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Pages: 48-50
B. Prasad Babu (Indira Gandhi National Open University, Regional Centre, Vijayawada, A.P.)
Sudha Rani Vaitla (Counselling Psychologist, Visakhapatnam, A.P.)

The present study was conducted to assess the relationship between emotional intelligence and economic status of school teachers in Visakhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh, India. The emotional intelligence controls the emotions and maintains the cordial relationships with the social setup in the school environment, whereas the economic status is the monthly income of the school teachers in both the government and private schools. The data were collected from 100 school teachers working in elementary and secondary schools located in Visakhapatnam district and they were administered Emotional Intelligence Scale developed by Prasad, S. (2009). The collected data were analysed with mean, standard deviation, critical ratio, analyses of variance tests and coefficient of correlation. The results indicate that all the teachers possessed high level of emotional intelligence and also there is no significant differences found in the areas of gender, type of school, category of school and social status. It is observed that there is a positive relationship between economic status and emotional intelligence of teachers.

Pages: 48-50B. Prasad Babu (Indira Gandhi National Open University, Regional Centre, Vijayawada, A.P.)Sudha Rani Vaitla…

Pages: 43-47
Tilottama Mukherjee, Aditi Patra and Shubhangi Goswami (Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata)

The advent of technology has brought about marked changes in the traditional structure of teams; face- to- face teams are supplemented with another kind of team, which is now known as virtual team. Humans have been collaborating across geographical boundaries for thousands of years, a phenomenon that is bringing the world closer, making work easier yet which is both problematic and complicated. Global organizations see benefits of collaboration across distance as a mean of providing focused attention to complex problems without physically relocating individuals. The objective of this study is to compare the face- to- face teams and virtual teams on the basis of motivation and team effectiveness. The relationship between motivation and team effectiveness, in these two types of set up has also been studied. The total sample size is 100, equally distributed in two types of teams face to face (n=50) and virtual teams (n=50) respectively. Motivational Analysis of Organization Behaviour (2002) and Team Effectiveness Scale (1997) developed by Udai Pareek were administered on the employees belonging to two different types of teams from various IT sector companies in Kolkata. Results revealed a significant difference between face to face and virtual teams on all the dimensions of motivation, except for achievement motivation. Achievement motivation seems to be not affected by the difference in space and time. The location of members and their interaction with each other produce motivation of dependence, control, efferent, affiliation and influence on the team members. A significant relationship between affiliation motivation and team effectiveness in face to face teams was found.

Pages: 43-47Tilottama Mukherjee, Aditi Patra and Shubhangi Goswami (Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata)

Pages: 35-42
Tatik Wijayati, Abin Syamsudin and Hj. Rita Retnowati, M.Si (Program Pascasarjana, Jurusan Manajemen Pendidikan, Universitas Pakuan, Indonesia)

The effect of principals' leadership behavior, organizational culture, and teachers' job satisfaction on organizational commitment of junior high school teachers. (Descriptive Analysis Study on junior high school teachers in the city of Depok 2013). This study aimed to obtain information about the effect of principals' leadership behavior, organizational culture and teacher's job satisfaction on teacher's organizational commitment. This research was conducted by survey on junior high school in the city of Depok, with sample of 142 permanent teachers which was determined by proportional random sampling technique. The instruments of this research are based on content validity. The reliability was calculated using the Microsoft Excel program. Result of the instrument test shows that the reliability variable of principals' leadership behavior is 0.920, organizational culture is 0.901, teacher's job satisfaction is 0.930, and teacher's organizational culture is 0.900. Then the obtained data was analyzed using Path Analysi and the result shows that principal's leadership behavior (X1) has a direct positive effect on teacher's organizational commitment (X4), with a path coefficient of 41 = 0.226 and significance level of t41 = 2,190; organizational commitment (X2) has a direct positive effect on teachers' organizational commitment (X4), with a path coefficient of 42 = 0.214 and significance level of t42 = 2,317; Teachers' Job Satisfaction (X3) has a direct positive effect on teachers' organizational commitment (X4), with a path coefficient of 43 = 0.182 and a significance level of t43 = 2,074; principals' leadership commitment (X1) has a direct positive effect on teachers' job satisfaction (X3) with a path coefficient of 31 = 0.667 and significance level of t31 = 10,592; has organizational culture (X2) has a direct positive effect on teachers' job satisfaction (X3) with a path coefficient of 32 = 0.166 and significance level of t32 = 2.63. Therefore this study found that the following have a direct effect on teachers' organization commitment; principals' leadership behavior, organizational culture, teachers' job satisfaction, principals' leadership behavior and organizational culture also has a significant effect on teachers' job satisfaction.

