A Study on Workforce Diversity and its Impact on Employee Performance in the Indian Higher Education Sector

In spite of unassuming increments in the arrangement of women in top administration levels in the course of recent years, the extent despite everything stays low at 20% in 2012. Indeed, even with significant proof indicating a positive relationship between gender assorted variety and business execution, women still discriminated at senior administration, official administration and board levels. Through quantitative illustrative examination strategy, the exploration intended to distinguish with which of these elements are advancing and hindering the expanded gender diversity levels in Indian higher education sector. This examination study verified that higher education culture factors advancing expanded gender diversity in higher education division with higher gender diversity levels are distinctive to the factors hindering expanded gender diversity in higher education with low gender diversity levels.

A Campus-Wide Community-Engaged Learning Study: Insights and Future Directions

The authors undertook a campus-wide scan of community-engaged learning (CEL) initiatives at a large University. With collaboration from staff and leadership of the campus Centre For Community-Engaged Learning, the researchers designed an open-ended qualitative interview and questionnaire for senior administrators and faculty leaders across all local undergraduate faculties. Guiding questions for this project included: How do the various faculties and schools within the university define their relationship with community? What activities are considered CEL? How do students engage in these activities? What are the benefits of engaging with community? From these came specific interview questions that were administered to senior administration from each faculty, and further interviews were sought with identified faculty leaders. Findings are listed by faculty, with examples and definitions, and a concluding section offers insights and discussion around strategies to strengthen and enhance CEL.

Razzle dazzle

Creating an interactive and engaging school library environment for your school community is an important prerequisite to establishing a creditable identity with teaching staff, which in turn, leads to opportunities to develop collaborative curriculum programs. The library and its personnel must be perceived as a hub for learning and part of the core business of the school by the whole community, including senior administration, teachers, students and parents. Such an environment demonstrates the value adding to the curriculum, literacy, information literacy and student learning outcomes that occur when professional library staff are part of the staffing equation in a school.

Role of Employee Engagement Frame Work In Private Sector Insurance Companies

The current examination study was limited to just private area insurance agencies arranged in Pathanamthitta District, Kerala, India. The investigation was exact; in this way, the quantitative examination was utilized for information social occasion and examination. The investigation was led through the review strategy. To do the examination, the organized survey procedure was utilized to increase knowledge into the issues investigated in the examination. For the investigation, both essential and auxiliary information was gathered, to accomplish the figured destinations. The essential information was gathered from employees working in all frameworks. The optional information was gathered from diaries, books and sites. This investigation depends on information gathered from five Private insurance agencies in Pathanamthitta locale. The rise of the Private area insurance agency has achieved huge changes in the occupation market. The dependability of the survey was tried with the Cronbach's Alpha technique utilizing factual programming. All the Descriptive examination and measurable inferential investigation were finished utilizing SPSS and P-esteem subtleties just displayed for translations. Karl Pearson's relationship coefficient is utilized to examine and decipher the information. The aftereffects of the examination demonstrate that employees are not exceptionally connected with on account of perspectives, for example, uneasiness with respect to the association culture, deficient assets uphold, resistance of-employees uphold, disappointment in the activities and conduct of the senior administration, disturbance concerning organization Human Resources strategies and techniques and upsetting chances. It is assumed that the aftereffects of the current investigation will be of significance to associations, which try to upgrade the degrees of engagement of employees' status. Further, the consequences of the examination would illuminate the segments of employee engagement and hierarchical adequacy. The result of the examination would likewise help associations a lot in detailing reasonable projects and suitable strategies to improve authoritative adequacy.

Leadership Redefined

A persistent gap exists in literature surrounding the inequalities of women in higher education senior administration roles. This study explores how white women in higher education senior administration roles navigate the interplay of power and privilege by examining both how power and privilege have worked in their disadvantage and advantage. Additionally, participants discuss their responsibility in utilizing their power and privilege for the benefit of other women and minoritized populations. Using an intersectional feminist lens in semi-structured interviews, the participants' critical reflections led to the emergence of the following categories of findings: an awareness of self and power structures, leveraging power and privilege for others, and steps towards disruption of current power systems and structures. In this chapter, the word “women” refers to all people who identify as women.

