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Women's involvement as an effective management tool in decision-making in Oromia region's public organizations
No full textWomen are the fuel that runs the engine of the organization and it is believed that their low involvement in the decision-making process creates tensions between management and staff. Therefore, the purpose of this study was aimed to determine the impact of women low involvement as a management tool in decision-making and its implementation in Oromia region public organizations by determining the causes of low women involvement in decision-making and the consequences of such action on implementation of decisions. In the study, cross-sectional, descriptive and inferential designs were used. As findings of the study; eventhough, the involvement of women in decision-making are increasing, until know there is low acceptability of their decision-making process by all communities. As per the chi-square test made (p<0.001, Phi= .207), there is statistically significant difference between men and women believe as the involvement of women in decision-making lead acceptable by all people. The serious consequences of low women involvement are, job dissatisfaction, low productivity and employee turnover and reduce various benefits of organizations. Implications: Hence, in order to reduce such problem the governemet and every organization should consider specifically the above factors
Behavioral factors influencing individual investors Investment Decision making in the share market a study on individual traders at Bedele town
No full textThe main objective of this study was to determine behavioral factors that influence the individual investors’
investment decision making in the share companies’ at Bedele Town. As there are very few studies about
behavioral finance in Ethiopia, this study expected to contribute significantly to the development of this field
in Ethiopia. To address research problem and to accomplish research goal, the research design that used in
this study was mainly Descriptive and Explanatory research design. The study conducted on the sample of
119 respondents selected by systematic sampling technique and structured questionnaires administered. To
Measure the quality of data, researcher used Cronbach's alpha test and to test the hypotheses of the study,
Factor analysis, KMO’s, mean scores, percentages, F test, Eigen values and multiple regression analysis
used. The result shows that behavioral factors influencing the investment decisions of individual investors at
Bedele town are Heuristics: Representativeness, Overconfidence, Anchoring, Availability and Gambler’s
Fallacy. Prospect variables: Loss aversion, Regret aversion and mental accounting while Market variables
are Price changes, Market information, past trends of shares, Fundamentals of underlying shares, Customer
preference, over, and under reaction to price changes. In addition, herding variables Impacts of other
investors’ decisions, Buying and selling, choice of trading shares, Volume of trading shares and Speed of
herding are influence the investment decisions of individual investors. This study also tries to find out the
impact level of behavioral factors on investment decision making of individual investors. The result shows
that, Representativeness, anchoring, and Gambler’s Fallacy have moderate impacts on the decision making of
individual investors While Overconfidence and Availability Bias have high impacts on the decision making of
individual investors. Loss aversion has moderate impacts on the decision making of individual investors while
Regret aversion has very low impacts and mental accounting have low impacts. Price changes, past trends of
shares and Customer preference have moderate impacts on the decision making of individual investors.
Market information and Fundamentals of underlying shares has high impacts on the decision making of
individual investors while over and under reaction to price a change has low impacts regarding market
factors. In relation with Herding effect, individual investors at Bedele town follow moderately the Impacts of
other investors’ decisions; they more or less tend to consider the others’ behaviors of Buying, selling, choice
of trading shares, Volume of trading shares and Speed of herding. Furthermore, the study tries to find out the
relationships between these behavioral factors. The study revealed that, Heuristics and prospect factors are
significant and have positive impacts while market and herding factors have insignificant and have positive
impacts on the investment decision making of individual investors in share companies at Bedele town
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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