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Postmodern intertextuality abbreviates the relation between the texts that has related to incidents, quotes, allusions, translation and so on. The aim of the study accolades on the postmodern tendency of intertextuality in Preeti Shenoy’s selected texts, Life is What You Make It, It Happens for a Reason and A Hundred Little Flames. Preeti Shenoy is a multifarious postmodern writer. The term intertextuality has linked with other texts. The features of intertextuality are quotation, scenes, characters, narration, allusion etc. The notable theorists of intertextuality are Julia Kristeva, Roland Barthes and Mikhail Bakhtin, and the present study has adopted the intertextual concepts from the considered theorists. The methodology of the study splits into four intertextual concepts -- description of a word, different circumstances link, language and dialogue. The first two concepts, proposed by Julia Kristeva, are description of a word and different circumstances link. Roland Barthes has proposed the intertextual concepts of language and dialogue. Mikhail Bakhtin also has proposed the intertextual concept of language. These intertextual concepts are adopted in the present study, and the authors have investigated the intertextual elements in the select texts of Shenoy.

With the advent of the Internet and other digital technologies, contemporary businesses from all sectors are using social media for communication with consumers to engage them meaningfully with a brand. However, the use of social media for corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication is relatively new to the existing literature. Likewise, the impact of CSR communication through social media (CSR-S) on consumer emotions and behavior is, to date, underexplored. To address this, the present research aims to test the relationship of CSR-S on brand admiration and consumer purchase intention. The study proposes a direct relationship between CSR-S and purchase intention with a mediating effect of brand admiration. The data were collected from the banking consumers of Pakistan through a self-administered questionnaire. The authors distributed 800 questionnaires and received 463 questionnaires useful for data analysis, so the present research study response rate was around 59%. The data were analyzed using the structural equation modeling (SEM) technique in AMOS. The results revealed that CSR-S is positively related to purchase intention (β = 0.233). The results further showed that brand admiration partially mediates this relationship (β = 0.079). The survey respondents confirmed that their bank’s CSR communication helps enhance their purchase likelihood and their feelings of admiration for their bank. These findings will help policymakers at banking institutions better understand the importance of CSR communication on different social media platforms to achieve consumer-related outcomes.

The present study aim to investigate relationship between religion, higher profitability on investment, sharia board audit, services (faster/friendly), bank reputation, product and service quality and to know which variable more influence in selecting Islamic banks in GCC countries. The study adopted convenience sampling. 101 completed questionnaires were chosen for analysis. The study found that there is no relationship in between consumer preferences and higher profitability on investment, services (faster/friendly), bank reputation, but there is, however, a significant relation with regards to religion, sharia board audit and product and service quality and paper provide fresh insights to the Islamic banks and recommendations, study implications, future research possibilities also discussed.

The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted the world economy and significantly influenced the tourism industry. Millions of people have shared their emotions, views, facts, and circumstances on numerous social media platforms, which has resulted in a massive flow of information. The high-density social media data has drawn many researchers to extract valuable information and understand the user’s emotions during the pandemic time. The research looks at the data collected from the micro-blogging site Twitter for the tourism sector, emphasizing sub-domains hospitality and healthcare. The sentiment of approximately 20,000 tweets have been calculated using Valence Aware Dictionary for Sentiment Reasoning (VADER) model. Furthermore, topic modeling was used to reveal certain hidden themes and determine the narrative and direction of the topics related to tourism healthcare, and hospitality. Topic modeling also helped us to identify inter-cluster similar terms and analyzing the flow of information from a group of a similar opinion. Finally, a cutting-edge deep learning classification model was used with different epoch sizes of the dataset to anticipate and classify the people’s feelings. The deep learning model has been tested with multiple parameters such as training set accuracy, test set accuracy, validation loss, validation accuracy, etc., and resulted in more than a 90% in training set accuracy tourism hospitality and healthcare reported 80.9 and 78.7% respectively on test set accuracy.

The present study was designed to examine the significance of emotional intelligence (EI), perceived organizational support (POS), and its impact on organizational ambidexterity of faculty members working with standalone business schools in southern India. The study argues that the moderating effect of emotional intelligence (EI) is significant in the association between perceived organizational support and two antecedents of organizational ambidexterity of faculty members. The research on institutional exploration and exploitation ambidexterity variants highlights vital ways to realize organizational ambidexterity. Very few researchers have investigated organizational ambidexterity in the higher education sector, and no research is available on standalone business school faculty members. The study proposes a novel research framework, and the findings reveal that perceived organizational support is highly influencing two antecedents of organizational ambidexterity. The research also observes a slight moderating effect of emotional intelligence between the association of perceived organizational support and organizational ambidexterity and the positive relationship identified among emotional intelligence, perceived organizational support and organizational ambidexterity.

