India is the second largest country after China in terms of population and man power. The haunting problem of unemployment is not confined to any particular class, segment or society as massive unemployment exists among educated, well-trained and skilled people as well as among semi-skilled and unskilled labourers, landless labourers, small and marginal farmers etc. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is an Indian law that aims to guarantee the 'right to work' and ensure livelihood security in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. The present study examines the economic empowerment and well being of the rural poor in Karaiyamputhur / Panayadikuppam villages of Puducherry Union Territory. The survey was conducted by use of interview schedule and data were collected from 323 beneficiaries of MGNREGA of the selected villages. The study reveals that there is a significant increase in the welfare of the family for both male and female workers in respect of spending more for family, children's education and enables them to save in bank / post office after working under MGNREGA. However, the economic well being will be improved still better if 100 days of employment in a year is provided to them.

The present age is an age of information. Services are heavily information dependent. Information is rapidly becoming a service in its own right. Indeed, the revolution in information technology (IT) has propelled "information" to the position of the most critical factor in wealth creation (Braun and Holick, 2006; Arlt, 2006). The paper is an effort to study marketing Intelligence as a concept and study its effect on sales performance of the salesperson in the Insurance and Banking sector. The previous literature throws ample light on the marketing intelligence activities of sales persons and their potential role as information gatherers but the objective of the present study is an effort to explore the relationship between the marketing intelligence of the sales person and their sales effectiveness. The results of Independent sample t static reveal that the marketing intelligence of the salespersons/agents positively affects their sales effectiveness.

While leadership is seldom easy, those charged with leading in the current environment are confronted with an array of challenges. In the crisis situation and present state of the economy good leaders overcome the situation and ineffective leaders are left unequipped in the race to succeed .the success of organizations could rest on the competitive skills of the leader. These leaders have to concentrate on building relationships, focusing on resources. The most successful leaders always integrate and discuss goals and stay focused on the vision for the future.

Business Leaders face a choice during times of economic stress and softer demand, They can make a panicked attempt to squeeze more out of already anxious workers, who will waste no time leaving for better jobs when things improve. Or, they can focus on the long term and invest in leadership skills, relationships with employees, effective Reward systems and motivating work.

While existing leadership research has tried to focus on the importance of transformational leadership in normal times, very little attention has been paid to transformational leadership in crisis situations. Leadership effectiveness has been considered to be playing a very crucial role for various organizations, both during normal times and in times of crisis. In this paper, an attempt is made to focus on the attributes of a leader during crisis.

This paper focuses on existing cases from the literature emphasizing the leaders who have performed exceptionally well for their organizations to successfully lead during turbulent times.

In this study an attempt is made to discuss the patterns of successful leadership roles for team effectiveness in organizations.

Some key dimension variables for leadership behavior identified are : motivating teamwork ,mentoring, creating benchmarks and getting results, good communication skills, Delegation of authority and power, giving rewards for performance, training and developing employees, encouraging risk- taking behaviour, forecasting , managing the diverse work force which have an impact on team effectiveness