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Pages: 471-475
Geetu Malik (PPIMT, Hisar, Haryana)
Meena Kumari (Ch Devi Lal University, Sirsa, Haryana)

Educational Administrator or Head of an institution plays an important role in the effective functioning of an educational institution. He acts as pivot around which faculty, management and students moves for the smooth functioning of the institution. The way an Educational Administrator function decides the future success or failure for an educational institution. The main purpose of this study is to provide an insight about the leadership style as practised by the Educational Administrators in the colleges of higher education. The study is conducted on 425 teachers both from colleges imparting professional and non professional education in Haryana.
Pages: 471-475 Geetu Malik (PPIMT, Hisar, Haryana) Meena Kumari (Ch Devi Lal University, Sirsa, Haryana)
Pages: 467-470
Neha (HR Executive, Integreon Managed Solutions Pvt. Ltd.)

The success of an organization depends greatly on its executives. The actions and decisions taken by an executive in any particular area of activity will have results which extend beyond that specific activity. A manager's effectiveness in his organizational role depends on his capability in managing men, money, materials, machines and moments. Taking into cognizance the changing business scenario, organizations have adopted a paradigm shift from management aspects to leadership aspects. The shift is from boss to coach, mentor and collaborator; from control and centralized authority to empowerment, commitment and delegation; from short-term to long-term vision; from forced change and compliance to innovation and creativity; from rules and regulations to shared values; from position, power and hierarchy to relationship power and networks; from departments to teams and task force; from blaming and isolating to collaborating and unifying; from schedules and numbers to quality and service; from inward and product-driven to outward and customer- driven. Stress management and leadership styles are parameters which are relevant to the productivity and resultant success of any company in any industry.
Pages: 467-470 Neha (HR Executive, Integreon Managed Solutions Pvt. Ltd.)
Pages: 463-466
Dhiksha J. (Department of Psychology, Christ University, Bangalore, Karnatak)

The present study was designed to investigate the influence of the mood on the inhibitory control of consumers. The laboratory study was conducted; the data was collected from the 45 participants. The 23 participant were induced positive mood and 22 participants were induced the negative mood. On the basis of previous studies, the researcher hypothesised that participant in an induced positive group has less inhibitory control compared to the participant in an induced negative mood group. The researcher also theorised that in process of purchase decision making the participant tend to have less inhibitory control in purchase of low involvement products compared to the high involvement products. After inducing mood, the participant were asked to fill PANAS questionnaire and later they were asked to complete a modified version of the GO/NO GO task consisting pictures of 60 low and high involvement items and the error committed by the participant was recorded. A repeated-measures ANOVA was used to analyse the data obtained. The results showed that level of inhibitory control in positive mood is low compared to the negative mood. The result with regard to the low and high involvement item is quite interesting. The error of commission made in the high involvement series was significantly more than the error of commission made in low involvement items.
Pages: 463-466 Dhiksha J. (Department of Psychology, Christ University, Bangalore, Karnatak)
Pages: 460-462
Chandrani Sen and Aditi Kaul (Department of Psychology, The IIS University, Jaipur, Rajasthan)

The present study was designed to investigate the relationship between the phenomena of glass ceiling and the Big five personality factors among Female IT professionals. The study was conducted on 100 female executives from different companies in the IT sector and the Correlation research design was used for the purpose. Purposive sampling was conducted and the sample consisted of females between 30-50 years of age with a minimum of 5 years of association with the organization. Newly recruited employees were kept beyond the purview of the study. The NEO-PI scale by Costa and McCrae (1988) and Glass Ceiling Questionnaire by Ayesha Zaheer (2008) were administered to collect the data. The results of the study revealed a positive correlation between the personality traits of Neuroticism, Extraversion, Conscientiousness and the perception of Glass Ceiling, indicating the fact that women high on these traits will also be high on their perception towards the glass ceiling phenomena. On the Contrary, the personality traits of Openness to Experience and Agreeableness were found to be negatively correlated with Glass Ceiling Perception stating the fact that women who score low on these traits have a low perception towards the glass ceiling phenomena. The study contributes in the field of women empowerment and brings into light the perception of female workforce towards the barriers faced by them in the corporate sector. Through this study the organizations will get a better understanding of women employees in the whole new light of personality traits.
Pages: 460-462 Chandrani Sen and Aditi Kaul (Department of Psychology, The IIS University, Jaipur, Rajasthan)
Pages: 455-459
K. N. Jayakumar and S. Kadhiravan (Department of Psychology, Periyar University, Salem, Tamil Nadu)

