July 2010
Hello! Ethiopian managers, be positive
The purpose of this research paper was to find out the Ethiopian managers behavioural patterns and managerial competencies. The study explored this point from two dimensions (employees’ view point and the managers’ view point). Relevant literature reviews on behavioural patterns and managerial abilities with specific emphasis on the behaviours of managers and their competencies were made....
July 2010
The influence of micro-credit on poverty alleviation among rural dwellers: A case study of Akoko North West Local Government Area of Ondo State
The study which was conducted in Akoko North West Area of Ondo State, examined the influence of micro credit on poverty alleviation among rural areas. The study among other things examined the socio-economic characteristics of respondents, activities of the Ondo State micro credit agency (OSMA) and the influence of micro credit on some selected macroeconomic variables of respondents. Data were sourced with...
July 2010
Strategies for employee recruitment, retention and performance: Dimension of the Federal civil service of Nigeria
Institutions are established to accomplish specified goals. To achieve these goals, the human resource is seen as one of the most crucial factors, without which the goals are as good as dead. This study empirically examined strategies for employee recruitment, retention and performance in the Federal civil service (FCS) of Nigeria. To achieve the objectives of the study, questionnaires were administered to civil...
July 2010
The impact of liberalization, privatization, and globalization (LPG) on life insurance corporation of India (LIC)
The Indian life insurance industry has its own origin and history. Since its inception, it has passed through many obstacles, hindrances to attain its present status. The income earning capacity of an individual citizen of a nation and the eagerness and awareness of the general public are the two key determinants of the growth of any insurance industry. As a result, wider mass-employment opportunities and...
July 2010
Effect of proficiency in English on the performance of B. Tech students in group discussion
The following study has been done to study the effect of proficiency in English on the performance of engineering students in group discussion. The hypothesis was framed in such a way that the higher the student’s proficiency in English, the better will their performance be in group discussion. The first year students of Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology were taken as respondents. Group...
July 2010
The current global economic crisis and its impacts in Tanzania
This paper is on the current global financial crisis and its impacts in Tanzania. The author gives an overview of the meaning, nature, causes, general impacts and possible solutions for the crisis in Tanzania. Informed mainly by a review of literature and analysis of the same, it is found by the author that the crisis officially started to manifest itself in September 2008 in the financial markets in the...
July 2010
World food scenario: Emerging trends and issues
Global food scenario has been under heavy odds. This has been due to spiraling food prices and scarcity of food grains all over the world. The result is that the specter of a hungry world that stood at 800 million roiled into unrest and political upheavals. One of the contributory factors is more population and lesser output of food grains. There is also a saying that the Asian Economies and the US have also...
July 2010
Six sigma concept within banking system
Finance industry is considerably applying six sigma quality process with the aim of eliminating defects. Six sigma is a powerful system. Basically it is measuring of quality that longs for perfection (3,4 defects on 1.000.000 transactions). The very name of this philosophy is important. The word "sigma" is a Greek letter which represents standard deviation, the term that describes how distant is the...
July 2010
Organizational design of a rail company using Fuzzy ANP
For development of state policy, railway traffic has great importance, considering necessary reduction of traffic pollution, strengthening and increase of the national rail company. According to the rail market liberalization and deregulation, a rail company has to be flexible and open to the current trends on the market. The organizational design has great importance, since a rail company with an adequate...
July 2010
The effects of discrimination perception and job satisfaction on Turkish public accountants’ turnover intention
This research tests a model of turnover intentions for accountants’ motivated by the belief that understanding the turnover phenomenon among accountants’ may help personnel managers and manpower planners design effective retention strategies. It may also provide occupational counselors and prospective job seekers a better perspective on the nature and requirements of jobs in accounting. The...
July 2010
Organizational complexity and departmental leadership: Perceptions of leadership and teaching/learning in a US research-intensive academic department
This study aims to contribute to the discussion about the role of leadership in academic departments in research-intensive universities. The objective here is to understand how leadership and teaching are perceived in the context of an academic department of one elite US research-intensive university. Semi-structured interviews carried out in a dialogical manner aimed at grasping faculty perceptions of...
