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Pages: 93-97
Amjad Ali (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha)
Abu Sufiyan Zilli (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, UP)

Job Attitudes can be defined as summary evaluations of psychological objects in the work domain. The object could be almost anything in the world around us. Attitudes reflect a person's likes and dislikes toward other persons, objects, events and activities in their environment. Therefore, it makes sense to study and know about attitude because strong attitudes will very likely affect a person's behaviour such as attitudes toward supervision, pay, benefits, promotion or anything that might trigger positive or negative reactions. The present study is aimed to examine differences between managers of private and public undertakings on job attitudes. The study was carried out in different private and public organizations located in Delhi. Data were collected from 300 managers (150 managers from private and 150 from public undertakings). The job attitude scale developed by Srivastava (1999) which assesses numerous dimensions of employees' job attitudes was used. Analysis of the data was done using t-test. Results revealed significant difference between managers of private and public undertakings on job attitudes. The findings imply that the organizations in both the sectors need to understand and manage managers' job attitudes and provide them with suitable interpersonal atmosphere to strengthen their positive job attitudes so that their level of performance in the organization could be enhanced. Results are explained in the light of present scenario in existing private and public undertakings.
Pages: 93-97 Amjad Ali (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha) Abu…
Pages: 87-92
Yukti Gill and A. K. Srivastava (Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Science, BHU, Varanasi, UP)

This research study analyzed the strength of impact of informational justice on employee's job satisfaction vis-a-vis other dimensions of organisational justice i.e. distributive, procedural and interpersonal justice. The sample of this study was 250 Indian software employees. Pearson correlation table revealed that out of the four dimensions of organisational justice, informational justice is most strongly correlated (ρ=.594) with employee's job satisfaction. Further, hierarchical regression method was employed and the result showed informational justice has largest influence on job satisfaction. This means free flow of information and proper justification for any decision taken matters more to software professionals than the outcomes itself.
Pages: 87-92 Yukti Gill and A. K. Srivastava (Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Science, BHU…
Pages: 80-86
Prabha Vig (Department of Lifelong Learning & Extension, Panjab University, Chandigarh)
Komal Sharma (Research Scholar, Panjab University, Chandigarh)

The present paper proposes to determine the characteristics of effective teachers in relation to their employability skills. For this, teacher characteristics were identified under four broad indicators framed as; teacher commitment, adaptation, continuous improvement and empowerment. On the other hand, the same number of indicators were also identified under teacher employability skills named as; personal development skills; career planning and gaining employment; contributing towards the role and continuing to develop within a career. For, the present study the effect of gender as an independent variable was studied on two dependent variables viz; teacher characteristics and employability skills. To conduct this study, the data was gathered by using a self-made questionnaire distributed to 300 teachers working in the colleges of education of Punjab.
Pages: 80-86 Prabha Vig (Department of Lifelong Learning & Extension, Panjab University, Chandigarh) Komal Sharma (Research Scholar…
Pages: 75-79
Durgesh Batra (Amity University Jaipur, Jaipur, Rajasthan)

Learning is the important aspect of human life and hence it is an individual responsibility. No one can be deprived of the knowledge one has acquired. Acquisition of this knowledge becomes a very crucial and important decision of an individual's life. This learning is imparted through the education. Thus education is a necessary and important aspect of human life. Education not only improves the mental status of human but also develops the society as a whole. During last few decades, the expansion of technical and professional education was phenomenal and it is playing a significant role in the economic and technological development of the country. Various initiatives have been taken such as research and development, modernization and technology Development. The main focus areas of professional and technical education is the areas catering to the need of country, technological up gradation of labs and designing of courses by institutions in such a manner which will lead to the development of rural and undeveloped class of society. In this scenario with increasing demand and enrollment of higher education, there are lots of disparities and issues in the higher education system. The article tries to highlight these emerging issues in higher education and the regulatory framework to fight these issues in maintaining and improving the quality of issues. The paper aims at understanding the emerging and new issues in higher education. These various issues have been highlighted in various plans of UGC especially in the 11th and 12th plan. The issues focus around the Quality, expansion and Relevance of higher education. The paper further tries to bring out various initiatives taken by UGC through different bodies to manage these issues especially to improve the quality of education.
Pages: 75-79 Durgesh Batra (Amity University Jaipur, Jaipur, Rajasthan)
Pages: 70-74
Md Intekhab UR Rahman (Department of Psychology, B. N. Mandal University, Madhepura, Bihar)

