Journal of Applied Management and Advanced Research (JAMAR)

In recent times especially from 1990s the strategic goals of the organisation have evolved a relationship with HRM practices adding strategic perspective to human resource management. Organisations have begun to recognise the potential of human resource as invaluable assets in providing competitive advantage. Strategic Human Resource Management sets the attention on quite a few matters concerning the association of HRM with strategic objectives of the firm, integrating HRM in the overall strategic management process, the value additions to firm performance by HRM, the inclusion of HR department in top management, the assimilation of line managers with human resource management practices and assuming tactical approach to recruitment, appraisal and reward. This study has been conducted to review the relevance of Strategic Human Resource Management practices in particular life insurance companies.

As the mutual fund industry has grown intensely over the past decades, numerous questions have arisen about the nature of operations and the fund characteristics affecting their performance. With the growing popularity and trend of investment in a mutual fund, investors need to know the fund attributes affecting their performance before making investment decisions. The performance evaluation process helps investors know more about the funds and their performance. This research paper generates knowledge of the Indian mutual fund industry with the characteristics-based framework. It attempts to study the performance evaluation of equity-linked savings schemes (ELSS) under equity funds against NIFTY 50 as the benchmark. The funds' daily returns and index returns are collected for all the 39 open-ended ELSS mutual funds listed on AMFI for the years 2010-2020. The study benefits fund managers and investors by highlighting the significance of characteristics influencing the fund performance. The study employs pooled time-series and cross-sectional regression analysis to investigate the relationship between a fund's risk-adjusted return and specific fund attributes. It focuses on various fund attributes such as fund size, expense ratio, age, turnover, and liquidity. The robustness of the results is checked under residual diagnostics. Results show the importance of performance persistence in the ELSS mutual funds.

Women are the foundation of society. As a long-term solution to a sustainable livelihood, they become even more important. The goal of women's entrepreneurship through empowerment is to develop human resources in the productive sector and to sustain the development process. Kerala is the only state in India that has achieved a remarkable status by meeting all of the criteria for various social well-being in comparison to some of the world's most developed countries, and is called the 'Kerala model of development.' This achievement indicates women's equality with men in terms of literacy, employment salary or compensation structure, and technical and professional services, it means that after implementing this Model in Kerala we can see many developments in the society. The objective of the research paper is to understand the standard of living of farmers in Nitte Gram Panchayath, to check the practical applicability of the Kudumbashree model of women empowerment in Nitte Gram Panchayath, adoption of collective farming in the Panchayath area, to check the need for setting microcredits through self-help groups in the locality, and to check the social and economic status of women. Here, it is tried to study the reasons for low productivity in agricultural activities and low employment of women in agriculture in the Nitte Gram Panchayath area. High labor costs, lack of initial investment, Natural calamities like floods and droughts, Lack of interest, and inability to take back at least the initial investment due to various factors are the common problems faced by the farmers in the locality. It is assumed that proper  employment of women in agricultural activities would help the farmers to find solutions to some problems and would increase the profits and productivity. Here it is the very purpose with which this research is held.