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Indian Experience (indian + experience)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Humanities and Social Sciences	33%
Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting	33%

Selected Abstracts

Evaluating Corporate Training and Development: An Indian Experience

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT, Issue 4 2001
P. S. Yadapadithaya
The central purpose of this article is to report on the current practices of evaluating training and development programs in the Indian corporate sector. The data were collected from written questionnaires mailed to 252 respondent companies,127 private, 99 public, and 26 multinational corporations (MNCs). The results and discussions are based on the major drivers and key result areas of training and development; purposes, levels, instruments, timing, and designs of evaluation; serious limitations of the training system; and finally the major challenges currently faced by the Indian corporate sector in strengthening the training and development function. [source]

Towards a geography of transnational spaces: Indian transnational communities in Australia

GLOBAL NETWORKS, Issue 1 2004
Carmen Voigt-Graf
In this article, the geography of the transnational spaces of Punjabis, Kannadigas and Indo-Fijians is analysed. Punjabis have constructed complex transnational spaces that are virtually global in scale. Kannadigas are engaged in transnational activities linking their places of residence with south India. Indo-Fijians have emerged as a regional transnational community stretching across the Pacific Ocean. On the basis of their experiences, a consistent terminology is suggested and a typology of different models of transnational spaces is developed. This typology provides a tool to compare different transnational communities beyond the Indian experience. It can be seen as a preliminary step in the direction of a more theoretical approach that links the geography of migrant transnational spaces with sociological debates on social space. [source]

Industrial relations law, employment security and collective bargaining in India: myths, realities and hopes

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS JOURNAL, Issue 2 2000
Anil K. Sen Gupta
This article examines the debate on reforms in industrial relations law in India, needed to support its economic liberalisation programme. Analysing a distinctively Indian experience of state intervention in industrial relations, it concludes that the thrust of the reform should be towards entrusting union recognition and promotion of dispute settlement to an authority that is independent of the state executive. [source]

Topical calcipotriol in childhood vitiligo: an Indian experience

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY, Issue 11 2004
Nilendu Sarma MD
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Economic liberalization and new product enterprises in the newly industrializing countries: an analysis of the Indian experience

JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, Issue 2 2002
Homi Katrak
This paper examines whether India's recent economic liberalization policies have led to a shift away from the relatively R&D intensive new product enterprises (NPEs) and towards old product enterprises (OPEs). The former type of enterprises had begun production under the earlier protectionist regime and there has been concern whether they will do well under the more competitive liberalized environment. Empirical tests, covering two 6-year periods, 1985,90 and 1991,96, found only limited evidence that the growth in the number of the NPEs had been relatively lower in the post liberalisation period, compared to that of the OPEs. However the NPEs' contribution to the growth of industry output had not decreased in that period. Overall there has been no adverse effect on the NPEs. These results may well be showing that any unfavourable influence of trade liberalisation on the NPEs has been offset by the liberalisation of the imports of technology and also the de-licensing policy. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Salinity-related desertification and management strategies: Indian experience

LAND DEGRADATION AND DEVELOPMENT, Issue 4 2009
G. Singh
Abstract High concentration of salts in the rootzone soil limits the productivity of nearly 953 million ha of productive land in the world. Australia, followed by Asia, has the largest area under salinity and sodicity. Most of the salt-affected soils and brackish ground water resources are confined to arid and semiarid regions and are the causative factors for triggering the process of desertification. The problem of salinity and sodicity has degraded about 6·73 million ha area in India. Secondary salinization associated with introduction of irrigation in dry areas like Thar desert in the western part of the country and Sharda Sahayak in Central India have caused desertification due to rise of salts with the rise in ground water level. Large scale cultivation of prawns using sea water in coastal Andhra Pradesh and elsewhere rendered about 2.1 million ha area unfit for agriculture. Similarly, 30,84 per cent ground water in north-western states of the country is either saline and /or brackish and is unfit for irrigation. Use of marginal quality water for irrigation has rendered several thousand ha of productive land unfit for cultivation. The Central Soil Salinity Research Institute was established in 1969 at Karnal to develop sustainable and eco-friendly technologies for reclamation and management of salt-affected soils and judicious use of marginal quality waters. The institute has developed location-specific techniques for reversion of salinity related desertification in India. Salient findings of research during the last three decades and more are presented in this review. This paper deals with (a) classification, nature and extent of salt-affected soils and poor quality water in India, (b) case studies/socio-economic concerns of salinity related desertification, (c) chemical, hydrological and biological approaches in use for rehabilitation of salt-affected soils, (d) guidelines for safe and productive use of marginal quality ground water through cyclic and mixed mode and precision irrigation techniques, (e) successful rehabilitation case studies, (f) alternate land use practices such as raising forest plantations, horticulture, agroforestry, high value medicinal, aromatic and flowering crops, etc., (g) technological, social, economic and environmental impacts and (h) future line of research. Issues requiring policy initiatives to halt salinity-related desertification are also discussed in this review paper. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]