The article concerns the description of the system of professional training of border guards at the higher educational establishments in the Republic of India and distinguishing its structural components. To achieve the purpose of the research we used two groups of methods: quantitative and qualitative. Quantitative methods include analysis of…

For close to 20 years, the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) Application Trends Survey Report has gathered intelligence on the current market for graduate business school applicants. The 2017 report contains analysis of data submitted by 965 graduate business programs at 351 universities worldwide. Survey responses reflect the following…

Women talent in India is available in plenty and are joining the workforce in numbers. The bone of contention remains that a handful of them are able to get elevated to senior positions. Even then they are offered discounted roles, allowing only male executives to compete for top management positions. The paper attempts to identify and do an…

Purpose: This paper aims to explore consumer attitude towards service failure and recovery in the higher education in general and with respect to teaching, examination, library, computer lab, administration and infrastructure in particular. Design/Methodology/Approach: The data are collected from 120 students of three undergraduate colleges of…

In recognition of its increasing importance, many organizations make periodic assessments of their training and development activity. The objective of the present study was to extend the concept of capacity building to the assessment of training and development activity in an automobile component manufacturing organization, using a developed and…

The present paper discusses a conceptual, methodological and practical framework within which the limitations of the conventional notion of natural resource management (NRM) can be overcome. NRM is understood as the application of scientific ecological knowledge to resource management. By including a consideration of the normative imperatives that…

Discusses institutional planning and its application to the management of educational institutions, including concept clarification, problems in strategic planning in higher education, and obstacles to planning. (Author/PG)

Some of the problems of academic and financial management of higher education at the national and state levels are discussed to determine how the present system fulfills the needs created by changes in India. (Author/LBH)

Virtual teams are a common phenomenon in organizations today. Universities are no exception to this trend and, in response, are offering class rooms without boundaries by introducing online programs which allow individuals from all walks of life and diverse geographical locations to come together. Cross-cultural virtual teams, collaborating with…

Describes a personalized system for student-paced administration of correspondence programs which responds to the individual needs of the students in matters regarding registration, sending out materials, and receiving materials from them. The two systems used by the tutors and the students for recording all such correspondence are presented. (EAO)

Discusses minimum financial support required for an adequate adult education program. Sources of financing are suggested for wholly subsidized, partially-subsidized, self-financing and profit-making programs. (RB)

Explains emergence of management in India; reviews sources of management concepts; compares meaning of the terms "management" and "administration"; discusses characteristics of organizational culture in India; describes efforts to introduce management concepts in Indian education; offers suggestions for realizing the potential…

The results of a comparative study of 30 manufacturing firms in India indicated that the most effective organizations tended to choose a unidimensional strategy of administrative control. This strategy consisted of the use of formalized procedures to control decentralized decision-making with respect to both human and material resources. (Author)