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{"title":"Organic Leadership Style and Employee Engagement: The Mediating Effect of Social Relevance of Work in Context of Faculty Members in Higher Education","authors":"G. Dang, Puneet Basur","doi":"10.21844/PAJMES.V10I1.7801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21844/PAJMES.V10I1.7801","url":null,"abstract":"Leadership Style has been since long acknowledged by management scholars as being an important subject\u0000in relation to organizational executions and outcome. An effective leadership would not only be able to\u0000prevent job stress and burnout among group members, but would also be successful in enhancing the\u0000motivation and engagement of the employees. It has been widely accepted that operational excellence in an\u0000organization can only be maintained through engaged employees. In this study the researchers have strived\u0000to enhance the understanding of the complex relationship between the organic leadership style and the\u0000engagement level of the employees and to further comprehend the mediating role of social relevance of work\u0000in association of the two constructs i.e. leadership style and employee engagement, in context of faculty\u0000members in higher education sector.","PeriodicalId":53527,"journal":{"name":"Purushartha","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73434194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ancient Philosophy, Quantum Reality and Management","authors":"Anindo Bhattacharjee","doi":"10.21844/PAJMES.V10I1.7794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21844/PAJMES.V10I1.7794","url":null,"abstract":"The romanticism of management for numbers, metrics and deterministic models driven by mathematics, is not new. It still exists. This is exactly the problem which classical physicists had in the late 19th century until Werner Heisenberg brought the uncertainty principle and opened the doors of quantum physics that challenged the deterministic view of the physical world mostly driven by the Newtonian view. In this paper, we propose an uncertainty principle of management and then list a set of factors which capture this uncertainty quite well and arrive at a new view of scientific management thought. The new view which we call as the Quantum view of Management (QVM) will be based on the major tenets from the ancient philosophical traditions viz., Jainism, Taoism, Advaita Vedanta, Buddhism, Greek philosophers (like Hereclitus) etc.","PeriodicalId":53527,"journal":{"name":"Purushartha","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90256788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spirituality and Productivity - A Relationship Perspective","authors":"S. Vivek, V. Amrith","doi":"10.21844/PAJMES.V10I1.7796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21844/PAJMES.V10I1.7796","url":null,"abstract":"Spirituality and its practices are the real gems of value additions in the human life, they helps in building a\u0000strong foundation and getting a greater clarity. Spirituality is not a limited concept but expansive like a vast\u0000blue ocean. Spirituality, being currently becoming an attracting trend when considered with organizations,\u0000many of the organizations prefer in deploying spiritual functions and practices aiming for a good level of\u0000perspicacity and growth in their future forecasts and operations for the enablement of delivering a good\u0000level of productivity. This study aims at examining the connectivity existence or non-existence between some\u0000organizational productivity factors that directly or indirectly contributes to productivity levels and the\u0000factors of spiritual intelligence. For the study a controlled experiment was conducted, the 4 factors of\u0000spiritual intelligence such as Critical Existential Thinking, Personal Meaning Production, Transcendental\u0000awareness, Conscious State of Expansion was considered and measured by taking an organization after that\u00004 factors that contributes directly or indirectly to productivity function such as Ability to address day to day\u0000Variations ,Adherence in task accomplishment at extreme workload scenarios with equanimity, Consistency\u0000level in Benchmark achievement or meeting the provided/ defined target levels, ability in performance\u0000beyond the expected level in logical Operations were consulted and measured. After this a pairing was made\u0000with a deep look of these factors and each pair consisted of different predictors and a response variables, 4\u0000regression models were developed in Minitab with these in order to check whether there was any\u0000connectivity/relationship existence between any one of the factors between the grouped four pairs each (i.e.\u0000to check at least 1 predictor - response relationship existence was there or not in all 4 regression models\u0000developed). The result signalled the existence of relationship between at least 3 factors to at most 5 factors in\u0000all the model, marking a green signal of relationship existences.","PeriodicalId":53527,"journal":{"name":"Purushartha","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83979847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Capturing Pilgrims Mind Space in India: A Study of Sales Promotions at Maha Kumbh Mela Allahabad 2013 and Kumbh Mela Ujjain 2016","authors":"Avadhanam Ramesh","doi":"10.21844/pajmes.v10i1.7792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21844/pajmes.v10i1.7792","url":null,"abstract":"Kumbh Mela is held once in twelve years in India and is being hailed as largest congregation on earth.