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The Impact of Leadership Style Adopted by the Manager in the Nigeria Beverage Sector on Human Resource Motivation: A Field Study in the South-Western Nigeria
No full textThis study aims first to identify the leadership style which is used the most by the managers in the Nigeria beverage sector, second investigate the factors that influence motivation of employees working in the sector, and third to examine the impact of two leadership styles (Transformational, and Transactional leaders) on human resource motivation. The study population was totality of employees in the Beverage Companies (BCs) located within Lagos State, South-Western Nigeria. Three hundred and fifty questionnaires were distributed, three hundred and ten questionnaires were analyzed. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics at 0.05 significance level with the aid of SPSS statistical program version 21.0 for windows. The results revealed that managers in beverage companies are using the transformational leadership style most; employees in beverage companies are motivated most by job satisfaction. The findings of the multiple regression indicated that transformational leadership style had highest impact on human resource motivation. Based on the findings transformational leardership style is encouraged to be used by the management of beverage companies and other large organizations in Nigeria if they want to be successful and productive
Factor Analysis Between Internal and External R&D with Operational Performance moderated by Intellectual Property Rights
Get PDFThis paper elaborates the findings from factor analysis in investigating intellectual property rights (IPR) (patent) having a moderating effect on the relationship between internal and external R&D towards operational performance of chemical and metallurgical manufacturing firms in Malaysia. The results of this paper were based on statistical output derived from the Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 19. The survey method was used for the study, focusing on chemical and metallurgical firms in Malaysia as the unit of analysis. It was revealed that IPR policy pertaining patents should become part of a firm’s business strategy. Implementing IPR will safeguard firm’s new invention, innovation, or process in the long run. Furthermore, firms may gain benefits in creating new business opportunities during various patenting stages. Strict enforcement of IPR could yield better incentives for innovation. In the long run, revenue obtained from IPR can be used to finance innovation and R&D activities. Implementation of IPR has tendencies to stimulate more research and innovation. Applying innovative and creative ideas by protecting it through IPR is able to help firm’s long term success. The paper reveals that the relationship between internal R&D towards operational performance was exist in the study (H1A); relationship between external R&D towards operational performance was exist in the study (H1B); and higher level of IPR has a significant positive impact on operational performance (H1C)
Flow Modelling of the Educational System Using Dynamo Method
Get PDFThis article proposes to model and identify the educational system using modelling dynamo in the stock-flow approach initiated by Forrester. The method is to model a level of schooling and determine its step and impulse responses. Model of one cycle is obtained by cascading levels which make it up. The system model is obtained by the cascading of the cycles which make up. For analyzing the impulse response of a school level, a known number of students is injected into the corresponding tank as initial value. The simulation process allows seeing how the level of the tank evolves with respect to time. During this simulation, Inflow is maintained disabled. For the step response is the inflow which is maintained at a constant value. Tank is initially empty. The flow parameters used in modelling are: the promotion rate, repetition rate, and dropout rate. In reality, these parameters depend on time and on some other factors. To simplify the analysis and identification, it's the average values of these parameters that are taken in the simulation process. After cascading, the overall model allows to visualize the response of the system in respect of different values of the flow parameters, so that makes it possible to explore by simulation the behaviour of the system in response to a given policy decision
The Applications Of Waiting Line Management On The Operations Of Public Sector Organizations: The Kogi State Health Sector Experience (2009-2012)
Get PDFThe study examines the application of waiting line management on the operations of public sector organizations, a study of some selected hospitals in Kogi State. The aim of this research is to examine the application of waiting line management on the operations of public sector organizations with particular reference to the Kogi State health sector using some selected hospitals. The study used a sample of 522 patients drawn from a population of 3,090 patients, using judgmental sampling techniques. The study employed a combination of primary data in the form of questionnaire, observation and secondary data to collect data from the patients of these hospitals covering a period of (2009 – 2012). The survey research method was used in the research. The study employed chi square and ANOVA to test the necessary hypotheses. To obtain the sample size for this study, Yaro Yameru’s model of obtaining sample size was used. Other techniques used to analyze the data in this study include: queuing simulation and other queuing models. It has been observed that waiting line is one of the major problems confronting most of the public health sector, to the extent that a possible lost of life in the case of serious illness which call for emergency situation can even resulted. The study revealed among other things, that unnecessary waiting line if not properly managed has a lot of cost implications for the concerned individuals, organizations and the general public. Based on the findings and conclusions, the study recommends the outright use of the application of strategic waiting line management for both public and private hospitals in order to improve their efficiency and productivity
