Organizational Behaviour

It is envisaged in the XI th Five year Plan of Government of India that the Spot and Future Prices of Commodities should be made available to the farming communities across the country to enable them to take rational and informed decision about cropping pattern and Marketing strategies to increase their Farm Income.

One major feature of ambidexterity literature is its focus on how organizational ambidexterity can be achieved for superior organizational outcomes. Extant literature by and large propose that organizational ambidexterity could be attained by adopting one of the two approaches i.e. structural or contextual. By doing so, studies see the organizational structure and organizational context as contradictory factors in achieving organizational ambidexterity, hence adopt a trade-off approach and vacillate the applicability of both structure and context simultaneously. Only few studies, if any, have looked into the organizational structure and organizational context in combination for organizational ambidexterity, leaving an integrated approach unexplored. This study, therefore, addresses such a prevailing gap and proposes that both structural and contextual approaches are complementary in attaining organizational ambidexterity. As a result, this study contributes to elucidating underlying misconceptions and extend the ambidexterity literature by presenting the structurally and contextually integrated approach towards organizational ambidexterity which will serve as a reference for future conceptual and empirical research.

The alternative work options play an important role in the public organizations in the macro level. These alternative work options of job sharing and job rotation for organization outcome of organizational commitment have been neglected in the human resource studies. As a result, it holds great promise for benefiting organization over time in term of returns. In this paper, we presented and discussed a conceptual framework intended to capture the current domain of new work structures that can be adaptable into public organizations. The proposed framework could guide future researchers to better understand and integrate the alternative work options into organizational work structures.

The current interest in numerous studies focuses on deliberating the knowledge about entrepreneurship in graduating students around the world. Even the eminent role of education in the field of entrepreneurship redeem with opportunities to gain knowledge, skills and career aspiration needed for business start-up or new venture but somehow Indian education system failed on implementation. The study reveals a significant impact on graduates’ business start-up. In this study, we examine the knowledge of entrepreneurship amongst the graduating student of India. Moreover, a descriptive survey has been provided using the Chi-Square test. Further, data were analyzed with the help of descriptive statistics and logistic regression. In addition to this, testing of hypothesis is also given. Moreover, also recommend the need of role in entrepreneurship from government and tertiary institutions in shaping the strategy to assist students to start their venture while in school and after graduation through the incubator program. Hence, encouragement to aspiration towards business start-up helps in developing society towards self-employment.

The extent of success by organization can be considered in their effectiveness and this would not achieve unless a proper structure. Informing organizational effectiveness and measuring its relationship with organizational structure as an affecting factor on organizational effectiveness, one can identify an ideal extent of structural elements relevant to organizational internal and external conditions. By revising and modifying such elements and by making structure effectiveness, one can accelerate moving toward aims and can increase organizational effectiveness. Present study evaluates the relationship between organizational structure and effectiveness in Kerman province Red Crescent. Research method is survey-type and questionnaire is the tool to gather data. Its population consists of managers and staff of Kerman province Red Crescent. The statistical sample included 189 managers and employees of the organizational and sampling method is an objective one. The studied variables include organizational effectiveness, organizational structure, concentration, formalization and complexity. The findings show that there is a relationship between organizational effectiveness and organizational structure. Such relations are as follow: the relationship between effectiveness and complexity is directly significant, it is adverse significant between effectiveness and concentration and it is directly significant between effectiveness and formalization.

