IOSR-JBM   Volume-2 ~ Issue-1 ~ Jul-Aug-2012

Paper Type	:	Research Paper
Title	:	Analysis of Equity Based Mutual Funds in India
Country	:	India
Authors	:	Sahil Jain
	:	10.9790/487X-0210104

Abstract : The last decade has seen a tremendous growth in the mutual fund industry. As per the latest data the assets under management in this industry is more than Rs 6.8 thousand billion. Today the Indian market is flooded with more than a thousand mutual fund schemes, promising better returns than others. In this paper an attempt has been made to analyze the performance of equity based mutual funds. A total of 45 schemes offered by 2 private sector companies and 2 public sector companies, have been studied over the period April 1997 to April 2012 (15 years). The analysis has been made using the risk-return relationship and CapitalAssetPricingModel (CAPM). The overall analysis finds that HDFC and ICICI have been the best performers, UTI an average performer and LIC the worst performer which gave below- expected returns on the risk-return relationship.
Keywords: Comparison, India, Mutual funds, Performance and risk-return,

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Paper Type	:	Research Paper
Title	:	An Analysis on Women Empowerment Programs in India
Country	:	India
Authors	:	Dr. M. S. Ramananda
	:	10.9790/487X-0210510

Abstract: Literally empowerment denotes to invest with power. But women's empowerment is much broader in connotation. It is not limited to a specific area which has stretched the biological differences to in equalities in the culture and strengthened the prejudices by the erroneous socialization process. In physical empowerment might be superior to women but this has been wrongly utilized to consider women as inferior in every respect Physical as well as psychological. The concept of empowerment of women aims at rectifying such misperceptions and gene rate an environment where women will have the psychological potency to overcome the discrimination's simultaneously it is directed to transform the prejudiced norms guiding the society. The psychological domain is strengthened by physical capabilities and empowerment includes social, economic, legal and political dimensions. The present study makes an attempt to find out the variation of growth and performance of the women empowerment programmes and major activities of women empowerment in India. The data reference period was 2002-03 to 2007-08. The study clearly establishes that access to micro finance, secure full employment; improved housing with access to water and sanitation; preventive and low cost curative health care at the doorstep can empower the large weaker sections of a society and in turn improve the health of all community members. These emerge as the best determinants of health from the SEWA study while capacity building, partnership, networking and self-reliance remain the primary instruments of change.

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Paper Type	:	Research Paper
Title	:	Human Resources Responsibility on Job Satisfaction
Country	:	India
Authors	:	Dr. Mallikarjuna NL
	:	10.9790/487X-0211114

Abstract: Job satisfaction means sense of inner fulfillment and pride achieved when performing a particular job. Job satisfaction occurs when an employee joyously feels that he has accomplished something which is having importance and value worthy of recognition. Job satisfaction plays very vital role in terms of retention of employees in an organization and retention of talented employees is a big challenge in today's competitive and dynamic business environment. Hence, it is important to understand why employees get dissatisfied? Employees have been forced to take on larger workloads; employees have experienced significantly added stress without receiving compensatory rewards. HR regularly has to chart out the plans and providing ways to reduce dissatisfaction among employees. This paper attempts to focus on the reasons of employee's dissatisfaction & the ways to improve employee's job satisfaction.
Keywords: Job enrichment, Job Satisfaction, Retention, Reward systems, Work life Balance.

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