(1) JAIPURIA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, LUCKNOW LIBRARY DEPARTMENT CURRENT AWARENESS BULLETIN, JUNE 2010 CONTENTS PAGE Nos. Current Contents of Periodicals 1-20 Book Review 21-27 CURRENT CONTENTS OF PERIODICALS AMITY BUSINESS REVIEW 10(1) 2009 Sl. No. Title / Author Page No. 1045 Foreign direct investment in India – trends and determinants / O.S. Deol1-8 1046 Mobile business technology and business proliferation of banks – a futuristic approach / K.V.M. Varambally & P.S. Aithal 9-25 1047 Gap analysis : a case study on unmet service expectation from a quality brand leading to brand deterioration / Nilanjana Sinha 26 - 39 1048 The use of non-monetary incentives as a motivational tool : a study in public sector banks / Deepti Sinha & Sachin Sinha 40-48 1049 A study of customer delight in the Indian banking sector based on Kano’s model of product quality / Sathya Swaroop Debasish & Sarmistha Sarma 49-56 1050 The new world of the WTO multilaterial trade regime / Rajinder Kaur & Jagteshwar Singh Sohi 57-74
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JAIPURIA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, LUCKNOW
LIBRARY DEPARTMENT
CURRENT AWARENESS BULLETIN, JUNE 2010
CONTENTS PAGE Nos.
Current Contents of Periodicals 1-20 Book Review 21-27
CURRENT CONTENTS OF PERIODICALS
AMITY BUSINESS REVIEW
10(1) 2009
Sl. No. Title / Author Page No.
1045 Foreign direct investment in India – trends and determinants / O.S. Deol 1-8
1046 Mobile business technology and business proliferation of banks – a futuristic approach / K.V.M. Varambally & P.S. Aithal 9-25
1047 Gap analysis : a case study on unmet service expectation from a quality
brand leading to brand deterioration / Nilanjana Sinha 26 - 39
1048 The use of non-monetary incentives as a motivational tool : a study in public sector banks / Deepti Sinha & Sachin Sinha 40-48
1049 A study of customer delight in the Indian banking sector based on
Kano’s model of product quality / Sathya Swaroop Debasish & Sarmistha Sarma 49-56
1050 The new world of the WTO multilaterial trade regime / Rajinder Kaur
& Jagteshwar Singh Sohi 57-74
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1051 Identifying Indian industry’s supply chain potential and transformation requirements a study of India’s best-in-breed, industry average vis-à-vis
laggards / Sudhanshu Joshi 75-86
1052 Electronic clearing service in Indian banks / Mukesh Mathur 87-91
ANVESHA
2(2) 2009 Sl. No. Title / Author Page No.
1053 A methodological comparison between the design process of a minor program at the FHNW versus a design process of a diploma course in Kaluga, Russia / Erich Buerkler 1-8
1054 Benefit segmenting small passenger car market: a micro analysis of
NCR / Mukesh Chandra Jain, Rahul Chandra, Sushil Kr. Dixit 9-15
1055 Capacity utilization in SSI units / G.V. Jagapathi Rao 16-25
1056 Changing role and impact of private equity investments in India / Smita Shukla, Anil Kothari 26-36
1057 Contextual approach to technology transfer / D. Ghose 37-46
1058 Effects of age on prevalence of stress / Vinita Sinha 47-53
1059 Satisfaction survey on HRIS in various industries / Archana Si ngh, Prajakta Pawar 54-61
1060 Socio-economic impacts of self-help groups on rural women: Findings from Orissa and Jharkhand states of India / Debadutta Panda 62-74
1061 Strategic analysis on relationship between managerial effectives and conflict management styles / D. Sudharani Ravindran, Hari Sundar G. Ram 75-84
BA N K I N G F I N A N C E
23(5) 2010
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Sl. No. Title / Author Page No.
1062 Role of capital market in small economies : the case of three nations in Central Asia / A. Vinayagamoorthy and K. Munnusamy 5-11
1063 Bailout package – an incomplete chapter / Rohit Bansal, Vipin Mittal and Shiwani Pruthi 12-15
1064 Performance budgeting in Govt. organizations – an overview / G. Vijaya Bharathi / P. Harinatha Reddy & P. Saritha 16-21
1065 Proposed changes in commercial taxes under West Bengal budget 2010-11 / Saurav Chandra 22-23
1066 Lack of level playing field in urban cooperation banks (with reference to U.P.) / D.K. Kulshrestha and Surabhi Srivastava 24-25
DECISION
36(3) 2009 Sl. No. Title/Author Page No.
