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Editorial P. G. Vijairaghavan 03
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Editorial P. G. Vijairaghavan
The economic climate may not have in 2010. The North East is a Region largely
changed drama cally in the last month, but untouched by economic development for over
the more important climate of hope and 65 years. An interes ng study on the role of
expecta on has indeed made a dent in the me in work-life related conflict situa ons
overall gloom and depressed state in which the A i swa r ya R a m a s u n d a ra m m a ke s s o m e
country had found itself of late. While there appropriate recommenda ons based on the
may not be much sta s cally, to substan ate quan ta ve and qualita ve data obtained in the
this posi vity yet, there are indica ons that course of her research on the subject. Dr
things are set to improve. One of these is the Manon Mani examines the efficient use of
way the world of business looks at the future. If resources by industry and finds ways to get more
any indicator were required to prove the produc ve results through higher exploita on
op mism of India Inc. the behaviour of the of the resources leading to more growth in
Stock Exchange says a lot for the confidence industry and the economy.
that business establishments now evoke
among investors. We can only say this is a This issue features two extremely interes ng
good beginning, since achievements are only book reviews. M. S. Rao writes on Managing
possible where confidence rules. Defea st People at Work by Julian Randall and Allan J Slim.
tendencies cannot dominate progress and While the book seems to be aimed at the
development and one hopes this will signal the student community, it is not necessarily
coming of good days for India's economy. restricted to academics of Human Resource
Management, but contains great takeaways for
A look at India's securi es and investment the Manager at the workplace.
market seems mely and the movement of Shatabdi Das makes an informed analysis of the
funds between investments is the subject of Dr strengths of Insanely Simple : The Obsession
Joshua Mulawi's study in this issue. And as the that drives Apple's Success by Ken Segall, (2012,
engine of growth the banking industry has to Penguin Books, USA). Keep it Simple is an axiom
take the commanding view to lead and guide o heard in corporate circles, but many brands
the country's growth prospects. N.Santosh have simply failed to live up to it; resul ng in
Ranganath takes on an informed search of the their bi ng the dust when otherwise they could
banking industry's role in India's development have reaped a great harvest of returns. And Ken
history especially over the past 25 years; a er Segall a ributes Apple's success to its ability to
the liberalisa on process was set in mo on. keep its strategies simple and devoid of clu er
to be able to come good in the uncompromising
Dovetailed with this ar cle is a brief study en ty that is the market; and Shatabdi Das
by Dr G. P Bhandari, on the performance of seems to agree.
RRBs in the North East, based on their results
The ef iciency term describes the maximum This study examined the industry level
outputs attainable from utilizing the available ef iciency so as to identify the sources where
inputs. A production is ef icient if it cannot improvement can be made. The study will
improve any of its inputs or outputs without provide vital information to help individual
worsening some of its other inputs or outputs. industries in using their resources more
Ef iciency can be increased by minimizing ef iciently and to assist the industries in
inputs while holding output constant or by becoming more competitive and maintaining
maximizing output while holding inputs its long term survival. The determination of
constant or a combination of both may frontier technology and knowledge of
increase ef iciency ( Alias Radam et al,2010). productive ef iciency and its relationship with
Productive ef iciency (also known as irm size can provide important insights into
technical ef iciency) is de ined as a situation future Indian industries. Further more,the
in which the most production is achieved relationship between ef iciency levels and
from the resources available to the producer various industry- speci ic factors can provide
It occurs when the economy is utilizing all of useful policy –relevant information. A
its resources ef iciently, producing most comparison of industry's frontier or “ best
output from least input. practice” function and its average practice
function will produce useful information about
Productive ef iciency can be determined by possible future structural adjustments for the
estimating the best-practice production industries.
frontier and individual industries gives the
measure of inef iciency. In view of the Methodology
growing high production costs , productive
ef iciency and pro itability will become Net Value Added (NVA) was taken as output.
increasingly important determinants of the Labour input (L) consisted of both workers
future of Indian industries . In addition to directly involved in production and persons
developing and adopting new production o t h e r t h a n wo rke r s l i ke s u p e r v i s o r s ,
technology , the industries can maintain technicians, managers, clerks and similar type
their economic viability by improving of employees. The invested capital (K)was
ef iciency of existing operation with a given taken into account as capital. Wages included
level of technology.In other word the renumeration paid to workers.The basic data
industries total costs can be reduced and the source of the study was Annual Survey of
industries total output can be increased by Industries (ASI) published by Central
making better use of available inputs and Statistical Organisation (CSO), Government of
technology. India covering the period from1998-99 to
2010-11.All the referred variables were
normalised by applying Gross Domestic
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Measurement of Produc ve Efficiency
beyond the irm's control affecting the ability I is elasticities of the various inputs with
to produce on the frontier such as luck or respect to output level.
weather. It can also account for measurement
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Measurement of Produc ve Efficiency
The productive ef iciency of the irms were calculated by applying the Stochastic frontier
production approach of 4.1c version. The results show the summary statistics of the
variables, maximum likelihood estimates and technical ef iciency for rural, urban and
aggregate industries of India for the reference period under study.
a) Rural Industries
As for primary investigation the summary statistics results of the selected variables of rural
industries are presented in the following table-1.
Table-1
Summary Statistics of variables Rural Industries
Std
Variable Mean Minimum Maximum C.V
Deviation
(NVA)
(K)
workers (L)
Mean values of input variables indicate that the industry's main factors of production were both
capital and labour since there were not much differences in their mean values. The magnitude of
variability (C.V) also substantiated this point since the co-ef icients are less for both the inputs.
Table-2 show the maximum likelihood estimates of rural industries of India in the
context of its productive ef iciency.
Table-2
The maximum likelihood estimates for productive ef iciency of rural industries show that in
single output case, parameters of capital input was positive and statistically signi icant. Hence
capital is main input factor for these industries as its value was higher than labour. The co-
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ef icients of σ and γ were statistically signi icant though the sign of them differs. It reveals that
estimated levels of output considerably differ from their potential levels due to factors, which are
within the control of the industries. The estimated value of γ indicated the absence of ef iciency
gap that exists between the actual and potential level of performance which is mainly due to
technical ef iciency of the industries. The statistically insigni icant co-ef icient of μ term indicated
that it followed a normal distribution and the positive and statistically signi icant co-ef icient of η
indicated that ef iciency increases in getting production overtime. The summation of the
elasticities of factors of production, indicated return to scale of 1.65. The value of return to scale
greater than unity suggested that increasing returns to scale prevails. One percent increase in
inputs (labour and capital) resulted in an increase 1.16 percent in output level for the stochastic
frontier.
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Measurement of Produc ve Efficiency
Table-3 presents the year-wise technical ef iciency of rural industries during the period
1998-99 to 2010-11.
Table-3
Technical ef iciency – Rural Industries
In terms of technical ef iciency, the rural industries recorded an average ef iciency of 0.950 (95.0 percent).
The table also reveals that the technical ef iciency of rural industries have not shown any decline but
showed mixed trend. The average technical inef iciency was observed as 0.053, which was negligible.
a) Urban Industries:
The following table-4 provides details regarding the summary statistics of variables
selected for urban industries.
Table-4
Summary Statistics of variables – urban industries
It is clear from the table that the mean values of input variable both labour and capital
were the main factors of production in urban industries. The co-ef icient of variation
igures showed that the magnitude or extent of variability in the growth of these
variables were 5.35 percent and 1.616 percent respectively. This indicated that labour
was the main factor without much variation in its contribution to the growth of net value
added. In other words these industries, no doubt can rely more on labour force for the
growth of its output.
Table -5 gives details regarding the maximum likelihood estimates for productive
ef iciency of urban industries.
Table-5
Maximum Likelihood Estimates of stochastic frontier production function –
Urban industries
Table-6 shows year-wise technical ef iciency of urban industries during the period under
study.
Table-6
Technical ef iciency – urban industries
a) Aggregate Industries :
The summary statistics of variables selected for aggregate industries are presented in
table-7
Table.7
Summary statistics – Aggregate industries
In the aggregate industries no doubt that both capital and labour are signi icant inputs
equally since there was no much gap in the growth of their mean values. The extent of
variation was estimated to be 6.02 and 0.02 percent respectively in capital and labour.
Table-8
The log likelihood estimates of stochastic frontier model show that the co-ef icients of both
labour and capital were positive. In a single output case, parameter of capital was statistically
signi icant. Hence capital is the main, input factor for aggregate industries as its co-ef icient was
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higher than labour input. The co-ef icients of σ and γ were positive revealing the fact that the
estimated levels of output differ from their potential level due to factors which are with in the
control of industries at the aggregate level. This is evident from the insigni icant co-ef icinent of μ.
Statistically insigni icant η indicated that ef iciency may decline in getting desired level of output
in due course. The sum of elasticities of both the inputs was more than one (1.849) indicating
increasing returns to scale. Since the co-ef icient of capital was more than labour the industries at
the aggregate level is capital intensive.
Table - 9 explains the technical ef iciency scores for the aggregate industries of India.
Table.9
Technical Ef iciency – Aggregate Industries
It is evident from the table that the mean technical ef iciency of aggregate industries score was
0.993. It shows the maximum ef iciency attained by these industries to the extent of 99.3 percent.
The inef iciency score calculated was 0.07. It explained the fact that the inef iciency present in
these industries was negligible.