Extensive reviews invariably suggest that organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) improves organizational effectiveness and it has become increasingly clear that effective management of human resource is critical for organization's sustained competitive edge. The IT industry is no exception. The Indian IT industry employs more than two million professionals and the number keeps increasing. The functions, culture, values and employer employee dynamics of IT industry is very different from the traditional organizations. Starting from Barnard in 1938 to till date many tools were developed in the West and some in India to measure the construct OCB. Reviews suggest that nature of Industry influences the OCB and using a measure developed in a traditional organizational context cannot capture the phenomena precisely in another industry. Hence, Industry specific measures are needed. But it is hard to find a tool to measure the OCB of IT professionals in India. The aim of the present study is to develop an OCB measure exclusively meant for the Indian IT professionals. The research process involved reviewing literature, choosing the dimensions of OCB, item generation, scale development and establishing the reliability and concurrent validity with the purpose to aid researchers and practitioners in the field of organizational behaviour.
Pages: 455-459 K. N. Jayakumar and S. Kadhiravan (Department of Psychology, Periyar University, Salem, Tamil Nadu)
Pages: 450-454
Reena Chaudhary (University School of Open Learing, Punjab University, Chandigarh)

Sexual harassment at work place in India is `quite prevalent' but the victims refrain from lodging a complaint facing social disgrace and loss of work. Sexual harassment affects all women in some form or the other. Lewd remarks, touching, wolf-whistles looks are part of any woman's life so much that it is dismissed as normal. Working women most commonly face the backlash to women taking new roles, which belong to male domains within patriarchy. Sexual harassment of working women is an extension of violence in everyday life and is discriminatory, exploitative, thriving in atmosphere of threat, terror and reprisal. In 1997, the problem of Sexual Harassment was addressed by Supreme Court in Vishaka Case. The present paper attempts to explore working women's perception about sexual harassment, whether their understanding of sexual harassment coincides with Supreme Court's definition.
Pages: 450-454 Reena Chaudhary (University School of Open Learing, Punjab University, Chandigarh)
Pages: 446-449
Bhupendra Singh (Psychiatric Social Worker, Department of Psychiatry, PGIMS Rohtak Haryana)
Kapse Praful Prabhuappa and Shahid Eqbal (Department of Psychiatric Social Work, Ranchi Institute of Neuro-Psychiatry and Allied Sciences, Ranchi)
Amool R Singh (Department of Clinical Psychology, Ranchi Institute of Neuro-Psychiatry and Allied Sciences, Ranchi)

Depression Anxiety and Stress scale (DASS) developed by Lovibond and Lovibond, 1995 is one of most widely used scale in clinical and nonclinical population in across the globe including India. DASS items reliably grouped in to depression, anxiety and stress subscale and have high reliability and validity. Present study was aimed to obtain reliability and validity of Hindi adaptation of Depression, Anxiety and Stress scale. Scale was translated by the bilingual experts followed by forward and back translation process final version was adopted for the study. A total 427 volunteers those who were bilingual included in the study. Hindi adaptation of DASS showed comparable reliability and validity score. Chronbach alpha for entire scale .83, factor loading ranged from .20 to .88 of Hindi version which was found comparable with original scale. The result demonstrate Hindi version of DASS reliable and valid instrument to use in clinical and nonclinical population. Hindi adaption of the DASS scale could be used in Indian clinical and non-clinical settings.
Pages: 446-449 Bhupendra Singh (Psychiatric Social Worker, Department of Psychiatry, PGIMS Rohtak Haryana) Kapse Praful Prabhuappa and…
Pages: 442-445
H. Cecep Zainal Arifin, H. M. Entang and H. Darwis S. Gani (Study Program of Educational Management, Pakuan University, Bogor, Indonesia)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of organizational culture, school-supervision leadership, and motivation as mediating variables towards the Principals' Performance in elementary schools. Participants were Principals of Public Elementary Schools in Bogor District. The sample included 230 respondents and the sampling technique employed in the study was simple random sampling. Data was collected with the help of questionnaire that included measures of organizational culture, school-supervisor's leadership, motivation and work performance. Correlation and regression analysis were conducted which indicate that there is a positive and significant relationship between organizational culture, supervisor's leadership, motivation and the principals' performance.
Pages: 442-445 H. Cecep Zainal Arifin, H. M. Entang and H. Darwis S. Gani (Study Program…
Pages: 437-441
Ahmad Ali (Department of Education, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P.)

