PARIVRIDDHI 2018
A National Referred Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies
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Dr. Mohan Manghnani, Chairman, NHEI, Bangalore, India.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF:
Dr. R. Bodhisatvan, Principal, New Horizon College Marathalli, Bangalore, India.
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Mr. Nagaraju Kilari, Head of the Department, BCA, New Horizon College, Marathalli, Bangalore,
India.
Dr. Bhavani Akkapeddi, An alumnus from the Department of Economics, University of Hyderabad,
India.
Dr. Pauline Mariasundaram, HOD & Professor of SEACET, Bangalore, India.
Dr. Jayasheela, Faculty, JNT University, Hyderabad and Research Associative in South India
‘Management Teachers- Consortium Global’, Bangalore, India.
Dr. A R Sainath, Faculty at the Department of Management Studies, New Horizon College of
Engineering. Bangalore, India.
Dr. V Vinothina, Doctorate from Bharathiar University, Specialized at cloud computing.
Dr. Sheelan Misra, Professor & Head of the Department of Management Studies, India.
Dr. G Sabitha, Faculty, Osmania University Hyderabad, India.
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Mr. Nagaraju Kilari, Head of the department, BCA, New Horizon College, Marathalli, Bangalore,
India.
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Ms. Prasanna Prakash, IQAC coordinator, New Horizon College, Marathalli, Bangalore, India.
Ms. Sowmya J, Head of the Department, BBA, New Horizon College, Marathalli, Bangalore, India.
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Bangalore, India.
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PARIVRIDDHI
A National Referred Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies
It gives me immense pleasure to write about our journal Parivriddhi which is successively
concretising the research acumen of the aspiring researchers. I am sure in due course of time,
Parivriddhi will make its own space in the field of research and make its presence felt
through the discourses that its scholarly papers would initiate and reconstruct invocating new
processes of thoughts across the academia and young learners.
Growth and development is an inevitable part of a society which hosts enthusiastic learners
and dedicated investigators who rigorously invest their time and utilise their knowledge with
the aim to change their surroundings and enhance the competency for survival and
sustainability. Dissemination of knowledge for constructive purposes of the society and the
nation at large was envisioned by the leaders of the nation when we won freedom and
subsequently when the cause of education was formalised through the establishment of
educational institutions necessitating the inclusion of various disciplines in their curricula.
Such institutions were entitled with the burden of shouldering responsibilities through
academic interventions by people with strong knowledge bases and their abilities best
manifested in the form of research widening the scopes for improvement in all the disciplines
as the nation looked forward to prosperity through holistic growth. Issues and concerns which
are so intricately woven in any society need to be approached and resolved with multiple
strategies for a justified growth making further ways for sustainable India.
Parivriddhi being a national journal would endeavour to publish and express the issues and
concerns of the people of our country further lending audibility to the scopes wherein work is
needed or work can be continued for a better change of the society and the nation at large.
DR. R. BODHISATVAN
PRINCIPAL NHC-M
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
CONTENTS
Slno Title and Author(s) Page No.
1. PEOPLE ANALYTICS – AN EXPLORATORY CASE STUDY
ANALYSIS OF SELECT IT FIRMS IN BANGALORE
- Dr. Radha R
1-13
2. A STUDY ON VIABILITY OF BITCOIN IN INDIAN
FINANCIAL MARKET
- G. Arun Prakash
14-20
3. DISSECTING THE FIBERS OF CROWDFUNDING
- Rachel Donald & Princy Jose
21-33
4. A STUDY ON AWARENESS AND CONSUMER
PERCEPTION ON ADOPTION OF DIGITAL WALLET IN
INDIA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO BENGALURU
CITY
- Ayesha Samreen & Sharanya Murthy
34-49
5. EFFECTIVENESS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN
EASING THE BENGALURU TRAFFIC MESS WITH SMART
TRAFFIC SIGNALS
- Aman Saha
50-58
6. FORENSIC ACCOUNTING – TOOL FOR FRAUD
DETECTION IN INDIAN BANKS
- Dr. Priyanka Arora, Ms UmeraKauser
59-74
7. WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IN IT SECTORS
- Jyothi T
75-79
8. A NOVEL VOICE-BASED REAL-TIME MEDICAL
DIAGNOSTIC AND TRANSCRIPTION SYSTEM (RTMDTS) FOR
REMOTE AREAS
- Neha Yalamanchi & Sachin V
80-86
9. PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF PEOPLE ANALYTICS
- Farzana M Pathan, Sumangala Talur
87-95
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PEOPLE ANALYTICS – AN EXPLORATORY CASE STUDY
ANALYSIS OF SELECT IT FIRMS IN BANGALORE Dr. RADHA.R1
ABSTRACT
The use of analytics in HR is growing with organizations aggressively building people
analytics teams, buying analytics softwares, and developing analytics solutions. HR having
moved from cost model to an investment model now has the chance to demonstrate ROI on its
analytics efforts, helping to make the case for further investment in people. Businesses have
recognized that they need data to figure out what makes people join their organisations,
perform well, and stay with the organization with loyalty. They also would like to predict who
will likely be successful; who will make the best leaders; and what is required to deliver the
highest-quality customer service and innovation. All of this can be directly informed by
people analytics to the organisation. Understanding the value delivered by people analytics,
organisations are focusing on using analytics to capture, analyse data and draw meaningful
interpretations and conclusion from these data. Google is the pioneer in using people
analytics and the HR of Google reports increase in productivity and retention of employees
and attribute the reason as use of people analytics.
This research focuses on people analytics at Google as a case study. Keeping the case of
Google as a basis, this research was conducted in select IT firms in Bangalore which use
People Analytics. People analytics used at the time of Exit interviews have been taken up for
research. Primary data was collected with the help of structured questionnaires. The findings
of the study have been presented in the form of graphs and a detailed discussion.
KEY WORDS: People or HR Analytics, Google, Structured Questionnaire, Exit Interviews
INTRODUCTION
“In God we trust, all others must bring data” - W.Edwards Deming. The use of technology
has been steadily increasing in majority of the industries and therefore analytics is gaining
prominence to use the huge volume of data generated and collected by these industries and
right now we are in the cusp of a huge analytics revolution. Organisations of today have
realised that they need big data to understand the business landscape, interpret data to make
right and meaningful decisions.
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Dr. Radha.R is a Professor & Program Head at Ramaiah Institute of Management
Studies/Sciences, [email protected]
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They have recognized the need for data to figure out what makes people join their
organisations, perform well, and stay with an organization without being enamoured by the
temptations thrown by other competitors. Big data analysis also helps the organisations in
making predictions regarding who will likely be successful, who will make the best leaders
and what is required to deliver the highest-quality customer service and innovation. All of
this can be directly informed by people analytics and the HR can make informed decisions
based on the choices thrown open by people analytics. Companies are hiring people analytics
staff, cleaning up their data, and developing models that help transform their businesses in
leaps and bounds. People analytics are widely used by companies to detect the flight risk of
employees, discover high performance candidates and predict engagement of the employees.
NEED FOR THE RESEARCH
A recent survey has found out that people analytics based predictive models have increased
from 4% to 8% and only 32% of the company’s world over is ready to completely embrace
people analytics. This was a startling piece of statistics and therefore this research was
conducted in select IT companies in Bangalore to find out how many of them use people
analytics and how ready these companies are to use predictive models of people analytics.
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
In his book Work Rules! (2015), Laszlo Bock, Senior Vice President of People Operations at
Google, writes that the most important instrument of Google’s People Operations is statistics.
He attributes that by using this predictive people analytics Google is able to hire committed
people and retain them in the organisation. He further states that the predictive analysis also
helps Google to identify high performance candidates.
A 2012 study revealed that it is possible to predict someone’s personality and future work
performance based on their Facebook profile (Kluemper, Rosen &Mossholder, 2012). In this
study, a number of participants gave hirability ratings based on Facebook profiles. These
ratings predicted 8% of manager-rated job performance for these people.
In 2011, two scientists at HP combined data of the previous two years and attempted to
predict who would leave the organization. By using predictive models, they generated what
they called a “Flight Risk” score. This score predicted the likelihood of leaving of each of
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HP’s 300,000+ employees.According to Siegel (2013), HP was able to save an estimated
$300 million by applying HR predictive analysis in HR to calculate this flight risk.
A case-study published by Cornerstone (2015) studied the impact of toxic employees on the
workplace. Toxic employees are employees who are most likely to engage in toxic behaviour.
By using predictive analytics Cornerstone was able to list out the characteristics of toxic
employees and provide clues to the organisation regarding recruitment of these employees.
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
• To study about the awareness of People analytics in select IT organisations in
Bangalore
• To focus on the usage of people analytics techniques specifically for exit interviews
and also analyse the extent to which predictive models have helped these
organisations
RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS
• “Predictive Models by People Analytics pave way for better prediction and prepare
the organisations for futuristic people management”.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This is exploratory research and the basis for the entire research is the case of GOOGLE.
The study was conducted using both case study methodology and descriptive type of
methodology. The study depended on both primary and secondary data. A pilot study was
conducted to validate the questionnaire and to confirm the feasibility of the study. The
value determined was 0.914 proving the reliability of the instrument. The variables
considered for the analysis were satisfying the normal probability distribution. Based on the
pilot study, the questionnaire was modified to elicit response from the sample group.
SAMPLING SIZE AND DESIGN
The primary data was collected using well formulated questionnaire. Random Sampling
technique was used. Employees of HR department from IT industry were considered and
the response from 460 questionnaires were further analysed. The basis for the entire study
was the write up on Google about People Analytics at Google. After the HR employees read
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the case of Google, the structured questionnaire was distributed to them and their response
was collected. Functions of HR on which analytics can be used include recruitment,
selection, compensation, performance appraisal till exit interviews. The focus of this study
was on use of analytics for analyzing “Separation” of employees.
The variables in people analytics used in the questionnaire related to employees leaving the
organisation, known as “separation type”, had 6 possibilities:
• Retirement: retirement reasons.
• Termination: dismissal reasons.
• Transfer: moving to another Company.
• Retrenchment/Redundancy: budget cuts’ reasons or company resizing/downsizing.
• Contract Expired: contract expired reasons.
• Resignation: voluntarily quitting.
The following write up was distributed as the case study.
“PEOPLE ANALYTICS AT GOOGLE”
“Google is the pioneering organisation using analytical, data-driven approach to its HR
system. The technology company prides itself on its ‘people analytics’ – a mix of
quantitative and qualitative data analysis that combines hard numbers with human feedback.
The company builds up employee engagement based on the feedback from employees and
the employee survey participation rate is always over 90%”
Project OXYGEN uses a mix of productivity data and employee feedback to predict the
behaviour of the employees. Productivity Metrics were calculated to determine the impact of
different leadership styles on employee engagement and productivity. From this, Google was
able to create the ‘Oxygen Eight Behaviors for Great Managers’ and used it to train and select
its company leaders. This is a process that can be easily adopted by other companies for
improving leadership skills, team cohesiveness, employee engagement and productivity.
In Project ARISTOTLE, the people analytics strategy was applied to entire teams in the
company, determining which teams was the most effective. The combination of hard data
with human experience allowed for analysis that went beyond performance statistics to assess
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team leadership, cohesion and other qualitative factors that helped certain teams outperform
others.
GOOGLE has been using People Analytics for increasing performance and improving
organisational performance. Is your organisation using PEOPLE ANALYTICS?
Why only EXIT INTERVIEWS were considered?
Companies invest huge amount of money for recruitment, selection, training, development
and maintenance of employees in the workplace. The intention of the company while making
the investment in people is that the employees will be there for a long haul. But, if the
employees decide to quit, the companies should know the reasons for employee exit. These
interviews conducted at the time of employees leaving the organisation are known as Exit
Interviews. If the companies know the reasons for the exit of the employees, they can address
the problems at least in future. Exit interviews provide valuable feedback to the organisation
because the exiting employee will have no qualms in honestly listing all the problems he
faced and he may also provide valuable pointers towards anomalies in the organisation.
Exit interviews focus on three key issues: why the employees are leaving, what they liked
about the company and what they didn’t like about the company. In this research the
focus was only on exit interviews and the structured questionnaire included questions on
• Personal profile of the employee including age and gender
• Job position held by the employee, role, responsibilities
• Tenure of the employee and his /her experiences in the Workplace
• About the organisation, his/her terms of employment and his grouse regarding
terms of employment
• Orientation and Reasons for leaving the organisation
VARIABLE ANALYSIS: The following are the number of respondents who have stated the
various reasons for quitting the organisation during the exit interviews
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Table 1 – Reasons for Employees quitting the Organisation
Particulars No. of Respondents Percentage
Resignation 290 63%
Retrenchment 79 17%
Retirement 45 10%
Transfer 35 7%
Termination 11 3%
Total 460 100%
Source: Primary Data
Reasons for Employees quitting the Organisation
The main reason stated by the employees for quitting the organisation was “Resignation” or
voluntarily quitting amongst 63% of the respondents. The next important reason for quitting
the organisation was retrenchment by the company and the reasons were general sluggishness
in the economy and the number of projects from western countries drying up. The other
reasons included retirement, termination and transfer to sister concerns. When the company
analyses this data, they are able to find out what is wrong and why the employees are leaving
the organisation. Once the reasons are known, proactive action can be taken by the
organisation to curb employees leaving the organisation.
Resignation63%
Retrenchment17%
Retirement10%
Transfer8%
Termination2%
Reasons for quitting
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Table 2 : Reasons for quitting based on the gender of the Employees
Particulars No. of Respondents Male Respondents Female Respondents
Resignation 290 210 80
Retrenchment 79 74 05
Retirement 45 38 07
Transfer 35 28 07
Termination 11 11 0
Total 460 361 99
Source: Primary Data
When people analytics was used to analyse separation type and its relationship to the gender
of the employees, the analysis has thrown open quite a lot of information which can help the
organisation during times of recruitment and selection. Resignation, retrenchment,
termination and transfer were high amongst the male employees whereas it was very less and
almost not significant amongst the female employees. Termination was not at all the reason
amongst the female employees. If the companies want to take this cue, female employees are
more dependable both in terms of retention as well as organisational citizenship behaviour.
210
74
38 2811
80
5 7 7 0
Resignation Retrenchment Retirement Transfer Termination
Reasons for Quitting based on the Gender of the Employees
Male Respondents Female Respondents
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Table 3: Reasons for quitting based on the age of the Employees
Age of the
Employees
Male Respondents Female Respondents
21-30 years 240 61
30-40 years 79 38
40-50 years 42 0
Above 50 years 0 0
Source : Primary Data
Analysis of data on quitting the organisation based on the age of the respondents has given a
lot of information and has thrown open a lot of facts which can help the organisations select
the right kind of candidates in the right age group. Data analysis has revealed that male
respondents in the age group of 21 to 30 years are prone to frequent quitting followed by the
age group of 30 to 40 years. Interestingly the data has revealed that compared to male
employees female employees in the same age group of 21 to 30 years had quit less
frequently. Interestingly, male employees quit less between 40 to 50 years. Both male and
female employees did not quit when they were above 50 years.
