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Pages: 328-331
Gautam Parmar (ASPEE Agribusiness Management Institute, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, Gujarat )
Jenis Chauhan (G.H. Patel institute of Business Management, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat)

The penetration of internet have change human life drastically, the internet and technology have also changes the terms of doing the business. Due to ease and convenience the online selling format getting popular in India. The impulse buying is considered as unplanned purchase which is carried out instantly. The various services provided by online seller such as cash on delivery, gift coupons, free delivery, customers review and other factors play a role in online impulse buying. The present paper tries to investigate the factors affecting online impulse buying. To achieve objectives the structured questionnaire was used and total 106 respondents were surveyed by applying convenience sampling method. The outcome of the study shows the price discount is most affecting factor for impulse buying followed by quantity discount, free delivery, cash on delivery, gift coupons, festive offers, debit/credit card offers, easy returns and end of season sale. The least affecting factors are Detail Product Description, customers review and e-mail notification.

Pages: 328-331Gautam Parmar (ASPEE Agribusiness Management Institute, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, Gujarat )Jenis Chauhan (G.H…

Pages: 323-327
Hanieh Sabet (Department of School Management Study, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, Kerala )

We identified two human resource management practices that positively influence intellectual capital. Survey data were collected from 1013 employees of a large Indian company leader in the food product market. Structural equations modelling results showed that intellectual capital positively affects the job attitudes examined, although differences emerged between the three dimensions of intellectual capital. Specifically, human capital and relational capital did not directly affect employees' job satisfaction and retention. Our results identified two measures of human resource management practices (communication & alignment) that positively influenced intellectual capital and also contributed to the improvement of employees' job satisfaction and retention. Our findings may help managers design and implement intervention programmes and policies for effective intellectual capital management.

Pages: 323-327Hanieh Sabet (Department of School Management Study, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi…

Pages: 315-322
S.H. Baba (Sr. Scientist, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Kashmir, Shalimar Campus, Srinagar, J&K)
Omar F. Khan (Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Kashmir, Shalimar Campus, Srinagar, J&K)
T. Kawoosa (Department of School Education, Govt. J&K)

This study investigated the quality and quantity of human resource development (HRD) and analyzed its impact on agricultural productivity and household income in rural areas of J and K. It was observed that there has been a differential endowment of land and water resources across different agro-climatic locations in the state. Chi-square estimates indicated significant difference across agro-climatic zones of the state with respect to the accumulation of quality and quantity of HRD. Moreover, the household income was higher in the zone which has maximum value for composite HRD index. The OLS estimates indicated an important role of human resources in determining agricultural productivity and farm household income. As evident from influence on R2 values in each model for all zones, HRD variables have more contribution in enhancement of agricultural productivity and rural income than capital and land though the role of quality of HRD was more significant. Based upon findings, the study put forth few policy suggestions for the sustained accumulation of human capital. Study suggests that inter-regional differences in socio-economic indicators need to be considered while framing HRD strategies so it could be location specific.

Pages: 315-322S.H. Baba (Sr. Scientist, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Kashmir, Shalimar…

Pages: 312-314
Kanika Garg, Manvi Chawla, Charu Chawla, and Shubham Taneja (Department of Management studies, Panipat Institute of Engineering &Technology, Samalkha, Haryana)

The purpose of the study is to understand the impact of GST on the business firms. GST shall replace a number of taxes and to remove the cascading effect. To understand the process of proposed GST. The objective of the study is to compare the existing tax system with the proposed GST and the impact of various stakeholders like traders, employees, service provider and to ascertain the positive and negative impact of GST. In order to attain the objective 100 respondents are selected out of which 78 respondents are fill the questionnaire and are chosen for further study in the research. Most of the respondents are dissatisfied with this parameter and 20 respondents out of are neutral towards GST and be more prudence and selective in their purchasing behavior. Arafat , pail and ibranim, and ramastse also found that the custom are more prudence and selective behavior.

Pages: 312-314Kanika Garg, Manvi Chawla, Charu Chawla, and Shubham Taneja (Department of Management studies, Panipat…

Pages: 309-311
Sukhdeep Kaur Mann, Divya Sachan, and Ritu Mittal (Department of Extension Education and Communication Management, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab)

Home Science is the science of home and it includes all the things that concern the person, home, family members and resources. It is the education for "better living" and the core of this education is the family ecosystem. Home Science is classified as a technical and vocational subject (Ministry of Education, 2003). It also deals with reciprocal relations between the family and its natural and man-made environments. It aims at getting maximum satisfaction for the person and their family members through the efficient and scientific use of their resources. The present study was planned to determine the preference and applicability of Home Science courses. The results of the study indicated that highest percentage of respondents had preferred Foods and Nutrition as their first preference, reasons for higher ranking of discipline was interesting subject matter followed by good teaching staff. Students expressed lowest applicability of knowledge and skills learnt from allied courses such as entomology, biochemistry, organic chemistry and mathematics in their jobs or at household level.

