IOSR-JBM   Volume-16 ~ Issue-8 ~ Aug-2014

Abstract: An organization's effectiveness is directly affected by its crisis management process. The relevance for an organization to possess an efficient crisis management process cannot be over-emphasized, since it determines the continuous survival of the organization and prevents an immediate closure of its work process. Its importance lies on the identification of the likely causes of crisis whether from the internal or external environment and also the establishment of an effective crisis management process that would assist organization in the management of crisis. The article aims to share information on the various causes of crisis, techniques in crisis management, and the relationship between crisis management and organizational performance.

Keywords: Management, crisis, crisis management, and organizational performance

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Abstract: Indian Telecom Industry is more than a century old.It is one of the prime support services needed for rapid growth and modernization of various sectors of the economy. The Indian telecom sector is witnessing great competition. Apart from a several leading private players, MTNL and BSNL are the major public players. Despite the fact that Indian Telecom Industry in public sector has a huge infrastructure and had early mover advantage, still its performance is low as compared to its counterpart in private sector. The increasing concern for the low performance of the public sector and growing discontentment of its personnel has led to an empirical study of public sector telecom industry regarding the employee development practices. For the purpose of analysis,the whole public sector which includes BSNL and MTNL was selected only from the National Capital Region (NCR).A survey instrument was used with a set of fifteen employee development practices to determine the extent of usage of selected practices in the selected units of the public sector. The study brings out the existing picture of employee development practices in the Public sector companies of the telecom Industry in India and offers suggestions to improve the implementation of such practices wherever they need improvement. Keywords: Indian Telecom Industry, Public Sector of Indian Telecom Industry, Public companies: MTNL and BSNL, Employee development practices, Level of implementation of employee development practices;

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Abstract: This study aims to identifying the difficulties hindering the application of ABC system in companies operating in Allahabad-India. In order to achieve such aims, a questionnaire was developed and distributed to the population of study. SPSS program was used in the analysis. The study concluded with some results. The most apparent is that the difficulties hindering the application of ABC system in these companies are the difficulty of the division of business undertaken by the company to the activities of clear and specific, the lack of scientific qualifications and professional capable of implementing ABC system, increasing the cost of application of ABC system compared to the benefits expected from it is an impediment in the face of the application of the system in the company and the company does not keep pace with modern manufacturing environment. The study recommends the companies should start gradually in the application of ABC system, also must these companies that are working to overcome the difficulties impeding the application of ABC system in these companies.

Keywords: ABC System, Traditional Cost System, Indirect Costs.

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Abstract: The mobile gadgets having internet facilities for various operations has gained popularity among young consumers for getting connected with the social and commercial groups. The gap between standardization and adaptation of Mobile Internet for commercial purpose in the country still persists. While industries are looking for transformation of their process from physical to virtual market, empirical research in the field of standardization verses adaptation is still limited in the field of young consumers. In order to enrich the literature in this context, which is currently limited, this paper explores the young Indian consumers' perception of Mobile Internet for commercial purpose. This research is confined to the young consumers residing in metropolitan cities. This research is used to find out the factors that may change the dimension of its use. The study is based on the theoretical background of TAM (Technology Acceptance Model) and the empirical data collected by a standardized questionnaire among young consumers residing in metro city of India. The sample size for the data collection consists of 250 completed and valid responses. The respondents are students, belonging to different undergraduate and post graduate streams, varying in age from 15-22 years. 200 respondents reported that they use Mobile Internet enabled device. The analysis was carried out by using SEM (Structural Equation Modeling). The usefulness, ease to use social networks and trust on the commercial entity found to be influential on both intention to use and the actual usage of Mobile Internet for commercialization among young Indian consumer.

Key words: TAM, Standardization, Adaptation, Virtual Market, SEM.

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Abstract: Market efficiency refers to the accuracy and quickness with which prices reflect market related information. In the weak form of the market, current price reflect all the information found in past prices and traded volumes. Further, prices cannot be predicted by analysis of past prices. Everyone has access to past prices even though some people can get these more easily than others. Liquidity traders may sell their stocks without considering the intrinsic value of the shares and cause price fluctuations. Buying and selling of the information traders lead the market price to align itself with the intrinsic value. The filter rule, runs test and serial correlation are adopted to find out market efficiency. In this paper runs test has been used to find out market efficiency. The stock price of the selected companies has been taken from NSE (National Stock Exchange).

Keywords: Market efficiency, weak form, runs test, serial correlation, and stock prices.

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Abstract: An Institutional-based, cross-sectional, descriptive study was conducted to determine gender equality and empowerment of women in Myanmar. Data were collected from 160 candidates who studying in Executive Master of Public Administration and Executive Master of Development Studies programs during the 2011-2012 Academic year at Yangon Institute of Economics. Self-administered, structured questionnaire was used focusing on socio-demographic, working condition, participation in decision making, and perception on gender equality at work. Independent t test was used to find out the mean difference of study variables between the men and women. According to the results, mean score of women participation in household and economic decisions were significantly higher than that of men at p value of 0.000 and 0.038 respectively. Similarly, women participation in social decision making was significantly higher than the men (p=0.003). However, mean perception score on gender equality at work among the men was significantly higher than the women (p= 0.024). In summary, women's empowerment in making decision was significantly higher than men; however, their perception on gender equality was significantly lower than that of male counterparts. It is hoped that the results of this study would provide supportive information in shaping policies and programs to promote women perception on gender equality at work so as to enhance their productivity in their workplaces.

Keywords: women's empowerment, decision making, gender equality

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Abstract: The adoption of Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP's) has many business implications. The purpose of this study was to determine the factors determining adoption of ERP's among listed in the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) companies in Kenya. The specific objectives of this study were; to establish the organization characteristics that determine adoption of ERP's, find out the ERP attributes that contribute to its adoption and to investigate the extent of adoption and use of ERP by listed companies in Kenya. The descriptive research design was used in this study and the sample size was the fifty five (55) companies listed at the NSE. Study data was collected using a questionnaire developed by the researcher and administered with the help of a trained research assistant. The data was analysed through SPSS software and results presented in percentages and frequencies through tables and figures. The results indicated that the size of the firm, number of employees in organizations, employee turnover, location, and type of ownership of the organization, age of the company, capital structure and familiarity with ERP tools influenced organizations adoption of ERP systems. ERP attributes like its complexity and compatibility, triability, Observability, relevance and interest within businesses for the adoption of the ERP systems led to the adoption of the system. The ICT environment aspects included hardware, software, people, the government, politics, the environment and innovation. These findings are relevant to the government in its implementation of the vision 2030 as well as to the companies listed in NSE.

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