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Yu-Cheng Lai ¹, Santanu Sarkar ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Finance, Shih Chien University Kaohsiung Campus, Neimen Shiang, Kaohsiung 845, TAIWAN, CN
2 Department of PM&IR, School of Business and Human Resources, XLRI Jamshedpur 831001, IN

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This study measures the effect of labour cost on foreign direct investment in India and finds out whether the foreign owned firms pay higher wages than their domestic counterparts. The estimation has been done by the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) technique. Data suggest that after controlling the output, the lower average wage attracts foreign investment in a firm implying that India enjoys comparative advantages of low labour cost which enables her to lead in product competition globally. Second, Indian firms will have efficiency wage to encourage employees to produce higher output. In addition, the foreign owned firms in India pay higher wages than their domestic counterparts. The firms with higher ratio of foreign ownership pay more wages than the firms having lower ratio.

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Santanu Sarkar ¹

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1 School of Business and Human Resources, XLRI Jamshedpur 831001, IN

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This paper looks at the trends in outsourcing industry in India visa- vis the role played by the industry related factors in rebuffing (or accepting) unionization of its workers. The examination is based on the review of extant literature on working and employment conditions of BPO-ITeS and call centre employees. The paper highlights the role of key policy actors in the external environment and internal (organizational or contextual and individual) dispositions that were instrumental in the failure of the unionization effort in the beginning. It shows the significant impact of the competitive pressures in the changing nature of employee relations in Indian BPO-ITeS industry.

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Santanu Sarkar ¹

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1 School of Business & Human Resources, XLRI Jamshedpur 831001, IN

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Lai Yu-Cheng ¹, Santanu Sarkar ²

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1 Department of Finance, Shih Chien University Kaohsiung Neimen Shiang, Kaohsiung-845, TW
2 XLRI , Jamshedpur-831001, IN

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Since trade liberalization in 1991, foreign firms in large numbers came to invest in India. It may cause wage increases in foreign owned firms leading to wage spillover effects within the industry. This paper investigates the relationship between wage dispersion and output of firms belonging to industry sectors with high foreign investment in India. It was found that the current wage dispersion may have a stronger significant effect on the decreasing current output. The low paying firms in industry sector with high foreign investment however will generate more output in the next year compared to those in other industry sectors.

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Santanu Sarkar ¹

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1 Xavier School of Management, C H Area (East), Jamshedpur-831001, IN

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From a review of more than 200 court rulings delivered by the Supreme Court and different High Courts in India over six decades since 1950, the author establishes a relationship between India’s changing economic and related labor policies and the judicial pronouncements by the courts over a fairly long time. Effect of the changing economic policies on judicial pronouncements on impugned discharge/dismissal made under the Industrial Disputes Act of 1947 was examined and it was found that the statute did not change to the extent as did its interpretations by the courts. It is disputable whether the change in judicial interpretation could be completely attributed to the transforming economic policies.

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Santanu Sarkar ¹, Aashish Singh ²

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1 XLRI Jamshedpur, Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur 831001, IN
2 Minton Consulting Pvt.Ltd., Hyderabad, 500081, IN

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In this paper, the authors narrate the experiences of union and management in six months long wage negotiations to explain if the factors that trigger a type of behavior displayed by parties across table are predictable and guided by sheer rationality. The narrative suggests that most behaviors displayed by parties, strategies adopted, tactics used and roles chosen were within the limits of rationality with very few exceptions. While we are aware of the determinants of the negotiated outcome that exists in extant literature, it is much needed to check if the behavioral manifestations that appear are truly unreasonable or falsely portrayed as irrational to reduce predictability of party’s demand or offer in subsequent rounds.

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Yu-Cheng Lai ¹, Santanu Sarkar ²

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1 Department of Finance, Shih Chien University, Kaohsiung Campus,372 Minchuing Second Road, Kaohsiung 806, TW
2 XLRI Jamshedpur, School of Business and Human Resources,Jamshedpur 831001, IN

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This study shows that educated labor is an important factor for output spill over and the sectors or firms in Taiwan with higher percentage of educated workforce have exerted a greater pull on foreign investment, whereas the local Taiwanese firms with higher percentage of educated workforce were unlikely to invest abroad. It was found that initially both foreign and domestic firms have reduced their investments when government introduced new legislations to regulate working conditions and employment practices in Taiwan. But when the government continued introducing more stringent labor standards, the country witnessed an upsurge in inflows of investment over a period of time and the domestic firms began investing abroad instead of concentrating in the home country.

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Ayan Sarkar ¹, Santanu Sarkar ¹, Nripen MondaL ¹, Md Naim Hossain ¹

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1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jalpaiguri Govt. Engineering College, Jalpaiguri - 735102, IN

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Understanding the movement techniques of a fish in water has numerous applications far outside of biology. Biological propulsion has evolved over millions of years into a finely refined, efficient system of locomotion which cannot be matched by any technique developed by man. Thus leaving man no other options but studying the techniques engineered by nature itself. The objective of the paper is to study the motion of a fish in an open channel flow by CFD analysis of a fish under laminar flow conditions. The different step of fish positions was created by surface modelling in a CAD platform Solidworks 15.0 to study its movements. The purpose of this simulation was to learn the performance and usability of a method of surface model analysis based CFD. A CFD tool ANSYS Fluent version 16.2 was used to do the finite volume analysis of the fish models. The analysis is done on the fish profile over a square domain by creating mesh ANSYS Fluent itself. The analysis was done to study the pressure and velocity gradients generated at different points of the fish contour which aid the fish movement in an upstream condition. The lift and drag co-efficient are obtained after the analysis. The result shows how the fish produce thrust by moving its body parts in rhythmic manner.

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Fish Movement, CFD Analysis, 2D Model, Laminar Flow Condition.

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Santanu Sarkar ¹

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1 Professor of HRM, XLRI Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, 831001, IN

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This paper critically analyzes the provisions of the Code on Wages of 2019 to identify the differences between the Code and the existing legislations on regulating wages and unveil the truth versus hype with respect to the ‘propaganda’ around the Code and its efficient enforcement by the state machinery. True, the Code has simplified while consolidating the four existing wage legislations, there are numerous shortcomings in the Code that need to be addressed once it gets enforced. The paper highlights several fallacies, from having two different sets of beneficiaries, two meanings of the term wage, different benefits applicable to different sets of beneficiaries, retaining thresholds for eligibility, and criteria for determining wages.

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