Damodar Suar

KIIT University Bhubaneswar · Public Policy

This paper reviews the food security status during the COVID-19. Food insecurity occurred due to disruptions in food production, food supply chain, implementation of the National Food Security Act (NFSA), and employment and income. Lockdown and shutdown had adversely affected the sowing of crops and harvesting in India. Food processing and supply c...

Cyclone Fani in 2019 was a strong tropical cyclone and it adversely affected the lives and livelihood of people in Odisha. This study investigates the antecedents and consequences of resilience among Fani survivors. Twelve months after the cyclone Fani, 300 households were randomly selected and an adult survivor from each household responded to the...

This paper elucidates the historical development of research methodology in psychology. The goals of this essay are to elucidate: (a) the adoption of different methodologies in the West and in India in different timelines of history, (b) the philosophy of social sciences and the methodological pluralism, and (c) to derive agenda to make research mo...

This study examines the factors associated with food security after three years of implementation of the National Food Security Act, 2013. Fifteen hundred and fourteen households in three states of India—563 from Bihar, 557 from Uttar Pradesh, and 394 from Haryana—were surveyed. Data on beneficiary status, calorie consumption, economic status, soci...

Following a devastating flood, some survivors adapt well, showing a growth trajectory and resilience, while others do not. This qualitative study aims to explore the precursors of resilience among survivors of the 2018 Kerala flood in India. Twenty-one survivors were interviewed with seven semi-structured questions aimed at unpacking their lived ex...

Pandemic related changes are different from the usual stress based changes that we may face in our everyday life. With the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, the human race has witnessed major stressors among which sleep and related difficulties have been a prominent one. From social isolation to persistent emotional uncertainty and juggling between...

In Hindustani Classical Music, there are multiple features which evoke and modify emotions. Rhythm and tempo are two of the most important among them. An extensive literature review suggests that each feature of a tala-beats, vocables, structure, cyclical beat-structure, metre etc. contributes to the total impact on the perception of music composed...

In Indian aesthetic tradition-especially poetry and music-alamkara (lit. ornamentation) or embellishment is considered a key aesthetic component that 'embellishes' or beautifies a piece. However, not much research has been dedicated to examine the role alamkaras play in Hindustani classical music. In this paper we ask the question, do alamkaras mer...

One of the very popular techniques of assessing music is using the dimensional model. Although it is used in numerous studies, the discrete model is of great importance in the Indian tradition. This study assesses two discrete interfaces for continuous rating of Hindustani classical music. The first interface, the Discrete emotion wheel (DEW) captu...

The study examines the effects of psychosocial intervention on emotional disorders and social issues among people infected with HIV/AIDS. Ten consented people infected with HIV, attending the antiretroviral therapy center of Jharkhand (India), and having emotional disorders and social problems, were selected conveniently. Only six participants comp...

Purpose – This study investigates the sociodemographics, late entry to antiretroviral therapy (ART), and clinical markers associated with AIDS-related mortality. Methodology/Approach – Applying retrospective cohort design, 960 medical records of people who died of AIDS, from October 2006 to December 2014, were accessed from the ART center at tertia...

This study explores the perceptions of past, present, and future happiness and the sources of happiness of millennials, and the subgroups of late and early millennials, and male and female millennials. A semi-structured questionnaire was administered to 1,580 millennials from eight technical institutions in eastern India. An 11-step ladder was used...

This study examines food (in)security dynamics for India since the year 2000 using National Sample Survey data on household consumer expenditure. In the absence of true panel data, a synthetic panel approach has been applied to analyse food security transitions, in order to examine the movement of households both into and out of food security. The...

This study examined predictors of households’ calorie demand using consumer expenditure survey data during the time frame of millennium development goals. It draws suggestions for achieving sustainable development goals to eliminate calorie-poverty. We used the log of per-capita calorie intake as the calorie demand. Endogeneity corrected quantile r...

This study examines the effects of (a) chief executive officers (CEO) pay dynamics, (b) corporate governance characteristics, and (c) the impact of environmental, social, and governance disclosure practices on CEO compensation. Data of 282 Indian manufacturing firms were collected from Bloomberg database from 2013–14 to 2018–19. This study uses Gen...