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context, development of the corporate bond more effective after the Security Investment
market would play a strategic role in the near Market scam in 1991. With the establishment of
future. The corporate debt market in SEBI and technological advancement Indian
India has been in existence since Security Investment Market has now reached
independence. Public limited companies the global standard. The major indicators of
have been raising capital by issuing debt
Security Investment Market development show
securities. However, it remained largely
that signi icant development has taken in the
outside the global integration process until
1991. The Security Investment Market is the Indian Security Investment Market during the
place where the transactions relating to the post-reform period. Recent global
buying and selling of securities take place. developments have considerably undermined
These securities may be shares, stocks, the prospects of a self-sustaining recovery in
debentures, and the list goes on. Investment India, as in other parts of the world. The
for starters is some of money that we can put growing linkages and integration of the Indian
in a bank in the farm of deposit or spend the economy and its inancial system with the
money in buying securities issued by a world have meant that India has become more
company or any other inancial institution. A vulnerable to external developments. The
large number of securities are bought and
sovereign debt crisis and prolonged slowdown
sold every minute in the online Security
in the Euro area and the US have begun to have
Investment Market. As such a lot of parties
work together in a Security Investment their impact on India's growth prospects, the
Market every day. A stock exchange is the only resilience of the Indian economy
place where securities are bought and sold. notwithstanding. The Indian securities markets
But that does not mean that securities can also have witnessed far- reaching reforms in the
be traded with the help of banks. post-liberalization era in terms of market
design, technological developments, settlement
Banks provide these facilities, which enable a
practices and introduction of new instruments.
person to buy and sell securities without
Security Investments are the purchased in
stepping in the Security Investment Market. A
order to be held for investment. This is in
number of developing countries in
contrast to securities that are purchased by a
association with the International Finance
broker-dealer or other intermediary for resale.
Corporation and the World Bank took steps to
Banks often purchase marketable securities to
establish and revitalize their Security
hold in their portfolios. Investment securities
Investment Market s as an effective way of
held by banks are usually one of two main
mobilizing and allocation of funds. In line with
sources of revenue, along with loans.
the global trend, reform of the Indian Security
Investment securities provide banks with a
Investment Market also started with the
source of liquidity along with the pro its from
establishment of Securities and Exchange
realized capital gains when they are sold.
Board of India (SEBI), although it became
An investment instrument, other than an among whom foreign investors are of primary
insurance policy or ixed annuity, issued by a importance. One eminent concern in the
corporation, government , or other matter is whether these foreign investors (PP
organization which offers evidence of debt or I nve s to rs ) d i re c t t h e I n d i a n S e c u ri t y
equity. However, when the people need to Investment Market. With rapid changes in the
trade in stocks, shares, debentures etc. there is economy because of liberal economic policies
a speci ic place where one needs to go. One and fast pace changes due to globalization,
cannot deal with these items in a normal Indian market has become a focus point for
market place. Thus a place or a platform foreign investors. Organizations tend to target
where the trading of these shares and stocks for large volume of trade in this era of
takes place is known as the Security globalization. Trade lows are indeed one of the
Investment Market. The price of these shares most visible aspects of globalization.
and stocks is not considered by monopoly; International investment is a powerful source
rather it is the demand and supply forces of in propelling the world toward closure
the market that determines the prices of these economic integration.PP Investors refers to the
shares and stocks. In earlier times, the trading, investment made by resident of one country in
that is, the buying and selling of shares and the inancial capital and asset of another
stocks takes place at a particular place known country It facilitates and persuades large
as stock exchange. Thus, the person needs to productivity and help in shaping up balance of
go at that particular platform if he or she payments. PP Investors lows in India have
needs to trade in the shares. However with the continuously grown in importance. PP
advancement of technology, this process has Investors, because of its short-term nature, can
almost become redundant. Now, the trading of have bidirectional causation with the returns
shares and stock can take place electronically. of other domestic inancial markets such as
T h e re i s a t re m e n d o u s re d u c t i o n o f money markets, Security Investment Market s,
paperwork as everything has gone online. Due and foreign exchange markets.
to globalization, Security Investment Market
has strived to enhance its securities markets Hence, understanding the determinants of PP
performance to increase its investors' Investors is very important for any emerging
con idence and hence widen their pools of economy as PP Investors exerts a larger impact
investment portfolios. Since Indian Security on the domestic inancial markets in the short
Investment Market is vast and attract run and a real impact in the long run. Recent
investors as a hotspot of investment. years have seen considerable attention
devoted to the analysis of factors in luencing
The Indian market is steadily growing and had investment decisions in different countries.
allured domestic investors' community and Investor con idence, company inancial health
foreign investors group in the past .the major and statements, political factors, and the
part of investment in Indian market is current state of the economy all affect the
attributed to Public and private investors Security Investment Market.
Investors look for companies that have the three broad strands: a) those dealing with
potential to earn consistent pro its, functioning of securities markets and
maintain them, and grow. Companies that inancial institutions operating in these
hold lots of cash have sound management, markets, b) those pertaining to the
and sizeable pro its are usually the most investment decision making process of
attractive to investors. The more pro its a individuals, and c) empirical work on Indian
company makes, the more investors that will Security markets. One of the early works on
want a piece if it. Buying stocks and receiving functioning of Security markets and inancial
regular dividends satis ies this. Also, institutions was by Simha, Hemalata and
companies that do not violate regulations Balakrishnan (1979).
are also attractive. Companies that are in hot
water with agencies are shied away by Bhole (1980) wrote a comprehensive book on
potential and current investors. Also, the growth and changes in the structure of
companies with lots of debt and lower Indian capital markets and inancial
pro its are not attractive to investors. In the institutions. Several books have been written
long run, it's all about pro its. In the short on security analysis and investment in Indian
term, it's all about speculation and where Security markets: Bhalla (1981); Jain (1981),
the "experts" see a company going according Sahni (1981), These books are primarily
to their industry. written for initiating lay investors to
techniques for security analysis and
Objectives of Study management of investment portfolios. Barua
To achieve the targets the following research & Varma (19981) and Ramachandran (1981)
method to be followed:- have critically examined various facets of the
1. To ind the most valuable & returnable great securities scam of 1981. Raghunathan
security orders in order to get lesser risk (1981), Varma (1981), comment upon the
factor. Indian capital market in general and trading
2. To compare the securities in terms of systems in the Security exchanges in
risk, return, marketability, convenience & particular and suggest that the systems
tax shelter. therein are rather antiquated and inef icient,
3. To the India individual, the research and suffer from major weaknesses and
will avail the perfect investment scheme. malpractices. According to most of these
4. To come on the knowledge of the studies, signi icant reforms are required if the
spectrum of investment avenues available to Security exchanges are to be geared up to the
investors in India. envisaged growth in the Indian capital market.
5. Detailed tabular classi ication of They conclude that the risk perception of
tabular classi ication of Investment material individuals is signi icantly in luenced by the
as to assess safety levels, Rate of risk, skewness of the return distribution. This
earning levels, growth rate & other future implies that while taking investment
bene its. decisions, investors are concerned about the
6. Analysis of above tables to obtain possibility of maximum losses in addition to
objectives. the variability of returns. Thus the mean
variance framework does not fully explain the
Review of Literature investment decision making process of
The work in this area can be classi ied into individuals.
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An Appraisal of Security Investments
Gupta (1982) argues that designing a gold provide complete hedge against in lation.
portfolio for a client is much more than merely The issue of in lation hedge has also been
picking up securities for investment. The researched in the context of Security.
portfolio manager needs to understand the
psyche of his client while designing his Varma (1984) compares the BSE National
portfolio. According to Gupta, investors in Index (Natex) which comprises 100 scrips
India regard equity debentures and company with the Sensitive Index (Sensex) comprising
deposits as being in more or less the same risk 30 scrips and concludes that the Natex is a
category, and consider mutual funds, sluggish index which responds too slowly to
including all equity funds, almost as safe as market conditions. Changes which are
bank deposits. Chandra (1982) discusses re lected in the Sensex on any day are
the mistakes made by individual investors in completely re lected in the Natex only by the
designing their portfolios and suggests next day. He inds that Sensex is more volatile
suitable remedial measures. In his recent than Natex. He concludes for this and other
book, L.C. Gupta (1982) concludes that, a) reasons that those who follow the Natex
Indian Security market is highly speculative; because of its greater comprehensiveness and
b) Indian investors are dissatis ied with the theoretical appeal may be mistaken. The
service provided to them by the brokers; c) Sensex needs to be taken more seriously as a
margins levied by the Security exchanges are sound market index. The observed de iciencies
inadequate and d) liquidity in a large number of the Natex raise several disturbing questions
of Security s in the Indian markets is very low. for inance theorists and researchers. Is the
While evidently a painstaking work, the market for the less well traded securities in the
conclusions except `c' above seem to be built market inef icient? Do the scrips constituting
on wrong or questionable arguments. the Sensex lead the other scrips? If so, can this
relationship be used to make extra normal
Barua and Raghunathan (1983) examined returns? Does the Bombay market lead other
empirically the hedge provided by Security exchanges which are also represented in the
and bullion against in lation. These studies Natex? These issues call for further research,
found that while gold provided complete especially since such questions have been
hedge against in lation, silver and Security raised by many, including the SEBI of late. On
were only partial hedges against in lation. whether SEBI has been successful in improving
Rao and Bhole (1983) arrive at a similar the functioning of Indian Security markets, the
conclusion about Security s. However, as conclusions are mixed.
