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Frontiers of management research abroad
Authors: Rangarajan T. 
Published: September 2016

“The whole in a nutshell ! ” That is Frontiers of management research abroad. To expose Indian readers. to management research abroad we present in this feature jargon free summaries of recent research published in some of the world's leading management journals. These capsule summaries would, we hope, induce the enthusiastic readers to still wider reading. And also,to contribute to this feature themselves. Readers are requested to give detailed information regarding the article condensed such as its publication details, etc., to Professor Samir Barua.
Backward ideation technique for generating new product ideas
Authors: Mascarenhas O.A. , S. J.  
Published: September 2016

This paper reviews briefly new product idea generating techniques, and suggests another one, the backward ideation technique, that starts from existing successful or unsuccessful brands, and works its way backward, in looking for synergistic ideas andgaps that can offer new market opportunity for new brands and products. This technique is illustrated using two consumer products, toothpaste and footwear, the first with a smaller set of competing brands, the second with a multitude of types and varieties. In both cases it is found that the backward ideation technique affords a comprehensive coverage of the attribute space of each product, and provides a shortcut for arriving at new product designs and brands via new synergistic gaps unearthed in the process of backward ideation.
Innovative management
Authors: Bhatt Anil 
Published: September 2016

Innovative management features brief accounts of novel, off-beat management. These are accounts of creatively managed organizations or of innovative handling of management issues. As for the others, we invite contributions and comments from readers for this feature too. Vikalpa has published many accounts of corporate turnarounds. This, however, is an account of how an institution on the decline, devastated by a natural calamity, was rejuvenated by a kind of leadership all too rare in the developing world, especially in the institutional, non-commercial sector. A combination of circumstances—bureaucratic structure, governmental control, pay scales below the corporate sector, lack of competition or countervailing power, and other factors seem to cause institutional decline that a developing society can ill afford. The present study provides an insightinto how forceful leadership can reverse this trend.
Improving Efficiency and Ensuring Impartiality of the Police Force
Authors: Valecha G K , Venkataraman Subha 
Published: September 2016

As the Indian Police force assumes an increasingly important role in the life of the nation, it conies under rigorous scrutiny and harsh criticism. What are its weaknesses and strengths? How can the weaknesses be remedied and strengths reinforced? In this article, G K Valecha and Subha Venkataraman, who have conducted a questionnaire‐survey of Inspector Generals and Deputy Inspector Generals, present the perceptions of these highranking police officers and some prescriptions. Discipline, job security, and esprit de corps are the three major strengths identified and corruption, political interference, and poor interaction within the force, the three weaknesses. Delinking police from politics, encouraging participation, recognizing merit in promotion, and improving motivation are suggested as measures to be adopted to improve efficiency and ensure impartiality of the police force.
Myths and Realities about Leasing
Authors: Pandey I M 
Published: September 2016

Leasing—an instrument for financing investments has picked up momentum in our country in the 1980s. A number of large-sized companies has already entered the leasing scene. There are, however, a number of myths and misconceptions about leasing. I M Pandey dispels some of these myths, clarifies the real advantages of leasing, and shows with an illustration how a lease should be evaluated. He evaluates the cash flow consequences of a lease using two methods—the Equivalent Loan and Net Advantage of Leasing.
Cultural Assumptions that Influence the Implementation of Communication Technologies
Authors: Contractor Noshir S , Fulk Janet , Monge Peter R , Singhal Arvind 
Published: September 2016

The authors describe the role that cultural assumptions play in the transfer of new communication technologies between the West and third world countries. They contrast Great Britain, West Germany, and India on five value orientations along which cultures vary: regard for human nature, relationship of man to nature, time orientation, orientation towards activity, and types of relations between people. Pointing out the widely differing assumptions in implementation research in the West and the third world, the authors argue that successful transfer of communication technologies depends upon a match between the cultural values of the third world country implementing the technology and the assumptions inherent in the technology itself and the implementation process for that technology.
How to Manage Loitering around the Workplace?
Authors: Amsa P. 
Published: September 2016

Loitering or unauthorized absence of employees from their place of work is a common phenomenon today in Indian organizations, particularly public sector organizations. What strategies should the manager adopt to contain this problem? Based on an empirical study of loomshed workers of nine textile mills, Amsa observes that loitering was primarily a group phenomenon and was related to the culture of the organization. He suggests that managers should verify if the problem is real or imaginary, decide how serious the problem is, and identify the shared beliefs, values, and norms among the workers in order to shape them in the desired direction which would help reduce loitering.
A Model for Managing Innovation in Banks
Authors: Bhatnagar Deepti 
Published: September 2016

