Talent Managment

Purpose: Investors always try to make lucid decision while investigating and inferring information collected from several sources for investment avenues to arrive at an ideal investment decision. But at the same time they are prejudiced by various internal and external factors that stimulate them in their investment decision. This paper attempts to explore the impact of investment decisions on investor's satisfaction in the city of Chennai. Methodology The survey was conducted on the internal and external factors which impact the behaviour of investors with respect to investment in mutual fund industry from 350 investors of mutual funds across the city. The data was analyzed through Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Structural equation modeling has been used to identify the various factors affecting investor's decision making in mutual funds and its effect on investors satisfaction. Results: The outcome of the analysis revealed that there was an impact of investment decision on investors' satisfaction. It was concluded that right investment decisions will lead to better investor's satisfaction. The study further analyses the relationship between investors' satisfaction and repeated investment behaviour. Conclusions: The findings indicated that financial attitude drives, information drives and investment outcomes are the main reason which, results in investors satisfaction and in turn results in repeated investment decisions. Introduction Investment decisions are always based on the expectation of the investor and his ability to invest which is very difficult to be foretold or comprehended. Thus, many researchers have been analyzing this through various studies in order to understand the portent of financial decision made by the investors. There are many factors like returns, gains, appreciation of capital invested, risk and safety issues which, plays a major role in investment decision made by the investors. Moreover, investors compare different investment options before making an investment decision. Thus, this study focuses on analyzing the factors that affect the investment decisions of an investor and the factors that contribute to investor's satisfaction. It further aims to study the relationship between investors' satisfaction on repeated investment behaviour.

Problem Statement: Even though the statistics of women in higher education at STEM departments is high, their leadership in the departments is low because they are strongly discouraged in participation.
Research Questions: Hence, how the universities’ strategies can be changed to encourage the participation of women as leaders at STEM departments is systematically questioned by making the comparative study at different Turkish universities.
Purpose of the Study: The goals are to understand the three different universities’ experiences related to the women’s leadership in STEM Departments. Although the statistics of women in studying at STEM Departments is increasing, the inclusion of women as leaders in the higher education management is analyzed by studying the reasons and hidden agenda.
Research Methods: In the study, a phenomenological analysis is used by collecting data related to the experiences and perceptions of the women as well as men, directly and indirectly playing important roles at the universities. The ten subjects were defined by the participants related to the reasons and hidden agenda of discouraging women’s leadership at STEM Departments of the universities, particularly in engineering departments.
Findings: This NVivo analysis showed the women’s leadership at STEM Departments was low since as the participants mentioned the conservative policies affected the university administration, particularly those of the state universities. Even though the leaders who had actively responsible in STEM Departments did not see any discouragement for the women, most of them had declared they were not supported, assigned, or elected as leaders.
Conclusions: So, the findings show that the women’s leadership was not so strong as expected. More critically, their leadership statistics was decreasing comparing to past years though their number was increasing as students. Their career path had been changing in studying STEM, but not in their work environments, especially at the university management due to neo-conservative policies, which created segregation.