Moon Lightning Professions: A Comparative study on who should and should not be considered as Moon Lightner’s.

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Alajpur Manjula , A.Jai kumar

Moon Lightning, Blue Moon Lightning, Half Moon Lightning, Quarter Moon Lightning, Multiple Job Holding, Job Satisfaction, Job Dissatisfaction, Organizational Commitment.

Employees take up a secondary job along with the primary job to fulfil their needs or to earn a little extra spending money to cope with a rapid change in the recent global environment and uncertain economic conditions. The employee when works outside, other than the primary job working hours, this is called Moon Lightning. This concept is gaining a momentum of research in India. It has both advantages as well as disadvantages. Moon Lightning employees face different ethical issues, and it is considered as a challenge to both employee and employer. Some people consider it as ethical, and some people consider it as unethical. There are few professions like Consultants and Chartered Accountants which are not under the moon lightning criteria. In the present scenario, it has become major concept of concern for the Human Resource to reframe their HR policies, to make their employees more clear about the differences of who, to what extent they can, and also which professions are included and exempted from the criteria of moon lightning. The present study takes both cases of professionals who are included and exempted as moon lighters by the organizations. We gathered the data from the secondary resources, and try to understand which employees moonlight more and, Is it right? to be included or exempted from the moon lightning criteria. The aim of this research paper is to get an in-depth understanding about the professions who are considered and are not considered as moonlighters by the organizations and why there is a difference in these considerations, and who are the employees who are highly involved in the moon lightning Practices.

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Alajpur Manjula & A.Jai kumar (June-2023). Moon Lightning Professions: A Comparative study on who should and should not be considered as Moon Lightner’s. . INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 8(6), d952-d958. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2306398.pdf

Volume 8 Issue 6, June-2023

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Paper Reg. ID: IJNRD_199615

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Country: Secunderabad, Telangana , India

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