Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) is a private university located in&nbsp;Tamil Nadu, India. Founded in 1984, as Vellore Engineering College, the institution offers 20 undergraduate, 34 postgraduate, four integrated and four research programs. It has campuses in Vellore, Amravati, Bhopal and Chennai.

VIT is one of the top ranked private universities in India according to NIRF, THE and QS Rankings.&nbsp;Govt. of India has recognized&nbsp;VIT, Vellore as an&nbsp;Institution of Eminence. This has allowed VIT to take independent quality initiatives and move up in world ranking.

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VIT University

Department of Production, Operations, Systems and Quantitative Methods

In the present competitive scenario, any industry is focusing work life balance of their employees, to create a healthy win-win environment for both the employees and organisation. The literatures studies display that male employees or workers are affected by work life imbalance but females are more prone to work family imbalance issues. The work life balance issues are not only dependent on women's capability and energy but also dependent on various factors related to work environment (like working conditions, work flexibility, work demands, working hours, travelling time, advancement of technology, etc.) and family related factors (like family demands, support from family members, demographic profile, time, energy and other personal factors). When these family and work related factors tend to interfere with each other by making individual to concentrate on one role leaving the other an imbalance occurs between family and work, that results in work family conflict, family work conflict, stress, tension, poor performance, absenteeism and turnover from workplace. This article discusses about the work life balance of women workers working with tannery industry in Tamil Nadu, India. The researcher found that the less experienced labours have less work life balance issues when compared to high experienced labours. © 2021 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.. All rights reserved.

VIT Business School

Vellore Campus

World University root node

International Journal of Services and Operations Management

An empirical bivariate study on work life balance of women labours with special reference to tannery industry

There has been a growing concern about the performance measures based on traditional accounting information such as return on equity (ROE), return on capital employed (ROCE), return on net worth (RONW), earning per shares (EPS), net operating profit after taxes (NOPAT) and return on investment (ROI). These measures although widely used fail to capture the shareholders’ value creation/destruction as a result of management actions. The concept of economic value added (EVA) and market value added (MVA) have gained popularity all over the world particularly in the USA, the UK and European countries. EVA and MVA are finding acceptance as internal and external performance measures because these two measures are consistent with the organizational objective of shareholders’ value creation. Due to its popularity, a lot of research work has been conducted in the late 1990s covering diverse issues on EVA and MVA. In the light of the above, the present study made an attempt to calculate EVA as well as MVA and to analyze whether Apollo Tyres is creating or destroying shareholders’ wealth during the study period.

Department of General Management

South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases

Is Apollo Tyres Creating or Destroying Shareholders’ Wealth?

Work life imbalance is a common issue faced by every working woman in any organisation with varied demographic profile such as educational level, job position, income and experience. Each working woman faces many challenges and juggles between the responsibilities for bringing a balance between work and family. By considering the work life balance issues faced by women employees in the world, the comparative study was conducted to find the work life balance of women labours in tannery industry in two districts of Tamil Nadu. The well-structured questionnaire distributed to 50 women labours in each region. The findings obtained from the data analysis by using statistical techniques such as correlation analysis, Chi-square test and ANOVA. Interested findings obtained from the constructs analysis of the marital status and conflicts faced by them in the work and family life. © 2020 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

VIT Unitversity

Work life balance of women labours in Tannery Industry – a comparative empirical study

