Impact of Training on Employee’s Performance in Indian Telecom Industry: A Study of Selected Telecom Companies

Trainingan indispensable strategic tool for enhancing employee performance andorganization competitive advantage. The puroose of this study is to examine theimpact of training on employees’ performance and organization’s competitiveadvantage in Indian telecom industry. A sample of 210 employees from fourtelecom companies has been selected for the study. Data have been collectedthrough questionnaires designed on a five point Likert scale. Simple LinearRegression has been used as the statistical tool to measure the impact oftraining on the performance of employees.Summary of the findings indicates thattraining has a significant impact on employee’s performance in selectedtelecom companies.Keywords: training, development,performance, competitiveness

Financial Performance of Cement Companies- A Critical Appraisal

The Indian cement industry is the second largest in the world employing in excess of a million people throughoutthe country. It contributes to the Indian economy because the construction industry in India relies heavily on thecement industry. The present paper analyses the financial performance of five major cement companies in India.The data has been collected from the annual reports of the cement companies since 2005-06 to 2014-15 andanalyzed by applying one way ANOVA as the statistical tool. The analysis of the data shows that there is asignificant difference in selected cement companies in India with respect to gross profit ratio, net profit ratio,current ratio, quick ratio, and debt equity ratio.Keywords: cement, cement companies, ratio, ANOVA