1067 Interstate water disputes in the Colorado basin in Western United States / Nilanjan Ghosh 23-37
1068 Economic rationality in joint forest management : a Saga of the Bankura
(North) division, West Bengal / Sudeep Budhaditya Deb 39-61
1069 Development and conservation in three protected areas in East Africa and India : does tourism lead to a synthesis? / Emit Uddhammar & Nilanjan Ghosh 63-81
1070 Trade and the environment: implications for climate change / Kakali
Kukhopadhyay 83-102
1071 Environment friendly life styles: a dialogue with ancient India / C. Panduranga Bhatta 103-120
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1072 Bioprospecting: promoting and regulating access to genetic resources and benefit sharing / Shamama Afreen & Biju Paul Abraham 121-158
F I N A N C E I N D I A
XXIV (1) 2010 Sl. No. Title/Author Page No.
1073 Union budget 2010 suffering from major flaws / J.D. Agarwal 1-5
1074 Union budget 2010-2011 / Pranab Mukherjee 7-36
1075 Indian economy : general review 2009-10 / Ministry of Finance, GOI 37-64
1076 Market imperfections and the pricing of currency pictures / Janchung Wang 65-84
1077 Movement of sensex : domestic and international factors / Rajnarayan Gupta 85-96
1078 Integration vs segmentation in the global equities markets / Tulin Sener & Pinar Evrim Mandaci 97-107
1079 Locus of control, investment knowledge and behaviour of retail investors / R. Shanmugham & K. Ramya 109-118
1080 Current account determinants of India’s balance of payments : an analysis / Asim Nirmala Devi 119-129
F O R T U N E
6(2) 2009 Sl. No. Title / Author Page No.
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1081 Future prospective of Indian automobiles with special reference to
two-wheeler and motor cycle segment / S. Senthil Kumar, R. Mathivanan, A. Mahadevan & S. Saravanakumar 1-18
1082 Effect of advertising on enhancing brand personality and consumer buying decisions: a case study of Vodafone / Shruti Jain and Kriti Swarup 19-35
1083 Day of week effect : empirical analysis of National Stock Exchange / Nitin Tanted, Dhanashree Nagar, Sukhjeet Matharu and S.R. Barik 37-45
1084 Strategic brand management of international fashion retailers / Anil Mishra 47-61
1085 Empirical study of factors for retention in ITES industry / Swati Agrawal and Sajeevan Rao 63-76
1086 Integration of India’s economy with the world / Shantanu Krishna 77-104
1088 Employee engagement through persuasive internal communication : a study of Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd.
/ Suniti Chandiok and R.K. Sharma 137-152
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
MAY 2010
Sl. No. Title/Author Page No
1089 The sustainability imperative David A. Lubin and Daniel C. Esty 42-50
1090 How to keep your top talent / Jean Martin and Conrad Schmidt 54-61
1091 The leaders we need now / Tamara J. Erickson 62-66
1092 Mentoring millennials / Jeanne C. Meister and Karie Willyerd 68-72
1093 When you’ve got to cut costs – now / Kevin P. Coyne, Shawn T. Coyne and Edward J. Coyne, Sr. 74-82
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1094 How to stop customers from fixating on price / Marco Bertini
and Luc Wathieu 84-91
1095 Beating the odds when you launch a new venture / Clark G. Gilbert and Matthew J. Eyring 92-98
1096 The battle for female talent in emerging markets / Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Ripa Rashid 101-106
1097 Google’s CEO on the enduring lessons of a quirky IPO / Eric Schmidt 108-112
HR MAGAZINE
MAY 2010 Sl. No. Title/Author Page No
1098 Worker punctuality improves slightly / Kathy Gurchiek 24 1099 Health reform helps nursing mothers, employees bracing for
future nursing needs / Rita Zeidner 27
1100 Breaking bad news, Unethical boss, injured telecommuter / Liz Petersen 31 1101 Raising engagement / Andrienne Fox 35-40
1102 From Tech Side to People Side : An industrial engineer took on
human resource duties, quickly finding success and a new career to love / Veronica Flores Scarborough 46-48
1103 Become a Master of expertise and credibility : Weight the value of the most common graduate degrees that HR professionals obtain / Eric Krell 53-63
1104 The online universe of human resource studies : Weigh the benefits – and demands – of virual education / Kathryn Tyler 64-72
1105 Ramping Up Onboarding : Effective employee onboarding often begins with a click / Jennifer Taylor Arnold 75-78
1106 Keeping disability payments in Check : Monitor – and question, if necessary – the impairment levels that doctors calculate for injured workers / David Tobenkin 81-85
1107 Looking under the SAAS Model’s Hood : Common myths about software-as-a-service around cost, ease of implementation and demands on information technology departments / Bill Roberts 87-90
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INDIAN MANAGEMENT
49(5) 2010 Sl. No. Title / Author Page No.
