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Huddersfield team says “we have an impact while we are learning”
No full textThis article introduces a mutual project
initiative between a team from
the University of Huddersfield and
Pontis Foundation. The team comprised
of selected 2015 / 16 first-year
students studying ethical and social
impact issues on the Business and
Environment module, and headed by
the author of this article and module
leader, Radi Haloub. The intent
of this collaboration was to interact
with an existing fair trade company,
Ten Senses, in Kenya, one of Africa’s
developing countries, in order to contribute
towards improving teaching
and learning experiences in Kenya
and the UK
An Evaluation of the Potential of Bayesian Sales Forecasting in Improving the Long-term Marketing and Management Performance of UK Pharmaceutical Firms
No full textManagement needs to deal with increasing uncertainty of environmental changes to make critical and important decisions about the future in the present time. Sales forecasting is fundamental to management's ability to plan, budget and control. It is not a question of whether managers should forecast or not; but the main question is how they are to do so, and this fact is applicable to all organisations in all industries.
Understanding of forecasting approaches and tools is crucial to carry out managerial activities such as data acquisition, data audits, links with formal planning procedures and other management systems, maintenance of existing applications, and identification and implementation of new applications.
The latest studies indicate that defects with forecasting do not lie in technical areas but in the gap between forecasters (producers) and managers (users); which is mainly because the forecasters might not be able to understand the managers' needs, and the managers are not capable of understanding the forecasting techniques especially complicated ones. Consequently, this has led to a gap in communication that caused ill-matched forecasts and unavoidable results
Assessment of Forecasting Management in International Pharmaceutical Companies: A Grounded Theory Study
No full textDespite the improvements in mathematical forecasts and teh creation of new formulas in forecasting, the increase in the accuracy forecasts is not yet significant, thus, leading to an increase in the size of the gap between academia and practice. Furthermore, Applying mathematical forecasting techniques alone is not sufficient in light of the existing lack of knowledge about forecasting, which, thus, gives rise to the importance of judgements and the possible contributions they may add to the forecasting management process
Does person–organization spirituality fit stimulate ethical and spiritual leaders: an empirical study in Jordan
No full textPurpose: This paper emphasizes the theoretical relevance that workplace spirituality may add to the person–organization (P-O) fit theory through the examination of a framework that comprises how workplace and self-spirituality fit enhances the perceived P-O spirituality fit. A related aim is to test how the perceived P-O spirituality fit enhances both employees' ethical and spiritual leadership behavior. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected using a quantitative study of 132 employees across various organizations in Jordan. Data were firstly checked by the use of exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and reliability tests. Hypotheses have been tested by the use of hierarchical multiple regression analysis. Findings: In line with the hypotheses, the study's results exhibited that workplace and self-spirituality fit positively enhances the perceived P-O spirituality fit. The results also show that the perceived P-O spirituality fit enhances both employees' ethical and spiritual leadership behaviors. Practical implications: The present study warrants several practices for human resource management (HRM), policy and development. It suggests that HRM practices should encourage a more “spiritual– and ethical-friendly” environment by ensuring that staffing and other HRM responsibilities are clearly committed to ethics and supportive of spirituality. Specifically, within performance appraisal policies, HR managers may include specific policies and ethical action targets to promote more ethical behaviors. There may be regular monitoring to track the trajectory of the HRM practices in this regard. Originality/value: The contribution of this paper extends beyond the vast literature on P-O fit with the generation of a new concept (i.e. P-O spirituality fit) to the literature in a Muslim-majority country. This offers reinvigorated awareness of the topic under study and suggests specific future research directions
Hikma Pharmaceuticals: an Emerging Markets Multinational
No full textIn Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries, the business environment remains unsettled due to rapid changes in governments which would create of new business opportunities. The pharmaceutical market is one of the steadily growing markets in MENA due to the increase in the size and number of new hospitals.
Hikma Pharmaceuticals is a multinational pharmaceutical group which operates in the MENA region, the USA and Europe. Hikma started to produce and market generics in local markets in 1978 and became listed on the London stock exchange in 2005, reaching over US$1 billion turnover after three decades and having presence in more than 50 markets. The massive growth of this global company initiated via high investments and successful strategies in different market entries.
The globalisation strategy has enabled Hikma to penetrate many markets and to become a globally recognised pharmaceutical company. This case presents a globally recognised company from MENA as an Emerging Markets Multinational
Creating ethical awareness through interactive group work
Get PDFThis case story describes how interactive group work was used as a pedagogical method to develop first year undergraduate students’ awareness and appreciation of corporate responsibility. The University of Huddersfield Business School signed up to PRME in 2012 and steps are being undertaken to integrate Principle 3 into the School’s curriculum, mainly via a review of ‘responsibility’ across the teaching and learning strategy of the School. The case story is related to a first year undergraduate module titled Contemporary Issues in Business. The cohort of students mostly comprise of home (UK) students as well as international students, from Asia, Africa and Europe. The module aims to develop firstly an awareness of the ethical and social responsibility issues related to business practices and secondly, enable students to engage critically with these issues, and develop viable business solutions to resolve the issues
Does person–organization spirituality fit stimulate ethical and spiritual leaders:an empirical study in Jordan
Get PDFPurpose: This paper emphasizes the theoretical relevance that workplace spirituality may add to the person–organization (P-O) fit theory through the examination of a framework that comprises how workplace and self-spirituality fit enhances the perceived P-O spirituality fit. A related aim is to test how the perceived P-O spirituality fit enhances both employees' ethical and spiritual leadership behavior. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected using a quantitative study of 132 employees across various organizations in Jordan. Data were firstly checked by the use of exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and reliability tests. Hypotheses have been tested by the use of hierarchical multiple regression analysis. Findings: In line with the hypotheses, the study's results exhibited that workplace and self-spirituality fit positively enhances the perceived P-O spirituality fit. The results also show that the perceived P-O spirituality fit enhances both employees' ethical and spiritual leadership behaviors. Practical implications: The present study warrants several practices for human resource management (HRM), policy and development. It suggests that HRM practices should encourage a more “spiritual– and ethical-friendly” environment by ensuring that staffing and other HRM responsibilities are clearly committed to ethics and supportive of spirituality. Specifically, within performance appraisal policies, HR managers may include specific policies and ethical action targets to promote more ethical behaviors. There may be regular monitoring to track the trajectory of the HRM practices in this regard. Originality/value: The contribution of this paper extends beyond the vast literature on P-O fit with the generation of a new concept (i.e. P-O spirituality fit) to the literature in a Muslim-majority country. This offers reinvigorated awareness of the topic under study and suggests specific future research directions.</p
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
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