Sick Industrial units resulting in loss of production, loss of employment, loss of revenues, wastage of resources, loss of investible funds of banks and financial institutions are of serious concern to the nation, which is already in dearth of capital and other resources. To all entrepreneurs with weak base it is still a burden-some problem. It is, therefore, necessary to revive and rehabilitate sick units as quickly as possible in the larger interest of whole industrial sector. A large number of symptoms are noticed when a unit is in grip of industrial sickness. These can be enumerated as decline in the quality of goods wide-spread increase n the customers complaints, decline in production and sales, continuous cash losses, lack of working capital, rise in cost of capital, decline in profitability, reduction in market share and continuous erosion of funds. Factors responsible for industrial sickness are mismanagement, improper record keeping faulty project planning, lack of product, planning and development, under capacity utilisation, poor maintenance of plant and machinery, and mis-handling of inventories etc. Among internal factors mismanagement or inefficient management plays a leading role in making a unit as sick. In recent years, the disease of industrial sickness is assuming alarming dimensions. It has become a key economic problem which is negatively affecting industrial growth not only in developing countries but also in advanced economies. In this book an attempt has been made to unearth the various causes of wide-spread industrial sickness and analyse and asses the impact of various measures adopted by entrepreneurs, financial institutions, government and other related agencies to reduce the degree of sickness if not eliminate it totally.

Entrepreneurship has been recognized as the engine of economic development and industrialization. Small business serves as the seedbed of entrepreneurship. The book with its wide coverage is an attempt to present a lucid treatment of a wide range of issues involved in the development of entrepreneurship. It has focal emphasis on the identification of business opportunities, creation of a venture, financing and managing it. The book highlights concept of entrepreneur and entrepreneurship, emergence of entrepreneurial class, motivation and entrepreneurial behaviour promotion of venture opportunity class, environmental analysis, small scale units, various legal requirements for establishing a new unit, raising of funds, venture capital sources and documentation, entrepreneurial development programmes and concludes with role of entrepreneur. This book provides exposure to the students to the entrepreneurial culture and industrial growth as to prepare them to set up and manage their own small units.

Participation in the management or involvement in the affairs of the organization breeds commitment boosts morale and enhances productivity. This has given rise Participative Management (PM) or to Workers' Participation in Management (WPM) as positive practice and intervention at place of work as well as a major area of study and research in academics. It is at this academic juncture the present empirical study of the extent, determinants and implications of workplace democracy in Indian industrial setting are undertaken. Though Workers' Participation as an instrument of Industrial Democracy and as an area of Sociological specialization has been a widely debated topic for a number of years throughout the industrial world, it is still in the nascent form in India. The present study seeks to probe empirically into the socio-cultural realities pertaining to the PM from a Sociological perspective in general and structural functional perspective in particular. In doing so, it seeks to focus empirically upon the nature, extent, determinants, effectiveness and the consequences of PM in Indian work organizations. It purports to explain the machineries, their constitution, functions and functioning on the one hand and the structural, environmental and socio-cultural determinants of their function on the other, seeking to establish causal relationships and identify recurrent patterns with a view to develop empirical model and a theoretical framework for the scientific understanding of PM in Indian context.

This study analysis the financial management practices adopted by Urban Co-operative in achieving significant position in Indian economy. By introducing several saving and investment schemes like Daily Saving Deposit Scheme, Compulsory saving deposit scheme, Deposit Insurance Scheme etc, Urban Co-operative Banks have gained trust and faith of urban people in them. The deposit mobilisation, loans and advances by urban co-operative bands are elaborately analysed in this book. Different techniques of financial management are used to study the profitability of urban co-operative banks. Earning per share (EPS) profit to working capital, profit to business is some of the Ratio is used. Findings of the study, problems and suggestions in functioning urban co-operative banks are also given. This book will prove useful and informative to the scholars and professionals in the field.