1108 An order of change / Kalpana Pathak 14-18
1109 Building the next-generation business leader / Garth Saloner 20-22
1110 Who is afraid of foreign educational institutions? / B. Bhattacharyya 24-30
1111 Communication is about how differently you tell your story 32-34
1114 Core incompetence: ignore and perish / Subir Sen 78-84
1115 The dragon rises again / Ivan Tselichtchev 86-90
1116 The HR locker / Kanika Datta 92-95
1117 We want to be the absolute leader here / Sanjay K Sharma 96-98
1118 Master your trade / AG Krishnamurthy 99-105
1119 Funding social enterprises / Grace Segran 106-109
1120 Who leads the networking world? / Shellie Karabel 110-113
1121 Money for value / Sayantani Kar 114-117
1122 Smart security for a smarter planet / Gaurav Agarwal 118-121
1123 Overseas call / Ravee Iyer 122-124
1124 The laggard’s lock /Anand Kuria (with Nitin Borwankar) 125-128
INDIAN MANAGEMENT
49(6) 2010
Sl. No. Title / Author Page No.
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1125 How training jump-starts employee performance / Nishitha Langer
& Amit Mehra 14-18
1126 Man Management : How human capital metrics can predict organizational performance / Vijay Gopal 20-24
1127 Back on track : Even though the job scenario has become buyant, companies
are particular about what they want / Kalpana Pathak 28-32
1128 Getting talent on the right track : The role of the management is to define performance, delivery and leadership behaviours, and to ensure that the leadership sticks to it / Krish Shanker 34-38
1129 General Electric 2.0 : GE India’s new president & CEO, John Flannery,
plans to resurrect the company’s fortunes by localizing operations / Bhupesh Bhandari 58-64
1130 The case of behavioural strategy / Dan Lovallo and Oilver sibony 65-73 1131 Companies need continuous changes – not episodic breakthroughs’
/ C K Prahalad 74-81
1132 Fast moving food business / Bhupesh Bhandari 82-85 1133 Wicked problems and soft solutions / N Viswanadham and
Sowmya Vedula 86-90
1134 The rise of global students 91-96
INDIAN MANAGEMENT STUDIES JOURNAL
14(1) 2010 Sl. No. Title/Author Page No.
1135 Emerging Issues in Human resource management / Neera Chopra & M. Altaf Khan 1-16
1136 Performance of book building equity issues in India / Fulbag Singh & Swinder Singh 17-30 1137 Shareholding pattern of private sector Indian companies : a study
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from 2001-05 /Arindam Gupta & S. Joarder (G. Dastidar) 31-52
1138 Marketing of services : a study of public sector banks and foreign banks / Amrinder Kaur 53-68
1139 Managerial perspective of diversification in Co-operative banks of Punjab / Parneet Kaur, Rajeev Kansal & Manjit Singh 69-80
1140 Special economic zones : Indian experience / Dharminder Singh 81-96 1141 Impact of Union Budgets on Indian Stock Market / Gurcharan Singh &
Salony Kansal 97-108
1142 A study of job satisfaction of women executives / Vandana Maini 109-126
IRDA JOURNAL
7 (4) 2010 Sl. No. Title / Author Page No.
1143 Need for variety in product / C P Udayachandran 10-13
1144 Beyond designing new insurance covers? / G V Rao 14-16
1145 Insuring your pet / Avinash Singaraju 17-20
1146 Way forward ? / Rakesh Khandelwal 21-25
1147 Driving product design / J D Moorthy 26-28
1148 Room for innovation / YRC Bharadwaj 29-33
JOURNAL OF MARKETING & COMMUNICATION
5(3) 2010 Sl. No. Title / Author Page No.
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1149 An empirical test of brand extension of IMC effectiveness / Joseph
Eric Massey 4-11
1150 Measurement of brand equity of brand India / Pratik C. Patel 12-15
1151 Celebrity endorsement in India: emerging trends and challenges / Supriyo Patra and Saroj K. Datta 16-23
1152 The demise and subsequent spiritual resurgence of celebrity
brands: an empirical study / Kisholoy Roy 24-29
1153 International marketing communication in mobile phone industry P. Palanivelu and D. Sureshkumar 30-36
1154 Mystery shopping with reference to durable goods: a Hyderabad
experience / M. Anil Ramesh 37-45
1155 Celebrating the spirit of entrepreneurship and its role in international business / S.S. Vernekar and K. Venkatasubramanian 46-50
1156 Emotionomics: leveraging emotions for business success / Dan Hill 51
LBS Journal of Management & Research
VII (1&2) 2009 Sl. No. Title / Author Page No.