REASONS FOR EMPLOYEE RESIGNATIONS
Since the major separation of employees occurred due to employee resignations, further
analysis was done to find out the main reasons contributing towards the resignation of
employees. The results of the analysis is as follows
21-30 years 30-40 years 40-50 years Above 50 years
240
79 420
61
38
00
Response based on the Age
Female Respondents Male Respondents
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Table 4: Reasons for Resignation of Employees
Source : Primary Data
An analysis of the major reasons that pushed the employees to resign their jobs has revealed
that the most important reason is dissatisfaction with the employer. People analytics has
given the clue to the organisations that employee welfare should be considered as priority
because if that is done major resignations can be avoided. The next major reason is job
dissatisfaction. By adding more motivators on the job, making the job more challenging and
interesting can reduce the level of job dissatisfaction which in turn can reduce the percentage
of resignations.
2810
510
55
3045
55115
Others
Maternity
Career Change
Health
Too much travel
Dissatisfaction with Employer
Reasons for Resignation of Employees
No. of Respondents
Reasons for Resignation of Employees No. of Respondents
Dissatisfaction with Employer 115
Dissatisfaction with the Job 55
Too much travel 45
Decision to Study further 30
Health 05
Family/Personal 05
Career Change 10
Becoming an Entrepreneur 05
Maternity 10
Conflicts 08
Others 02
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Association between Employees quitting the organisation and lack of
induction/orientation and training
Statements Strongly
Agree
Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly
Disagree
I would not have quit the
Organisation if there was a proper
induction program
60 50 0 40 310
I did not feel connected to the
Organisation because I was not aware
of procedures, processes
245 130 0 50 35
I would have stayed in the
Organisation if there was adequate
training
355 65 0 50 20
Source : Primary Data
0 100 200 300 400
StronglyDisagree
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Strongly Agree
I would not have quit the Organisation if there was a proper induction programme
I would not have quit the Organisation if there was a proper…
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Source : Primary Data
Source: Primary Data
Analysis of association between employees quitting the organisation and the level of
induction/orientation has revealed that the employees did not feel that more or proper
induction would have made them stay back in the organisation. But, the employees felt that
proper training and adequate training would have made them more suitable for their job roles
and align better with the organization.
0 75 150 225 300
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Strongly Agree
I did not feel connected to the Organisation because I was not aware of procedures, processes
I did not feel connected to the Organisation because I was not aware ofprocedures, processes
0 100 200 300 400
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Strongly Agree
I would have stayed in the Organisation if there was adequate training
I would have stayed in the Organisation if there was adequate training
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FINDINGS AND SUGGESTIONS
People Analytics used by the IT organisations has thrown light on the following findings in
relation to “Separation of Employees”.
Employees in the age group of 21-30 years have a high flight risk. Therefore, the IT
organisations should ensure that they have loyalty plans and other incentive programs for
these employees to motivate them to stay in the organisation
Male employees have exhibited a tendency to quit the organisation when compared to the
female employees. Therefore, a further survey to read the minds of the male employees and
to ensure that they love their jobs and the workplace should be initiated.
The analysis has revealed that the induction and orientation programs have not been very
effective to stop the employees from quitting. Therefore, measures have to be taken by the
organisations to have sensible and meaningful induction programs to put the new employees
at ease and ensure that they fit well in to their jobs at the earliest.
It has been found out that the major reason for employee resignation has been dissatisfaction
with the employer and dissatisfaction with the job. To ensure that there is job satisfaction
intrinsic motivators have to be added to the job. A survey to find out the reasons for
dissatisfaction with the employer also has to be conducted.
CONCLUSION
The objective of this study is to show that use of people or HR analytics allow the analysis
and interpretation of a data set, in this case about employees’ exit interviews of IT
organizations, drawing conclusions that turn into effective actions. Although this case study
is focused on IT industry data set, people analytics can be used in any industry. HR analytics
can unlock the power of employees in an organisation, provide insight into the minds of the
employees and work for the retention strategies of the organisation.
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A STUDY ON VIABILITY OF BITCOIN IN INDIAN FINANCIAL
MARKET G. ARUN PRAKASH2
ABSTRACT
The way bitcoins come into existence about cryptocurrencies. In past few months, we are
observing a lot of controversy on the data structure of Bitcoin. So, “what’s bitcoin?” this is a
question arises in everyone mind. Bitcoin is cryptocurrency created as a reward for a process
known as mining. Mining is a process of adding deal records to public ledger of post-
transaction or blockchain to rest of the network as having place They can be exchanged for
other currencies, products, and services. which was created by an unknown person or group
of people under the designation Satoshi Nakamoto. So, what made it as a big controversy? It
was the value of bitcoin in the market is highly unstable. In 2010 1 bitcoin was around 5000
INR but in present 2018 its worth went more than 10 lakhs. Now we know why there is a big
fuss about bitcoin
KEYWORDS: Bitcoin, blockchain, cryptography, economy
INTRODUCTION
Bitcoin is a digital currency emitted through the process mining Bitcoins recent growth has
made the money a household name, the idea and technology behind the money has existed
since 2009. Bitcoin was shaped by a programmer, or group of programmers, calling
themselves Satoshi Nakamoto. No individual or group has ever come forward to claim
ownership for creating Bitcoin’s code or identified themselves as Nakamoto. In the original
paper explaining the currency, A Peer-To-Peer Electronic Payment System, Nakamoto
described the digital currency as a reward for mining.
Bitcoin Works person container usage bitcoins towards making expenditures to other
individuals or brokers without including a third-party, like banks, financial institution, for
authentication. As a replacement for, transactions are cleared and validated within the system
through the blockchain.
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2G. Arun Prakash as a student at the Department of Business Studies IFIM college,
Bangalore
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Bitcoin mining is the course of adding transaction deals to the public book of post-transaction
or blockchain to rest of the network as having a place. The blockchain is a public ledger that
records and publicly displays all bitcoin transactions that have been executed within the
Bitcoin system. A block is a permanent record of recent transactions. The blocks of recorded
data build upon each other to form the blockchain which dates all the way back to the first
bitcoin transaction.
The bitcoin transaction for transfer of value among wallets that gets comprised in the
blockchain. B-wallet keeps secret segment of data called has the private key, which remains
used toward sign dealings if mathematical resistant that they have come from the owner of
the wallet.
Bitcoin is an open software it refers that no company, no person & no country owns this
network. The system is peer to peer its users can transact directly without any third-party like
bank, credit card company.
LITERATURE REVIEW
BITCOIN: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto (the paper show
how bitcoin in the various way of the system). Role of Bitcoin on Economy Oct 2014
AnuSinghal it’s to oversee the impact on society with a special emphasis on Dubai. The
overall response is mixed towards different variables from various groups in the sample. This
paper highlights and deliberates the problems on both sides of bitcoin particularly in the
interest of monetary institutions and economists with a prospective alteration, with a request
of advanced technology, and revolt with a digital money. “Bitcoin” As Emerging Virtual
Currency and Its Related Impact on India July 2017 C.A. Pramod Kumar Pandey the
investigation overlooks at Bitcoins underlying technology blockchain& to evaluate its impact
in India. Bitcoins-A Global Perspective Indian Legal and Tax Considerations April 2015 by
Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) it displays the expressions of bitcoin in several countries.
Impact of Bitcoin as a World Currency A. Seetharaman the research sees the various
exchange rate & more views on bitcoin. Bitcoin: Implications for the Developing World Nov
25, 2015, by Makaria Krause the paper overlooks at all the legal cons. Bitcoin is likely to be
able to send and receive currency from wherever in the world at any given time.
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The worry about crossing limits, postponement for bank breaks or any other limitations on
transaction of b-money’s and B-walletPermits the operators to be in control of their dealings
assistance keep Bitcoin safe for the net & Brokers cannot charge extra fees on anything
without being noticed They need to convert with the customer before adding any charges.
Since personal information is kept concealed from prying eyes, Bitcoin protects against
identity robbery.Bitcoin wallet can be encrypted to ensure the safety of the wallet holder
Information is Translucent With the blockchain, all confirmed transactions are obtainable for
everyone to see, however, personal gen is hidden. Operators public address is what is visible;
however, Operators personal information is not knotted to this.Anyone can confirm
transactions in the blockchain.Bitcoin process cannot be operated by any person, organization
or government. it's due to Bitcoin being cryptographically secure. At Present, there is no fees
or low fees for Bitcoin payments. By transactions, operator’s strength includes fees to process
the transactions sooner. The higher the fee, the more important it gets within the net and the
earlier it gets processed. Digital money is a trade to help the commercial process dealings by
changing bitcoin for fiat currency. This services normally take low fees than PayPal or credit
card. Since B-wallet dealings can’t be upturned, do not convey with them personal
information, and are secure, wholesalers are protected from potential losses that might occur
from fraud. With B-wallet, brokers can do commercial where lawbreaking rates and fraud
rates may be high. it’s because bitcoin is extremely hard to cheat or scam anyone in Bitcoin
due to the public ledger, then known as the blockchain. b-wallet cannot be frozen like any
normal bank account or e-wallets critical situation it could be frozen by the higher authorities
because bitcoin cannot be frozen due to not having any central authority or any individual.
METHODOLOGY
The data used in the research is based on secondary data through articles, web pages, books,
investigation paper.
PRIMARY DATA: Oral Information through Tele interview from financial teacher & C.A
in Bangalore.
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OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
To realize the concept of bitcoin
To understand challenges created by bitcoin to the Indian economy
To analyse bitcoin’s fluctuating value in the market
THE WAYS TO GET BITCOIN
Obtaining bitcoins and learning to use the Bitcoin system is a comparatively upfront process.
The four important ways to obtain bitcoins include:
TRANSACTIONS: Persons and merchants can elect to obtain bitcoins as payment for goods
and services reduced or for peer-to-peer payment transfers.
DIGITAL CURRENCY EXCHANGES: A digital currency exchange functions in alike
fashion to outdated authorization currency exchanges, allowing individuals to buy and sell
bitcoins at the prevailing market rate. The exchange rate of bitcoins varies based on demand,
liquidity and various other market conditions.
MINING: Miners are the backbone of the Bitcoin ecosystem. They receive monetary
rewards in bitcoin for the services they provide for the network. This includes solving the
algorithms necessary to process transactions, Bitcoin mining is the process of adding
transaction deals to public ledger of post-transaction or blockchain to rest of the network as
having a place
BITCOIN ATM: B-ATM is a progressively popular solution for buying the digital currency
because of their convenience and simplicity. Creating a transaction at a bitcoin ATM is
straightforward. ATM users first verify their b-wallet by scanning a QR code on their
smartphone. Then insert cash into the ATM and succumb to complete the transaction. The
appropriate number of bitcoins are then transferred to their wallet based on the current
conversation rate
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FACTORS AFFECTING BITCOIN IN INDIA
LACK OF AWARENESS: Fact is several people are still unaware of digital currencies and
Bitcoin. Persons must be cultured about Bitcoin to be clever to apply it to their lives.
Schmoozing is a must to spread the word on Bitcoin. Trades are accepting bitcoins because of
the advantages, but the list is relatively insignificant compared to physical currencies.
Companies like TigerDirect and Overstock Compliant Bitcoin as payment is great. However,
if they do not have a well-informed staff that comprehends digital currencies, how will they
help customers comprehend and use Bitcoin for transactions? The workers essential to be
educated on Bitcoin so that they can help the clientele. This will take some time and effort.
Sources:http://proxy.markets.businessinsider.com/cst/MarketsInsiderV2/Share/chart.aspx?ins
truments=300011,675,149,333&style=intraday_index_colortripleblau_early&period=OneYea
r&timezone=Eastern%20Standard%20Time&height=90&width=149
RISK AND VOLATILITY ORFLUCTUATING IN VALUE: Bitcoin has volatility
mostly since there is a limited quantity of coins and the demand for them rises by each
passing day. However, it is expected that the volatility will decrease as more time goes on.
By way of more businesses, media, and trading centres begin to accept Bitcoin, its’ price will
eventually settle depressed. Currently, Bitcoin’s price bounces every day mainly due to
current events that are related to digital money.
STILL DEVELOPING: Bitcoin is still at its beginning stage with incomplete features that
are in development. To make the digital currency more secure then accessible, new features,
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tools, and services are currently being developed. Bitcoin has some development to do before
it comes to its full and last potential. This is due Bitcoin remains just preliminary out then it
needs to work available its challenges just like how any currency in its starting stage would
need to.
POSITION OF BITCOIN IN INDIA
The Constitution of India provides for matters in respect of which the Central Government
has powers to regulate and legislate. To understand if Bitcoin is capable of government
review, an analysis of the Indian Constitution has been undertaken. In this regard, Article 246
read with Seventh Schedule of the Constitution enumerates the list of activities that the
Central Government and the State Governments can legislate.
Sources: https://www.usethistip.com/what-is-bitcoin-how-does-bitcoin-work.html
THE CHALLENGES CREATED BY BITCOIN TO THE INDIAN ECONOMY
In the Indian situation, the issues have been mostly legal using bitcoins in money laundering
and transactions for acts of terrorism are the challenges in the use of bitcoin as legal tender.
Money laundering possibilities Bitcoin transactions are highly uncontrollable. The random
nature of the cryptocurrency creates many dodges for Banks and other financial Institutions
from a process angle. Tracking individual transactions that happen using Bitcoins can hurt
economic activities paving way for money laundering and other such illegal activities the
income tax division has asked 5-6 lakhs high net worth people to explain the details of
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investment and sales of bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies in India and abroad & bitcoin
doesn’t any centre in charge, so it cannot be taxed. Investors essential to have complete
information on the legal and security features as well as the volatile nature of the bitcoins.
The growth of the digital currencies has enticed the impostors to lure people into Ponzi
systems. Seeing the complexity of Indian economy, bitcoins may turn out to be a boon to
India or a disaster. This rest on their extent of use allowed by governments of the world.
CONCLUSION
The study on the feasibility of bitcoin in the Indian economy has concluded with the
overview of bitcoin review that risk is equivalent to the aid factory for India but it all so
create a lot of opportunity in various scope for mining, blockchain, cryptography nevertheless
there still must have an in-depth investigation towards bitcoin in India.
