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In contemporary world, more women than ever enter the labor force, but the majority of the top management positions in almost all countries are primarily held by men. Female managers/ executives generally tend to concentrate in lower management positions and have less power than men. At the same time, women are still concentrating in conventionally ¿female¿ functional areas of companies such as: HR, corporate communications, community and governmental relations, marketing and finance. The entrepreneurial expertise of a woman is far more superior to those of a man, for she does not give up easily. A few women have moved beyond the glass ceiling into the executive suite, yet their number is not proportionate to their representation at middle management levels and is far below that of their similarly qualified male counterparts. The goals of this book is to determine the factors influencing the various dimensions of leadership styles in IT women executives, to examine the impact of leadership styles on women executives performance and to suggest the measures to improve leadership styles and enhance women executives in IT industry.

Consumer ethnocentrism means ¿¿the appropriateness, indeed morality of purchasing foreign-made products.¿ Today, when the Indian consumers have great access to foreign goods and the Indian manufacturers are facing increasing competition from foreign products, the neglect of this topic in India is hard to explain. The CETSCALE, a scale to measure consumer ethnocentrism, has been tested in many parts of the world. Extant literature shows that the concept of consumer ethnocentrism in India is not conceptually equivalent to the concept of consumer ethnocentrism prevailing in other countries for instance USA, where it was found to be uni-dimensional. In India, this concept has more nuances. This research aims to examine the following in a multi-stage level: (a) psychometric properties of the CETSCALE, (b) level of consumer ethnocentrism among students in India, and (c) the relationship of socio-demographic variables and quality consciousness with consumer ethnocentrism.

This study provides useful and effective ways for hotel managers and developers to identify potential factors which matter most for business guests¿ in their hotel selection. Hotel companies must recognize what business guests feel important for selecting a hotel. Once the hotel attributes in relation to business guests¿ requirements are clearly identified and understood, hotel managers are more likely to be able to anticipate and cater to their customers¿ desires and needs, rather than merely reacting to their dissatisfaction.

The study sought to assess the role of government regulations on petroleum supply chain management by surveying oil marketing companies in Kenya involved in importation and distribution of oil products in the country. The particular objectives that were analyzed included: To establish the role of Health and Safety regulations in petroleum supply chain management, to determine the role of environmental regulations in petroleum supply chain management, to assess the role of economic regulations in petroleum supply chain management and to assess the role of operational regulations in petroleum supply chain management. Through a descriptive research design, a field survey was carried out while purposive sampling was used to select 180 respondents from thirty six (36) oil marketing companies located in Nairobi city involved in importation and marketing of oil products in Kenya (as per the attached PIEA list). Both Primary data and secondary data were used in the study.

The book has been written keeping in view the state of students studying in engineering, management and professional colleges, research scholars, academicians and scientists. The book enjoys the significance at the students¿ level and thereafter at the professional level. Since the book has dealt with every aspect of essential modes of professionalism at the working level, the book bids to stand in good stead as lifetime companion to the professional. While going through the book, the reader develops full insight into the process of technical communication at written and oral levels. Students will find the book useful during their study period and thereafter equally so and more informative during the active professional times. By providing a number of case-studies and class-room based exercises, the book attempts to provide the reader an in depth experience in the domains of the subject ¿ Written and Oral Technical Communication. The main topics discussed in this book are CV, Resume, Interview Skills, Official Correspondence, Bibliography, Research Paper Writing and Publication.

In recognition of the livelihood needs of local people that undermine non-use conservation objectives, protected areas are now said to have assumed a mandate to go beyond just biodiversity conservation to improving the welfare of local people through the provision of economic benefits across multiple scales. But in order to achieve the new mandate of protected areas, there is a paradigm shift that seeks to promote a model of biodiversity conservation where livelihood activities are not just seen as compatible with biodiversity conservation but that it actually drives and facilitates conservation objectives. Consequently, among livelihood activities that have the potential to provide the necessary livelihood benefits or incentives, ecotourism is thought to be the most appropriate one to better serve this purpose. Ecotourism, when properly developed and managed, can play a mediating role between the interests of protected area management and local people and as well give an exciting nature experience to tourists. However, to achieve this mediating role, ecotourism development in any destination would require appropriate participation of all stakeholders.