1157 The leadership challenge / Jyotiraditya Scindia 3 – 5
1158 Role of corporate leadership in Nation building / Sunil Bharti Mittal 6 – 11
1159 Understanding value creation : the shareholder value perspective / Latha Chari and R.P. Mohanty 12 – 26
1160 Performance appraisal of personnel in Oriental Insurance Co. Ltd. : A study of regional offices in Punjab and Haryana / Shagun Ahuja,
Charanjeev Singh and R.K. Sharma 27-43
1161 Factors influencing choice of a life insurance company / Ajay Suneja and Kriti Sharma 44-56
1162 Activity based costing : strategic implications for Indian companies / G.L. Sharma and P.K. Gupta 57-64
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1163 Creating sustainable advantage in Indian services sector / Kamalji Sahay 65-68
1164 An approach paper for competence-based diversification with
ECGC as discussion anchor / K.C. Mishra 69-73
MANAGEMENT AND LABOUR STUDIES
35(1) 2010 Sl. No. Title/Author Page No.
1165 Compliance cost burden of individual income-tax assesses in India : an empirical study / Jaspal Singh & Poonam Sharma 7-24
1166 Human resource practices in Indian organizations : an empirical study / Leenu Narang & Lakhwinder Singh 25-34
1167 Effect of consumer demographic attributes on store choice behaviour in food and grocery retailing – an empirical analysis 35-58
1168 Study on stress levels in organizations and their impact on employees’ behaviour / P.S. Swaminathan & S. Rajkumar 59-71
MAIMT – JURNAL OF IT & MANAGEMENT
3 (2) 2009 - 2010 Sl. No. Title/Author Page No.
1169 Study of critical factors for ERP (Enterprise Resource planning) in MEs in Indian context / Shubham Goswami, Prof. S S Sarangdevot 1-16
1170 Specialized Identification, Mitigation and Avoidance Strategies for Software risks in incremental model of software development /
Basit Shahzad, Ilhsan Ullah, Naveed Khan 17-31
1171 Export performance of SEZs and EOUs : A comparative Analysiz
1191 A study of customer delight in the Indian banking sector based
on Kano’s model of product quality / Sathya Swaroop Debasish & Sarmistha Sarma 26-41
1192 Demographics and differential cadres and its influences on organizational ethics: a study among bank personnel in Kochi / Hari Sundar. G & Prashob Jacob 42-55
1193 The concept of unique intrinsic nature and its implications for human and organizational development / M.S. Srinivasan 56-64
1194 Relationship between emotional intelligence and performance of employees in corporate sector / A.K. Mohapatra 65-79
1195 360 Degree feedback: tool for leadership development / Swati Agarwal 80-89
1197 Portfolio theory and performance analysis / Anandeep Mandal 101-103 P R A J N A N
38 (4) 2010
Sl. No. Title / Author Page No.
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1198 A comparative study of reserve adequacy in Nigeria and the Gambia
using multinomial logit regression model / Sam Guobadia 223-235
1199 Impact of employer branding strategies on employer attractiveness : a study of management student’s perception towards the insurance sector / Som Aditya Juyal and Sameeksha Uniyal 237-252
1200 Scaling the financial sustainability of SHG-Bank linkage programme of micro financing in an underdeveloped region / A P Pati 253-267
S u G y a a n
1(II) 2009
Sl. No. Title/Author Page No.
1201 An empirieal study on emotional intelligence for professional college students in India / Shamira Malekar & R.P. Mohanty 3 -20
1202 Understanding the effect of pester power on purchase
behavior : an Indian study / Bhayyalakshmi Venkatesh & Suresh Ghai 21-33
1203 Banking orientation and employees’ satisfaction – through service quality lens / L. Shankari 34-48
1204 Snapshot of structural equation modeling / Sanjit Kumar Roy 49-53
1205 Quality of services in call centers : an assessment using SERVQUAL
method / Anil Kumar & S.F. Chandrashekar 54-62
1206 IFRS: a road to harmonization / CA V.K. Mahipal 63-68
1207 Business intelligence techniques for identifying profitable customers in banks / S. Kumar Chandar 69-76
1208 Workplace Dynamics : a study of office politics / Sofia
Jasmeen, Sreelakshmi Shanker and T. Krishna Kumar 77-87 SCMS Journal of Indian Management
VI (IV) 2009
Sl. No. Title/Author Page No.
