IOSR-JBM   Volume-21 ~ Issue-10 ~ Oct-2019

Abstract: In order to deeply understand the source and impact factors of technological innovation for Saudi enterprises, this research analyzes the obstacles and motive sources of enterprise technological innovation. Moreover, an integration model of examining technological innovation motive factors is constructed from three major systems: enterprise, society and market. It can be found that besides profit expectation is the main factor influencing technological innovation motive, there are also other significant impact factors such as enterprise resources, competitors and entrepreneurs' innovative thinking.

Keywords: technological innovation, internal obstacles, sources of motive, integration model

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Abstract: As rapid economic development and ongoing urbanization in India, rise of competition among the countries in the world are increasing day by day. Recently according to the study by IMF, India is likely to surpass Britain in the World's largest economic rankings in 2019 and now ranks at 6th position in the World Economic Index. This is due to India had a higher population, favorable demographics and recently implemented GST which impetus the growth of Indian economy recently. More importantly, the World Bank released its latest Doing Business Report (DBR, 2019) stated that India has recorded a jump of 23 positions against its rank of 100 in 2017 to be placed now at 77th rank among 190 countries accessed by the World Bank. Hence, there must be the recent development is happened in all sectors in India. In this paper, we deliver that what are the recent developments happened in logistics and supply chain management in India. Recently, in World Bank's Logistics Performance Index (LPI) report, India's ranking improved to 35th as against the 54th spot.

Keywords: Logistics, Sagarmala, Warehouse and Transport Infrastructure.

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Abstract: Human Resource is considered as one of the most major assets in an organization. Hench, it is important for an organization to find effective human resource management system to retain their employees. The main objective of the study is to find effective strategies that can help employee retention of multinational corporations in Bangladesh based on employees' perspective. The study is basically based on primary data collected from different multinational corporations from different industries such as telecom, tobacco, fashion, consumer goods. To test the hypotheses different statistical tools such as ANOVA test& Correlation were used based on survey data. Apart from this different types of graphs and charts were used as well. From the analysis of the survey different types of strategies

Keywords: Employee retention strategies, Employee work-life balance, Multinational Corporations (MNC), Employee Turnover, Job satisfaction, Organizational Performance, Employee Productivity, MNCs in Bangladesh, Human Resource Management, HR policies

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Abstract: The Janata Bank Limited (JBL) is the public sector commercial bank in Bangladesh. The main activities of JBL in the countries are commercial transactions and some general transactions. This Study aims to measure the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices of Janata Bank Limited and give some suggestions to improve CSR by JBL based on findings. The study found that JBL is playing an important role by contributing to the social, environmental, economic development of the country and its citizens but the contribution amount is insignificant in proportion to their profit amount. The study also found that JBL is giving less importance on contribution toward education and environment in recent years. So the study suggests that JBL should increase their CSR contribution and consider some other sectors for CSR activities. Moreover JBL need to emphasize on education and environment sectors more.........

Keywords: Corporate social responsibility (CSR), education and environment, sustainable development

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Abstract: Job satisfaction is a person's feeling about the jobs and aspects contained in it, such as aspects of promotion, coworkers, salary, the job itself and also relationships with superiors. The subject of employee engagement and job satisfaction have been thoroughly researched, especially in the current times, where the companies try to hire and keep their best personnel satisfied and engaged, in order to have them more productive. This study aims to examine the effect of employee engagement on job satisfaction of PT Askrida Branch Medan employee. Questionnaire..........

Keywords: Engagement, Equity, Achevement, Camaraderie, Employee Job Satisfaction

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Abstract: The aim of this study was to establish the role of information and communication on financial accountability in national public secondary schools in Kenya. The study was carried out in 103 national public secondary schools in Kenya. The study was guided by; Agency theory, Fraud triangle theory and accountability theory. Survey research design was used on a population of 309. Primary data was collected by use of questionnaires, while secondary data was collected through audited financial statements. Reliability of the research instruments was tested through Cronbach's Alpha. Construct validity was assessed through factor analysis. Both descriptive and inferential.....

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Abstract: Preference and reservation procurement policy helps in ensuring that women, youth and pwds are engaged in award of tenders in public procurement. PPDA act 2005 provides preference and reservation policy of 30% for women, youth and pwds. Despite existence of this policy, few women, youths and pwds have been able to access government contractual opportunities due to poor sensitization, poor legislative frameworks and culture based organizations. The study sought to assess the influence of preference and reservation policy on procurement performance in Elgeyo Marakwet County. The main objective of the study was to establish the influence of legislative framework on procurement performance in Elgeyo Marakwet County. The study was guided advocacy coalition.....

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Abstract: Employee Engagement has been identified as key to organizational success in most organisations in the world. They are spending a huge amount of money, time and efforts to measure employee engagement and take services from various HR consulting organisations for this purpose.In these engagement surveys measurements are done on perception of employees on the degree to which they are satisfied with what contributes employee engagement or the factors of employee engagement. In this paper an attempt was made to identify the key dimensions and in a micro level the factors in of employee engagement. In this research paper, it is believed that, people differ.....

Keywords:Employee, Engagement, Factors, Dimensions

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Abstract: The liberalization of the economic system in Ethiopia enabled the emergence of private insurance companies and had created competitive environment in the insurance industries.The motives of this study was examiningthe effects of service quality on customersatisfaction in four selected insurance companies of Hosanna town, SNNPR. This research was carried out through cross-sectional survey design and mainly based on data collected through questionnaires.The correlation and multiple regressions were used to analyse collected data. The result of individual companies and total Gap analyses indicates that the mean score of customers' expectations exceeded perceptions.......

Keywords: Tangibility, Reliability, Assurance, Responsiveness, Empathy

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Abstract: Supplier relationship management plays an important role in the procurement function because suppliers can have influence on the price, quality, delivery reliability and accessibility of its products.Supplier performance is critical to ensure a well-functioning supply chain and to a company's competitive position. Despite the growing concerns that procurement is an important part of health care institutions, public hospitals still undergo challenges in managing their suppliers. The main objective of the study was to determine the influence of supplier relationship on performance of procurement function at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Kenya. The study usedgrey system theory, lean supplier competence model and fuzzy set theory. Descriptive research design was used in conducting the study.The target population was 120 employees from MTRH procurement function. Simple.....

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