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Pages: 387-391
Rachna Rani, Asha Chawla, and Deepika Vig (Department of HDFS, COHSc. Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab)

The present study was aimed to find out the gender differences in personality traits altruistic adolescents. The study was carried out in Government urban and rural schools of Ludhiana District of Punjab. The total sample comprised 240 adolescents (120 boys & 120 girls) in the age group of 14-16 years who belonging to low and middle socio-economic status. Socio Economic Status scale, Altruism Scale and 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire was used to collect the data. The results showed that boys with moderate altruism were found more in medium level of personality traits. Which indicated that neither they were humble, expedient, shy, tough minded, trusting, group dependent, undisciplined and relaxed nor they were assertive, conscientious, venturesome, tender minded, suspicious, self-sufficient, controlled and tensed as compared to girls. Boys with moderate altruism were found more outgoing, socially aware, free thinkers and less sober. Whereas, more number of girls with high altruism were found to have medium level of these personality traits as compared to boys. Boys with high altruism were found outgoing, tender minded, socially aware and were found less intelligent and humble.

Pages: 387-391Rachna Rani, Asha Chawla, and Deepika Vig (Department of HDFS, COHSc. Punjab Agricultural University…

Pages: 384-386
Uma Rani (Department of Psychology, SPW Degree & PG College, Tirupati, Uttar Pradesh)

Education for disabled children in India is lacking either in its efficacy, infrastructure, implementation and/or other causes. One of the causes is the exact figures of disabled children. It is very difficult to find reliable data about the prevalence of disability in India. Despite India's attempts at inclusive education, schooling for special needs children has usually been a story of lack - of will, infrastructure and personnel. Schools, both private and government, would avoid admitting children with disability. Since the PWD Act of 1995, and the RTE Act of 2009, there has, however, been an improvement in the record of disability education, certainly in terms of its awareness and future challenges, and seeing it as a matter of right for a large section of young India (Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation, 2012). For life to go onchange is inevitable. Change is never easy especially when it involves a large number of individuals and an established system. Yet change is necessary when innovative practices demonstrate greater effectiveness than past services. This paper highlights the vast inter-state variations in responding to the educational needs of children with disabilities. It then concludes by attempting to bring together a range of disparate themes to suggest the fundamental dilemmas faced in planning and providing for children with disabilities and discusses some ways of moving forward. It is important to note here that there is currently a significant lacuna of knowledge in the field of special and inclusive education for Disabled Children in India.

Pages: 384-386Uma Rani (Department of Psychology, SPW Degree & PG College, Tirupati, Uttar Pradesh)

Pages: 381-383
Parvesh Sood (Guru Dronacharya College of Education, Bhuna, Fatehabad, Haryana)

Attrition in business means the reduction in employees and workforce through means such as retirement or resignation. Companies spend a lot of money and efforts in hiring and retaining the talent for some specialized roles, but the talent loss deeply affects the company's performance and its goodwill in the industry. Employers keep on devising the employee retention policies time to time, but this problem is still prevalent in lot of industries specially in service sector. In the present research paper, the first part discusses on the reason and types of Attrition. The second part of the paper talks about the attrition rate for IT Sector of India. In the last part, the author has suggested some thoughts on how this problem can be tackled.

Pages: 381-383Parvesh Sood (Guru Dronacharya College of Education, Bhuna, Fatehabad, Haryana)

Pages: 378-380
Debasis Gan Chowdhury (Institute of Advanced Studies in Education, Tripura)

The present study was conducted to critically analyse the issues related to Teacher Education and to find out the remedial measures of those problems and obstacles that are significant enough to disrupt the main objective of the Teacher Training Program. The major issues and problem areas that are coming out are abrasion of values, recognition of constitutional goals, proper operations of teacher-education institutions, constitution of Teacher Training Programme, etc. And after deep study and discussion with educationists, it has been found that improvement in working of teacher education institutions, knowledge of science and technology, realization of constitutional goals, emphasis on value education, healthy discussion on social issues, restructuring of teacher education programme, development of creativity and development of life skills are the major remedies to bring quality and improvement in the teacher education program.

Pages: 378-380Debasis Gan Chowdhury (Institute of Advanced Studies in Education, Tripura)

Pages: 375-377
Alka Rani (Department of Commerce, Sri Guru Hari Singh College, Sri Jiwan Nagar, Sirsa, Haryana)
Veena Gautam (Department of Commerce, Chaudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa, Haryana)

Corporate governance is about ethical conduct of business. Corporate governance is mechanism to maximize the wealth of owners by optima utilization of resources and managing the organization in more transparent way. Corporate governance is about promoting corporate fairness, transparency and accountability. Since the commencement of liberalization process, economic scenario began to change. Globalization has not only significantly heightened business risk but also compelled Indian economy to adopt good governance. Foreign investment is means for economic growth of developing countries like India. When investors make investment, they consider two variables, capital and risk transparency. Strong corporate governance help to ensure long term success, weak system leads to serious problems. The situations grew from bad to worse in following decades and corruption; inefficiency became the hallmarks of Indian corporate sector. Satyam episode, Harshad Mehta securities scam, UTI scam, Ketan Parikh scam came into light in earlier years. So in current competitive environment, there is need to induct global standards. So that at least while the scope for scams still present, it can be at least reduce to minimum and CG can play a vital role in reducing corruption and decreased corruption enhance country development process because good corporate governance is to ensure commitment in managing the company in transparent ,manner.

