IOSR-JBM   Volume-20 ~ Issue-9 ~ September-2018

Abstract: Today the aim of every business is to grow globally. The vision of every entrepreneur is to make his/her product manufactured be available throughout the world. In India globalisation started to spread rapidly in the late 1991 under the leadership of Narasimha Rao. He was then the Prime Minister of India who had initiated with various effective steps to encourage the Indian traders to engage in International trade. Major sectors were privatized and globalisation started spreading rapidly. The famous NCR which means Narasimha rao Committee Report,1991 introduced various trade measures which motivated the Indian traders to do business globally. The major challenges faced by traders in the international market were exchange rate fluctuations, lack of raw materials, price fluctuations etc., The authors here have discussed some major relief measures to overcome one among the above said problems which is the exchange rate fluctuations.

Key words:International trade, forex market, exchange rate, risk, financial, exposure, price fluctuations, currencies

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Abstract: The housing industry of India is growing at a faster rate especially in urban areas. A large population base, rising disposable income and liberalised market regime leads to rapid progress of this sector. In India, there exists a huge gap between the demand and supply of residential housing. This leads to the unprecedented rise of price in the sector. It is essential to track the price movements in the real estate sector so that adequate measures can be adopted to ensure smooth functioning of the economy. National Housing Bank (NHB) publishes Residex, the residential real estate price index which is considered as the first official housing price index in the country. The study makes an effort to analyse the housing price trend in major Indian cities based on NHB Residex with a focus on Kochi in Kerala. The study reveals that there is an overall uptrend in the real estate price in major cities of India with a few exceptions. Housing price in Kochi registered negative growth till 2015; however the city has recouped at least 20 percent from the value recorded in Q4 2013 based on the revamped Residex index..

Keywords: Real estate, price index, NHB Residex, HPI @ Assessment Price.

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Abstract: Most economists agreed that growth in productivity has implication for the growth of the economy. The effect of employee engagement and educational qualification onemployee needs to be examined because of its implication for improved quality labour which in turn, leads to organizational success. This paper examined the effect of between employee engagement and educational qualification on employee productivity in selected deposit money banks in Lagos State, Nigeria. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design. The population was 2,704 consisting the senior and middle level management staff of five selected banks. Sample size of 450 was selected using the Krejcie and Morgan table and proportionate random sampling method was adopted. The research instrument was validated and deemed reliable. The KMO results ranged from 0751 to 0.897 while the Cronbach's Alpha........

Keywords: Deposit money banks, Educational qualification, Employee engagement, Employee productivity, Human capital development.

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Abstract: Suboptimal bias is a situation where the purchase is carried out irrationally because of a certain bias in making purchasing decisions. This study explores the role of brand personality in generating the bias. Brand personality is conceptualized as an attraction of brand personality. This variable is more focused on the ability of the brand personality to attract consumers rather than see whether the personality of the consumer is suitable or not with the brand personality. Three attractiveness variables of brand personality are used as independent variables, namely favorability, originality, and clarity. The attractiveness of brand personality is hypothesized to be related to confirmation bias through a number of mechanisms such as affective hierarchy and availability hierarchy.........

Keywords : brand personality clarity, confirmation bias, compulsive buying, anthropomorphism, brand

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Abstract: The introduction of the term Emotional Salary (ES) as a perspective of the non-monetary remunerations received by an employee and intensify their motivation at work in addition to helping in the feeling of job satisfaction and identity with the company are essential to understand the characteristics that contribute to the best job performance. The variables that make up the Burnout syndrome help to understand the presence of satisfiers or the absence of them. Objective: Know and describe the prevalence of the burnout syndrome in 1508 workers of a public university located in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. As well as describing the sociodemographic and labor variables that influence emotional exhaustion according to the dimension of the burnout syndrome. Methodology: The study was cross-sectional analytic. Statistical analysis was carried out in order to describe the frequencies, percentages, averages...........

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Abstract: The Kenya Government has implemented the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) since the year 2005 as its sole accounting system. The main purpose of this study was to assess the challenges facing the effective implementation of the IFMIS in the county governments of Kenya. The study specifically focused in establishing the extent to which technological infrastructure and human capital development affects effective implementation of the IFMIS in the county governments of Kenya with a special focus in Nairobi County. This study used descriptive research design. The study was conducted in Nairobi County where it targeted 48 Nairobi county government employees who use IFMIS. The findings established that technological infrastructure affected the..........