REFERENCES
1. Bitcoin Starter Guide (Bitcoin Basics and Benefits) it bit education
2. yourstory.com/author/Rajendra-k-Sinha
3. Impact of Bitcoin as a World Currency A. Seetharaman [1], A.S. Saravanan [2], Nitin
Patwa [3] &Jigar Mehta [4]
4. Bitcoins-A Global Perspective Indian Legal and Tax Considerations by Nishith Desai
Associates (NDA)
5. quora.com/What-are-the-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-using-bitcoin/Siddhar-devraj-
6. Bitcoin: Implications for the Developing World Nov 25, 2015, by Makai Krause
7. Crypto Currency a Need after Demonetization in India Nishad Girish Chavan [1], Prof.
SmitaKapase [2]
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DISSECTING THE FIBERS OF CROWDFUNDING RACHEL DONALD3 & PRINCY JOSE4
ABSTRACT
Crowdfunding is a form of alternative sourcing of capital usually from a large number of
people via Internet. This new form of funding involves an initiator with a project, a group of
investors appealed by the project idea and a platform that brings both the parties together. A
successful crowdfunding not only generates cash, but also creates a customer base who feels
they have a stake in the business. There are a lot of factors that ensures a successful
campaign like a clear picture of the project, a network already in place and perks or rewards
in exchange for the donations. The paper focuses on equity based financing which results in
the construction of a company with offerings on the initial investment.
Crowdfunding is limited to giving donations and loans. The Securities and Exchange
Board of India (SEBI) claims the Indian public lacks adequate investment knowledge or
experience and requires strict protection. It has recently sidelined an incomplete aim to
create a regulatory framework for investment crowdfunding, and equity crowdfunding in
India remains on hold.
The research will include a study of the awareness of crowdfunding in India. The
paper will also compare a list of selected ten companies and its products on the basis of its
success on Kickstarter, along with unsuccessful companies on the same. The paper will
conclude with an outline of generalization that would lead said businesses to success.
KEYWORDS: Crowd funding, financing, campaign, business plan, investing
INTRODUCTION
Crowdfunding, though sounds new, has been there throughout the ages, with roots traced
back to the 18th century. The term is an umbrella term used for collections from the public for
a social cause. The term connotes community or interest-based pooling of funds, to support
cases, where funds are raised through donations to help authors publish books, research,
music releases, etc. The method was eventually put in practice by way of donations mostly in
the arts industry.
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3Rachel Donald as a student, Department of MBA,JyotiNivas College,
Bangalore,[email protected]
4Princy Jose as a student, Department of MBA, JyotiNivas College, Bangalore,
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It can also be understood as a method of micro financing through the internet for the
support of ventures. It is thus defined as “The efforts by entrepreneurial individuals and
groups-cultural, social and for profit-to fund their ventures by drawing on relatively small
contributions from a relatively large number of individuals through the Internet, without
standard financial intermediaries (Mollick, 2014).Crowdfunding finally found a way into a
tentative business in the present times with the launch of ArtistShare in 2001, which was the
first fan-funding platform, eventually maturing into various successful sites with the
introduction of Indiegogo (2008), Kickstarter (2009), GoFundMe (2010), etc. There are
traditionally four types of crowdfunding .
SOURCE: IOSCO Staff Working Paper - Crowd-funding: An Infant Industry Growing Fast,
2014
Donation based crowdfunding is the classic method of sourcing finance, where the
donors usually accept little or nothing in return. It is for non-profit or social causes which can
be exchanged for social recognition as well. Whereas, reward based crowdfunding entails the
benefit of the product or service. It is the most popular type of crowdfunding suitable for
entrepreneurs who are unable to get traditional loans, particularly in the creative fields. Most
of the contributors turn out to be family, friends, customers and business partners, with
particularly small donations and often shared on social media in hopes of the campaign to be
shared by other followers. It is one of the cheapest ways of raising capital with no collateral
required, business owners often retain the equity and helps establish a customer base along
with brand awareness. On the other hand, due to the nature of funds, it isn’t always reliable
for large amount of funds.
At times, if the goal is not attained, the amount may be forfeited, also lead to exposure of
creative ideas to the public which can be avoided by the protection of patents. Debt based
crowdfunding is more on the lines of lending on the basis of returns in the form of interest on
the loan. This is a form of peer-to-peer lending. Equity-based crowdfunding on the other hand
refers to funding in exchange for shares in the company (usually unlisted). An investor can
see returns through trade sale, should the company be sold to another company where the
Donation-based
crowdfunding
Reward-based
crowdfunding
Debt-based
crowdfunding
Equity-based
crowdfunding
Crowdfunding
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money is distributed among the shareholders; through public offering if the company gets
listed on a stock exchange and through dividends where sometimes, a company pays a certain
percentage of their yearly profits to the shareholders. The downside is of course that if the
company fails, then the investor loses some or all of their investment. In certain countries like
the UK, relief from taxes is also provided, depending on the laws of the land.
When we look at financing for ventures, we tend to look at loans from banks, venture
capitalists, angel investors, taking the more traditional approach. Any additional capital by
the means of issue of shares is done once the company is formed, up and running; it’s
profitable and is listed under any exchange. In India however, start-ups can have
crowdfunding either in the form of donation-based funding or debt-based funding or reward-
based funding. This is due to the fact that solicitation takes place after a business becomes
viable. Thus, making it fall out of the purview of market regulation.
Start-ups can get funded either offline or online through various platforms requiring effort in
campaigning and publicizing themselves. These platforms allow for evaluation of the
business plan, provide feedback on the interest of the masses towards the product or service,
popularize the brand and also provide an opportunity of learning. It also means that there is a
risk of exposure of the business idea to the public, a risk of failure of the venture and fraud.
LITERATURE REVIEW
There are various studies which throw light on the changing face of securities market
with the introduction of JOBS Acts. However, due to the novelty of the project there is a
limitation to the literature available. Even with this hurdle, there are still a large number of
authors who have looked at the various facets of Crowdfunding. Here are some of the
journals and books referred.
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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
One of the main objectives of the research paper was to study the level of awareness
about Crowdfunding among the general public in India. Hence, we compiled and collected
responses from a random sample of 100 respondents. The paper tries to understand the first
response of the sample towards the awareness of the population. Hence, the survey is a cross-
sectional survey putting in use simple random sampling.
Since part of the paper was also an exploratory research, heavy importance was given
to various journals, research papers, excerpts from books, magazines and related websites.
OBJECTIVES
• The paper aims at throwing light on the awareness among the general public.
• A study of selected successful as well as unsuccessful ventures which built their
capital base through crowdfunding on Kickstarter in order to understand viable
business ventures on Kickstarter.
ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
PART 1
The following charts will display the responses of the respondents who participated in a short
survey conducted to check the awareness level among the general public in Bangalore on
crowdfunding.
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CHART 1
There is a region of 67% of the respondents who have either heard or read about
crowdfunding, leaving the rest 15% completely unaware about it and a mere 4% of the
population who actually knows about it and how it works.
CHART 2
This question was important to understand that Crowdfunding is not generally talked about,
this can also be interpreted as a low understanding and knowledge of how financing works
and can be attained.
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CHART 3
This chart particularly looks at knowledge sharing, where 41% of the respondents heard
about crowdfunding through word-of-mouth and 42% through the internet. Thus, allowing it
to be viewed as the need for it to come out in the light as a viable financing option to the
public. In the past years, we have seen a lot of innovative creations but while reading their
stories there is a common thought of how to get financing, this is where most of the time
banks step in for loans.
CHART 4
This chart gives a clear idea that though people know about crowdfunding, there is a clear
knowledge gap in the process and legality of crowdfunding.
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CHART 5
Donation-based crowdfunding tops the charts, with litigation based crowdfunding, software
token value and debt based crowdfunding as the least popular type of crowdfunding.
CHART 6
This chart is particularly important to see that the sample has a 50-50 chance of wanting to
opt for crowdfunding as a source of finance. This also throws light on the fact that though
there is a basic knowledge about crowdfunding, the masses still do not understand the
implications, legality and legitimacy of crowdfunding.
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CHART 7
Here, again there is a fear of novelty and change, where people are still willing to trust
traditional investors like banks, VC and loans as a more reliable source of finance.
CHART 8 CHART 9
The chart 8 and chart 9 shows the demography that the survey was answered by, with a
maximum of student and young professionals, and a few coming under the age group of
retired and business owners.
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PART 2
Successful Reasons Product Unsuccessful Reasons2
Bragi Personal Assistant Earphones CrazyBaby Better features already provided
Dwarven
Forge
Fully compatible,
durable modular
gaming terrain
Gaming Myth
Journeyman Failed to attract gamers
Elevation
Lab
Adjustable system
with charging feature
Mounting
docks Grovemade
Only business for Apple
products
Exploding
Kittens Quirky card games Cards Brand Deck
Unable to excite gamers
Inexile Amount reserved for
future projects Gaming Psychonauts
Repetitive games
M3D
Interactive, auto
levelling and auto
callibration
3D
printers Tiko 3D
Company did not keep margins
for rejects, rebuilds, marketing
and sales
Oculus
Rift Innovative product
Virtual
Reality
headsets
Cmoar
Not completing prototype for
mass production, improper use
of funds
Peak
Design
Organizers and
innovative bags Gear bags -
Damaged equipment
Pebble
Marketing Strategy-
Direct response
Television
Smart
watch ZeTime Products not given to backers
and had faulty software
Wobble
Works Innovative concept 3D Pen Lix
Failed on delivering products/
delivered faulty products
FINDINGS
• Most of the respondents were not aware of how crowdfunding works.
• Since we looked at start-ups on Kickstarter, businesses were not successful due to the
business strategies not being able to attract enough potential sponsors.
• Through an effective and efficient crowdfunding strategy on various platforms we can
avoid the hustles of approaching banks and long procedures for obtaining finance, as
well as creating a base for potential customers.
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• Over promise and under delivery hampers the growth of a business. Since
crowdfunding takes place on a social platform it also damages the reputation of other
similar businesses.
• Capital planning should consider the need for regular developments in research and
developments of products.
SUGGESTIONS
• With the advent of social media, reach towards a larger portion of the population
worldwide has become much easier than a few years before. Hence, such
crowdfunding platforms have the opportunity to market themselves on these available
social media platforms which is not harnessed yet.
• Prototype must always be ready for mass production, for delivery without any
hiccups.
• Campaign goals must be over the estimated costs, in order to keep the operation
margin under control.
• Businesses should also consider a simultaneous marketing of the product outside the
realm of crowdfunding platform as soon as the product hits the market.
• Business should plan out the costs, production time and delivery factor before
campaign. This will provide a realistic picture of the business to the investors.
CONCLUSION
In the study, we created a survey of 10 questions with a sample size of 100 respondents. The
survey was given out in the city of Bangalore, India in order to assess the awareness of
Crowdfunding. The survey clearly showed that though the platforms for Crowdfunding have
been available for more than 10 years now, there is still very little knowledge about it. The
respondents ranged from students to professionals as well as business owners; however, there
is a lack of creative financing.
There have been a number of innovative solutions created by ordinary people but most of
them do not see the light simply due to lack of funds. Most of the entrepreneurs look at
traditional type of financing, keeping it restricted to bank loans which are ever popular,
venture capitalists and angel investors.
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Due to this lack of knowledge, most people are still skeptical and almost fifty percent of the
respondents do not find Crowdfunding a viable option.
So, by this research we can say that crowdfunding is a platform to finance a business idea and
to project it to the public by a creative and eye-catching display of the campaigns, providing
rewards to the backers of the funding and also to fulfill the greater purpose of the campaign.
Crowd funding has also proved to be a great platform to be the sourcing body for the
potential customers and growing the audience.
When we look at both the sides of the coin, it’s apparent that some companies are successful
and some fail though they are producing the same product. This reflects more on the actual
business process. There’s no denying that when it comes to start-ups as such platforms such
as Kickstarter and Indiegogo are wonderful, but having a product is not enough. A proper
business plan must be in place, a well thought out operations and logistics should be put in
place.
Another big mistake these companies made, was not planning enough finance for the R&D
and not having a finished, working prototype which was ready for mass production and
delivery. When these companies fail to deliver to their backers, it not only affects the
company, it also affects any other start-up which is looking for funding on such platforms,
because at the end of the day Crowdfunding is based on the ‘trust’ factor. The trust and
goodwill, built and maintained by the backers and the founders of the business respectively
determines the level of success in the campaigns on Kickstarter and all the other
crowdfunding platforms.
REFERENCES
1. https://www.bragi.com/
2. http://www.dwarvenforge.com/
3. https://www.elevationlab.com/
4. https://www.explodingkittens.com/
5. https://inxile-entertainment.com/
6. https://3dprint.com/146200/m3d-pro-kickstarter-campaign/,
7. https://3dprint.com/tag/failed-kickstarter-campaigns/
8. https://www.oculus.com/
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9. https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/08/peak-design/
10. http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/brands-learn-pebble-time-s-kickstarter-
launch/297415/
11. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/getpebble/pebble-e-paper-watch-for-iphone-
and-android
12. http://the3doodler.com/
13. https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2017/02/96583-went-wrong-creator-micro-3d-
printer-provides-perspective-tiko-3d-failure/
14. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/706938033/cmoar-virtual-reality-headset-with-
integrated-elec/description
15. https://support.peakdesign.com/hc/en-us/articles/203702175-Anchor-Strength-
Anchor-Wear-Anchor-Engineering
16. https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Android-App/Fitbit-Pebble/td-p/1828877
17. http://bgr.com/2016/12/07/pebble-kickstarter-fitbit-acquisition-pebble-core/
18. https://dev.fitbit.com/blog/2018-01-24-pebble-support/
19. https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/24/fitbit-throws-pebble-owners-a-bone-with-six-
more-months-of-support/
20. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1282890542/zetime-worlds-first-smartwatch-
with-hands-over-tou/comments
21. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2140281637/cronovo-inc/posts/20003163d
22. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/danieledwards/renegade-the-worlds-first-3d-
pen-to-run-on-plastic/comments
23. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lix3d/lix-the-smallest-3d-printing-pen-in-the-
world/updates
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1. Ajay K. Agrawal, Christian Catalini, Avi Goldfarb, The Geography of Crowdfunding
NBER Working Paper No. 16820, Issued in February 2011
2. Ajay Agrawal, Christian Catalini, Avi Goldfarb, Some Simple Economics of
Crowdfunding, Innovation Policy and the Economy, Vol. 14, No. 1 (January 2014),
pp. 63-97, Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674021
3. Brendan McEvilly, Crowdfunding, Books Ireland, No. 368 (July/August 2016), pp.
20-21, Consultation Paper on Crowdfunding in India,
4. Digital media in public archaeology (pp. 60-72), Chiara Bonacchi,
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5. Eleanor Kirby and Shane Worner, Crowd-funding: An Infant Industry Growing Fast,
Staff Working Paper: [SWP3/2014],
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Cheng-Feng Cheng, Man-Ling Chang, Strategies for reward-based crowdfunding
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A STUDY ON AWARENESS AND CONSUMER PERCEPTION
ON ADOPTION OF DIGITAL WALLET IN INDIA WITH SPECIAL
REFERENCE TO BENGALURU CITY.