Considering the critical role of nationalized banks in India's economic transformation, there is a need to replace the present piecemeal approach to innovation by a systemic approach similar to that underlying the setting-up of R & D departments in manufacturing organizations. In this article, Deepti Bhatnagar proposes a model consisting of three stages with a corporate unit to continuously scan for ideas. The three stages of the model are the idea generation stage, the development stage, and the implementation stage. She delineates, for each stage, personnel and structural requirements and suggests mechanisms for minimizing resistance to change.
Problems and Challenges in Wool Development
Authors: Moulik T K 
Published: September 2016

Uneconomic returns from sheep rearing have forced many sheep rearers to sell their sheep and take up other occupations. Despite a growing demand for wool, especially quality wool, there is general apathy among sheep rearers towards wool production because of the unremunerative prices for domestic wool and large scale imports. To overcome many of the problems confronting the sheep rearers and wool industry, a Wool Development Board is expected to be soon set up. In this article T K Moulik discusses the challenges before the Board and the ways to overcome them.
Can Universities Continue to Relegate Financial Administration to the Background?
Authors: Rao K V , Prasad G , Kiranmayi Y S 
Published: September 2016

Many of our universities are in deep financial crisis. They have viewed financial management as ways of getting funds from state governments and the University Grants Commission. K V Rao, G Prasad, and Y S Kiranmayi analyse the situation and make recommendations to universities, state governments, and the University Grants Commission on how to carry out the finance function more effectively.
Captive Power Generation : What are the Economics ?
Authors: Ranganathan V , Mall Damodar 
Published: September 2016

Galloping demand for power and mounting constraints in its generation have forced electricity boards all over the country to impose power cuts. User industries have been forced to go for captive power plants to tide over the situation. In this article, V Ranganathan and Damodar Mall compare captive power and grid power costs in Karnataka. At the observed low utilization of between 6 and 20 per cent, captive power cost is Rs 1.95 while grid power cost is only 31 paise per KWH. The authors argue that the user industries should pursue the options of cooperative generation of power or become a financing partner with the electricity boards for assured and reliable power supply.
Public Enterprise Sector and Development: Lessons from International Experience
Authors: Bhatt V V 
Published: September 2016

Improving the performance of the public enterprise sector is critical for continued development, since it already accounts for a large share in domestic capital formation, industrial investment, and output in most developing countries. Unlike in the past, net resource inflows into less developed countries will cease, if not reverse, because of interest payment and debt repayments. International experience shows that for public enterprises to perform as effective and efficient instruments of development certain preconditions have to be fulfilled. Dr Bhatt describes in this “Perspectives” piece what these are and what decision-making and learning mechanisms have to be institutionalized in the political and administrative apparatus to meet the challenge of continued development in the difficult environment ahead.
Will‐to‐Yoga and Quality of Work Life Revisited
Authors: Chakraborty S K 
Published: September 2016

Vikalpa published in April-June 1986 an article by S K Chakraborty titled “Will‐to‐Yoga: Key to Better Quality of Work Life.” Several readers responded to this article. Their responses were published in the “Letters to the Editor” columns of subsequent issues while three were featured under “Ideas and Experiences” in the January-March 1987 issue. Professor Chakraborty could reply to only one letter, which was carried in the October-December 1986 issue. In view of the number of concerns that was raised, Vikalpa requested Professor S K Chakraborty to identify all the issues and clarify his own position on them. A brief summary of his original article and his analysis of the issues raised are presented here.
Can the Stock Exchanges Support the Envisaged Capital Growth?
Authors: Patil R H 
Published: September 2016

The organization and management of the stock exchanges suffer from major weaknesses and malpractices. Reforms have to be brought about urgently, if they have to support the envisaged growth in listed capital from about Rs 6,000 crore in 1985 to about Rs 90,000 crore by the turn of the century, argues Dr Patil. Dr Patil has identified the reforms that have to be made on a priority basis besides providing, for comparative purposes, brief outlines on the functioning of the stock exchanges in the US, UK, and Switzerland.
Inefficiency and Speculation in the Indian Capital Market
Authors: Barua S K , Raghunathan V 
Published: September 2016

Is the Indian capital market inefficient? Does it reward low risk takers with high returns? Barua and Raghunathan argued (“Inefficiency of the Indian Capital Market,” ‘Vikalpa,July-September 1986) that the Indian capital market was inefficient, based on an illustration. Ramesh Gupta contended, in a response article entitled “Is the Indian Capital Market Inefficient or Excessively Speculative?” (Vikalpa, April-June 1987), that their conclusion was erroneous as it was based on many assumptions and a hypothetical example. Barua and Raghunathan re-examine their risk-return evaluation in the light of the actual developments over the last year in the case illustration used earlier. They argue that their conclusion on market inefficiency remains valid, notwithstanding the many changes in the assumptions.
Is Country of Origin an Element in the Marketing Mix?
Authors: Kumar K Ambarish , Barker A Tansu 
Published: September 2016