Key Words: Integrated Financial Management Information System, technological infrastructure, human capital development

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Abstract: The Erode power loom cluster has grown in terms of volume, value and variety over the last few decades and has become one of the active markets for cotton goods in the country. However, over the last few years the cluster has lost its prideful place due to labour shortage, obsolescence and margin erosion. To overcome these problems, and to erase the 'low quality' image of the cluster and make it look attractive even for the quality conscious buyers the integrated textiles mall infrastructure was build up by public private partnership in the name of Texvalley. Primary focus of Texvalleywas to benefit the small and medium textile manufacturers and traders, as it would bring in all the weekly markets in Erode under a single roof. Mainly they aim at offering a platform for textile owners who are presently doing their business in the weekly shandies in three locations in the city namely.............

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Abstract: Patient safety is considered as the most important matter in the medical field as well as the quality of services safety which is also acknowledged as a priority by all health services providers Hospital must be able to create a safety culture in its duty of providing health services, and such culture could be developed by the support of transformational leadership, organizational commitment and job satisfaction. In the previous studies, the patient safety culture was shaped through the transformational leadership, organizational commitment and job satisfaction, use multiple regression analysis, only assessed whether the variables are the predictor of the patient safety culture formation and found that those above was a significant predictor for patient safety culture. In this study, the researchers analyses the.........

Key Words:Transformational leadership, organizational commitment, job satisfaction, patient safety culture

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Abstract: This research paper discovers the impact of INR and USD variations of currency on Indian economy. The factors which have been created INR to depreciate were the weakening of current account deficit, capital flight of India, trade deficit rise in oil price and higher inflation. This paper also suggests the correlation between various currencies, that are, Pounds sterling, Japanese Yen, INR, USD that shows the monetary values of such countries where the investors can make decisions to invest their capital accordingly. Due to depreciating INR investors shell out money from India and purchase dollars, this has played a major role in the currency fluctuations patterns. It can be said that the global exchange rate is inflated from some variables, such as, global economic slowdown..........

Key Words:INR and USD,currency fluctuation, demand and supply, foreign exchange market.

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Abstract: Illiteracy is a major contributing factor to women's marginalization the world over. Whereas literacy is a key factor by which many women are empowered, the national literacy rate for women in rural areas in Liberia is at a shocking 26%. Therefore, the study was undertaken to evaluate the effects of the National Adult Education Association of Liberia's (NEAEL) adult literacy programme on women's reading, reading, numeracy, health and sanitation skills in Jorquelleh District, Bong County, in Liberia. The study employed the Capability Approach and a quantitative design with ex-post facto research method. The target population included level-one female adult literacy participants of the National Education Association of Liberia's adult literacy programme located in Jorquelleh District, Bong County, in Liberia. The sample size was 110 respondents, 55 adults literacy..........

Key Words: National Education Association, Liberia, Literacy Programme, Women, Reading, Writing, Numeracy, Health, Sanitation Skills, Jorquelleh, Liberia

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Abstract: This study aims at measuring the effects of leadership effectiveness, organizational support, and working environment on working ability with job satisfaction as a mediating variable at PT. PLN (State-Owned Electricity Company) in Aceh Region. Of 163 employees of PT PLN in the Aceh Region, 116 of them were selected as the sample of the study using a stratified random sampling technique. The data were analyzed using structural equation modelling (SEM) with AMOS program. The study found that: 1) the leadership effectiveness, organizational support, and working environment have an effect on job satisfaction; 2) the leadership effectiveness and organizational support has no effect on working ability; 3) the work environment affected the ability to work; 4) the job satisfaction influenced work ability; 5) the leadership effectiveness and working environment affected the........

Key Words: leadership effectiveness, organizational support, work environment, job satisfaction, and work ability

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Abstract: The development paradigm is centered on humans, believed to be the most promising development theory to improve public welfare and educate the lives of the nation. One of the theoretical concepts is, Community Based Development where this theory is believed, as one of the most effective development models in the current democratic era, because this development model is based on the potential and conditions of the local community. . Community development programs like this, will get optimal community support and participation because it suits the needs of the community. The purpose of this study was to find a model of economic empowerment of the poor in the Trenggalek Regency, based on the many home industry entrepreneurs processing Virgin Coconut Oil (VCO) which are widely developed in Trenggalek, so as to provide economic added value for the surrounding poor. This is very possible because VCO waste, can be recovered in a variety of product diversification that can economically..........

Key Words:Empowerment, Community, Poor, Nata de Coco, Trenggalek.

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Abstract: Knowledge is a critical asset in any organization. A proper management of knowledge can increase organizational performance, improve quality of service, and sustain competitive advantage. To utilize knowledge for organizations' competitiveness, it is important to know how internal organizational factors influence knowledge management. It is from this background that the study sought to investigate the effects of internal organizational factors on knowledge management incommercial banks in Eldoret. Based on the study, this paper present and discusses the findingson the influence of training on knowledge management in commercial banks in Eldoret town..........

Key Words:Influence, Training, Knowledge Management, Commercial Banks, Eldoret Town, Kenya

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