Education is regarded as the key factor in overcoming the barriers that women face and the basic tool for empowering women and bringing them into the main stream of development. Education not only provides knowledge and skills to improve health and livelihoods, but it empowers women to take their right place in the society and development process. Education gives status and confidence in decision making. Educating women is the key to reducing poverty. Distance learning is any type of education that occurs while location, time, or both separate the participants. In distance learning, the teacher, through the use of technology, delivers instructions to a student at a separate location. Distance education, structure learning in which the student and instructor are separated by time and space, is currently the fastest growing form of domestic and international education.Women status in the society and education are interrelated. All over the world movements have been carried on to change the situation of illiteracy as stated by Bhatt,D.B and Sharma, R.S (1992) “ The movement for improving women's status all over the world has always emphasized education as the most significant instrument for changing women's subjugated position in society.” Women education has an important role in the development of nations. The literacy rate of the women has also impact on the economical condition and reduction of the poverty of the country. This backwardness of the women is due to the non-equal chances to education of the women. There may be equal chances to education for male- female the development of the country may be doubled. There may economic revolution in the country, if the gender disparities in the literacy rate minimized to zero. This paper attempts to outline the role of distance education in upgrading the status of women in India. In a large and developing country like India, distance education is not only cost-effective but can also reach out to all sections of society, including the marginalized and the dispossessed.
Pages: 70-74 Md Intekhab UR Rahman (Department of Psychology, B. N. Mandal University, Madhepura, Bihar)
Pages: 64-69
Jitendra Mohan Mishra (Department of Tourism Studies, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry)

Tourism of today is not only concerned with economic aspects of development, but there is a growing interest in the studies of environmental and socio-cultural impacts. Such impacts are mostly studied as part of sustainability in the tourist destinations. The concept of sustainable tourism is a theoretical framework that aims to address such issues. However sustainability is debated to be a mere theory having far less practical solution. Planners and policy makers often blame the existing public private partnership (PPP) model is like a cow which is though fed by the public sector benefits the private sector alone that eats out the major share of profit. The present paper in the pursuance of practical solutions emphasized on defining the stakeholders and agents of tourism and hospitality sector with their underlining interest. Various approaches and levels of participation in the continuum of passive participation to active self mobilisation is explained about stakeholders' participation. The feature, aim and scope of various stakeholders' engagement and multi-stakeholders collaboration were defined conceptually. The emergence of Multi-Stakeholder process and role of private and public sector discussed to make public and private participation a success.
Pages: 64-69 Jitendra Mohan Mishra (Department of Tourism Studies, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry)
Pages: 61-63
Kuldeep (Yash College of Education, Rohtak, Haryana)

The present study was undertaken to Study Habits and Academic Achievement Motivation of students with Visual Impairment and Sighted Children. For this investigation, descriptive study was conducted. For that purpose 100 students (50 visual impaired and 50 sighted students) were selected randomly from two visual impaired and two sighted students school. Their age ranged between 12 and 17 year. Sharma Academic Motivation Test was used to see the academic achievement motivation and Mukhopadhyay and Sansanwal Study Habits Inventory was used magnitude of study habit among students. Result indicated that magnitude of study habit was no significant different among the visual impaired and sighted students in team of their academic achievement motivation and The Study Habit affect to Academic Achievement Motivation of all students.
Pages: 61-63 Kuldeep (Yash College of Education, Rohtak, Haryana)
Pages: 56-60
Neetika Gupta (College of Management & Technology, Patiala)
Ruby Gupta (Department of Psychology, Punjabi University, Patiala)

The present paper intends to study the relationship between Work Motivation and Organizational Commitment and its various attributes namely Affective Commitment, Continuous Commitment and Normative Commitment amongst university employees. In the era of high competition in education sector, a motivated employee plays a very significant role. An employee who is committed will be more motivated towards his work and will perform better in the organization. The results revealed a positive relationship between Work Motivation and Organizational Commitment and its various attributes.
Pages: 56-60 Neetika Gupta (College of Management & Technology, Patiala) Ruby Gupta (Department of Psychology, Punjabi University…
Pages: 52-55
Ajai Pratap Singh (Department of Applied Psychology, VBS Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, UP )