Pages: 35-42Tatik Wijayati, Abin Syamsudin and Hj. Rita Retnowati, M.Si (Program Pascasarjana, Jurusan Manajemen Pendidikan…

Pages: 29-34
Meenu (National University of Educational Planning and Administration, Delhi)

Organizational learning is inherent in every organization and for sustainance of an organization in this competitive world, it is necessary to adapt new learning patterns to keep pace with today's chaninging era. If organizations are to gain a compeitive advantage in a changing world they need to have the ability to adapt constanly to new circumstances and challenges.Therefore the premise of this research paper is that organizational learning is a competence that all organization should develop. The reasoning underlying this premise is that the better organizations are at learning the more likely it is they will be able to compete and sustain in this changing & challenging world. The purpose of this study is to undersand the organizational learning component of two different types of educational institute viz; Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) & National Council of Educational Research & Teaching (NCERT). JNU as university which concerns with teaching & learning of higher education and NCERT concerns to school education , which is research organization that is devoted to research & training, publication of books for school education. For this study Organizational learning diagnostic questionnaire was used. Results reveal that JNU has highest organizational learning compare to NCERT and represent an organization holding the core characteristics of a learning organization. The analysis of the organizational learning diagnostic exhibited that to become a more effective & efficient educational organization, both the organization should raise the learning organization profile level of all the system & subsystems. In this regard the institution must initiate an organizational transformation process for learning excellence. This transformation must include developing a shared vision and an organizational learning culture, creation of a powerful strategy for building a learning organization and a structure capable of implementing that strategy, and finally developing a transformational leadership style at the decision making instances to achieve high levels of ethics, motivation, and performance.

Pages: 29-34Meenu (National University of Educational Planning and Administration, Delhi)

Pages: 23-28
Muhammad Uzair Khanj and Kanwal Nazim (Marine Reference Collection and Resource Centre, University of Karachi, Pakistan)
Moinuddin Ahmed and Syed Shahid Shaukat (Laboratory of Dendrochronology and Plant Ecology Department of Botany and Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi, Pakistan)

One of the recent trends in waste management is to recycle the industrial waste for useable products. For this purpose fiber, chemical and marble industrial wastes were used to investigate the potential of these wastes for conventional block making. The effects of industrial wastes in concrete blocks were pragmatic. The concentrations of heavy metals Co, Mn, Fe, Zn and Pb in both sludge-ashes and marble waste powder have been analyzed. The physical properties of blocks including weight, density, specific gravity, compressive strengths and percentage of water absorption were examined. As a second part of experiment leachate was obtained after soaking the blocks in distilled water for 24 hours. The physical parameters of water (leachate) such as color, pH, electrical conductivity, total dissolved solids, salinity and dissolved oxygen were determined by Sension 105 multiparameter while above mentioned heavy metals were analyzed by Atomic absorption spectrophotometer (model PG 990) to check the possible water contamination by heavy metals during the rainy season due to any seepage. Significantly higher compressive strengths 14.48 ± 0.7 N/mm2, 13.5 ± 0.4 N/mm2 and 12.53 ± 0.16 N/mm2 were recorded in M8a, F2a and M7a respectively. Fiber industry sludge-ash and marble waste powder have potential in terms of cohesive properties in the preparation of blocks. These light weight blocks were found more durable; absorb lesser amount of water and more cheaper/economic as compared to standard commercial construction blocks available in the market. It is concluded that these blocks are not only stronger than available commercial blocks but environmentally safe to be used in roads, buildings construction, boundary walls, filling material etc.

