A Live Study of Employee Satisfaction and Growth Analysis: Tata Steel

Employee satisfaction is supremely important in an organization because it is what productivity depends on. Satisfied employees are more likely to be creative and innovative and come up with breakthroughs that allow a company to grow and change positively with time and changing market conditions. The objectives of the paper are: - i) to measure the level of employee satisfaction at Tata Steel, ii) to see the effect of the measures being taken to enhance employee satisfaction and employee growth in the organization. In the study, the dimensions across which it was measured were – Superior-Subordinate relationship, Role, Culture, Career Development, Training, Goals and Motivation. Various aspects of these dimensions were listed down and converted into a questionnaire to conduct a survey on the employees of a private sector organization. Few trainers and trainees were interviewed to understand the system of training as training was the factor which contributed to employee satisfaction more than other factors. There has been quantitative analysis of the results of questionnaire done through Mean-SD Score, Correlation of inter and intra items of each parameter under consideration, the factor analysis has been done after that to find out the items which uniquely determine the employee satisfaction in the organization. Keywords: satisfaction, employee growth, training, motivation, career, innovation, contribution

A Study of the Recruitment and Selection process: SMC Global

Better recruitment and selection strategies result in improved organizational outcomes. With reference to this context, the research paper entitled Recruitment and Selection has been prepared to put a light on Recruitment and Selection process. The main objective is to identify general practices that organizations use to recruit and select employees and, to determine how the recruitment and selection practices affect organizational outcomes at SMC Global Securities Ltd. The research methodology applied is the exploratory. The data was collected through well structured questionnaires. The source of data was both primary and secondary. Sample size was 30. Data analysis has been done with the help of SPSS software. The company considered portals as the most important medium of hiring employees. The employees working in the company consider the employee references are one of the most reliable source of hiring the new employees. Company always takes in consideration the cost-benefit ratio. Copyright © www.iiste.org Keywords: Recruitment, Selection, Reference, Interview, Hiring, Performance

Balanced Scorecard for Superior Organizational Performance

The capital you don't see on the Balance Sheet of an organization is in three forms: Human Capital (the collective skill, knowledge attitudes and behavior of the people in the organization), Information Capital (the resources and processes in place that ensure effective use of the human capital), and Organizational Capital (the values, working relationship and cultural norms at work in the organization). A balance scorecard translates an organization's mission and strategy into set of performance measures that provide the framework for implementing its strategy. You must communicate strategy in operating terms if you expect people to execute on your strategy. The objective of the paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of using balance scorecard in order to improve the organization's performance. In collection of data both reactive and non reactive techniques were used. BSC is a conceptual framework for translating an organization's vision into a set of performance indicators distributed among four perspectives: Financial, Customer, Internal Business Processes, and Learning & Growth. The paper concludes that balanced scorecard is a productivity tool with multiple benefits. It is a strategic performance management tool for measuring whether the smaller-scale operational activities of a company are aligned with its larger-scale objectives in terms of vision and strategy. It can be used as a Strategic Management System that will clarify and translate vision and strategy, communicate and link strategic objectives and measures, plan and set targets with aligning strategic initiatives, enhance strategic feedback and learning. Keywords: Appraisal, measurement measures, rectification, performance, quality, feedback, profitability

Job Satisfaction of the Employees at the Workplace

The study examines different aspects of job satisfaction like culture, leadership communication, commitment, job content, training, rewards and recognition opportunities, teamwork, superior subordinate relationship and delegation, at Badarpur thermal power station, NTPC ltd. The research done is descriptive study involving survey and enquiry. The tools used for the data collection are questionnaires interviews and observations. The sampling design used is random sampling Sample of 125 employees from study population of 248 was taken. The secondary was collected from the company’s manuals, employee handbook, BTPS intranet and website. The research was carried out for a period of 2 months. The analysis was carried on a software SPSS and stated satisfaction level of different parameters.  The overall job satisfaction showed people were satisfied with there current job but still measures should to be taken to improve the satisfaction level

Increasing Employees’ Efficiency through Workforce Management

The study aims to find out the degree of influence of different factors affecting workforce management and to suggest some measures to increase the workforce management by strengthening the HR factors taken under study. It is a descriptive study. The organization studied is a top Indian real estate company in Delhi. The sample size of the study is 30. The study indicates that workforce management procedure has been effective and systematic to a large extend. Nevertheless, there has been more apprehension/disagreement from some quarters/section of the employees. This is indicative of the fact that there’s always a room for improvement and enhancement. Referral should be taken on priority basis as it is a speedy source of recruitment and gives the sense of loyalty among the employees. Performance appraisal should be undertaken on regular basis and proper feedback on performance should be given by the superior

Diverging Women on the Mommy Track to the Career Track

The review paper discusses the Mommy Track phenomenon and interventions required to bring women back on the career track. It collates the literature to understand the Mommy Track phenomenon from organisations and economic perspectives. The Mommy Track is a path which is taken by high performing women to take a career break in order to rear children. The idea is to switch back to career tracks when childcare duties require less time. Gender parity initiatives have tried to bridge male and female labour gaps to bring back women to career tracks. Changes in government interventions, organisation policies, and individual attitudes will create an equitable future for all. Policy makers should keep an eye on protecting the issues of the Mommy Track with laws to help women come back to career tracks, with a focus on parental leave, family friendly policies, hour work policies, and regulated childcare

Profit Analysis of a Two Unit Cold Standby System Operating Under Different Weather Conditions Subject t o Inspection

