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Mediation Effect of Passion between Intimacy and Commitment in Relationship with God: Triangular Theory of Love
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Aruna Dhamija,
Associate Professor, Institute of Business Management, GLA University
Mathura (UP), India
Somesh Dhamija, Professor & Head (UG), Institute of Business Management,
GLA University Mathura (UP), India
Krishanveer Singh, Assistant Professor, Institute of Business Management,
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Purpose:
- The purpose of this research paper is to test the relationship
with God and to know the strength among the variables of love -
Intimacy, Passion and Commitment, through Triangular Love Scale
(TLS). To study the direct and indirect relationship between variables
of Love in context with God and to know the mediation effect of
Passion between the two variables of love, namely, Intimacy and
Commitment. Research Design: - In this study, data was collected
through well structured questionnaire from 210 respondents who identified
themselves as God-believers. The Partial Least Square (PLS) -Structural
Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to measure the relationship among
the variables and to conceptualize the model. Findings:- In context
of the past studies, a conceptual model is developed to measure
the direct relationship as well as indirect relationship among the
three variables of love, namely, Intimacy, Passion and Commitment
in relationship with God. Structural Equation Modeling analyses
revealed that the association between Intimacy and Commitment is
mediated by Passion. Limitations:- Other tools can also be used
to analyse the same study to know relationship between variables
of love with God. Different variables which are not explored can
be used to test the relationship with God. Practical Implications:-
This study makes significant contributions for religious leaders
and researchers who associate themselves with spirituality in order
to understand the strength of relationship with God by knowing the
impact on variables of love-Intimacy, Passion and Commitment. Originality:
- The current study aims to know the strength of relationship with
God through the three variables of love, namely, Intimacy, Passion
and Commitment. There are lots of studies on Triangular Love Scale
in knowing the different perspectives. The results of this study
will help to know in actuality as to how much the individual is
close to God, attracted towards him and able to maintain his love
towards him. Keywords:
Keywords: Intimacy, Passion, Commitment, relationship with God, Triangular Love Scale
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Vision Actualisation and Spirituality: A Theoretical Model
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Paritosh Mishra,
Research Scholar, Amity Business School, Amity University, Noida,
Uttar Pradesh
B. Shukla, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Leadership & Vice
Chancellor, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh
R. Sujatha, Professor, Amity Business School, Amity University,
Noida, Uttar Pradesh
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As one stretches open the rolled-up scrolls of not-so-distant history, one can see instances of several Corporate scandals having marred the international business firmament over the years. This has led to a heightened recognition of the importance of spirituality, ethics and values in organisational life. The current study presents a theoretical model regarding how spirituality and organisational vision actualisation can coexist and dialectically influence and reinforce each other in a meaningful way and ensure fructification of long term objectives and sustenance of organisations. The model proposes that conceptual ramifications of organisational spirituality are organisational ethics, values and moral standards, which, when practised, give concrete manifestation to augmentation of productivity and lead to growth, fruition of organisational objectives and long-term sustainability of the organisation.
Keywords: Spirituality, Vision actualisation,
value actualisation, organisational ethics, morality, integrity,
connectedness, wholeness, commitment, creativity, mutual respect
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Designing the Conceptual Flow Model from Csikszentmihalyi to
Gurdjieff: The Mystic Revelations
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Soma Panja, Assistant
Professor, Department of Management Studies, NIT, Silchar, Assam
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Flow
as propounded by Csikszentmihalyi is an extraordinary phenomenon
helping people maintaining all-encompassing performance ability
often triggers curiosity of whether that particular phenomenon can
be replicated time and again amongst all the humans. Well, the answer
can be both a YES and a NO. In order to explore the phenomenon,
we will explore the principles or laws of the universe and its functioning
as propounded by Gurdjieff and draw assertions from the exploration
to design applicable understanding in the nature of flow. The understanding
of Gurdjieff was based on his search for the truth and the mysteries
present within the mystic schools in the East. Much of the spiritual
work is based on this basic premise that life propagates itself
and the understanding of this phenomenon is self-evident to be propounded
in the basic dogmatic revelations of the individual agenda. The
fundamental truth about the expectation and realitydilemma about
the performance scenario based on the interaction point of view
with human and its capacities along with the environmental stimuli
often brings around certain understanding about the capacities and
performance ability in a certain environmental setup. This particular
transcending phenomena and immersion and evolving in the process
of working and making extraordinary revolutions in all the spheres
of life has been a constant curious case to be solved and debated
with the help of yoga, Zen, science, religion, mysticism, and occult
culminating from various forms of old age and new age philosophical
dimensions engulfed into the spiritual underpinnings. Transcending
above one's own physical boundaries to take into to the cosmic vibrations
and inculcate the energy field within one's own boundaries helping
them to perform and replicate things in finest creativity levels
often motivates to explore these phenomena into further details.
