This study sponsored by ICSSR, attempted to assess the perceptions of campus climate by the first, second and third year medical students. Differences in the work-value patterns and Professional aspirations were also studied. The results revealed that students of final years view their medical...

Higher education has multiple goals of character building for social development, skill building for national development and teacher competency building for education development. Higher education today faces many challenges some of these include balancing between quantitative and qualitative...

This report presents an analysis of the data from one university collected for the ICSSR project on ‘An Exploratory Study of Decision Making Strategies, Bureaucratization and Organizational Health in Universities’ by Professors Ravi J Matthai, Udai Pareek & T.V.Rao. The basic design,...

A review of the literature on the qualities of effective managers, leaders and world class or global manager indicates a good degree of consistency in the qualities required to be called a global manager. In these days when mergers and acquisition have become common and national boundaries are...

This article presents three models of human behaviour with special emphasis on the process of decision making at the individual level in the adoption of family planning practices. The first model describes how the adoption process is influenced by factors at three levels: individual, family and...

This paper discusses the scope for using non-cognitive instruments. The instruments have been dealt with at three levels: self, social interaction, and person-organization interaction. Examples have been cited where scope for using a non-cognitive instrument in selection procedures is possible....

This manual describes a scoring system for TAT stories and other verbal fantasy material to assess the Psychosocial Development of any individual. There are four stages of development parallel to those outlined by Freud and Erickson. Practice stories accompanying this manual are available...

This paper describes a diploma programme in HRD being offered by the Academy of Human Resource Development in distance education mode to prepare HRD professionals for the HRD function. This diploma ranging over an 18 month period has been started recently. Application oriented assignments,...