Prashant Verma
@bmu.edu.in
Associate Professor
BML Munjal University
RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS
Management Information Systems, Management Science and Operations Research, General Decision Sciences
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Prashant Verma and Subhash Dutta
Inderscience Publishers
Prashant Verma and Shruti Jain
SAGE Publications
The present study takes into account “need for cognition” (NFC), which represents the tendency of individuals to engage in and enjoy thinking. The NFC has been described as the need to structure relevant situation into meaningful, integrated ways and a need to understand and make a reasonable understanding of the experiential world. The article attempts to identify the specific skill dimensions, which operate in respondents who shop online and are positive on NFC, and try to seek difference in online shopping behavior of the respondents with different level of these skills. Principal Component Analysis, ANOVA, and confirmatory factor analysis were the statistics used in the study. Six factors were identified explaining dimensions operating in NFC positive segment, namely, preference for being advance user, confident user of latest in information technology, using it as tool for knowledge exploration, ability to assess behavior of program, efficient end user and knowledge of hardware. Significant difference in online shopping behavior was identified for users having skills clubbed under the dimension of confident user of latest in information technology.
Prashant Verma and Shruti Jain
IGI Global
This article attempts to identify dimensions of online shopping skills, which operate in respondents positive on need for cognition (NFC). Both EFA and CFA suggests six factors; preference for being advance user, confident user of latest in information technology, using IT as tool for knowledge exploration, ability to assess behaviour of program, efficient end user and knowledge of hardware. Respondent under ‘confident users of latest in information technology' has shown significant difference in online shopping behaviour.
Shalini Srivastava and Prashant Verma
SAGE Publications
Employees, who are married, are part of a family with members having at least two different careers and influence of at least two different organisations. In the context of married women employees it is increasingly difficult for them to find time to fulfil their commitment towards home, spouse, children, parents and friends. They are increasingly recognizing that work is infringing on their personal lives, and they are not happy about it. Recent studies suggest that employees want jobs that give them flexibility in their work schedules or work culture which facilitates better management of work-life conflicts. Organisations now often find women employee a part of their best performing teams, if they cannot be helped to achieve work-life balance, it will become increasingly difficult for management to attract and retain this human resource, which otherwise are capable and motivated. The present study intends to identify the major causes and remedies of work-life conflict which a working married woman face in the current scenario. It also intends to evaluate the importance of family-friendly work arrangements towards a joyful organisation. This paper attempts to investigate the intensity of organisational role stress which a married woman perceives as compared to an unmarried one. It further attempts to study the differences in the level of stress between married and unmarried women on several role stressors.