Marketing campaigns of organic food emphasize utilitarian benefits and psychological benefits as well as consumer culture to enhance environmental sustainability. In order to study the purchase intention of organic food, the authors developed a model using antecedents like warm glow, subjective norm, attitude and perceived behavioral control. This study examines the model for the Indian and the USA samples and thus integrated using three theories: Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), Pro-Social Behavior (PSB) Theory with the interaction of Consumer Culture Theory. The model is estimated using the multi-group Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) technique using R software with samples from India (n = 692) and the USA (n = 640). Results differ for Indian and USA samples. The expectation of the “warm glow” resulted from an environmentally friendly purchase as having a higher influence on Indian samples than that of the USA. Further, the attitude towards organic food purchase intention is stronger for US samples than the Indian, and the group difference is significant, while all the relationships that take warm glow as an antecedent have higher β for Indian samples. Moreover, the study found that attitude towards organic food is a major element for US subsamples, whereas subjective norm plays a major role in Indian samples to adopt organic food. Managerially, the present study suggests that a firm marketing its organic food must concentrate more on “warm glow” for Indian consumers in order to improve their market share.

Social media has emerged as a flexible and interactive communication medium in the present digital era. Contemporary businesses use social media to achieve different communication objectives. However, using social media as a communication medium for corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication with stakeholders like, consumers is not well-explored in the existing literature. Furthermore, prior studies have also failed to consider the blend of CSR communication and social media to achieve consumer-related outcomes, for example, their loyalty and purchase likelihood. To this end, the objective of this study is to examine the relationship of the CSR communication of a bank through social media with consumer loyalty and purchase intention. The current study also proposes brand admiration as a potential mediator between this relationship. The data were collected from the banking consumers through a self-administered questionnaire in a developing economy. The data were analyzed through the structural equation modeling (SEM) technique using AMOS software. The results of the current survey confirmed that CSR communication of a bank on social media has direct and indirect, via brand admiration, relations with consumer loyalty, and purchase intentions. The outcomes of this survey will be helpful for the policymakers to understand the importance of CSR communication on social media to enhance the loyalty, and purchase intention of banking consumers.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the promising and compelling technologies nowadays which continuously transforms human lives and massively impacts almost all spheres of the business world. While AI is constructively indiscriminately flourishing in all fields, workforce management is not an exception to the rule. The primary purpose of this research is to critically analyze the impact that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is having on Human Resource management practices, more specifically on recruitment and Selection in organizations. The researcher has concentrated on four AI capabilities, namely Natural Language Processing, Machine Vision, Automation, and Augmentation, and their impact on the Recruitment and selection process. The researcher has collected primary data through an online survey from 141 IT employees regarding Chennai city. The researcher has also focused on external secondary data (articles and reports) to demonstrate some of the findings of the impact of AI capabilities on Recruitment and Selection. The study finds that AI technologies capabilities namely NLP, Machine Vision, Automation, and Augmentation have a significant impact on the Recruitment and Selection Process with potential positive outcomes such as time & cost-saving, accuracy, removes bias, reduced workload, increased efficiency, and candidate experience.

The purpose of the current study is to investigate the role of the Islamic financial system in recovery post-COVID-19 and the way Fintech can be utilized to combat the economic reverberations created by COVID-19. The global financial crisis of 2008 has established the credentials of the Islamic financial system as a sustainable financial system which can save the long run interests of the average citizens around the world while adding value to the real economy. The basic ethical tenets available in the Islamic financial system make it more suited and readymade to fight the economic aftershocks of a pandemic like COVID-19. The basic principles of ethical Islamic finance have solid connections to financial stability and corporate social responsibility within the wide-reaching business context. With the emergence of Financial technology (Fintech) it has provided a missing impetus to the Islamic financial system to compete on equal ground with its conventional counterpart and prove its mettle. The study uses discourse analysis along with the content analysis to extract content and draw a conclusion. The findings of the study indicate that COVID-19 pandemic has provided the opportunity for the social and open innovation to grow and finance world have turned to open innovation to provide a speedy, timely, reliable, and sustainable solution to the world. The findings of the study provide significant implications for governments and policy makers in efficient application of Fintech and innovative Islamic financial services to fight the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The technology impact more in the organization, it is forcing to change their basic functions, irrespective of industry functions. To catch the requirement, the companies forcing to hire human resources. The aim of the is to find duplication of applicant's face through the principal component analysis algorithms. The study tested the pre-corded images of the applicants and concluded with further research ideas.

