This study explores the moderating role of cultural values on relationships between communication... more This study explores the moderating role of cultural values on relationships between communication satisfaction (CS) and employee’s organizational commitment (OC). A survey of 1594 employees of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), a Government of India Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) providing telecommunication services across India shows that CS is positively related to OC, and relationship is moderated by employees’ cultural values at individual level. The form of moderation reveals a positive significant effect on relationship between CS and normative commitment (NC) for employees high in individualism/collectivism (IC) and positive significant effect on relationship between CS and OC (normative commitment) for employees low in masculinity/femininity (MF) and power distance (PD). However, no significant moderating effect has been observed on relationship between CS and OC (AC, CC, NC) for employee with low or high uncertainty avoidance (UA).
This paper examined the moderating role of cultural values on relationships between work-life bal... more This paper examined the moderating role of cultural values on relationships between work-life balance satisfaction (WBS) and employee's organisational commitment (OC) for example affective commitment (AC), continuance commitment (CC), and normative commitment (NC). A total of 1594 employees of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, a Government of India Public Sector Undertaking, providing telecommunication services and practising uniform HR practices across India participated in this study. It was found that WBS is positively related to OC (AC, CC and NC); and relationship is moderated by employees’ cultural values at individual level. The form of moderation reveals a positive significant effect on relationship between WBS and NC for employees high in individualism/collectivism, low in masculinity/femininity and power distance. However, no significant moderating effect has been observed on relationship between WBS and OC (AC, CC and NC) for employee having low or high uncertainty avoidance.
This study explores the moderating role of cultural values on relationships between communication... more This study explores the moderating role of cultural values on relationships between communication satisfaction (CS) and employee’s organizational commitment (OC). A survey of 1594 employees of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), a Government of India Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) providing telecommunication services across India shows that CS is positively related to OC, and relationship is moderated by employees’ cultural values at individual level. The form of moderation reveals a positive significant effect on relationship between CS and normative commitment (NC) for employees high in individualism/collectivism (IC) and positive significant effect on relationship between CS and OC (normative commitment) for employees low in masculinity/femininity (MF) and power distance (PD). However, no significant moderating effect has been observed on relationship between CS and OC (AC, CC, NC) for employee with low or high uncertainty avoidance (UA).
Global supply chains are often critically dependent upon globally outsourced Information Technolo... more Global supply chains are often critically dependent upon globally outsourced Information Technology (IT) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) projects. Effective risk assessment and mitigation of these projects is therefore of great importance for such supply chains. Traditional risk management techniques used so far in IT and BPO projects have depended almost entirely on the 'Expected Utility Theory' that computes risk exposure as the product of risk probability and risk impact. Although this method is considered the gold standard in risk assessment, it has severe limitations due to the fact that accurate computation of risk probability and impact is difficult. In this and earlier papers, we have advocated the use of 'risk factors' in conjunction with other existing methods for risk assessment. Risk factors are conditions that affect project performance. In this paper, we use Logistic Regression and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based methods on a set of globally outsourced projects to predict project performance and to rank the relative importance of project risk factors. Although in this paper these techniques have been tested in outsourced IT projects, these can also be used in identifying and determining project risk factors in other industries.
Organizational Cybersecurity Journal: Practice, Process and People
PurposeAs evident from the literature review, the research on cyber security performance is cente... more PurposeAs evident from the literature review, the research on cyber security performance is centered on security metrics, maturity models, etc. Essentially, all these are helpful for evaluating the efficiency of cyber security organization but what matters is how the factors of internal efficiency affect the business performance, i.e. the external effectiveness. The purpose of this research paper is to derive the factors of internal efficiency and external effectiveness of cyber security and develop impact model to identify the most and least preferred parameters of internal efficiency with respect to all the parameters of external effectiveness.Design/methodology/approachThere are two objectives for this research: Deriving the factors of internal efficiency and external effectiveness of cyber security; Developing a model to identify the impact of internal efficiency factors on the external effectiveness of cyber security since there is not much evidence of research in defining the ...
International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology, 2014
Damping in built-up structures is produced by the energy dissipation due to micro-slip along the ... more Damping in built-up structures is produced by the energy dissipation due to micro-slip along the frictional interfaces. The analysis of the problem has been carried out using Finite Element Method (FEM). A finite element model of the linear elastic system has been formulated using the Euler-Bernoulli beam theory to investigate the damping phenomena in riveted connections. The discrete element system having two degrees of freedom per node representing v and i¶v i¶x has been used for the analysis. The solution considers one-dimensional beam elements with each one consisting of two nodes having two degrees of freedom, i.e. transverse displacement and rotation at each node. The generalized stiffness and mass matrices for this element has been derived. Extensive experiments have been conducted for the validation of the analysis. From this study, it is established that the damping capacity increases and the natural frequency decreases due to the joint effects.
