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This paper provides an exposition about application of neural networks in the context of research to find out the contribution of individual job satisfiers towards work commitment. The purpose of the current study is to build a predictive model to estimate the normalized importance of individual job satisfiers towards work commitment of employees working in TVS Group, an Indian automobile company. The study is based on the tool developed by Spector (1985) and Sue Hayday (2003).The input variable of the study consists of nine independent individual job satisfiers which includes Pay, Promotion, Supervision, Benefits, Rewards, Operating procedures, Co-workers, Work-itself and Communication of Spector (1985) and dependent variable as work commitment of Sue Hayday (2003).The primary data has been collected using a closed-ended questionnaire based on simple random sampling approach. This study employed the multilayer Perceptron neural network model to envisage the level of job satisfiers ...

Unlike other studies which intend to validate the CSI, the objective of this study is to couple the characteristics of Bangalore consumers with the CSI to identify the shopping style dimensions and shopping styles of consumers employed in IT sector and consumers employed in Non-IT sector. The current study identified ten shopping style dimensions relevant to the Bangalore consumers and the four new dimensions which are not found in the CSI including personal style consciousness, environment and health consciousness, reliance on mass media, and convenience and time consciousness. Four distinct shopping styles were identified and labeled as ''Active Fashion Chaser'', the ''Rational Shopper'', the ''Value Buyer'', and the ''Opinion Seeker.''

Objectives: This paper aims at making an empirical analysis on such factors that play a role of motivator in enhancing the aspect of entrepreneurship among women, with special reference to Thanjavur district. This paper also focuses attention on the challenges faced by women in the pursuit of entrepreneurship. Methods/Analysis: Descriptive research design was used. The primary data was collected from 400 samples from rural and urban areas of Thanjavur district using a structured questionnaire with the help of survey and snow ball sampling method. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and factor analysis. Findings: The result of the motivational factors indicates that financial need motivates women to the highest degree to become entrepreneurs compared to other factors like supplementing the family income, improve the social status, etc. Further, the study has used Rotated component Matrix to factorise the important motivational factors. The result of the Rotated component matrix reveals that the twelve variables were subjected to extraction method and finally the five factors were analysed. The first factor reveals that women have taken up this venture as a pass time activity and continue in the family occupation. Further the study also reveals that they have taken up such entrepreneurial venture to be economically independent and to improve the social status. The result also suggested that unfavourable market conditions and the stringent legal and regulatory conditions have been more challenging than the other problems. Finally the result shows that the women entrepreneurs have faced lot of personal challenges due to lack of information and imbalance between work and family life. Applications/Improvements: Thanjavur district has faced failures in the agricultural sector in the recent past due to failures in monsoon, water scarcity, etc. This has caused large scale unemployment and migration to urban industry creating huge quantum of socio, economic and cultural problems in the district. With mushrooming higher educational institutions in the district coupled with a high female literacy rate of 76.50 per cent (as per 2011 census), the researchers aim to concentrate on women entrepreneurship development, resulting in alternative sources of income for the district.

In today's world, organizations started designing strategies for maintaining the work-life balance of their employees. It is necessary for both the employers and employees of the organisation. Employees are one of the important assets of the organisation; hence the business organisations have the sole responsibility of protecting their employees from mental and physical stress. This issue is complicated and problematic as it will vary from individual. WLB is one of the key approaches for improving the productivity of the organisation and also employee retention. This paper revolves around the study of work-life balance of employees in Hyundai Motor India Limited (HMIL), Chennai to improve the productivity and employee retention. The questionnaires are collected from the employees of the industry and tools like Chi-square, ANOVA, and Correlation have been applied for the analysis.