The aim of the present study is to investigate hierarchical and sectoral differences in HR competencies. A purposive sample of 120 senior and middle managers from service and manufacturing sectors were selected. Independent sample t test was computed to test the differences across hierarchical levels and sectors. The results reveal significant differences across hierarchical levels in government sector on different HR competence dimensions. The results have implications managing training and development programmes for HR managers.
Pages: 52-55 Ajai Pratap Singh (Department of Applied Psychology, VBS Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, UP )
Pages: 47-51
Baljeet Kaur (Research Scholar, Singhania University, Pacheri Bari, Jhunjhnu)
Agyajit Singh (Department of Psychology (Retired), Punjabi University, Patiala)

The present study aims to (i) to measure three dimensions of burnout i.e.; emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and lack of personal accomplishment of the elementary school teachers and (ii) to find the differences on three dimensions of burnout between male and female teachers, as well as teachers of urban and rural schools. The hypothesis was that there would be no significant differences on three dimensions of burnout among school teachers on the basis of sex, and location of the schools. The sample of the study consisted of 400 school teachers, out of which 200 were male teachers and 200 were females. The sample was divided into two groups on the basis of location of schools i.e. urban and rural school. They were administered the standardized test of Maslach' Burnout Inventory (M.B.I., 1986) by Maslach, Jackson and Schwab. The results of the study show that there were no sex differences on burnout of the teachers; though the rural male and female teachers differed on burnout. But rural and urban school teachers differed on all dimensions of burnout whether they were males or females or combined group and urban school teachers were more burned out.
Pages: 47-51 Baljeet Kaur (Research Scholar, Singhania University, Pacheri Bari, Jhunjhnu) Agyajit Singh (Department of Psychology (Retired)…
Pages: 43-46
Darakhshan Parveen (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P.)

Over the past few decades, organizations throughout the world have faced the need to make various changes in strategy, structure and management process to adapt to new competitive demands. Any organization that isn't continually developing, acquiring or adapting to new changes will likely to be out of business in few years. Because, change rather than stability is the norm today. These changes have brought many changes in the workers commitment and their behavior. By keeping in mind the above contention, the present topic has been framed. The present study examines the influence of Organizational Change on work commitment. In addition to this t-test was also used to see the difference between the groups of employees on work commitment. Results of the study based on step wise multiple regression analyses suggested that structural change and cultural change- dimensions of organizational change, emerged as a powerful predictor of work commitment in Indian work context.
Pages: 43-46 Darakhshan Parveen (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P.)
Pages: 38-42
S. Suneyna (Teaching Faculty, Kids Central-Nursery and Primary School, Chennai)
S. Sasikala (Department of Psychology, Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai)

Industry is a business activity related to the cultivating, producing or manufacturing of products and involves selling of goods and services. Industries began as early as 1800's and several technological advances have taken place. This has led to the development of new sectors of industries. Many developed countries like UK, US, Canada, Germany, Ireland, etc. or developing countries like India, China, Russia, etc. depend significantly on industrial economy. There are various types of industries such are; primary, genetic, extractive, construction, and manufacturing. The sudden boom in IT and ITES has taken a toll on most of the industries and thereby resulting in a steep rise in the attrition rate. The larger pay scales and comfort level have become criteria for most employees. The associated costs for the organization with the rise in attrition include talent loss, training costs, recruitment costs and productivity loss. The present study is aimed to identify the influence of emotional intelligence, perceived alternative employment opportunities, job satisfaction and organizational commitment on turnover intentions. The Assessing Emotional Intelligence Scale by Schutte et al (1998), Perceived Alternative Employment Opportunities by Mowday, Koberg &Mc Arthur (1984), Job Satisfaction Survey by Spector (1997), Organizational Commitment by Allen & Meyer (1990) and Turnover Intentions developed by the researcher (2012) were the tools used in the study. Data were collected from 104 employees (both male and female) of different manufacturing companies using convenience sampling method. Correlation and t-test were used to analyze the data and the results were discussed based on the importance of reducing the attrition rate in organizations.
Pages: 38-42 S. Suneyna (Teaching Faculty, Kids Central-Nursery and Primary School, Chennai) S. Sasikala (Department of Psychology…
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