Pages: 375-377Alka Rani (Department of Commerce, Sri Guru Hari Singh College, Sri Jiwan Nagar, Sirsa…

Pages: 373-374
Puspa, V. Singh, and P. Punia (Department of Textile and Apparel Designing, COHS, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana)

Durrie-weaving in rural Haryana though has a seal of social approval, no longer offers any incentive for attainment of creative element and professional efficiency. The survival of this textile heritage is threatened by the modern mechanized and commercialized methods of producing durries. Decorative techniques like embroidery have been contributing to the adornment of textile materials in Haryana since long. If woven durrie designs are complemented with such decorative techniques, for which the villagers are already skilled, this traditional art will get a new face. Therefore, this art of rural Haryana call for special attention to make it a marketable commodity, in other forms such as mats, bags, belts and cushion materials, with various styles of embellishment. Keeping these facts in mind a study was conducted to know the embellishment techniques preferences of consumer for diversified durrie products. It is concluded that the consumers had high opinion about the embellishment techniques as these helped in breaking the monotony of woven products and provided variation to existing techniques. However when the cost of prepared diversified products with different techniques was compared, it was found that diversified products prepared with painting techniques was lowest followed by machine embroidery and hand embroidery.

Pages: 373-374Puspa, V. Singh, and P. Punia (Department of Textile and Apparel Designing, COHS, CCS…

Pages: 361-367
Chandan Kumar (Department of Hindi, University of Delhi, Delhi)
Namita Rajput (Principal (OSD) Department of Commerce, Sri Aurobindo College (Eve), Delhi University, Delhi)
Amogh Talan (Department of Commerce, College of Vocational Studies, University of Delhi, Delhi)

Job Insecurity is emerging as a growing threat to the careers of aspiring, meritious and hardworking employees in our country due to various reasons such as high demand of jobs, and government's inability to meet such a high demand in a short period of time. This results in hiring of employees on temporary/contractual basis. This situation is especially bad among the teachers belonging to various government schools and colleges in Delhi. This research investigated emotional responses of Job Insecurity in terms of Turnover Intentions and lesser Organizational Commitment. Moderating role of Work Based Support for the proposed relations was also investigated. A sample of 110 temporary/contractual/ad-hoc teachers belonging to MCD schools and several colleges from a university was used for this study. 'Partial Least Square' technique of 'Structural Equation Modeling' was applied using 'SmartPLS 2.0.M3' to understand the proposed relationships. Results show that a feeling of Job Insecurity is responsible for both the Turnover Intention and lesser commitment towards the employing organization. Work Based Support was found to be a significant moderator for this relation, with employees receiving high Work Based Support found to be more capable of handling their emotional responses. Organizational implications have been suggested.

Pages: 361-367Chandan Kumar (Department of Hindi, University of Delhi, Delhi)Namita Rajput (Principal (OSD) Department of…

Pages: 356-360
Deepa Vinay, Seema Kwatra, Suneeta Sharma, and Kumkum Pandey (Department of Family Resource Management, College of Home Science, G.B. P.U.A & T., Pantnagar, U.S. Nagar, Uttarakhand )

The reduction of postural stress is fundamental to workstation design in ergonomics. A multifaceted approach is needed to arrive at appropriate workstation design for different workers. The requirement of tasks and the characteristics of users need to be considered in relation to the options for workstation design. Therefore present study was carried out to assess and improve the workstation design for weaving operation and for the reduction of associated occupational health hazards. Descriptive cum experimental research design was chosen for the present study. Thirty workers (27 female & 3 male) involved in various weaving activities formed the sample for the investigation. Along with this, physiological parameters and postural angle analysis of weavers were assessed by conducting the experiments. To improve posture and potentially decrease musculoskeletal problems provision of ergonomically-designed workstations for weavers was intervened. Participation of women respondents was found maximum in this enterprise. The work was performed using frequent changes of the postures which included sitting, standing, forward and backward bending postures which can lead to MSD. All these activities were performed using two types of workstations. Due to prolonged sitting posture while performing the activity led to stiffness in calf muscles and besides this it also causes pain in feet as well as in back. To improve posture and decrease MSD problems, ergonomically-designed workstation for weavers were refined and developed. Two prototype of sitting stool and stool cum chair was introduced to test the suitability of the technology and it was found that there was reduction of MSDs by 48 percent along with enhancement in production.