these works pertain to the period prior to the
booming 1980's and 1990's, the conclusion Francis (1984), Barua (1984)). Dhillon
that Security is not an in lation hedge is of (1984), in his doctoral dissertation studies the
doubtful validity today. A similar study regulatory policies of Bombay Security
covering the more recent years would be very Exchange (BSE) over a four year period (July
useful as one may reach a very different 1986 - June 1990). His indings show that
conclusion. With a booming Security market regulatory authorities decide changes in their
since the second half of eighties and the margin policy on the basis of market activity.
stagnation in the international price of gold,
such a study may ind that Security s and not
He inds that the margins are prompted by Raghunathan and Varma (1985) point out that
changes in settlement returns, price any comparison of the Indian Security market
volatility, trading volume and open positions. with that elsewhere must be carried out on a
Granger causality results show that there common currency base. They ind that in
is limited causality in the reverse direction: dollar terms, the SENSEX return over the
margin changes do not affect returns, and 1960-92 period is only about 0.5%, while
have only a limited impact on price during the same period the returns in the U.S.
volatility, trading volume and open (based on the S & P Index) and the Japanese
positions. Event study methodology applied (based on the NIKEI index) are 6.1% and 11.4%
to daily margins show similar results, except per year respectively. Over the twelve year
that daily margin on sellers do not appear to period 1980-92, the dollar returns for SENSEX,
be affected by market variables. Further, S & P and NIKEI indices turn out to be 6.5%,
there is also evidence of under margining 10.65% and 13.6% respectively. For a shorter
leading to excessively levered positions, span of seven years, namely 1985-92, the
thereby increasing the insolvency risk. The returns for the three indices turn out to be quite
above results reveal that regulations through comparable at 15%, 13% and 14%
these instrument have had only a marginal respectively. Very little theoretical work has
impact on the dual objectives of controlling been done in the ield of equity valuation in the
market activity and insolvency risk. Indian context. Even when some work has
been done, it is a mere extension of the well
Pandya (1985) observes that as a regulatory known works of Modigliani and Miller. For
and development body, SEBI's efforts in the example, Raghunathan and Varma (1985)
direction of investor protection are varied provide a reasonably comprehensive valuation
and unlimited. The measures brought in model which captures most of the complexities
by SEBI broadly cover measures for and subtleties of real world. The model is
allocative ef iciency in the primary market capable of supporting both the Gordon and MM
with fair degree of transparency, reforms in type assumptions about the investment policy
the secondary market for visible and mutual of the irm. It allows for personal taxes with
f u n d s , re g u l a t i o n o f va r i o u s m a rke t differential tax rates for dividends, interest,
intermediaries and above all for the and capital gains. The model also takes into
protection of the investing public. account lotation costs on debt and equity.
Venkateshwar (1985) explores the Further, unlike other models which de ine
relationships of the Indian Security capital gains as increase in the book value
markets as re lected by the Bombay which in turn equals retained earnings, this
Security Exchange Index, vis-a-vis other model interprets capital gains as increase in
prominent international Security the market value of the share. Finally, the
markets. International Security indices are model is modi ied to take into account the fact
used over the period 1983-87. He concludes that in lation erodes the real value of the irm's
that there is practically no meaningful assets, particularly the net monetary working
relationship between the BSE index and capital.
other international Security market indices,
though the British and South Korean indices
are inversely related to BSE.
Some of the other theoretical works on relevant from the standpoint of market
valuation pertain to the Indian debentures ef iciency also. Applying variance ratio test on
and bonds with unspeci ied conversion the monthly all-India share price index data
terms. These are discussed under the spanning the period July 1987 to October
section on the valuation of bonds and 1996, Basu and Morey found that the
debentures. There are several empirical aggregate equity prices show signs of being
works pertaining to the pricing of equities. ef icient since the mid-2012. Kawakatsu and
Pandey (1986) examines the impact of Morey, on the other hand, found little evidence
leverage on equity prices and concludes that that liberalization has changed the behaviour
M o d i g l i a n i - M i l l e r hy p o t h e s i s i s n o t of Indian Security indices. To the best of our
supported. However, the risk proxy used in knowledge, the most recent work on
the paper, namely, coef icient of variation of ef iciency/predictability has been done by
net operating income, is highly questionable. Poshakwale in 2000, by applying the BDS test
Zahir and Yakesh (1986) ind the dividend (Brock et al . (2012)) for nonlinearity.
per share to be the most important variable Poshakwale (2012) has examined the random
affecting the share price, followed by walk hypothesis by testing nonlinear
dividend yield, book value per share, dependence using both individual Security
dividend coverage and the return on prices and equally weighted portfolio of 100
investment, in that order. Balakrishnan Security s for the period January 1, 1990 to
(1986) also inds that the current dividend November 30, 1998. The major inding of this
and book value per share are more important study is that daily returns from the Indian
determinants of market price as compared to Security markets do not follow random walk
earnings per share and dividend coverage. model.
Bhaumik (2012), however, found evidence of Origin of the Indian Security Investment
market ef iciency, although in a very limited Market
framework of analysis. It may be noted that all
t h e s e s t u d i e s h ave m a i n ly u s e d t h e The Indian Security Investment Market is not a
traditional tests in their ef iciency studies new concept. It has a history of about 299
and to that extent the scopes of these indings years old. It was in early 18th Century, the
are rather limited. Two other studies on main PP Investors that is dealing in the trading
market ef iciency in the Indian Security of shares and stocks is the East India Company.
market are due to Basu and Morey (2012) and Later by around 1830 s the main dealing in
Kawakatsu and Morey (2012). Although the shares and stocks (mainly in bank and
their common objective was to ind the effect cotton) was initiated in Bombay. However, the
of economic liberalization on the ef iciency of items in which the trading took place
Indian Security market, their analyses are increased tremendously by the end of 1839.
There after the concept of broker business sectors. Both sectors undertake projects that
was started which show momentum in the require making some initial investments and
mid 18th century. This concept has attracted are expected to provide bene its over a
nm\ember of people to indulge in the trading number of years. Both sectors must choose
of items. By 1860, the number of brokers who between making these investments and
are dealing in the trading of items goes up to returning the cash to be invested to their
60 in number. Further, the number of brokers bene iciaries— the shareholders in the case of
increased from 60 to 250 in around 1862- private-sector irms, and the citizenry in the
1863. However, around 1980-61 there is no case of governments— who can then invest the
supply of cotton from America as there was cash directly in the capital markets or spend it
civil war that took place in America. Due to on current consumption. As all parties
this, there is a concept of Share Mania that involved—private-sector irms, the
took place in India. This is the era of 1980 in government , shareholders, and the
which the Indian market had the initial lavor citizenry—have access to the same capital
of the trading in items and the concept of markets, the marginal opportunities forgone
Security Investment Market. Thereafter, it by making these investments— the
has shown signi icant changes both in the opportunity cost of these
pre-independence era and post investments—should be the same for both
independence era. The Indian stock market sectors. In neither case can the bene iciaries'
has come of age and has substantially aligned wishes be ignored with impunity. Private-
itself with the international order. Over the sector managers are monitored by boards of
last ifteen years the following developments directors, who are elected by shareholders.
have made the Indian stock markets almost Directors will replace managers if these prove
on par with the global markets: to be incompetent, or run the risk of them
Screen based trading systems replaced the being replaced. Similarly, citizens in a
conventional open outcry system of trading democracy are provided, through elections,
and everyone acclaims the contribution of with the regular opportunity to replace
the screen based trading in developing the incompetent governments. They also elect
culture of equity investing. representatives whose role is to monitor the
The replacement of the fourteen-day government. At irst blush, then, one might
account period settlement system give way to expect the investment criteria that are
rolling settlements on T+2 basis has brought appropriate for private-sector irms to be fairly
down the settlement risk substantially. similar to those for government. That this need
Dematerialization of securities not lead to the same investment appraisal
Demutualization of exchanges procedures is a consequence of the differing
Derivatives trading nature of the agency relationships in the public
and private sectors, the differing intent of the
There are some obvious parallels between contemplated investments, and the presence
the problems faced by the public and private of distortions such as taxes.
Market among all the countries in the world. of the stocks. This paper sets out with the
Along with these changes the market has also objective of examining whether the Public and
witnessed a growing trend of 'PP Investors private investors, with their war chests of
that may be considered as a consequence of money, set the direction to the market. The next
globalization. More precisely the growing section brie ly outlines the growth of Public
might of the Public and private investors and private investors ' presence in Indian stock
entities whose primary purpose is to invest market followed by an explanation of the data
their own assets or those entrusted to them by and methodology employed by the study and
others and the most common among them are inally we present the results and discussions.
the mutual funds and portfolio investors.