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1209 “Dutch Disease” and Indian Trade Policy / Kishore G. Kulkarni, Brijesh P.,
and Arvind Kumar Jha 005-030
1210 Businesses and Global warming interface: Carbon credit / Dharmesh S. Raval 031-040 1211 Technology transfer: Biotechnology industry / Hesamedin Madani and Reza Rdafar 041-047
1212 Awareness and adaptability Economic value addition / Satish R. and Rau S.S. 048-057 1213 Computing practices: Going green / Kumar Chandar S 058-064
1214 Students and employers: Perceptual Chasm / Rajasekaran B. and Rajasing S 065-076
1215 Clinical and Contract research: potential / Pankaj M. Madhani 077-088
1216 Wings wider above global economic crisis / Maruti Rao N and Iftikkhar M. Naikwadi 089-098
1217 Word of expertise to solve SCM issues / Satyendra Kumar Sharma and Anil Bhat 099-105
1218 Global competitiveness: Iranian SME / Seyed Mozaffar Mirbargkar 106-116
1219 Financial services and system / Asha E. Thomas 117-118
1220 Financial Institutions and Markets / Sudheendran M 119-120
1221 Cases in Corporate Finance / Filomina P. George 121-122
1222 Sales Force Management / Deepa Pillai 123-124
1223 System Forensics / Anand Sasikumar 125-126
1224 Leadership / Jitha G. Nair 127-129
1225 English for Business Communication 130-131
SCMS Journal of Indian Management
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1226 Kudumbashree: Microcredit Alternative / Thomas Isaac T.M. 5-19
1227 Leadership and Vision: Evolving strategies / Kandy Dayaram 20-28
1228 Swine Flue on retail market handling with care / Fazlollah Kazemi and Malihe Esmaeli 29-33
1229 Decision Making: Equity Investment / Bharathi N 34-43
1230 Public Private Partnership: Indian Economy / Omdeep Gupta and Nibedita Biswas 44-53
1231 3P Framework: Rural marketing in India / Ajith Paninchukunnath 54-67
1232 Compatibility: Between culture and change / Monica Shrivastava and Sumita Dave 68-75
1233 Stress level: Assessment and alleviation / Sowmya K.R. 76-83
1234 Weibull deterioration rate: Inventory models / Sudhri Kumar Sahu, Manoj Kumar Meher and Gobind Chandra Panda 84-90
1235 Socio-economic impact: Microfinancing of self help groups / Jothi V.N. 91-103
1236 FII flows to India: Economic indicators / Rajkumar and Hariom Gupta 104-116
1237 Strategic marketing / Marianne Simon 117-118
1238 Visual merchandising / Vilas Nair 119-120
1239 Investments / Mini Kuzhuvelil 121-122
1240 Management information systems / Praveen K 123-124
1241 Public relations: Principles and practices / Unnikrishnan B 125-126
1242 Information technology for management / Kumar Chandar S 127-128
TRAINING + DEVELOPMENT
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64(3) 2010 Sl. No. Title/Author Page No.
1243 Aging agencies risk workforce shortages / Alexandra Bradley 16-17
1244 Ready or not, guys: here they come / Ann Pace 18
1245 Transformation begins at the top / Dean Smith 20
1248 Disappearing act: the vanishing corporate classroom / Pat Galagan 29-31
1249 Seven cures to skipping the needs assessment / Natalia Muller and Vernon Roberts 32-34
1250 Be mor innovative / Tony Bingham and Pat Galagan 36-41
1251 The secret of great leaders / Mark Miller 42-45
1252 Leadership role models earn trust and profits / Paul Harris 46-50
1253 Those who lead, mentor / Lois J. Zachary and Lory A. Fischier 52-57
1254 Project leadership and the art of managing relationships / Barbara Anderson 58-63
1255 Metrics matters / Allison Rossett 64-69
1256 Giving one pause / Nance Guilmartin 72-73
1257 Collaborating with subject matter experts / Nathan T. Eckel 76-77
TRAINING + DEVELOPMENT
64(4) 2010
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1258 What’s Up, What If, and what’s next with HPI? Rita Bailey 14
1259 Moving into a new frontier. What is the “new frontier” for learning
Professionals? M.J. Hall 16
1260 Taking inventory of Myers-Briggs / Juana Llorens 18-19
1261 Reauthorization of the workforce investment act: is there hope? / Michael Ferraro 20
1262 Trickle – down engagement / Aparna Nancherla 22
1263 Connecting government to improve it / Dean Smith 24
1264 On their best behaviour / Aparna Nancherla 28
1265 Designing virtual immersive environments / Karl Kapp and Tony O’Driscoll 30-32
1266 If the group activity food or poison in a multicultural classroom?
/ Wei-Wen Chang 34-37
1267 The 9-vector view of human performance / Maria Darby 38-40
1268 Talk me through it : The next level of performance management / Jeffrey Russell and Lind Russel 42-48
1269 Under reaction : lessons from Ft. Hood / Bruce Roselle 50-52
1270 Evidence-based training methods : towards a professional level
of practice / Paula Ketter 54-58
1271 Having their backs : improving managers’ skills in developing others / Preston “Tim” Brown 60-64
1272 Expanding the role of succession planning / Robert Kleinsorge 66-68
1273 Taking training to the edge / Mall Gilley 104-105
1274 Developing one-to-one training programs / Roger Buckley and Jim Caple 108
TRAINING + DEVELOPMENT
64(5) 2010
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Sl. No. Title/Author Page No.
