Journal of Social Welfare and Management

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At the global level the per capita food production has gone up in all countries with the industrialized countries on the lead. However, the low nutritional status remained major problem particularly among the rural population. The low nutritional status of the rural population is to be viewed as the problem of poor quality of food intake due to low literacy and lack of awareness. Due to Green Revolution the food grains production is increased. The consumption of rice in Andhra Pradesh is higher than All India. Bajra and maize are also less consumed in Andhra Pradesh. The consumption of the major cereals declined at both State level and All India level over a period of time. The consumption of bajra and maize per person has also noticeable decline in rural areas over the period. The smaller cereal items such as barley, maize and tapioca, recorded larger declines in rural areas over this period. 

Human resource management is the process of bringing people and organizations together so that the goals of each are met. It tries to secure the best from people by winning their wholehearted cooperation. In short, it may be defined as the art of procuring, developing and maintaining competent workforce to achieve the goals of an Organization in an effective and efficient manner.HRM is a strategic approach to the acquisition, motivation, development and management of the organization’s human resources. It is a specialized field that attempts to develop an appropriate corporate culture, and introducing programmes which reflect and support the core values to the enterprise and ensure its success.Thus, According to Flippo, human resource management is “the planning, organizing, directing and controlling of the procurement, development, compensation, integration, maintenance and reproduction of human resources to the end that individual, organizational and societal objectives are accomplished.” Cloud computing refers to the delivery of computing and storage capacity as a service to a heterogeneous community of end-recipients. The name comes from the use of a cloud-shaped symbol as an abstraction for the complex infrastructure it contains in system diagrams. Cloud computing entrusts services with a user’s data, software and computation over a network. 

Keywords: Strategic human resource management; objectives and functions of SHRM; Importance of Cloud Computing. 

Development is a value-laden concept that improves socio-cultural, economic, material and non-material well being of the society. Though women constitute half of any country’s human endowment, they are exploited in every walk of life. Our country is engaged in planned development programs for women since long. Still we have failed in achieving the desired goals. Without making women aware of their rights and duties, no plan of development can really succeed. It is here that the role of mass media becomes important for the development process. Therefore the present study examines the role of mass media involved in development of Maharashtrian women of Pune. Purposive sampling method of data collection was used. In the present study, more than half of the respondents under study read newspaper, are interested in knowing about the different happenings all over the world whether literate or illiterate that is a significant change. Almost all respondents watched T.V. regularly for news, health, knowledge, cookery, comedy and serials but argued that technology has its positive and negative sides. Almost all watched movies and li In the present Study more tthan half of the respondents under study read newspaper are intrested in knowing about the diffrent happenings all over the world whether the litterate or illetrate that is a significant change almost all represents watwatched T.V. regularly for newa health knowledge cookery comedy and serials but argued that technology has its positive and negatives sides almost all newspaper areintIntrested in knowing about the diffrent happenings all over the litterate health knowledge cookery comedy and serials butked family oriented or educational movies with a social message. Some felt thatT.V. was helping in creating awareness among women in some areas of social problems like dowry. Nearly half of them used computers for getting information, storing data, communication purpose; but felt that due to internet students are losing interest in reading books. So though media is playing an important role in creating awareness for development of women, nearly half of them felt that T.V. is not helping in liberating the women from the shackles of customs. More than half felt that T.V. has been useful in removal of caste consciousness only up to certain extent. While the process of change has started more needs to be done on the media front. 

Key words: Women’s development; role of Mass Media; newspaper; T.V programs; movies; computers and internet.

Background and purpose: Self-esteem is an important quality and a personality trait or an attribute that is considered as a specific requirement for Healthcare professionals (HCP) during their encounters with patients/caregivers, healthcare team members and hospital management. The objective of this study was to evaluate self-esteem among first-year nursing students. Materials and methods: A cross-sectional study was performed on 44 nursing students (5 male, 39 female) from two educational institutions who were recruited on convenient sampling. The survey instrument used in this study was Rosenberg’s self-esteem scale (RSES) which was a 10-item self-report (4-point Likert) measure of global self-esteem. The factor-1 score of sum of five positive statements were termed as self-enhancement and the factor-2 score of five negative statements as self-derogation.Descriptive analysis was done using frequencies for each of the items and item-responses of the RSES and study participants’ demographic variables. Comparison of total scores and factor scores between institutions, age, gender and religion were done using independent t-test or one-way analysis of variance as applicable. All analyses were done at 95% confidence interval using Statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 16.0 for Windows.Results: Overall RSES total score was 14.25 ± 2.12 indicating that self-esteem levels were low. 23 (52.3%) students had low self-esteem and 21 (47.7%) students reported normal self-esteem. Overall factor-1 score was 8.56 ± 1.35 (57.12 ± 9.02%) and factor-2 score was 5.68 ± 1.34 (37.88 ± 8.95%). Students from institute-1 and femalegender had significantly (p<.05) higher scores of factor-2. Other comparisons of age and religion were not significant (p>.05). Conclusion: Overall levels of self-esteem were low in the study sample of nursing students. Institution and gender played an important role for self-derogation scores but not the age or religion.

Keywords: Self-esteem; Self-concept; Nursing profession; Nursing education; Personality development.