Today, giant PP Investors control huge sums of Public and private investors on Indian
money which they move continuously. In Markets:
European and Japanese markets, PP Investors
dominate virtually all trading. In the US, retail A Grave Balance of Payments situation forced
investors still remain active participants. An the policymakers to take a relook at allowing
important feature of the development of stock foreign capital Into the country and the year of
market in India in the last 15 years has been 1991 marked the announcement of some iscal
the growing participation of Public and disciplinary measures along with reforms on
private investors , both foreign Public and the external sector made, it possible for the
private investors and the Indian mutual funds foreign capital to reach the shores of the
(since the pension funds are still restricted to country. As on 31st March 2005 there were 685
fully participate in the stock market otherwise (ISMR 2004-05 NSE, Mumbai) registered
pension funds are big investors all world foreign Public and private investors in the
over). With the accelerating trends of reforms Indian stock market. As on that date the net
Indian stock market will witness more and cumulative investments made by PP Investors
more of PP Investors and the increasing size of are around USD 35.9 billion representing
money under the control, this set of investors around 6.55% of India's market capitalization.
will play a major role in Indian equity markets. Ever since they were permitted to invest in
The importance of Public and private India the investments made by them showed a
investors particularly foreign investors is gradual increase except in the 1998-99. The net
very much evident as one of the routine in lows averaged around 1.1 b.n. per year and
reasons offered by market Pundits large net out lows are rare barring the year of
whenever the market rises it is attributed 1998-99 where most South Asian countries
to foreign investors' money, no wonder we see were out of favour for a while. Foreign portfolio
headlines like "PP Investors Fuel Rally" etc., in investment carries a sense of notoriety of its
the business press. This is not unusual with own because at the irst sign of trouble this
India alone as most developed economies lows in reverse direction. The notoriety
of today might have seen a similar trend in emanates from the very nature of PP
the past. The increasing role of Public and investment - portfolio managers tend to
p r iva te i nve s to r s h a s b ro u gh t b o t h restructure and rebalance their portfolios
quantitative and qualitative developments in dynamically across the countries, their
the stock market viz., expansion of securities primary concern being their portfolio. Owing
business, increased depth and breadth of the to their magnitude of lows, the direction of PP
market, and above all their dominant investment lows tends to make or break the
investment philosophy of emphasizing the fortunes of a market. PP Investments lows to
fundamentals has rendered ef icient pricing India are less.
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Table 1
Since it is not statutorily binding on PP Investors to make public, the companies in which they are
investing in, there is no publicly available information on this aspect. However, the overall
investment that can be made by all PP Investors in any company's equity is monitored by Reserve
Bank of India; it gives a caution notice, when the overall PP investment level reaches 22 percent in
a company. Subsequently, all purchases have to be done by prior approval of Reserve Bank of
India. From such monitoring reports it can be gauged that the PP Investors are market or not.
Here, one has to note that most stocks that igure in Public and private investors ' portfolios are
more or less those securities that comprise the nifty or Sensex indices hence, co-movements
between index and the PP investments is likely. But, when we use Advances and Declines ratio
(ADR hereafter) it captures the direction of entire market in unambiguous terms. Generally
advances to declines ratio indicate the breadth of the market. Hence, we use ADR instead of Nifty
or Sensex returns. In reality, it is not possible to isolate the actions of mutual funds and PP
Investors on the stock market, since both the category of investors are acting simultaneously
hence, the PP Investors activity is captured by taking the ratio of combined purchases of mutual
funds and Fl Is to combined sales of mutual funds and PP Investors so if the ratio is >1 means PP
Investors have pumped in money i.e., the market witnessed a net in low of money while a ratio of
<1 indicates there is an out low of money from the market.
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My irst question is whether PP Investors activity has an in luence on the market or not and this is
examined by running a simple regression with the advances to decline ratio as the dependent
variable and the public and private purchases to sales as the independent variable. But, before we
attempt to do the regression we have put to investigate whether the data is stationary or not and
for this we used Augmented Dickey Fuller tests Hamilton, J. (1994). The unit root test results on
the individual data series is given below in Table II.
Table II
MF 9.9388 0.0000
The inferences about the stationary of the data series remain unchanged even when we used the
Phillips- Perron tests. Since the data series is found to be stationary, the results from the standard
OLS regression cannot be refuted. Now, we present the results of the linear regression in the
following Table III
Table III
We have also conducted another regression with Private and public investors and MF as the
independent variables separately and the ADR as the dependent variable and the results are
similar to the above regression these are presented below:
Table IV
So, it is clear that the PP Investors activity has an in luence on the stock market and both
mutual funds as well as PP Investors actions have signi icant impact on the market's
direction. Does this imply that PP Investors activity because the stock market to rise/fall?
This question is addressed by using Granger (1969) causality test assuming a one period
lag we obtained the following results:
Table V
The F statistics indicate that the null hypothesis ADR does not Granger Because PP Investors
cannot be rejected and the null hypothesis PP does not Granger Cause ADR can be rejected. In
other words there is statistical evidence that the forecasts about market direction can be
improved by using the institutional activity as an independent variable. Then we examined
whether the institutional activity is one sided meaning. Whether the PP Investors actions and
mutual fund actions are correlated. Since both these type of investors are driven by teams of
trained analysts; we can premise that their actions may be positively correlated. The correlation
results indicate that there is a weak negative correlation over this period and the correlation
coef icient is -0.06439. To further augment my analysis we conducted a Granger Causality test as
to whether the direction of public and private investments can be predicted using previous day's
information on mutual fund activity. The causality test results are shown below:
Table VIII
From the above results we can infer that the there were limits to foreign ownership of
null hypothesis MF does not Granger cause PP shares in irms. If foreign investors reach the
Investors can be rejected but the hypothesis PP ownership limits, shares in those irms are
Investors does not Granger cause MF cannot restricted to trading by Public and private
be rejected. In other words, the forecasts of PP investors.
Investors activity using mutual fund activity
can be improved where as the reverse is not Conclusion:
possible. This is a little bit surprising as well as Investors in developed markets are
interesting to note that the Indian mutual increasingly becoming convinced of the merits
funds are leading the pack and are giving of investing in emerging markets. Indeed, a
direction to the market and even PP Investors number of major investment banks in India
are following their direction, probably, have recommended that 5—10% of investors'
because of the larger size of the funds under portfolio be allocated to emerging markets. It
the management of the mutual funds and is very easy to get cheated in the securities
hence the statistics are showing accordingly. market. Investors in other countries don't
The growth of Public and private investors in think any differently. The survey found that
the market is having its own advantages as well investors around the globe have higher
as its own share of problems on the brighter expectations from stocks in 2013. In emerging
side almost always purchase stocks on the markets, 66% of the respondents expect their
basis of fundamentals. And this means that it is local stock market to improve (versus 58% in
essential to have information to evaluate, so developed markets).
research becomes important and this leads to
increasing demands on companies to become However, despite this optimism, 57% of those
more transparent and more disclosures. This surveyed plan to follow a more conservative
will lead to reduction in information investment strategy this year. Surprisingly,
asymmetries that plagued the Indian markets younger investors (aged 25 to 34) will lead the
for quite a while. Also, the increasing presence charge toward "safer" havens. "Despite
of this class of investors leads to reform of investors' overall positive outlook, it appears
securities trading and transaction systems, that avoiding loss, rather than achieving
nurturing of securities brokers, and liquid higher returns, is still a top priority," said Greg
markets. On the lip side the increase of foreign Johnson, President and Chief Executive Of icer,
investors in particular will bring a very Franklin Templeton Investments. "Clearly the
welcome in low of foreign capital, but there are market volatility over the past ive years has
always some dangers if certain limits are reinforced a preference among investors for
exceeded. Firstly, the foreign capital is free and capital retention over investment gains. As
unpredictable and is always on the lookout of seen in recent years, this risk avoidance has led
pro its PP Investors frequently move many investors to remain on the sidelines,
investments, and those swings can be expected missing opportunities. Working with a
to bring severe price luctuations resulting in inancial advisor can be the best resource for
i n c re a s i n g vo l a t i l i t y. A l s o , i n c re a s e d evaluating all sides of the risk equation," he
investment from overseas may shift control of added.
