Study on the Impact of E-waste Training Intervention Session Among Management Students

Case Study from the year 2018 in the subject Leadership and Human Resources - Miscellaneous, grade: 1.00, , course: MBA, language: English, abstract: In the recent years there has been advancement in Information Technology and expedient electronic items improvement. With an updation of innovation the hardware items have produced a lot of electronic waste. A electronic waste comprises of numerous hurtful synthetic compounds and metals, due to this reason it is extremely fundamental to deal with such sort of electronic waste with a legitimate deterrent measure and care. Else it will influence brutally to human well being and condition as well. To deal with the e-waste , an appropriate e-waste administration conventions, improvement of eco-friendly gadgets, legitimate collections channels of e-waste, appropriate recuperation and reuse strategies and discard e-waste by reasonable procedure and its mindfulness is especially important to the common public in present situation. This investigation is concentrated to understand the awareness regarding the e-waste existence, its hazards and management among management students, and to measure effect of e-waste training intervention. An interventional study was conducted during the month of January 2017 among third year management students in Krupanidhi College Bangalore Karnataka. E-waste training intervention session to 56 students was conducted by adopting simple random sampling method. A pre designated questionnaires was administered as pre-test followed by e-waste training. A post-test response was collected a week later. Data was analyzed using ms-excel and SPSS tool. With a P value < 0.05 considered significant, a Chi-square test was applied to understand the effectiveness of the training.A total of 56 questionnaires were analyzed. Out of the total respondents 56% of the respondents were males and 44% of the respondents were females. There was a gain in the knowledge about e-waste management among the students after e-waste training intervention at p<0.05. Respondent’s source of information about e-waste management was Internet (73.21%) followed by News paper (14.28%) and Television (10.71%).