Employee engagement is really a means to an end, and organizations that want to drive high levels of business success, need motivated and engaged employees to get there. A number of studies have shown definite links between employee engagement and financial success in organizations. However, employee engagement is ultimately an individual choice. It is entirely a personal decision on the part of an employee on whether to stretch himself (or herself) and offer an outstanding performance or to contribute at a minimum level, or be dysfunctional. The likelihood of employees remaining engaged and productive is more when the environment is relatively happy and stress free. At times of crisis however, the environment within the organization takes a turn for the worse, and it is during crisis period that leadership comes under stress. This paper analyses leadership and employee engagement and offers suggestions for better leadership strategies. This paper also introduces “Combo Leadership” as a possible strategy of customized leadership intervention, to reduce possible negativism in the organizational environment, in a situation where an external leader, brought in as a Change Agent in an ailing organization, causes the environment to not remain condusive to Employee Engagement, due to predominance in “Task Orientation” at the cost of “People Orientation”. Combo Leadership proactively utilizes existing trust on an anchor and positive grapevine as means of establishing confidence within the organization, and thereby re-energizing employee engagement in the face of leadership crisis.

In India, as in many other countries of the world, there is a vast difference between the idealised concept of women and the real life situation in which women find themselves. Women in the Indian society have a degraded status because of the prevalence of multiple factors such as illiteracy, exploitation, unemployment, female infanticide, child marriage, dowry, prostitution, rape, widowhood, wife beating and purdah system, all of which have prevented the Indian women from attaining greater heights. It must be remembered that women‟s status is not a just a matter of cultural and social history of traditions but it is basically rooted in the political and economic structure of our society which needs to be changed. Women are denied the right to own or inherit property and they become dependent on men, which renders them vulnerable to exploitation. Although the women contribute through their labour in maintaining the household, it is never recognised as productive labour. Women‟ contribution to the economy goes unregistered while the contribution of the males gets listed.

The revolution triggered by Information and communication technologies in all walks of life has also touched the education sector. ICT is universally acknowledged as an important catalyst for social transformation and national pogress. ICT is a major factor in shaping new global economy and producing rapid changes in the society. ICT can play a powerful role to improve the quality of teacher education, enable the teacher to meet the challenges of globalization. Our education system is acquiring large amount of equipment but it is also true that there is inadequate understanding on the part of teachers because of their unfavorable attitude towards ICT. Therefore there is need to study the attitude of B.Ed student teachers towards ICT because they are the future teachers who is going to shape our future generation therefore it was thought to study Attitude of B.Ed student Teachers towards ICT. The student teachers belonging to different medium, area of locality, faculty may have different attitudes as the student characteristics, contents, nature of academic activities differs . Thus, this study is an endeavor to study Attitude of B.Ed student Teachers towards ICT. The study covered 400 student teachers from Mumbai and Thane district. The study seeks to answer the following questions : What is the attitude of B.Ed student teachers towards ICT, Is there any difference in attitude of student teacher on the basis of their medium of instruction, area of locality, faculty.

The country which is succeeded to use the available resources fully for the production is called developed country. If the process of utilization of resources is going on for the production in the country then that country is called developing country. If the country is having resources but country has no power to use the resources for production that country is known as un-developed country. But now a days no country is undeveloped, therefore countries are classified only under two heads as developed and developing or underdeveloped country.

The main goal of mathematics education in schools is to develop the child’s thinking. Clarity of thought and pursuing assumptions to logical conclusions is central to the mathematical enterprise. Mathematics is the mother of all sciences. Mathematics is an important part of life, without which everything in life falls apart. From beggar to businessman, cobbler to construction engineer, student to scientist, Astrologers to astronauts literally everyone would be using mathematics in some way or the other. Mathematics is full of magic and mysteries. The ancient Indians were able to understand these mysteries and develop simple keys to solve these mysteries. Thousands of years ago the Indians used these techniques in different fields like construction of temples, astrology, medicine, science etc., due to which India emerged as the richest country in the world.

The Present research paper discusses on the best and ICT Practices conducted in K.B.P. and M.V.P. College, Libraries in Islampur City from last 50 and 20 years, respectively. Karmveer Bhahurao Patil (Arts, Com.& Sc.) College, library and Malati Vasantdada Patil Kanya (Arts & Com) College, Library were established in the year 1961 and 1989 respectively. Both colleges conducted the following best and ICT Practices as per the NAAC indications. Some Special Best and ICT based practices followed by the both College libraries successfully, effectively and efficiently in the libraries as well as its impact on library use.

Research always provides vast knowledge with scientific approach and educational research provides current approaches along with implication in teaching learning process. We distribute knowledge in verity of discipline for making structure storage each discipline provide much specific information about a particular concept and while going to apply that knowledge in education we find that each and every discipline is interdependent. While we use particular concept with combination of discipline we find that is helpful for concept formation and better understanding of students. Educational researchers have experience that development of students depends on fulfilment of all kind of objective like…

"Different in not always better but hotter is always different. " Academic libraries are in transition because of changes in the context of higher education. Changes in the world of information are even more radical. Creativity and innovation entail risk and risk is good for libraries. Librarian with low risk tolerances will not be able to sustain the environment necessary creativity or innovation. We must concede that if we want the benefits of creativity and innovation, we must accept the inevitable failure that result from trying something new and welcome them as learning experiences.

