Best HR Practices in the Corporate Sector and the Indian Armed Forces: A Comparative Study

Narang, Major General Gurdeep Singh; Goswami, Pinky; Sharma, Archana

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“…The conditions are much more complex for Indian soldier, who consistently struggles with internal Maoism, cross border terrorism and violent borders. The shortage of staff, lack of modern HR practices, a strict authoritarian chain of command, frequent job rotation and lack of accommodation facility for family (nearby posting) makes things extremely challenging for Indian soldiers (Narang et al , 2016).…”

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“…While soldiers in the armed forces are often studied for post-traumatic stress disorder, little is known about the extent to which soldiers experience homesickness during their service (Niziurski and Berntsen, 2018). Unlike civilian counterparts, defense personnel faces adverse physical and social working conditions such as extreme weather, challenging terrain, deployed in remote and isolated places, which intensify their homesick symptoms (Narang et al , 2016) and make them psychologically vulnerable. Studies reveal there has also been a modest rise in suicidal tendencies among the soldiers in the defense population (Tochkov et al , 2010).…”

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Homesickness: a comparative study of defense and civilian employees and individual differences

Garg

Punia

Kakkar

et al. 2021

IJOA

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Purpose Most of the studies in the field of homesickness are confined to students; this study aims to explore the feeling of homesickness among working professionals. Also, it tends to examine individual differences in the experience of homesickness across employees of different gender, ages, experience, family type, etc. The study also aspires to compare homesickness among military and civil employees. Design/methodology/approach The study explores five dimensions of homesickness, namely, missing family, missing friend, rumination about home, feeling lonely and adjustment problems. The collected data is subjected to reliability, validity and confirmatory factor analysis. Further, t-test and analysis of variance are used to explore homesickness differences across soldiers and corporate employees. Findings The study reveals that homesickness is significantly higher for employees in the male, unmarried, nuclear family, above the age of 45 years, and below the graduation category. Also, defense people experience more homesickness than civilian employees. Originality/value This study is one of the pioneer studies that compare homesickness among defense and civilian employees. Also, variables such as type of family, the experience of employees and marital status have hardly been explored in the literature of homesickness.

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%