domestic irms to foreign hands. But, in India
Indian investors have the highest return about the ways of this market. There are many
expectations from stocks in the world: 15% in factors in luencing price of a stock. We need to
2013 and 22% over the next 10 years. ind out in which instruments to invest in, as
However, high in lation is clearly the top factor there are a lot of investment opportunities in
making investors reluctant to invest in the the market. Also we need to be careful about
stock markets in India followed by the state of the rise and fall of Security Investment Market
the global economy. Amongst the respondents prices if we are investing in the Security
(middle income Indian investors) exposure to Investment Market. The results showed that,
mutual funds is a quarter of their total while giving much higher returns than the
investments and they expect it to increase by trading method when the market is relatively
one-third over the next ive years. Indian stable, the rule of using 'overnight gains as a
investors overwhelmingly expect local equity predictor of day gains' does not hold in a highly
and ixed income markets to outperform their volatile market. Thus out-of-sample tests of
global counterparts. Purchasing a new home market anomalies are essential before
is the top investment goal for investors in reaching conclusions about the ef iciency of
India for 2013. While retirement is one of the any inancial market. Some directions for
top three goals, compared to their global future research emerging from the study
counterparts, Indian investors' focus on include investigating the phenomenon in the
retirement as a goal is the lowest amongst all developed markets, which are expected to be
the countries surveyed. Interestingly, while more ef icient; examining the behaviour of
97% of Indian investors are con ident about investors and fund managers to ind out if they
achieving their inancial goals, a majority of take the overnight shift in the stock prices into
them think they can do it without equity consideration in devising trading strategies for
exposure. Another interesting inding is that the following day; and developing an elaborate
respondents view professional inancial and more accurate model factoring in details
advice as an important or very important like issue of ESOPs and issue of preferential
factor for making investments - more than shares. There are money brokers out there in
two-thirds (69%) of investors are willing to the market who helps out people in the
pay fees to their distributors/ inancial Security Investment Market by giving them
advisors for such advice. advise when to invest and when not to. A real
broker must be registered by the SEBI. A
Harshendu Bindal, President, Franklin brokers works for a fee and is bound by rules
Templeton India said, "The survey clearly imposed by the SEBI. The securities markets in
shows the strong optimism in India about the India have witnessed several policy initiatives,
growth prospects, albeit with near-term which has re ined the market micro-structure,
concerns. Also, it is heartening to note that modernized operations and broadened
contrary to popular belief, there is willingness investment choices for the investors. In India
to pay advisory fees for professional advice, however, corporate bond market is quite small
especially amongst middle income investors. compared to the size of the equity market. One
Given the ongoing changes in the distribution of the main reasons for this is that a large part
landscape, this willingness augurs well for of corporate debt, being loan from inancial
inancial planners and advisors". That is why intermediaries, is not securitized. One of the
we need proper education and knowledge most important functions of the capital market
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is to channelize resources for productive use. dominated by Public and private investors. The
It can perform this function effectively only if it regression results show that the combined
is able to build up investors' con idence by might of the PP Investors and mutual funds are
ensuring that the expected return from an a potent force, and they infact direction can
investment opportunity is commensurate forecast market direction using the direction of
with the risk associated with it, both in the the low of funds from PP Investors and mutual
primary as well as the secondary markets. The funds, the Granger causality test has showed
primary market is the market for fresh issue of that the mutual funds in fact lead the market
securities directly from the companies to the rise or fall and PP Investors follow suit. This
may actually raise questions on the market
investors. The secondary market is where
ef iciency but on the contrary, markets become
investors trade in the securities after the
more ef icient with the growing presence of
initial issue in the primary market. A well-
Public and private investors who
functioning secondary market is essential to predominantly go by fundamentals. Noise
attract household savings in the primary trading on the part of Public and private
market. Amongst the respondents (middle investors will be less in Indian context since all
income Indian investors) exposure to mutual their trades are delivery based only. He inds
funds is a quarter of their total investments that the margins are prompted by changes in
and they expect it to increase by one-third settlement returns, price volatility, trading
over the next ive years. Indian investors volume and open positions. Granger
overwhelmingly expect local equity and ixed causality results show that there is limited
income markets to outperform their global causality in the reverse direction: margin
counterparts. changes do not affect returns, and have only a
limited impact on price volatility, trading
According to most of this study, signi icant
volume and open positions. Event study
reforms are required if the Security exchanges
methodology applied to daily margins show
are to be geared up to the envisaged growth in
similar results, except that daily margin on
the Indian capital market. It is concluded that
sellers do not appear to be affected by market
the risk perception of individuals are
variables. Further, there is also evidence of
signi icantly in luenced by the skewness of
under margining leading to excessively
the return distribution. This implies that
levered positions, thereby increasing the
while taking investment decisions, investors
insolvency risk. The above results reveal that
are concerned about the possibility of
regulations through these instrument have
maximum losses in addition to the variability
had only a marginal impact on the dual
of returns. Thus the mean variance
objectives of controlling market activity and
framework does not fully explain the
insolvency risk. Pandya (1992) observes that as
investment decision making process of
a regulatory and development body, SEBI's
individuals. The portfolio manager needs to
efforts in the direction of investor protection
understand the psyche of his client while
are varied and unlimited. The measures
designing his portfolio. The Indian stock
brought in by SEBI broadly cover measures
markets have really come of age there were so
for allocative ef iciency in the primary market
many developments in the last 15 years that
with fair degree of transparency, reforms in the
make the markets on par with the developed
secondary market for visible and mutual
markets. The important feature of developed
funds, regulation of various market
markets is the growing clout of Public and
intermediaries and above all for the protection
private investors and this paper sets out to
of the investing public.
ind whether the markets have also being
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Banking Industry in India – Dr. N. Santosh Ranganath*
Towards a Competitive Landscape
The equated monthly installment towards the products accordingly. Although there has been
repayment of the loan amount was less than little progress on the draft norms for issuing
the amount the villagers had to spend on new banking licenses, the entry of new banks
kerosene requirements per month. The could have a signi icant impact on the Indian
bank's initiative resulted in 20,000 houses banking system. Given the huge unbanked
getting solar power. It also meant an annual population, there is surely a scope for more
saving of about 192 tanker loads of kerosene. banks.
India's banking system was probably one of
the few large banking systems which Foreign banks:
remained unscathed by the 2008 global RBI has been keen on allowing foreign banks a
inancial crisis. However, there is a lot more to larger role in the Indian banking system since
be done to make it a truly world class sector. February 2005, when it irst issued the road
map for presence of foreign banks in India. In
Key developments in the Banking Industry May 2012, the government also facilitated the
process by proposing to exempt foreign banks
Basel III from the 30 per cent tax on capital gains and
India igures among the very few countries stamp duty while converting branches into a
which have issued inal guidelines on Basel III new entity. RBI has also mandated foreign
implementation so far. The Reserve Bank of banks with 20 and more branches to achieve
India has given ive years for the gradual priority sector targets and sub-targets at par
achievement of Basel III global banking with their domestic counterparts.
standard. But it seems a tall order for many
banks. The challenges of implementing Basel Developing corporate bond markets:
III are further accentuated by the fact that the Developing corporate bond markets is an
law mandates the Central government to hold important link in a well developed inancial
a majority share in public sector banks market. Although the government has taken
(PSBs), which control more than 70 per cent some steps in this direction, a lot more needs to
of the banking business in India. Further, the be done.
high iscal de icit is likely to limit the
government's ability to infuse capital in the Unique Identi ication (UID) project:
PSBs to meet Basel III guidelines, which will Among the many initiatives, the government's
require approximately Rs 4.05 trillion to Rs UID project is likely to have signi icant impact.
4.25 trillion over the next ive to six years. Given the numbers out of the reach of
(One trillion equals to Rs 100,000 crore.) The organised banking, it can prove to be
high capital requirement will also add transformational by giving banks an access to a
pressure on return of equity of banks. large untapped customer base. The whole
range of government payments - under
New banks: subsidies and bene its of various welfare
Banks of the future will need to understand schemes - will be routed through banks.
the tech-savvy gen-y customers and design
Social media:
This adds another dimension for banks to manage their relationship with customers. It already
had over 45 million users in India in 2011, which is expected to grow to over 88 million by the next
year with over 75 per cent under the age of 35, according to media reports. Although banks in
India have been a little late in using social media, they have been making fast progress. With
increasing volume and complexity of the banking business, it will be imperative for the regulator
to move gradually towards more offsite monitoring than onsite. Technology will play a much
larger role in the overall supervision of the banking system. There are likely to be
transformational changes in the entire regulatory system for inancial services.
The Indian banking landscape is expected to among 207 countries given in the World
evolve to have regional as well as national Development Report in terms of the Gross
players. Except for a few large banks having Domestic Product (GDP). It also envisages
pan-India presence, many of the mid and moving the country from a low-income nation
small banks will specialise in certain to an upper middle-income country. To
functions/regions in diverse markets. Rather achieve this objective, the India Vision aims to
than every bank trying to carry out all the have an annual growth in the GDP of 8.5 per
banking functions throughout the country, cent to 9 per cent over the next 20 years.
banks are likely to identify their core Economic development of this magnitude
competencies and build on those. A bank that would see quadrupling of real per capita
avoids "one-size- its-all products", acts as a income. When compared with the average
knowledge banker, provides all inancial growth in GDP of 4-6% in the recent past, this
needs at a click, is fundamentally strong, is an ambitious target. This would call for
manages risk and adheres to global considerable investments in the
regulations, harness iOS and Android infrastructure and meeting the funding
platforms to the fullest, design better, faster requirements of a high magnitude would be a
and convenient delivery channels will no challenge to the banking and inancial system.
doubt be called a successful bank.
India Vision 2020 sees a nation of 1.3 billion
Indian Banking Industry - Emerging people who are better educated, healthier, and
Economic Scene more prosperous. Urban India would
The inancial system is the lifeline of the encompass 40% of the population as against
economy. The changes in the economy get 28 % now. With more urban conglomerations
mirrored in the performance of the inancial coming up, only 40% of population would be
system, more so of the banking industry. The engaged in agricultural sector as against
Committee, therefore felt, it would be nearly two thirds of people depending on this
desirable to look at the direction of growth of sector for livelihood. Share of agriculture in
the economy while drawing the emerging the GDP will come down to 6% (down from
contours of the inancial system. The "India 28%). Services sector would assume greater
Vision 2020" prepared by the Planning prominence in our economy. The shift in
Commission, Government of India, is an demographic pro ile and composition of GDP
important document, which is likely to guide are signi icant for strategy planners in the
the policy makers, in the years to come. The banking sector.
Committee has taken into consideration the
economic pro ile drawn in India Vision 2020 Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) sector
document while attempting to visualise the would emerge as a major contributor to
future landscape of banking Industry. employment generation in the country. Small
Scale sector had received policy support from
India Vision 2020 envisages improving the the Government in the past considering the
ranking of India from the present 11th to 4th employment generation and favourable
capital-output ratio.
38 Indira Management Review - July 2014
Banking Industry in India
This segment had, however, remained vulnerable in many ways. Globalization and opening up of
the economy to international competition has added to the woes of this sector making bankers
wary of supporting the sector. It is expected that the SME sector will emerge as a vibrant sector,
contributing signi icantly to the GDP growth and exports.
Liberalization and de-regulation process started in 1991-92 has made a sea change in the banking
system. From a totally regulated environment, we have gradually moved into a market driven
competitive system. Our move towards global benchmarks has been, by and large, calibrated and
regulator driven. The pace of changes gained momentum in the last few years. Globalization
would gain greater speed in the coming years particularly on account of expected opening up of
inancial services under WTO. Four trends change the banking industry world over, viz.