A Secure Smartphone Platform for Efficient Communication in Emergency Situation
Get PDFIn this paper; we introduce novel technique in which effective communication of the Smartphone can be achieved. It is used as a platform to investigate a correlation that exists between securing the Smartphone and efficient emergency communication. We conducted to include several radio technologies, such as cognitive radio (CR). Cognitive radio deals with spectrum resources utilization. Due to the fact that, CR has the capability to adjust spectrum signals by adaptation, which means frequency channels can reorganize themselves more appropriately and also adjust themselves in signal interference issues, finally providing strong signals to process data instantly and more effectively
Dynamics Modeling Of the Educational System
Get PDFThis work proposes a modelling process of the dynamics of the educational system as a complex system. In fact, the educational system is a system which is self-organized, and it is characterized by a non-stationary dynamics. This results in the difficulty to proceed to a rational modelling that would allow an accurate prediction of its behaviour in response to a given decision. Therefore, the modelling process of the dynamics of the educational system focuses more on how change happens within the system. In this process we consider the state of the educational system at any time that we note as the overall distribution of the number of students by levels and cycles of education. The objective is to calculate the transition of the state of the system from a known state to the next state ; this transition of the state is conditioned by the flow parameters and the schooling parameters whose variation implies that of the dynamics of the educational system. To account for the difficulty of making accurate prediction about flow parameters, the model must allow prospecting various scenarios based on different hypotheses about these parameters. To validate our model, we would like to implement it to the case of primary education of Moroccan system about which we have enough information on the decade between 2002-2003 and 2012-2013. The validation is performed by comparing simulation / reality on this period
Oil Price Fluctuations and FOREX Market: Evidence from OPEC Countries
Get PDFThe paper aimed to examine the causes of fluctuations in oil prices that may be due to fluctuating foreign exchange rates and also to investigate the same relationship existence between the two variables. The present study has been conducted in OPEC nations as these are the nations which play an important role in determining oil prices, though oil prices have been taken from NYMEX WPI from period 1997-2011. The results were examined and analyzed by using Toda and Yamamoto causality approach (1995) and mixed results were found
Marketing Strategies & Service Excellence for Low-cost Airline in India
Get PDFDespite poor financial performance of the airline industry for last many years, a select number of “no-frills” airlines have successfully stood out of the crowd due to their innovative service quality management and unique marketing strategies. These efforts have led to higher customer satisfaction and stronger brand image of the companies. A study was recently conducted to capture the customer expectations from Low Cost Carrier (LCC) companies and identify service excellence parameters as tools for marketing. Based on standard service quality and performance parameters adapted to the low-cost airlines in India, a set of basic as well as desirable parameters were identified that LCC companies should address to be competitive and successful. It was also apparent that the airline should be clear about what it wants to offer to its customers and should communicate and deliver what it has promised. Role of technology in improving customer satisfaction and brand image has been explored. Marketing communication strategies that are practically feasible and work best for such airlines have been identified. Caselet of Indigo Airlines as a successful LCC in India has also been taken up. This paper presents facts mainly based on qualitative analysis and basic statistical computations on the collected primary data
Using Ψ theory and Activity Theory to Management Organization Change
Get PDFActivity Theory is a framework to understand the totality of human work and its praxis in an organization, since work cannot be understood or analysed outside the context in which it occurs. Thus, when analysing human work, we must take into consideration not only the actions of individuals but also who is involved, what are their motives and goals, which rules apply in the context, what tools are used and the community in a minimum space where the work occurs. We call this minimum space an activity and can represented in a diagram called Activity Diagram. This theory also helps to understand the causes of every day organization problems, called contradictions in Activity Theory parlance. It appears that there is a lack of current methodologies that address the question of how to resolve the contradictions and how is assists in transforming an organization. This paper proposes a framework of how analysis contradictions within an organization, using Activity Diagram and DEMO
Healthgrids: Review, Challenges And Open Issues
Get PDFGrid technology has received wide acceptance in fields ranging from industry to academia. Its capability to integrate heterogeneous and distributed computing resources to provide transparent access has been leveraged in different areas of computing needs including healthcare provisioning. The global effort focuses on exploiting the grid infrastructure opportunities in the enhancement of health related activities. This paper reviewed few of the existing healthgrids in the context of applying existing grid infrastructures and middleware in providing specific medical services. The focus is on the services provided using grid services and infrastructures, the middleware forming the bases of interoperability between the services as well as service client specific applications. The contributions of this paper are to highlight and identify open problems, challenges within the healthgrid that can impede the goal of pervasiveness healthcare provisioning