AYESHA SAMREEN5, SHARANYA MURTHY6
ABSTRACT
The last decade has seen a tremendous growth in use of internet and mobile phone in India.
Since demonetization, there has been is tremendous increase in electronic transactions in the
market and also the increasing use of internet, mobile penetration and government initiative
such as Digital India are acting as catalyst which leads to an exponential growth in the use
of digital payment. A digital wallet refers to an electronic device that allows an individual to
make electronic transactions. The current study is conducted to analyse the awareness level
of Digital wallet among the respondents. The study also helps in determining the attitude and
perception of consumers towards the adoption of digital wallet in India. Lastly the study will
help in analysing the relationship between demographic variables, level of awareness and
usage of digital wallet among respondents. The study is carried out by taking the survey of
135 respondents by non-probabilistic convenience sampling method from Bangalore city by
using structured questionnaires and interview technique.
KEYWORDS: Digital wallets, Cashless Transactions, Consumer Perception, Awareness.
INTRODUCTION
A digital wallet refers to an electronic device that allows an individual to make electronic
transactions. This can include purchasing items on-line with a computer or using a
Smartphone to purchase something from a store. An individual's bank account can also be
linked to the digital wallet. They might also have their driver’s license, health card, loyalty
card(s) and other ID documents stored on the phone. The credentials can be passed to a
merchant’s terminal wirelessly via Near Field Communication (NFC).
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5Ayesha Samreen is the assistant professor, Department of commerce Jain University
Bangalore, [email protected]
6Sharanya Murthy is the assistant professor, Department of commerce Jain University
Bangalore, [email protected]
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Increasingly, digital wallets are being made not just for basic financial transactions but to also
authenticate the holder's credentials. For example, a digital wallet could verify the age of the
buyer to the store while purchasing alcohol. The system has already gained popularity in
Japan, where digital wallets are known as "wallet mobiles". A cryptocurrency wallet is a
digital wallet where private keys are stored for cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. It has been said
that every disruption creates opportunities and one such disruption was the announcement of
demonetization by Prime Minister Mr. Narender Modi on 08 November 2016.
Demonetization created huge growth opportunity for digital payment in India and the digital
wallet companies garbed the opportunities with both the hands to expand their market share.
Demonetization has presented a unique platform for adoption of digital payment, as an
alternative to cash for Indian consumers.
DIGITAL PAYMENT MODES IN INDIA
There are several mode of digital payment available in India. They are:
ONLINE OR MOBILE WALLETS: They are used via the internet and through
smartphone applications. Money can be stored on the app via recharge by debit or credit
cards or net-banking. Consumer wallet limit is Rs. 20,000 per month and the merchant wallet
limit is Rs. 50,000 per month after self-declaration and Rs. 100,000 after KYC verification.
PREPAID CREDIT CARDS: Pre-loaded to individual’s bank account. It is similar to a gift
card; customers can make purchases using funds available on the card -and not on borrowed
credit from the bank. Can be recharged like a mobile phone recharge, up to a prescribed limit.
DEBIT/RUPAY CARDS: These are linked to an individual’s bank account. Can be used at
shops, ATMs, online wallets, micro-ATMs, and for e-commerce purchases. Debit cards have
overtaken credit cards in India. The number of debit cards in December 2015 increased to
630 million compared to 22.75 in 2014.
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AEPS: The Aadhaar Enabled Payment System uses the 12-digit unique Aadhaar
identification number to allow bank-to-bank transactions at PoS. AEPS services include
balance enquiry, cash withdrawal, cash deposit, and Aadhaar to Aadhaar fund transfers.
USSD: Stands for Unstructured Supplementary Service Data based mobile banking. It is
linked to merchant’s bank account and used via mobile phone on GSM network for payments
up to Rs. 5,000 per day per customer.
UPI: The United Payments Interface (UPI) envisages being a system that powers multiple
bank accounts onto a single mobile application platform (of any participating bank). Merges
multiple banking features, ensures seamless fund routing, and merchant payments. It
facilitates P2P fund transfers.
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
• AN EMPRICAL STUDY ON CONSUMER’S ADOPTION OF MOBILE WALLET
WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CHENNAI CITY -
DR.S.Manikandan&J.MaryJayakodi- Associate Professor, PG and Research Department of
Commerce, Gurunanak College, Chennai
REVIEW ABSTRACT :
In the present world smart phones play an important role in the daily life of people. The
technological advancement has made smartphone as devices were the mobile users can
make money transaction or payment by using application installed in phone. The present
study aims to explain the application and usage of wallet money endorsed by different
companies and various factors that affect the consumer’s decision to adopt mobile wallet
and various risks and challenges faced by the users of mobile wallet.
• EDUCATING CONSUMERS ABOUT DIGITAL WALLETS - Symbiosis Centre
for Information Technology [SCIT], Hinjewadi, Pune, India
Wallets have been used from thousands of years to protect and carry personal items of
value. The earliest value wallets or satchels were a piece of cloth tied with a piece of
string which enabled a range of items such as coins to be carried out to market.
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Humans have always been mobile and have needed a container to securely carry
personal items. For this instance, we have digital wallets which are online platforms
that stores users’ payment information and passwords and allows them to make
electronic commerce transactions and make their life easy. Out of the many benefits
of electronic wallets, few of the important ones are transferring money, paying bills
and services like payment to cab services. Thus it is important for the organizations of
the digital wallets to segregate the customer segmentation for the wallets as per the
people who wants to use and respond towards the wallet. Also after seeing so many
frauds and cases recently related to cash, people feel that this is the future and will be
the most famous mode of currency transaction.
• A STUDY ON NEW DYNAMICS IN DIGITAL PAYMENT SYSTEM – with
special reference to Paytm and Pay U Money - Vidyashree DV, Yamuna N, Nithya
Shree
The present era is entering into a new pace in payment system by using digital wallets
filled with coupons and offers, In this today’s busiest world people don’t have their
time to sit and relax then how can do their personal works like to recharge their
phones, to pay electricity bill, insurance or to shop etc. So to make people stress free
new application has been introduced i.e. Paytm or pay u money. The present research
paper is focusing on the impact of these new digital payment systems on customers
and problems encountered if any.
• STUDY OF CONSUMER PERCEPTION OF DIGITAL PAYMENT MODE -
SHAMSHER SINGH BanarsidasChandiwala Institute of Professional Studies, Dwarka,
New Delhi, India
The last decade has seen a tremendous growth in use of internet and mobile phone in
India. Increasing use of internet, mobile penetration and government initiative such as
Digital India are acting as catalyst which leads to exponential growth in use of digital
payment. Electronics Consumer transaction made at the point of sale (POS) for services and
products either through internet banking or mobile banking using smart phone or card
payment are called as digital payment. The consumer perception of digital payment has a
significant and positive impact on adoption of digital payment. The structured questionnaire
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was used as research tool for understanding consumer perception of digital payment.
Primary data was collected from 150 respondents in Delhi. ANOVA and frequency analysis
was used to analyze the responses. ANOVA indicate that there is no significant variance in
consumer perception based on the demographic factors such as gender, age, profession and
annual income of the patients. However education was found to significant influence for
adoption of digital payments.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The current scenario of Indian economy shows the tendency of movement from cash to
cashless transactions. There are so many efforts taken by the government in order to convert
the face of Indian economy into a new one. Now a day every transaction is going digital. In
order to accelerate the execution of the concept of digital economy, a number of digital
payment systems were introduced. But still there is resistant among people in usage of
digital wallets. Therefore this study is conducted in analysing the awareness and perception
of consumers towards adoption of digital wallet among the respondents in India.
OBJECTIVES
1. To study the awareness level of respondents towards effective use of digital wallet.
2. To study the consumer perception and attitude among the respondents in adoption of
digital wallet.
3. To study the relationship between the socio-economic variables, level of awareness among
the respondents towards the usage of digital wallets.
HYPOTHESIS
1. H01: There is no significant awareness and effective use of digital wallet among
respondents.
2. H02: There is no significant relationship between the socio-economic variables and the
level of awareness among respondents towards the usage of digital wallets.
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IMPORTANCE OF STUDY:
As digital wallet is surging on an account of growing online payment transactions in India,
this study undertakes to give an insight about digital wallet payment gateway services. The
study helps in understanding the awareness of consumer towards usage of digital wallet. The
study also aims to find the factors influencing the perception of the consumers towards digital
wallets. It also help us to determine the relationship between the socio-economic variables
and the level of awareness and usage of digital wallets.
METHODOLOGY
Under this study the researchers will use both primary data and secondary data. Primary data
is collected through questionnaire from the Indian citizen in Bengaluru. Secondary data is
also used for the purpose of the study from various sources like Published books Newspapers,
Journal, Published articles, unpublished articles, various websites etc. The sample size is 135
that is data will be collected from 135 respondents who reside in Bengaluru. Under this study
the researchers have used non probability sampling method to collect data. Under non
probability sampling convenient sampling technique has been used by the researcher for
collecting the sample. For this study appropriate hypothesis are developed and will be tested
by using statistical tool- Regression analysis, factor analysis and chi-square. Data analysis
will be carried out with the help of SPSS Version17.
ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
REGRESSION ANALYSIS
For analysing the awareness level among the respondents about effective use of digital wallet
regression analysis was conducted.
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Dependent factor Heard about digital wallet.
Independent factor Paytm, Payumoney, State bank buddy, Tez, ICICI pockets,
Cirtus, Citi master pass, Momoe, Transaction and
satisfaction.
F value of the model 13.008
R2 .565
Significance level .026
The regression model is said to be significant if the significance value is less than 0.05,
that is (p<0.05). The R-Square value is .565, which is approximately equal to 0.6, which
means that the ten independent variables influence the awareness level to an extent of
.565. The dependent variable have a significant influence on the level of the awareness of
the respondents towards digital wallet. The results are analyzed to test the hypothesis H1,
that is, there is no significant awareness and effect use of digital wallet in India.
Therefore, the null hypothesis that is, there is no significant awareness of digital wallet in
India is rejected and the alternative hypothesis that is, there is significant awareness of
digital wallet in India is accepted.
Ho1
H0 There is no significant awareness and effective use of digital
wallets.
Rejected
Ha There is significant awareness and effective use of digital
wallets.
Accepted
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FACTOR ANALYSIS
The main objective to conduct factor analysis is to determine the attitude of the respondents
towards digital wallet. Factor analysis is the most common data reduction technique using
principle component analysis.
KMO AND BARTLETT'S TEST
Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy. 0.903
Approx. Chi-Square 912.621
Bartlett's Test of Sphericity Df 45
Sig .000
KMO=.903 which is greater than 0.6, which indicates that all variables are significantly
correlated. Hence, it is appropriate to carry out factor analysis. Variables with less than 0.4 as
communality are not going to significantly contribute to the entire data. Hence, we discard
such variables. Here the table of communalities is provided below in which all the variables
have communality value more than 0.4. Hence we consider all variables.
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TOTAL VARIANCE EXPLAINED
Compon
ent
Initial Eigenvalues Extraction Sums of Squared Loadings
Total % of
Variance
Cumulativ
e %
Total % of
Variance
Cumulative %
1 5.829 58.287 58.287 5.829 58.287 58.287
2 1.113 11.134 69.421 1.113 11.134 69.421
3 .840 8.397 77.818
4 .649 6.488 84.305
5 .377 3.772 88.078
6 .342 3.417 91.495
7 .247 2.471 93.966
8 .244 2.443 96.409
9 .186 1.865 98.273
10 .173 1.727 100.000
EXTRACTION METHOD: Principal Component Analysis
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To find the new factors and the variables associated with them
Components
1 2
High Potential
Digital wallet is convenient in terms
of usage
.870
transactions through digital wallet
saves time
.879
digital wallet is better than offline
transaction
.892
transaction through digital wallet
will have proper accountability
.819
digital wallet is user friendly .822
digital wallet help in curbing black
money
.737
digital wallet is eco-friendly .871
Not in favour
digital wallet
digital wallet is less costly .773
digital wallet is not safe and secure
.872
digital wallet will decrease cash
flow in market
.508
The number of factors to be chosen is based on the Eigen values of the factors (>1) and the
total variance explained by such factors (>60%). In the present case, we take 2 factors for
further analysis since they have Eigen values>1 and total variance explained is 69.421%
which is more than 60%.
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Thus the latent factors from 10 variables brought out by factor analysis are:
1. HIGH POTENTIAL This group of respondents are highly interested in digital
wallets. They are active users of digital wallets for day to day transactions. They support
digital wallets and want India to become cashless economy.
2. NOT IN FAVOUR OF DIGITAL WALLETS This group of respondents don't
support payments through digital wallets they highly depend on offline transactions.
CHI SQUARE
To investigate the relationship with the social economic variables and the level of
awareness among the respondents towards usage of digital wallets, Chi-square analysis
was done.
Demographic Variable Factor
Education qualification of
respondent
Heard about digital wallets.
Value Df Asymp. Sig. (2-sided)
Pearson Chi-Square 3.691a 6 .018
Likelihood Ratio 2.679 6 .248
Linear-by-Linear
Association
.832 1 .362
N of Valid Cases 135
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Demographic variables Factors
Education qualification of the respondent Heard about digital wallets
CHI-SQUARE TESTS
Value Df Asymp. Sig. (2-sided)
Pearson Chi-Square 18.033a 8 .021
Likelihood Ratio 8.734 8 .365
Linear-by-Linear
Association
1.465 1 .226
N of Valid Cases 135
Demographic variables Factors
Gender of the respondent Heard about digital wallets
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CHI-SQUARE TESTS
Demographic variables Factors
Area of the respondent Heard about digital wallets
CHI-SQUARE TESTS
Value Df Asymp. Sig.
(2-sided)
Pearson Chi-Square 8.379a 2 .015
Likelihood Ratio 6.032 2 .049
Linear-by-Linear
Association
0.796 1 .372
N of Valid Cases 135
Value Df Asymp. Sig.
(2-sided)
Pearson Chi-Square 1.623a 4 .001
Likelihood Ratio 2.050 4 .027
Linear-by-Linear
Association
1.086 1 .297
N of Valid Cases 135
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From the above tables- age, education qualification, gender and area of residence are
selected to check whether there is a significant relationship between socio-economic
variable and the level of awareness among respondent towards usage of digital wallets.
The above table shows the chi square values as 3.691, 18.033, 1.623 and 8.379 respectively
and table value is .018, .021, .001 and .015 which is less than 0.05, so we reject the null
hypothesis and accept the alternative hypothesis that is, there is relationship between socio-
economic variables and the level of awareness among the respondent towards the usage of
digital wallets.
