Purpose: In the aftermath of national lockdown due to Covid-19, several organizations were forced to opt remote working, which provides several challenges and opportunities to the employees and employer. The reason for carrying out this empirical study is that the subject is new, challenging, and occupational stress exists everywhere; also, an inadequate research has been reported on such type of studies. This empirical study reports the results of the effect of occupational stress and remote working on employees' psychological well-being in the Information Technology industry. Methodology: The effect of seven independent occupational stress-causing factors including workload, peer, physiological factors, role ambiguity, organization climate, psychological factors and job satisfaction, and an independent factor, remote working, on the dependent factor of psychological well-being of employees in Information Technology industry was measured. The psychological well-being was measured with six subscales -environment mastery, positive growth, positive relations, self-acceptance, autonomy, and purpose of life. The independent factors were measured using a survey instrument, a structured undisguised questionnaire, whereas dependent factors were measured with a shortened version of 18-item Ryff's scale. The inferences of the outcome were made using appropriate statistical procedures. Findings: The multiple regression analysis results revealed independent factors like peer, role ambiguity, organization climate, and job satisfaction are significantly influencing the psychological well-being of the employees in the Information Technology Industry. There are minor statistically significant gender and age group differences that are affecting the psychological well-being of employees as observed. Implications: The study implies that wherever possible, the remote working options need to be worked out by the employer, in all the sectors to reduce the stress and enhance the psychological well-being of employees. Originality: Till now, no researcher has reported such type of empirical study, and the available literature is limited to occupational stress in general, without suggesting how remote working affects the psychological well-being of employees in particular.

The author reports the results of an empirical study on Occupational Stress and Psychological Wellbeing on the Faculty of Higher Education, and its effect on Virtual Teaching and performance. The data gathered using google forms from the Engineering and Management faculty in and around Hyderabad Higher educational institutes. The research instrument,  a structured questionnaire, completed by 400 faculty members of the Engineering and Management faculty of Higher Educational Institutes in and around Hyderabad. The data was gathered using a 5-point Likert Type scale to measure the faculty performance, occupational stress, and virtual teaching factors, whereas the psychological well-being of the faculty is measured using a 7-point scale. The response from the 7-point psychological well-being scale was converted into a 5-point Likert-type scale using linear transformations. The research instrument maintained its reliability and internal consistency as assessed by Cronbach Alpha (0.83). The logistic regression analysis indicated autonomy, the purpose of life the psychological well-being factors, and work load, remote working, role conflict are statistically significant and influencing the faculty performance and virtual teaching.

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The authors of this article attempted combining the two methodologies of gamification and resource pooling with a view to derive the maximum productivity from the organization drawing certain significant commonalities. Another biggest motive behind the authors for combining these two techniques is the fact that eCommerce is a business vertical or a market place where people from all walks of life participate in online purchases. eCommerce is not a market place where it is restricted to one particular community, region, age, colour etc., So to interact, involve and conduct the business operations with an inclusive mindset, the authors thought that it would be appropriate to gamify and pooling the resources such that there would be a perfect blend of resources with utmost motivation to serve all the stakeholders, irrespective of their age, gender, community, region, economic status, in ecommerce. It turned out to be a practical solution as it proved to be promoting an atmosphere that fosters friendship and loyalty, and these close-knit relationships motivate employees; align them to work much harder, cooperate and be supportive to each other. This is possible because every individual possesses diverse talents, weaknesses, communication skills, strengths, habits, and hence it is optimally balanced out. Gamification is a method to enhance employee engagement, behavioral change and motivation. Application of gamification is not limited to eCommerce business models, but can be applied to various other business models in the sectors like education, research, healthcare etc. So also, the human resource pooling is building and grouping of human resources for best use to improve the operational efficiency and reduce the costs. The human resource pooling can happen during fine tuning of a cultural fit, organization mergers, change in organization structure, technological changes and on acquiring new technology. In this study we have considered a group of 120 employees who were further divided to 6 functional groups, having 20 employees in each functional

In this empirical research we are reporting the results of a survey carried out in Healthcare Industry in the Metro city of Hyderabad, whether the performance appraisal management system is effected by the independent factors performance management, improved employee performance and impact of performance appraisal system on employee performance. The authors surveyed 750 staff working in various healthcare centres including hospitals, training centres consisting of 435 men and 315 women employees, to evaluate the how the said factors effect the performance management system in healthcare industry. The reliability statistics Cronbach Alpha, Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy and Bartlett's tests of sample adequacy, principal component analysis and multiple linear regression analysis carried out. The Cronbach alpha measured at for performance management 0.870 factors for improvement of employee performance 0.776 and factors for Impact of performance appraisal system on organization is 0.742. The KMO-Bartlett tests reveal a strong relationship among the study variables and Bartlett's test of Sphericity is significant (P<0.001) for all the three factors indicating the correlation matrix is not an identify matrix. The multiple regression analysis reveals the three factors significantly influencing the performance management system in healthcare industry in the Metro of Hyderabad.