Jobonomics

Although India?s economy is growing at a steady clip of over 7 per cent a year, job creation is far short of where it needs to be. At the same time, most Indians who are employed are stuck in jobs that don?t pay well. Hidden in this tangle is not just a crisis of productivity and skills, but also a lack of employment opportunities for the country?s teeming millions. If the issues miring both demand and supply in the job market are not addressed urgently, we are looking at an economy in which over 20 crore people will be in `bad jobs? or even without jobs by 2025. Why are Indian companies not creating enough jobs? Why do small companies remain small? Will bots take over today?s jobs, from the shop floor to the back office? What will salaries of the future look like? Why have successive governments failed in their promises to create more jobs that pay well? Goutam Das explores these questions and more, in this engaging narrative that documents the real stories of workers of all shades across India, from Tiruppur in Tamil Nadu to Gurugram in Haryana, highlighting the social and political consequences of unemployment and underemployment. Presenting astute analyses of the current and future trends in India?s job market, this timely book points to the path forward and underlines the human potential we can tap into to turn the tide.

In 2020, the world is in the throes of the COVID-19 global pandemic—an epidemic the likes of which humankind has not experienced for decades. This book speaks to common and fundamental underlying issues that national communities face from a humanitarian and planetary systems perspective. From the globalization initiatives of the last decades, a dynamic and interconnected new planetary system order is emerging. This book underscores the need for decent, ethical, healthy, and just societies that enable individuals to reach full human potential. It explores the future directions of 12 Key Strategic Influencer (KSI) nations through 18 systemic factors that will shape the contours of future planetary governance this century. Finally, it proposes a nonconventional systems paradigm to humanitarian challenges.

This book asks fundamental questions about the extent to which India is participating in the global shift towards knowledge-based forms of competitiveness. It charts Indian performance and progress using a unique framework benchmarked against fourteen other countries. In the course of the analysis, critical areas for improvement are identified, and the book provides detailed and objective insights for policy-makers and researchers to facilitate change and institutional reform in India. Readers will derive a comprehensive understanding of India’s performance and prospects as it emerges as a serious global economic player. A particular feature of the work is the development of an original knowledge footprint concept that measures the extent and impact of knowledge development and diffusion domestic and internationally.The views expressed in this book are the author’s.

This book gathers outstanding research papers presented at the International Conference on Intelligent Vision and Computing (ICIVC 2021), held online during October 03–04, 2021. ICIVC 2021 is organised by Sur University, Oman. The book presents novel contributions in intelligent vision and computing and serves as reference material for beginners and advanced research. The topics covered are intelligent systems, intelligent data analytics and computing, intelligent vision and applications collective intelligence, soft computing, optimization, cloud computing, machine learning, intelligent software, robotics, data science, data security, big data analytics, and signal natural language processing.

Inclusive Business Models will be relevant to students in management institutes, both in India and globally.

Seldom any spheres left where Covid 19 has not affected directly or indirectly and consequently leaving the human life in stake making the socio economic condition paralysed throughout the world. Contemporary themes which have been found important to explore during Covid, endeavoured to put in a repertoire through this book. Withstanding the adversities of Covid has been turned to be the greatest challenge for society as well as other spectrum of life like economy, education, IT and allied services, MSME, sales, production marketing and distribution management and the like. Covid 19 turned out to be massive and lethal cause of socio economic destruction aggravated the economical and psychological woes of people; left the human generation to face unknown challenges in every sphere. This book attempted to focus not only on the effects of Covid 19 but also the turnaround strategies undertaken by the corporate and service sectors to survive and regain strengths. Advent of Covid shattered the work flow, service flow, production flow having a treacherous impact on human resource management. Attempts are being made to focus on the upcoming economic challenges, effects on small and medium enterprises; survival strategies of mankind, role of IT and its boons on the sustainability of livelihood, online education and its challenges, challenges of sports marketing, effects of Covid on international trade and business, social economic challenges faced by migrant people, impact of Covid on social behaviour of the people, growth and performance of e-commerce, strategies built on innovation, etc. The contents of this book may benefit the entrepreneurs, service sectors, corporate, policy makers, social thinkers, researchers, students, as it has been discussing the turnaround strategies to sustain human existence during Covid. With an intention to offer a variety of issues which are found to be prominent and relevant during Covid, this book has been brought out. It is expected that readers of this book will found it useful and source of pertinent information.

Is there a fundamental new catalyst that can significantly enhance access, affordability and quality of products and services to hundreds of millions of Indians? This catalyst is in the form of a new generation of start-up founders who are leveraging technology platforms, smartphone access, and rapid digitization of the Indian consumer. These young founders don't carry the baggage of the past and are attracted to the opportunity of breaking open the massive market of Middle India-the next 400-500M Indians just below the top of the pyramid. This book is about this new and powerful force of change blowing across India-what it takes to harness this and reshape the destiny of this country.