India has witnessed high economics growth from the beginning of the new millennium. The agriculture and allied sector also recorded the highest growth during 2003–4 to 2012–13, coupled with marked improvement in production. It is now a food surplus and net-exporter country from food deficit since the mid-1990s. This should have result in lower inci...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore leader flexibility in the manufacturing sector. The objectives are to understand the nature of uncertainties that leaders face and how their personal attributes facilitate them in responding to uncertain situations. Design/methodology/approach A total of 20 middle- and senior-level executives were in...

The article conducts a publication analysis of articles on compensation management from 2004 to 2017. After reviewing 9,823 articles, 1,218 articles were identified and placed under 10 topics. Following the product life cycle model, 10 topics were fitted to different patterns. A cubic pattern is found on topics of benefits, compensating special gro...

This study analyzes whether the four components of subjective well-being— satisfaction with life, flourishing, positive affect, and negative affect— are independent, form a hierarchical structure, a composite structure, or a causal structure. It also examines the social and personality factors that predict subjective well-being among millennials in...

Despite favourable climate, abundant land, and diverse cropping patterns, India has remained food insecure since its independence. During the last 70 years, various poverty alleviation programmes have been introduced, with a primary one being the 2013 National Food Security Act (NFSA). The Act, which aims to eradicate hunger and malnutrition, is a...

This study examines whether group heterogeneity and group structure and process predict the effectiveness of women’s self-help groups in terms of their financial performance, self reliance of the group, members’ decision-making ability at the household level, and access to non-financial benefits. Data were collected using an interview schedule from...

Today’s companies take compensation management seriously to achieve a competitive advantage in the market for talent. Compensation management help companies to attract and retain talents. But, the compensation strategies have changed over the years due to the continuous changes in the social, economic, political, and legal environment. Therefore, t...

The employer branding (EB) phenomenon has garnered the attention of practitioners and academicians over the past decade. However, the subjective experiences of managers on employer branding are hardly tapped. This study explores company executives’ views on employer branding through case study method with semi-structured interviews in the context o...

This study examined whether tsunami survivors’ coping styles mediate the effects of attachment styles on posttsunami trauma. Four hundred and sixteen survivors were interviewed from Tamil Nadu (India) 14 months posttsunami. Attachment style, coping, and posttsunami trauma were assessed using inventories, and exposure was assessed using a checklist....

Cultures have been found to predict the organizational effectiveness (OE). This article explores how a strong or weak organizational culture (OCL), irrespective of its taxonomy, affects OE in Indian technical education. It also examines the mediating role of organizational communication (OCM). Data were collected from 167 heads of engineering and m...

This study examined whether exposure, resource loss, and social support predicted the posttsunami trauma of PTSD, depression, negative affect, and physical health problems of the 2004 tsunami survivors. 416 survivors were interviewed in Tamil Nadu (India) fourteen months posttsunami. Loss of life followed by loss of property and disaster exposure p...

This study analyzed whether self-esteem directly predicts ethical behaviours and corporate responsibility values and whether power-distance mediates such relationships. A total of 410 students from two business schools in eastern India participated. A questionnaire was administered to collect information on socio-demographics and on self-esteem, po...

This study examines the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in different regions of India, their socio-demographic indicators, and the presence of hidden population infected with HIV. Secondary data analyzed were obtained from national and international agencies. Considering the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in India, the low-prevalence regions in the last decade have...

This study provides a new conceptualization of educational leadership with a multilevel and integrative approach. It examines the impact of multilevel leadership (MLL) on the effectiveness of technical educational institutes through the mediating effects of organizational communication, bases of power and organizational culture. Data were collected...

Improvising selected tools from Kress and Van Leeuwen’s inter-semiosis framework, this study explores how, between global and local, TV commercials in India often reframe a cultural third space producing new discursive forms and identities. Three commercials from the food and beverage category are selected on the basis of the country of origin of t...

This study analyzed whether survivors’ resource loss mediates the effects of exposure on posttsunami trauma. Fourteen months posttsunami, 416 survivors were interviewed from the nine worst-affected habitations of the Nagapattinam district in Tamil Nadu (India). Exposure was measured using a checklist; trauma and resource loss were assessed using in...

