Social Sciences and Humanities

In the present Global scenario, it has become necessary for the organizations to retain the available workforce, upgrade its talent and manage the same for the competitive environment. This paper explains the concept of Talent Management and New Generation Workforce and its correlation in Indian organizations with HR practices. The paper is divided in four parts. The first part explains the concept of talent management, its need, nature, significance, evolution and development, issues at global level, present scenario at Global and Indian level, etc.

Eco-efficiency has stood out as an important innovative practice, linked to sustainable development, already practiced in the private sector and with a deep need for application in the public sector. Based on this context, the objective of this study is to map, by means of a bibliometric methodology, the eco-efficiency assessment theme in public works based on the management of the life cycle in the scientific literature, between the years 1996 and October 2017. Research activities indexed by the SCOPUS database and analyzed with the support of VOS viewer software have been collected.

The aim is to examine the criteria of the 2017 Quadrennial Assessment of Professional Master’s Programs in the Interdisciplinary Area in Brazil. The content collected in the document research was systematized into three categories: the composition of the assessment criteria; the participation of students in academic and technical productions; and the dedication of professors to the programs. Based on Vergara’s methodological steps, we described the results obtained in each category and interpreted the data in the light of the theoretical-conceptual support.

Regarding the goal, the scope of this study was the development of an economic and financial indicator aiming to delimit the investment grade that companies present in their corporate structures, through a set of economic and financial indexes linked to liquidity, profitability, debt, and yield, from economic and financial demonstrations of the corporations studied.

Women play variety of significant roles in our society from their birth till the end of life. Even after playing her all the roles and all the job timely in efficient manner in the modern society, she is weak because men are still strongest gender of the society. Even after lots of awareness programmes, rules and regulations in the society by the government, her life is more complicated than a man. She has to take care of herself and family members as daughter, granddaughter, sister, daughter-in-law, wife, mother, mother-in-law, grandmother, etc.

The Hausa and Mbororo women found in the North West Region of Cameroon migrated from Northern Nigeria alongside their male counterparts in the 18th and 19th centuries. By the early 20th century, they had arrived and settled in the North West Region. While the Hausa and Mbororo men were busy trading and grazing their animals, the women were more engaged with their household economy. Two types of families existed among the Hausa and Mbororo Communities, namely the nuclear and extended families.

The main purpose of the study is to find out the relationship between the big five personality traits namely, Neuroticism, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion and Openness and Organizational Commitment. For this purpose a sample size of 536 Executives who are working at a public sector power generating organization functioning in Tamil Nadu state is selected. Simple random sampling technique was used to select the samples. Big Five Personality inventory developed by John and Srivastava (1999); and Organizational Commitment developed by Meyer et al.

Objective: To analyze the social representations of elderly about the trip for long permanence Institutions. Methods: A descriptive and exploratory study, with a qualitative approach, carried out in three Long permanence Institutions in Bahia, with 31 elderly, aged 60 and over, of both sexes. Research instruments comprised the Mini-Mental State Examination, a sociodemographic questionnaire, a semi-structured interview. In order to perform the analysis and the results interpretation, we used the Bardin.

Introduction: Obesity in childhood is a major risk factor for atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease in adulthood. Carotid intima media thickness (CIMT) is found to be an excellent marker of pre clinical atherosclerosis. Objective: To evaluate the association of carotid artery intima media thickness with obesity and fasting lipid profile in children aged between 10 to 15years. Methods: 130 school children aged between 10 to 15 years from three different schools of Mysuru city were selected, based on convenience sampling.

Female circumcision or female genital mutilation (FGM) as is often called is practiced globally in all continents with over 100 women and girls at risk with the majority in Africa. FGM continues to be practiced in many countries and regions associated with religious, cleanliness, acceptance into adulthood, uphold virginity, controls sexuality, increases fertility, preserving culture and other socio- economic factors. Despite its severe consequences (mental, physical, health and right violation issues) and severe pain, hemorrhage. Shock, death.