Ricardo (1821) showed how two countries producing two different goods using a single endowed fact... more Ricardo (1821) showed how two countries producing two different goods using a single endowed factor of production (the 2-2-1 situation), but operating with unequal efficiency, can benefit if they freely barter certain parts of their production, even if one is more efficient in producing every good. When done, such trade produces more goods in total using the same amount of total resource, rather than each producing enough goods only for own consumption, as in autarky. Ricardo showed that global benefits (measured in units of total goods produced) can accrue if each country specialises-to gain from its own comparative advantage. Simplifications of this seminal theory exist. However, even in the simplest 2-2-1 case computations become exigent when manipulated by hand to explore different scenarios of production and trade. Hence, students frequently skip this effort. This paper presents an Excel®-based computational framework to quickly locate optimal production in Ricardian trade.
International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling, 2017
Supplier selection is an important strategic consideration for the manufacturing industries. Righ... more Supplier selection is an important strategic consideration for the manufacturing industries. Right selection is a process of identifying the right suppliers, who are able to provide the buyer right products/raw materials/ services, at the right price, right time, right place and right quantity. The selection decision is based on multiple criteria and this decision often is unstructured and complex. Multi criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem involves different conflicting criteria on which decision maker's knowledge is sometimes vague and imprecise. This decision is required to be taken in a fuzzy environment. In this paper, an attempt has been made to formulate and apply a fuzzy MCDM method to a supplier selection problem from the Indian fertiliser industry.
At the global level and in particular the European level, challenges related to climate change an... more At the global level and in particular the European level, challenges related to climate change and the transition to green transactions have created an imperative where identifying or developing innovative financial instruments, appropriate for these priorities, have become our research priorities and objectives. Starting from the analysis of the European Investment Plan for green transactions, as well as the EU Directive 2018/410 of the European Parliament and of the Council, in conjunction with ongoing efforts to identify innovative financing tools, research is presented based on hypotheses using concepts and models of green financing. The paper aims to analyze the main concepts and phenomena that could be considered generative factors for current financial market trends, as well as the inventory of facts and acts that provide a picture of the financial market. Based on these investigations, this paper suggest how we can best analyze the economic environment, processes, and resour...
International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 1999
The key issue in today’s dynamic and competitive global scenario is how to develop, utilize and s... more The key issue in today’s dynamic and competitive global scenario is how to develop, utilize and sustain continuously the knowledge potentials in an enterprise. This issue is about knowledge management. In this paper, an attempt is made to discuss the various issues of a learning organization and present an organizational learning model, which has helped to evaluate manufacturing strategies and select advanced manufacturing technology, based on strategic, tactical and monetary factors. The efficacy of the model is illustrated through an application.
International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, 1993
Presents an application of analytic hierarchic process (AHP) for evaluating the sources of supply... more Presents an application of analytic hierarchic process (AHP) for evaluating the sources of supply in a materials management situation. Evaluation of alternative sources is an unstructured decision problem involving multiple factors and attributes generic at different levels. In order to facilitate decision support to the materials managers, an all encompassing effective analysis is needed to determine the right supply source so as to be compatible with the organizational objectives. It seems that AHP helps in providing such a decision support.
International Journal of Services and Operations Management, 2017
This century is expected to be the hallmark for sustainable production system (SPS), which looks ... more This century is expected to be the hallmark for sustainable production system (SPS), which looks forward to realizing economically, socially and environmentally appropriate innovative production. This paper is an attempt to outline the concepts and learning about SPS capturing the varied perspectives of industrial case examples. An attempt is made in the paper to study the available literature about SPS and structure them into a synoptic framework of planning, design and implementation. The pursuit of sustainable development requires creation of SPS for seizing opportunities offered by triple-bottom-line orientation for firms to remain internationally superior and competitive. This paper provides a better understanding of current practices fulfilling SPS to identify opportunities for improvement based on current state of debate.
Indian cement industry has grown in terms of capacity over the last two decades after liberalizat... more Indian cement industry has grown in terms of capacity over the last two decades after liberalization. Due to the recent emphasis on infrastructural development by the Government of India, the cement industry is growing further in terms of scale and scope of operation. Some cement companies in India are claiming to be the cost leaders, but there are relative differences in technical efficiency and scale efficiency of companies. This paper attempts to examine the technical efficiency as well as the scale efficiency of 32 cement producers in India using data envelopment analysis (DEA) over a panel period of three years (2006-2008). The multiple outputs considered for the model are revenue generation from sales of cement and other variations of cement generic products. The inputs included in the model are raw material, manpower, energy and capital. This analysis brings out a distinct classification of cement producers in terms of relative efficiencies. This paper demonstrates, there are some cement producers whose technical and scale efficiencies are continuously increasing and strategically positioned in the capital market.
