IOSR-JBM   Volume-17 ~ Issue-7 ~ July-2015

Abstract:Employee satisfaction is a measure of how happy workers are with their job and working environment. Keeping morale high among workers can be of tremendous benefit to any company because happy workers are more likely to produce more, take fewer days off and stay loyal to the company. There are many factors in improving or maintaining high employee satisfaction. But before that, it is important to measure the satisfaction levels of the employees. Hence, this project aims at measuring Employee Satisfaction and its impact on employee retention .The project's conclusion includes the final questionnaire which can be used for the annual employee satisfaction survey in the company and an explanation of all the parameters used with their respective reasons. Recommendations which were drawn from the study and limitations of the research have been provided at the end.
Key Words: Employee satisfaction, employee retention,job evaluation.

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Abstract: National policies and plans are designed by government to manage effectively the resources' allocation to ensure sustainable development and national goals are attained. One of the efforts which has been undertaking by the governments in developing economies is to ensure welfare of people is maximized while poverty minimised. In 1994, Government of Tanzania established Microfinance Credit Scheme known as National Entrepreneurship Development Fund under Small Industries Development Organisation (NEDF-SIDO) to finance and support all small entrepreneurial business activities.

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Abstract: This research propose a "socio-preneur" acceleration model, by extending and developing a "Share and Care" program. The purposes of this research are: 1) mapping the development program "Share and Care" based on interest, willingness and economic potential of local-a target group 2) building an understanding of the importance of developing socio-preneur; 3) program and acitivities associated with human resource development and formation of entrepreneurs; 4) the creation of techno-preneur. This research design use descriptive methods, policy research and applied research. The samples have been taken on purposive sampling. Research instrument use in-depth interviews and FGD technique. The results showed that there are many problems related to education and readiness of high school graduates who are not able to pursue higher education instead to get a job.

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Abstract: Consumer lifestyle analysis has become popular tool in the case of marketing decision making. The present study attempts to segment rural consumers of Central region of Gujarat on the basis of their perceived lifestyles. Ainstrumentinvolving Activities, Interests, Opinions, Values and Attitudes has been used for the purpose of study. Initially, an effort is made to unearth the perceptions of rural consumers in both the regions, and then the same were factor analyzed so as to form homogenous groups of such consumers which would help marketers to ensure success in market targeting.

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Abstract: The objectives of this study was (1) to identify the perception status of the factors that affect employee performance in Libya, (2) to identify the perception status of employee performance in Libya, (3) to identify the relationship between the factors that affect employee performance in Libya. The approach that this study was employee was a quantitative. The sample of this study was randomly selected by using purposive sampling technique. The population of the study was the entire Libya postgraduate students in Indonesia representation employee in libya.

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Abstract: The study assesses the level of Nigeria's preparedness in adopting the new financial reporting language as an emerging capitalmarket. The paper is library based and relied extensively on secondary data obtained from literature search in the world wide wave on the current global trend sweeping the financial reporting land scape code named: International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). By adopting the standards, Nigeria has embraced IFRS in order to participate in the benefits it offers, including attracting foreign direct investment, reduction of the cost of doing business, reduction of information asymmetry and cross border listing among others. The challenges ahead for Nigeria include but not limited to the development of a legal and regulatory framework, awareness campaign for the perceive benefits in IFRS, and training of both academic and professional.

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Abstract: The pressure associated with period of maternity leave for female key employees can be challenging for companies in the areas of maintaining quality output level, proper documentation, personnel turnover and overall smooth operations of firms in every competitive business environment. The purpose of this study is to examine the role of child-care service providers (nursery schools operators) in the context of providing care-support for working class nursing mothers who have to work to support families while boosting firm's productivity level. Without adequate care-support systems for the kids, the nursing mothers may less concentrate in their official duties, thereby resulting to low employee outputs due to absenteeism and in turn result to poor business performance.