\u0000Kumbh Mela held in Allahabad in 2013 provided unprecedented learning opportunity and seminal\u0000scholarship for multi-disciplines spanning public health, business, religious expression, temporary\u0000infrastructure, and the makeshift economy among other subjects. Harvard university book 'Kumbh Mela -\u0000Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity', claims that Maha Kumbh Mela held in 2013 was better organized than\u0000FIFA world cup held in Brazil in 2014. This bears a testimony to the 'Globalizing Indian management\u0000thought'. The sheer size is indicated by the fact that as an estimate 120 million people visited the Kumbh\u0000Mela at Allahabad in 2013. These events made multinational and Indian companies to mull over sacred\u0000calendars and promote their wares and services. There were innovate sales promotions such as 'Lifebuoy se\u0000haath dhoye kya' to 'Kya apne dant snan kiya' by Dabur among others. Kumbh Melas as an event represents\u0000harmonious existence of religious beliefs and business. This also provides unique opportunity for the\u0000Marketers to contribute to the society for social responsibility, while demanding business leadership and\u0000cultural sensitivity from managers.The research article makes modest attempt to elucidate various sales\u0000promotions of select brands in the context of Kumbh Mela as religious events, and develops conceptual\u0000frameworks for understanding of sales promotions at religious events in India for the marketers.","PeriodicalId":53527,"journal":{"name":"Purushartha","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74603967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Language of the Heart: Profit-Oriented Management vs Spiritual Values for Quality Treatment and Cost Containment in Health Care","authors":"L. Frey, S. Meera","doi":"10.21844/PAJMES.V10I1.7798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21844/PAJMES.V10I1.7798","url":null,"abstract":"Organizational unrestrained greed is spreading throughout the world causing harm to millions of people\u0000and the environment, leading to a loss of trust in business, and can create particular havoc in the health care\u0000system. Stemming from a domineering, exclusive paradigm of profit-maximization, it serves a few at the\u0000expense of many. Replacing this outdated model with mediating higher spiritual principles that represent\u0000dharma, discrimination, and compassion, is necessary to heal the wounds inflicted upon the world by greed,\u0000to resurrect quality and affordable health care, and to reshape and redirect firm objectives. Drawing from\u0000the Bhagavad Gita we explore the nature of greed and destructiveness and then offer three propositions: 1)\u0000conditions influencing organizational greed are fueled by unrestrained desires; 2) profit-oriented health\u0000care increases risks of patient exploitation and decreases quality of care, and 3) spiritual-value driven\u0000leadership in health care is more inclusive, enhancing patient care, providing cost containment, and\u0000hospital prosperity. Evidence supports the perspective that spiritual leadership in health care is greatly\u0000advantageous in advancing far-reaching optimal care and in promoting dynamic, creative success. Finally,\u0000a noteworthy unanticipated theme emerged that the absence or presence of awareness of the\u0000interconnectedness of all beings appeared to influence managerial behaviors. Those with no awareness\u0000engaged in destructive, greed-induced behaviors, and those with awareness inspired wholesome, uplifting\u0000behaviors that served many.","PeriodicalId":53527,"journal":{"name":"Purushartha","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80257542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dark Leadership and its Impact on Work Place Spirituality: An Empirical Study","authors":"G. Raaj, Rupa Gunaseelan","doi":"10.21844/PAJMES.V10I1.7793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21844/PAJMES.V10I1.7793","url":null,"abstract":"Leadership has an imperative mastery on employee and organisational outcomes. In particular, leaders shapes the culture of the organisation, role model behaviour for employees and develop inter and intra personal relationships between themselves and their followers. states that employees with low spiritual intelligence has a strongly relationship between abusive supervision and workplace deviance compared to individuals with high spiritual intelligence. This paper examines the leader's destructive behaviour and its impact on work place spirituality. The structured questionnaire was adopted to collect the data from 217 BPO employees in Coimbatore. The results of the study shows there is a significant positive and negative relationship between the variables of destructive leadership on workplace spirituality. The study highlights the findings of previous research, and suggestions for future studies, and provides a practically useful measure of destructive leader behaviour in organizations. Background of the study: Leadership has an imperative mastery on employee and organisational outcomes. In particular, leaders shape the culture of the organisation, role model behaviour for employees and develop personal relationships between themselves and their followers. Research objective: The objectives of the study is to explore a the destructive behaviour and its impact on workplace spirituality Method: Questionnaire method was used with the sample of 217 respondents working in BPO companies in Coimbatore by using snow ball sampling. The researcher had adopted ex-post facto research design. Results: The results of the study shows there is a significant positive and negative relationship between the variables of destructive leadership and workplace spirituality. Conclusion: The study offers a range of applicable suggestions for the policy makers and the organizations of this sector.","PeriodicalId":53527,"journal":{"name":"Purushartha","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77728450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Wisdom of Yoga and Meditation: A Tight Rope to Walk","authors":"A. Dhamija, Somesh Dhamija, Amith Kumar","doi":"10.21844/PAJMES.V10I1.7802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21844/PAJMES.V10I1.7802","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on studying and analyzing different aspects of yoga and meditation in one's life. For gaining the competitive advantage, these days yoga and meditation are being used as one of the key element in one's personal growth as well as professional life. In this cutthroat competition, everyone is so busy in their lives that it is tough and tight for an individual to spare time for yoga and meditation. This paper highlights some myths and parameters regarding yoga and