Evaluating the Efficacy of Mergers and Acquisitions

Competition is fierce, and companies must team up to survive in an industry where specialized knowledge is sovereign. One of the largest, most critical, and most difficult parts of a business merger is the successful integration of the enterprise networks of the merger partners. BPO Systems has the expertise and skills to make your merger or acquisition a much smoother process. An attempt has been made to draw the results of only some of the earlier studies while analyzing the causes of failure of majority of the mergers in this exploratory Research paper. Making the mergers work successfully is not that easy as here we are not only just putting the two organizations together but also integrating people of two organizations with different cultures, attitudes and mindsets. While making the merger deals, it is necessary not only to make analysis of the financial aspects of the acquiring firm but also the cultural and people issues of both the concerns for proper post-acquisition integration and to make the combination successful.

Repercussions of Emotional Intelligence on Leaders Behaviour

There are many factors that influence the behaviour of Human Being and so as the behaviour of a Leader. The repercussions of emotional intelligence on the behaviour of the Leader are to be studied. The term Emotional intelligence (EI) is considered as an ability or capacity or skill or self-perceived ability to identify, assess and manage the emotions of oneself, of others, and of groups. It becomes one of the key indicators of employee’s success at workplace. EI matters most than the Intelligent Quotient (IQ) under the premise that some people are academically good but still fail in their social and interpersonal associations. With the right emotional intelligence skills, one can have control over these emotions and be successful at workplaces. Life at workplace can be so much more enjoyable sans this emotional spitefulness. EI helps people to get to more personal and professional relationships and progress further at workplace. It is the ability to identify oneself and analyze and solve problems that enables one’s own development.

Analysing the Sway of Cash Instruments in the Indian Financial Market Context

There are basically four types of financial instruments viz. a bank deposit, a bill of exchange, a bond, and equity. As a result of a steady stream of financial innovations in today’s time, the market landscape is far less sparse-and far more complex to evaluate. Financial instruments are termed as the financial products which are tradable as packages of capital, each having their own unique characteristics and structure. The wide collection of financial instruments in today's marketplace allows for the efficient flow of capital amongst the world's investors. Financial instruments are legal documents that embody monetary value. There are a number of different types of documents that are properly identified as a financial instrument. There are different types of financial instrument, like cash instruments or derivative instruments.

Effective Customer Relationship Management: A Key to Success for Banks

Generally, consumers do not change their banks unless serious problems occur. The philosophy, culture and organization of financial institutions were grounded in this assumption and reflected in their marketing policies, which were product and transaction-oriented, reactionary, focused on discrete rather than continuous activities. With the advent of new technologies in the business of bank, such as Internet Banking and ATMs, now customers can freely choose any bank for their transactions. The pressures of competitive and dynamic markets have contributed to the growth of CRM in the Financial Services Sector. Also, before the Internet revolution, consumers largely selected their banks based on how convenient the location of bank's branches was to their homes or offices. With the advent of new technologies in the business of bank, such as Internet banking and ATMs, now customers can freely choose any bank for their transactions. Thus, the customer base of banks has increased, and so has the choices of customers for selecting the banks.

Switching Costs and Customer Loyalty: A Review of literature

Retaining customers in a competitive-value driven era is seen as a herculean task. Retaining customers for a longer time and reaping the benefit of customer lifetime value is seen as a major business activity that has a manifold influence on profitability, customer base, share of wallet, free word of mouth besides customer suggestions and feedback. In this direction, switching costs play an important role in influencing the customer loyalty. Switching cost acts as switching barrier which forces the customer to remain with the existing company and strengthens the customer-company longevity relationship. In view of the growing importance of switching costs and its influence on customer loyalty, this paper attempts to review switching costs and customer loyalty with a view to make switching costs barrier an effective tool to maintain a loyal customer base.

Role of RUDSETI in the Development of Women Entrepreneurship in Dakshina Kannada District of Karnataka

Women are the pioneers of nation. Indian culture gives great importance to women. Today, empowerment of women can be seen in all the areas of society. Entrepreneurship development of women in all the areas can be seen today. Both central and state government initiated a number of programs to foster entrepreneurial development. In 1982, an innovative initiative was taken by Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Educational Trust, Syndicate Bank and Canara Bank finally resulted in the setting up of a very well appreciated Rural Development and Self Employment Training Institute (RUDSETI) in India to tackle unemployment issues in rural areas by providing credit acceptability and skill development programs for entrepreneurial development for the unemployed youth along with women. In this context, an attempt is made to find out the working of RUDSETI for Women Entrepreneurship in Dakshina Kannada District of Karnataka.