International Journal of Education and Management Studies

Pages: 220-223
Raman Kumar and Jagpreet Kaur (Department of Education & Community Service, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab)

The main objective of the present study was to assess the effect of e-content strategy on Mathematics achievement of elementary school students in relation to achievement motivation by considering pre Mathematics achievement as a covariate. The experimental procedure was executed. One experimental and one control group was formed. The e-Content group as experimental group was taught Mathematics with the supplement of e-Content, the control group was taught Mathematics through Conventional method. A sample of 80 pupils from class VII was taken and to measure the achievement in Mathematics, self developed Mathematics Achievement Test along with Deo-Mohan Achievement Motivation Scale was used as research tool. After the Pre-test, 02 months treatment followed by post test, descriptive statistics namely mean, standard deviation and inferential statistics namely t-test and analysis of covariance was used. Analyzing the data with the help of 2x3 Factorial Design ANCOVA, it was concluded that that students belonging to high, average and low levels of achievement motivation were found to be significantly different on Mathematics achievement when groups were matched in respect to pre-Mathematics achievement.

Pages: 206-212
Hetal Gediya (ICAR Project, DBM Department, SMC College of Dairy Science, Anand Agricultural University, Anand, Gujarat)
M. D. Gurjar and A. K. Makwana (SMC College of Dairy Science, Anand Agricultural University, Anand, Gujarat)

Most of the dairy professionals join employment after obtaining their degrees. Most of them join the dairy sector either in cooperatives, government or multinationals. After post-graduation, some join co-operative dairy and few of them opt for higher study. Some of them go abroad for job. Few of them change their sector altogether. It is necessary to know trend of movement of dairy professionals with reasons thereof from Human Resource Development (HRD) point of view. The current study was undertaken to obtain the information about movement of dairy professionals (post graduates)/ identifying the most preferred sector/region and reasons thereof. It was found that after passing B.Tech. Degree till admission in PG, considerable respondents (16%) had done job in co-operative dairy. After completing master degree, considerable respondents (52%) had job in co-operative dairy, 22% had job in private sector and 10% had job in government sector. Majority respondents (78%) had not changed job, 18% had changed job two times and only 4% had changed career more than 2 times. Majority respondents (74%) had got job through college placement cell, 18% had got by applying through open advertisement and only 6% had got job through website/ online advertisement. Considerable respondents (46%) had joined first job/ changed career because of possibility of higher professional growth, 12% had changed career due to attractive salary package and 10% had changed due to nearness to residence. Out of 9 respondents that had changed career two times, 33% respondents had changed second career because of possibility of higher professional growth, 33% had reason of good work location from socio-economic view, 11% had reason of higher study and 22% had other reasons.

Pages: 195-201
Monica Sharma (Clinical Psychologist, IIS University, Jaipur, Rajasthan)
Vagisha Shekhawat (Department of Psychology, IIS University, Jaipur, Rajasthan)

The professional front is an important part in an individual's life. Not only his/her individual characteristics but also the common original factors play a major role in the professional experience of a person. The present study aims to explore the gender differences if any on the both individual factors (Job satisfaction, Work attitude, Role stress, Job performance) and organizational factors (Work culture & Organizational commitment). A sample of 100 private sector employees was selected. A two-group research design employed. Tools of the study were gender Role stress (Pareek, 1993); Organizational commitment (Shawkat & Ansari, 2001); Job satisfaction (Macdonald & Maclntyre, 1997); Job attitude (Srivastava, 1999); Organizational culture (Pareek, 2002); Job performance (Goodman & Svyantek, 1999). T-test was computed further a correlation analysis was also employed. Outcome of the study revealed that females experience high-level of stress as compare to the males. A significant and positive correlation was found between Organizational culture and Job satisfaction, Job Performance and Job satisfaction, Job performance and Organizational culture and Role stress and Job attitude. It can be concluded that both individual and organizational factors interaction and affect each other and play a significant role in the experience of professional life. If proper interventions are planned and implemented they will lead to a positive professional experience and better and healthier organizations.

Pages: 183-185
Harprit Kaur (Department of Psychology, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab)
Tilahun Gidey Gebremeskal (Department of Psychology, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab and Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia )

Though the study of school bullying has been around the corner for some decades now due to its harmful consequences, in Ethiopia issues surrounding school bullying are not well explored. The present study sought to explore if experiencing victimization is related to perpetration of bullying. Data were drawn from 404 randomly selected primary school students from Bahir Dar city and Debark town, Ethiopia. One item answered yes and no was utilized to tap data on victimization experience .Perpetration of bullying was measured using participant role scale taken from Salmivalli, Lagerspetz, Bjorkqvist, Österman, & Kaukiainen, (1996). Independent sample t-test was used to analyse data. Results showed that there was statistically significant difference in bullying (t = 2.860, p= .005) between participants who experienced victimization and those who were not victimized. We concluded that 1) a significant portion of adolescents have experienced victimization and 2) experiencing victimization makes a difference in proclivity to perpetrate bullying with victims involving more in perpetrating bullying. We suggest that efforts to reduce bullying should make sure adolescents are not exposed to victimization experiences as it makes a difference among others.

Pages: 173-178
Sedigheh Ahmadzadeh (Department of Counseling, Marvdash Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran)
Hossein Aflakifard (Department of Educational Sciences, Farhangian, University, Iran)

The aim of this article is the investigation of the relationship of self regulation of learning and creativity with academic achievement. This research society was all boys grade 6 in Fasa city in 2014-2015. To do this study the descriptive correlation was used among them 100 selected in clustering random sampling and the research was done on them and in order to collect information all of them completed Pentrich- Degrout (1990); self regulated learning questionnaire and Hermance (1970); educational progress questionnaire and Torense (1974) verbal creativity questionnaire. Information was analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient statistical methods and multiple regression analysis in step by step method using SPSS and these results obtained: There is significant positive relation between creativity and rate of students educational progress. In addition the variable creativity has more effective role in predicting students educational progress. There is no a significant relationship between self-regulated learning and educational progress motivation, and among self-regulated learning dimentions just there is a significant and reverse relationship between surveillance and control to educational progress motivation in level less than 0.05, and also the research results indicated that all creativity dimentions except development with educational progress have significant direct relation in level less than 0.05.

Pages: 165-169
Ravinder Kumar (Department of Mechanical & Automation Engg., Amity University, Noida, Utter Pradesh)

The purpose of this paper is to study the problems faced by Indian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) while forming coordination strategies for effective supply chain management. In modern time Indian SMEs are facing open global competition which give them ample opportunities and simultaneously lot of problems. To stay competitive in this scenario, Indian SMEs have to break isolation and improve coordination in supply chain. For collecting data from Indian SMEs of different sectors, a questionnaire-based survey was conducted. In total, 159 valid responses were received. Statistical analysis of data acquired from survey is done by one sample t-test and correlation analysis. Top five problems faced by Indian SMEs' of auto components sector are uncertainty of customer orders /demand, over dependence on bigger supply chain partner(s), insufficient knowledge of SCM, non-availability of right information at right time and lack of committed resources. Problems have significant negative correlation with coordination strategies of all sectors of SMEs. Major implication of finding of study are that if Indian SMEs of different sectors works strategically on problems of SCM implementation then supply chain (SC) coordination will improve. This study can be further explored by considering other aspects of strategy development such as new product development, human resource, global organizational culture; etc. Outcome of present study will be useful for SMEs of different sectors in identifying problems and framing their strategies for improving coordination in supply chain, and academia for further research in the context of changing market scenario.