Pages: 309-311Sukhdeep Kaur Mann, Divya Sachan, and Ritu Mittal (Department of Extension Education and Communication…

Pages: 306-308
Kanika Garg (Panipat Institute of Engineering and Technology, Samalkha, Panipant, Haryana)
Karan Rana, Shubham Jain, and Tushar Jain (Department of Management Studies, Panipat Institute of Engineering and Technology, Samalkha, Haryana)

In this global competitive environment, effective leadership style is necessary to reduce the attrition rate. From the effective leadership styles only it is possible to achieve organizational goal productively. Leadership styles affect on the employee performance and productivity. An effective leader influences followers in a desired manner to achieve desired goals. So the main aim of this study is to identify the leadership styles among Management and Engineering students. In order to fulfill the objective the study has been selected the sample of 120 students who are studying in management and engineering departments. The data has been collected through standardized questionnaire which is developed by Northhouse (1985). Study found that Engineering students are more Task-Oriented and Management students are more Relationship-Oriented.

Pages: 306-308Kanika Garg (Panipat Institute of Engineering and Technology, Samalkha, Panipant, Haryana)Karan Rana, Shubham Jain…

Pages: 301-305
Suman Madan (Department of Management Studies, Panipat Institute of Engineering & Technology, Samalkha, Panipat, Haryana)

In a developing economy like India, Micro and small enterprises play a vital role. Lack of adequate credit facilities is a critical problem for this sector. Almost 92.77% of MSME units are completely dependent on personal savings or self-finance available through informal sources like money-lenders. However, many of the credit related problems has already been resolved by the ministry of MSME by offering lucrative policies and schemes to this sector. Banking Sector has also given a fillip to this sector by providing the credit on ease terms. A businessman cannot do without banks. The attitude of bankers towards their customer's influences what they do and how they grow their businesses. It is the Banker who helps the entrepreneur since the recogntion of need up to its fulfillment. Hence, Bankers attitude carries higher weightage in accesibility to finance. This paper aims to examine the impact of Bankers attitude on Financial Accessibility of Micro and Small Firms. For this purpose, primary data has been collected through structured questionnaire from a sample of 523 firms.

Pages: 301-305Suman Madan (Department of Management Studies, Panipat Institute of Engineering & Technology, Samalkha, Panipat…

Pages: 297-300
Sunita Mehla and Suman Ghalawat (Department of Business Management, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana)

Organic foods are basically natural food which are ecologically safe and produced with environmentally harmless processes. These foods do not contain man made inputs like pesticides, chemical fertilizers, genetically modified organisms and are not processed by means of irradiation, industrial solvents or chemical food additives. The study focused to study the demographic profile of respondents and to identify the reasons for buying organic product. In this paper descriptive analysis has been used to achieve the objective of the study. In the study, primary data has been collected with the help of semi-structured questionnaire from 200 respondents from Hisar district of Haryana. Respondents have a relatively equal proportion of males (58 %) and females (42 %). Majority of the respondents (58%) were married. Respondents are young and dynamic. Majority belongs to service and students mix. Moreover, most of the respondents were from middle income group. Majority of the respondents purchase organic product online, followed by retail shops. As we can see our respondents are youth and generally preferred online shopping. Respondents prefer to buy food/drink (40%), followed by cosmetics (35%) and clothes (25%). Regarding the reason for buying organic product, majority of the respondents preferred organic product because of the quality of organic product (64%), followed by health concern (19%), and prefer the taste/texture/feeling (17%). Youth is more concern about their health and ready to pay high price for the quality product.

Pages: 297-300Sunita Mehla and Suman Ghalawat (Department of Business Management, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar…

Pages: 292-296
Meenakshi and Gurmeet Singh (Department of Education & Community Services, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab)

Education is the most important invention of mankind. It has transformed man from 'two legged animal' into human being. It is a process of human enlightenment and empowerment for the achievement of a better and higher quality of life. It is a never ending process of inner growth and development. Its period stretches from cradle to grave. Child enters the school, studies and achieve in studies, attains maturity in all most every sphere, leaves it and enters the college or university. During his stay in the school, the student is concerned about his academic achievement, his family, peer group and school, put different pressures upon him for excellent achievement. In all this affects his general mental status. There is no doubt that academic achievement is important. But it leads to academic anxiety and unhappiness of the individual. Than it can lead to many psychological problems to an individual. He/she may indulge in self injury or social destruction out of frustration or poor mental health. Hence there is a need to study the relationship between academic achievement and academic anxiety, academic achievement and happiness.

