According to the Dictionary of Psychology (2003), ‘Job satisfaction is the extent to which a worker is content with his or her position in an organization the work conditions, compensation and general treatment relative to others in organization’. Job satisfaction is the favorable or unfavorable subjective feeling with which employees view their work. It results when there is congruence between job requirements, demands and expectations of employees. It expresses the extent of match between employee’s expectations of job and the reward that the job provides. The factors of physical conditions…
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PERCEPTION OF B.Ed. COLLEGE LECTURERS ABOUT THEIR PRINCIPALS MANAGERIAL EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF THEIR COLLEGES OF EDUCATION By Ramakrishna Reddy, M.
Abstract Education in its holistic approach serves many purposes. It enables a person to stretch his potentialities for welfare of self, family and society. Education enthuses the individual with responsibility of developing and sustaining a just socio-economic system, conserving and transmitting human heritage, moreover adopting a sensible and sensitive approach towards utilization of resources. These aspirations can’t be accomplished in absence of proficient educational system, especially a professionally competent lecturer. Student lecturers enter the initial B.Ed. lecturers training programme with already established beliefs and value system. Their perception of lecturer…
Read MoreRESEARCH ON OCCUPATIONAL STRESS AND STRESS COPING STRATEGIES: CERTAIN REFLECTIONS By Shailaja, M. and Reddy, G.L.
Stress and strain have become pervading features of peoples’ life in modern world. Despite tremendous advancements in science and technology, and remarkable growth of economy and sources of luxury, majority of being experiencing moderate to high degree of psychological stress in various spheres of their lives. In the present day world majority of people may be seen talking about the term, yet, significantly few people use the term in the same way or even attempt for a clear-cut definition of the term stress. The word stress is derived from the…
Read MoreREDEFINING THE PARAMETERS OF WOMANHOOD IN SHASHI DESHPANDE’S ‘ROOTS AND SHADOWS’ by Kabeerali P.
Abstract Patriarchy is an all-embracing term in feminist studies. Under patriarchy women are oppressed both by the patriarch and the matriarch. Matriarch oppresses women particularly over the daughters and the patriarch, oppresses women particularly over the daughters-in-law. A woman, who act with oppressive power politics and represses her daughter or daughter-in-law, is resented and feared as a matriarch. She unknowingly works as an agent of patriarchal norms in a male dominated society. This article aims at exploring the ways through which the novelist Shashi Deshpande tries to question the prevailing…
Read MoreSYMBOLISM IN THE POEM ‘STOPPING BY THE WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING’ By Dr. Sunitha Anilkumar
Robert Frost is an American poet whose works were published in England. They are realistic depictions of rural life and his works frequently employed settings from the rural land in the New England in the early 20th century. He received Pulitzer prizes for poetry. The poems of Robert Frost are “The Road Not Taken,” “Mending Wall” and “Birches.” A large number of Frost’s poems on the surface seem to be literal descriptions of landscapes and events. The subtle devices adopted by Frost such as using a word here and an…
Read MoreA SURVEY ON MULTI–TARGET DETECTION AND TRACKING IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS By Josna Jose and Dr.R.Vijayakumar
Abstract As it moves through a sensor network target tracking has become an increasingly important application in Wireless Sensor Networks. Multi-Target tracking refers to the problem of jointly estimating the number of targets and their states from sensor data. In multi- target tracking the location of multiple targets has to be tracked simultaneously. Increases the network traffic by increasing the number of targets to be tracked and thus more complex energy minimization techniques and routing schemes are necessary to compensate for the network performance. Tracking mobile targets using sensor networks…
Read MoreBENEFITS, REQUIRED SKILLS, PRIVACY CONCERNS REGARDING CLOUD COMPUTING By Dr. Vipul V. Makodia
Abstract IT organizations face unprecedented challenges. Internal business customers continue to demand rapid delivery of innovative services to respond to outside threats and opportunities. Hamstrung by limited staff and budget, IT struggles to keep up, often exhausting resources simply trying to respond to changing business requests. In this tense environment, the options have been few: delay innovation that fuels the business or allow business users to procure services without IT oversight that ensures reliability, security, compliance and governance standards are met for the business. At the core of IT’s challenges…
Read MoreFILTRATION OF CHANGE: READING KUTTANAD By Anish Mathew
Abstract The social structures undergo significant changes and reform, as a result of which the patterns of social establishments, social groups, agency capabilities, conceptions, prioritizations etc. are meaningfully changed. When the concept of social change is applied to more specific instances, say nation that may not be identical in its pattern and structure of transformation. For example developing countries like India. India, like other developing countries, is unique in its social relations with features of multiple beliefs, customs religions, castes, languages etc. India’s social condition consists of traits of tradition…
Read MoreUNDETERRED THOUGH SCARRED: THE PHOENIX-LIKE RISE OF THE VICTIMS OF PARTITION IN LALITHAMBIKA ANTHARJANAM’S ‘KODUMKAATIL PETTA ORU ILA’ By Niranjana Nair P.
Abstract The larger political and economic impact of Partition had always been the central concern of Partition scholarship. The focus of attention has now gradually shifted to the individual experiences of survivors. However, even as far back as the bifurcation of India, these individual experiences of survivors have been a matter of interest to creative writers. Even regional writers have been influenced by the event. The Malayalam writer Lalithambika Antharjanam’s short story ‘‘Kodumkaatil Petta Oru Ila” narrates the travails of women who have undergone unimaginable suffering in the communal conflicts…
Read MoreSHAKESPEARE’S HAMLET’S FINDING RELEVANCE IN TODAY’S SOCIETY By Dr. Vipul V. Makodia
Abstract World today is divided by hatred, mistrust and prejudices. This has resulted into creation of impregnable walls of hegemony and sharply drawn boundaries. Moreover, polity and economies the world over suffer from tentativeness and indecision. They are riddled with scams and corruption resulted from arbitrary decision on the one hand and tremendous amount of loses and in repairable damage resulted from non decision and essence of strong leadership in a vitiated atmosphere like this, Hamlet sends across a strong message to the people who matter. Big Willy wrote Hamlet between 1599…
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