Leadership is a process where leader is influencing a groups to achieve its goals and is along with communication, essential for organisation¿s success. This research examines the relationship between leadership styles, communicator¿s competence and job satisfaction of employees in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Questionnaire was adopted from valid sources which contributed to the topic of leadership and job satisfaction worldwide.

The present research has been executed on the need for Customer Relations Management in APSRTC ¿ a state owned Transport Company of Andhra Pradesh which caters bus service throughout the state.The Backdrop of the study reflects the fact that APSRTC is incurring financial loss in a highly competitive scenario.The commuters are emanating preference towards comfortable and satisfying service offered by the transporters, instead of being loyal to a specific brand for emotional reasons. In an open & transparent Buyer¿s Market, they can make a shift from one transport company to another without any subjective bias. In such a competitive scenario it has become imperative for APSRTC to ensure the retention of the existing customers as well as to leverage new customers from the clutches of the competitive transport companies. The situation is very crucial for APSRTC and it has become imperative for them to adopt pragmatic stratagems that may lead to a successful turnaround. In such a crucial juncture, I have initiated a comprehensive study to identify the the appropriate strategy that would facilitate APSRTC to outpace the highly problematic, jeopardizing situation.

About 120 coal-based thermal power stations are in India and Fly ash is a major issue because electricity generation in the country would remain predominantly coal-based for a couple of coming decades. The coal being made available to thermal power stations has ash content in relatively large proportions. The ash generation has increased to about 131 million tonne during 2015-16 and shall continue to grow. A large number of technologies have been developed for gainful utilization and safe management of fly ash under the concerted efforts of Fly Ash Mission of the GOI since 1994. As a result, the utilization of fly ash has increased to over 73 million tonne in the past few years. Therefore, the book is a study on technology forecasting and technology assessment for utilizing fly ash in constructing embankments in Indian perspective. Then the ISM approach is used to find the relationship between various critical research factors.

The purpose of the quantitative correlational study was to profile the leadership of women engineers licensed in the province of British Columbia by using the Leadership Practices Inventory to operationalize leadership and explore associations with levels of university education, executive coaching, years of engineering practice, and the location of practice as rural versus urban. The number of women leaders continues to increase in Canadian corporations while the influence of women engineer leaders is not as progressive. Growth in the fields of engineering leadership education, management education, and leadership education offered sufficient evidence to pursue research that furthered the leadership development of women engineers. In university engineering education inclusion of leadership education improved, while attention to leadership development for professional women engineers remained sparse. Findings of this study described the leadership style of women engineers and suggested the combination of education and learning approach for a program in leadership development for women engineer leaders.

Retail industry in India is at the crossroads. It has emerged as one of the most dynamic and fast paced industries with several players entering the market. But because of the heavy initial investments required, break even is difficult to achieve and many of these players have not tasted success so far. However, the future is promising; the market is growing, government policies are becoming more favorable and emerging technologies are facilitating operations. Retailing in India is gradually inching its way toward becoming the next boom industry. The whole concept of shopping has altered in terms of format and consumer buying behavior, ushering in a revolution in shopping in India. This book is written on the basis of the syllabus of MBA (Agri-Business Management) of University of Mysore and University of Agricultural Sciences.

If you have limited time with you and want to know the basic concepts of retail management, develop strategies, analyse real life case studies in easily understandable English language, then this book on Retail Management is for you. In this book you will understand the concepts as well as learn how to implement the concepts in your shop or retail outlets, easy exercises and diagrams are also given to help you understand the same. This book is designed for an average English literate reader, who will understand the concepts easily as the author has used many simple examples to explain the same point. SO SAVE, TIME, EFFORT AND ENERGISE YOUR SELF WITH KNOWLEDGE.

Since the dawn of civilization, leadership research paradigms have been continuously shifting to find one best style regardless of time and situation. In such a quest of best leadership vision, this study conducted a survey on all prominent leaders since 3500 B.C. Finally, it was observed that the most influential leader of human history was endowed with a vision which is applicable regardless of time, situation, and religion. Utilizing this vision, the most influential leader carved out an empire stretching from the border of India to the Atlantic Ocean-the largest empire that the world has yet seen.