meditation, which are essential to be safe from dreadful diseases and necessary from the point of view of healthcare. Most of the studies performed in the developed and developing countries reflecting that an individual is becoming more and more health conscious and therefore prefers to have different asana and exercises of yoga and meditation that are manageable and healthy for the individuals. Human being has examined the fact in order to meet the normal workouts it is necessary to concentrate on physical and mental functioning of the body. Studies and research have proved the fact that by following the principles of yoga and meditation-peaceful mind, alertness and concentration can improve. This paper goes on to highlight how one can benefit immensely by practicing the various concepts of yoga and meditation to come out of the changing paradigms in a way not known before also would acquaint to about the myths, whys, difference, benefits and mechanism of yoga and meditation.","PeriodicalId":53527,"journal":{"name":"Purushartha","volume":"115 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79115998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Is NPA and Stock Return Related: An Empirical Study of Back Testing Model","authors":"Madhvi, Amit Gautam, A. Srivastava","doi":"10.21844/PAJMES.V10I1.7799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21844/PAJMES.V10I1.7799","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the relationship between NPA announcements by banks and the impulsive movement in\u0000stock price brought out by these announcements. Primary focus of this study is to determine whether we can\u0000create a swing trading model based on back testing the data for the banking stocks listed on the Indian\u0000bourses.To achieve this objective we created a databasespanning ten years (2006 to 2016) and collected the\u0000daily share prices of eight banks listed on Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). The relationship between share\u0000price and changes in NPA is studied on the basis of correlation studies and panel-data analysis. Although\u0000correlation studies does not establish any significant relationship, but the result of panel-data analysis\u0000clearly shows a negative relationship between the two. The result is further utilized to develop swing trading\u0000model and get benefit out of it. The novelty of the present study is that it clearly guides the swing traders as to\u0000how to earn benefit because of fluctuations in share price due to announce of NPA result.","PeriodicalId":53527,"journal":{"name":"Purushartha","volume":"91 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80409647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Consumer Online Buying Decisions: A Critical Appraisal of Literature","authors":"Amit K. Sinha, G. B. Johri, S. Rai","doi":"10.21844/PAJMES.V10I1.7800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21844/PAJMES.V10I1.7800","url":null,"abstract":"Since last two decades buying of goods and services from online stores using Internet started off. But players of this industry could reach to the general public residing in second and third category Indian cities in recent past only. Now companies are eagerly interested in understanding the factors affecting Indian consumers so that their needs and wants can be understood and served profitably. This research paper is an attempt to critically evaluate those factors which affect consumer buying behavior in Indian Internet based business environment. For the purpose of coverage of topic researcher has classified the literature under three categories which are Literature related to vendor related factors, Literature related to consumer related factors and Literature related to other factors. Vendor related factors include those factors which are primarily controlled by the companies that are engaged in selling their goods and services on internet along with their intermediaries through which such sales take place. Consumer related factors have been bifurcated under two heading that are consumer demographic factors and consumer psychographic factors. Besides this there are several other factors which may affect consumer’s buying decisions and they are classified as other factors. This research paper also tries to identify the gaps (if any) in the available literature of the factors affecting consumer online buying decisions.","PeriodicalId":53527,"journal":{"name":"Purushartha","volume":"409 1","pages":"99-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76716003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Construction of Personality Measurement Scale Based on the 'Guna-Traya' Concepts of the Bhagavad-Gita","authors":"Manish Das, M. Chanda","doi":"10.21844/PAJMES.V10I1.7791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21844/PAJMES.V10I1.7791","url":null,"abstract":"Human behavior is the outcome of his/her associated Personality. Behavior plays an important role in\u0000success be it individual or organizational. Organization strives for individual with right kind of personality\u0000for success and sustainability. Researchers tried to define personality from various perspectives with hardly\u0000any consensus. They also attempted to construct suitable mechanism/instruments to measure it. Though\u0000there are wide disagreements among researchers regarding the success/ applicability of these instruments,\u0000it is without any doubt that there are requirements for such attempts. This research in an attempt in this\u0000regard to construct an instrument to measure personality based on the most respected religious epic of the\u0000Hindus': The Bhagavad-Gita. The idea of personality modes (Guna): Swattva, Rajas and Tamas, their\u0000presence and dominance in a human being as described in the Bhagavad-Gita are converted into\u0000personality measuring statements and a scale is finalized by applying appropriate research methodology.\u0000The instrument for measuring personality emerged as a 9 dimensional instrument with 56 statements.","PeriodicalId":53527,"journal":{"name":"Purushartha","volume":"320 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77580165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}