The Business Review

School of Business Studies

University of Kashmir

ISSN: 0972-8384

The main purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of several perceived organizational culture variables on the job satisfaction of a cross-section of health care employees. To gain greater insight into how culture affects employees feelings about their jobs, the relationships between five cultural variable and five components of job satisfaction are also examined. Finally, the implications of the findings for health administrator are explored and activities that might lead to improvements in employee’s morale are discussed.

This paper analyzes the impact of Training and Development practices on the performance of government school teachers of four districts (Kathua, Reasi,Pulwama and Ganderbal) of Jammu and Kashmir. The study adopts descriptive research design imbibing both primary and secondary data with sample size of 300 teachers (75 teachers from each district). Convenience sampling method has been applied for collecting the data through a structured questionnaire. Statistical tools like Pearson Correlation Analysis, Regression Analysis and ANOVA were applied for the study and concludes, Training and Development Practices have a positive influence on the performance of teachers in Jammu and Kashmir. The outcomes of this research will help education sector to identify the Training and Development factors that influence the employees working at various levels. On the other hand, the research will be helpful to the human resource section of School Education so as to increase the productivity and efficiency of their teachers.

From the past few decades, various international labour standard legislations have been passed from time to time, in order to ensure equality of women at workplaces and provide them better and protective measures. But, despite these large scale efforts, research reported that even in today’s era of change and advancement, world is still plagued with the menace of discrimination against the women folk at workplaces. Further, research has witnessed that our societies are deeply embedded even today with the notion of gender-stereotyping which has its spill over effects across the workplaces as well. It has been found that these socially and culturally mandated structures often question the women’s abilities, capabilities and suitability for organisational work and thus results into unconscious bias against them. Thus, it is to be concluded that women employees still face discrimination in following HRM practices viz- pay, career advancement, performance appraisals, task assignment and training, which in turn affects their organisational justice perception. Therefore, in the light of above, the present study aims to review the extant literature available on the relationship between women discrimination in HRM practices and organisational justice perception. In addition to it, the present review is done by classifying, summarizing and synthesizing the previous studies assessing the said relationship and on the basis of which, the various research gaps have been identified which provides insight to the future researchers to conduct further study on the relationship between above stated research constructs.

To takesound and rational financial decisions is a cherished goal for every human being. The efforts and mental balance required to take such decisions is usually replaced by the use of rules of thumb inone’s day-to-day life. Researchers have been trying hard to study the contours of individuals’ psychological traits and the investment decisions, which actually form the subject matter of behavioral finance. It is believed that the use of such short-cut methods have a significant influence on the rationality of individual investors. It is against this backdrop, that the present study makes an attempt to examine the impact of the use of Heuristics on the rationality of the financial decisions of individual investors. The study is broadly based on the primary data collected through a well-structured questionnaire from a sample of active individual investors in Jammu and Kashmir. The objectives of the study are achieved by using T-test, F-test, and Correlation Analysis. The results of the study reveal that “heuristics” significantly affect the rationality of the financial decisions of the investors.

Energy is the major source for the economic development of any country; India’s energy consumption has been increasing at a relatively fast rate due to population growth and economic development. India’s energy sector is experiencing a transition with increasing penetration of renewable energy in the mix. One of the major impediments in the process of such a transition is to secure the necessary finance to achieve the transformative goal of producing 175 gigawatts of Renewables by 2022. The problem gets compounded with limited budgetary resources available, combined with difficulties associated with mobilizing private capital for the sector. Scaling up investment in renewable energy is indispensable for achieving decarbonization of the global economy, low carbon transformation, and climate-resilient growth. Taking the world to a low carbon path with reduced greenhouse gas concentration is a costly affair. It requires large scale investments. The World Economic Forum projects that by 2020; about $5.7 trillion will need to be invested annually in green infrastructure, much of which will be in today’s developing world. China is the world's leading country in electricity production from renewable energy sources. In 2013 the country had a total capacity of 378 GW of renewable power, mainly from hydroelectric and wind power. China's renewable energy sector is growing faster than its fossil fuels and nuclear power capacity. This study concentrates more on total green investment and also makes a comparison in investments for Renewable energy sector between India and China from 2004-2018. This research also shows investment trends through FDI Inflows for Renewable energy in India from 2005-2018. This study could benefit policy makers and researchers by enhancing their understanding of the factors enabling the scaling up of renewable energy investment.