With technology acting as a catalyst, we expect trade is just about 0.8%. The long term
to see great changes in the banking scene in projection for growth in international trade is
the coming years. The Committee has placed at an average of 6% per annum. With the
attempted to visualize the inancial world 5- growth in IT sector and other IT Enabled
10 years from now. The picture that emerged Services, there is tremendous potential for
is somewhat as discussed below. It entails business opportunities. Keeping in view the
emergence of an integrated and diversi ied GDP growth forecast under India Vision 2020,
inancial system. The move towards universal Indian exports can be expected to grow at a
banking has already begun. This will gather sustainable rate of 15% per annum in the
further momentum bringing non-banking period ending with 2010. This again will offer
inancial institutions also, into an integrated enormous scope to Banks in India to increase
inancial system. their forex business and international
The traditional banking functions would give presence. Globalization would provide
way to a system geared to meet all the inancial opportunities for Indian corporate entities to
needs of the customer. We could see expand their business in other countries. Banks
emergence of highly varied inancial products, in India wanting to increase their international
which are tailored to meet speci ic needs of the presence could naturally be expected to follow
customers in the retail as well as corporate these corporates and other trade lows in and
segments. The advent of new technologies out of India.
could see the emergence of new inancial
players doing inancial intermediation. For Competitive Landscape and Trends in the
example, we could see utility service Indian Banking Industry
providers offering say, bill payment services
or supermarkets or retailers doing basic The fallout of the inancial crisis and the impact
lending operations. The conventional of regulatory reform on business models and
de inition of banking might undergo changes. bottom lines have been dominant issues facing
The competitive environment in the banking the banking sector for several years, both
sector is likely to result in individual players within the United States and elsewhere. Now,
working out differentiated strategies based on with many of the regulatory pieces in place, that
their strengths and market niches. For period of regulatory uncertainty is giving way
example, some players might emerge as to a new set of challenges and opportunities.
specialists in mortgage products, credit cards How banks are positioning themselves for the
etc. whereas some could choose to future was the focus of the Financial Services
concentrate on particular segments of M&A Symposium in New York, organized by
business system, while outsourcing all other The Merger market Group. The banking
functions. Some other banks may concentrate industry has moved on to shift its focus from
o n S M E s e g m e n t s o r h i gh n e t wo r t h regulations, such as the Dodd-Frank Wall Street
individuals by providing specially tailored Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-
services beyond traditional banking offerings Frank) and Basel II, to strategic imperatives on
to satisfy the needs of customers they where they can compete and win in the coming
understand better than a more generalist years, in the face of narrow margins, increased
competitor. capital requirements and a tighter consumer
International trade is an area where India's protection.
presence is expected to show appreciable
increase. Presently, Indian share in the global
Many initiatives were put on hold as demands and demographics of the Indian
legislative and regulatory actions were population, the business model of the banking
promulgated. The refocus on core strategy system needs a shift to address speci ic and
will likely impact the kinds of M&A deals unique inancial needs of the consumer. In
pursued by banks of all sizes. For the larger addition, young consumers prefer banks that
banks, what we expect to see is a use multiple distribution channels that are
manifestation of strategy toward more accessible and consume minimum time
divestitures, spinoffs and deleveraging, not and effort. Online banking and mobile banking
big acquisitions, except at the lower end of technology may prove to be disruptive for
the market. The emphasis on new strategies traditional banking methods, as it is gaining
doesn't mean many of the old worries and popularity among Indians.
uncertainties have gone away. Although there
is evidence of a slow recovery in the U.S., it Owing to conservative risk management
remains very regional. The big challenge in practices adopted by the Central Bank of India,
the U.S. is what happens in Washington. Indian banks stood strong during the global
Europe and the future of the eurozone also inancial turmoil, while the banking industry
continue to be issues, as well as challenges in in US and Europe collapsed. However, rising
global markets. non-performing assets ratio is a growing
cause of concern to the banking industry.
Banking assets in India play a crucial role in Indian banks are stable in terms of capital
economic development. It is tightly regulated adequacy ratio and might comply fully with
by the central bank that aims for growth Basel III regulations as scheduled in 2018.
through inancial inclusion and priority
sector lending. The Indian banking system is Overall, changing regulatory landscape,
on an upward growth trajectory and is strong fundamentals, conservative risk
expected to be the third largest banking management, use of updated technology,
industry worldwide by 2020. However, this multiple distribution channels, inancial
goal can only be achieved through inclusion, and a strong focus on customer
liberalization norms as proposed by RBI that service is expected to fuel growth in the Indian
would focus on issuance of on tap banking banking industry. A comparison of the current
licenses, specialized banking licenses, universal banking model against emerging
encouraging consolidation, improving business models prompted by the changing
operational performance of small banks and regulatory and demographic landscape was
nationalized banks, complying with global needed now. Banking Mega Trends for 2020,
regulations and increasing overseas m a rke t s i z i n g , a n d m a rke t s h a re s o f
presence. companies in public, private, and foreign
banking sectors, an overview of the inancial
The Indian banking system follows a performance of different sectors in the Indian
universal banking model where bankers are banking industry have also been provided.
present across all segments and serve all
customers. Owing to the changing needs,
The inding that higher levels of positive Research has shown that high self-esteem can
spillover are related to lower levels of be an important personal resource at work one
depression is consistent with Mark's (1977) which is likely to foster positive attitudes such
enhancement hypothesis. The increase in as job satisfaction or organizational
positive affect associates with positive spill- commitment (Gardner and Pierce, 1998).
over leads to increase in emotional health and
decrease in depression tendencies. MacEwn They also pursue work or family activities that
and Barling (1994) found evidence of gender are compatible with their self-identity. Low
d i ff e re n c e s i n t h e m a g n i t u d e o f t h e self-esteem persons tend to react to external
relationship of both types of work family cues in the environment because they are
con lict to depression and anxiety. uncertain about the correctiveness of their
actions have a high need for approval and are
The depressed individual experiences more susceptible to negative feedback
increased dependence and anger especially (Riordan,Weatherly, Vanderberg, and Self,
with the spouse (Weissman and Paykel, 2001).
1974). Some of the predictors of depression
identi ied in women include low education, His study developed an increased
lack of employment or employment in u n d e r s t a n d i n g o f t h e e ff e c t o f c a re e r
unrewarding work, youth and lower family interruptions had on a women's self-concept
income (Radloff, 1975). development. Work patterns and care taking
p l aye d a n e n o r m o u s i n l u e n c e i n t h e
In one study, (Warren and McEachern, 1983) development of these women's identity self-
depression is associated with lower perceived ef icacy and well-being. It is found that women
self-control, lower perceived accomplishment who held multiple roles had lower levels of
and lower social support. There are some depression and higher levels of self-esteem
factors that do seem to protect women from than women and men who occupied fewer life
depression. These include positive early roles (Barnett and Hyde, 2001).
experiences, a con iding intimate and equal
Validity and Reliability: Reliability of scales is tested with cron bach alpha. The following are
the alpha values for respective scales that have satis ied the minimum requirement of 0.7.Work
Family Con lict:0.923
HYPHOTHESIS
H1 - There is no signi icant impact of work life con lict time on job stress.
H 2- There is no signi icant impact of work life con lict time on anger.
H3 - There is no signi icant impact of work life con lict time on job satisfaction.
H4 - There is no signi icant impact of work life con lict time on depression.
H5 - There is no signi icant impact of work life con lict time on self-esteem.
H6 - There is no signi icant impact of work life con lict time on turnover intention.
The variables considered for the analysis is Work life con lict, and the consequences are Turn
over intention , Self esteem, Depression, Job satisfaction , Anger .
Regression Weights
Variances
Co-variances
Estimate S.E. C.R. P
e1 <--> e2 .068 .022 3.045 .002
e2 <--> e3 -.056 .022 -2.500 .012
e3 <--> e4 -.065 .019 -3.399 ***
e4 <--> e5 -.041 .016 -2.646 .008
e5 <--> e6 .005 .021 .218 .827
e1 <--> e3 -.034 .019 -1.844 .065
e1 <--> e4 .108 .019 5.597 ***
e1 <--> e5 .009 .015 .576 .565
e1 <--> e6 .079 .026 3.044 .002
e2 <--> e4 .223 .024 9.243 ***
e2 <--> e5 -.045 .018 -2.470 .014
e2 <--> e6 .114 .031 3.664 ***
e3 <--> e5 .103 .016 6.490 ***
e3 <--> e6 -.172 .027 -6.374 ***
e4 <--> e6 .111 .027 4.159 ***
Goodness of Fit
The structural equation modeling is a statistical model that seeks to explain the relationship
among multiple variables. It depicts all of the relationships and variables involved in the analysis.
With this model work family con lict is considered as the independent variable and all the
consequences namely turnover intention, self-esteem, depression, job satisfaction, anger, job
stress is the dependent variable. It is more convenient to portray a visual form know as the path
diagram. The straight arrow depicts a dependence relationship, the impact of one variable on
another variable causes or antecedents to the effect or outcomes.
The simple correlation is depicted with a two headed curved arrow to show the degree of
association that gives rise to their relationships. With estimates for each path an interpretation
can be made of each relationship represented in the model.
In the study, the work family con lict is categorized into three dimensions of time, strain, and
behaviour as already discussed. The dependency of these variables together on work family
con lict is represented with the help of regression weights.
Job stress is identi ied to have the highest value of estimate (0.523) followed by anger (0.235).