1275 Managers: The Forgotten Training partner / Barbara Carnes 16 1276 Career pipeline bears pipe dreams for women / Aparna Nancherla 18-19
1277 Focus on Training in Washington / Jennifer Homer 20
1278 Answering for Bias in the workplace / Eileen McKeown 22
1279 Military goes to war for endangered species to protect training / Pat Galagan 24
1280 Don’t discount the motivating power of the underdog / Aparna Nancherla 26
1281 Ready or Not? / Pat Galagan 29-31
1282 Speaking Up: 10 Tips for making C-Level presentation / Kathy Reiffenstein 33-35
1283 Whole brain thinking: Ignore It at your peril / Ann Herrmann-Nehdi 36-41
1284 Brain break: Understanding the influence of brain functions or
organizational effectiveness / Ken Buch 42-47
1285 Maintenance: The Forgotten Step / Mark Simon 48-51 1286 Sustaining organizational learning / Warren Wilhelm 52-56
1287 Value over profit: customer service models in the Training
Unit / Robert Cooperman 58-62
1288 Business networking can be taught / William C. Byham 64-68
THE ALTERNATIVE
IX(1) 2010 Sl. No. Title / Author Page No.
1289 Economic value added system as a performance management tool for pharma players in Gujarat / Sandip K. Bhatt & Dharmendra S. Mistry 5-13
1290 Leveraging through brand extension: some reflections / Ramesh Sardar 14-25
1291 Business process reengineering – a rethinking and radical redesign of
business process to achieve contemporary measure of performance 26-34
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1292 Gaining prominence of branded furniture retailing (a study with reference
to Hyderabad City) / V. Vijay Durga Prasad 35-55
1293 An analysis of challenges in managing human capital and employee empowerment as a tool for effective human resource management / Vijit Chaturvedi 56-67
1294 Deming’s philosophy: It’s relevance for service sector industries
/ Rajat Mehrotra & Sudhakar Jain 68-82
1295 Understanding cross border costs and benefits in mergers and acquisitions / Sumanta Dutta 83-93
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BOOK REVIEW
1. Title : THE BIG SHORT Inside the doomsday machine
Author : Michael Lewis Publisher : ALLEN LANE One more book on the financial meltdown of 2008 – why on earth should anyone read it?
Here’s the answer: because Michael Lewis has written it. But caveats. Lewis is not the most erudite writer on financial matters. There are many others who understand the subject better than he does. Second, Lewis has not written the most comprehensive book on the subject either.
2. Title : YOUR MONEY MILESTONES Author : Moshe A. Milevsky Publisher : FT Press The title marks one believe this could be a how-to manual on financial planning. Its slow
start can be disappointing, but you will soon realize it looks at the psychology behind key financial decisions in life, backed by amazing research. For example, the author advocates the principle of ‘consumption smoothing’ to have a uniform consumption stream over our life by borrowing when necessary, typically early in life, and save when necessary, later in life.
3. Title : 13 BANKERS : THE WALL STREET TAKEOVER AND THE NEXT FINANCIAL MELTDOWN Author : Simson Johnson, James Kwak Publisher : RANDOM HOUSE
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Recuperating from the financial crisis of 2008, Wall Street is yet again on the brink of a potential economic meltdown as six big banks threaten to release havoc with their risky practices. Johnson and Kwak provide a historical overview of America’s financial ideology, spanning over 100 years, to reveal the flaws that plague Wall Street and the ways to mitigate dangers.
4. Title : REWORK: CHANGE THE WAY YOU WORK FOREVER Author : Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Publisher : CROWN BUSINESS Built on the principle that only destruction can lead to creation, the authors of this book
preface their arguments by discarding all conventional wisdom about the ways to progress in business. They provide a radical modus operandi and advocate that successes in a business cycle are more educative than failures. Replete with practical ideas, and a sharp focus on productive values, the book picks up from the where the authors’ previous 37Signals left off, laying out a concrete pathway for finishing projects and getting the job done right.
5. Title : THE SURPRISING SOLUTION : CREATING POSSIBILITY IN A SWIFT AND SEVERE WORLD Author : Bruce Piasecki Publisher : SOURCEBOOKS Sustainable development is like socialism; a hat that has lost its shape since it has been
worn by too many heads, said political scientist C.M. Joad. With innovation getting mixed with sustainable development, it becomes a strong force that the corporate world struggles to control.