Pages: 23-28Muhammad Uzair Khanj and Kanwal Nazim (Marine Reference Collection and Resource Centre, University of…

Pages: 16-22
Firdausi Achmad (Sekolah Tinggi Agama Islam Negeri (STAIN), Pontiana No.19 Pontiana, West Kalimantan, Indonesia)

It is Johann Gottfried Herder, a German writer and journalist, who revealed the personality of Immanuel Kant as someone who was disciplined and not overburdening (Kant, 1990). Herder may be a representative of the admiration of the world over Kant's personality which according to history, Kant is described as someone who was neat and organized like a well-organized universe. This is the basic idea in Kant's moral philosophy. Kant explicitly criticized the metaphysics which he said did not correspond with the order of the human mind. The big name that can be compared with Immanuel Kant in relation to the theme of 'regularity' was Isaac Newton (1643-1727), an English physicist who much earlier had the hang of 'order' through his work Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687 (Brumbaugh, 1963: 98).

Pages: 16-22Firdausi Achmad (Sekolah Tinggi Agama Islam Negeri (STAIN), Pontiana No.19 Pontiana, West Kalimantan, Indonesia)

Pages: 9-15
Ismulyana Djan (Prod Manajemen Pendidikan, Universitas Pakuan, Bogor, Jawa Barat, Indonesia)

The research objective was to determine the lecturer commitment to the organization, which is directly affected by three variables; organizational culture, leadership, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment indirectly affected by organizational culture and leadership through job satisfaction. The research method used was survey method with causal techniques, and to analyze whether or not there is effect of one variable to another, path analysis was applied. In the analysis of research data to fully use the help of software SPSS (statistical product and service solutions), including descriptive statistical analysis, a prerequisite test data analysis and statistical hypothesis testing. The research indicates that there is a direct positive effect of organizational culture towards the organizational commitment (r41:0,271), leadership toward organizational commitment (r42:0,252), job satisfaction toward organizational commitment (r43 : 0,411), and organizational culture on job satisfaction (r31: 0,625) and there is a direct positive effect of leadership towards job satisfaction of lecturer ( r32: 0,303).

Pages: 9-15Ismulyana Djan (Prod Manajemen Pendidikan, Universitas Pakuan, Bogor, Jawa Barat, Indonesia)

Pages: 1-8
Juma Abdu Wamaungo (Prodi Pendidikan Luar Sekolah, Sekolah Pasca Sarjana, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia)

This study intended to investigate the role of community participation in the development of nonformal education programmes through community learning centers. The researcher used a qualitative method and the design was a case study. The research was conducted in two selected CLC's of Cimahi city council, West Java, Indonesia. Data collection was done through; observation, interview, documentation study, and audiovisual analyses with the intent of establishing the kinds of nonformal education programmes, forms of community participation, categories of community members that participate most, and to ascertain the role of community participation in the sustainability of nonformal education programmes in community learning centres. Findings of the study; the staff members at the two CLCs are aware of the kinds of nonformal education programmes, the CLC programmes are basically government programmes, the forms of participation are of three categories, that is; passive participation, information giving participation and consultative participation, the CLC staff conduct field analysis only during the socialization process of CLC programmes to the grassroot community, and the participants from CLCs are mostly from poor families with low economic background, but there were also those from well-off to do families. The recommendations made based on the findings of this research are: Nonformal education Professionals should be ready to face the needed desire for change in the development, planning and implementation of nonformal education programmes, Governments should allow educational and development programmes to come from the grassroot with the active participation of the would be beneficiaries, people should be encouraged to; improve their knowledge, Skills and attitudes with the aim of systemic change, and Government should set standards to be followed by community learning centres such that quality is maintained.