Self-esteem is having the least impact (0.092). Whereas job satisfaction is having a negative
relationship with work life con lict time (-0.207) which shows that as one increases the latter
decreases.
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The Impact of Time on The Role Conflict of Employed Women
With respect to work life con lict strain, job The standard errors are minimum and range
satisfaction as a variable is having the highest from (0.030 - 0.034). The variance estimates
value of regression weights (0.319) followed of work family con lict strain is (0.781)
by job stress (0.232). The least is contributed higher than work family con lict-time
by anger having a positive relationship (0.644) and the least by work family
(0.074) self-esteem (-0.008) and turnover (- con lict-behaviour (0.621). All the three
0.252) is negatively related to work life mentioned variances are highly signi icant.
con lict strain.
Residual in structural equation model refers to
Regression weights of the consequences on how far away an estimated co-variance is from
work family con lict - behaviour indicate that the observed co-variance for the two
the highest value (0.129) is contributed by variables. The error in prediction for each co-
job stress, followed by turnover intention variance term creates a residual. Goodness of
(0.114) and the least by self-esteem (0.023). it indicates how well the speci ied model
The standard error for each estimate is reproduces the co-variance matrix among the
presented in the table. indicator items.
The probability values denote the Goodness of it index is a it statistic and values
signi icance of the relationship. Almost all the of greater than 0.90 are typically considered
variables are signi icant except anger (work good. The Goodness of it value is (0.90) and
family con lict strain) self-esteem (work coincides with the it model criteria. The lower
family con lict strain), and all the mentioned root means residual values represent better
six consequences towards work life con lict it and higher values represent worse it.
behaviour).
In the above model RMR value is estimated to
The model that produces an estimated co- be 0.000 and proves to be good it. The root
variance matrix that is within sampling mean square error of approximation is
variation of the observed co-variance matrix another measure that attempts goodness of it
are generally thought of as good models and test.
would be said to be it. Then the co-variance
among three dimensions of work life con lict It better represents how well a model its a
is found to be signi icant. population not just a sample used for
estimation. Lower RMSEA values indicate
The co-variance between work family con lict better it and is estimated to be (0.265) in the
time and work family con lict-strain is the proposed model.
highest (0.444) followed by the co-variance
work family strain and work family con lict
behaviour (0.437). The least co-variance is
between the work family con lict-time and
work family con lict-behaviour (0.362).
ANGER
e1
JOB STRESS
e2
JOB SATISFACTION
e3
WORK FAMILY
CONFLICT -TIME DEPRESSION
e4
SELF ESTEEM
e5
TURNOVER
e6
INTENTION
Findings
Job stress is found to be highly in luenced by work life con lict time followed by anger. The factor
that is least in luenced by work life con lict time is self-esteem. Not only the degree of
relationship between work life con lict and job satisfaction as a consequence plays an
important role but also the direction and the nature of relationship do have a signi icant
impact on the outcome. Job satisfaction and work life con lict time are having a negative
relationship with each other which means that if work life con lict increases job satisfaction
decreases and vice versa.
The work life con lict time is found to have insigni icant relationship with turnover intention,
self-esteem, and depression train and anger, and self-esteem are found to be insigni icant.
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Ghosh and Ghosh (2011) established that NPA is an important parameter in the analysis of
inancial performance of a bank as it results in decreasing margin and higher provisioning
requirements for doubtful debts. Various banks from different categories together provide
advances to different sectors like agriculture, Small Scale Industries, priority sector, public sector
and others. These advances require pre-sanctioning appraisal and post-disbursement control to
contain increasing NPAs in the Indian banking sector. The reduction of NPA is necessary to
improve pro itability of banks and comply with the capital adequacy norms as per the Basel
Accord.
No special study has been done to know the recovery performance and the analysis of non-
performing assets of RRBs in the North-East. Thus the given study attempts to know the recovery
performance and the analytical evaluation on non-performing assets of RRBs of the North-East
and RRBs in the country in general. In the study data referred is till 2010 as collected from the
various available sources at current situation.
Recovery Performance of RRBs:
From table-1 it is revealed that the recovery performance of RRB was estimated at 80.03 per cent,
as on 30 June 2010, as compared to 77.85 per cent as on 30 June 2008. It is also observed that the
North-East Region has remained lower in terms of recovery percentage throughout the period
under consideration. The RRBs have emerged as a strong intermediary for inancial inclusion in
rural areas by opening a large number of “No Frills” accounts and inancing under General Credit
Cards (GCC). RRB as a group in the northern and southern region registered a recovery
performance above the national average throughout the entire period. Table -1 presents the
region-wise recovery position of RRBs in India.
Table-1
Recovery Positions of RRBs As on March
(in Percentage)
Table- 2 shows frequency distribution of states according to the levels of recovery of RRBs. A
recovery of above 80 per cent was achieved by 39 RRBs in the country, while 37 RRB had recovery
levels ranging above 60 per cent but less than 80 per cent. Six RRB had recovery more than 40 per
cent but below 60 per cent. None of the RRBs is having recovery of less than 40 per cent.
Table-2
Frequency Distribution of States According to Levels of
Recovery of RRBs (As on 30 June, 2010)
Table-3
Gross and Net NPA of RRBs vs PSBs
Source: 1. RRB Monitoring, Key Statistics of RRBs 2009-10 and Annual Report of NABARD, Various
Issues
1. Trend and progress of Banking in India, Various Issues
It is revealed that though NPAs maintaining a declining trend across all segments of banking
sector, RRBs position are inferior as compared to PSBs. The reasons of decline of NPAs to total
advances may be attributed to change in the composition of assets in favour of investment in
government and other approved securities and the banks unwillingness or inability to assume
higher exposure to small and medium enterprises and farm sector.
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Recovery Performance and Non-Performing Assets
Table-4
Asset Classi ication of RRBs in North-East and All India, March 2010
(Amount Rs. in Lakhs)
Source: RRB Monitoring, Key Statistics of RRBs 2009-10 and Annual Report of NABARD, Various
Issues
Similarly it is also revealed that the NPA as 88.70 per cent while the eastern region RRBs
per cent of advances of RRBs in NER was 6.50 have the lowest position of 73.10 per cent of
per cent in March 2010 while the recovery in the country. In the same year
corresponding igure for RRBs of the country recovery position for the RRBs in the country
as a whole was 3.72 per cent. The foregoing country as a whole is 80.03 per cent.
analysis aptly demonstrates that the malady 2. As on June, 2010 it is observed that out of 82
of high level of NPAs eroding the pro itability RRBs in the country, 39 RRBs have recovery
of banks is not con ined to RRBs alone, but it percentage of more than 80 per cent while
is severely present in the RRBs of NER also. another 37 RRBs have recovery percentage
The RBI in this respect proposed prompt between 60 to 80 per cent and remaining 6
corrective action (PCA) mechanism for RRBs have recovery percentage of 40 to 60 per
arresting the menace of NPAs. On the other cent.
hand, RBI has introduced various measures 3. Over the years of study as observed from
like credit risk management models, table-3 it is found that NPA to advances of the
Compromise Settlement methods, effective RRBs in the country is continuously in
use of debt recovery tribunals (DRT's), Asset declining trend. In 2001-02 the net NPA to
Reconstruction Companies (ARC) and advances was 11.13 per cent which sharply
Recovery of Debts, Securitization and declined to 1.80 per cent in 2009-10.
Reconstruction of Financial Assets and 4. It is also found that in terms of NPA to
Enforcement of Security Interest (SRFAESI) advances the performance of the public sector
Act-2002, Circulation of information on banks in the country is better than the
defaulters, Corporate Debt Restructuring performance of RRBs as a whole. In 2001-02
(CDR), lok Adalats and so on. With a view to the net NPA to advances of the RRBs in the
provide an additional option and developing country was 11.13 per cent which declined to
a healthy secondary market for NPAs, the 1.80 per cent in 2009-10. On the other hand
guideline relating to sale/ purchase of NPAs the net NPA of public sector banks in the
were issued in July 2005 covering the country in 2001-02 was 5.8 per cent which
procedure for purchase/ sale of NPAs by declined to 1.09 per cent in 2009-10 per cent.
banks valuation aspects, prudential norms. It indicates that public sector banks are doing
The guideline were partly modi ied in May better than RRBs in managing the non-
2007 whereby it was stipulated that at least performing assets.
10 per cent of the estimated cash lows 5. It is found that in March, 2010 Tripura Rural
should be realized in the irst year and at least Bank has the NPA of 3.60 per cent which is the
5 per cent in each half year thereafter subject lowest in the North-Eastern Region and is
to full recovery within three years. better than the RRBs in the country as a whole
of 3.72 per cent. During the same period the
Findings: NPA of RRBs as a whole of the North-Eastern
Some of the important indings of the study Region was 6.50 per cent. It indicates that
are- RRBs in the North-Eastern Region in average
1. It is found that in 2010 northern region are performing low in managing the NPA than
RRBs have the highest recovery position of the RRBs in national average.
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This book arises from the need of students interventions that lie within the human
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disciplines and their common practice
wherever it applies to people within a
The book unveils that Geert Hofstede is 1. Ethos: The ability of the presenter to
perhaps the most well-known researcher to establish credibility with the audience.
devise what was to become part of the staple 2. Pathos: The ability of the presenter to
content of most courses on national cultures. display and arouse passion with the audience.
His research into subjects in IBM, a company 3. Logos: The ability of the presenter to
that at the time was spread throughout most exemplify the stature of an expert with the
countries in the world, enabled him to come audience.