Pages: 356-360Deepa Vinay, Seema Kwatra, Suneeta Sharma, and Kumkum Pandey (Department of Family Resource Management…

Pages: 350-355
Ruqaiya Bano (Department of Agricultural Economics and Business Management, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pardesh)
Salma Ahmad (Department of Business Administration, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pardesh)
Shah Mohd. Khan (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pardesh)

The study was carried out to construct a valid and reliable scale for measuring consumer's preference. It was a bilingual (English & Hindi) Consumers' Preference scale. The responses were on a Likert type five point scale with 40 items. A sample of 780 consumers was drawn to determine the psychometric properties (validity & reliability) of the test. Subject Matter Experts (SME) rated each statement on relevance, clarity, simplicity and ambiguity. As confirmed by SME, test showed high face and content validity. Item analysis conducted and the reliability using Cronbach's Alpha of the scale was found 0.94 and is excellent. Using a more structured method, in Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) with varimax rotation eight factors emerged and labeled very cautiously. In all eight factors explained 62.54% of the total variance. Convergent validity was evaluated using different criterion and the Average Variance Extracted (AVE) by each construct exceeding the variance due to measurement error for that construct. The composite reliability was also examined. Further, inter-factorial correlations among sub-dimensions of Consumers' Preference scale found highly significant (p<0.001).The test is valid and reliable for assessing students internally and prepare them for external examinations. It can be concluded that the present research work confirms high psychometric characteristics of Consumers' Preference scale.

Pages: 350-355Ruqaiya Bano (Department of Agricultural Economics and Business Management, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar…

Pages: 344-349
Anubhuti Dubey and Garima Singh (Department of Psychology, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur)

A major portion of life period of a person is spent in school premises. During the schooling period a student interacts with teachers and other fellow students. Hence, the present study was undertaken to explore the student's experiences, expectations and conceptualization of school teacher in their life. The data was collected from undergraduate and postgraduate students (n=70) of Department of Psychology, D.D.U. Gorakhpur University, individually. These students had written a write up on good and bad teachers in their school life with focus on their look alike, handling of classes, help or constraining in handling schooling pressure, behavior of teachers and student expectations, etc. The narrative analysis was done with focus on thematic and structural type of narrative analysis. The themes that emerged for good teacher included characteristics such as better way of teaching, no discrimination among students, disciplined class, dutiful, care and concern, person with moral values and helping nature. Characteristics of a bad teacher included themes such as insulting student in class, discrimination among students, inappropriate teaching methods, excessive expression of aggression and punishment, pessimistic and inhumane nature, and no respect for others. These findings are very pertinent in developing teacher training modules that what characteristic a student want or don't want in his/her teacher in contemporary world of information overload where the student is not looking to his/her teacher as information provider but as a motherly or fatherly figure who shape them, give emotional support in ups and downs of school pressure.

Pages: 344-349Anubhuti Dubey and Garima Singh (Department of Psychology, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur)

Pages: 337-343
Anisha Juneja (Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, Delhi)
Monika Rikhi (Department of Psychology, Sri Aurobindo College, New Delhi )

Career choice has the potential to influence the social mobility, economic security, employment opportunity, emotional well being and quality of life of an individual and his/her family. The process of choosing a career is a developmental task that comes as a challenge to both the child and the parent. As the child progresses across the career stages, decisions of persistence and shift are also made. The present research aimed to study the role of family environment and work values in determining the vocational preference and work values across career stages. The participants included children freshly enrolled in college, those who had been working for less than 2 years after post graduation and those working for less than 10 years, the sample size being 120. The measures used in the study were General Health Questionnaire-12, Family Environment Scale, Vocational Preference Inventory and Values Scale. Regression analysis was used to assess the relationship between the variables. The study has clinical implications for emphasising the importance of making a more planned career decision and evaluating various aspects in career stream persistence or transition.

Pages: 337-343Anisha Juneja (Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, Delhi)Monika Rikhi (Department of Psychology, Sri…

Pages: 332-336
Amir Prasad Behera, Prajna Pani, and Anita Patra (School of Management Centurion, University of Technology and Management (CUTM), Odisha)

The paper reports on the selection and validation phase of an emotional intelligence scale. Nowadays, diverse psychometric instruments are commercialized and applied in order to select personnel or to evaluate knowledge, abilities and skills in business and educational settings (Drasgow et al., 2009). Since decisions about individuals are based on results of these tests, the validity and reliability of such instruments is of considerable importance (Kline, 2000). Statistical testing of reliability and validity of a psychological instrument helps to evaluate to which extent the predictions made on this instrument represents the latent construct aimed to be measured. The study uses the method of item analysis. It analyses the reliability and validity of a questionnaire that measures Emotional Intelligence skills of a random sample of 200 from a Multi-sector State Private University in India. The study provided that it has an acceptable reliability and validity, and the questionnaire can be used in exploring the emotional intelligence of people in higher education among sample of University population and beyond.

Pages: 332-336Amir Prasad Behera, Prajna Pani, and Anita Patra (School of Management Centurion, University of…
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