A system, or unit, is said to be working under normal weather conditions if the system is working under prescribed conditions as defined/stated by the definition of reliability of system/unit, otherwise the system is said to be working in abnormal weather conditions. For example, if a car with the capacity for five persons is carrying more than five persons, it will be said to be working under abnormal weather conditions. Another example, if a hydraulic machine having the capacity to lift a maximum weight of 500 tons is lifting a weight of 600 tons, then the machine is working under abnormal weather conditions. Hence, in this situation, work done by the machine is out of its capacity and the machine is working in abnormal weather conditions. If the machine is working within the capacity of the stated conditions, it is said to be working in normal weather conditions. The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the profit of a two-unit system called the standby system that is working under different weather conditions in an inspection facility. There is a single perfect server who visits the system immediately whenever required. A server inspects the unit before repair/replacement of the failed unit. All the mechanical activities done by the server are only possible during normal weather conditions. There are two possibilities after inspection of the unit; either repair of the unit is feasible or not feasible. If repair of the unit is not feasible, then the unit will be replaced immediately by a new unit. Otherwise, the repaired unit works as a new unit. The operative unit undergoes preventive maintenance after a specific (maximum) operation time. All random variables are statistically independent. The failure rate and the rate by which the system undergoes for preventive maintenance are constant whereas the inspection rate, repair rate, and maintenance rate follow negative exponential distributions. The expressions for several reliability measures are derived in steady state conditions using the regenerative point technique and semi-Markov process. The graphical behavior of MTSF, availability and profit function, has been depicted with respect to preventive maintenance rate for arbitrary values of other parameters and costs

Big Data Analytics for Energy Consumption Prediction in Smart Grid Using Genetic Algorithm and Long Short Term Memory

Smart Grids (SG) have smart meters and advance metering infrasturutre (AMI) which generates huge data. This data can be used for predicting energy consumption using big data analytics. A very limited work has been carried out in the literature which shows the utilization of big data in energy consumption prediction. In this paper, the proposed method is based on Genetic Algorithm - Long Short Term Memory (GA-LSTM). LSTM memorises values over an arbitrary interval that manages time series data very effictively while GA is an evolutionary process that is used for optimization. GA combines with LSTM to process hyperparameters such as hidden layers, epochs, data intervals, batchsize and activation functions. Hence, GA creates a new vector for optimum solution that provides minimum error. These methods provide the best performance when compared with existing benchmarks. Moreover, GA-LSTM is used in a multi-threaded environment which increases the speed of convergence. Here, the multi-core platform is operated for solving one-dimensional GA-based inverse scattering problems. The result shows that GA-LSTM provides better convergence as compared to random approach techniques. For validating the results, Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland Interconnection (PJM) energy consumption data has been used while adopting different performance evaluation metrics

Materanal and neonatal outcomes of triplet gestation in a tertiary care centre: a retrospective study

Background: A significant rise in triplet pregnancy rate has occurred recently. This rise is of concern, as these infants are frequently reported as a risk factor of adverse outcome. The aim of this study was to retrospectively study the outcomes of triplet births.Methods: A retrospective study was undertaken to analyze the clinical data of all patients with triplet gestation admitted to the labour room of Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital, Delhi to study the maternal and fetal outcomes. Authors retrospectively observed and analyzed the database to examine triplet gestations delivered between January 2014 and December 2018.Results: Over the five-year study period, there were total 44,011 deliveries. Out of these, there were 35 (0.079%) triplet pregnancies. Of all the triplet pregnancies studied 80% resulted from ovulation induction and assisted reproductive technology. The mean gestational age at delivery was 31.6±3.0 weeks, and the mean birth weight was 1,594±460 gm. The most common maternal complications were Preterm labour in 32 pregnancies (92%), anemia in 17 (49%), pre-eclampsia in 11 (31%), post-partum hemorrhage in 8 (22%). Of the total deliveries neonatal complications included Respiratory distress syndrome in 44 (42.2%), Hyperbilirubinemia in 41 (39%), Intrauterine growth restriction in 19 (18.1%). The perinatal mortality rate was 10.5%.Conclusions: Higher order pregnancies are associated with maternal and neonatal complications. These high risk women need more care and the neonates require intensive care and monitoring after birth, most commonly due to prematurity and low birth weight

Basics of Clay Minerals and Their Characteristic Properties

Clay minerals such as kaolinite, smectite, chlorite, micas are main components of raw materials of clay and formed in presence of water. A large number of clays used to form the different structure which completely depends on their mining source. They are known as hydrous phyllosilicate having silica, alumina and water with variable amount of inorganic ions like Mg2+, Na+, Ca2+ which are found either in interlayer space or on the planetary surface. Clay minerals are described by presence of two-dimensional sheets, tetrahedral (SiO4) and octahedral (Al2O3). There are different clay minerals which are categorized based on presence of tetrahedral and octahedral layer in their structure like kaolinite (1:1 of tetrahedral and octahedral layers), smectite group of clay minerals (2:1 of tetrahedral and octahedral layers) and chlorite (2:1:1 of tetrahedral, octahedral and octahedral layers). The particle size of clay minerals is <2microns which can be present in form of plastic in presence of water and solidified when dried. The small size and their distinctive crystal structure make clay minerals very special with their unique properties including high cation exchange capacity, swelling behavior, specific surface area, adsorption capacity, etc. which are described in this chapter. Due to all these unique properties, clay minerals are gaining interest in different fields