This study explores the moderating role of cultural values on relationships between communication... more This study explores the moderating role of cultural values on relationships between communication satisfaction (CS) and employee’s organizational commitment (OC). A survey of 1594 employees of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), a Government of India Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) providing telecommunication services across India shows that CS is positively related to OC, and relationship is moderated by employees’ cultural values at individual level. The form of moderation reveals a positive significant effect on relationship between CS and normative commitment (NC) for employees high in individualism/collectivism (IC) and positive significant effect on relationship between CS and OC (normative commitment) for employees low in masculinity/femininity (MF) and power distance (PD). However, no significant moderating effect has been observed on relationship between CS and OC (AC, CC, NC) for employee with low or high uncertainty avoidance (UA).
This paper examined the moderating role of cultural values on relationships between work-life bal... more This paper examined the moderating role of cultural values on relationships between work-life balance satisfaction (WBS) and employee's organisational commitment (OC) for example affective commitment (AC), continuance commitment (CC), and normative commitment (NC). A total of 1594 employees of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, a Government of India Public Sector Undertaking, providing telecommunication services and practising uniform HR practices across India participated in this study. It was found that WBS is positively related to OC (AC, CC and NC); and relationship is moderated by employees’ cultural values at individual level. The form of moderation reveals a positive significant effect on relationship between WBS and NC for employees high in individualism/collectivism, low in masculinity/femininity and power distance. However, no significant moderating effect has been observed on relationship between WBS and OC (AC, CC and NC) for employee having low or high uncertainty avoidance.
This study explores the moderating role of cultural values on relationships between communication... more This study explores the moderating role of cultural values on relationships between communication satisfaction (CS) and employee’s organizational commitment (OC). A survey of 1594 employees of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), a Government of India Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) providing telecommunication services across India shows that CS is positively related to OC, and relationship is moderated by employees’ cultural values at individual level. The form of moderation reveals a positive significant effect on relationship between CS and normative commitment (NC) for employees high in individualism/collectivism (IC) and positive significant effect on relationship between CS and OC (normative commitment) for employees low in masculinity/femininity (MF) and power distance (PD). However, no significant moderating effect has been observed on relationship between CS and OC (AC, CC, NC) for employee with low or high uncertainty avoidance (UA).
Global supply chains are often critically dependent upon globally outsourced Information Technolo... more Global supply chains are often critically dependent upon globally outsourced Information Technology (IT) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) projects. Effective risk assessment and mitigation of these projects is therefore of great importance for such supply chains. Traditional risk management techniques used so far in IT and BPO projects have depended almost entirely on the 'Expected Utility Theory' that computes risk exposure as the product of risk probability and risk impact. Although this method is considered the gold standard in risk assessment, it has severe limitations due to the fact that accurate computation of risk probability and impact is difficult. In this and earlier papers, we have advocated the use of 'risk factors' in conjunction with other existing methods for risk assessment. Risk factors are conditions that affect project performance. In this paper, we use Logistic Regression and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based methods on a set of globally outsourced projects to predict project performance and to rank the relative importance of project risk factors. Although in this paper these techniques have been tested in outsourced IT projects, these can also be used in identifying and determining project risk factors in other industries.
Organizational Cybersecurity Journal: Practice, Process and People
PurposeAs evident from the literature review, the research on cyber security performance is cente... more PurposeAs evident from the literature review, the research on cyber security performance is centered on security metrics, maturity models, etc. Essentially, all these are helpful for evaluating the efficiency of cyber security organization but what matters is how the factors of internal efficiency affect the business performance, i.e. the external effectiveness. The purpose of this research paper is to derive the factors of internal efficiency and external effectiveness of cyber security and develop impact model to identify the most and least preferred parameters of internal efficiency with respect to all the parameters of external effectiveness.Design/methodology/approachThere are two objectives for this research: Deriving the factors of internal efficiency and external effectiveness of cyber security; Developing a model to identify the impact of internal efficiency factors on the external effectiveness of cyber security since there is not much evidence of research in defining the ...
International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology, 2014
Damping in built-up structures is produced by the energy dissipation due to micro-slip along the ... more Damping in built-up structures is produced by the energy dissipation due to micro-slip along the frictional interfaces. The analysis of the problem has been carried out using Finite Element Method (FEM). A finite element model of the linear elastic system has been formulated using the Euler-Bernoulli beam theory to investigate the damping phenomena in riveted connections. The discrete element system having two degrees of freedom per node representing v and i¶v i¶x has been used for the analysis. The solution considers one-dimensional beam elements with each one consisting of two nodes having two degrees of freedom, i.e. transverse displacement and rotation at each node. The generalized stiffness and mass matrices for this element has been derived. Extensive experiments have been conducted for the validation of the analysis. From this study, it is established that the damping capacity increases and the natural frequency decreases due to the joint effects.
