Emotional Intelligence as a Predictor of Job Satisfaction: A Study Amongst Faculty in India

-- S Samanvitha and P David Jawahar

Emotional intelligence at work has a great influence on the level of job satisfaction and in turn on work performance. This study aims at determining and establishing a relationship between strategic emotional intelligence and job satisfaction among faculty members in Arts and Science institutions. The study employs the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso’s Emotional Intelligence Test and Wong’s job satisfaction inventories to quantify emotional intelligence and job satisfaction levels respectively. Sample consists of 98 faculty members in Tamil Nadu, India, and various statistical tools have been used to interpret the data.

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The Impact of Age and Education on the Level of Satisfaction and Motivation
Among Employees

-- Tarak Paul

In today’s environment, organizations thrive and survive on human resources. Values, attitude, perception and behavior of employees, which form this resource, influence their performance. Therefore, it has become important to realize organizational and individual goals, which in turn depend on self-motivation and self-satisfaction. Satisfaction expresses the level of agreement between the expectation of a worker from his job and the reward that the job provides. The different demographic traits such as age, education, position, years in service and hours worked per week have significant impact on job satisfaction. The study aims to measure the level of satisfaction among employees and the impact of different parameters on the job satisfaction of employees. The different parameters used are general working conditions, pay and promotion potential, superior-subordinate relationships and skills and abilities.

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Talent Measure Sculpt for Effective Talent Management: A Practical Revise

-- R Santhoshkumar and N Rajasekar

This research paper examines the applicability of talent measure sculpts for effective talent management in automobile industries and IT sector with special reference to Krishnagiri district in Tamil Nadu, India. In the primary data collected from the 100 respondents from automobile industry and IT service sector using factor analysis, seven important factors: (1) creativity and innovation; (2) leadership; (3) teamwork; (4) interpersonal sensitivity; (5) personal motivation; (6) association; and (7) team spirit, which constitute talent were found. It was also found applying nonparametric Mann-Whitney test that there is no significant difference between the opinion of automobile industry and IT service sector employees with regard to a set of factors that constitutes talent management. This study helps the company to retain the present talented workforce and stop them from quitting the organization. Critical talent has been defined and identified covering all staff-level positions and suggestions have been proposed in line with company’s requirements and capabilities in order to select perfect and highly skilled employees for the organization.

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A Study of Human Resource Management in Textile Industry

-- A Subbiah, M Selvakumar and B Krishnaveni

The successful functioning of any industry is determined by the factors like men, material, money and market. Among all these factors, manpower assumes greater significance. Manpower is the life blood of any industry. Therefore, every effort should be taken on a priority basis to keep this factor for achieving the main objectives of the industry. The textile industry occupies a unique place in our country. It is the second largest employment generator after agriculture. The textile industry being labor-intensive, is a major contribution to the country’s economy with its vast potential for creation of employment opportunities in the agricultural and industrial sectors. Business organizations are made up of people and function through people. Textile industries are no exception to this. Hence, it is essential for every organization to adopt the human resource management practices in the administration. This paper also analyzes the human resource management in textile industry.

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