Indian Software Research Articles

INFLUENCE OF CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE ON WORK ADJUSTMENT: A REGRESSION-BASED STUDY

Globalization has led to an increase in cultural diversity in the software business, meaning that workers need to be culturally intelligent (CQ) to communicate with coworkers from various backgrounds and successfully navigate various organizational cultures. However, there is a lack of research on the influence of CQ on work adjustment among Indian software professionals working in culturally different states. Additionally, the relationship between CQ, job characteristics, and work adjustment remains unclear. This study aims to investigate the impact of CQ on job satisfaction and performance and identify areas for improvement in creating equitable and multicultural work environments. The findings will contribute to enhancing employees' cultural intelligence and promoting better work adjustment in the context of increasing cultural diversity and globalization. The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which cultural intelligence can enhance work adjustment by exploring its impact on employees' job satisfaction and job performance. The study's ultimate sample size of 485 respondents was obtained using standardized instruments in a quantitative and cross-sectional methodology. Google Forms software was utilized to distribute the questionnaires online. The findings of this study provide valuable insights into effective strategies for enhancing employees' cultural intelligence and promoting better work adjustment in the context of globalization and increasing cultural diversity in the workplace.

"Emergence of Channapatna Local Planning Area – An Alternative to Decongest Bengaluru, Karnataka, India "

There has been quite a debate to understand the scope and opportunities related to the fringe areas of urban cores and their associated areas. Indeed, planners envision fringe areas as ‘great alternatives’ to ease out housing pressure in cities. As many of the fast growing Asian cities, Bengaluru shows quite a rapid and haphazard development in terms of urban processes. The city has expanded rather comfortably since 1990s in a concentric pattern, but presently it is facing immense challenges in terms of land availability. City planners have struggled to find solutions, while taking measures for the decentralization of city functions in the case of fringe areas. This research highlights the physical set up and the existing land use components to understand the extension and development possibilities of the fringe region of Channapatna lying adjacent to the Bengaluru city. The study area is Channapatna, which is famous for its handmade wooden toy and doll making industries. The region is a fringe area that promises to be a great setting for residential and industrial activities. Nonetheless, the paper focuses on the current villages in the region, which are generally agriculture-oriented and thus the preservation of the land use and related conservation measures are needed in a single planning platform. The study describes the demographic parameters and discusses the current land use and future planning measures. Therefore, the focus is not on Bengaluru as the Indian software capital, but on Channapatna in Bengaluru fringe area, which has tremendously benefited from the city development efforts. As such, this development includes economic growth and sustainable planning measures that would promote the co-existence of the rural and urban land uses, safeguarding the interests of the local artisans and farmers while paving the way for urbanization. This paper highlights the demographic aspects of the villages considered for a comprehensive and cluster level planning of Channapatna with changing land uses showing its prospects in toy making industries and its nearness to the main city as a promising future of sustainable urban planning and development.

The Influence of Talent Mobility on Employee Performance in South Indian Software Enterprises

Ensuring the continual improvement and performance of employees is a problem for any IT company in a competitive industry. Therefore, it is crucial for organisations to implement staff development methods in order to enhance employee performance. The objective of this study is to examine the impact of talent mobility on employee performance in software firms located in southern India. The survey included a total of 624 workers. The data were analysed using the structural equation modeling (SEM) model with the AMOS 23 software. The findings demonstrate that various dimensions of talent management, such as talent strategy, work/role design, workforce planning, workplace design, recruiting and selection, learning and development/career management, succession management, pay and rewards, diversity, equity, and inclusion, have a significant impact on employee performance.

A STUDY ON FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF TATA CONSULTANCY LIMITED

The global economy may be expanding, but the Indian software industry is still expanding at a steady rate. As part of the larger business finance role, financial analysis entails looking at historical data to learn more about a company's present and future financial health. IT has a great potential to be an engine of accelerated economic growth, efficiency, improvement for all economic sectors, strengthening India's export market position, reducing trade deficit, and a tool for effective governance. It improves access to information, safeguards consumers, offers access to government services, increases the effectiveness of skill development and training, enhances the liberation of health services, and encourages simplicity. According to the results of the current study, Tata Consultancy Services underwent "A study on financial condition and performance analysis with special reference to Tata Consultancy Services" during a five-year period from 2017–2018 to 2021–2022. The information was taken from the company's annual reports, and books and journals were used to gain more pertinent material. The researcher used Tata Consultancy Services for their study in order to understand the financial ratio in the IT sector. The purpose of this research paper is to determine the financial stability of "TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES" by analysing the data with the aid of various accounting and statistical approaches.