Ricardo (1821) showed how two countries producing two different goods using a single endowed fact... more Ricardo (1821) showed how two countries producing two different goods using a single endowed factor of production (the 2-2-1 situation), but operating with unequal efficiency, can benefit if they freely barter certain parts of their production, even if one is more efficient in producing every good. When done, such trade produces more goods in total using the same amount of total resource, rather than each producing enough goods only for own consumption, as in autarky. Ricardo showed that global benefits (measured in units of total goods produced) can accrue if each country specialises-to gain from its own comparative advantage. Simplifications of this seminal theory exist. However, even in the simplest 2-2-1 case computations become exigent when manipulated by hand to explore different scenarios of production and trade. Hence, students frequently skip this effort. This paper presents an Excel®-based computational framework to quickly locate optimal production in Ricardian trade.
International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling, 2017
Supplier selection is an important strategic consideration for the manufacturing industries. Righ... more Supplier selection is an important strategic consideration for the manufacturing industries. Right selection is a process of identifying the right suppliers, who are able to provide the buyer right products/raw materials/ services, at the right price, right time, right place and right quantity. The selection decision is based on multiple criteria and this decision often is unstructured and complex. Multi criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem involves different conflicting criteria on which decision maker's knowledge is sometimes vague and imprecise. This decision is required to be taken in a fuzzy environment. In this paper, an attempt has been made to formulate and apply a fuzzy MCDM method to a supplier selection problem from the Indian fertiliser industry.
At the global level and in particular the European level, challenges related to climate change an... more At the global level and in particular the European level, challenges related to climate change and the transition to green transactions have created an imperative where identifying or developing innovative financial instruments, appropriate for these priorities, have become our research priorities and objectives. Starting from the analysis of the European Investment Plan for green transactions, as well as the EU Directive 2018/410 of the European Parliament and of the Council, in conjunction with ongoing efforts to identify innovative financing tools, research is presented based on hypotheses using concepts and models of green financing. The paper aims to analyze the main concepts and phenomena that could be considered generative factors for current financial market trends, as well as the inventory of facts and acts that provide a picture of the financial market. Based on these investigations, this paper suggest how we can best analyze the economic environment, processes, and resour...
International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 1999
The key issue in today’s dynamic and competitive global scenario is how to develop, utilize and s... more The key issue in today’s dynamic and competitive global scenario is how to develop, utilize and sustain continuously the knowledge potentials in an enterprise. This issue is about knowledge management. In this paper, an attempt is made to discuss the various issues of a learning organization and present an organizational learning model, which has helped to evaluate manufacturing strategies and select advanced manufacturing technology, based on strategic, tactical and monetary factors. The efficacy of the model is illustrated through an application.
International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, 1993
Presents an application of analytic hierarchic process (AHP) for evaluating the sources of supply... more Presents an application of analytic hierarchic process (AHP) for evaluating the sources of supply in a materials management situation. Evaluation of alternative sources is an unstructured decision problem involving multiple factors and attributes generic at different levels. In order to facilitate decision support to the materials managers, an all encompassing effective analysis is needed to determine the right supply source so as to be compatible with the organizational objectives. It seems that AHP helps in providing such a decision support.
International Journal of Services and Operations Management, 2017
This century is expected to be the hallmark for sustainable production system (SPS), which looks ... more This century is expected to be the hallmark for sustainable production system (SPS), which looks forward to realizing economically, socially and environmentally appropriate innovative production. This paper is an attempt to outline the concepts and learning about SPS capturing the varied perspectives of industrial case examples. An attempt is made in the paper to study the available literature about SPS and structure them into a synoptic framework of planning, design and implementation. The pursuit of sustainable development requires creation of SPS for seizing opportunities offered by triple-bottom-line orientation for firms to remain internationally superior and competitive. This paper provides a better understanding of current practices fulfilling SPS to identify opportunities for improvement based on current state of debate.
Indian cement industry has grown in terms of capacity over the last two decades after liberalizat... more Indian cement industry has grown in terms of capacity over the last two decades after liberalization. Due to the recent emphasis on infrastructural development by the Government of India, the cement industry is growing further in terms of scale and scope of operation. Some cement companies in India are claiming to be the cost leaders, but there are relative differences in technical efficiency and scale efficiency of companies. This paper attempts to examine the technical efficiency as well as the scale efficiency of 32 cement producers in India using data envelopment analysis (DEA) over a panel period of three years (2006-2008). The multiple outputs considered for the model are revenue generation from sales of cement and other variations of cement generic products. The inputs included in the model are raw material, manpower, energy and capital. This analysis brings out a distinct classification of cement producers in terms of relative efficiencies. This paper demonstrates, there are some cement producers whose technical and scale efficiencies are continuously increasing and strategically positioned in the capital market.
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