July 2010
The effects of service quality, tourism impact, and tourist satisfaction on tourist choice of leisure farming types
In the highly-competitive leisure service industry, improving service quality to gain competitive advantages is the only key to sustainable management of leisure agriculture. However, developing leisure farming may cause positive and negative impact on local economy, social culture, and environment. Therefore, how to identify the factors affecting tourist choice of leisure farming types is an important issue...
July 2010
Influence of work support on employee creativity: An empirical examination in the Peoples Republic of China
Employee creativity makes an important contribution to organizational survival and development. Hence, researchers have become increasingly interested in identifying the conditions that influence employee creativity. One of these conditions is work support for creativity. In the PRC, work support has received more considerable research attention because it is related to “Guanxi” which plays a key...
July 2010
Assessing the leisure travel behavior of foreign and domestic graduates in Central United States
This study employed both quantitative and qualitative research design to identify how graduate students’ travel behavior in the Central US varied in leisure behavior, based on comparing Taiwanese students to both other international foreign students and domestic Americans. The study found significant differences in what motivated students to seek travel and leisure during study breaks (push factors)....
July 2010
Does debts foster economic growth? The experience of Malaysia
The study examines the effect of different types of debts on the economic growth in Malaysia during the sample period 1970 - 2006. Using cointegration test, the findings suggest that all components of debts have a negative effect on long-run economic growth. In addition, the Granger causality test reveals the existence of a short-run causality linkage between all debt measures and...
July 2010
Decision-support analysis for risk management
Generally, a project is an investment suggestion, which requires making a series of investment expenditures (cash outflow) in a planned manner to obtain more cash inflow in the future. Therefore, the basic objective of project appraisal should be to make prior decisions on the feasibility of investment advice. The results of project feasibility can be classified into two categories: uncertainty and risk....
July 2010
Applying activity based costing model on cost accounting of provider of universal postal services in developing countries
One of the effects of the current postal legislation is that a request by the public postal operators must publish accounting data on their operations while respecting a number of criteria. The obligation of the public operator involves keeping separate accounts for reserved and unreserved services. Directive of European Parliament and of the Council from the 1997 includes guide for the issue of mechanism for...
July 2010
Analysis of factors affecting land fragmentation in Erzurum Province, Turkey
Fragmentation of the agriculture prevents the efficient use of the production factors. The aim of this study is to determine the factors which affect land fragmentation of farms in villages of Central District of Erzurum Province in 2004. Ordered logit model was used for this purpose. As a result of the study, it has been found that there is a positive relationship between tools and machinery assets which...
July 2010
The comparison and analysis of employee satisfaction improvement in the hot spring and financial industries
This study addresses the deficiency in service quality by integrating the “importance” and “satisfaction” indices to establish the “importance-satisfaction model (I-S model)” and provide a comprehensive assessment model for improving specific quality attributes. The study applies this integrated measuring instrument in the Taiwanese hot spring and financial industries by...
July 2010
Relationship antecedents that impact on outcomes of strategic stakeholder alliances
The research aims to measure the reliability of applying the three-stage model to strategic alliances and to propose relationship antecedents that may impact on the outcome of strategic alliances. Four relationship outcomes were used to measure strategic alliances and were adopted from the seminal work by Grunig and Huang (2000): 'Trust' relates to the reliability and integrity of relationship...
July 2010
The relationships between self leadership and critical thinking
The aim of this research is to address general relationships between self leadership and critical thinking as well as relationships with the sub dimensions. Survey method was used in the research. The population included 450 students in Firat University (of Turkey) attending pedagogical formation program for being teachers in secondary schools. The study sample comprised of 386 students selected among those...
July 2010
Multi dimensional organizational intelligence measurements for determining the institutional and managerial capacity of girls’ technical education institution (Diyarbakir, Şanliurfa and Konya/Turkey)
This study aims to measure the level of the organizational intelligence of the Technical Education Institutions for Girls in Diyarbakir, Åžanliurfa and Konya in Turkey. These provinces are studied with the demand of Girls Technical Education Institutions because of the heterogeneous structure they have about organizational intelligence perceptions, in terms of geographical extent, social, economic and...
July 2010
Anti-rational decision making
In this research, the situations of university entrance examinations simulate the conditions of decision-making behavior. Based on the analysis of the above information that is empowered by a series of interviews, a new idea about the behavior of human beings in decision-making is developed. "Antirational decision making" expresses that the limitation of rationality could lead to decisions which...
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