Pages: 292-296Meenakshi and Gurmeet Singh (Department of Education & Community Services, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab)

Pages: 286-291
Bijayalaxmi Panda (Regional Advocacy Officer- Advocacy, Fight Hunger Foundation/Action Against Hunger, Jaipur, Rajasthan)
Abdul Halim (Communications Officer, Fight Hunger Foundation/Action Against Hunger, New Delhi)
Mousumi Gupta (Department of Advocacy, Action Against Hunger/Fight Hunger Foundation, New Delhi)
Arish Syed (Executive Director, Action Against Hunger/Fight Hunger Foundation, New Delhi)

Children's experiences of poverty and vulnerability are multidimensional and differ from those of others. Around 170 million or 40% of children in India are vulnerable to or experiencing difficult circumstances (Udayan Care & UNICEF). Children undergo complex physical, psychological and intellectual development as they grow, and are also often more vulnerable to malnutrition, disease, abuse and exploitation (UNICEF). The Government of India recognises all the vulnerable children as “Children in difficult circumstances; characterised by their specific social, economic and geo-political situation”. In addition to providing a safe environment for these children, it is vital to ensure that all other children also remain protected. Child protection is integrally linked to every other right of the child, and failure to ensure children's right to protection adversely affects all other rights of the child (MWCD), and failure to protect children has serious consequences on the physical, mental, emotional and social development of a child. These development indicators are also directly linked to the nutritional intake of a child. Under-nutrition of children is a major public health problem and children under five years of age are more vulnerable than others. Children residing in Social Welfare Hostels/orphanages are more prone to malnutrition compared to children staying at home with their parents. This could lead to more morbidity among these children (Bhat & Bangera, 2017). Hence, a proper surveillance of their nutrition status is required to ensure optimum health and nutrition care. Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS) is based on the principles of 'protection of child rights' and 'best interests of the child' and aims to institutionalize services for emergency outreach, family and community based care, counselling and support. ICPS sensitizes functionaries in the system towards child protection and raise public awareness. It seeks to put in place both preventive and curative mechanisms for a child needing protection from exploitation, harassment, health hazards etc. The model adopts Government-Civil Society partnership to ensure child protection and create a safe and healthy environment for the children of India. It was found that due to lack of regular supervision and commitment to implement and monitor standards of child care institutions, lack of maintaining standard care (food, accommodation, sanitation, leisure) in all institutions due to lower funding, staff etc, children do not get adequate food and nutrition, environment for the development of health both physically and psychologically (NIPCCD, 2011; NIPCCD, 2001; MWCD, 2007; IRMED, 2009-10). Though ICPS is a flagship child protection scheme for the development of health and nutrition of children through institutional settings in India where large numbers of children live, hardly any study was found to focus on budget to maintain their health and nutritional needs. Even disaggregated data is also not available about the number of children of different age groups who are staying in institutions due to their vulnerabilities and number of children homes that are running in India. So it is difficult to calculate the amount provided for food and nutrition to normal and sick children.

Pages: 286-291Bijayalaxmi Panda (Regional Advocacy Officer- Advocacy, Fight Hunger Foundation/Action Against Hunger, Jaipur, Rajasthan)Abdul Halim…

Pages: 283-285
Fateme Tavakoli and Firooz Rezaeian (Department of Educational Sciences, Arsanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arsanjan, Iran)

The aim of this study was to compare the intelligence nonverbal social skills in preschool children of employed mother's non-employee city of Shiraz. A total of 50 children with working mothers and 50 children with mothers of normal city using random sampling - a cluster of two or three public preschool were chosen Matson social skills (1983) and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale (1939) as a research tool was distributed between two groups of children. The results showed that children with employed mothers in social skills and non-verbal intelligence gained higher scores than children with non-employee mother.

Pages: 283-285Fateme Tavakoli and Firooz Rezaeian (Department of Educational Sciences, Arsanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University…

Pages: 280-282
Jatesh Kathpalia, Rashmi Tyagi, and Vinod Kumari (Department of Sociology, CCS HAU, Hisar, Haryana)

Direct seeded rice (DSR), most likely older method of crop establishment, is gaining popularity because of its low-input demand. It offers certain advantages i.e. it saves labour, requires less water, less drudgery, early crop maturity, low production cost, better soil physical conditions for following crops and less methane emission, provides better option to be the best fit in different cropping systems. Comparative yields in DSR can be obtained by adopting various cultural practices like, selection of suitable cultivars, proper sowing time, optimum seed rate, proper weed and water management. It can also be stated that soil problems related to rice and following crops can be solved with direct seeding. There are several constraints associated with shift from PTR to DSR, such as high weed infestation, evolution of weedy rice, increase in soil borne pathogens, nutrient disorders, poor crop establishment, lodging, incidence of blast, brown leaf spot etc. By overcoming these constraints DSR can prove to be a very promising, technically and economically feasible alternative to PTR. The contextual matrix and constraints associated with adoption of DSR are discussed in this paper. The study was conducted in Kurukshetra district of Haryana state. From this district, two blocks namely Thanesar and Pehowa were selected randomly. The data presented that constraints regarding input and marketing perceived by respondents was high cost of seed and 'lack of marketing facilities in village' ranked first constraint, respectively.

Pages: 280-282Jatesh Kathpalia, Rashmi Tyagi, and Vinod Kumari (Department of Sociology, CCS HAU, Hisar, Haryana)
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