Environment is undergoing great changes, and of these there are many changes which organisations/institutions cannot escape from and as such leaders have a main role to adapt these changes and overcome related challenges. It is the quality of leadership that can make a difference during these challenging times. Among other things, emotions have a tremendous influence on leadership and quality of decisions which gives rise to the concept of Emotional Intelligence (EI). Emotional Intelligence is all about teamwork, leadership, partnership and vision. The emotionally intelligent leaders help an organisation/institution to excel consistently in all these areas. An organisation/ institution which has an emotionally intelligent leader has productive, motivated, efficient and committed staff. It is also expected that leaders who are high on emotional intelligence are vital to organisational success; therefore, leader should have the ability to sense employees’ feelings about their work environments, to intervene when problems arise and to manage their own emotions. The purpose of this paper is to review the various emotional intelligence models and the studies pertaining to the relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Transformational Leadership (TL). In total 24 empirical studies were reviewed which were selected keeping in view the different criteria laid down by the researcher. The paper has adopted review methodology by conducting a literature search concerning emotional intelligence and transformational leadership for the period 2000-2015. The results show that most studies provide empirical support of the relationship between emotional intelligence and transformational leadership.

Background: Service quality and delivery is increasingly recognized as a critical aspect of the unfinished maternal and newborn health care and part of Sustainable development agenda 2030 to have positive impact on Maternal Child Health (MCH) outcomes. The efficient, effective timely and safe quality care throughout continuum of care requires appropriate use of evidence-based clinical practices and highquality data system, strengthened healthcare ecosystem and key service science processes to scale-up quality improvement strategies and intervention to achieve optimal standards of care. There are evidences of inequity and lack of access to high service quality in MCH care across regions in India and this case study critically examines MCH service delivery and quality in the state of Jammu & Kashmir. The present research paper addresses some of these deficiencies study tries to put forth strategies and interventions aimed at delivering high quality health services. Studies of these service processes and interventions helps in identifying promising approaches to improve MCH outcomes in this region of India. Aim: The paper gives general introduction on healthcare service gaps in relevance to national and SDGs indicators and contributes to the growing knowledge and empirical literature on implications of poor data quality and performance of service availability and delivery indicators. Method: The present study is based on mixed methodological approach with triangulation strategy and critical interruptive synthesis to arrive at multiple sources of evidences. The design incorporated multiphase-sequential strategy for measuring quality processes, equity and access.

Digital entrepreneurship is the fastest growing contemporary form of entrepreneurship spurring the practice of pursuing new venture opportunities presented by new media and Information and Communication Technologies. One of the major emerging technologies that offers tremendous potential to digital entrepreneurs for creating and delivering value chain activities is Web 2.0. It primarily is a technology paradigm that has changed the status of internet from passive read-only websites and proprietary applications to an active platform that attracts highly interactive group based initiatives. Web 2.0 based platforms provide cost effective mechanisms for carrying out the major digital business functions ranging from information sharing to co-creating with customers. Despite the growing popularity of digital technology based new ventures, the extant literature is not sufficient to thoroughly understand the enabling role of Web 2.0 in them. The paper is an attempt to bridge this gap and delineate the ways in which Web 2.0 can be leveraged by digital entrepreneurs to realise some of the important venture objectives. The paper provides a theoretical elaboration of the major digital venture activities and the corresponding Web 2.0 platforms and the enabling technologies that provide added value to these activities.

This book is based on natural language processing, using large SQL databases for text analysis using a programming language called Python which is form of artificial intelligence. The main challenges for analyzing the texts is trying to extract meaningful patterns and useful insights that would be beneficial to the organizations and to store the textual data in Hadoop Distribution File System and access it as needed, which is one of the main principles of a data lake. The book follows a comprehensive and structured approach and is divided into seven chapters.