Practicalimplications:Corporate leaders striving to achieve the organization's environmental sustainability goals could strive to build a pro-environment culture at the workplace by developing employees' mindfulness and sense of CNS. As the findings have depicted, this would positively influence employee's VPEB at the workplace which in turn will help organizations in achieving their environmental sustainability goals.
With relative changes happening in the area of brand engagement and changing perceptions about brand in the minds of consumers, it has become important for marketers to understand the reactions happening in the market. To understand this change reaction, a new tool called social media has been experienced and experimented by many marketers. Market has made companies witness a lot of activities getting executed everyday which are specific to brand. Circumstances become adverse when social platforms do not entertain brands getting marketed through them. In this review work, we shall get an insight of various challenges faced by marketers while establishing engagements between brands and consumers over social media platforms. Methodology: Secondary literature review on the available papers pertaining to brand engagements and social media has been done. Apart from this, certain articles and journals have been referred to make the work more useful. Findings: Even with the change of time consumers have only shown interests over sales campaigns and hence marketers have no choice left but to entertain existing customers over social media. Acquiring new customer is a far way ahead to be executed via social media. Practical Implications: Marketers have still not used social media, the way and in the manner it can provide opportunities for long term benefits. Their attraction towards social media has only made them look and aim at short term gains.
India is one of the most rapidly developing countries in the world. It is witnessing growing industrialization and thus development. Such rapid development needs energy to progress, which further makes India an energy hungry nation. Currently India depends mainly upon fossil fuels and thus has to pay a huge bill at the end of every contractual period. These bills can be shortened and the expenditures brought down by using and exploiting non-conventional sources of energy. India holds a huge potential for such non-conventional sources of energy. The rapid development of India is not just pressing hard upon its resources but forcing expenditures on the same. There are also some neglected side effects of this development process like, generation of waste. A population of 1.2 billion is generating 0.5 kg per person every day. This, sums up to a huge pile of waste, which is mostly landfilled in the most unhygienic manner possible. Such unmanaged waste not only eats up resources but demands expenditure as well. This can lead to the downfall of an economy and degradation of the nation.Thus, the paper presents waste to energy as a solution to both the problems stated above, using which not only can we reduce the amount of waste, but also produce energy from the same, thus achieving our goal of waste management as well as energy security. The paper presents the current status, major achievements and future aspects of waste to energy in India which will help decision makers, planners and bodies involved in the management of municipal solid waste understand the current status challenges and barriers of MSWM in India for further better planning and management.
This paper outline the business viability of Distributed or Stand-alone hybrid power system consisting of Biomass and Diesel versus Traditional Top down grid connected solar power generation. The environment considered in this paper is for RE. It emphasizes and recommends the use of localized renewable hybrid power generation system in order to ascertain a reliable and self-sufficient system. The localized renewable system also positively influences the macro economic conditions of area by way of optimization of the components size and the capital investment. The main power source of the energy system is considered as biomass generator and suitable supported by Diesel Generators. The NREL HOMER package is used for optimization realization. The Business viability of Stand-alone hybrid power system consisting of Biomass and Diesel versus Traditional Top down grid connected solar power is done on the basis of Net per unit revenue collected post factoring Transmission, distribution, billing and collection inefficiencies.
In many developing countries, the electricity system is too weak to meet growing demand. The availability and reliability of generating capacity is also in short supply. Political interference, subsidized pricing, and corruption weaken the ability of developing countries like India electricity supply system, to finance and deliver service or attract new private investment. Electricity theft can be in various forms of frauds like meter tampering, stealing with illegal connections, billing irregularities, and unpaid bills. This work deals with power economics, policy, regulations and reforms. Random sampling with personal interviews was to be done for primary data collection from domestic users, industrial users, media and power distribution agencies. One more survey for Technology Feasibility of power system has to be done with personal interviews from generation, transmission and distribution units of Electricity system in Kanpur city. A comparative analysis to compare investment in DG versus a large-scale generator in the presence of uncertain demand growth has to be done. Net Present Cost, Cost of Energy, Break even Grid Distance are the three most important output variables of the analysis. The survey data shows that a huge amount of improvement needs in Energy system. This electricity system can be improved by applying technical solutions such as tamper-proof meters, various managerial methods such as inspection and monitoring of distribution system, and in some cases restructuring power systems ownership and regulation.
Over the years the general insurance companies have been undertaking extensive risk management activities to safe guard the investor as well as investment. In the present day scenario the two aspects which are of great importance to the general insurance industry are firstly the opportunities in the Indian general insurance market and the resulting focus of players on achieving business growth and secondly the ongoing process of calibrated de-tariffing. Though de-tariffing has provided players with significant opportunities in tapping markets and in coming times may result into providing even more opportunities, it has placed the onus of correct pricing on the players themselves. This has resulted in players preparing and emphasizing more on identifying risk parameters and pricing products based on risks. The players under the immediate response to the pressure of a free market scenario, has dropped the rates even in hitherto non-profitable businesses. An efficient risk assessment and management in general insurance industry lays great emphasis due to entry of private players, corresponding policy changes and the present day fact of unprofitable books, erosion of capital resulting from unmanageable claim ratios.
A fact that the grievance redressal complaints of general insurance claims are three times as that of life insurance claims endorses the requirement of a retrospection of claims behaviour of the general insurers in order to minimize the operating losses and ensure operational excellence. Approach: Study of variance and factor analysis has been undertaken for achieving the objective of identifying the factors which govern the claims in general insurance business. In order to understand the dependency of claims over the sectors and segments, statistical hypothesis testing along with cross tab analysis has been conducted. The study also evaluates the relationship of these factors over the sectors and segments by running a multiple regression. Findings: An empirical result of the study proves that there exists an association between the type of sectors i.e. public & private and segments of insurance namely fire, marine and miscellaneous. The study also suggests a claim projection model for the general insurance players. Research limitations: Exclusion of specialized players due to the reason being new entrants and in order to maintain the common parlance of sectors may be a limitation to the study. Value: The study recommends that the insurance players should not treat the claims settlement strategies in isolation of segments. The claims projection model as suggested in the study may prove to be extremely helpful in projecting the claims and in turn reduce the increasing underwriting losses.
Microalgae are receiving increasing attention worldwide as an alternative and renewable source for energy production. Through various conversion processes, microalgae can be used to produce many different kinds of biofuels, which include biodiesel, bio-syngas, bio-oil, bio-ethanol, and bio-hydrogen. However, large scale production of microalgal biofuels, via many available conversion techniques, faces a number of technical challenges which have made the current growth and development of the algal biofuel industry economically unviable. Therefore, in addition to algae culture and growth, it is also essential to develop cost-effective technologies for efficient biomass harvesting, lipid extraction and biofuels production. This review aims to collate and present an overview of current harvesting, oil extraction and biofuels production technologies from microalgae. Since much of the current studies on oil extraction are focused on biodiesel production from microalga, this study, apart from discussing the various biodiesel production techniques in the later sections, has also done a detailed discussion on the production techniques of other biofuels.
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