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- Industry Initiatives to Addressing Water Concerns in India Today:The Inward and the Outward Looking Possibilities
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1 Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IN
1 Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IN
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International Journal of Business Ethics in Developing Economies, Vol 6, No 1 (2017), Pagination: 1-9Abstract
In India, water is fast becoming a scarce resource. As our country proceeds to achieve developments towards being a knowledge-based economy, competing demands for this limited resource coming from households, industry, and agriculture have wide-ranging implications for the country’s future. In line with these challenges, Indian industry is realising the importance of conserving and managing water, not only because of the growing scarcity and poor water quality impacting industrial operations, but also because of the fact that they are becoming conscious of their responsibility to (a) conserve water resources and (b) ensure clean water, for their own operations and to help communities around. In order to assess the extent of awareness of the industry to possible initiatives to address water challenges, an empirical research has been undertaken using survey research on a population of practicing managers across the country. This empirical research considers the severe impacts of the water crisis situation and examines if industry participation would help communities as well as their own operation in conserving and preserving this scarce resource. As part of this research, the awareness of private sector to the possible initiatives which are available to help water management has been considered in (a) internal sense (companies looking at the water efficiency in their own operations), and in (b) external sense (looking beyond the walls of the factory to help communities manage and cope with the water crisis situation).Keywords
Water Management, Empirical Research, Private Sector.
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- Organizational Initiatives to Enhance Employee Well-Being Preventing/Reducing the Onset of Non-Communicable Diseases in the Workplace
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1 Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, IN
1 Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, IN
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International Journal of Business Ethics in Developing Economies, Vol 8, No 1 (2019), Pagination: 1-12Abstract
This paper discusses a system of preventing/reducing the onset of NCDs in communities of employees across different world class companies in India. The system comprises a description of indicators which endeavor to measure the extent of health care initiatives, in the area of NCDs, practiced by these organizations. These are the Input indicators. The system also includes output indicators to assess the effectiveness of the initiatives.
Analyzing the data obtained from 12 companies, with the help of a questionnaire, the research comes up with the finding that the linkages between Input Indicators and Output Indicators are mostly statistically significant, valid at 10% level of significance in some cases and 17% significance in other cases.
Also, the trend analysis on output indicators over last two years shows substantial improvement.
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NCDs, Indian Companies, Indicators, Healthcare, Employees.References
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