is too large to fit on a computer screen unless the image is scaled down so drastically that much of the detail is lost. The viewer is then asked to work with a partial view of the object, and use a keyboard or a mouse to (a) scroll this image horizontally or vertically, or (b) zoom in or out, or (c) rotate the object. These techniques are strikingly similar to those that the human visual system uses to deal with a similar problem. One crucial difference is that of peripheral vision-the human eye while concentrating on a small part of the field of vision still retains a hazy view of the peripheral region preventing it from losing sight of the total picture. This paper argues that the lack of a similar peripheral vision is perhaps the single gravest deficiency in computer graphics today. It then goes on to develop a mapping technique which simulates this peripheral vision, and thereby makes computer graphics truly powerful and versatile. The paper analyses the distortions induced by such a mapping, and argues at length why these do not pose serious problems. The suggested mapping is closely related to non Euclidian geometry; this ties in with the fact known to psychologists for over fifty years that the perceptual geometry of human visions strongly non Euclidian. Thus, if one were to adapt the Turing test for artificial intelligence to computer vision, then non Euclidian geometry can be expected to play a key role in any attempt to satisfy that the test. Building on these ideas, the paper demonstrates that computer graphics has a great deal to lean from non Euclidian geometry, and that in turn computer graphics can contribute significantly to the intelligent application of non Euclidian geometryies to real life problems. What is needed is the willingness to set aside the shackles and shibboleths of Euclidian geometry.

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Working Papers | 1990

Review of Post-Graduate Research in Agriculture (1973-1984): Are We Building Appropriate Skills for Tomorrow

Gupta Ramesh, Simmons George B, and Shah Rekha N

Post Graduate Research (PGR) has been an important source of generating technological breakthrough in social as well as natural sciences. The skills for solving problem of 21st century have to be created now. We have reviewed all the abstracts of PGR reported to Haryana Agricultural University Journal of Abstracts of the period 1973-1984 (n = 1817). Five disciplines viz., Genetics and Plant Breeding (n = 242), Economics, Sociology and Extension (1229), and Agronomy (376) were selected for analyzing these abstracts from the point of view of area, method, purpose, commodity/crop etc. of the study, Despite various limitations of the data, several vital research gaps emerge. We have specifically focussed on the importance attached to the problem of rainfed/dry farming regions. Suggestions have been made for (a) making research on risky problems more attractive for students by modifying degree granting system and providing attractive fellowships, (b) periodically reviewing PGR so that corrective measures can be taken, (c) encourage research on research process itself, and linkage between on-station and on-farm research. Some other problems which need urgent attention are: crop-livestock interactions, institution building for common property resources as well as private resources under watershed development; problems of pastoralists rearing small and large ruminants, effects of stress fodder on post-drought performance of livestock; hand tools, conjunctive use of organic and inorganic fertilizer, breeding for low input environment as well as for grain and fodder quality and quantity; screening under inter or mixed crop environments for crops that are predominantly sown under such conditions; longitudinal research on ecological systems including watershed, household adjustment with risks in different agro-climatic zones etc.

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Working Papers | 1990

The Right to Resource: Present Knowledge Protocol of Its Extraction and Ethics of Collaboration in Extractions

Gupta Ramesh

Paper deals with the dilemma that arise in the mind of scholar using on the issue of local technical knowledge. How can academics extract sent by using knowledge produced by peasants and what are the ways if dealing with it are discussed in the paper.

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Working Papers | 1990

Lessons for Learners

Gupta Ramesh

How do we conceptualize the process of learning in public development organizations which are designed to deal with only articulated, aggregated and persistent demand from the clients. I have listed in this paper some lessons which have been culled from the experience of 'developmental deviants 'or' 'Organizational Insurgents'. Several propostions have been listed which point to the need for further research in collaboration with the administrators and development managers. Barriers to learning have been identified along with the ways by which learners can generate experiential knowledge. International aspects of learning have been given precedence over the individual aspects. It is argued that generating choices for actions both for poor and the development managers without creating capacity amongst them to exercise these choice will impair the learning abilities of both.

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Working Papers | 1990

Arbitration by a Bayesian Statistician and Bounded Rationality

Lahiri Somdeb

In this paper we formalize the framework of an arbitration game, to accommodate a large class of situations where public decisions are implemented in a noncooperative setting. We then present a method of computing the equilibrium strategies of the players under assumptions of bounded rationality, so that the solutions correspond to what is observed in any realization of an arbitration game.

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Working Papers | 1990

Reaching the Rural Poor Experience of Public Distribution System in India

Bapna S L

The Public Distribution System (PDS) accounts for about one-third of total subsidy expenditure of the Government of India and about three percent of the GNP. If managed efficiently, the PDS could be more effective in alleviating poverty and hunger. However, it did not receive as much attention of the researchers as was received by progrmmes on poverty alleviation which claim much less expenditure. In this paper, interface of the rural consumers with PDS channels is analysed. The extent of benefits derived by rural consumer under different typologies of PDS is examined. Evaluation of channels of PDS is done by using 'management by objectives' approach. It is found that strategy formulation in PDS is not worked out well and therefore, its cost of reaching the poor become very high. It is suggested that unless a targetting approach is adopted and strategy based on the needs of the target group is done, programme would remain very expensive. Alternatives of phasing out PDS and substituting it with food stamps and proper employment projects are suggested.

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