Human Resource is one of the basic functions of the organisation that manages the workforce more effectively in achieving the objectives of the organisation. Talent Management is the emerging trend in the HR department. It involves the process from recruiting to retaining the talent pool of employees. This practice concentrate not only on the identified talent of the employees it also makes them develop the unidentified one. Retaining the talented employees is one of the biggest responsibility of an organisation. In the current scenario, holding the abled workforce is difficult for the company. This paper presents the impact of talent management on workforce retention in selected hotels in Madurai. The major objective of this paper is to study the talent management practices which are in progress in the hotels and the interconnection between talent management, employee turnover, and employee retention practices in selected hotels in the study area. A sample of 200 respondents from 5 hotels were chosen. The respondents are from different designation selected under cluster sampling method. Chi-square test was used to substantiate the association between the talent management practices and retentiveness of the employees to the same hotel. The significant value of chi-square at 95% confidence level revealed that there is considerable interrelation between the talent management practices and employee retention strategies in selected hotels in study area.

In the world of technological up gradation, much of the things are getting mechanised yet human resource plays a major role in any type of organisation. Though the HR functions are carried out with the help of different software, recruiting the right talent and placing it in the suitable position can only be done with the human resource executives. The role of the manager did not end, after recruiting it continues with developing the talent of the workforce followed by succession planning. One of the complicate step in the talent management system is the succession planning. It benefits not only the individual but also the organisation in retaining the talented employees. The companies just focus on the other phases of talent management system and failed to concentrate on the succession management, as this phase identified the abled employee who perfectly suits with the desired job at an affordable cost. The study focuses on the process of succession planning, different practices of succession management, how organisations carry out the function as a part of talent management and the difficulties faced by them while implementing the phase. The research has been carry out in various organisations of diverse sectors and the respondents are the HR managers who are responsible for the successful succession management. The industries include BPO, automobile, hotels, hospitals, IT and others in different districts of Tamilnadu. Distinct statistical tools such as descriptive statistics, regression, t-test are used for identifying the importance of the succession planning and the complexities in execute the process. The study concludes that succession management is one of the challenging tasks for the HR managers and also a reason for the employees' retentiveness towards their organisation.

India is one of the agricultural country in the world. The current economic condition of the country is not favouring the agricultural sector in a better way. Farmers find it difficult to buy the agricultural subsidiaries as they are costly. The development of technology replace many things from payment of bills in the queue to paying through their mobile phones in their places to delivering the groceries to the home, but it cannot replace the food we eat every day. Agriculture need to be develop for the better economic development and through this the employment opportunities can also be created. Agripreneurship deals with the technical development in the agricultural field to produce harmless food products at a lower cost with simple innovative equipment. There is a huge scope not only increasinglivingstandards of rural India but strengthening the nationaleconomy bymaking it globally competitive.This paper deals with the agripreneurship techniques, their impact on economy, and various support for the agriculture and steps to uplift the economy of the country.

Sustainable development is the concept which was incorporated in the business operations recent times. the concept was developed over years ago, yet it gets implemented and become a competing strategy in the modern business environment. the objective of this paper is to analyze the contention and confrontation to the sustainable development faced by the organization while undergoing the business operations in aspect of economic, environmental and social. the paper also revolves around the suggestions that can be taken by the organization for better organizational sustainability.

Human Resource is one of the basic functions of the organisation that manages the workforce more effectively in achieving the objectives of the organisation. Talent Management is the emerging trend in the HR department. It involves the process from recruiting to retaining the talent pool of employees. This practice concentrate not only on the identified talent of the employees it also makes them develop the unidentified one. Retaining the talented employees is one of the biggest responsibility of an organisation. In the current scenario, holding the abled workforce is difficult for the company. This paper presents the impact of talent management on workforce retention in selected hotels in Madurai. The major objective of this paper is to study the talent management practices which are in progress in the hotels and the interconnection between talent management, employee turnover, and employee retention practices in selected hotels in the study area. A sample of 200 respondents from 5...

In today’s world, organizations started designing strategies for maintaining the work-life balance of their employees. It is necessary for both the employers and employees of the organisation. Employees are one of the important assets of the organisation; hence the business organisations have the sole responsibility of protecting their employees from mental and physical stress. This issue is complicated and problematic as it will vary from individual. WLB is one of the key approaches for improving the productivity of the organisation and also employee retention. This paper revolves around the study of work-life balance of employees in Hyundai Motor India Limited (HMIL), Chennai to improve the productivity and employee retention. The questionnaires are collected from the employees of the industry and tools like Chi-square, ANOVA, and Correlation have been applied for the analysis.