The research aims to compare monolingual and bilingual in underachievement. Sample included 1048 Syrian children drawn from nine-grade of government schools. The Raven's Progressive Matrix and achievement scores of the previous final examination were used to identify underachievers. The researcher identified 125 underachievers (46 monolingual and 79 bilingual) and 131 overachievers (73 monolinguals and 58 bilingual). Z-test was used to find out significant of difference between the monolingual and bilingual. Significant difference was found between monolingual and bilingual in the incidence of underachievement. Significant difference was found between monolingual and bilingual in over achievement
Pages: 437-441 Ahmad Ali (Department of Education, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P.)
Pages: 431-436
Shakira Khan and Lekh Raj (School of Business Management & Liberal Arts Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences, Bajhol, Solan, H.P.)

Direct to Home sector is among the fastest growing industry in our country and had shown growth rate in double digit. Today, we have about 44 million direct to home subscribers and service providers must have to focus on service quality aspects to get competitive advantages. In this study we have made an attempt to identify the dimensions of service quality and also to recognize the reasons for preferring the services. The results indicates that service quality in DTH sectors lies on nine dimension named as assurance, reliability, tangible, empathy, responsiveness, network quality, convenience, price and other factors. The present study also reveals the reasons for preferring direct to home services in the region and identified that most of the respondents preferred the services to watch more channel provided by the direct to home operators followed by reasonable price charged by service providers
Pages: 431-436 Shakira Khan and Lekh Raj (School of Business Management & Liberal Arts Shoolini University…
Pages: 427-430
J.S. Bidlan and Anupama Sihag (Department of Psychology, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra)

Burnout has become an unavoidable consequence of occupational stress in almost all the organizational settings and emotional intelligence plays an influential role by regulating the negative emotions of the individuals. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between occupational stress, burnout and emotional intelligence among healthcare professionals. The Occupational Stress Index, Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI-HSS) and Multidimensional Measure of Emotional Intelligence were administered on a sample of 600 healthcare professionals from the private hospitals of Delhi, NCR. Pearson correlation coefficient was used to obtain the association between occupational stress, burnout and emotional intelligence of the professionals. Results suggest that emotional intelligence has a significant negative relationship with occupational stress and two dimensions of burnout (emotional exhaustion and depersonalization); whereas a positive relationship has been observed with the personal accomplishment dimension of burnout. The results indicates that professionals high on emotional intelligence have the ability to handle emotions of self and others in demanding situations and such professionals are high on personal accomplishment and hence success.
Pages: 427-430 J.S. Bidlan and Anupama Sihag (Department of Psychology, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra)
Pages: 423-426
Zahoor Ahmad Lone, Shaha Alam, and Omar Habib Dar (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh)

The present study aimed to ascertain the relationship between emotional intelligence and adjustment among adolescents. The study involved 150 adolescents (boys=73, girls=77, mean age 17 years). The adjustment scale and emotional intelligence scale were used to collect data. The results indicate that significant positive correlations were obtained between adjustment and an all the dimensions of emotional intelligence, Social awareness, managing emotions, motivating self, empathy and handling relationships. Among all these five dimensions strongest positive correlation coefficient was found between adjustment and handling relationships , a facet of emotional intelligence, and stronger positive in case of managing emotions another facet of emotional intelligence and a good positive correlation coefficient between adjustment and social awareness. Regression analysis revealed that social awareness, empathy and handling relationships and total emotional intelligence significantly predicted adjustment among adolescents. Thus results indicate that emotional intelligence is important factor in predicting adjustment of adolescents.
Pages: 423-426 Zahoor Ahmad Lone, Shaha Alam, and Omar Habib Dar (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim…
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