Country of origin is a relevant variable in the marketing mix, conclude Ambarish Kumar and Tansu Barker, based on a questionnaire survey of 175 consumers in Chandigarh. The authors found that there were distinct images that were associated with the Made in India, U.S., and Japan labels among consumers. Native products commanded a higher willingness to buy than warranted by product images, because of nationalistic factors.
Management Training for Hospital Administrators
Authors: Pulimood Benjamin M. 
Published: September 2016

Just befme taking over as the Director of Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore, Dr Benjamin Pulimood spent a few months at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He took keen interest in the PGP students and attended several seminars and courses. Major hospitals today have large budgets and immense problems of administration. Given these complexities, Dr Pulimood feels that management training would be useful for hospital administrators. He recommends short-term. management programmes for medical experts who have to administer large hospitals.
Project Management: A Survey of Current Practices and Implications
Authors: Korgaonker M G 
Published: September 2016

In completing a large project there is a time overrun of the order of three years on a scheduled project duration of 3.7 years and a cost overrun of 140 per cent. Production losses are five times the cost overrun due to delay. Cost and time overruns are jeopardizing the viability of the projects themselves. M G Korgaonker reviews and analyses the Indian experience as to why there are such heavy overruns. Based on a survey of current practices in project management, he concludes that project management practices can be improved considerably. He cites instances where effective management practices have led to completion of projects as per plans. He draws implications of his analysis for the pre-investment investigation, project appraisal, organization, and implementation stages of project management.
Essence of Leadership
Authors: Rastogi P N 
Published: September 2016

Leadership is vital for the success of any organization. Based on an extensive research on the subject, Rastogi points out that a leader should look at the organization as an evolutionary process towards a desired future. He elaborates the essence of leadership as consisting of the following: creating a vision of the future, setting an example, reinforcing the desired behaviour, and creating the ideal selfimage. Empathy and charisma are two qualities that a leader needs.
Do New Equity Issues Fetch Extranormal Returns?
Authors: Gujarathi Mahendra R 
Published: September 2016

Do new equity issues earn attractive returns after adjusting their risk? To answer this question, Gujarathi analyses empirical data on 98 randomly selected new security issues made between 1970 and 1978. He considers the returns from the date of the closure of the subscription list to the date of its first market quotation. Gujarathi's analysis shows that an average investor earned an attractive extranormal return of 2.44 per cent per month after adjusting for the risk and the time value of money. He has also tested many of the popular beliefs of investors.
Rashtriya Seva Samsthan
Authors: Gianni Karan 
Published: September 2016

Rashtriya Seva Samsthan is a public sector organization that sets up a new administrative office with a data processing cell. A specially chosen young executive to head the data processing cell runs into problems in implementing the planning and monitoring system within the Samsthan's organizational climate and processes. He is transferred out of that location in response to the frictions that develop. Frustrated, the young officer quits. This case, contributed by Karan Gianni, Goa, raises interesting issues on how organizational changes should be planned for absorption into and for desired influences on the rest of the organizational processes and behaviour. The case also raises questions on the role of the head office, choice of personnel, provision of the support needed by those implementing the changes. Vjkalpa hopes that large organizations in the public and private sectors planning the introduction of changes involving data processing will benefit from an analysis of this case.
IRDP Credit for the Poor: What is the Evidence?
Authors: Khanna Inderjit 
Published: September 2016

Among schemes for alleviating poverty, the Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP) is unparalleled in its size and spread. Its evaluation, therefore, has to take account of its size and the fact that it has been in operation for less than eight years. What is disturbing is that the qualitative and quantitative evaluations of the Programme are at variance. Based on action research and careful analysis, Anil Gupta and Manu Shroff ("Rural Credit: How do the Poor See It?" Vikalpa October-December 1987) argued that the plight of the poor had not changed much because the Programme did not reflect an adequate understanding of the nature of poverty. Commenting on that article, Inderjit Khanna counters their conclusion to provide figures on credit flows as well as official survey findings to show that beneficiaries have expressed satisfaction. Detailed research and analysis on both qualitative and quantitative aspects of the Programme at various levels are called for to reconcile these differences to identify the problems and devise better ways to reduce poverty
How should Factoring Service be Launched?
Authors: Singh S P 
Published: September 2016

