As in many other countries, India five year old credit rating industry has grown rapidly amidst persistent doubts about the quality of the rating service. This paper evaluates the ratings given by India leading credit rating agency, CRISIL. We find that CRISIL ratings are not only too liberal by...

Present study is an attempt to explore the interrelationship between job satisfaction areas and different factors of role stresses in EDP managers and system analysts from Public and Private computer orgnaisations. ‘ORS Scale’ and “Job Satisfaction Inventory’ were administered. The...

The purpose of the study is to (a) examine the degree of substitutability between labour and capital, (b) estimate returns to scale, (c) compute the factors’ marginal productivities and relative contribution to output and to (d) test the predictive ability of the estimated relationship. These...

This paper documents the existing systems, procedures and performance of regional passport offices in India. The system today is administered by rules and procedures. The average (response) time to obtain a passport by an applicant is 147 days as against a target time of 25 days. By systematic...

Prediction of exam performance from information about motivation and ability of students by Indian subjects always supported an adding-type rule. As this rule implies that motivation is equally effective with persons of low through high ability, it may be regarded as reflective of an idealistic...

The paper is based on the case study of an entrepreneur who has invested his career in developing a new product based on traditional knowledge. Using this case we highlight the issues faced by a small entrepreneur in the commercialization of traditional knowledge based technologies in...

This paper presents some preliminary results of an ongoing study in two West German Universities and the University of the Philippines which examines the comparative effectiveness of the case vs. lecture method of teaching. The specific areas in which the comparative effectiveness of the two...

Gender imbalance among various streams of professionals is a constant cause of concern to policy planners and institution builders. The situation becomes more serious when we notice that girls often perform much better academically at secondary school level and then there is a sharp decline in...

The discussion of the macropraxis of alienation in this paper is divided into three parts: • Part one is an examination of the relevant portions of the Constitutional vision which is the basis of the superstructure which Indian society has given to itself. • Part two is a general overview of...

Past research showed that Indian children average information about motivation and ability in prediction of performance. However, a multiplying-type rule develops from an adding-type rule in American children. The present research tested the hypothesis that integration rule depends upon age and...