Journal of Social Welfare and Management

  Pursuing a hobby is one ritual every individual is habituated during their early days of childhood and for many later into adulthood as well. A hobby or a leisure activity is generally pursued for pleasure and for creatively occupying one’s spare time. For some individuals pursuing a hobby would entail passion for that activity eg: a sport or an adventure activity. Very few individuals would spend time in understanding the significance of pursuing a hobby with respect to one’s personality and its implications on a professional career. This research paper purports to achieve this aim. Organizations are now using big data from the internet sites like facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and other social networking websites for recruiting of its employees. Social intelligence is now in-built in the organization’s core processes. Knowing employee’s hobbies and leisure pursuits help organizations in attracting, recruiting and retaining the right “fit” talent for the organization. This research paper highlights these factors and elaborates on how individuals could develop their hobbies for a lifetime. 

Keywords: Hobby; Leisure; Passion; Personality; Personality Traits; Personality Development; Recruitment; Career; Career Anchors; Mid Career Crisis; Learning; Early Childhood.

 Accreditation has been made mandatory by the University Grants Commission (UGC) three years back and hence many colleges have started submitting their Self Appraisal Reports (SAR). Preparation of Self Appraisal Reports and for Peer Team visits are challenging indeed, especially for the institutions aspiring for first accreditation. This article focuses on the assessor’s point of view, written with the expectation that this would serve as a useful guideline for such colleges. The earlier part of the paper deals with the author’s own experience as an assessor and the later part gives an account of dimension wise analysis of quality aspects stipulated by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council. 

Keywords: Accreditation; Assessment; Consultancy; Curriculum; Governance; Self Appraisal Report; Student Progression; Student Support Services.

  Sanitation and hygiene is the core of life; importance of which is being neglected especially when it comes to disabled people and feminine gender. Our honorable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi initiated for Swacch Bharat Abhiyan in order to introduce cleanliness to the core of the country to eradicate the root problem of sanitation facility. Although integration of the needs of disabled people is felt neglected in this programme, which should has been necessarily introduced. To change the current hygiene behavior perspectives and continue better hygiene practices in the future, it is important to make people aware to sanitation related issues from initial level that is from school level to university level. This idea to organise school curriculum is the integration of relevant sustainable water, hygiene and sanitation topics into school education in order to increase pupil’s knowledge, change attitudes and encourage action. Bringing water and sanitation issues into the school curriculum provides a means of encouraging young people to understand not only the wider water and sanitation concepts, but also the effects of their own behaviour on water, its quality and eco systems. The development of the life-skills approach for performing daily basic activities is the part of the existing curriculum for disabled students. Some current issues like designing of sanitary for disabled, overcoming the barriers to accessible sanitation, provision of cost disabled & friendly toilets for disabled and appropriate practical measures/strategies of sanitation for disabled lives in both rural and urban areas should also be included in curriculum for the great benefit to the inclusion of the neglected section of the society. It can be done by introducing these topics in various school subjects such as English, social studies, moral and social sciences, environmental science, home science. This paper throws light on the need for including the sanitation related topics in school and university curriculum. The successful implementation of these subjects and its benefits for disabled students and nation will also be discuss.

Keywords: Disabled; Implementing Curriculum; Sanitation Related Issues; Life Skill Education for Disable.

Environmental study is an interdisciplinary subject focused on the interplay between individuals and their surroundings. It is the teaching of individuals, and communities, in transitioning to a society that is knowledgeable of the environment and its associated problems, aware of the solutions to these problems, and motivated to solve them. Inculcation of Values plays a significant role in environmental studies and provide great solution present multidisciplinary environmental scenario. Values are real physical object that makes life respond. One Value by one single act can accomplish at once what others have labored for decades, even centuries, to achieve. Accomplishment depends not only on physical energy. Even more it depends on the intensity of different values which we are able to bring to our action. The values are true motivators and are important for achievements of the purposes. This paper highlights different types of values that are very important in environmental studies and behaviors of individuals that is helpful for human being in attaining their life goals. 

Keywords: Environmental Education; Value Education; Values; Social Values; Professional Values; Cultural Values; Spiritual Values; Ethical Values; Family Values.

  Man and woman came into existence together on the planet earth, either by creation or by evolution and hence they had started living together, growing together and dying together. However, they are not enjoying their life together equally. Most of the time, men folk, all over the world, are enjoying the sweet part of the life leaving the bitter part to women. Women are being purposefully and forcibly denied equal share of both material and nonmaterial requirements for a happy life. The constitution of India had included special provisions to women to ensure gender equity in all walks of life. In India, discrimination on the basis of sex often starts at the earliest stages of life. The total literacy rate in 2001 was 65.38 per cent, for males it was 75.85 per cent and for females it was 54.16 per cent. In the case of WFPR by sex, it had been much higher for males as compared to females. Still women’s representation in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha is very low. Special measures are needed to accelerate the process of political participation of women. Certain endeavours should be made in this direction to create proper environment to empower women and to enhance their capacity.