H02
H0 There is no significant relationship between the socio-
economic
variables and the level of awareness among the respondents
towards usage of digital wallets
Rejected
Ha There is significant relationship between the socio-economic
variables and the level of awareness among the respondents
towards usage of digital wallets
Accepted
MAJOR FINDINGS
1. As the main objective was to analyze the awareness level among the respondents
towards the usage of digital wallets it was found that there is awareness among the
respondents towards Digital wallets.
2. The second objective of the study was to analyze the attitude and consumer
behavior towards the adoption of digital wallet for which factor analysis was
conducted. Respondents were grouped in to two different category based on the
10 variables as High potential and Not in favour of digital wallets.
3. It was also found that all socio economic variable like age, education
qualification, gender and area of residence of the respondents have significant
relationship with awareness level of respondent towards the usage of digital
wallets
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SUGGESTIONS
All the Digital wallet providers need to meet the guidelines stipulated by RBI, so as to
acquire payment bank license.
The awareness of the Digital wallet providers is rising when compared to the preference of
usage of services, therefore the reasons for not using wallet can be found.
However, security concerns appear to be an important factor depressing the adoption of
mobile wallets for payments. Therefore the mobile wallet providers need to address the
security and privacy concerns of the users. Mobile wallet providers can collaborate with the
“Telcos” for better and fast network connectivity.
India should go for cashless economy for its betterment
CONCLUSION
Present study has made an attempt to understand the perception and attitude of the
respondents towards the adoption of digital wallets in India, particularly in Bengaluru city.
The main objective of this research is to determine the level of awareness, attitude and
relationship of social economic variables towards the usage of digital wallets. This study has
a total of 135 respondents which was collected from Bangalore city and the data collected
was being analysed by using SPSS 17. The level of awareness towards digital wallets was
moderately high. As for the attitude, it varies among the respondents. All the demographic
variables had significant relationship with awareness and effective use of digital wallet. The
growth of users of Smartphone and internet penetration in such area also facilitated the
adoption of digital payment.
Due to the developments in digital world each and every activity of human being has
changed. As a part of policy change, cash is no longer becoming a mode of transaction. The
country needs to move away from the cash-based towards a cashless (digital) payment
Yes62%No
9%
May be29%
India should go cashless
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system. This will provide multiple advantages like reduce currency management cost, track
transactions, check tax avoidance or fraud etc., enhance financial inclusion and gradually
integrate the parallel economy with the main stream. Additionally as the Mobile wallets
usage crosses the boundaries of big cities, it gains popularity in villages also. The
development in digital payments system makes a new spending behaviour of persons in these
areas. The future of mobile payments in India depends largely on the payment bank license
which is to be provided by RBI so that the consumers will get confidence in using the wallet
services.
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EFFECTIVENESS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EASING THE
BENGALURU TRAFFIC MESS WITH SMART TRAFFIC SIGNALS.
AMAN SAHA7
ABSTRACT
Bengaluru is the ‘sixth-most painful’ city for traffic congestion in the world. Traffic jam in
Bengaluru is a huge and complicated problem nowadays. An average citizen spends more
than 240 hours stuck in jams every year due to the rapid increase in the population and
demand for transportation. This causes longer vehicle travel times, growing environmental
pollution, reduced traffic safety, increased energy consumption, and a decrease in the
efficiency of transportation infrastructure. Hence, controlling the flow of traffic has become a
very important issue under a growing pressure to relieve traffic jams. Intelligent traffic
signals are a combination of traditional traffic lights with an array of sensors to intelligently
route vehicle and pedestrian traffic. "Smart" traffic lights can detect where there is a heavy
concentration of vehicles and alter their pattern to ease congestion. The traffic light
communicate with each other and adapt to changing traffic conditions to reduce travel time
and monitor vehicle numbers, and make changes in real time to avoid congestion wherever
possible and also allows traffic lights to change their timing based on real time data.
Intelligent traffic signals also provide priority to ambulances and fire trucks to get to the
scene of an emergency quicker and more safely.
KEYWORDS: population, traffic congestions, problems, intelligent traffic signals
INTRODUCTION
Bengaluru is a megacity, and the fifth most populous city in India and the 18th most populous
city in the world, with an estimated population of 11,171,000. The city is the third largest hub
for individuals having high net worth and is the second fastest-growing major metropolis in
India with an economic growth of 10.3%. About 10 million Bengalureans lose 60 crore
hours, Rs 3,700 crore a year due to road congestion and Fuel losses amount to Rs 50 crore
annually by the citizens in the city. The Bengaluru traffic police department numbers show
that the total number of vehicles in Bengaluru stands at 70,28,067 (till July 2017); in October
2015, the corresponding figure was 50,55,793, an alarming 40% increase.
__________________
7Aman Saha- final year student, Department of management, New Horizon College,
Marathalli
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Bengaluru’s traffic problems have reached alarming proportions and we are headed towards a
peak-time crawl of 4-5km on the city's key Outer Ring Road.
The combination of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet-of-Things (IOT), which is
denoted as AI powered Internet-of-Things (AIOT), is capable of processing huge amount of
data generated from large number of devices and handling complex problems in controlling
traffic. There will be more than thousands of cameras installed in traffic signals, which is
very difficult to be viewed, processed, or analyzed by humans. The method is to use live
video feed from the cameras at traffic junctions for real time traffic density calculation using
video and image processing. It also focuses on the algorithm for switching the traffic lights
according to vehicle density on road, thereby aiming at reducing the traffic congestion on
roads. In turn it will provide safe transit to people and reduce fuel consumption and waiting
time. It will also provide significant data which will help in future road planning and analysis.
In further stages multiple traffic lights can be synchronized with each other with an aim of
even less traffic congestion and free flow of traffic. It will help in controlling both motorized
traffic (e.g. vehicles) and non-motorized traffic (such as pedestrian and bicyclist) to improve
the overall efficiency of traffic light control. It will provide dynamic coordination of
vehicular traffic with non-motorized traffic.
REVIEW OF LITERATURE:
• According to K Nangare Yogini: In his research he says Traffic problems, congestion
and improper management of traffic are recognized as major problems mostly in all the
areas, which have caused problem for the ambulance which carries the emergency patient.
Moreover road accidents in the city have been increased and loss of life due to the
accidents is even more crucial and not measurable. To avoid this he introduces a scheme
called as IARS (Intelligent Ambulance Rescue System). The main theme behind this
scheme is to provide a smooth flow for the ambulance to reach the hospitals in time and
thus minimize the problems. The server also determines the location of the accident spot
through the sensor systems and GPS (Global Positioning System) in the vehicle which
encountered the accident as well.
• According to Md. Munir Hasan: In his research he talks about Smart Traffic Control
System with Application of Image Processing Techniques In his paper he proposes a
method for determining traffic congestion on roads using image processing techniques
and a model for controlling traffic signals based on information received from images of
roads taken by video camera. The extract traffic density with corresponding to total area
occupied by vehicles on the road, in terms of total amount of pixels in a video frame,
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helps to calculate the number of vehicles on road. Two parameters are set as output,
variable traffic cycle and weighted time for each road based on traffic density and
controls traffic lights in the sequential manner.
• According to Mohammad Shahab Uddin: In his research he states real-time area based
Traffic density estimation by image processing for traffic signal control system, as traffic
congestion is a daily occurrence in most urban areas now a day. In the last 10 years, the
scenario has worsened due to rapid increase in vehicles and insufficient roads to
accommodate them. He describes a method of real time area based traffic density
estimation using image processing for intelligent traffic control system. Calculating the
areas of different live roads, the system will automatically estimate the traffic density of
each road which will help to determine the duration of each traffic light. Specialized
algorithm, morphology and images captured with cameras will be used for the intelligent
traffic control system.
• According to Ms.PallaviChoudekar: Implementation of image processing in real time
traffic light control can also be used in making agriculture smart using automation
technologies. She highlights the features of her project by including smart GPS based
remote controlled robot to perform tasks like weeding, spraying, moisture sensing, bird
and animal scaring, keeping vigilance, etc.
• According to Anurag Kanungo: The method of Smart traffic lights switching is by
using live video feed from the video and image processing cameras at traffic junctions for
real time traffic density calculation. It also focuses on the algorithm for switching the
traffic lights according to vehicle density on road, thereby aiming at reducing the traffic
congestion on roads and which will help in lowering the number of accidents. In turn it
will also provide safe transit to people and reduce fuel consumption and waiting time.
In further stages multiple traffic lights can be synchronized with each other with an aim
of even less traffic congestion and free flow of traffic.
OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
1. To reason out the traffic congestion in Bangalore
2. To analyze and try to solve the traffic jam problem by developing an AI technique
1. To analyze the support of AI in providing priority to emergency vehicles
2. To analyze the movement of pedestrians crossing road safely using AI
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PROBLEM STATEMENT
Bengaluru ‘The garden city’ is now Bengaluru ‘The traffic city’. As Bengalureans are
witnessing a massive problem with reference to blowing on traffic of this study is undertaken
to witness and analyze the reason for traffic congestion and how AI can support to distress
the traffic pollution.
SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The scope of the study is to help the people of Bengaluru to commute easily and ease down
the traffic by reducing the congestion on roads. In future it can help the drivers to find
parking place with the help of AI. This technology will also allow buses and trains to
communicate with each other and letting individuals know when buses or trains are coming.
The same networks of sensors and cameras can be used to find criminals and missing
vehicles.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The research is based on secondary data and includes various journals, articles, newspapers
etc and descriptive analysis is used to do the research.
APPLICATION OF AI - ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
The applications used here functions on two modules that are image processing module and
sensors with GPS module. Data obtained from the image processing module is used to
control the traffic based on the density in each lane with the help of cameras and the sensors
which are installed in emergency vehicles and traffic signals can be used to give preference
only in time when an emergency vehicle enters the lane in one km radius and turns the
particular lane green. It also consists of a face recognition feature which counts the no of
pedestrians and if the no exceeds the limit, all signals turn red for limited time so that they
can cross the road safely.
The camera used in this application is used to capture images, record videos and recognize
faces. It converts the three dimensional video recordings to two dimensional pictures. Line
scan cameras are also implemented in it which is useful in giving clear pictures in a detailed
manner when there are bad weather conditions.
The image processing unit identifies the density of traffic on the roads. The acquired images
from the camera after being loaded into the image processor are first converted to gray-scale.
The obtained image cannot be processed as it is.
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We have to obtain a finite integer value to determine the traffic density in the image and so
all images should be of the same resolution. After re-sizing the image, the image is sent to the
next step in the image processing. A region of interest with the road alone is created. This
image excludes all other parts of the image except the region of interest viz. The road
containing the vehicles. After isolating, the road containing vehicles from the original image
is then sent for edge detection. The vehicles that are present on the road produce a definitive
edge in the image when edge detection is done on the image. A count of the white pixels in
the image will give us the different traffic densities of all the roads by comparing the traffic
of all the roads and we can obtain the side with the maximum traffic.
The integer values that are obtained after edge detection are sent to the microcontroller. It is
loaded with a program that is capable of switching between the traffic lights by providing
priority to the side that has a maximum traffic density and at the same time it also clears
particular lane for emergency vehicle if it is present in the lane. Through image processing, it
is also possible to identify the sides that have exceeded their threshold values and the lanes
get equally switched between the green lights and if an emergency vehicle exists on
corresponding lane the signal goes green in order to help the emergency vehicle to reach
destination easily and quickly. The micro controller acts as an interface that controls the
entire system enabling quick and easy traffic solutions to vehicles in busy junctions.
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STEPS OF THE PROCESS
• Firstly the vehicles present in the lane are captured by the means of cameras.
• The captured images are fed to the controller and the vehicles are segregated for each
lane.
• The image is converted to grey scale
• After this, using the process of edge detection the no. of vehicles in each lane is found out
• Each lane is compared and the lane with higher traffic density is freed first
• When an emergency vehicle is detected by the traffic signal in 1 km range, the signal for
that lane turns green and as soon as the vehicle passes the junction, normal functioning of
the system will be processed.
• When the no. of waiting pedestrians crosses the limit, all the lights at that junction turns
red for a limited time period.
In further stages all the traffic signals will be linked with each other and can share the
information through the central traffic control. This can be explained with the help of
following example- If, at a junction there is a traffic jam the other signals which lead to
the junction would divert the traffic going to that junction to another parallel route to
reduce the traffic congestion at that signal.
FINDINGS
• High population growth because of lot many people migrating from other places to
Bengaluru, which leads to the total number of vehicles in Bengaluru to increase from
50,55,793 in Oct2015 to 70,28,067 (in July 2017)- an alarming 40% increase.
• Vehicular traffic increases over 25% of Bangalore's pollution
• An average citizen in Bengaluru wastes more than 240 hours stuck in jams every year
which may result in causing business loss and personnel loss
• Fuel losses amount to Rs 50 crore annually by the citizens -almost 2.8 lakh litres are
wasted per hour a day in the city because of traffic congestion
• More than a dozen of people die on the way to hospital in ambulance every year
• Lack of good traffic control system due to absence of intelligent traffic signals
• Unplanned structure of infrastructure and roads in Bangalore
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SUGGESTIONS:
• Toll free number to inform the authority for breakdown of vehicles and road damages
• Towing vehicles should be more active on main roads and strict actions as per law must
be implemented.
• Citizens should have WhatsApp group in their society and offices for car pooling
• Work from home option should be prioritized where possible
• Fixed timing of the companies with more than a specified no. of employees
• Changing the Location of bus stops which are near the starting and ending of flyovers and
junctions
• Construction of skywalks near Business Parks and colleges
CONCLUSION
Recent studies show that there is more clarity to have a systematic movement of traffic
control. The government must take the necessary initiative to have a proper control in
maintaining the traffic rules and the same is applicable for the public to abide by them. Thus
artificial intelligence will enhance the reduction of traffic congestion if implemented and
monitored in an efficient manner. The suggestion above mentioned can also play a significant
role in having traffic free roads and people can travel their life with pleasure as travel time
can be reduced approximately by 25% by eliminating stops and reducing waiting time and
not by increasing travel speeds. With Smart traffic lights approximately 40% waiting time at
intersections are reduced which leads to less delay. It also helps in decreases wear and tear of
roads and tyres due to reduction in stops approximately by 30-40% and finally it reduces
stops and idling and decreases harmful emission produced by vehicles and improves quality
of air approximately by 20%. The above suggestions would bring in a phenomenal reflection
and we can witness a positive change in the Bangalore’s traffic to a great extent and
definitely the public will also support in adhering to the rules and regulations. They can use
their idled time in traffic for productive use. Even environmental pollution, traffic safety, and
energy consumption can be reduced. Emergency vehicles too can attend to crisis and save
lives on time.
