K. Bharati Thakar
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Poverty explicitly means scarcity and surrounds a struggle for basic survival. The world all over, the poor people have no food to eat. Education and other growth aspects are far-fetched dreams for them. People living in the society on subsidies or free goods and food coupons are glaring examples of this class of people. To alleviate their own poverty, a lot of them succumb to social and economic crimes. There is a second class of people who are caught in the ...
Capitalism is a phenomenon which has existed for a long time, but the notion is much younger. Scientists have identified the phenomenon even in Ancient Greece. It is generally agreed that no modern form of capitalism existed before the 16th century, and that it existed in the 19th century. A further distinction should be made between the capitalists and capitalism. Capitalism refers to the socio system and the corresponding values that enable people to become ...
People management is an integral part of progress; as centuries have evolved from the Stone Age, when people left home in search of food, thereafter constructed monuments, to the present times known popularly as the knowledge age. Centuries before Christ, the mobility of people caused changes to happen; the Great Wall of China was built and the Pyramids were constructed. Changes continued even centuries after Christ, as evidenced by the building of the Eiffel ...
In today’s global village, more business houses are tending to look outward and inward and climbing the path of phenomenal growth. This has caused the employee profile to change at breakneck speed, making management relations fragile and more complicated. Employees now have more job opportunities with the criteria of employment changing. This book brings to light the various emerging issues relating to the employer-employee relationship. Employee retention, ...
Information Technology plays a very important role in today s world as it provides a platform for managing, sharing and retrieving information on a large scale through an integrated framework, which has several levels of protection for privacy as well as piracy. Though various countries have IT laws and Acts in regulation, there have been many issues and concerns about the misuse of IT. Sophistication and expansion of the usage of IT give rise to a new set of ...
Intellectual property rights are based upon the primary issues of capturing the unique ideas of an individual or a group into an intellectual asset. In this form, it gains great value in terms of the company turnover as well as giving the company a competitive edge. Intellectual properties are primarily in the form of copyrights, trademarks, patents and industrial designs. The Indian laws were amended to comply with the provisions of the TRIPS agreement but have ...
The law ensures order but it also has loopholes. This book attempts to understand how the law is enforced and wielded in the corporate sector with articles that reflect actual practices as in how Infosys settled sexual harassment cases, how Pepsi and Coke relate to India’s ecological demand, as well as Microsoft and its experiences with regulators. It also details issues of money laundering, irregularities in recruitment and corporate governance in the context ...
Mergers and acquisitions may be common but are they all successful? An M&A can be successful only when it generates a sustainable competitive advantage, something that requires world-class M&A implementation skills. Read this book for all the pre- and the post-M&A processes involved in an M&A and find an entire section consisting of case studies of successful M&As of Cisco, Nicholas Piramal and the Tata group.