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Remya Lathabhavan – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2024
The study examines the effects of work-from-home (WFH) on working mothers in India, characterized by a patriarchal mindset, during the COVID-19 pandemic. A survey involving 560 mothers from various sectors, all utilizing WFH due to pandemic measures, was conducted. A moderated mediated model was analyzed in the quantitative study using structural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Employed Parents, COVID-19
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Ghosh, Rupa; Lahiri, Sudeshna – Issues and Ideas in Education, 2021
Parenting holds tremendous significance in today's world as quality parenting facilitates the development of social and emotional competence in a child. The present study explores the dual role of domestic workers as workers and parents. Domestic Workers work from dawn to dusk to take care of their employees' families. The obvious question arises:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Occupations, Employed Parents, Child Care
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Lockwood, Jane; Raquel, Michelle – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2019
Millions of customer services representatives are assessed each year by subject matter experts (e.g., recruiters, team leaders) in Asian contact centres to ensure good spoken communication skills when serving customers on the phones. In other workplace contexts, language experts are employed to do this work but in Asian contact centres, a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Skills, Telecommunications
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North, Amy – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2018
This paper explores the learning experiences and literacy practices of a group of female migrant domestic workers from Nepal, reporting on ethnographic data collected between 2008 and 2013. Drawing on the conceptualisation of literacy as a social practice, as well as the notion of translocational positionality, it examines the way in which the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Migrant Workers, Ethnography
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Muth, Sebastian; Suryanarayan, Neelakshi – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
This paper aims to demonstrate the implications of health mobility on language practices in the medical tourism industry in India and on the ways, language workers become entrepreneurs. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork that traces the trajectories of three former students of Russian, we highlight their future aspirations as language learners…
Descriptors: Tourism, Health Services, Language Usage, Entrepreneurship
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Bagodi, Virupaxi; Mahanty, Biswajit – Learning Organization, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the rationale for the lack of growth in the two-wheeler service sector despite an exponential growth in the number of two-wheelers on Indian roads. Design/methodology/approach: The data of a premier manufacturer were gathered to develop a system dynamics model. Policy experimentation was carried out…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Transportation, Motor Vehicles, Service Occupations
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Newman, Martyn; Smith, Kenneth H. – Education and Society, 2014
This study examined the relationship of emotional intelligence (EI) to jobs requiring emotional labour in a sample of 6,874 participants from eleven countries or geographical regions. In particular, the current study examined the relationship of a mixed model of EI, as measured by the Emotional Capital Report (ECR), to emotional labour identified…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Comparative Analysis, Emotional Response, Emotional Development
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Little, Laura M.; Nelson, Debra L.; Quade, Matthew J.; Ward, Andrew – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2011
This paper utilizes conservation of resources (COR) theory and two of Hofstede's (1980) dimensions of culture (individualism and power distance) to examine the impact of display rules on job satisfaction and performance in an Indian call center sample. Contrary to findings in an American sample (Wilk & Moynihan, 2005), we proposed that due to…
Descriptors: Fatigue (Biology), Job Satisfaction, Job Performance, Cultural Differences
Singh, Baljit; Vajpeyi, Dhirendra K. – 1973
The period of Nehru's administration of India, 1974-1964, is statistically analyzed for political continuity and stability by examining the office terms of chief ministers for the Indian states during that time. After a brief introduction, the document mainly consists of statistical tables. A summary table of percentage turnover of ministers and…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Asian Studies, Federal State Relationship, Governance
McConnell, Grant D., Ed.; Gendron, Jean-Denis, Ed. – 1993
This International atlas of language vitality offers a cartography of language functions, based on a quantitative measure of the vitality of each language. It covers the constitutional languages of India, and offers maps, graphs, and data tables illustrating the vitality ratings of 14 languages by state, domain of usage (religion, schools, mass…
Descriptors: Courts, Foreign Countries, Geographic Distribution, Language Maintenance