Definition: The Revenue deficit refers to the financial position wherein the government’s revenue expenditure exceeds its total revenue receipts. This means that government’s own earnings are not sufficient to meet the day-to-day functioning of its departments and other provisions of services. The revenue deficit is only concerned with the revenue receipts and the revenue … [Read more...] about Revenue Deficit
Budget Deficit
Definition: The Budget Deficit is the financial situation wherein the expenditures exceed the revenues. The Budget Deficit generally relates to the government’s expenditure and not the business or individual’s spending. The government’s collective deficits are termed as “National Debt”. In the case of a budget deficit, be it the Government or any business, it has to resort … [Read more...] about Budget Deficit
Cheque Truncation System
Definition: The Cheque Truncation System or CTS is the cheque clearance system introduced by RBI to fasten up the clearing of cheques. In this system, instead of producing the physical cheques to the payee bank, just the electronic image of the cheque along with the MICR code and other cheque credentials are transmitted to the drawee bank for the payment through a clearing … [Read more...] about Cheque Truncation System
Microfinance
Definition: The Microfinance is the cluster of banking services, relatively of lower monetary amounts, designed specifically to meet the banking requirements of an unemployed or low-income people. In other words, Microfinance is the arrangement of financial services including loans, savings, insurance, money transfers and remittances offered to the lower income groups or … [Read more...] about Microfinance
Articles of Association
Definition: The Articles of Association or AOA are the legal document that along with the memorandum of association serves as the constitution of the company. It is comprised of rules and regulations that govern the company’s internal affairs. The articles of association are concerned with the internal management of the company and aims at carrying out the objectives as … [Read more...] about Articles of Association
Memorandum of Association
Definition: The Memorandum of Association or MOA is the legal document that has to be filed with the registrar of companies at the time of incorporation of the company. It is often called as a memorandum and is comprised of fundamental conditions on the basis of which a company operates. The memorandum of association is the most important document that needs to be formulated … [Read more...] about Memorandum of Association
Grid Training
Definition: The Grid Training is the comprehensive organization development programme developed by Blake and Mouton, which focuses on the overall development of individuals, groups and the organization as a whole. The Grid Training programme is designed in such a way that it enables the individuals as well as the groups to ascertain their strengths and weaknesses and focus … [Read more...] about Grid Training
Robert House’s Path-Goal Model
Definition: The Path-Goal Model of leadership is given by Robert House and others, who studied the relationship between the leadership styles and the situations. According to them, there is no single leadership style that fit in all the situations and therefore, they tried to predict the effectiveness of leadership styles in different situations. Robert House and Mitchell … [Read more...] about Robert House’s Path-Goal Model
Hursey and Blanchard’s Situational Model
Definition: Hursey and Blanchard’s Situational Model talks about the relationship between the leadership styles and the subordinate’s maturity. Here, the maturity means the ability and willingness of the subordinate directing his own behavior towards the job fulfillment. Thus, following are the two main considerations in Hursey and Blanchard’s model: Leadership style … [Read more...] about Hursey and Blanchard’s Situational Model
Fiedler’s Contingency Model
Definition: Fred Fiedler was the first amongst all the leadership theorists to talk about the situational variables. According to him, the effectiveness of the leadership style depends on the situation. Thus, he along with his associates identified the situational variables and studied about their relationship with the appropriateness of leadership styles. Fiedler’s … [Read more...] about Fiedler’s Contingency Model