Survey of strengths and weaknesses of senior executives was undertaken in the context of increased use of self-awareness and personal growth programmes in through feedback and counselling. Survey had the objectives of finding out (i) Characteristics or qualities that are perceived by Indian...

This article reviews a few definitions of OD and identifies eight characters that are necessary to call an activity or experience as an OD activity or experience. The article then goes on to examine ten case studies (of research, consulting and OD) of what appears like an OD activity in which...

This paper reports in detail a Leadership Styles Questionnaire (LSQ) developed to measure the Benevolent, Critical and Developmental styles of manages. This questionnaire has two forms; one for self-assessment and the second for assessment by others (subordinates, boss and colleagues). This...

The HRD function has gained a lot of momentum in the last decade. An earlier survey conducted in 1984 indicated that a number of HRD sub-system were being initiated in Indian industry. A detailed questionnaire was developed covering 94 different activities or tasks the HRD staff or those...

Here an attempt is made to examine critically the existing literature on higher education in India and to explore the missing gaps for further research. A classification of these researches is done into eighteen areas. An annotated bibliography of more than three hundred references is also given.

Using the role-play technique, the effect of four different sales orientations on customers with four different need patterns was examined. In a factorial design, product centred, company-centred, customer-centred, and self-centred salespersons interacted with strong need, marginal need, no...

This paper describes the action research efforts made by a group from IIMA to initiate change processes in a block in Rajasthan. On discovering the education at rural schools is seen as irrelevant and dysfunctional by rural people, the project team felt that economic activities should be...

A large number of educational institutions have become static, rigid, complacent and change-resistant. This is because they have not paid adequate attention to their own internal culture, values and processes from the beginning of their existence. They have also not established any mechanisms...

After discussing a general modular paradigm of population education consisting of curriculum building, system building and diffusion process, the relevant researches from behavioural sciences are reviewed. These researches relate to socio-economic status and religion, family structure variables,...

This study makes an attempt to examine the trend in Total Factor Productivity in the public sector enterprises by estimating and analysing the contributions made by major factor inputs to the growth rate of net product originating in the public enterprises. It is divided into six sections. After...