This study examined whether individuals show self-enhancing tendencies in perceiving their self-esteem and self-protecting tendencies in perceiving their trait anxiety compared with their friends. It also tested whether motivational and/or cognitive explanations account for self-enhancement. Four hundred ten management students from two institutes...

This study examined whether the death of family members intensifies the survivors' posttraumatic stress and behavioral changes. Data were collected by interviewing 416 adult survivors from nine habitations of the Nagapattinam district in the state of Tamil Nadu in India 14 months after the 2004 tsunami. Compared to those nonbereaved, bereaved survi...

This study reviewed and analysed the phenomenon of employer branding. We began with a review of recent research in employer branding. Next, drawing the theoretical knowledge from OB, HRM, and marketing, a framework is developed depicting the antecedents of employer branding and its impact on the company performance. For this, primary data were coll...

Earlier evidence predominantly supports that women are more ethical than men. With the replication of such a hypothesis for testing, this study further examined whether feminine gender roles are a better predictor of ethical attitudes, ethical behaviors, and corporate responsibility values than the biological sex. Four hundred ten management studen...

This article discusses (i) teaching as a profession, (ii) norms of teaching and (iii) ethics in teaching, particularly in Indian higher education. Like other professions, teachers possess specialized skills, knowledge and attitudes in area of their expertise, work in lieu of rewards and recognition and are guided by formal rules and informal conven...

Burnout is a severe psychological strain that occurs in response to prolonged exposure to stress at work and has adverse individual and organizational consequences. It has reached a critical stage among today's workforce with a high occurrence among human service professionals. Although avid studies on burnout have been made worldwide, the same amo...

-This study examines whether mood states (a) influence decision making under uncertainty and (b) affect information processing. 200 students at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur participated in this study. Positive mood was induced by showing comedy movie clips to 100 participants and negative mood was induced by showing tragedy movie cl...

This study provides a comparison between traditional fuzzy reasoning tools and a neuro-fuzzy system, both developed based on Mamdani approach in order to determine the influence of mood states on information processing during decision making. To begin, participants responded to questions on positive and negative prospects involving gains and losses...

Purpose – This study is a part of two sequential studies (quantitative and qualitative) carried out to study the impact of managerial communication on employees’ attitudes and behaviours. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach – Using the critical incident technique, this study explores the effects of managerial communic...

Purpose – The aim of this study is to report on the results of an empirical investigation of the various factors which have significant impacts on the Internet user’s ability to correctly identify a phishing website. Design/methodology/approach – The research participants were Internet users who have had at least some experience of financial trans...

This study examines whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) towards primary stakeholders influences the financial and the non-financial performance (NFP) of Indian firms. Perceptual data on CSR and NFP were collected from 150 senior-level Indian managers including CEOs through questionnaire survey.Hard data on financial performance (FP) of th...

Software professionals’ (SPs') performance is often understood narrowly in terms of input–output productivity. This study approaches performance from a broader perspective and examines whether the emotional intelligence competencies (EICs) of SPs, the leadership style of team leaders, social capital among team members, and human resource management...

To be competitive, contemporary engineers must be capable of both processing and communicating information effectively. Available research suggests that Indian students would be disadvantaged in information literacy in their language of instruction (English) compared to U.S. students because English is not Indian students’ native language. Compared...

Learning styles theories suggest that people learn differently, an important consideration for adaptive hypermedia learning platforms. Since on such platforms, mode of delivery of course material - visual, verbal or multimedia - plays an important role, this study considers learning styles in the context of adaptive hypermedia with the aim to ident...

This study examines the conceptualization, health-related consequences, and buffers of job burnout. Analyzing the responses of 372 Indian software developers to questionnaire survey, findings suggest that on burnout dimensions, increased exhaustion and cynicism have increased professional efficacy of software developers. Experiencing more burnout,...

Purpose This study aims to examine whether salience towards natural environment influences the corporate responsibility towards natural environment. It further aims to test whether the corporate responsibility towards environment impacts the financial performance of firms. Design/methodology/approach The sample comprises 150 listed and non‐listed...