Keywords: Flow, creativity level, Skill-Work match,
Interaction Model, Law of Gurdjieff
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The Advertising
Side of ‘Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam’- Introducing Spiritual
Substantiation
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P. N. Jha D. Litt.
(Advertising Management), Director, School of Management Sciences,
Varanasi
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The present paper drawn on the advertising material of a famous
Hindi motion picture – Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam, depicts the
case of a deceptive advertisement for a product, Mohini Sindoor,
through a sensitive example. A carefully written copy of the ad,
augmented with a well-planned ad campaign completely fails to deliver
the benefits it is supposed to accomplish, and thus leading to a
mental agony to not only the consumer but also to an intermediary.
The paper also presents a unique way to self-regulation by the advertiser
of Mohini Sindoor, and further introduces a novel form of ad substantiation
– Spiritual Substantiation, to the advertising literature.
Keywords: Cinema ; Epistemological
radar ; Deceptive advertising ; Spiritual substantiation ; Self-regulation
by advertisers ; Publication advertising ; Transit advertising.
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Agent Mediated Code Comprehension: A Cognitive Challenge
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Ram Gopal Gupta,
Research Scholar, Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand,
India
Bireshwar Dass Mazumdar, Associate Professor, Institute of Engineering
& Rural Technology, Allahabad, U.P., India
Kuldeep Yadav, Associate Professor, College of Engineering, Roorkee,
Uttarakhand, India
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The
rapidly changing needs and opportunities of today’s global
software market require unprecedented levels of code comprehension
to integrate diverse information systems to share knowledge and
collaborate among organizations. The combination of code comprehension
with software agents not only provides a promising computing paradigm
for efficient agent mediated code comprehension service for selection
and integration of inter-organizational business processes but this
combination also raises certain cognitive issues that need to be
addressed. We will review some of the key cognitive models and theories
of code comprehension that have emerged in software code comprehension.
This paper will propose a cognitive model which will bring forth
cognitive challenges, if handled properly by the organization would
help in leveraging software design and dependencies.
Keywords: Enterprise collaboration, Multi-agent,
Cognitive features, software code comprehension, mental model, software
reengineering.
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Implication of Tourism Traits on Jharkhand Tourism with special
reference to perception of local residents
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Pranjal Kumar,
Assistant Professor, Department of HMCT, Birla Institute of Technology,
Ranchi
Ashutosh Mishra, Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Birla
Institute of Technology, Ranchi
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Jharkhand
is popular for tribal culture and uniqueness of its inherent natural
beauty attributing significantly on Tourism Industry of Jharkhand.
There has been visible change and impact on socio-economic factor
because of tourist influx in the Jharkhand state. The inherent beauty
and nature has made the state popular for tourism. The attraction
towards various important tourist spots revolves mostly within the
domestic tourism. The paper attempts to ascertain the impact of
tourism traits, like economic Development, Cost of living, Infrastructure
Development, Socio-Cultural and the Environment affect through primary
data collected from the responses of residents of six dominant tourist
circuits of Jharkhand. The respondent’s views were ascertained
on five point Likert Scale. The data so collected was subjected
to analysis for identifying the impact of various tourism traits
on the prospects of Jharkhand Tourism.
Keywords: Jharkhand Tourism, Category, Economic
Development, Cost of living, Infrastructure Development, Socio-Cultural
and the Environment.
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Perfectionism and
Employee Engagement among Management Faculty: An Empirical Study
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Dr. Divya Goel,
Assistant Professor, Amity University, Noida
Dr. Mitushi Singh, Assistant Professor, Amity University, Noida
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Contrary
to the Indian philosophy of “Vasudhaiv Kutumbkam”, western
design of management is based upon the Darwin's principle of the
survival of the fittest which promoted the philosophy of 'dog eats
dog'. Bulkiness of the bottom line of the balance sheet became the
yardstick of the success of an organization and ethics, values and
lifelong emotional bonding with people are pushed to the peripheral
level where customers became 'consumer' and workers a 'hirable and
replaceable commodity' and management professionals as 'tools to
improvise the bottom line' without realizing that profit is not
the sole motto as the purpose of organization is to create values
to the society and profit is just a byproduct.