Buyers buying behavior of customer to purchase medicine is faraway different from any other product. Customer able to avoid many things but cannot desert medicine. Consumer buying behavior of customer cannot be same all cross India it may differ from location to location. Especially Kanchipuram district has more than 10 MEDPLUS pharmacies there is the various factor responsible for consumer buying behavior at a retail pharmacy.  The main objective of the study is to find out the customer satisfaction and loyalty towards the MEDPLUS pharmacy store.   Descriptive research is followed in this research. The universe of the population includes the respondents who are the customers of MEDPLUS Pharmacy, residing at Kanchipuram district.  The major finding of this study feasibly of customers are respondents willing and recommend to MEDPLUS pharmacy to their relatives and colleagues are the implication of the study MEDPLUS pharmacy may try to keep all variety of medicines are all brands as p...

Background: Microeconomic theories of financial behaviour tend to assume that consumers possess financial skills necessary to undertake related financial decisions. Aim and setting: We investigated this assumption by exploring the distribution of financial literacy among South Africans. Method: In the absence of a standard measure, a financial literacy index was constructed for the country using data collected on attitudes (towards), access to and use of financial services over the period 2005-2009. In a multivariate regression analysis, we used the index to examine the extent to which differences in financial literacy correlate with demographic and economic characteristics. Results: The index revealed substantial variation in financial literacy by age, education, province and race. Overall, demographic characteristics contributed up to 10% of the financial literacy differences among individuals in South Africa. Conclusion: These results can be used to guide policy makers where to place more emphasis in terms of financial education for South Africans.

This work deals with the study of the oil sorption behaviour of needlepunched nonwoven fabrics produced from natural fi bres such as cotton, cotton fl at waste, cotton/kapok blend, and nettle fi bres. Polypropylene nonwoven fabric, which is used as a commercial oil sorbent, was also prepared using the same needling parameters for comparison purposes. The eff ect of the type of fi bre, oil, and fabric parameters on oil sorption and retention capacities was investigated. All of the fabrics displayed higher oil sorption capacities for engine oil (high viscosity) than diesel oil (low viscosity). Among natural fi bre nonwovens, cotton and cotton/kapok nonwovens displayed higher oil sorption capacities than that of polypropylene nonwovens, while nettle fi bre nonwoven fabric displayed poor oil sorption capacity. An increase in kapok content in cotton/ kapok nonwovens led to an increase in oil sorption behaviour. More than 95% of the diesel oils adsorbed by the nonwoven fabrics could be recovered by simple compression. Oil sorption capacity of the nonwovens were reduced signifi cantly during repetitive cycles of use due to higher thickness loss. This study indicated that cotton and cotton/kapok nonwovens displayed better oil sorption behaviour than polypropylene, and may be used as an alternative natural oil sorbent material.

Uploaded for projectsparadise.com Projects, Thesis, Dissertation -projectsparadise.com Volatility in Indian Stock Market Uploaded for projectsparadise.com Projects, Thesis, Dissertation -projectsparadise.com 1 PREFACE A project report on stock market is being prepared in attempts to interpret in-depth study of volatility in Indian stock market. This report helps us to understand various terminologies in stock market. This report gave me opportunity to have complete idea about volatility in stock market. This gave me idea about technical and fundamental analysis in stock market and how trading is being done in stock market. This project report helps in following aspects, Build understanding of central ideas and theories of stock market. Develop familiarity with the analysis of stock market. Furnish institutional material relevant for understanding the environment in which trading decisions are taken. This project will guide to investors for an investment in stock market. This project deployed a lot time for collections of information from various sources. This project will be very helpful to know volatility from January 2006 to December 2006 and reasons for such high volatility and would be able to take decisions for investment in volatile stock market. Uploaded for projectsparadise.com Projects, Thesis, Dissertation -projectsparadise.com 2