Many small businesses in the United States, including barber salons face challenges in succeeding during the initial years of business formation and establishment. The factors responsible for the low survival rate of salons may include factors such as the limited training and education levels mandated by state certification requirements. The purpose of this multiple case study was to identify business strategies that successful barber salon owners use to overcome the business management and staffing challenges associated with a small pool of skilled barbers and the high turnover in a low wage profession. The theory of transformational leadership served as the foundation of the conceptual framework. The data collection included interviews of 3 successful barber salon owners who met the study participation eligibility criteria of licensed, registered, operating a salon business in the Indiana region for more than 5 years, and over the minimum age of 25 years. The principal themes emerging from the interview data analysis were salon leadership and managerial strategies. The data analysis also involved the triangulation of the primary research data against secondary data from the Small Business Administration and barber industry reports. The expertise and knowledge shared by the interviewees could serve the quest of barber salon businesses in the Indiana region to overcome the profitability and financial sustainability challenges of this industry. The study findings may potentially contribute to positive social change by improving the economic standing and welfare of barber salon owners and professionals in the community.

The main purpose of this study was to examine the influence of human resources on the implementation of strategies in commercial banks in Kenya. The focus groups were senior and middle-level managers of commercial banks in Kenya. A mixed research approach, which combined qualitative and quantitative methods, was adopted for this study. Specifically a correlation cross-sectional field data aimed at testing the research hypotheses was used. The researcher used proportionate stratified random sampling technique to obtain a sample of 200 managers. Questionnaires were used to collect data. The organized data from both the qualitative and quantitative sources were entered into the computer application package SPSS after which descriptive and inferential statistics were obtained. Descriptive statistics employed frequencies, percentages, means and standard deviations while inferential statistics employed Pearson (product moment) correlation coefficient and linear regression analysis. The study found a statistically significant relationship between human resources and strategy implementation at 0.05 confidence level. The study recommended that commercial banks should continue investing in human resources through strategies like recruitment and selection, training and development, reward management in order to increases chances of strategy implementation success.

The aim of this study was to investigate the role of IT in spending leisure time of high school students of physical education academes in Kurdistan province. Its method was a descriptive – correlation one. The data were collected through a research made questionnaire, statistical population included 255 boy and girl students and all of them were selected as the sample size. Descriptive statistical (e.g. frequency, percentage, mean, SD, tables, graphs) and inferential statistics (e.g. correlation coefficient and simultaneous multi-variable linear regression) were used to analysis the data. The results showed that there was a significant relationship between role of IT and spending leisure time. There was a significant relationship between the time duration of using IT subscale and spending leisure time. There was a significant relationship between the level of IT knowledge subscale and spending leisure time. There was a significant relationship between the cost of using technology subscale and spending leisure time. There was a significant relationship between the use of technology and spending leisure time. IT was a good predictor for spending leisure time.

Workplace deviant behaviors have caused organizations to suffer losses. As such this study explored the relationships between employees’ personality trait of emotional intelligence and workplace intelligences. One hundred and sixty-two participants completed the Self-Administered Schutte Self-Report Emotional Intelligence Test (SSREIT) and workplace deviance test. The findings showed a negative but significant relationship between emotional intelligence and workplace deviant behaviors. Also discussed were the level of respondents’ emotional intelligence and workplace deviance according to demographic factors. Possible implications for intervention and treatment efforts are discussed.

In this paper, author attempts to establish relationship among output, employment, average productivity of labour and export of SSI sector in India and GDP in India during 1980-81-2014-15 through Simple regression analysis, causality test, cointegration and vector error correction models. The paper concludes that output of SSI sector has been increasing at the rate of 10.12% per year and exponentially at the rate of 0.554% per year during 1980-81-2014-15.The series is stationary, stable and divergent as indicated by ARIMA and AR models. Average productivity, employment and export of SSI sector have been rising at the rates of 1.68%, 8.43%,and 13.34% per year respectively during the same period. One per cent increase in export led to 0.48% increase in GDP per year during the specified period. Production, employment, average productivity and export of SSI showed two cointegrating vectors whose vector error correction model is stable, divergent and insignificant error correction process. India’s GDP,SSI sector’s output, employment, average productivity and export have two cointegrating vectors but its vector error correction model is stable, divergent and insignificant error correction having problem of autocorrelations. New policy recommendations of RBI and new government policy on MSME are likely to accelerate the performance of SSI and its contribution to the national economy.