Factoring is basically the purchase of book debts of client companies. Apart from financing investments in book debts, the factoring company offers individualized service packages covering credit screening, ledger keeping and collection, and provision for doubtful debts and write offs. In the context of the government policy of strengthening money and capital markets, a study group of the Reserve Bank of India is considering how to launch factoring service in India. S P Singh considers two approaches to launching factoring service. One is the conventional approach of letting banks, which are providing cash credit for book debts, promote factoring as an extension of their activities. The other the market approach of enabling independent companies compete on improving upon the current average collection period and percentage of write offs. Singh recommends the market approach to launching factoring service. Efficient factoring, requires a culture of price banking, aggressive selling and low unit cost operations�a culture unfamiliar to public sector banks and financial institutions.
Computerizing Large Systems: Lessons from an Application
Authors: Singh Abhimanyu 
Published: September 2016

Large volume data systems, such as the tabulation of university examination results, often conceal innumerable exceptions and complexities, accumulated over the years. Handled manually with flexibility and ease and along with the large volume of routine, they can wreck poorly conceived computer applications. Abhimanyu Singh narrates such an application, namely, computerizing the tabulation of examination results of the University of Rajasthan in 1982. Instead of cutting the delays in the announcement of results, computerization added to the delays and complicated it with many errors. Abhimanyu Singh analyses that experience and provides the highlights of the steps taken from 1983 onwards to remedy the situation and make a success of the application. He contrasts the approaches taken towards computerization in 1982 and from 1983 to 1985 to arrive at useful lessons for computerizing large data systems.
Effective Human Resources Management: Key to Excellence in Service Organizations
Authors: Mahesh V S 
Published: September 2016

A service organization differs from a manufacturing industry in several ways. Most importantly, the sale, production, and consumption take place almost simultaneously. Over 90 per cent of relevant activities is beyond the immediate influence of management. Effective human resources management becomes the key to building excellence in service organizations. Based on his experience with the Taj Group of Hotels, Mahesh identifies eight human resources management factors as crucial for any organization striving for service excellence.
A Blueprint for Application of Zero Base Budgeting to Indian Banking
Authors: Kaura Mohinder N 
Published: September 2016

Zero base budgeting is an approach to budget formulation. It seeks to evaluate afresh the budgeted activity levels and related expenditure. Resources are released from projects and tasks that have outlived their utility. Zero base budgeting can serve as an effective tool for redeploying resources. The budget settlement process in banks is an exercise in distribution of targets rather than a plan based on the business potential of individual branches. Zero base review would eliminate the incrementation tendency of carrying forward the previous year's inefficiencies. Kaura outlines a blueprint for application of zero base budgeting to Indian banks.
Marketing Evening Newspapers: An Analysis
Authors: Chahal N , Kinra N 
Published: September 2016

The Times of India group launched a Hindi evening newspaper, Sandhya Samachar Seva from Lucknow in October 1984. It was discontinued in February 1987, after nearly two and a half years. Chahal and Kinra analyse the concept of the Sandhya Samachar Seva based on a survey of a small number of literate commuters, content analysis of issue samples of the newspaper, and its revenues and costs. The authors identify the importance of developing a marketable concept viewing the newspaper as a product and developing it from the concerns of its readers and advertisers.
Structure and Functions of Computer Database Systems
Authors: Yusuf Attahir , Nnadi Godson 
Published: September 2016

The effectiveness and efficiency with which commercial organizations process large quantities of data they generate is becoming a key competitive weapon. Computer system development in recent years has led to the creation of databases—easily updated filing systems that provide easy and rapid access to a number of users with diverse needs. Yusuf and Nnadi explain what database systems are, their functions, trends in their structures, and how they should be evaluated.
Innovation in Conventional Retailing: The Econ Minimart of Singapore
Authors: Mehta Subhash C , Wickramasuriya R S 
Published: September 2016

In the early 80s, the survival of traditionally run neighbourhood provision stores in Singapore was threatened by the advent of large modern supermarkets. The highly urbanized Singaporeans were increasingly taking to these attractively laid out and well serviced supermarkets. The independent small provision store operators were quick to see the writing on the wall. With the leadership of some visionary entrepreneurs and some governmental support, they were mobilized to organize themselves into a voluntary chain of store operators. Based upon a systematic study of the changing pattern of consumer needs and preferences, they have evolved into a large, highly successful, and profitable provisions store chain while retaining their cultural identity and place as the neighbourhood store. Mehta and Wickramasuriya analyse the marketing strategy underlying the phenomenal success of this innovation to upgrade conventional retailing.
Choosing Human Resources Development Interventions
Authors: Singh J P 
Published: September 2016

Singh argues that top management should examine the managerial culture of the group and the organization before introducing change through human resources development (HRD) interventions. Based on an analysis of 176 seniorlevel Indian managers, Singh identifies significant differences in the dimensions of culture among managerial groups categorized by sector (international, public, and private), education, and age. Based on their value orientation, Singh classifies HRD interventions into three families and recommends the family of HRD interventions most suited to different cultural groups.