A Blended Approach to Organizational Learning in Indian Software Industry

Organizational learning (OL) has been one of the pioneering fields in debating the survival, sustainability and competitive edge of an organization in a dynamic environment. Primarily, it integrates generative learning, the sharing of knowledge, reliance on standard processes on the one hand and experimentation on the other, thereby enabling a culture that fosters co-creation and team learning. Although OL does not restrict itself to knowledge-based firms, software companies have been purposefully chosen in the present study on account of their rich access to a variety of knowledge specific to the different industries they serve, the dynamic environment under which they operate and the periodic upgrading of their technological capabilities. Given these features, it is safe to assume that IT companies are in the best position to explore OL in comparison to firms belonging to other industries. The study attempts to describe OL in software firms in India. The current study adopts a mixed-method approach, where OL is discussed through both quantitative and qualitative lenses, and the findings are triangulated for discussing OL in software firms in India. The research paves a way to focus on building a learning infrastructure and making the learning link tangible as the key requirements to discuss OL in software firms.

Entrepreneurial orientation, CEO power and firm performance: an upper echelons theory perspective

PurposeAdopting insights from the upper echelons theory, this study aims to investigate the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and firm performance under the contingent influence of chief executive officer (CEO) power.Design/methodology/approachData were collected from a sample of large publicly-traded Indian software firms using the Prowess Database of Center for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE). Panel data regression analysis was used to test the study's hypotheses.FindingsThe results indicate that EO has an inverted U-shaped relation with firm performance. Strong support is also found for a negative moderating influence of CEO power on the inverted U-shaped relationship between EO and firm financial performance, suggesting that powerful CEOs eventually harm entrepreneurial firms.Practical implicationsThe study encourages firms to have entrepreneurship orientation, but at a moderate level, to get the maximum benefit of EO. The study also explains to managers to what extent CEO power drives EO.Originality/valueThe study contributes to the intersection of corporate entrepreneurship and upper echelons theory. The study shows that CEO power negatively affects the EO and firm's performance relationship. This study holds important insights for managers of entrepreneurial firms, especially in international contexts and emerging markets.

Modern Metrics (MM): Software size estimation using function points for artificial intelligence and data analytics applications and finding the effort modifiers of the functional units using indian software industry

SPM, Software Project Management is an engineering process for scheduling, developing, testing, and maintaining a software system. The size of a software is one of the important attributes in determining all the activities of SPM. Price, time, and effort are the basic factors for developing software in a successful and profitable manner. The fast explosions in technological development of software systems attracted all the fields that existed in the universe. The modern software system uses many programming languages, domains, operating systems, technologies, development cycles, topologies, etc. So, the industry is expecting a new, versatile, and highly updated sizing technique for modern software. Modern Metrics (MM) is a new anticipated size estimation technique for present software systems with updated functional values and metrics using Function Point (FP). This article analyzed the functional unit metric values (effort modifiers) of the MM with real world applications. MM is a novel method for determining the solution to the SPM challenges.

Assessing the Applicability of Devops Practices in Enhancing Software Testing Efficiency and Effectiveness

This study looks into how DevOps approaches are being adopted by Indian software development companies with the goal of evaluating the effects on quality, agility, and responsiveness to business objectives. Utilizing a deductive methodology, information was gathered from Indian IT experts with DevOps expertise. According to the results, DevOps is thought to improve quality, responsiveness, and agility. Sharing, culture, automation, and measurement were found to be important components. To improve the efficacy and efficiency of software testing procedures, recommendations call for the use of DevOps in Indian software enterprises.