Keywords: Women; Sex Ratio; Literacy; Enrollment; Mortality Rate; Work Force; Political Participation.

 Honour killing can be defined as the homicide of the member of a family or social group by other members due to the belief of the perpetrators that the victim has brought dis-honour upon the family or community. In most of the cases, honour killings are mostly directed against the women especially in the South Asian and Middle Eastern Islamic cultures. Sadly, this culture is prevalent in some parts of the Indian society too.

Keywords: Discrimination; Patriarchy; Subordinate; Aggression; Barbarism.

  Orissa is a state in the eastern India which has been heavily concentrating its developmental efforts at the tourism industry in general and the hotel sector. However, the results do not substantiate the quantum of efforts for which many reasons have been proposed. A key contention made by critics is that these efforts were lopsided in that they gave undue importance to the marketing function and totally neglected complementary aspects like HRD. Hotel sector has of late realized this as a real lacuna that needs to be corrected immediately. Most classified hotels have been quick to set up active HRD wings to look into vital HRD practices such as manpower planning, training and competency development, performance appraisal, career planning, compensation packages, employee relationship management, and so on. Utmost stress has been given to employee training and development programs as part of their HRD policy by most star hotels. Yet, it has been observed by many that a vast majority of the employees are not found to be serious about the HRD initiatives, especially the various professional training options aimed at them. The present study rejects this observation and reveals that hotel employees do appreciate the fact that there is a positive association between professional training and their chances of promotion. They also understand that their professional training can help promote the organizational effectiveness as well. However, this understanding is proven to be stronger in the case of employees working in the higher star category hotels than those working in the lower star category hotels. But, no significant relationship existed between the level of professional training undergone by an employee and his or her perception about the benefits of professional training. In addition to these findings, the study presents a compendium of expert voices on HRD in tourism and attempts to offer some vital remedial measures for the effective implementation of HRD practices in the hotel sector. The authors present these matters only after providing a rich contextual familiarity about HRD practices in tourism as practiced in Orissa is an added benefit for the discerning readers. 

Keywords: Human Resource Development; Capabilities; Productivity; Training and Development; Personnel, Promotion.

  Education is a primary source of socialisation and improving the future opportunity of work for young people. But the transition from school to higher education is not smooth for many young people in India. Young people from less economically privileged families face a considerable challenge. Social interaction and interpersonal relations play a vital role in the transition to higher education. The objective of this paper is to examine the socio-economic correlates of difficulty faced by young people in social interaction and its effect in making the transition to higher education in Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh. The study is based on a representative sample of 351 young people from eight urban residential colonies in Varanasi South assembly constituency of Varanasi district. Descriptive and inferential statistical techniques are used to analyse the data. The results indicate that social interaction varies according to gender, caste group, socio-economic status and parental involvement. In general resources inherent in the form of social relation with teachers, peers, office staff and parents are essential for developing good interpersonal relationships in the institute of higher education. But these resources are not evenly distributed throughout gender, caste and class, and this largely accounts for the marginalisation of women, Dalit youth and youth belonging to lower socio-economic status.

Keywords: Higher Education; Social Interaction; Transition; Young People.

  Mobile phone overuse is a dependence syndrome seen among certain mobile phone users. Some mobile phone users exhibit problematic behaviours such as preoccupation with mobile communication, excessive money or time spent on mobile phones, use of mobile phones in socially or physically inappropriate situations such as driving an automobile. The aim of the present study was to assess the level of mobile phone dependence among nursing students . Cross sectional design was adopted for the study. The study was conducted at SRM College of Nursing. The total sample size for the study comprised of 144 nursing students and they were selected by using convenient sampling technique. The Mobile Phone Dependence Questionnaire (MPDQ) was used to assess the level of mobile phone dependence among nursing students. The data was analysed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings of the study showed that, majority 59% of nursing students had mild mobile dependence, 38% of them had moderate mobile phone dependence and only 3% of them had severe mobile dependence. There was no association found between the mobile phone dependence among nursing students with their demographic variables.

Keywords: Mobile Phone Dependence; Nursing Students.

  This paper provides the role of Iqqub in business start-up and development in small and medium enterprises in Arba Minch. Iqqub plays a prominent role in the business start up and development with regard to providing credit without interest or at lower interest, sharing ideas with others, enforced saving mechanism, providing credit without mortgage. The Iqqub members are getting more benefit than iqqub organizers and their source of income is trade and manufacturing. The results of the study found that the private businesses prefer iqqub rather than financial institutions mainly due to obtaining credit without interest. The trustfulness of the members for the rules they agreed on and accepting person for collaterial intead of collaterial for fixed asset are the experiences to be learned from iqqubs by formal financial institutions and government.

Keywords: Iqqub; Members; Start Up; Incomes; Small and Medium Businesses.