The Role of Coaching in Enhancing Employee Performance
Measuring Customer Satisfaction of Hotel Industry in Bangladesh: A SERVQUAL and Structural Equation Model (SEM) Approach
Strategies for Building Supply Chain Resilience, Law Enforcement, and Sustainability during Black Swan Events
Perceptions of Climate Change and Barriers to Adaptation along the Teesta River in Bangladesh
Socioeconomic Effects of Village Loan Savings Initiatives on Empowering Rural Communities - Case Study of the Impact of VLS Program in T/A Chimwala, Malawi
Efficiency Analysis of Commercial Banks in India: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis
A Study on Factors Influencing Youngsters’ Perceptions towards Choice of Investment Avenues
A Study of Generic Intertextuality in Corporate Press Releases
A Study on Factors Affecting Purchase Decision of Young Adults after GST Implementation in India – With Special Reference to FMCG Products
A Review of Commercial Banks’ Role in Public Sector Transparency and Accountability in the Nigerian Economy
Soft Systems Modelling of the New Product Development Process - A Case Study
An Emerging Training Model for Successful Lean Manufacturing – An Empirical Study
A Qualitative Performance Measurement Approach to New Product Development
Brand Power Through Effective Design
Intellectual Venture Capitalists: An Emerging Breed of Knowledge Entrepreneurs
This paper describes the current levels of economic growth in the Brazilian economy, one of the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), presenting a historic overview of the country's economic growth in the past years, as well as the evolution of some macroeconomic indicators. Brazil's participation in international organization forums, such as the IMF and WTO, are included in this paper. The country's inflow and outflow Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) in recent years are also discussed and examples are given to illustrate the current trend of investments in different markets, with an emphasis on the USA and the State of Florida, in particular.
This paper aims to highlight the importance of transport and logistics in the area of Supply Chain Management (SCM) in Indian Railways. SCM aims to provide finished goods, services and information to the ultimate customer smoothly and effectively. This paper identifies various developments of supply chain in the field of transportation especially in railways. In Indian Railway, coal transportation has been the major source of revenue earning as far as freight transport is concerned. This paper further presents a case study where coal loading statistics of two consecutive years in Dhanbad Railway Division of India has been used to calculate the process capability index. The paper concludes with the findings that the average target loading per day was 7.574 M.T, while average actual loading achieved per day was 7.437 M.T and the average actual C achieved was 0.249.
This article proposes to estimate the causality relationship between economic growth and domestic savings. A cointegration and Granger Causality methods are employed with panel data from the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN); the authors excluded Myanmar from the sample due to unavailability of data. To this end, they extracted time series annual data from the World Bank and Asian Development Bank for the period of 1980 to 2014. The results demonstrate the significant differences of relationship between economic growth and savings among the countries. The study finds that the domestic savings cause the economic growth of Singapore, The Philippines, Brunei and Vietnam. Meanwhile, the economic growth causes the domestic savings of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. A bidirectional causality relationship is showed for Cambodia and Lao PDR.
This comparative study has been undertaken in Tirunelveli City, Tamilnadu with the objectives of identifying and differentiating perception of nurses working in multi-speciality hospitals and single speciality hospitals towards push and pull factors of employee turnover. The study has analyzed 24 factors in terms of push factors and 18 factors in terms of pull factors. The study has stratified the target group into nurses working in multi-speciality hospitals and nurses working in single speciality hospitals using stratified random sampling techniques. A total of 120 nurses have been sampled from both kinds of organizations using judgment sampling techniques. Both Mean and Standard Deviation have been administered to identify and differentiate push and pull factors of employee turnover of nurses working in both kinds of organizations. The analysis has shown that the majority of the push and pull factors discussed in this study have commonly and equally been perceived by majority of the nurses working in both kinds of organization. The study has given suitable suggestions to control and prevent turnover of nurses in private hospitals.
The case discusses Denny's Corporation, the largest full-service restaurant chain in the United States, and the evolution of its diversity management. During the early 1990s, Denny's was involved in a series of discrimination lawsuits involving cases of servers denying or providing inferior service to members of minority racial groups, especially African American customers. The restaurant chain acquired a reputation as a “poster child for racism.” At the time Denny's had no diversity training and almost no members of minority groups held management positions, owned franchises, or had vendor contracts. After a $54.4 million settlement for the discrimination lawsuits, Denny's rolled out an industry-leading racial sensitivity training program for all of its employees. In 2008, Denny's had come to be considered one of the nation's best companies in dealing with delicate racial issues. It appeared on lists of top places to work for minorities and women, an indication that it has completely reversed its direction on diversity. Rapid technological change, globalization, the demand for skills and education, an aging workforce, and greater ethnic diversification in the labor market had all contributed to making diversity management a high priority for Denny's and its rivals in the competitive U.S. restaurant industry. However, diversity also had negative effects on companies in the industry, and in spite of its commitment to diversity, performance at Denny's suffered. Hard evidence that managing diversity provided a discernable business advantage was elusive.