The aim of the paper is to provide different varieties of resource to conduct research. The finding of the paper is resources are very useful for researchers, practitioners and academicians.

The present paper explores how EDITTDA approach measure agile HR performance in HR organizations, conducted in Bangalore based software industry, data collected from the HR professionals with structure questionnaire, 104 HR professionals participated. The study developed a theoretical framework for constructs and tested the hypotheses relationship in between the constructs. The study found that there is a relationship between the EDITTDA approach and agile human resources performance by using coefficients beta (β), t test and descriptive statistics were used. Also, found that by using EDITTDA approach can measure the agile human resources performance. This finding is expected to help agile organizations to align their practices. The study conducted in Bangalore based software companies does not covered all companies located in Bangalore city.

The paper is to examine the artificial intelligent (AI) on recruitment effectiveness, the study made in CMMI (capability maturity model integration) software companies of Bangalore, collected data through a structured questionnaire from 100 human resource professionals. Around the Bangalore, descriptive statistics and structural equation modelling used to test the hypothesis. The study found that using of the artificial intelligence in recruitment process select right applicant for talent pool for the organization.

The paper discussed on artificial intelligence (AI) inference in human resource management, especially in the recruitment process. The study aim is to know artificial intelligence swapping human involvement in the recruitment process in selected software companies in India. To get valid data, the study designed structure questionnaire for different designations of 138 HR professionals and also used convenience sampling, coefficients beta (β), cronbach's alpha, t test and descriptive statistics test were used. The study found that artificial intelligence has a positive on human replacement in the recruitment process. Meanwhile, the study is expected to help studied organizations to formulate recruitment strategies and policy interferences to align to develop its effective recruitment process to recruit qualified talent into team to encounter competitive business and to develop sustainable environment.

In the present era, women-owned firms are one of India’s fastest increasing entrepreneurial communities in the form of women entrepreneurs. The objective of the study is to identify the factors that influence women’s entrepreneurial orientation and firms’ performance. The research study discusses the influencing factors and their effect on firms’ performance and satisfaction in this regard. The proposed framework and hypotheses have been tested using data gathered from boutiques, beauty parlors, carpet manufacturers, and retail shops in Karnataka, India. Data analysis was done using univariate, bivariate, and multivariate techniques. In Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), paths were created for evaluating the cause-and-effect relationship between different factors viz., social, psychological, financial, and resource factors and entrepreneurial performance and satisfaction. Seven relationships were significant, while two relationships were insignificant in this structural equation. The key finding of the paper is that all factors have a significant impact on the firm’s performance. The implications of research results for researchers and practitioners are discussed, and suggestions have also been made.

This paper aims to provide a systematic review on the topic of unlearning (and the related concept of forgetting) to establish the current body of knowledge. Despite the growing popularity of the topic, little research so far has aimed to contribute to the extant literature by providing a detailed examination that includes all aspects of unlearning. Thus, to reach our aim 72 refereed articles were analysed. The findings are synthesised not only in regard to the broad concepts of unlearning and forgetting but also regarding general issues such as operationalisation, research methodology and level of analysis. Based on this a number of research questions are proposed that aim at guiding and informing future research activities. The findings contribute to a more holistic understanding of the topic and complement extant literature on unlearning.

The present study has been done on career choice among finance students in the Kingdom of Bahrain by taking following objectives namely (i) to know the interest level of the individual perception on finance courses, (ii) to know the reasons to opt for finance course and finally (iii) to find which elements are encouraging them to study finance courses. In this regard, the present study has been conducted on 110 respondents (only selected universities in Kingdom of Bahrain) and the analysis of the findings show that the Business colleges need to update their study plan and course descriptions in accordance with the requirements of the industry. The study plan and course descriptions must be constructed effectively so as to encourage students to go for higher education in their respective domains.

Purpose - This paper aims to review research on the topic human resource information system to establish the current body of knowledge, on this regard, to suggest some promising avenues for future research. Design/methodology/approach - The present study consists of a systematic review of 155 referred articles on human resource information system. Findings - The findings contribu This paper aims to review research on the topic human resource information system to establish the current body of knowledge, in this regard, the researchers suggest some promising avenues for future research and the study consists of a systematic review of 155 referred articles on human resource information system. The findings contribute to a more holistic view of the topic and complement the study of human resource information system. Additionally, a conceptual framework is proposed that aims at guiding and informing future research activities. This study may not enable a complete coverage of all articles in the field of human resource information system. However, based on the selected research methodology, it seems reasonable to assume that the review process covered a large share of studies available. And moreover to the best of author’s knowledge, there is no systematic review on human resource information systems previously published in academic journals. te to a more holistic view of the topic and complement the study of human resource information system. Additionally, a conceptual framework is proposed that aims at guiding and informing future research activities. Research limitations/implications - This study may not enabled a complete coverage of all articles in the field of human resource information system. However, based on the selected research methodology, it seems reasonable to assume that the review process covered a large share of studies available. Originality/value – To the best of author’s knowledge, there is no systematic review on human resource information systems previously published in academic journals. Keywords: human resource information systems, HR acquire, HR develop, HR pay, HR retain, HR interact, systemic literature review Paper type: Literature review