6. Title : THE INVISIBLE HANDS : HEDGE FUNDS OFF THE RECORD: RETHINKING REAL MONEY; Author : Steven Dronby Publisher : WILEY The book focuses on the financial experts who successfully managed hedge funds and
effectively followed risk-management techniques during the recent financial crisis. Author Steven Dronby provides a guide for financial security by showcasing how some of the most proficient fund managers approach money management, and how they sailed through market crashes. The book analyses some fundamental issues about investment and portfolio constructions in the hedge fund business in the post-crisis world.
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7. Title : NEGOTIATING PEACE IN DEEPLY DIVIDED SOCIETIES : A SET OF SIMULATIONS Author : Radha Kumar Publisher : SAGE It is a violent society that we inhabit in on this planet – mass murders, wars, ethnic
violence, rapes and other atrocities, destruction of heritage and places of worships, communal clashes – the list is endless. So is the pursuit for peace, and such strong is this quest that, in modern times, many universities and institutions globally have started offering specialized training programmes and courses in the study of conflicts, as well as ways and means to resolve these. The volume by Radha Kumar is an initiative in this direction.
8. Title : GLOBALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Author : Ashwini Deshpande Publisher : Oxford The focus of this volume is on new thinking and new research by young scholars on
issues ranging from trade regimes and exchange rate policies; financial fragility, currently convertibility and monetary policy; labour and employment; issues in cross-national growth comparisons; lessons from the Chinese growth experience, etc.
The layout of the text begins with an introduction by the editor followed by an essay on the shrinking policy space available to the developing countries, so much so that their sovereignty as regards economic policy is vanishing, owing to Washington domination. This is followed by 13 essays, each about a specific country and a specific issue.
9. Title : LOOKING EAST TO LOOK WEST Author : Sunanda K. Datta-Ray Publisher : PENGUIN VIKING It is essential to understand Singapor’s ties with India over the years to give a perspective
to India’s ‘Look East’ policy. And for this, understanding Lee Kuan Yew, the first prime minister of the island republic, is crucial. After all, for Lee, Asia would be “submerged” if India did not “emerge”. Here, Sundand K. Datta-Ray’s LOOKING EAS TO LOOK WEST gains relevance. It gives interesting and deep insight into the relations between the two countries and elaborates how Lee’s Mission India laid the seeds of the current Singapore. The author has interviewed Lee extensively for the book.
10. Title : CHINA AND INDIA : PROSPECTS FOR PEACE Author : Jonathan Holslag Publisher : COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
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China and India are the two major pillars of the global market economy and potential trade super powers. These Asian giants, housing two-fifth of the world’s population, adopted economic reforms almost at the time, though at varied pace. But these reforms changed the relationship between the two, notes Jonathan Holslag, research head at the Brussels Institute of Contemporary China studies. The transformation from closed, socialist economies to liberal-market economies also transformed India and China from enemies to “trading states”.
11. Title : FROM WORKPLACE TO PLAYSPACE Author : Pamela Meyer Publisher : WILEY To initiate innovative thinking and practices, it is crucial to change the perception of
classifying innovation as non-work. Suggesting a change, Pamela Meyer plays up the concept of playspaces, which exist within an organisation’s workplace, but escape the official system of performance. Arguing against the notion of work and play being mutually exclusive, Meyer cites various examples of firms who have successfully integrated the playspace approach into their business models.
12. Title : SUPER CORP : VANGUARD COMPANIES CREATE INNOVATION, PROFITS, GROWTH AND SOCIAL GOOD Author : Rosabeth Moss Kanter Publisher : VIVA BOOKS Supercorp focuses on the idea of doing well by doing good. A Harvard professor who
specializes on strategy, innovation and leadership, Rosabeth Moss Kanter says vanguard organizations are those that are at the forefront of globalization, change and success even in times of adversities such as the financial crisis of 2008.
The driving forces behind this success are organizational vision and values, and their use to determine decision making, behaviour, culture of innovation that seeks ideas from all sources, treatment of employees as volunteers and letting them manage projects, and action on social and environmental issues through contribution of capabilities rather than mere donations.
The book is based on three years of research that involved 350 interviews in 20 countries. It is narrated through the examples of companies that have exhibited commendable leadership – IBM and P&G from America, Cemex from Mexico, Omron Corporation from Japan and Banco Real from Brazil.
13. Title : CAPITAL IDEAS Author : Jeffrey M. Chwieroth Publisher : Princeton University
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Last year, following the global economic crisis, Oliver Blanchard, chief economist and head of research at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) questioned the orthodoxy of a low inflation target of 2-3 per cent that central banks in developed economies take as the Holy Grain. In a paper, ‘Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy’. Co-written with his colleagues Giovanni Dell’ Ariccia and Paolo Mauro, he also said government intervention in the economy may not be a bad thing either, nor should the current account deficit – the import export gap should be less than 2 per cent of the GDP.