Abstract: This study examines the joint effects of moods and group processes on decision-making and information processing; 462 students participated from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. They reported their choices to economic gain, loss and health-risk situations, reasons for their choices, and the response times to complete the ques...

The study explores if there are any statistically significant employees’ values that affects the employer branding, and if any, which affects the most. Based on the grounded theory, this study critically assesses multiple cases of employees’ values of branding process in a manufacturing company. The five aspects of personal values of employees were...

Purpose – Through the lens of social exchange theory and organisation support theory, the purpose of this paper is to examine the passive, aggressive, and assertive styles of managers/supervisors that influence perceived supervisory support and to test whether the support increases employees’ satisfaction with the communication of supervisors and t...

This paper examines the efficacy of Felder-Silverman's learning styles and Mayer's generative theory of multimedia learning for adaptive hypermedia using three different modes of presentations-verbal, visual, and multimedia- in history and engineering disciplines. Six modules in history and engineering were designed in verbal, visual and multimedia...

This study examines the patterns of hand preference and unintentional injuries of attempted hand switchers and hand non-switchers. Data were collected from 3698 participants in Kharagpur, India, on measures of hand preference, hand switching, and unintentional injuries. The direction of left- or right-handedness was on the basis of hand used for th...

This study examines whether transformational leadership influences organizational culture that furthers NGOs’ effectiveness. It also examines whether transformational leadership at the top directly influences NGOs’ effectiveness. Further, it tests whether NGO effectiveness improves the programme outcomes in terms of health, income, education, and h...

The thrust of this study is to understand the responses of anxiety-prone people to threats like natural disasters. It examines whether anxiety influences disaster preparedness, and whether disaster education and resources mediate between anxiety and disaster preparedness. Data were collected from 300 people each from floodprone and heat-wave-affect...

This study examines the antecedents, consequences, and buffers of job burnout among software developers using job demands resources theory. Data were collected from 372 software developers in India using questionnaires. Results reveal that software developers experiencing more role ambiguity, role conflict, schedule pressure, irregular shifts, grou...

Non-governmental organizations have been around for more than 150 years. Over the last decade, however, their number has increased exponentially and the nature of their involvement has broadened in the Indian society in terms of their enhanced role in socio-economic development of the country. The enhanced role of non-governmental organizations in...

Previous research has shown a positive association between unintentional injury liability and non-right-handedness (especially mixed-handedness). Research has also shown neuroticism to be one of the main predictors of unintentional injuries. In the present study we investigated the relationship of the three variables--frequency of unintentional inj...

This study examines (i) whether productive use of compensation money, participation, support and self-efficacy facilitate the rehabilitation of the displaced and (ii) whether self-efficacy mediate between the rehabilitation of the displaced and the productive use of compensation, participation and support. One hundred and seventy two displaced fami...

This study examines whether self-esteem and sense of mastery influence preparedness behaviour. Data were collected from 300 people each of flood prone and heat wave affected areas in Orissa. Results revealed that when the confounding effects of age and family type were controlled, people having high self-esteem and sense of mastery were more prepar...

The effect of lateralization on perceptual scanning was studied among males (N = 199). Lateralization was assessed through a handedness inventory and right-, left- and mixed-handers were identified. On split visual-field task the right-handers correctly identified verbal stimuli more in the right visual field and non-verbal stimuli in the left visu...

The study examines whether widow/widower status, educational level and family income influence post-tsunami trauma of survivors. The data were collected 14 months after the tsunami from 416 adult survivors in nine semi-urban habitations of Nagapattinam district in the state of Tamilnadu (India). Post-tsunami trauma was assessed using inventories of...

The study examines (a) the influence of family environment on young carers’ mind, (b) the assistance young carers provide, and (c) the consequences of young caregiving. Fifty child-carers and 50 child-non-carers were studied. Each child of both the groups was asked to construct stories seeing visuals and only the child-carers replied to open-ended...

The study examines whether (a) personal and organizational values differ in private and public sectors, and (b) personal values and value congruence – the extent of matching between personal and organizational values – influence unethical practices and work behavior. Three hundred and forty middle-level managers from four manufacturing organization...