In this global era organizations are looking for organizational effectiveness and development with the help of information technology. In this connection organizations want to utilize their human resources and retain them at workplace. The implementation of information technology in their human resource department has shown that it contributes considerably in saving time and also in cost cutting.The common benefits of HRIS frequently cited in studies include, improved accuracy, provision of timely and quick access to information and the saving of costs Lederer, (1984)1; Wille and Hammond, (1981)2 and Lederer (1984)3 discussed why accuracy and timeliness of HRIS is very important in terms of operating, controlling, and planning activities in HR. In addition, Kovach et al., (2002)4 listed several administrative and strategic advantages in using HRIS.

Technology based Internet has shortened the gap between continents, countries, cities, towns and villages and people. Different parts of the people have similar tastes, perceptions, styles and accessibility. Now Online shopping has opened the doors of globalization as it facilitate all the information about the product from anywhere around the world and it can be accessed 24/7. Therefore organizations have changed their selling and buying strategy. An even consumer preferences also has changed in terms of choices, quality, services, selling and buying. The main reason behind this is that, most of the electronic devices apps are well connected to the internet. Therefore, consumers are showing very enthusiastic behavior to buy and sell their chosen product. Keeping these benefits in their mind consumers are acting very smart and showing lots of interest to do online shopping, why because its saves time, easy payment and it will display many options to choose best of the best of his choice of product. The present study is to know which factors are influences Bahraini consumers to go for E shopping. The study further discloses that which professions are showing interest in E shopping in Bahrain. The Researchers dropped their suggestions for E tailors and consumers so that it can be implemented for further success.

21st century is acknowledged for its information outburst, technological innovation and also for transmission of such information through Human Resource Information System for successful functioning of organizations. HRIS facilitates retrieval of information quickly and accurately which allows quick analysis of HR issues and gives good information for decision makers. HRIS acts as an effective tool for managers to take effective decisions. With this background, an attempt has been made to assess the impact of human resource information systems usage on decision making process in the select software companies. For the purpose of the study 50 companies were selected based on purposive sampling method through a structured questionnaire administered. The sample included 350 IT professionals from different designations. Statistical tools like descriptive statistics, ANOVA and t-test have been used. The IT professionals and their designations have been considered as independent variables while the decision making process has been treated as dependent variable. The results of this research would help software companies to better understand the usage of HRIS to facilitate the decision making process in their organizations and also would help to identify how the decisions are taken by the employees with the help of HRIS.

Over the last decade Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) have been adopted by many companies as it contributes to the development and profitability of the organizations by business solutions. Once configured it allows information to enter at a single point in the process, and also updates a single, shared data base for all functions that directly or indirectly depend on this information. These are a set of applications combining key functions like finance, production. Sales, logistics, statutory compliance, human resources etc., in an integrated fashion. In a manner these combine Enterprise Resource Planning system with extended enterprise needs likes software solutions to the employees, customers and vendors. ERP not only helps to establish world class best business solutions and bring transparency in the business. This paper presents the definition, ERP Systems concept and need, the historical evolution of the ERP Systems, why is ERP Systems needed, why firms invest in ERP Systems, business performance development with ERP Systems, the scope of the ERP Systems, ERP model, ERP architecture, ERP implementation approaches have been discussed.

In the current market scenario of high volatile, rapidly changing market place, various avenues for investment in gold are creating the confusion among Investors. As per various studies 16,000 tons of gold is there in Indian households predominantly in the form of jewellery. There are various alternatives available for investment in gold through options like jewellery, coins, bullions, ETF, mutual funds, E-gold etc. The present study “A study on various forms of gold investment” tries to study forms of gold investment available to investors. The objectives of the study is to understand the various investment options for investors, factors needs to be aware of and know-how of investing in gold , pros and cons of various forms of investments and to assist investors in creating awareness about various gold investment options. For the purpose of study the primary data and Secondary data has been collected. Primary data consists of questionnaire and secondary data through website, research papers and magazines. Based on the research it is found that many investor still prefer jewellery, gold coins and gold bullion bars forms of investment and prefer to invest in