Influence of leadership skills on effectiveness of departmental leadership in Mogotio Sub County hospitals in Kenya

Previous work in Kenyan public hospitals has revealed leadership gaps and poor communication between senior administration and lower cadres as an impediment to achieving better practice. Management training for senior health professionals has been recognized as a priority and is now being provided. The research study explored the influence of leadership skills on effective departmental leadership in Mogotio Sub County. The study used descriptive designs and targeted 32 hospitals consisting of 185 managerial staff in Mogotio Sub County. The stratified random sampling method was used to generate a sample of 126 respondents. Data was collected from this sample using questionnaires and analyzed descriptively and inferentially with the use of SPSS version 24. The correlation analysis determined there is a positive and statistically significant association between leadership skills and effective departmental leadership (r=756, p=.000). This verdict was reinforced by the linear regression results (β=.286, p=.001). The study concludes that leadership skill greatly helps improve effective departmental leadership in the public health sector. The study recommends that hospitals ought to emphasize mentoring leaders in the clinical setup in order to improve the effectiveness of leadership at the departmental level. There is a need to inculcate leadership training into the hospitals’ culture.

Honorable Surrender: On the Erosion of Resistance in a University Setting

This article addresses the temporality of resistance in the work context. We focus on the challenge of increasingly diminishing professional autonomy in higher education institutions as well as the vulnerability of staff subjected to academic managerialism. A case where a lecturer is exposed to the requirements to revise grading by senior administration is investigated. Power is understood from the “target’s” perspective and viewed as the erosion of resistance. We introduce the concepts honorable surrender and smoothers to capture the process of giving up of resistance. We argue that these concepts are of special significance in autonomy-espousing work contexts where multiplicity of power resources are employed to subordinate employees and influence their professional identities. We contend that de-subjectification is key in understanding the erosion of resistance.

Presidents, Politics, and Military Strategy: Electoral Constraints during the Iraq War

How do electoral politics affect presidential decisionmaking in war? As both commander in chief and elected officeholder, presidents must inevitably balance competing objectives of the national interest and political survival when assessing alternative military strategies in war. Yet, how and when electoral pressures influence decisionmaking during an ongoing conflict remains unclear. Drawn from the logic of democratic accountability, two mechanisms of constraint may be inferred. First, presidents may delay making decisions that are perceived to carry excessive electoral risk. Second, electoral pressures may have a dampening effect, causing presidents to water down politically sensitive courses of action to minimize any expected backlash. Recently declassified documents and interviews with senior administration officials and military figures illustrate these mechanisms in a case study of decisionmaking during the second half of the Iraq War. Both George W. Bush's surge decision of 2007 and Barack Obama's decision to withdraw troops in 2011 are shown to have been profoundly influenced by concerns related to the domestic political calendar. These findings call for further study of the nuanced ways in which the electoral cycle shapes wartime decisionmaking.

Barriers Effect on Women Employees in it Sector

In spite of the wonderful increment in the presence of ladies in the workforce, the passage of ladies into higher managerial positions stays limited. Different examinations have affirmed this reality. This marvel of hampering women's upward progression to senior administration positions has been alluded to as the biased based impediment impact. A large portion of the nations acknowledged ladies and men are equivalent. Despite the fact that ladies couldn't leave Glass roof impact. The ladies are worried with the corporate culture and family duties. They are not ready to adjust both the family and work life. The principle goal of this examination is to assess, propose and suggest critical thinking for handling the issue of discriminatory limitation. The essential information was gathered as poll from the ladies worker. The survey was planned with six factors that are believed to be the primary factors that are purpose behind unreasonable impediment. The testing was gathered dependent on straightforward irregular examining and the device utilized is individual's R and Spearman Correlation. The real finding is that the majority of the components are contrarily associated with the statistic factors. We recommend them to be increasingly obstinate and be intrepid. We might want to reason that in nation like India it is important to instruct individuals that ladies can do anything and are equivalent to men. Men should begin looking them as equivalent to them.. [1],[ 3],[5]

US-Africa plan has promise but will not displace China

Subject Outlook for Washington's Prosper Africa initiative. Significance Six months on from the unveiling of its new Africa policy, the Trump administration’s signature new initiative -- Prosper Africa -- has finally been revealed. Prosper Africa intensifies Washington’s prioritisation of trade over aid and will attempt to double two-way trade and investment by 2025. Impacts Limited engagement by senior administration officials may hinder implementation and legitimisation. Washington will focus on new bilateral free trade agreements, though the wider African Growth and Opportunity Act should remain in place. Washington’s political engagement with Africa will remain relatively limited.