14. Title : DISASTER-PROOF YOUR CAREER : TACTICS TO SURVIVE, THRIVE AND KEEP AHEAD IN THE WORKPLACE Author : Patrick Forsyth Publisher : KOGAN PAGE While most career management guides culminate at a point where the individual lands
the right job, this book focuses primarily on what comes next. Patrick Forsyth provides a step-by-step approach to securing your existing job by fine-tuning your expertise to match challenges that arise periodically. Emphasising the importance of performance appraisals and the changing work environment in an organization, the author tells us how an employee can gain rewards and validation by remaining career fit.
15. Title : ECONOMY, DEMOCRACY AND THE STATE : THE INDIAN EXPERIENCE Author : Ramashray Roy Publisher : SAGE Ramashray Roy, a political philosopher, has been associated with several scholarly
bodies. He discusses, in this book, the centrality now achieved by economic forces in India since independence, and how it has affected the government, as well as the nature and direction of economic growth. The constitution, which was framed after the British left, can be summarized (as has been done by Granville Austin, quotes Roy) into three important strands, they being: protecting and enhancing national unity and integrity; establishing institutions of democracy; and fostering a social revolution to better the lot of the masses of Indians.
16. Title : PUBLIC RELATIONS : PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES Author : Iqbal S. Sachdeva Publisher : Oxford University Press The practice of PR is now becoming more professional than ever. Capturing the nuances
of a powerful profession such as PR and offering it as a semi-text book is a difficult task.
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However, Iqbal S. Sachdeva – a practicing PR professional with several decades of experience and also former secretary of the Public Relations Society of India (PRSI), the industry mouthpiece – has been able to achieve this.
This book, though a first of its kind, is academic in nature, aimed more at students than practicing professionals, as it provides cues and templates for action by PR professionals on how to write a press release, the chairman’s speech, etc.
17. Title : BEYOND DEALMAKING Author : Meanie Billings - Yun Publisher : WILEY This book shows the key to winning unbeatable, long-term results in today’s complex
economic landscape is to negotiate solid long term relationships.
18. Title : TOWARD THE NEXT ECONOMICS AND OTHER ESSAYS Author : Peter F. Drucker Publisher : HARVARD BUSINESS PRESS Why would anyone re-release in 2010 a collection of papers written during 1972-80? Why
at all would anyone buy it? You would, if you are smart. Peter Drucker’s publishers seems to have figured this out; hence this timely release.
A lot has changed from the 1970s when management literature was at the fringes of mainstream policy literature.
The volume has 12 essays. They reflect on Drucker’s thoughts on a slew of subjects – the new emerging economic paradigm, the environment, technology, the role of international firms in developing countries, management practices, corporate governance, interaction between science and industry, Japanese management practices, and (interestingly) the role of art.
19. Title : POWERING THE FUTURE : A SCIENTIST’S GUIDE TO ENERGY INDEPENDENCE Author : DANIEL B. BOTKIN Publisher : FT PRESS The current energy crisis that threatens global sustainability has received due attention
from academics and policy makers. It has set off a series debates on the viability of alternate energy resources and reducing the use of fossil fuels. Daniel Botkin provides an extensive road
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map to energy independence. He also talks about the challenges that lie ahead. Botkin analyses the scientifically - and economically - realisable prospects of using solar, wind and hydroelectric power, among others. He also probes the loopholes in the current energy distribution system.
20. Title : THE INVENTION OF ENTERPRISE Author : David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr & William J. Baumol Publisher : PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS Tracking the evolution of hundreds of entrepreneurship models and documenting their
short- and long – term ramifications, THE INVENTION OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP is well timed.
The preface of the book states that “the practical utilization of inventions and their indispensable contribution to economic growth will be below the levels they might have otherwise achieved without the intervention of entrepreneurs”. Starting on this note, the book attempts to explore entrepreneurship since antiquity, seeking commonalities and providing an insight into the processes that drive and sustain entrepreneurship.
The book probes whether entrepreneurship was shaped by history or vice versa. And this carefully crafted study has a whole new perspective of both history and entrepreneurship. It brings out the role played by several forms of entrepreneurship – redistributive, productive, corrosive, replicative and more – in the rise and fall of civilizations, economies and nations.
21. Title : HOW TO PLAY THE GAME AT THE TOP : THE 9 RULES FOR CONSUMMATE CORPORATE EFFECTIVENESS Author : Fenorris Pearson Publisher : AGATE Perhaps one of the most pressing and never fully – answered questions employees reflect
upon is how to advance in career and what would set this in motion. Having worked with corporations such as Dell and Motorola, Fenorris Pearson lays down nine steps to be successful in today’s challenging corporate environment. The book discloses techniques – learnt through trial and error – to outsmart your peers. The trick is to profit from the lessons gained through the author’s varied corporate encounters, and use them to climb up the ladder.