Analysis of Key Performance Indicators to Study the Growth and Development of Selected Software Companies in India

The Indian software industry plays a significant role in developing the national economy, from an inward looking economy into a dynamic digitally empowered society. Nearly 95% of the foreign exchange inflows in the service sector are contributed by IT and Buisness Process Outsourcing (BPO) industries. Indian government policy was introduced in 1986 and modified in 1988 in relation with the world market policy, Software Technology Parks of India scheme support to attract Foreign Direct Investment. Recent advancement in the field of information and communication has significantly modified the role of IT in all organizations. Enormous growth in IT industry has changed the outsourcing strategy and buying behavior. Organizations can realize more benefits by investing more funds in IT. India is considered a pioneer in software development and a favourite destination for software and IT enabled services. IT industry has produced a revolutionary variation in the economic scenario and a huge number of personnel are working with higher productivity and association with Multi National Corporations (MNCs).

Digitalisation and Software Sector: Challenges and Concerns

Recent growth of the Indian software industry has set the pace for an electronic revolution that in turn, has led to the search for talented employees with adequate knowledge of soft skills. Based on a survey of software-related companies in the metropolitan city of Mumbai, this paper provides an analytical framework for examining the future outlook of the digitalised economy. Digitalisation and its value creation has to be understood from the perspective of the user. As the importance of e-services in our economy increases, so does the importance of developing the software services industry that will promote and enhance the use of digital technology. The need for capital requirement to ensure positive growth of the variables identified, namely digital technology, software services and e-services industry is the need of the hour. The purpose of this article is to derive a set of key attributes that draws attention to the initiatives for strengthening the position of the software-driven information technology sector. The opportunities, concerns and challenges outlined identifies a directional move for the growth of the digitalised world that has revolutionised the business of conducting value chains.

Performance Appraisal System in Indian Software Industry Libraries: A Study with Special Reference to Karnataka State

Performance Appraisal System in Indian Software Industry Libraries: A Study with Special Reference to Karnataka State

A Stalemate: The Road towards Gender Equality in the Indian Software Industry

Gender inequality manifests in the form of women getting concentrated in low-paying or low-status jobs. Such inequalities are stark in male-dominated and masculinized professions. Indian software industry constitutes 35% women employees in the industry; however, they are concentrated in entry level jobs. The study explores how the hiring process is creating or reproducing gender (in)equality in the industry. 49 semi-structured interviews were conducted with recruiters, hiring managers and candidates. Content analysis of the interviews indicated that employers are focusing only on recruitment activities to source more female candidates. Although supply of entry-level female successful applicants is high, availability of experienced female candidates is less. Despite such challenges, employers continue with unstructured interviewing, mostly single panel members who ask personal family related questions that may not be job relevant. The study also provides evidence that there is segregation in quality assurance and techno-functional roles that are not equally valued as other profiles.

How does international entrepreneurial orientation influence firms' internationalization? An exploration with Indian software product top management teams

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to explore how international entrepreneurial orientation of top management team (TMT) of software product firms influence their firms' internationalization activities.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses interpretive analysis techniques and examines data collected from in-depth interviews and secondary sources from 20 software product firms.FindingsThe analysis of data reveals the existence of a pathway through which the international entrepreneurial orientation of the TMT influences the firm's strategic learning functions (knowledge creation, dissemination, interpretation and implementation) which in turn influences the firm's internationalization activities.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors extend the existing knowledge by demonstrating an existence of path to interpret the individual attribute of international entrepreneurial orientation of TMT with the organization's knowledge management functions. Building on the theories of knowledge-based view and organizational learning, and by leveraging the microfoundations approach, a process model is also derived based on evidence from data analysis to enable examination of the combined effects of the international entrepreneurial orientation of TMT, firm's strategic learning on internationalization.Originality/valueThe authors provide an integrative process model that connects TMTs' international entrepreneurial orientation to the firms' strategic learning processes, which in turn is linked to examine the combined influence of these constructs on the internationalization activities of a firm.