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Abstract: Some developing countries face many challenges, which often lead their citizens to continue to live in deprivation and want. Nigeria is one such country that has received low rankings on several fronts: particularly the state of its education sector. This paper adopts an ethnographic study method in order to investigate one of the poorly funded, over-crowded, and underachieving public primary schools in Northern Nigeria. The paper discusses an alternative approach the country could adopt to improve in its various efforts to enhance the provision of qualitative education to its citizens in public schools. Public schools in Nigeria are populated mostly by children from poor parents—and, as such, these schools have not been performing academically for various reasons. Some of these reasons include: insufficient government funding, a lack of quality teaching staff, poor school attendance by pupils (who often work to supplement their family income), pupil wastages, and others.

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Abstract: Purpose and objectives of the study: In this study, we aim to understand the influence of occupation on the frequency of buying luxury products, influence to buy luxury products and intention to purchase the same brand that they have previously purchased. Also we study the different luxury value dimensions like financial value, functional value, individual value and social value and how these are influenced by marital status of the consumer.

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Abstract: Women are taking more important roles in our daily business life; the number of women directors has increased in recent years across all industries. Although the finding seems to support that there is a positive association between corporate governance and having a woman director, some may argue and attribute this positive relationship to other organizational factors. Thus, this topic still needs further examination to confirm or oppose prior finding. However, the results show both confidential voting and limit ability to amend by are found to be predictors of having a woman director, but these predictors do not support our hypothesis.

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Abstract: Ispahani Tea was one the first companies to offer packaged tea for the Bangladeshi consumers and gradually developed a customer base that opted for higher quality and sophisticated packaging. The Company has enjoyed the leadership position in the market since the 1990s and has retained it throughout these years. In doing so, the company developed an unrivaled distribution system along with ensuring excellent quality and customer satisfaction. The strong presence of various local and multinational players has been a constant threat to Ispahani, but the company sustained its leadership position all these years by maintaining its loyal customers.

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Abstract: It is very important in any business organisation to make critical investment appraisal before any decision is taken on a given capital investment. This type of appraisal is undertaken by the senior management team and constitutes part of strategic decisions. The tactical and operational decisions may fall on the shoulders of the middle and junior managers, who are responsible for how to get things done and ensure that things are properly done respectively. The fact remains that the original decision-making process remains the responsibility of the senior managers.

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Abstract: Governments across the globe are charged with the responsibility of delivering public goods and services to the citizenry. The process of delivering such goods and services entails enormous procurement transactions on the part of government and its agencies. The hall mark of proficient public procurement in any given society includes economy, efficiency, fairness, reliability, integrity, transparency, accountability and ethical standards. Public procurement is one aspect of government operations that is prone to corrupt practices in many countries of the world.

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Abstract: The aim of the present research is to examine the relationship between psychological capital and the quality of life of the faculty members of Islamic Azad University. The research method is applied with regard to its objective and is an integrated method. The population included 5715 individuals who were members of the faculty in Islamic Azad University in districts 8 and 12 (3349 individuals were from district 8 and 2366 individuals were from district 12).

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Abstract: This paper deals with the analyzing the efficiency of Indian U.S. bank Stocks. In an efficient market, security price should equal the security's investment value, where investment value is the discounted value of the security's future cash flows. According to EMH, if there is a possibility to predict the future price of share, that is the first sign of an inefficient market. In the present study, the prices of few bank share prices are taken from www.finance.yahoo.com. This study concludes that the stocks which are analyzed are efficient in weak form. The tool used in this analysis is Run Test. In majority of the cases, the observed runs fall in between the calculated runs.

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Abstract: Outsourcing is a process where a company outsources its operations to a service provider, whose core competence is centered on those processes. Outsourcing has become an important business strategy because it enables businesses to reduce and control operating costs, to improve on company focus, to gain access to world class capability and to free internal resources for other purposes. The purpose of this study was to determine the factors affecting outsourcing of customer service in Bharti airtel. The research was conducted by collecting primary data using an interview guide to collect in-depth data from the staff and management across all the departments with a target population of about 250 Airtel employees and a sample size of about 78 personnel interpretation of the data identifying the factors affecting outsourcing in Bharti airtel.

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