This paper proposes to state some new paradigms of Organizational Leadership which will facilitate the leaders a well as collective leadership of senior managers to respond to the flux and dramatic shifts occurring within the internal dynamics of the organization. An internal study of a part of...

This working paper deals with the problem of manpower requirement planning (MRP). A framework is elucidated for detailed MRP. The proposed framework is then applied to determine manpower requirements in 6 different industrial situations including both manufacturing as well as service organizations.

This paper, on the basis of some empirical evidence discusses some aspects of management applications and management training for municipal government. In particular it attempts to discuss the following questions: (1) What are the attitudes of the municipal officers towards modern management...

Globalisation in trade and investment through harmonisation of national laws, particularly dealing with intellectual property rights is one of the major impacts of GATT/WTO. The contribution of knowledge as a factor of production is being increasingly given central importance in economic...

In response to the business needs of faster, cheaper, and more varied modes of communication, the telecommunication sector in many countries has been undergoing rapid technological and structural changes over the past few years. Since the mid 80s, the telecommunication sector in India, too, has...

The paper presents the subject matter of macroeconomics and the developments that have taken place in macroeconomic theory and policy since the Keynesian theory of 1936. In particular, it highlights the problems in data measurement, describes the business cycles and the roles of stabilisation...

This paper hypothesises that the growth in trade union membership has been considerably influenced by the economic conditions of workers and the activities undertaken by the unions to protect or improve these conditions. While the former may be represented by such variables as the growth in...

Cities all over the world are growing rapidly and the manifestations of the Urban Crisis in a variety of areas, viz., environment, food, health, energy, landuse, are quire evident. Urban landuse patters are changing dramatically due to the pressure of population and the role of agriculture in...

Organisation development literature is replete with writings on how to improve organisational effectiveness. While this is useful, actions in the real world often formally involve multiplicity of organisations especially if one examines public delivery systems, public programmes and large...

Why do some development programmes perform better than others? This paper explores a neglected area in public management – the managerial and institutional innovations which influence the outcome of development programmes. The experience of six relatively successful and large programmes...