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1. https://www.ermt.net/docs/papers/Volume_6/7_July2017/V6N7-160.
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FORENSIC ACCOUNTING – TOOL FOR FRAUD DETECTION IN
INDIAN BANKS DR. PRIYANKA ARORA8, MS UMERAKAUSER9
ABSTRACT
Indian banking sector has seen a considerable growth in the last few decades. Although the
banking industry of India is well regulated but at the same time the sector faces its own set of
challenges when it comes to ethical lending practices, financial distress and corporate
governance. In the recent past the banking sector has come across many deceitful cases. This
has damaged the image of the industry not only at national but at international level as well.
And the general public is losing faith in the Banking sector. To address these challenges,
Forensic Accounting can play pivotal role. Forensic accounting utilizes accounting, auditing
and investigative skills to conduct an examination into an organization’s financial
statements. Forensic accountants are trained to look beyond the numbers and deal with the
business reality of a situation. They are frequently used in fraudulent cases. Though forensic
accounting is at a nascent stage in India, it is currently in great demand because of the
nonstop occurrence of white collar crimes in India.
The literature review of this study explains the awareness on popularity of and the cause of
fraud, exploring methods of fraud detection and investigation and obtaining insight on fraud
prevention and identifying weakness. To full fill the objective of the study, a survey was
conducted and two hundred and seventy-nine (279) questionnaires were distributed and one
hundred and seventy (170) respondents have taken interest in filling the questionnaire. The
respondents were drawn from the different banks from the North Bengaluru. SPSS was used
for data analysis and Chi square test was done for hypothesis testing. The study revealed that
a lot of opportunities and challenges abound for a forensic accountant in the Indian
economy. At the end, researchers advise that the nation needs more enlightenment on the
subject matter.
KEY WORDS: Forensic accounting, frauds, fraud detection, investigation, Indian Banks.
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8Dr. Priyanka Arora is an assistant professor at Indian academy degree college,
9Ms Umerakauser is an assistant professor at Indian academy degree college,
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INTRODUCTION
In Indian Banking sector the traditional auditing techniques and procedures have become
inefficient and ineffective in the detection and prevention of frauds.
Fraud has become the worldwide problem, while the developing countries and the various
states from the country suffer the most. At present the modern organized financial crimes
have appeared largely at the banking sector, whose detection of utmost difficulty.
Financial crimes such as employee theft, payroll frauds, fraudulent billing systems,
management theft, corporate frauds, insurance fraud, embezzlement, bribery, bankruptcy,
security fraud have taken the centre stage in the scheme of things; and on the scale of private,
public and governmental preference.
Financial crimes today have grown wild, and the emergence of computer software coupled
with the advent of internet facilities has increased the problem of financial crimes. Besides,
the detection or minimization of these crimes are made more difficult and committing these
crimes much easier.
It has become essential for all the financial institutions at all levels to have the requisite skills
and knowledge for identifying, discovering as well as preserving the evidence of all forms of
irregularities and fraud. Therefore, fraud requires more sophisticated approach from
preventative to detection. One of the modern approaches that can be used from the prevention
to detection is called forensic accounting.
Forensic accounting is a rapidly growing field of accounting that describes the engagement
that results from actual or anticipated dispute or litigations.
Forensic Accounting is an investigative style of accounting used to determine whether an
individual or an organization has engaged in any illegal financial activities. Forensic
accounting encompasses three major areas, investigation, dispute resolution and litigation
support.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
In recent past, series of fraud have been committed both in the public and private sector
banks of the country. From the inception the practice of auditing the accounts of public
institutions existed. Checking clerks were appointed in those days to check the public
accounts. Then came the idea of external auditors, yet frauds were still being committed on a
daily basis.2
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Now it has become relevant to introduce forensic accounting since the external auditors do
not or may not have the required training to be able to tackle modern frauds like white collar
crimes such as security fraud, embezzlement, bankruptcies, contract disputes and possibly
criminal financial transaction; including money laundering by organized criminals, also is the
ability of the forensic accountant to provide litigation support and investigative accounting.
These areas have become a complex area of concern for the accounting profession.3
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The general objective of this study is to determine whether the use of Forensic Accounting
will help to reduce white collar crime in the Indian Banks.
The specific objectives of this study include:
i. To examine the possibility of reducing the incidence of fraud cases with the help of
Forensic Accounting.
ii. To observe if there is significant difference between Forensic Accountants and External
Auditors.
STATEMENT OF HYPOTHESIS
The hypotheses are:
HYPOTHESIS I
H0: The use of forensic Accounting does not significantly reduce the occurrence of Fraud
cases in the Indian Banks.
HYPOTHESIS II
Ho: There is no significant difference between Professional Forensic Accountants and
Traditional External Auditors.
SCOPE OF THE STUDY
In the light of broad coverage, the researchers focus on the fraud detection and prevention in
the Indian Banks. The scope of the research therefore covers 10 major Banks of India.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
In this research work, survey design was used, which relate to collecting data from the
population for intensive study and analysis. In the course of this study, the researcher in an
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attempt to gather useful and reliable information utilized two (2) sources of data collection
namely; Primary Sources of Data collection and Secondary Sources of Data collection.
Questionnaire and interview are the instruments employed to collect the data. They are
special form of correspondence developed to procure authoritative information from a
number of persons through the medium of well-directed questions and interactions.
LITERATURE REVIEW
1. P K Ozili (2015) has presented some evidence on fraud detection with the help of forensic
accounting, the skills and education of the forensic investigator. Also, some explanation for
the diverging views among academics and regulators in relation to detecting fraud are
provided. To regulators, he addressed the question on why academic research in forensic
accounting may have little significance to inform policy.4
2. Dr. ManasChakrabarti (2014) says the system of financial reporting and the accounting
and auditing profession are often accused because of the appearance of frauds and the loss of
trust in the reliability of financial information on the part of the users and makers of
economic decisions.
Great Financial frauds at the end of the past and the beginning of this century have imposed
the need for deeper investigation of irregularities in the area of financial reporting. Within
profession, the Enron scandal lead towards formation of a new regulative bodies and the
appearance of a new profession, this is called Forensic Accounting Investigation or simply
Forensic Accounting.5
3. Bonita Kramer in her paper investigates current views of educators and practitioners
regarding forensic accounting education revealing that there are several significant
differences between the educators' and practitioners' opinions on forensic accounting content
and preferred teaching techniques. Results find that while both groups agree the demand for
forensic accounting services will increase in the near future and that they prefer a separate
course or degree be offered at the graduate and undergraduate levels, there are several
significant differences between the educators’ and practitioners’ opinions on forensic
accounting content and preferred teaching techniques. Practitioners consider topics outside
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traditional accounting as more important to include in forensic accounting education, and
more highly value teaching techniques that add an experiential learning component.6
POPULATION OF THE STUDY
The population of study for this research comprises ten (10) Banks 5 public and 5 private
sector Banks from North Bengaluru.
The number of branches of different banks and their number of employees are tabulated
below:
The above table shows that the 10 Banks have a total work force of 926.
S/No. Name of the Banks Number of Branches
Population (Number of
employees)
1 State bank of India 10 231
2 Canara Bank 05 50
3 Bank of Baroda 06 100
4 Vijaya Bank 03 45
5 Andhra Bank 04 55
6 ICICI Bank 07 100
7 Axis Bank 12 115
8 HDFC Bank 10 89
9 Kodak Mahindra 07 105
10 Karur Vysya 03 36
TOTAL 67 926
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SAMPLE SIZE/TECHNIQUES
The sample size is usually a compromise between what is desirable and what is feasible. For
the purpose of this study, the researcher used a non-probability sampling (purposive
sampling) to select the 10 ten Banks used as population for the study. The researcher has used
random sampling on the staff population in the 10 selected Banks.
The arithmetical formula was adopted to arrive at the sample size ‘n’ with 5% level of
significance (Adefila, 2008).
The sample size of 279 selected from the 10 banks was distributed equally among all the
banks i.e. 28 Employees of each Bank.
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DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS
This section of the paper represents the data collected in response to 279 questionnaires
distributed to the staff of 10 selected banks (5 private and 5 public sector banks) and their
view about the use of Forensic Accounting as a tool for fraud detection and prevention in the
public and private sector banks. Out of which 270 questionnaires were filled and returned.
Question one: Are you aware of Forensic Accounting?
TABLE 4.1
RESPONSES NUMBER OF RESPONDENTS PERCENTAGE
Yes 184 68
No 86 32
TOTAL 270 100
Source: Field Survey
Table 4.1 indicates that 184 of the respondents or 68% of the total respondents are aware of
Forensic Accounting while 86 of the respondents or 32% respondents are not aware of
Forensic Accounting.
Question Two: Do you understand the concept of Forensic Accounting
TABLE 4.2
RESPONSES NUMBER OF RESPONDENTS PERCENTAGE
Yes 127 47
No 143 53
TOTAL 270 100
Source: Field Survey.
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Table 4.2 shows that 127 respondents, constituting 47% of the total respondents do
understand the concept of Forensic Accounting while 143 of the respondents with a
percentage of 53% do not understand the concept of Forensic Accounting.
It therefore implies that the 69 percentage of those who understand the concept of Forensic
Accounting were drawn from the 184 who initially agree that they are aware of Forensic
Accounting.
Question three: The Services of Forensic Accountants are required in India?
TABLE 4.3
RESPONSES NUMBER OF RESPONDENTS PERCENTAGE (%)
Strongly agree 97 36
Agree 130 48
Neutral 14 5
Disagree 19 7
Strongly disagree 10 4
Total 270 100
Source: Field Survey
Table 4.3 reveals that 97 respondents or 36% of the total respondents strongly agree, 130
respondents representing 48% agree, 10 respondents representing 4% strongly disagree while
19 respondents representing 7% of the respondents disagree. This implies that, the total
respondents of 227 constituting 84% do agree that the services of Professional Forensic
Accountants are required in India.
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Question Four: The services of Forensic Accountant are needed more in Public Sector?
TABLE 4.4
RESPONSES NUMBER OF RESPONDENTS PERCENTAGE (%)
Strongly agree 84 31
Agree 124 46
Neutral 19 7
Disagree 27 10
Strongly disagree 16 6
Total 270 100
Source: Field Survey
Table 4.4 Shows that 84 of the respondents representing 31% strongly agree that Forensic
Accounting in needed more in the public sector, 124 of the respondents representing 46%
also agree while 16 of the respondents representing 6% strongly disagree, 27 respondents
representing 10% also disagree. 19 i.e. 7% of the respondents were neutral. This implies that
the service of Forensic Accounting is needed more in public sector.
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Question Five: Forensic Accounting can help in detecting and preventing fraud in the
Public Sector
TABLE 4.5
RESPONSES
NUMBER OF RESPONDENTS
PERCENTAGE
(%)
Strongly agree 119 44
Agree
81 30
Neutral
24 9
Disagree
22 8
Strongly disagree
24 9
Total
270 100
Source: Field Survey
Table 4.5: Shows that 119 of the respondents representing 44% strongly agree that Forensic
Accounting can help in detecting and preventing fraud in the public sector, 81 respondents
representing 30% also agree while 24 respondents representing 9% strongly disagree, 22
respondents representing 8% also disagree. This implies that Forensic Accounting can help in
detecting and preventing fraud in the public sector.
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Question Six: The service of a Forensic Accountant differs from a traditional External
Auditor.
TABLE 4.6
RESPONSES NUMBER OF RESPONDENTS PERCENTAGE (%)
Strongly agree 87 32
Agree 105 39
Neutral 38 14
Disagree 24 9
Strongly disagree 16 6
Total 270 100
Source: Field Survey
Table 4.6 shows that 87 of the respondents representing 32% strongly agree that the services
of a Professional Forensic Accountant differ from a traditional external Auditor, 105
respondents representing 39% also agree while 16 respondents representing 6% strongly
disagree, 24 respondents representing 9% also disagree. 38 respondents constituting 14% of
the total respondents were neutral about it. This implies that the service of a Professional
Forensic Accountant differs to a Traditional External Auditor.
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Question Seven: the services of Forensic Accountants are preferable to the services of
traditional External Auditor
TABLE 4.7
RESPONSES
NUMBER OF RESPONDENTS
PERCENTAGE
(%)
Strongly agree
108 40
Agree
92 34
Neutral
16 6
Disagree
30 11
Strongly disagree
24 9
Total
270 100
Source: Field Survey
Table 4.7: Shows that 108 of the respondents representing 40% strongly agree that the
services of Professional Forensic Accountants are preferable to the service of traditional
external Auditor, 92 respondents representing 34% also agree, while 24 representing 9%
strongly disagree and 30 respondents representing 11% also disagree. This means that the
services of Professional Forensic Accountants are preferable to the Traditional External
Auditor.
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TEST OF HYPOTHESIS ONE
H0: The use of Forensic Accounting does not significantly reduce the occurrence of Fraud
cases.
CHI-SQUARE TESTS
Value df Asymp. Sig. (2-sided)
Pearson Chi-Square 135.903a 4 .000
Likelihood Ratio 171.501 4 .000
Linear-by-Linear Association .379 1 .538
N of Valid Cases 270
Calculated value at 5% level of significance with degree of freedom 4 is 135.903 which are
greater than the critical value of 9.488. So H0 is rejected and Ha is accepted. Therefore it can
conclude that the use of Forensic Accounting significantly reduces the occurrence of fraud
cases.
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HYPOTHESIS TWO:
H0: There is no significant difference between Professional Forensic Accountants and
Traditional
External Auditor.
CHI-SQUARE TESTS
Value df Asymp. Sig. (2-
sided)
Pearson Chi-Square 247.933a 4 .000
Likelihood Ratio 296.420 4 .000
Linear-by-Linear Association 1.408 1 .235
N of Valid Cases 270
DECISION RULE:
Since the calculated value of 247.933 is greater than the critical value of 9.488, the alternate
hypothesis (Ha) is accepted and the Null hypothesis (H0) is rejected. Therefore it can be
concluded that there is significant difference between Professional Forensic Accountants and
Traditional External Auditors.
DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS
Based on the chi square test used for the first and second hypothesis the findings are stated
below:
The conclusion of the first hypothesis reveals that Forensic Accounting do significantly
reduces the occurrence of fraud cases. Hence, the service of Professional Forensic
Accountant is therefore required in India.
The second hypothesis equally reveals that there is significance difference between
Professional Forensic Accountants and Traditional External Auditors. In this view, the
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services of the Forensic Accounting are therefore required in India to replace that of the
external auditor.
Moreover, the oral interview conducted shows that India does not use the services of
Professional Forensic Accountants. It can equally be deduced from the two hypotheses
analyzed that the services of Professional Forensic Accountants will definitely be required in
Indian Banks, since services are provided by the Traditional External Auditor, yet white
collar crimes are still being perpetrated in the Banks.