Pages: 1-8Juma Abdu Wamaungo (Prodi Pendidikan Luar Sekolah, Sekolah Pasca Sarjana, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia)

Pages: 627-629
Naveen (Independent Scholar History, Hisar, Haryana)

In the new millennium, students from diverse racial, ethnic, and language groups across the globe are seeking access to quality educational opportunities. These students, however, are increasingly different in background and culture from one another and from their teachers. It has been noted that student-teacher ratios increased. Orfield and Reardon (1993) discovered profound differences in the quality of educational opportunity and the teaching staff, with underresourced schools functioning at a grossly inferior level. This is the case for schools in Indian School as well. It is not surprising to find that students in disadvantaged schools score lower on standardized achievement tests and matriculation exams than do their more affluent counterparts and that they drop out at higher rates than those in advantaged schools. The present paper reviews on these differences in school levels in global context

Pages: 627-629Naveen (Independent Scholar History, Hisar, Haryana)

Pages: 624-626
Hemant (Department of Economics, G.S.S.S, Rattakhera, Ratia, Fatehabad, Haryana)

Throughout the history we have seen how economic recession has profound effect on the lives of people and on society. People lose their job, there is a decline in business activities, stock markets fall, housing market lose its charm and people become more cautious about their spending. The 2008 subprime mortgage crisis which led to market crash around the world stands as a reminder that downturn in economy is one of the toughest times to deal with. Economic recession is a phase where there is severe contraction in economic activities. Most economists agree that if economy shrinks for two consecutive quarters, then economy is considered to be under recession. According to National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), “economic recession is significant decline in the economic activity spread across the country, lasting more than few months normally visible in real GDP, impacting growth in real personal income, employment, industrial production, wholesale and retail sales”. The present paper reviews on recession and its impact on Indian economy.

Pages: 624-626Hemant (Department of Economics, G.S.S.S, Rattakhera, Ratia, Fatehabad, Haryana)

Pages: 621-623
Kuldeep Singh (Assistant Professor, Govt P. G. College, Hisar, Haryana)

Literacy is important for all aspects of an individual's life, from handling personal affairs, to raising children, to engaging in the workforce, to participating in a democratic society. Literacy has multiple conceptions, which range from a focus on the most fundamental survival skills to more complex definitions that encompass the skills needed to thrive in a variety of contexts, such as the home, the workplace, and the community. Literacy skills are also needed for adults to participate in a democratic society. Such activities as keeping apprised of local and national issues, understanding one's rights and responsibilities, reading ballots, and voting all require literacy skills. Literacy skills are needed in a variety of work contexts applying for a job, traveling to and from work, choosing a benefits package, and understanding and handling paychecks. The present paper reviews on the adults literacy skills and their assessment.

Pages: 621-623Kuldeep Singh (Assistant Professor, Govt P. G. College, Hisar, Haryana)

Pages: 615-620
Ramnath (Department of Applied Psychology, GJUS&T, Hisar, Haryana)

Risk behaviors are not, however, random, inevitable, or uncontrollable. Indeed, there is accumulating evidence identifying determinants of adolescents' health risk behaviors that in turn may increase the likelihood of experiencing adverse health outcomes. Furthermore, there is ample empirical evidence indicating that risk behaviors are preventable and amenable to change through interventions. Risk factors may be either directly or indirectly related to a particular health outcome or disease. For example, smoking cigarettes is a behavioral risk factor that increases the likelihood of experiencing negative health outcomes (e.g., emphysema, increased blood pressure) and disease (e.g., cancer). Health risk behaviors are very common nowadays in sports person too. The present paper reviews on health risk behaviors among sports person.

Pages: 615-620Ramnath (Department of Applied Psychology, GJUS&T, Hisar, Haryana)
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