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Relationship Between Self-Awareness and Transformational Leadership: A Study in IT Industry
-- Vivekananda Suri and V M Prasad
The paper adds to the increasing body of knowledge in the sphere of transformational leadership.
Although there has been a lot of research in the area of leadership, especially in transformational leadership
and emotional intelligence, there has been only limited research in the area of self-awareness (as a
component of emotional intelligence) and transformational leadership (as constructed by Alimo-Metcalfe and
Alban-Metcalfe, 2005). The paper empirically establishes the relationship between self-awareness
and transformational leadership, and the sample was drawn from software product development
organizations. It also indicates that there exists a relationship between managerial hierarchy and
transformational leadership.
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Turnover Intentions: Perspectives of IT Professionals in Kerala
-- George A P and Joji Alex N
The study attempts to understand the importance of Internal Career Anchors (ICA) and External
Career Opportunities (ECO) when determining employee Intention to Quit (turnover intentions) (ITQ) from
an organization. The respondents were Information Technology
(IT) professionals working in the state of Kerala. The analysis revealed negative relationship between the degree of ECO and ITQ (_0.49) and
positive relationship between ICA and ITQ (0.16). Only two ICAs, namely, job security and
technical-functional competence were negative and significant. No demographic variable, except years of experience in
the organization, showed significant effect on ITQ. The results indicate that the IT companies in Kerala
should try and give special emphasis to ICA dimensions of the individuals and offer ECO in line with
employee characteristics to curb employee turnover.
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Role of Stress and Locus of Control
in Job Satisfaction Among Middle Managers
-- Ashok Pratap Singh and Ashish Kumar Dubey
The present study was conducted on 210 managers from different private sector organizations to
examine the role of stress (role stress) and locus of control on job satisfaction. In this study, stress and
locus of control were treated as predictor variables, whereas satisfaction was used as a criterion variable.
For measurement of role stress, Occupational Stress Index (OSI) (Srivastava and Singh, 1981) was used;
for measurement of locus of control, Social Reaction Inventory (Rotter, 1966) was used; and for
measurement of job satisfaction, S-D Employees' Inventory (Pestonjee, 1979) was used. The results of
correlation indicated that role overload was significantly negatively correlated to satisfaction with management and
total satisfaction; role ambiguity was significantly negatively correlated to satisfaction with management;
and role conflict was significantly negatively correlated to satisfaction with management and total
satisfaction. Overall stress was significantly negatively correlated to satisfaction with management and total
satisfaction. Locus of control was significantly negatively correlated to satisfaction with management and
total satisfaction. The results of step-wise multiple regression analysis showed that total stress contributed
7.4% variance in explaining satisfaction with management, and role conflict contributed 7.1% variance
in explaining total satisfaction.
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Psychological Wellbeing of Students with Type A
and Type B Personalities
-- Esha Mahajan and Renu Rastogi
The paper aims to assess the significant differences in the Psychological Wellbeing (PWB) of
students with Type A and Type B personalities. The sample comprised 100 undergraduate students. Following
the data collection, significant differences regarding PWB and Personality Types were examined by using
t-test. The findings revealed insignificant differences in the PWB of students with Type A and Type
B personalities. Insignificant differences were also found in the various dimensions of PWB, viz.,
positive relations with others, personal growth, purpose in life and
self-acceptance, among the students with Type A and Type B personalities, whereas, significant
differences were observed in the two dimensions of PWB, viz., autonomy and environmental mastery among
the students with Type A and Type B personalities.
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