Ethics and values are different from rules/regulations because it
provides criteria for evaluating action based upon certain desirable
norms but has no legal binding. The management is expected to follow
the highest ethical standards as management is not just accountable
to shareholders but also responsible towards stake holders and responsibility
of management professionals from public work cannot be veiled behind
the professionalism. Moreover, the great organization cannot be
created without values and ethics. Only those organizations can
survive till eternity that follow highest standard of ethics, moral
values and create values for the society.
It is difficult to accept that an organization follows highest standard
of ethics, values and emotions in its internal management but can
afford to remain low in ethical standards with customers. Organizations
have realized the importance of ethics in marketing for the benefits
in long term. Adoptions of ethical practices in marketing create
positive energy in the organization and generate interest of the
customer in products/services, develop customer confidence in organization's
brand and leads to loyalty.
Keywords: Self-Management, Renunciation, Value-orientation,
Stakeholders-orientation, Processorientation, Karma-yogi
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Sustainable Development
2050: Spirituality - The Missing Link |
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Sanjay Banerji,
Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
University
Rajiv Prasad, Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore, Amrita Vishwa
Vidyapeetham University
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We
live in the Anthropocene and “The future of humanity and of
our planet lies in the hands of today's younger generation…”
In spite of the SDGs and the Paris Agreement; assured sustainable
development is still far from reality; and many challenges persist.
Science became part of the mainstream sustainability dialogue after
the publication of the planetary boundaries. We argue that mainstreaming
spirituality holds the key to win over the final challenges in sustainable
development. For this paper, 'Spirituality' is synonymous with service
to mankind (Swami Vivekananda). It is a way of life upholding truth,
moral, ethical and human values. Spirituality assures that in the
eternal fight between truth and untruth; truth always wins. Therefore,
mainstreaming spirituality in our sustainability dialogue is essential
for the Holocene period to continue.
Key words-Sustainability, Spirituality, Sustainable
Development
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Responsible Consumption
for Curbing Food Wastage: An Exploratory Enquiry |
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Saurabh Kumar Srivastava,
Assistant Professor, School of Management Sciences Varanasi and
Part-Time Research Scholar Department of Management Studies, IIT(ISM)
Dhanbad
Ankita Anshul , Research Scholar, Department of Management , IIT(ISM)
Dhanbad
Pramod Pathak, Professor, Department of Management Studies, Indian
Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad
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The
world population crossed seven billion during year 2011 and is expected
to touch the mark of 9.3 billion by the year 2050. This increase
in number of people all over the world will invariably lead to an
increase in demand of food at a humongous scale. In a report prepared
for the Global Food Security Programme, Meacham et al. (2013) pointed
that against the whopping 50-70% inflation projected in food demand,
around 868 million people are struggling with under nourishment
all over the globe whereas approx. one third of global food production
ends up as waste. As a developing nation still battling the devils
of poverty, corruption and skewed income distribution, India has
not been able to solve or manage the conundrum of food wastage over
the years and each year witnesses tons of food going to garbage
at various stages of production, supply and consumption. However,
it is crucial to investigate and assess the causes and impact of
food wastage in order to take steps towards reducing losses and
wastage in the entire food production and consumption system. This
paper endeavors to uncover the causes and cases of food wastage
in Indian households and commercial enterprises. It also underlines
the various stages of food production and delivery that contribute
to wastage of food in various ways. The paper concludes with taking
an account of various causes leading to food wastage in Indian scenario
and suggestions on strategies to reduce the scale of food wastage
India.
Key words-Food wastage, consumption in households,
causes of food wastage, India
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Role of Organizational
Citizenship Behaviour on Internal Brand Identification |
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G. Radha Kiranmayi,
Research Scholar, School of Management Studies, University of Hyderabad,
Hyderabad,
P. Jyothi, Dean & Professor, School of Management Studies, University
of Hyderabad, Telangana
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The
study Role of Organizational Citizenship Behavior on Employee Brand
Identification was conducted to analyze the influence of OCB on
Internal or employee brand identification. A survey was conducted
administering a questionnaire on a sample of 265 employees of select
IT companies in Hyderabad and Bengaluru. The survey has stated certain
key findings. The study identified that OCB has a significant impact
on employee brand identification and altruism and courtesy play
a significant role in this relationship. The study also found that
any change in gender, age, educational qualification and location
of the workplace has no impact on brand identification while designation
or level at which employee is placed influences his brand identification.
Therefore, it was implied that, both branding and HR personnel of
the organizations to work in harmony to create greater sense of
OCB and thus, Brand Identification that can in turn create competitive
advantage. Further, the limitations of the study and scope for further
research has been discussed.
Key words-Internal Brand Management, Internal Brand
Identification, Organizational Citizenship Behaviour, Competitive
Advantage, Employee Behaviour
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