The advent of Third Party Administrators (TPAs) is expected to play an important role in health insurance market in ensuring better services to policyholders. In addition, their presence is expected to address the cost and quality issues of the vast private healthcare providers in India....

Higher education has multiple goals of character building for social development, skill building for national development and teacher competency building for education development. Higher education today faces many challenges some of these include balancing between quantitative and qualitative...

At a time of runaway inflation, when nothing seems to contain the pace of its gallop, it might be pertinent to look around for an investment which may shield the value of the investor’s money against the devaluing onslaught of inflation gone amuck. In the west common stocks have often been...

Research shows that electronic communication has affected written language significantly. The increasing importance of use of Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) in organizations has multiple implications for use of written language at workplace. This study focuses on the influence of gender...

‘Project-Linkage’, is a new program initiated by Government of Gujarat with an objective of linking rural development with industrial development. Specifically, the programme attempts to build linkages which will facilitate absorption of local people as unskilled and semi-skilled workers in...

In this study an attempt was made to find out the critical influence of ego-strength on the job performance-job satisfaction relationship. The E-S Scale (Ego-Strength Scale) and the S-D Employee’s Inventory were administered on a sample of 200 blue-collar workers of a state owned spinning mill...

The uncapacitated facility location problem is one of choosing sites among a set of candidates in which facilities can be located, so that the demands of a given set of clients are satisfied at minimum costs. Applications of neighborhood search methods to this problem have not been reported in...

Agglomeration economies have been analyzed in the literature as drivers of economic growth, as these contribute to productivity enhancement. The primary objective of this paper is to ascertain the existence of agglomeration economies, and to examine the extent to which these have contributed to...

We are entering the twenty first century where the only thing we can be certain about is the prevalence of uncertainty. In such an environment characterised by uncertainty, the manager has to be a change agent by being creative and effective in his managerial role. Creativity and effectiveness...

Educational policy-making has been motivated in independent India by a concern for equity and the belief that education is an instrument for reducing social inequalities. However, in spite of impressive achievements in school enrollments and access to higher education, the phenomena of...