Purpose: The government has taken an initiative to improve the MBBS admission process in the country to eradicate the academic dishonesty and encourage the deserving candidates for MBBS enrolment. The Supreme Court has paved the way to hold the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), a common entrance test for admission to undergraduate and postgraduate medical courses, from the 2016-17 academic year onwards. This paper aims to focus on the contention raised by various stakeholders associated with it and examines the pass percentage of plus two State Board examinations in 2015, 2016 and 2017 and admission details for 2016 and 2017. Design/methodology/approach: The researchers adopted exploratory research. The researchers studied the medical admission process at national and global levels. They collected data of MBBS admission, NEET, State Board and CBSE plus two results and information from newspapers, website and magazine articles. Many experts published articles in newspapers. No study analysed data and made an exhaustive exploratory study. This motivates the researcher to do the same. Simple percentage, percentage change, correlation analysis and the sign test are used to determine whether the State Board or CBSE students get benefitted out of NEET to become medical professionals. Findings: There is no significant relationship between MBBS enrolment of students (both State Board and CBSE students) before and after the NEET was introduced. From correlation analysis, it is inferred that the pass percentage of students who studied under State Board and MBBS enrolment were lesser in 2017 than 2016. It is also inferred that many districts students’ enrolment in MBBS course have increased from 2016 to 2017. The researchers concluded that because of NEET, CBSE students got more enrolment in MBBS course in 2017 compared with State Board students in 2016. Research limitations/implications: The researchers found that the students with State Board examinations enrolled in lesser number for MBBS course than CBSE students in Tamil Nadu. There is a scope for improvement in designing and implementing NEET with the deliberations among different stakeholders involved with the medical education system, which will help in reducing the rampant corruption and, most importantly, pave the way for a selection based on merit in medical education. Possibly, this will also work as a safeguard to the sanctity of the medical profession in India and at the global level. Originality/value: The researcher collected data from newspapers, websites and journals. Many experts discuss about, for and against NEET. No one analysed the data. This is a unique article that has more statistical analysis and meaningful interpretations from analysis. This paper will be useful to the government at national and global levels to frame medical admission procedure and policies. © 2019, Emerald Publishing Limited.

Quality Assurance in Education

NEET for medics: a guarantee of quality? An exploratory study

The population of India is said to be 1.3 billion as per the census. The availability of doctors for the Indian population is seven doctors per 1,000 people. The state and central govt. are taking measures to improve the public healthcare facility. The community pharmacists in this regard are in the frontline with direct interaction to community. The pharmaceutical entrepreneurs are expected to play multiple roles in the community and family which pave way to face more challenges and stress in both entrepreneurial and family life. Entrepreneurs play a vital role in improving economy of the nation. This motivates the researchers to carry a research on the impact of demographic profile on entrepreneurial traits and family stress. The researchers found that the years of experience of the entrepreneurs have significant association with decision making styles. The study also found that there is a positive correlation between income of the respondents and Machiavellianism attributes of entrepreneurs. It also proved that there is a significant variance between age of the entrepreneurs and attributes of family stress. Copyright © 2019 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

Impact of demographic profile of pharmaceutical entrepreneurs on entrepreneurial traits and family stress

In today's competitive scenario of the educational institutions, the ability to work with emotion is a vital part of any individual's skill set. The excellence in the performance of the work is achieved at the cost of the personal life. Any human being expects an excellent living, it requires a balance between work life and family life becomes inevitable. Emotional intelligence is an essential factor responsible for better performance in work and family life and it facilitate to minimise the stress. In this regard, the researchers have selected three private universities for the study to find out the impact of emotional intelligence on work life balance among the faculty members' performance in Tamil Nadu, India. The discriminant analysis proved that there is a significant association between the universities and the determinants of EI and WLB. The conjoint analysis revealed the important attributes of EI and WLB and the best and least possible combinations for the impact of EI on WLB. The study found that the faculty members with high EI would plan their work properly which would helpful in avoiding long working hours and conducting meeting after office hours. Copyright © 2019 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

The impact of emotional intelligence on work life balance among the faculty members' performance in the private universities using multivariate analysis, Tamil Nadu, India - an empirical study

