The need for developing managerial capabilities among executives is being increasingly felt and attended to in Indian Industry in the recent past. Mechanisms like performance appraisal, potential appraisal, training, OD, performance feedback and counselling are being designed to facilitate...

Microlab is a technique evolved originally as a part of T-group technology to unfreeze the participants before their participation in a T-group. This technique has been used in several innovative training programmes to communicate the innovativeness in the designs of these programmes and also to...

This is a continuation of Technical Report No. 77. There are 5 sets of practice stories. Scoring system is described at the end of each set. Reliability coefficients have to be computed on the basis these stories and the keys supplied in this.

HRD function has got a good deal of attention in the recent past and is continuing to get more. The instruments of HRD are many. The HRD instruments should lead to the generation of HRD processes like role clarity, performance planning, development climate, risk-taking, dynamism, etc in...

Survey and interviews are the most widely used methods in cross cultural research. Some basic questions about designing of surveys have been raised. A paradigm of interview as a form of communication has been proposed. The relevant factors in relation to the interviewer’s background, questions...

The paper presents a 5-step behaviouristic model for the development of entrepreneurs. The stages are (1) entrepreneurial dispositions, (2) decisions to be an entrepreneur; (3) professional socialization; (4) environmental explorations; and (5) organizational socialization. Several factors...

This paper discusses the structured interview technique for cross-cultural studies on the acceptance of fertility regulation methods (FRM). Procedural requirements like purpose, preparation of the schedule, sequencing response structures, scaling reliability, validity and authenticity,...

The study aimed at exploring the nature of activities and tasks performed by young management graduates and the skills (human, technical and conceptual) required to perform them effectively. Forty four management graduates from 34 organizations (private sector, public sector and multinational...

This report presents the psychosocial maturity patterns of management students at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Comparative data from different executive groups are also presented. Psychosocial maturity in this study was assessed on the basis of TAT stories written by the...

This article describes the process of planned change in a voluntary organization working for social objectives. The author’s experiences with this agency as a facilitator for reflection, team building and planning the administrative structure for the process of change are described. A few...