Impact of Human Resource Development Interventions on Organizational Effectiveness: A Study on Indian Cement Industry

Cement industry is one of the key industries playing a vital role in the growth and development of the nation. Cement is the most preferred building material in India and its demand in the economy can be linked to the economic development activity in the country. There has been tremendous growth of activities in the Indian cement industry in terms of modernization, in order to keep pace with such modernization due to technological development; a strong manpower base equipped with latest development has to be built within Cement industry. Human Resource Development (HRD) interventions have to be implemented to update knowledge and improve the skills of personnel at all levels including the fresh talents in the industry. Seminal works in developed countries have advocated that organizational performance is influenced by employee competencies through the implementation of HRD interventions. However, the past studies emphasizing on HRD interventions to enhance employee competencies are scarce in India. Thus, this research examined the impact of HRD interventions on employee competencies towards building organizational effectiveness in Indian cement industry. Specifically, the study focuses on gauging the perceptions of employees of Indian cement manufacturing units on HRD interventions, organizational learning culture, employee competencies and organizational effectiveness to build a logical relationship among the variables. A survey was conducted among the employees of Indian cement industry situated in two Indian states Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. The selected cement manufacturing plants for the study are Jaypee Balaji Cement Plant (a unit of Jaypee Group), Madras Cements Ltd. (a unit of Ramco Group), OCL India Ltd. (a unit of Dalmia Bharat Group), Bargarh Cement Ltd. (a unit of the Associated Cement Companies Ltd.), and Jharsuguda Cement Works (a unit of Ultratech Cement Ltd.). A structured questionnaire comprising of eighty six items was administered among nine hundred fifty two respondents by adopting the method of simple random sampling. In the process of opinion survey, six hundred fifty three useful responses were retrieved owing to a response rate of sixty eight per cent. The responses obtained were subjected to analysis by using SPSS 20 and AMOS 20. The preliminary analysis of data was conducted by using the descriptive statistics, correlation and regression analysis. Then, the hypothesized research model was validated by using statistical tools such as exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modelling. The findings reveal that HRD interventions have a significant association with employee competencies. Similarly, found that organizational learning culture significantly moderates the relationship between HRD interventions and employee competencies. Further, employee competencies are significantly associated with goal oriented and competing values approach to organizational effectiveness. Along with these employee competencies partially mediated the relationship between HRD interventions and goal oriented approach to organizational effectiveness and fully mediated with competing values approach to organizational effectiveness. Thus, this research provides a holistic framework that may act as a blueprint for cement manufacturing organizations to assess and improve employee competencies as well as improve organizational effectiveness. Further, the study may also provide substantial evidence to the HRD managers for improvement of HRD practices and development of organizational learning culture through appropriate policies and procedures at the workplace along with enhancement of employee competencies towards significant outcome of organizational effectiveness

Energy Efficiency and Traffic Pattern Discovery for Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are regularly framed by the joint effort of the expansive measure of insignificant sensor nodes, which are associated through a wireless medium. In wireless sensor organize, security is a fundamental position in well-lit of its utilization in applications like monitoring, tracking, controlling, surveillance etc. Secure correspondence is greatly critical in conveying key data precisely and on the time through asset imperative sensor nodes. In this paper, our commitment is triple. Firstly, we have outlined the system layer routing assaults on WSNs. Also, we have given a scientific categorization of secure routing protocols of WSNs. Thirdly, we have given a subjective correlation of existing secure routing protocols. This situation is practically equivalent to conveying US Mail through USPS: express sends cost more than customary sends; be that as it may, sends can be conveyed quicker. The convention additionally gives a secure message conveyance alternative to amplify the message conveyance proportion under antagonistic assaults. What's more, we likewise give quantitative secure investigation on the proposed routing convention in light of the criteria proposed. In this way, unauthenticated individual can't get to the first information. By along these lines, the convention gives a secure message conveyance alternative to augment the message conveyance proportion under ill-disposed assaults

Development of a Modular Unit of a Higher Level Framework or Tool for Basic Programming Course Teaching Through E-Learning Mode

This paper reports about the development of a modular unit of a higher level framework or tool whose intended objective is the creation of animated lessons for basic programming (CS1) course in computer science discipline with visual aids. The goal of such lessons is to address the difficulties faced by the novice programmers in CS1 course.This module here after referred to as ‘type writer’allows instructors to render programmes or code snippets in a live typing manner as opposed to their sudden or en-block placement on the presentation area like a Power Point Slide; a commonly used approach in the present day eLearning.This project is planned to be executed in two stages and ‘type writer’ is the outcome of the first stage. This would be combined with another two modules that are planned to be developed in the second stage, to make the complete tool. The entire tool would be developed in Action Script 3.0 language that works on Adobe Flash Platform