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
Summary of findings for this research is based on the analysis of data collected through
questionnaires and testing of hypotheses are as follows:
I. The services of Professional Forensic Accountants differ to a Traditional External
Auditor
II. The services of Professional Forensic Accountant are preferable to the services of
Traditional External Auditor
III. The uses of Forensic Accounting do significantly reduce the occurrence of fraud cases.
IV. There is significant difference between Professional Forensic Accountants and
Traditional External Auditors in terms of a skills and techniques applied and fraud
investigation.
V. Majority of the respondents are aware of Forensic Accounting.
VI. Few of the respondents had some knowledge of the concept of Forensic Accounting.
VII. Based on oral interview it can be concluded that Indian banking sector does not use the
services of Professional Forensic Accountants and therefore required such services.
VIII. That the services of Professional Forensic Accountants are needed more in the public
sector
IX. That Forensic Accounting can help in detecting and preventing fraud in the public
sector.
CONCLUSION
This study has analyzed why attention has to be given to the fraud detection and fraud
prevention in India with the help of Forensic Accounting. It has discussed that the Forensic
Accounting approach or procedure necessary for detection, prevention of fraud and the type
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of control to be established in order to control the incidence of white color crime in the
banking sector of the country. It should be highlighted that whether within the business world
or in the public sector, the ultimate responsibility for discouraging and preventing white
collar crime and fraud rests with management.
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WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IN IT SECTORS JYOTHI. T10
ABSTRACT
The emergence of Information Technology sector in mid-1990s has unveiled a potential
employment opportunity for women in this organized sector congenially befitting their job
environment and offering, in principle, least gender discrimination. Most reviews reveal that,
notwithstanding overall satisfactory gender neutral pursuit by this sector, an optimal level of
gender inclusivity is still to be achieved, especially to the senior level. Moreover, this sector
requires to be extra-careful in doing away with the prevailing maladies such as
‘Feminization’, ‘Glass ceiling’ etc. The theoretical aspect of individualization in the
workplace is palpable but at the societal level, patriarchal strategies dominate on the Indian
psyche. The reflection of this paper is arrived at, on the basis of, the inputs drawn from
different literatures of secondary sources.
KEYWORDS: Feminization, Gender discrimination, ‘Glass ceiling’, Information
Technology and women employees face.
INTRODUCTION
Globalization has made deep inroads in the Indian scene. It sets off, inter- alia, market
liberalization and emergence of Information Technology (IT) sector. Development of
Information Technology, in recent decades, facilitated by the high-speed data communication
links, contributed to improved communicative networks bridging the temporal and spatial
boundaries and, correspondingly, widened the scope of opportunities for people seeking paid
work. The onset of Liberalization and Globalization in 1990s paved the way for growth of IT
industry in India. IT industry enjoys natural comparative advantage of 12 hour time-gap with
most of the overseas countries, exposure to a large cross- section of educated English-
speaking but cheap labour force and, above all, Indian Government policy incentives e.g.
setting up of several Software Technology Parks (STPs) and providing tax holidays to profit
making IT industry etc. Besides boosting up export earnings for the country and creating a
new pool of entrepreneurs, IT sector has its inherent spill over benefit of creating
employment potential for a large pool of educated unemployed youths including an attractive
option for the women. Management has increased considerably but there is lack of adequate
representation of women at the senior level.
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10Jyothi. T is a HOD, Dept. of Commerce and Management, Bangalore International
College, [email protected]
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OBJECTIVES
The current paper tries to address the following two objectives:
1. The development of IT in India enabling woman to be empowered.
2. The contexts that influences the women empowerment.
3. The constrains which women face in their workplace.
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN IT SECTOR
The Indian IT-BPO industry has emerged as the largest private sector employer in the country
with direct employment of about 2.23 million professionals. The percentage of female
employees, over the years, has steadily increased from 35% in 2006 to 36% in 2008 at the
junior level. The important factors that encourage women workforce to participate in IT
sector are for embracing a white-collar job with comparatively high salary, easy international
mobility, gender-neutral policy based on knowledge-centric skills possession, flexible work
routine and physically less demanding work process in comfortable indoor work-
environment. The gateway of getting into this sector is through higher and technical
education. As such, growing female participation rate in this sector has raised the claim that it
has encouraged women into professional, technical and higher education. High employment
potentiality in this industry inspired a large number of girls to go for professional education,
especially for the computer engineering courses. It transpires from the NASSCOM-Mencher,
2009 report that only 5 to 8 per cent of female engineering graduates were in the IT industry
during 1980s whereas this figure has shot up drastically to 20 to 30 percent currently
The studies of different social effects on the participation of women workforce in IT industry
located in Delhi and Bangalore are being discussed. Kelkaret al. 2002 observed that women
working in this sector become socially mobile to live in other cities away from their male
relatives and families for the sake of their jobs. They no longer constrain themselves to opt
for jobs which are near to their home town alone.
Direct opportunities offered by the IT industry for advancement of women. they take
decisions of their own and within limited terms. Individualisation capacities are enhanced as
the women employees need to make decisions very often on their own and that too instantly,
thus, offering greater scope for boosting up their agency. This, in turn, helped in re-defining
the traditional gender norms. The study of Clark and Sekher (2007) has drawn inference that
flexibilised labour market in this high tech sector improves women employees‟ financial
autonomy, greater mobility and their larger social acceptance in male dominated society. Like
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Clark et al. Shanker‟s study (2008) asserts that IT industry is the destination of the
„privileged‟- young, educated, urban and upper caste with middle class family background-
constitute the majority of the workforce. She further observes that women professionals have
enhanced their social status in terms of having economic capital (high income, foreign
travels), social capital and symbolic capital (prestige attached to profession). It has not been
possible for the women in the IT sector to challenge the structural inequalities and gender
relations respectively at the work place and at home. As a result, an ongoing struggle brews
in on them to challenge the embedded patriarchal relations and existing structural
inequalities. Yet, women do not hesitate to seek constantly to balance work and domestic
responsibilities with little help from their men.
GLASS CEILING, FEMINISATION AND ASSOCIATED CONSTRAINTS MAKE IT
A GENDERED WORKPLACE
Since the women workforce gets concentrated mostly at the lower level of job hierarchy in
the IT sector. But at the senior level, women representation is only around 5 per cent. The
reasons attributed to this are: (a) stereotyped female professional (b) personal sense of mid-
career guilt and (c) proverbial glass ceiling. A small percentage of women are in the
managerial position. A few women work as Software developers, Architectures, Tech leads,
Consultants or Project managers whereas a bulk of them works at the lower level as testers,
programmers or quality assurances and such other low-end jobs.
They are, thus, paid less and have fewer channels of growth and lesser chance of going
abroad. Women, thus, cluster at the lower level of job-ladder leading to feminisation of
certain service activities and consequential segregation. Very few women reach the higher
level of managerial jobs. Shanker (2008) echoed the same findings in Bangalore to the effect
that women professionals were mostly concentrated at the entry and intermediate levels rather
than flocking at the middle and upper ranks, thus, creating the glass-ceiling.
CULTURAL CONSTRAINTS
Again, culturally there is persistence of gender-biased stereotypes practiced by the
management for its ideological construction of women’s skills as soft skills, being good at
routine, standard and repetitive works. The notion shapes the recruitment practices. This, in
turn, limits the opportunities for women’s promotion. Reinforcement of gender based
stereotypes creates a culturally and structurally defined glass-ceiling. Women workforce in
Information technology sector face glass- ceiling and is not able to rise high after certain
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level of hierarchy as they fail to bargain for proper perks, stock options, pay scales etc.
Again, usually they fail to upgrade their skills; tend to remain attached to a particular
company for a longer period rather than going for job hopping thus, stick to immobility.
Failure to put up late hours to build informal networking debars them from getting
information on career openings. Their career choices are constrained by distance from home,
domestic responsibilities, job securities, company reputation and for other social reasons. The
impression of „stereotypical image‟ for women employees on the part of recruiters, team lead
and male colleagues results in marginalisation of women at the workplace especially during
the time of project deadlines; other constraining factors include recruitment and promotion
filters for selection of certain „social types‟, lack of mentors and want of network for women
at higher position etc. Non implementation of women sensitive flexi-time policy etc. further
hampers promotional prospects of women software professionals.
POST-LIBERALISATION ERA
In India the post-liberalisation era paved the way for the development of IT Industry. It has
been the dream of many young job seekers to get into the sector. It has provided job
opportunity for very young technical as well as non-technical graduates in a very comfortable
and conducive office environment and with handsome paypackage together with prospects of
foreign travel. It unfolds actually the American dream to the GenX middle class population
including substantial part of women folk. This sector has undoubtedly enhanced the social
mobility and high work participation of women employees in catching up with the direct
opportunities provided by IT. It has further enhanced the financial autonomy and bargaining
capacity in the household decision-making process for the women. The individualising
capacity practiced in the workplace helped in redefining traditional gender norms.
Women working in IT have moreover, enhanced the symbolic capital that increases their
social status in the marriage market as potential brides by re-defining feminity. The job
market inspired female students to take up technical and professional courses to rise to the
demands of the labour market. Women in this sector are able to break technical arena, which
has so long being a male bastion. The effects of this IT hype resulted in double-income
family replacing the single male breadwinner model. Parents now tend to give equal
importance to girls education like that of their boys to enable girls to pursue their own career
and financial independence rather than being dependent on others in the family for playing
the roles of housewives and mothers. Women feel themselves empowered vis-à-vis
disempowerment of their parents, since they were unable to achieve the careers, they desired,
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although they have education, extends a positive demonstrative effect. Women gradually
prefer to work outside home in an attempt to improve upon their social position rather than
bearing with dependency and coercion in the family. Individualisation of women workforce
in the workplace has liberated them from traditional gender roles and ascribed demands. This
again, exposes them to the risks of divorce, intra family conflict and even destabilising the
family. It has also been seen that the work-place constraints for women employees includes,
inter alia, patriarchal relation is in existence in the form of exclusion and segregation though
not intended at the policy level set up.
CONCLUSION
Women tech icons and data showing the benefit of having more women in the team will
change things over time. This also seems to be the evitable progression.
More and more job profiles today and more so in the future, will have a strong IT component.
Women need to understand this and equip themselves with the required skills.
IT sector is more likely to witness business expansion than other sectors of the economy. The
government needs to do a better job of exposing women to IT.
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A NOVEL VOICE-BASED REAL-TIME MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC AND
TRANSCRIPTION SYSTEM (RTMDTS) FOR REMOTE AREAS NEHA YALAMANCHI11 , SACHIN V12
ABSTRACT
Lack of medical facilities as well as timely medical transcription in remote areas force
patients to spend excessive amounts of their income on private hospitals or to ignore fatal
symptoms resulting in high mortalities. In addition to these, the rural patients avoid seeking
government medical aid due to long waiting periods, facilities being out of reach and
unavailability of required medical equipment and the so called 'White–Coat' syndrome. This
paper explores an innovative solution that provides patients in rural and remote areas a
revolutionary, convenient and cost effective modern approach for getting in touch with
reputed doctors, whenever and wherever needed, for a variety of non-emergent health
complaints by bolstering telemedicine.
KEYWORDS: Public Healthcare Facilities (PHCs); White Coat syndrome; ASHA;
Telemedicine;
INTRODUCTION
Majority of the population in India resides in rural areas as per the most recent census, in the
year 2011. [1] Nearly 86% of all the medical visits in India are made by patients from remote
areas with most of them travelling more than 100 km to avail health care facilities of which
70-80% are borne out of pocket landing them in poverty.
Studies have indicated that the mortality risks before the age of five are greater for children
living in certain rural areas compared to urban communities. Inequalities in healthcare can
result from factors such as socioeconomic status and caste, with caste serving as a social
determinant of healthcare in India. Government agencies succeeded to an extent in
establishing the needed infrastructures in urban areas but failed to do so in rural/remote areas,
which sustains 70% of the Indian population. In one of the studies conducted, it was
concluded that 143 public facilities found absenteeism of 45% doctors from PHCs (Public
Health Care facilities) and 56% of times found to be closed with an unpredictable pattern of
closure and absenteeism during regular visit hours. Moreover, only 2% of doctors are in rural
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11Neha Yalamanchi is a student, Department of BCA, New Horizon College, Marathalli,
12Sachin V is a student, Department of BCA, New Horizon College, Marathalli,
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areas – where majority of the population live and one of the reasons for the low coverage is
the incidents of doctors were attacked in rural India.
Our innovative solution proposes bringing healthcare to respective rural areas using existing
resources and infrastructure while eradicating 'White -Coat Syndrome' and Catastrophic
Health Expenditure (CHE).
The proposed methodology of the novel solution is as follows - Remote and /or rural patients
can visit a local Common Service Centre/ Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) centre
where our software will be deployed. With the help of an employee or through Voice input of
the dialect of their choice, they could register and enter basic details about themselves along
with their symptoms. Patient information will be stored in a database and simultaneously it
will be put up on a web forum in real time that registered doctors can access and prescribe
medication based on their specialization. The prescription along with the physician’s contact
information will be available to respective patients in a printable form. To mitigate the time-
lapse issues between the consultation and the transcription process, our software will pre-
diagnose the patient and provide a list of home remedies that the patients could take to relieve
the discomfort of the symptoms. In case of an epidemic/endemic, where the number of cases
of a particular illness is exceedingly high, our software will trigger a team of researchers and
the government agencies to act on a war-footing and will also act as a reliable database.
MATERIALS AND METHODOLOGY
REQUIRED ATTRIBUTES OF THE PROPOSED SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURE
This requirement follows from the assumption that in order to ensure the success of the
proposed system of connecting remote patients to reputed practitioners, it is necessary to
define the boundary conditions /criteria for the system:
a) ACCURACY: The pre-diagnosing system will report the accuracy of the diagnosis, while
a practitioner reports back.
b) CONVENIENCE: The prescribing physician should be able to respond with a
prescription in minimal time.
c) ELIGIBILITY AND AUTHENTICATION: The system should be designed in a way
that only allows access to authorized personnel, such as the administrator at the centres and
the physicians.
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d) FLEXIBILITY:The medicines prescribed will be checked for in nearby pharmacists and
the final report will include the names and addresses of those pharmacists having a stock of
the required medicines.
e) INTEGRITY:Patients’ prescription and other medical records can only be modified,
updated or deleted by the assigned physician.
f) RELIABILITY:The system should work robustly without any loss of records due to good
and reliable database and also should be able to deliver prescription to remote patients in
lesser time.
g) UNIQUENESS:Each practitioner, administrator and patient only have one login
credential and it cannot be used by another person.
