Alfred, M.V. & Martin, L.G. (2007). The development of economic self-sufficiency among former welfare recipients: lessons learned from Wisconsin’s welfare to work program. International Journal of Training & Development (11)1. 2-20.Alfred & Martin (2007) explore barriers impeding economic development for former welfare recipients and the programs in place for assistance [...]
Villar, L.M. & Alegre, O.M. (2007). Measuring the learning of university teachers following online staff development courses: a Spanish case study. International Journal of Training & Development (11)3. 200-213.Villar and Alegre (2007) respond to the body of research on program quality assurance in higher education by investigating faculty development in [...]
Sofo, F. (2007). Transfer of training: a case-study of outsourced training for staff from Bhutan. International Journal of Training & Development (11)2. 103-120.Sofo (2007) draws on a previous larger study of out-country training by Bhutan’s Ministry of Education to focus on transfer of training in academic, managerial and technical staff [...]
Chakraborty, S.K. (1991)OverviewManagement by values: Towards Cultural Congruence. Oxford U Press: Oxford.Value OrientationsChakraborty takes a Hindu traditionalist point of view of management in India. He covers several topics related to management and uses Hindu concepts as lenses with which to view the dynamics of these topics and the environment.Traditionalism is [...]
Tripathi, R.C.Overview; Case studiesInterplay of values in the functioning of Indian organizations. Effective Organizations & Social Values. Ed. by Kao, H.S.R., Sinha, D. & Sek-Hong, N. Sage Publications: New Delhi. 174-192.Value OrientationsTripathi makes a distinction between social and work values to note that competition and lack of effective team work [...]
Sinha, J.B.P. & Sinha, D. (1995)OverviewRole of social values in Indian organizations. Effective Organizations & Social Values. Ed. by Kao, H.S.R., Sinha, D. & Sek-Hong, N. Sage Publications: New Delhi. 164-173.Value OrientationsSinha & Sinha’s discussion provides examples of the hierarchical structure of Indian society- the heavy belief in junior- senior [...]
Xiang, B. (2006)OverviewWorking with uncertainty in the IT industry. Political Economy & Information Capitalism in India: Digital Divide, Development & Equity. Ed. by Parayil, G. Palgrave Macmillan: Hampshire. 174-95.IT-BPO Job MarketXiang provides a picture of the IT-BPO job market for Indian workers, globally and in India. He reveals the heavy [...]
D’Mello, Marisa (2006).Interpretive, Ethnographic Case StudyGendered selves and identities of information technology professionals in global software organizations in India. Information Technology for Development 12(2)Gender/Identity/CommunicationD’Mello considers the dynamics of gender and identity in the context of global software organizations in India. Her research draws information relevant to gender from a broader [...]
NASSCOMNational Association of Software and Service CompaniesKnowledge EconomyNASSCOM Strategic Review 2007Statistics/ PolicyNASSCOM, a well-recognized organization for data collection and policy formation in the IT industry in India, provides detailed information on global outsourcing trends, India’s IT-BPO sector, and characteristics of the workforce.NASSCOM recently combined the call-center industry (BPO- Business Process [...]
Selecting InterventionsThiagarajan, S. (2001). Tell me how: Improving knowledge and skills, Training games. In E.S. Sanders & S. Thiagarajan (Eds.), Performance intervention maps: 36 strategies for solving your organization’s problems (pp. 1-4, 53-58). US: American Society for Training & Development.Thiagarajan (2001) provides a performance intervention map which cross-references optimal interventions [...]