The growth of slums in urban area is one of the major issues for urban development authority. Physically, they display a dense packing of houses and a further dense clustering of population within the houses. This in turn, is associated with various physical and social problems. As slum is growing aspect of urban environment it is to be studied in detail to analyses its effect on urban environment. This study proposes to analyses the environmental effect in the slum of Pimpri-Chinchwad urban area. The slums located and growing in urban area causing environmental problems as well as population in slum contributes laborious work in the cities. To analyse and asses these thing properly the growth of slums in Pimpri-chinchwad urban area was studied for the period from 1991 to 2010. The study also helps to understand the urban environment and the basic problem related to it. out of 76 slums pockets in Pimpri-chinchwad urban area. Sample study of only seven slum pockets located at Pimpri, Pimpri-Waghere, Bhosari, Akurdi, Chinchwad, Dapodi and Nigadi were studied to analyze the problem.

India is one of the biggest underdeveloped countries in the world. India is having near about 7 lakh villages & 110 corers population. Now India is developing in almost all the fields such as agriculture, road, trade, communication, international trade, education, development in industrial sector and social welfare etc. The credit of this development goes to entrepreneurship. But unemployment in rural area in India is serious problem before due to disguised unemployment.

Education and especially teacher education is undergoing rapid and constant changes under the effects of globalization. The term globalization means integration of economies and societies through cross-country flows of information, ideas, technologies, services, capital, finance and people encompassing the entire globe. It is claimed that globalization marks akin to a small village through time and space. Understanding of these new technologies being an important facilitator of this interconnectivity. Globalization has resulted in significant changes in the knowledge economy and has ushered new conditions for the process of teacher education to cater the skill requirement all across the globe. Due to globalization, the total education system is now available under one roof. Globalization has impacted teacher education from all the sides. Teacher education today is no more constrained by geographical boundaries. The key elements in globalization include the knowledge society, Information and communication technologies. the market economy, trade liberalization and changes in governance structure. These elements of globalization have impacted significantly in the education sector in general and teacher education in particular. The present paper critically examines and makes an humble attempt to describe the effect of globalization in teacher education. The author in the present paper also highlights upon the meeting problem and issues being faced in the present teacher education system of India, in the context of globalization.

This article studies the role of videoconferencing in development of District Institute of Education and Training (DIET). A supreme effort is needed on a high priority basis, to improve the situation of academic, administrative and professional development of teacher training institution. The virtual studies is not sufficiently realized that courses for professional subjects contain a great deal of matter which is either out of date or has little relevance to a District Institute of Education and Training work . Videoconferencing is that a nation wide programme of District Institute of Education and Training improvement. The potential of videoconferencing to enrich all the District Institute of Education and Training all over the Maharashtra.

The quality concept was initially focused on tangible products manufactured by industrial organizations later it covered services like municipal services, police, health & education. In the prevailing environment of globalization & free market the concept of total quality management has become the essential prerequisite for the success of any service dealing with any product rather service. TQM in education has a basic difficulty in measurement. Quality in higher education is reflected in evaluation of students’ attainment but it is very difficult to measure the contribution of various factors for the rise in quality. This study focuses on perception of students towards total quality management in higher education institutions in the district of Sindhudurg. This is the objective of the study. For present study the researcher uses descriptive method of survey type. The tool was prepared by the researcher. Twelve Degree Colleges in Sindhudurg District were the population of the study. Out of 12 colleges 8 were aided colleges and 4 were un-aided colleges were randomly selected and students were randomly selected. The sample selected for the study was based on simple random sampling technique. In this study total quality management has been explored by covering three aspects regarding Human resources management, Operating procedure and Organizational Commitment. In order to examine the quality of education and its three aspects mean, standard deviation and t-test were applied. Findings of the study shows there was difference in the perception of students about human resources management, operating procedure and there was no difference in the perception of students’ about organizational commitment.

Open Access Journal are scholarly and most of them are peer review journals. Aim of this articles to elaborate the open access journal in Library and-Information science and use of scholarly information for library personnel. This article discuss about meaning of journal, e-journal and types of e-journals with the brief history of print to electronic journal. It also covers the philosophy of open access journal and along with its forms. Advantages of open access journal to LIS professionals are discussed.

The concept of voluntary retirement became popular after liberalization. It has its origin in civil services for over a century. Most of the state governments in India have provisions for voluntary retirement. However, in the private sector, the idea of VRS developed after 1991. Many large private organisations provide for retirement of an employee before reaching the age of superannuation. Many even provide incentives to employees who choose for voluntary retirement. It is now called as „Golden Hand-shake‟.

अध्ययन अध्यापन प्रक्रिया अधिक प्रभावी होण्यासाठी शशक्षकाला ववववि नावीन्यपूर्ण तुंत्रज्ञानाची सािने वापरर्े गरजेचे असते. आज तुंत्रज्ञानाच्या युगात कायणकुशल व कौशल्यािाररत व्यकतीुंची ववववि क्षेत्रात गरज हिसून येते. अशा या तुंत्र युगात शशक्षकाुंना काळानुसार आपल्यामध्ये व्यावसाययक कौशल्य वाढीस लावर्े यनकडीचे बनते आहे. या तुंत्र युगात व्यकतीची परीक्षर् हे त्याच्यातील कौशल्याच्या आिारावर केले जाते आणर् यामध्ये डडजजटल पोटणफोशलओ महत्वपूर्ण भूशमका बजावत आहे