This study examines whether soft and hard aspects of quality management practices determine service quality and customer satisfaction. Data were collected from a branch manager and a valued customer from each of the 315 scheduled commercial bank branches in Orissa (India). A conceptual model depicting the relationship was tested applying structural...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop and validate an instrument/scale to assess the performance of Indian software professionals (SPs). Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 441 software and senior software engineers from eight Indian software firms. The team leaders assessed the performance of software and senior softwar...

This study examines whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) towards primary stakeholders influences the financial and the non-financial performance (NFP) of Indian firms. Perceptual data on CSR and NFP were collected from 150 senior-level Indian managers including CEOs through questionnaire survey. Hard data on financial performance (FP) of t...

The study examines the relationship between hand preference and conjugate lateral eye movements. The sample comprised of 224 persons. The hand preference was assessed using a handedness inventory. Conjugate lateral eye movements were elicited in response to verbal and spatial questions among left-, mixed- and right-handers. The left- and mixed-hand...

Purpose This study aims to examine whether strategy towards primary stakeholders and their salience influence corporate social responsibility towards the corresponding stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through a questionnaire from 150 senior level managers including CEOs. The stakeholder management strategy, salience, a...

Does place attachment and the consequent emotional connections and ties that people have with environments affect their preparedness for natural disasters, such as floods? This study took up this research question for the understudied geographical region of Orissa, India. In particular, investigation focused on three kinds of place attachment, viz....

This study examines whether transformational leadership influences leader–member exchange (LMX) that furthers organizational commitment. It also examines whether transformational leadership directly influences the organizational commitment. Further, the study tests whether organizational commitment enhances NGOs’ effectiveness that improves program...

This review rationalizes that quality management practices have been adopted as a marketing strategy in the post-liberalized economy. Evaluating the literature and theories of quality management, differences are found in the implementation of quality management practices in manufacturing and service sectors. A critical assessment of literature and...

Side dominance (upper and lower extremities, visual and auditory dominance) of 3,474 subjects of different age groups (9-83 years) was assessed using a 22-item questionnaire. Data were analyzed using a trichotomous (left, mixed, and right) association analysis among indices of side dominance. The contingency coefficients showed significantly high a...

The study examines role portrayals of men and women in Indian magazine ads. Fourteen hundred ads of 2006–2007 were collected from men’s, women’s, and general interest magazines and were content-analyzed. Results reveal that women in Indian magazine ads are primarily portrayed in traditional roles such as concerned with physical attractiveness, hous...

Though there is a lot of discussion on carers' issue, young caring is still ignored and many facts remain unknown to us, which need to be revealed. Children or young people who provide continuous care for ill or disabled parents, siblings or any other family members are young carers. This raises several issues related to justice in the context of t...

The study examines audiences’ reactions to Indian print advertisements portraying male and female models in traditional, neutral and non-traditional roles on dimensions of attractiveness, meaningfulness and vitality. The audience comprised of 100 male and 100 female students. They evaluated five categories of role portrayals—traditional male, tradi...

This study examines whether disaster experience and awareness, mediated by external locus of control, influence disaster preparedness behavior. Data were collected from 300 people in flood-prone and a further 300 in heat-wave affected areas in Orissa (a state situated in south-eastern part of India). Results reveal that prior experience of hazard e...

This article examines whether service quality of Indian commercial banks increases customer satisfaction that fosters customer loyalty. Data were collected from 350 valued customers of scheduled commercial bank branches in Orissa (India). A questionnaire elicited information on socio–demographic variables along with human, technical, and tangible a...

This article examines the relationship between the awareness of hand preference and hand and foot performance among right-, left- and mixed-handers (n = 224). The hand preference was assessed using a handedness inventory. Hand and foot performances were measured using rapid index finger or toe tapping. A significant interaction between hand prefere...

This study examines whether technological capital influences livelihood of people in watersheds. Data were collected from 130 watersheds of Orissa (India). Information on dimensions of technological capital and sustainable livelihood was collected using interview schedules and questionnaires. Measures of economic, psychological, social and ecologic...