INFRASTRUCTURAL MODEL AND ARCHITECTURE
i. OVERALL SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
Voice-based Real-Time medical diagnostic system and transcription process enabled
with speech input and online consultation allows us to connect rural patients to urban
doctors. The user can speak to the system in his/her local vernacular (regional
languages such as Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Marathi, Guajarati,
Bengali, Punjabi, Oriya, Assamese etc.) and get their health diagnostics/services or
prescriptions using voice recognition, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and simultaneous
translation of voice in to text and vice-versa. The system ensures the complete flow of
communication in such a way during the patient-physician (doctors) interactions for
the benefits of even illiterate native villagers who will be provided with access to state
of the art health services through this virtual connectivity. This integrated common
platform will also be accessible to Government agencies for their planning and control
purpose. Selection of native language choice by the user will be either by Text and/or
Speech. The process flow is schematically represented in Figure 1.
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Figure 1: Process Flow
ii. SYSTEM MODELLING AND MODEL REPRESENTATION
SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION
SIGN UP WINDOW
With the help of an administrator at the centre, the patient’s details will be entered in and will
be authenticated with our database, after which, they will be directed to the next window.
Figure 2: Patient Sign Up Form
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PATIENT DETAILS
Through voice-input or text, patient or health centre administrator will enter the basic medical
information.
Figure 3: Patient Details
PATIENT’S SYMPTOMS
Patient’s symptoms are recorded and posted to database and the web forum for the assigned
doctor to respond.
Figure 4: Patient’s Symptoms
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PATIENT DIAGNOSIS
The pre-diagnosis of the patient will be displayed along with a list of home remedies that the
patient can use during the delay for the diagnosis and prescription from the doctor.
Figure 5: Patient Diagnosis
CONCLUSION
This paper presents the development of electronic prescribing support system for diagnosing
rural and remote patients who cannot access medical facilities. These problems range from
avoidance of seeking government medical aid due to long waiting periods, facilities being out
of reach, unavailability of required medical equipment etc. Potential for the deployment of
the system at the national level is envisaged, as videoconferencing and virtual medicine and
real time online medical consultations with a physician allows thousands of patients in rural
areas to have access to health care mediums for a stable medical condition that requires
periodic evaluations, monitoring and advice at minimal cost.
Further, it provides the right scope and tools to research and to avoid epidemics. Also, the
system can be made inter-operable with mobile devices. Medical practitioners would be
needed to be trained on the use of the system for enabling efficacy of the proposed solution. It
is envisaged that the telemedicine system may be improved upon through feedback from
medical practitioners and users.
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PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF PEOPLE ANALYTICS FARZANA M PATHAN13, SUMANGALA TALUR14
ABSTRACT
Business environment today is changing constantly. Technology in particular is the most
volatile area of management. One recent development in the field of human resource
management is the people analytics. This is nothing but the application of mathematics,
statistics and modeling to worker-related data to analyze and predict patterns. Every
innovation has both challenges and prospectus. People analytics is applied in almost all the
areas of HR namely recruitment, talent management, wage and salary administration,
performance management etc. Hence the future of people analytics has huge prospects due to
the heavy data explosion, need for objectivity in the field of HR, to analyze talent related data
etc. At the same time it faces certain challenge due to the resistance of the HR professional,
lack of required skill set,Technology and data barrier, lack of information processing and
most importantly it involves cost and it not all that suitable for the small organizations. But
gradually it is overcoming all the challenges and has made way into the main stream of
human resource management.
KEY WORDS: People Analytics, Human Resource, Technology, Skill Set
INTRODUCTION
The corporate world today is obsessed with numbers. In the present world everything
is measured in terms of numbers. There is hardly any relevance for any result that is not
measured in terms of number. The field Human Resource is no exception. Gone are the days
where decisions were taken on the basis of intuition and gut feeling.
Every aspect of human resources in the present days is assessed on the basis of some or the
other data analytic tool, to be more specific when it comes to HR it is people analytics. This
is a recent development in the field of Human Resource. People analytics is the application of
mathematics, statistics and modeling to worker-related data to see and predict patterns. In
particular, people analytics, also known as HR analytics and talent analytics, is analysis used
to make better decisions about all aspects of HR strategy with the goal of improving business
performance. Analytics in HR is connecting people data with different types of business data
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13Farzana M Pathan is a research scholar,Akkamahadevi Women’s University, Vijayapur
14Sumangala Talur is an associate professor, adarsh institute of management, Bangalore
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to create outcomes aligned with company goals such as increased revenues and lowered
costs. People analytics is beginning to help more companies in their recruiting, performance
measurement, compensation and retention efforts. People analytics can help organizations to
understand which candidates to hire, which employees are doing well, who's receiving
adequate compensation and how employee retention can be improved. Ideally, people
analytics can improve on instinct and gut feeling; for example, showing that, in some cases, a
community college certificate makes for a better employee than a four-year degree.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Momin, W. Y. M. (2015). In their research studied how HR analytics helps to align HR
strateties with the other business strategies using case study method. They also attempted to
study how HR analytics assist the organizations to enhance the productivity of the employees
through proper recruitment, selection, appraisal etc. They have tried to depict HR analytics as
a cutting edge tool to enhance productivity and to cut down the costs. Khera, S. N., &
Gulati, K (2012) in their study focus on the role of HRIS on HRP. They opine that HRIS can
help organisations do better and faster HRP. Mishra, S. N., Lama, D. R., & Pal, Y. (2016)
highlights the concepts, need and benefits of Human Resource Predictive analysis. It helps
the firms to predict the workforce collaboration patterns, analyzing employee turnover and
modelling employee lifetime value. This in turn will help firms to enhance their ability to
handle their human resource proactively. Rosenblat, A., &Kneese, T. (2014) in their study
Predicting human behaviour discusses the power of big data and its capacity to solve social
and business problems.
By data mining new patterns can be identified and based on these patterns predictions can be
made. These predictions are found to be pretty accurate. Verma, S., &Mehrotra, R.(2017)
are trying to explore the reasons and pressures under which the firms are forced to adopt new
technologies to keep in pace with the other changes that are taking place in other areas such
as production, markets, customer service etc. They tried to understand the attitude of the
managers and personnel people towards the resultants of Analytics.
Objective of this article is to explore the problems and prospects associated with the Human
resource Analytics.
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PROBLEMS OF PEOPLE ANALYTICS
The concept of people analytics is of recent origin. Hence faces certain hurdles.
Following are some of the challenges faced by the people analytics:
RESISTANCE BY THE HR PROFESSIONALS
Unlike the field of production, finance or information technology, decisions in the field of
human resources are based either on what worked in the past or a leader’s beliefs. Most of the
times the HR professionals resist the implementation of statistical interventions as they feel
that HR professional should be good at managing people and not at data analytics of
information technology.
LACK OF SKILLS AMONG HR PROFESSIONALS
It is often believed that the CFO or Engineering or Quality team is the analytical expert and
not the HR professionals. Aspirants of HR hardly think of enhancing analysis and data
evaluation skills. But today this may be a professional development focus for some HR
professionals
ATTITUDE OF THE HR PROFESSIONALS
According to Peter O’Hanlon, founder and managing director of Lever Analytics, the first
and most common people analytics issue is thinking narrowly about HR and constraining it to
a set of largely fixed processes that run in response to a calendar or in response to problems.
TECHNOLOGY AND DATA BARRIER
“People have been burned by big expensive IT projects and there is an incorrect assumption
in some quarters that you need to spend big to get started,” said O’Hanlon, who was speaking
ahead of People Analytics & the Future of Talent 2017. He further said that it is critical to
find the people who can combine the people understanding with data and analytics skills.
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He further opines that Often these skill sets are inside different brains, so finding people with
both capabilities in the one skill is unfortunately harder than it should be but thankfully that’s
changing off late.
INFORMATION PROCESSING
The HR departments have plenty of information gathered through Human Resource
Information System, candidate management system etc. which is often relevant and current
information. But still, it is not common practice that HR provides high-impact reports to
stakeholders
SMALL ORGANIZATIONS
In large organization it is easy to collect big data on recruiting, training, succession planning,
turnover, compensation, but organizations that are smaller do not often have vast data.
Therefore analysis and critical thinking related to smaller data require different approaches
when small samples are used to make crucial decisions.
SUBJECTIVITY
The results in the marketing, finance or production department are measurable. But when it
comes to Human Resources, the results are most of the times subjective. For example, if an
organization is charged with discrimination and if data relating to specific managers is
required, what are the chances that the information is not biased and is reviewed
appropriately?
THE QUALITY OF THE DATA
The Data used for the analysis should be accurate and identification of the accurate variables
is also very important. Wrong variable and wrong data may lead to wrong decisions. The
historical data will be observed for understanding employee churn behavior, it is then split up
into a training, performance measurement etc.
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FEASIBLE AND WORKABLE OUTCOMES
Analysis is not an end itself. Actual work should starts only after the analysis. Based on the
analysis results, the corporate has to take action which are feasible and workable. The
analytical models should be integrated with the systems in the companies. It can’t function in
vacuum.
PROSPECTS OF PEOPLE ANALYTICS
The business environment is changing constantly. Many organizations are responding by
coming up with strategies that apply critical evaluation, leverage data, and cultivate rational
decision-making. Technological advances and a global economy have created new challenges
for the organizations, which require the organizations to think differently.
The use of technology is providing a challenge for all the stakeholders. It also requires the
jobs to be. Human Resources have an opportunity to support these business changes, the
systems-thinking, and data analysis, as well as providing leadership programs required to
succeed in this environment. There are also HR challenges that may need to be reconsidered
to work as a change agent, coach and consultant in culture design. But still HR has a long
way to go and has huge scope and prospects in this direction. People analytics tools are
increasingly being used to help companies gain a competitive edge. They are helping the
companies to take more objective decisions than gut based decisions.
DATA EXPLOSION
There is enormous data available due to improvement in technology and software. Initially it
was the other departments apart from HR that were affected by it but of late the HR
department is also required to adopt data processing for better decision making. Most HR
departments are sitting on mountains of data about their employees including demographic
data, performance data, job history, compensation, and training
NEED FOR OBJECTIVITY
HR departments are increasingly being asked to justify their decisions based on measurable
outcomes. This has led to the push for business decisions to be made based on analytics and
data rather than using gut instinct and subjective judgment.
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TALENT-RELATED DATA
There is ample scope for talent related data like as demographics, skills, and engagement.
Attendance, adoption, participation in training and development and leadership programs,
outcomes of key projects and assignments, performance ratings and data captured from the
use of instruments such as 360 assessments and succession programs that can be included in
people analytics.
RECRUITMENT
When it comes to talent acquisition, 64% of business leaders agree HR’s top priority is
sourcing. Various acquisition techniques are bound to become obsolete. Data can be used to
profiled what employee success looks like in a particular role and then apply that knowledge
to candidates to automate the screening function. Analytics also helps in comparing the pre
hire performance and post hire performance, which in turn will help analyze the effectiveness
of the recruitment process.
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
Performance management is the supervision and oversight of employees, departments, and
organizations with the objective of seeing that milestones and objectives are reached in an
efficient and effective manner. The capability of one individual varies from the other.
Accordingly their contribution to the ultimate goals in an organization also varies. Analytics
helps the organization compare the performance of managers/department. It helps in
identifying the reason for under or over performance. Earlier, the management was dependent
on the bosses of the employees to decide about their performance and promotions and also
succession planning. But now with help of analytics this dependency and related biases have
been overcome. It in turn helps to train the employees in the respective areas.
ATTRITION
Attrition rate is an important area of concern for any organization. It also attributes to the cost
factor significantly. Data analysis can help the organizations to study the trends in attrition.
One of the researches that featured in the Harvard Business Review found that employees are
more likely to quit around their yearly work anniversary. Hence, the proactive HR
departments can time retention interventions before that time.
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TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
Training and development is one of the key functions of HR. People analytics could be very
handy in identifying the training needs and also assess the effectiveness of the training
programmes so held.
COMPENSATION
This is one area where data analytics can do wonders. This is one area of HR which is more
based on numbers. People analytics can help compensation management more scientific.
EXAMPLE
Case study of Wells Fargo - Wells Fargo uses predictive analytics to hire employees better
able to meet its performance requirements and fit into its corporate culture.
Wells Fargois the world’s second largest bank by market capitalization. Wells Fargo & Co. is
more particular about hiring the accurate and more productive human resource. The firm
relies on the predictive analytics to assess and hire better human resource that will perform
better and stay longer with the company. It will also help the firm to take more precise data
based decision to strategize and design the structure of the organization. The company hired
Kiran’s Cloud Cords Enterprise Talent Analytics, a San Diego based company, who
developed a customized solution to help them in recruiting and predict the most effective
candidates. From 2010 onwards, Wells Fargo started to centralize its recruitment functions
and also they began to standardize the selection and appraisal processes for their community
banking division. They have around 6200 retail bank branches, Call centers etc. They recruit
around 270000 employees. The Kiran’s Cloud Cords Enterprise Talent Analytics depend
more on biometric based data for recruitment and selection of people rather than the
psychometric tests. They feel that it is easy to manipulate those tests. They have developed a
set of 65 questions which the candidates will answer online. This set of 65 question s has
been developed, Kiran’s has interviewed over 40 retail banking subject-matter experts to
identify the factors needed to be successful in those various roles. Initially, they administered
their tests on 1000 employees from top, middle and front line executives and were monitored
for two years to confirm the desired outcomes. They used their analytics to test the
correlations with the Well’s culture and the backgrounds of the candidates to their
performance. The candidates who apply for job were sent an email asking them to take the
online test which has 65 questions. The test is automatically graded in real-time. The
candidates who scored more than the desired marks got immediately an interview scheduled.
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This step is very crucial in doing the first level of filtering at very less cost. They also
measured the retention rate which had improved by 15% for tellers and 12% for personal
bankers. While doing this they also identified certain pattern in retaining and performance of
tellers. They discovered that successful tellers had experience in financial services or in
telecommunications and also they were holding very good performance records in high
schools. These are some unusual patterns. With traditional psychometric tests may not reveal
these patterns. A strong data based pattern is a most reliable and accurate one.
This case study very clearly brings out the benefits and advantage of the predictive human
resource analytics to the organizations using them.
CONCLUSION
The only trend that is constant in the business world is change. Information technology is one
such change that has taken the business world by storm. One of the results of this is the
people analytics which has influenced the field of HR. People analytics has touched every
aspect of HR, right from the recruitment to compensation to training to attrition. Hence it has
a great future and varied prospects. But at the same time it has its own challenges like cost
and implementations in Small Organizations, Resistance by the HR Professionals, Lack of
skills among HR professionals; subjectivity etc. in spite of these problems, people analytics is
becoming an integral part of Human Resources.
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