Vision, thinking strategically, building and changing corporate culture, down sizing, and total quality of an initiative are variety of efforts being made to cope with the competitive environment in the new world order. This book gives a vivid account of various theories and practices of modern management. The entire information is organised under fourteen chapters. CONTENTS . Introduction . Basic Structure . Organisational Management . Problems of Communication . Theories of Management . Significance of Environment . Controlling and Directing . Concept of Organisation . Organisational Setup . Various Types . Significance of Leadership . Significance of Motivation . Planning Procedure . Facets of Authority; etc.

The new media has an unprecedented impact on education. The information in a remote corner of the world can be gathered at the click of a mouse. Now, Media has grown into a big industry which can employ a large number of educated, skilled and semi-skilled people. As the educational planning takes new dimensions, the significance of media also keeps growing. In this modern age, educational planning without media's participation would prove to be an imposing task. This book is a meticulously tailored work on media in its present form and educational planning. It consists chapters such as; educational planning, media's impact, the evolution, rapid growth, planned development, systematic scheming, the organisation and structural setup etc. This work is likely to serve the purpose of students, researchers, and professionals in the field.

Small Scale Industry can play an important role in dispersal of national income and reducing unemployment, thereby improving the quality of life of the majority of the population of India. There are about 25 lakh SSI units in India employing millions of persons and it constitutes about 98% of the total number of industrial units available in the country. It is seen that the performance of industrial sector is unsatisfactory. Major challenge before this sector today is lack of professional management. There are about 15000 management consultants in India, mostly concentrated in the metros and other bigger and capital cities. However, taking into account poor performance of small scale industrial sector, it appears that either management consultants are not able to cope with the real management consultancy demand of this sector or their services are too costly or the quality of their services is poor and they are not able to solve the real management problems of the SSI or there is lack of awareness on the part of small units about the usefulness of the management consultants. Therefore, it is high time that the real problems are ascertained and remedial action suggested. This book identifies the real reasons underlying under-utilisation of management consultancy services by SSIs and offers practical suggestions. As such it is expected to be very useful too the small scale sector, management consultants, policy makers, financial/developmental institutions including banks and research/ academic/ management institutes of not only India but other developing countries having similar socio-economic profile.

The collection of papers in this book was presented at the National Seminar on Privatization of Public Enterprises on 9th and 10th December 1989. The National Seminar was sponsored by the University Grants Commission and the Bureau of Public Enterprises of Jammu & Kashmir State, and it was organized by the Department of Management Studies, University of Jammu. The main Objective of the National Seminar was to bring together researchers, administrators, executives of Public/Private enterprises, bureaucrats and academic to discuss and debate the prospects, problems and the implications of Privatization of Public enterprises. The issue of privatization of Public enterprises has generated world wide attention. The major argument in favour of Privatization of Public Enterprises is the inefficient functioning of the public sector units. There are only a handful of public enterprises, in India or elsewhere which can be considered efficiently run using the yardstick of the performance of the private sector. However, public sector has contributed enormously to the social welfare goals such as industrial development, increased employment, labour welfare etc. Several countries, in particular United Kingdom, have privatize their major public enterprises during the last decade or so. This has created a renewed public awareness and interest in privatization of public enterprises, though the debate between the relative advantages/ disadvantages of private Vs. public sector is an old one. The focus of the papers in this collection covers several areas and issues ot importance. Hopefully this collection of papers on Privatization of Public enterprises will reach all those who were unable to participate in National Seminar on Privatization of Public Enterprises.