| COVER
STORY Crowdcasting
: Innovation Challenges for Future Managers
- - Y Chandra Sekhar Rising
competition and rapid technological changes have meant that it is time the companies
looked beyond their four walls for strategies to sustain and survive. Against
this backdrop, the idea of crowdcasting could come handy for companies.
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FINANCE
Economic
Value Added: A Critical Analysis
- - Ashok Kumar Panigrahi The
Economic Value Added (EVA) is the difference between the firm's after-tax return
on capital and its cost of capital. It has received a good amount of interest
in recent years.
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PERSPECTIVE
Ethical
Dilemma : Managerial View
- - Mita Vora Ethical
dilemma is a situation where a person's thought process, while selecting an object
or an alternative, includes a series of outcomes and becomes very confusing.
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PERSPECTIVE
Training
and Development at Birla Cellulosic
- - Samir Gopalan
It
is our goal to develop employee skills, knowledge and abilities which will improve
overall organizational performance.
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PERSPECTIVE
BFI
: A Cocktail of Career Opportunities
- - Manishankar Chakraborty BFI
(Postgraduate diploma in Business, Finance and Insurance) offers a candidate the
ability to think laterally and find novel ways to use his past experience. Studies
have proved that industry czars have realized their ability to contribute to a
bigger cause, once they take fresh stock of the situation while going for short-term
courses.
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BUSINESS
ENVIRONMENT WTO's
SPS Agreement : Towards Free Trade Regime
- - N Kalai Selvan
The
WTO's SPS Agreement contains a set of substantive and procedural provisions aimed
at protecting the health and life of human beings, animals and plants simultaneously
preventing unjustifiable barriers to trade.
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MANAGEMENT
The
Dilemma of being a Crisis Manager : Manage the Crisis Within
- - Sharad Kamra
Many
a time it so happens that managers are caught in a dilemma while managing certain
situations where they have to presume the role of a crisis manager. The dilemma
is: How to communicate an unpleasant information to the staff; whether or not
to communicate at all. This article is weaved around such instances which most
of the crisis managers have to go through.
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MANAGEMENT
Decision-making
: Dos and Don'ts
- - Sibha Prasad Parti
The
success and failure in management depends upon the decision-making and discriminative
power of a manager. The manager, to be a good decision-maker, should have sound
functional knowledge more than modern management theories, which put more stress
on emotional intelligence.
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CORPORATE
GOALS Corporate
Social Responsibility : A New Slogan
- - Akhilesh Panday
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a business-driven response, which
covers social, economical and environmental concerns. It is a continually evolving
process adopted in various markets.
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CAREER
DEVELOPMENT Role
of Women in Workplace
- - Bharati Kumar
Though
women's participation in the economic development of our country is much more
than what the statistics may reveal, their journey into the business world was
not that easy. This article highlights the role of women at workplace and their
career development. It also attempts to identify various hurdles that may come
in the way of women while climbing the corporate ladder.
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LEADERSHIP
Servant
Leadership : Influence, Not Force, Matters
- - N Janardhan Rao
The
philosophy of servant leadership is the foundation for great companies and it
continues to create a quiet revolution in the workplace.
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CHANGE
MANAGEMENT Challenges
in Change Management
- - Akesh K
Whenever
there is a change in the workplace, employees tend to show reluctance to take
any step, as lot of uncertainty prevails in that process. Change is a continuous
process and it happens at various stages. It will be more successful if the lessons
learnt elsewhere are applied in the workplace from time to time.
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INDUSTRY
Telecom
Industry : Growth Prospects
- - Vijay Kumar Mishra and P Hanumantha Rao
Indian telecom story is a reflection of new India. Telecom revolution has
taken place in India since the enactment of New Telecom Policy 1999. It is a significant
element of economic infrastructure of the country. Due to the initiatives taken
by the government, a new era has emerged in the Indian telecom services. This
article briefly tries to look at the different phases of telecom growth, the target
set and the means to achieve the same.
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INDUSTRY
Global
Aviation Industry : Sky is the Limit
- - Jaydeep Mukherjee Perhaps,
no other industry was affected by the devastating events of September 11, 2001,
as badly as the airlines industry. However, it is experiencing the strongest resurgence
by rising its fares. Planes are once again full and the airline industry is making
profits.
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INNOVATION
New
Product Development
- - A Naga Ratna
To
be successful in today's dynamic, fast paced and hi-tech economic environment,
organizations are coming up with varied products to gain and sustain competitive
advantage in the marketplace. With the increased consumer awareness about the
products in the Indian market, organizations should have a clear understanding
of the consumer perceptions. They should increase the value of the product being
introduced which helps for an innovative product launch.
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INNOVATION
Hybrid
Intelligent System
- - Pankaj Dashore
Hybrid
Intelligent System (HIS) is the awareness in the academic communities that combined
and integrated approaches are necessary for solving problems which remained unsolved
in the artificial intelligence system.
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BOOK
REVIEW Writing
for Academic Success : A Postgraduate Guide
- - CM Madtha
Graduates
experience difficulties in academic writing and communication. The author suggests
a broad range of management strategies to cope up with these difficulties and
improve their quality of writing.
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