International Journal of Education and Management Studies

Pages: 184-188
Jat Dhansingh (Singhania University, Pacheri Bari, Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan)
Rajkumar Khyalia (Govt. P. G. College Hisar)

The present study was conducted on “status of women in MGNREGA” in district Bhiwani and Sirsa. They were interviewed by a well structured Questionnaire with objectives in mind to access the elected women's participation in Panchayati Raj Institution and the role of women in MGNREGA for women Empowerment. The data concluded reveals that PRI women leaders in Bhiwani are more Educated than Sirsa PRI women leaders. The scenario of women's participation has increased due to literacy and the women who are more educated are bold, good communicator, confident, participating in meetings and who are less educated they are being supported by their Male Counterpart and on their behalf, their Male counterpart are representing them. Women PRI leaders who are literate are more Active and doing their work in transparent manner. Women reservations in PRI and MGNREGA are helpful in women Empowerment to a very great extent. Among the total PRI women leaders majority don't feel free and less no. of women feel free in Interaction in PRI meetings. At Gram Panchayat level majority of Panches don't feel free while at Panchyat Samiti level most of women and at Zila parishad level all the women feel free while interacting in PRI meetings. Among the total some of women leaders do not take decision while some take decision sometimes and few leaders take decision often. Women's are more active as Sarpanch, Panchayat Samiti Member and Zila Parishad Members. Attitude of family members of women PRI leaders are most of the families are happy and supportive, some are partially happy and few are not happy. The reason was found that women leader create problems in household work. However the families who are happy and supportive and partially happy have other women in their home to complete their household task.

Pages: 165-168
Sunita (Department of Education, Singhania University, Singhania, Rajasthan)

The present study is for conducted to evaluate critically a Government project named Sabla: Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of the Adolescent Girls. The Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India, in the year 2000, came up with a scheme called Kishori Shakti Yojana (KSY), which was implemented using the infrastructure of the Integrated Child Development Services Scheme (ICDS). The objective of this scheme was to improve the nutrition and health status of girls in the age‐group of 11 to 18 years, to equip them to improve and upgrade their home‐based and vocational skills, and to promote their overall development, including awareness about their health, personal hygiene, nutrition and family welfare and management. Thereafter, the Nutrition Programme for Adolescent Girls (NPAG) was initiated as a pilot project in the year 2002-03 in 51 identified districts across the country to address the problem of under‐nutrition among AGs(Adolescent Girls).This evaluation is being done to review the performance of the programme and to evaluate weather this project has being able to achieve the target, it was meant for.

Pages: 157-160
Nayanika Singh (Department of Psychology, Punjabi University, Patiala)
Amit Kumar Dwivedi (Department of Psychology, Panjab University, Chandigarh)

Quality of life has been one of the major areas of interest and attention seeking concern for researchers. There is no doubt that life is common to all but quality of life varies from individual to individual, irrespective of their age and background. However, we as researchers tend to group individuals matching on some aspect or the other, thus the quality of life of that particular group will be static and dynamic, this statement does not hold much weight. But yes, people having some of the common factors in some aspect of life would share some common quality of life that is for sure. Self Efficacy and Self Regulation are considered and proven as key determinants of quality of life and life satisfaction over the globe and across the ages, but independently. This may be a new and first attempt to examine their strength i.e. magnitude and the direction of relationship with quality of life in one study or altogether. Participants for the present study consisted of 120 school going adolescents, age ranging between 13-17 years, who were randomly selected from boarding schools of Solan District of Himachal Pradesh. A selection criterion of sample was age, socio-economic status, educational level and occupational status. WHO Quality of Life Scale, Self Regulation Questionnaire-Academics, and General Self Efficacy Scale were administered on the participants and Bivariate correlation technique of parametric statistics was applied on the raw scores obtained to draw the inference about the data. Results revealed that there is significant positive correlation among the variables i.e. QOL & GSE; QOL & SRQ, but QOL & SRQ are comparatively highly significantly positively correlated than QOL & GSE, however a distinctive result was revealed that GSE & SRQ-A are not significantly correlated.

Pages: 150-152
Hardeep Kaur (Department of Social Work Punjabi University, Patiala)

This paper provides a general framework on issues related to disability , need for inclusion and its association to inclusive education in general. Apart from this some specific aspects of inclusive education in India have been outlined .and the last part brings together some general barriers to inclusive education followed by concluding suggestions.

Pages: 144-147
Charli and Abu Sufiyan Zilli (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh)

The present study examined the predictive influence of personality factors on organizational effectiveness among middle managers. The sample of the present investigation comprises N=250 middle level managers. The respondents were randomly selected from different private sectors located in Delhi and its NCR (National Capital Region). The sample was confined to only male respondents. The age of the respondents was found to be ranges between 23-64 years. Personality factors were assessed by the NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI) (Costa & McCrae, 1992), which provides measures of five well-established domains of personality: neuroticism, extroversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. Organizational Effectiveness was measured by Organizational Effectiveness Scale which was developed by Srivastava and Banerjee (1997). Both psychological measures are highly reliable and valid. To find out the best predictors of criterion variable and to know on what extent these predictor variables influence criterion variable, step-wise multiple regression analysis was used. The findings of the present endeavor revealed that among all predictor variables (neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness) four variables namely, conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism and openness to experience were emerged as significant predictors of organizational effectiveness. It was clearly found that agreeableness, neuroticism and openness to experience have significant negative predictive influence on organizational effectiveness whereas, conscientiousness was found to have its positive predictive influence on organizational effectiveness. These findings have far-reaching implications in the current world of industrial development.