Performance Comparison between Nonidentical Segmented Exponential Concave and Nonidentical Segmented Exponential Convex Serrated CATRs

This paper presented a theoretical and numerical assessment for nonidentical segmented exponential- (NISE-) convex and NISE-concave serrated plane CATRs by changing number of serrations. The investigation was based on diffraction theory and, more specifically, on the diffraction formulation of Fresnel. The compact antenna test range (CATR) provides uniform illumination within the Fresnel region to the test antenna. Application of serrated edges has been shown to be a good method to control diffraction at the edges of the reflectors. In this paper, the Fresnel fields of NISE-convex and NISE-concave serrated CATRs are analyzed using physical optics (PO) technique. The PO analysis is applied in this paper for plane reflector serrated CATR only. The same analysis is applied to any type of reflector. In this paper, lens-based reflector is not considered. It is observed that NISE-concave serrated CATR gives less ripple and enhanced quiet zone width than NISE-convex

A Reliable Traffic and Energy Aware Routing Protocol for Diverse Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) knowledge is a significant building block of IoT scope. Thought of heterogeneity e.g., energy, link and computational heterogeneities can recover the presentation of WSN routing algorithms in rapports of system generation, steadiness, dependability, network delay, etc.  A fresh routing algorithm named Traffic and Energy Aware Routing (TEAR) is presented, which contemplates node’s traffic requirements laterally with its liveliness levels while production CH selection. TEAR displays advances in terms of solidity period, consistent lifetime of the WSN before the expiry of its first node ended existing algorithms EACH, SEP and DEEC under the situation

A new deduplication and reduce communication overhead in cloud

We exhibited a novel way to deal with understand a property based capacity framework supporting secure deduplication. Our capacity framework is worked under a mixture cloud engineering, where a private cloud controls the calculation and an open cloud deals with the capacity. The private cloud is given a trapdoor key related with the comparing ciphertext, with which it can exchange the ciphertext more than one access strategy into ciphertexts of the equivalent plaintext under some other access approaches without monitoring the fundamental plaintext. Subsequent to accepting a capacity ask for, the private cloud first checks the legitimacy of the transferred thing through the appended evidence. On the off chance that the confirmation is legitimate, the private cloud runs a label coordinating calculation to see whether similar information hidden the ciphertext has been put away. Provided that this is true, at whatever point it is vital, it recovers the ciphertext into a ciphertext of the equivalent plaintext over an entrance approach which is the association set of both access strategies

Efficient tree structured algorithm for providing confidentiality of location data to minimize communication overhead in LBS Services

We present an effective and protection safeguarding polygons spatial inquiry structure for area based administrations, called Polaris. With Polaris, the LBS supplier redistributes the encoded LBS information to cloud server, and the enrolled client can question any polygon range to get precise LBS results without revealing his/her inquiry data to the LBS supplier and cloud server. Proficient uncommon polygons spatial inquiry calculation over ciphertext is developed dependent on an enhanced homomorphic encryption innovation over Composite request gathering. With SPSQ, Polaris can look re-appropriated scrambled LBS information in cloud server by the encoded demand, and react the scrambled polygons spatial question results precisely

An overview of dental implant biomaterials

Regardless of stomatognathic system atrophy, illness, or injury, modern dentistry endeavours to restore the patient to normal shape, function, comfort, aesthetics, speech, and health. Predictable success is now a reality for the rehabilitation of many difficult conditions as a result of ongoing research in treatment planning, implant designs, materials, and methodologies. The medical fields have long placed a strong emphasis on the biocompatibility properties of synthetic materials (biomaterials) used to replace biological tissues. In addition, implant biomaterials must be suitable in terms of mechanical strength, biocompatibility, and structural biostability in order to function at their best. In this article, the various implant biomaterials with their properties and applicability to implant dentistry are discussed

Self-sealing resin fixators in dentistry

Fixed indirect restorations bond to the prepared tooth surfaces with the use of a variety of luting agents depending upon the purpose of that rehabilitation. Success and failures of these restorations have been attributed to the quality of their bond with the tooth substrate. However, the advent of resin-based and self-adhesive resin luting agents have greatly changed this equation by altering the conventional bonding mechanisms and the durability of bond. The limited literature details of these self-adhesive resin luting agents require further exploration for the benefit of dental professionals. This review provides an overview of the composition, chemical interactions, favourable and unfavourable properties to be known for improving the scope of their utilization in dentistry