Pregnant women faces some common discomforts during pregnancy such as morning sickness, backache, bladder and bowel problems, changes in skin and hair, cramps, swelling, varicose veins, fatigues, headache and indigestion, etc. For these discomforts, some pregnant women would get advises from doctors and others will get medicines from medical shops without doctor prescription. This would lead to many side effects for pregnant women, some may face abortion too. Therefore, the researcher was conducted study on the pregnant women's perception towards the prescription given by doctors. The researcher has collected data from 100 pregnant women in Vellore District by distributing well-structured questionnaire. The researcher found that there is a significant association between number of dependents and pregnant women's frequency to visit the clinic. Age and number of dependents are the important independent variable in predicting the pregnant women's perception towards doctor's suggestion and prescription of medicines. © 2018 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

Pregnant women's perception towards the prescription given by the doctors

Women penetrating into the work force have become a global phenomenon. This has added a value to women as well as changed the attitude towards them. Women employees play multiple roles and try to achieve the desired balance between work and family responsibilities, but they still find it difficult. Organisations should guide and practice HR policies which enables them to prioritise the roles accordingly and complete the tasks of work and family. This research paper is an empirical study that narrates the work-life balance of women labours working in the tannery industry. The study found the positive relationship between age of the respondents and having stress-related diseases. The researchers have found that the management gives more support to women in balancing work and family when compared to superiors, colleagues and family members. This study also revealed that annual income of the respondents with responses towards the imbalance between work and family life, a flexible organisation and responsive to family-related needs and work life balance options in the company. © Copyright 2018 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

Work life balance of women workers in tannery industry, Tamil Nadu - an empirical bivariate study

In the current scenario, the common news in newspapers is that many highly educated and dual income couples prefer to opt for divorce, separation or the partner may get killed by the spouse. The reason for this may be due to the immense stress they face at work and also due to the family environment. Their work-life balance is very poor, suffer high ego, unable to spend time with family members and are pampered children of their parents. If the person is highly educated, has high income, and also receives support from family members, he /she can face failure easily which is caused by family life; for others, they may end up making harsh decisions like committing suicide, lodging a report against their spouse, starting unhealthy habits which affect his /her health or harass their life partner. This motivated the researchers to carry out the study of less educated, lower income female employees who are working in the tannery industry. The researchers found that current experiences and dual earners are the most important independent variables in predicting stress, such as hypertension, obesity and gynecological problems. The researchers also found respondents with certain demographic profiles to work more productively than others. This study also reveals the most and least preferred attributes of work life balance. © Universiti Putra Malaysia Press.

Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities

The influence of demographic profile on work life balance of women employees in tannery industry - An empirical study

Global warming may also increase the risk of some infectious diseases, particularly those diseases that only appear in warm areas. Some scientists believe that algal blooms could occur more frequently as temperatures warm - particularly in areas with polluted waters - in which case diseases such a cholera that tend to accompany algal blooms could become more frequent Concentrations have increased mainly because of the use of fossil fuels, deforestation and other human activities, spurred on by economic and population growth. Greenhouse gases stop energy escaping from the Earth's surface and atmosphere. If levels rise too high, excessive warming can distort natural patterns of climate, researchers say. Of people around the world throughout the world, the prevalence of particular diseases and other threats to human health depend largely on local climate. Extreme temperatures can directly cause the loss of life. Moreover, several serious diseases only appear in warm areas. Finally, warm temperatures can increase air and water pollution, which in turn harm human health. The most direct effect of climate change would be the impacts of hotter temperatures themselves. Extremely hot temperatures increase the number of people who die on a given day for many reasons: People with heart problems are vulnerable because one’s cardiovascular system must work harder to keep the body cool during hot weather. Heat exhaustion and some respiratory problems increase. Global warming may also increase the risk of some infectious diseases, particularly those diseases that only appear in warm areas. Diseases that are spread by mosquitoes and other insects could become more prevalent if warmer temperatures enabled those insects to become established farther north; such "vector-borne" diseases include malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, and encephalitis. Some scientists believe that algal blooms could occur more frequently as temperatures warm — particularly in areas with polluted waters — in which case diseases such a cholera that tend to accompany algal blooms could become more frequent. This paper will bring out the impact of global warming on global health and the precautionary steps to be taken by people to protect their heal. © IAEME Publication.