Engagement levels in Indian IT sector

Purpose:This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.Design:This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.Findings:The results of a study of Indian software workers showed the practices of reverse monitoring and job crafting boost engagement levels, which in turn improves both their mental and physical health.Originality:The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

The Gender Pay Gap Among Indian Software Developers

The Gender Pay Gap Among Indian Software Developers

Exploring the Work-Family Integration During COVID-19 and Beyond

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, influence on business and organization practices and policies, and the number of couples joining the workforce in India has increased significantly. Due to forced work-from-home strategy and rigid work policies, couples struggle to integrate their professional and personal lives effectively. Various work and family-related topics are examined in this study to see how Indian couples manage work and family. An exploratory qualitative research article interviewed ten couples from Indian software companies. The six main themes that emerge from the stories include the impact of family on life choices, the difficulties of balancing many roles, and the need for coping methods in the workplace.

Impact of Technology on University Leadership Effectiveness Among Academic Staff of Some Selected Private Universities in Ghana

Throughout history, leaders in many countries have leveraged on technology to achieve supremacy and power; from German engineering and Japanese electronics to Indian software and Israeli cybersecurity. Patterns in the rise and fall of technological leadership show that such dominance should be understood from traditional factors that signal industrial power, geography and national ambition, and the complexity of emerging technologies. The ubiquitous nature of contemporary technologies and the explosion of mobile and other network-attached devices have been the catalysts and tipping points for most successful countries and leaders. This paper examines how advances in technology impact on university leadership effectiveness among academic staff working in four selected private universities in Ghana. Stratified random sampling method was used to gather data from respondents, comprising administrators, deans and heads of departments from four universities used in the study. Data was analysed using the Pearson's Product Moment Correlation and the one sample t-test. The study revealed that, advances in technology has a positive relationship with leadership. The authors proceed to discuss the implications of the study by way of theory, practice and future study.

Multilevel analysis of resonant leadership and subordinate's work performance during COVID-19: a study of the indian software industry.

This study examined the multilevel model that explains how the interaction effect of resonant leadership and gender identity influences proposed outcomes through the mediating role of psychological capital. We performed a multilevel analysis by conducting an online survey using multisource data from the 104 team/project leaders and 527 team members of nine major Indian IT companies. The results demonstrated that psychological capital positively and significantly mediated the relationship between resonant leadership and work performance. The mediation role was stronger when androgynous identity attenuated the relationship between resonant leadership and psychological capital at a higher level. The study adds a unique lens to the literature of resonant leadership and proposes outcomes by validating it through the hierarchical linear modelling principle and efficient statistical procedures. This is the first study to empirically confirm the multilevel moderation mediation process wherein psychological capital mediates the relationship between resonant leadership and work performance, subject to the leader’s androgynous identity level.

Web and social media approach to marketing of engineering courses in India

The Indian software industry is competing with the developed world counterparts and the same is true for other sectors like civil, chemical, mechanical and electronic equipment, etc. This success of the Indian industry is attributed by the vital input of the engineering education. The engineering education sector in India generates a storing pool of engineers for the industry. On the other hand, the higher education sector is taking a paradigm shift in India with many private universities and colleges coming into existence. These colleges are having a tough challenge to satisfy student's interest, while maintaining good infrastructure, good number of students, superior faculty profiles and excellent linkages with industry. The present work illustrates the current scenario of engineering education in India including the closure of a number of courses and colleges due to industry and market constraints. Creative skills used by private colleges to improve their marketing and advertising efforts include the analysis of their own websites and social media, tracking third party websites and then planning the content accordingly. All these web and social media trends have been presented in this paper considering the present day engineering education scenario. Challenges and opportunities available for this web and data analytics approach have also been presented in this work.

Women’s Professional Career and Culture: Software Organizations in India

In this work, we conduct an investigation on perspectives and existing barriers for women trying to pursue a career in the Indian software industry. The study is focused on three dimensions: organizational policies and practices, workplace environment, and social-familial factors. Another goal is to compare the perception of male and female software professionals concerning the impact of these dimensions on the careers of female software professionals. The study reveals that formally organizations provide gender-neutral policies, and currently the emphasis needs to be placed on their implementation. It has been observed that, on the whole, there is a favorable work environment and unbiased attitude toward female software employees. At the same time, we conclude that, despite significant progress, hurdles - mainly coming from the society and family traditions—still exist restraining flourishing careers of women in the software sector.