Inigo Papu Vinodhan: articles and study notes Assistant Professor of Business Administration at St. Joseph's College (Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli. CV, research, writing and course materials for students. https://inigo.co.in/ 2026-11-14T00:00:00Z J. Inigo Papu Vinodhanhttps://inigo.co.in/about/ Incoterms 2020 explained: all 11 rules, risk and cost on one chart https://inigo.co.in/resources/incoterms-2020/ 2026-11-14T00:00:00Z What each of the 11 Incoterms 2020 rules means for an exporter: where risk passes, who pays freight, insurance and duties, and what changed from 2010. Using AI to learn, not to skip the learning: a guide for business students https://inigo.co.in/articles/ai-in-the-classroom/ 2026-11-13T00:00:00Z Generative AI can make a student sharper or lazier. Four habits that keep you the author of your own work, what to ask an AI and what never to trust it with. Fayol's 14 principles of management, with examples https://inigo.co.in/resources/fayol-14-principles-of-management/ 2026-11-13T00:00:00Z Henri Fayol's five functions and fourteen principles of management, each with an everyday example, plus the scalar chain, gang plank and Fayol versus Taylor. Hypothesis testing: steps, p-values, and Type I and Type II errors https://inigo.co.in/resources/hypothesis-testing-type-1-type-2-errors/ 2026-11-12T00:00:00Z The six steps of a hypothesis test, a worked one-sample z-test, what a p-value does and does not mean, and the four possible outcomes of every test. Public speaking for students: a method you can practise https://inigo.co.in/articles/public-speaking-for-students/ 2026-11-11T00:00:00Z Confident speakers are made, not born. A method students can practise: one message, a simple structure, rehearsal aloud, and handling nerves and questions. Break-even analysis: contribution, P/V ratio and margin of safety https://inigo.co.in/resources/break-even-analysis/ 2026-11-11T00:00:00Z The break-even formulas, worked through one example drawn to scale: contribution, P/V ratio, break-even point, target profit and margin of safety. Goleman's five components of emotional intelligence https://inigo.co.in/resources/goleman-five-components/ 2026-11-10T00:00:00Z Study notes with definitions, workplace examples, a self-check and exam-style questions. Herzberg's two-factor theory of motivation: hygiene factors and motivators https://inigo.co.in/resources/herzberg-two-factor-theory/ 2026-11-10T00:00:00Z Why removing dissatisfaction is not motivating people: Herzberg's study, hygiene factors and motivators, job enrichment, the criticisms, and Maslow compared. A quality of work life audit for managers: Walton's eight questions https://inigo.co.in/articles/quality-of-work-life-audit/ 2026-11-09T00:00:00Z Quality of work life is more than salary. Walton's eight criteria as questions any manager can ask about their own team, and what to do with the answers. Critical path method (CPM): a worked example with floats https://inigo.co.in/resources/critical-path-method/ 2026-11-08T00:00:00Z How to draw a project network, run the forward and backward passes, find the critical path and work out total, free and independent float, step by step. Linear programming: formulation and the graphical method https://inigo.co.in/resources/lpp-graphical-method/ 2026-11-06T00:00:00Z How to turn a business problem into an LPP and solve it graphically, with a fully worked example and practice problems. Indian Contract Act, 1872: essentials of a valid contract https://inigo.co.in/resources/essentials-of-a-valid-contract/ 2026-11-03T00:00:00Z Section-by-section notes on what makes an agreement enforceable, with the leading cases and exam-style questions. Workplace stress is a design problem, not a personal failing https://inigo.co.in/articles/stress-is-a-design-problem/ 2026-11-02T00:00:00Z Three classic models of occupational stress point the same way: the fix lies less in yoga sessions and more in how jobs are built. Modes of entering a foreign market https://inigo.co.in/resources/foreign-market-entry-modes/ 2026-10-30T00:00:00Z Exporting, licensing, franchising, contract manufacturing, joint ventures and wholly owned subsidiaries compared on control, risk and cost, with Indian cases. Choosing a legal form for an NGO in India: trust, society or Section 8 company https://inigo.co.in/resources/ngo-legal-forms-india/ 2026-10-24T00:00:00Z How the three main legal forms for non-profits in India compare, and the registrations an NGO needs to receive donations, foreign funds and CSR money. Green HRM on campus: where an Indian college can start https://inigo.co.in/articles/green-hrm-on-campus/ 2026-10-12T00:00:00Z Sustainability on campus is usually treated as a facilities project. It works better as a people project, built into how we hire, train, appraise and involve staff. Emotional intelligence for first-time managers: five habits worth building https://inigo.co.in/articles/emotional-intelligence-first-time-managers/ 2026-09-21T00:00:00Z Emotional intelligence is not a fixed trait you either have or lack. For a new manager it is a set of habits, and habits can be practised. What running a volunteer organisation teaches about management https://inigo.co.in/articles/what-ngos-teach-about-management/ 2026-08-30T00:00:00Z Seventeen years with TOSS Charitable Trust have taught me management lessons no textbook quite captures. Most of them apply just as well to companies.