Research Communication

                                                          By Harnain Arora     FPM II, Organisational Behaviour Area                            Want to grow at work? Want to feel energised? Want to remain healthy? Want to be a good performer? ALL AT THE SAME TIME, IS IT POSSIBLE? Well, with the increasing complexity at work, there are many question-marks that organisations and employees really worry about and guess what, there have already been constant efforts put to understand the problems and find solutions! But to make the picture look more bright, digging on similar lines a research was conducted by some researchers named Walumbwa, Muchiri, Misati, Wu and Meiliani in 2018 exploring how cert...

By Rusha Das, FPM II, PSG IIMA Electronic waste or e-waste is defined as any electrical and electronic equipment or its parts that have been discarded by the owner of the product as waste without any intention of reuse (Step Initiative, 2014). The composition of e-waste contains both hazardous and non-hazardous material that can cause serious health and environmental issues. The e-waste economy consists of both organized and unorganized players responsible for handling, dismantling and recycling activities. While the formal sector accounts for a small percentage of the total e-waste market, in most developing countries it is still the informal sector that has the dominant share. Various provisions including the Basel Convention, EU WEEE Directive have been adopted by national legislation to address this global issue of e-waste. The “Extended Producer Responsibility” is a popular framework adopted around the world in e-waste management. Conceived during the early nineties the f...

Vinayak Kishore, FPM II, Public Systems Group Area Data! Data! Data! – as Mr. Holmes would put it, today’s policy world is driven by quantities. Crisp, something you can grasp, something you can point a finger at and something you can measure. And what gets measured, gets managed. Data allows public organizations and departments to set tangible targets and measure their own success. It allows elected officials to allocate scarce resources among competing policy goals. Millennium Development Goals, Sustainable Development Goals, carbon reduction goals, annual performance goals, and many more, the list is endless. We know from prior research that the ideological beliefs of individuals may force them to interpret the same piece of information, or measurement of performance, differently, to suit their own, strongly held belief systems. But what happens when goals are in conflict with each other? Does education deserve a rupee more than health? Does defence trump both of them? How do p...

- Kritanjali Maltiar Is your boss a high performer? Be happy if he is because researchers have proposed that working under a high performer is beneficial for your career advancement. According to a conceptual framework proposed by authors, professor Pearl Malhotra from IIM Bangalore and Professor Manjari Singh from IIM Ahmedabad, it is good news if you happen to work under a high performing boss/manager at your workplace. You might argue that your manager/boss is so busy that he does not have any time or interest to expend to improving your career, in fact he is not bothered about your career at all. But here is the actual good news, he doesn’t necessarily have to be bothered about your career for you to benefit from being his subordinate and enhance your own prospects. The situation is a boon for you anyway. You have the opportunity to observe him and his ways of working and to emulate them in your own work and consequently reap the advantages of his working style. ...

Bring the elephant to the village How to answer the partial adoption and dis-adoption problem of System of Rice Intensification By Gurpreet Singh Gregor Johann Mendel, the father of genetics, was an Austrian priest who discovered the basics of genetics in his backyard garden by studying the peas. He died in 1884 without knowing how his work will influence a field of science. On similar lines, Father Henri de Laulanie  in Madagascar too could not see how his discovery will contribute to food security and well-being of several poor in developing countries. He tested and trialled a unique method of cultivating rice and challenged the existing traditional practice of rice cultivation. Thanks to Dr Norman Uphoff from Cornell University who put in a lot of effort to disseminate the method from Madagascar to the world. It is now widely adopted and celebrated  by farmers across the globe . The method is called System of Rice Intensification. In the traditional prac...