Looking at these very brief statements they However, don't overload your audience's
raise some very interesting issues. Let's look brains. Keep the information on each visual aid
at them one at a time. First is Ethos and it is to a minimum and remember your time limit.
really quite simple: why should I waste my You must give your audience time to look at and
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a credible person? In other words, if you don't ive seconds they aren't going to be able to do
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should I listen? Second, we must look at
Pathos, why would we want to display and In conclusion, tell them what you are going to
arouse passion? Aren't we meant to be being tell them; tell them it; tell them what you tell
professional here? Well the answer is really them (repetition brings remembrance);
simple, if you don't care about the topics why answer the questions (it will be easy because
should the audience? One of the hardest parts you are prepared).
of presenting is keeping the audience
interested. Third, we have Logos, once again it
is about why I should spend my precious time HRM Takeaways
listening to you. If you don't appear to be
expert in the ield that you are presenting on There has been an increasing focus in recent
then exactly why should I listen to you? So years on the rise in the numbers of knowledge
Aristotle's essentials may be old but they are workers. There are those who would say that
relevant today. jobs have always required knowledge to be
conducted effectively. But we can probably
The elements of presentation are purpose, accept that more jobs require knowledge, skill
audience, planning, design and and experience prior to engaging with the
implementation. When you close your work required and that though there are
presentation, you must consider the training paths initially for most occupations,
following aspects: know when to stop; bring for knowledge workers their expertise has
all your points together; repeat them for the often been developed through experience with
audience (repetition brings remembrance); clients in their ield and continuing
and remind them what they mean. professional development in their working
lives.
It has been suggested that roughly 24 hours The four key roles of HR are: strategic
after hearing a presentation, the listener will partner; change agent; administrative expert;
forget at least 50 per cent of all the and employee champion.
information presented. In 24 more hours, Management is both an art and a science. The
another 50 per cent will be forgotten. So if you science can be learned from books or lectures.
want people to remember your key points But the art can only be acquired by practicing
then emphasize and repeat. the skills as closely as can be replicated to
conditions in the workplace.
Approximately 80 per cent of what we learn is The common curriculum for L&D was divided
learned visually and only 20 per cent is into three core areas: working in the speci ic
learned aurally. That makes visual tools such department, leadership and management
as PowerPoint very useful in presentations. development and core skills.
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Being assertive is about expressing yourself. those who ind they are struggling to
It is about making your personal rights and understand something or need extra practice
feelings clear to others. Assertiveness is an before they become familiar with new
attitude and a way of acting in any situation knowledge and skills development. Training
where you are required to express your for trainers is an important investment
feelings, ask for what you want or say no to because people learn in different ways, and at
something you do not want. Assertiveness is different speeds.
about self-con idence. It is about having a Traditionally training can address three of
positive attitude towards yourself and the four headings of the personnel pro ile:
towards others. It is about standing up for knowledge, skills, experience and attitude.
your needs and interests in an open and Most training requires both an element of
direct way. Remember that being assertive in underpinning knowledge and a level of skill to
the workplace, just as elsewhere, doesn't communicate that knowledge.
mean trampling on others and it certainly Theoretical knowledge may require formal,
doesn't mean letting others trample on you. classroom style instructional technique, laid
You need to make your case without belittling out in a way that interests the trainees and
the work of others but also without giving gives examples and exercises of theory in
them undue credit for your success. practice. Stories based on experience can be
Humans have a requirement for a certain useful to trainees and are enhanced by trainers
amount of space around their bodies in order who are experienced and knowledge in the
to feel comfortable and not threatened. subjects they instruct in.
Distances vary with individuals and the Skills development is usually hands-on and
cultures in which they were brought up. experiential. Role-play and ilming of activities
Violating this personal space can be seen as provide a useful opportunity to exercise the
an aggressive action so try to avoid it. skills in the likely scenarios to be faced in
Charity may begin at home but your career business. Video recording can be used to
path is guided in the workplace. Learning to capture and performance of those involved
be assertive in the workplace is a vital part of and allow group and tutor comment and
being successful. In the workplace you will feedback on what has been achieved.
need not only to be aware of your The three steps that trainers must learn
achievements but also to have the ability to about imparting their knowledge and skills to
make others aware of them. If you can't do others are: I hear-and I forget; I see-and I
this you are likely to miss out on remember; and I do-and I understand.
opportunities. Interactive training can achieve all three
Finding the right people for business has levels, because while knowledge or principles
always been a challenge and sometimes can be taught deductively, the supporting skills
problem. At present more than 80 per cent of are taught and tested inductively. This gives the
companies in the EU complain that they added advantage of developing knowledge and
cannot ind the people they need to staff their skill together in individuals and reinforcing
business effectively. This is in spite of the group learning at the same time. Shared group
highest unemployment igures that have preparation for interactive skill learning
been seen in the EU countries since the great should give added con idence and more
depression of the 1930s. insightful feedback to the individual from the
There are many trainers who are good at group and trainer.
what they do, but have no sympathy with It requires coaching skills (developing skills
This amazingly well-written book talks about For a concept that's supposed to be obvious,
the sole factor behind Apple's success, that is Simplicity can be dif icult to describe in word.
Simplicity. Ken mentions that leadership, Simplicity is the love child of two of the most
vision, talent, imagination, and incredible hard powerful forces in business: brains and
work may have just a bit to do with Apple's common sense. Since most people are endowed
success, but it's Simplicity that's burned deep with both, we would think that simplicity would
into the company's DNA, and serves as a guide rule the world. But unfortunately, that's not
for legions of employees around the world. It happening. Over years of meeting with Steve
seems, for Steve Jobs, Simplicity was a religion. and his marketing team, Ken Segall penned
The obsession with Simplicity is what down notes when something memorable
separates Apple from other technology happened or a key decision was made. That's
companies across the globe. It is because of how Ken Segall emerged with ten core elements
Steve Job's uncompromising ways, we can see of Simplicity.
Simplicity in everything Apple does, the way it First Element is Think Brutal – Brutal does
is structured, the way it innovates and the way not mean to be harsh or cruel, but just being
it speaks to its customers. Inside Apple, honest, irrespective of the opinion being
Simplicity is a goal, a work style, and a positive or negative.
measuring stick. So, all of this leads to a very Think Small – Steve Jobs always believed that
good question: When Apple can bene it so small groups of smart people deliver better
much from adapting Simplicity, then why results, higher ef iciency, and improved morale.
aren't other technology companies simply Think Minimal – Being minimal means, to
imitating apple's methods to achieve the same concentrate or to focus on a single task at one
level of success? The answer is: it isn't that time. Be careful if you are trying to communicate
simple. Simplicity is not merely a layer that can more than one thing at one time, because you
be grafted onto a business, it is de initely not are splintering the attention of those whom you
available in a pre-packaged version, it doesn't are talking to, whether they are your customers
work with an on/off switch. Yet absolutely, or colleagues. But still, if you want to deliver
anyone can take advantage of it, only if they multiple messages at one time, then ind a
have the determination and knowledge. common theme that unites them all, and try to
push hard on the idea.
Think Motion – Which means to keep Sometimes, we just have to think beyond
things in motion at all times. With too much numbers and targets, and connect with
time in the schedule, you are just inviting human beings with a human voice. Just bear in
more troubles and more opportunities to mind, no target is more important than the
have your ideas nibbled to death. To explain human being, because human beings are the
this, the author has given an example between most precious assets of any organization in
the work style of Apple and Dell on Pg No. 75. this world.
Think Iconic – Ken Segall believes that an Think Skeptic – Ken Segall believes that
iconic image plays a vital role in creating a one should always be ready to face negative
good impression in the eyes of the public. He outcomes from people. He says it is not always
says, that whatever products you sell, or feasible to try and please everyone around us.
whomever you are trying to convince, never We should not get disheartened or de-
forget the power of an image that can motivated if our work is criticized or not being
galvanize your audience. Actually, it is very appreciated. We have to keep pushing
simple, you just have to ind a conceptual ourselves, until and unless we achieve our
image that captures the essence of your idea. goals and mission.
So, over the period of time, the conceptual Think War – The author says that in
image gives people an easy way to identify extreme situations we have to take extreme
your company, or idea or your product. (Pg measures. We have to relentlessly keep trying
No. 87,88 illustrates the idea more precisely.) hard, and not pull back from any situation.
Think Phrasal – This is an area where just That is we have to prepare ourselves to think
about every business needs more work. at war in dif icult and demanding situations.
Words are powerful, but more words are just
confusing. The best way to make yourself or I believe that the author has done complete
your company look smart is to express an idea justice in writing this fantabulous book and
simply and with more clarity. In simple dedicating the same to Steve Jobs, who
words, it means, to use minimal words but happened to pass away, just before the release
powerful words, so that people can naturally of the book. The book has too many amazing
associate with your product and your things to learn, which we can apply in our
company. personal and professional lives, to make our
Think Casual – The author says, to do as life much more simpler and easier, rather than
Steve Jobs did, which is to operate in a small, just complicating situations all the time. I
less hierarchical company, which tends to would advise the youth and the audience in
break the barriers between people, so that general to read this book, to understand the
they work closely together, so that there is no importance of simplicity and to learn to adopt
animosity between different grades of simplicity in one's life.
people, which increases their productivity. In
this case, people don't present to each other
but converse with each other, which builds
strong inter-organization relations.
Think Human – This is perhaps one of the
greatest and most important learning from
Apple, which is just Being Human.
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