IOSR-JBM   Volume-22 ~ Issue-1 ~ January. 2020

Abstract: This study investigates the effect of inventory management practices on the organizational performance of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) in Akure Metropolis, Ondo State, Nigeria. The specific objectives of the study are to: identify the inventory management techniques used in the selected SMEs; assess the factors affecting the nature of inventory management practices adopted by the selected enterprise and evaluate the effects of inventory management practices on the profitability of the selected enterprise. The study was designed to combine primary survey- based data with secondary information from SMEs in Akure Metropolis. The population of the study area comprised 966 registered SMEs in Akure Metropolis, Ondo State Nigeria. 400 sample sizes.......

Keywords: Akure metropolis, Inventory management, Inventory techniques, SMEs enterprises

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Abstract: The study aimed to examine the impact of time pressure on audit quality, premature sign-offs is a proxy of audit quality, case study in Jordan, to achieve the objective of the study, the researcher, developed a survey questionnaire which is adopted from a literature, and distributed to the responded, Jordanian external auditors, out of 120 research instrument, 120 were returned of which 74 were useable while 46 instrument were excluded from the sample before further analysis due to incomplete data, total response rate for completed questionnaire instrument is 61.7%.The descriptive statistics was used for data analysis, and the hypotheses was examined by Pearson correlation between two continues variables time pressure and premature sign-offs. The research results shows that the respondent......

Key words: Time pressure, audit quality, premature sign-off, external auditors, Jordan

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Abstract: Chinese direct investment has good impact on Bangladeshi economic growth. Last four years Chinese investment raise rapidly in Bangladesh. Almost every important sector got Chinese investment; here have an overview of Chinese foreign direct investment secondary data, Bangladesh Bank (2004-2017) & others statistics data. This paper shows total Chinese direct investment & foreign direct investment in Bangladesh. The multiple regression results confirmed that, Bangladesh has positive impact of Chinese direct investment which increases GDP, in order to attract direct Chinese investment into Bangladesh, need to develop infrastructure, stabilized political environment, law and order situation, healthy economic environment, curtailing on external debt. If Bangladesh give due attention to Chinese direct investment role in economic development Chinese direct investment can facilitate more GDP growth....

Key words: Foreign Direct Investment, Multiple-regressions, GDP, Economy, Bangladesh

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Abstract: The study aims to find out and analyze the influence of motivation, leadership and organizational culture on teacher job satisfaction and performance directly and indirectly. The questionnaire instrument was used as a tool to detect responses from 164 respondents who were randomly drawn at Kalam Kudus Christian School in Pekanbaru. The schoolconsists of Playgroup, Kindergarten, Elementary, Junior High and Senior High School. Data collection has been carried out for 2 months, the period April to June 2019. The variables in this study were motivation, leadership and organizational culture as the independent variable (X) and teacher's job satisfaction and performance as the dependent variable (Y). Thedata was analyzed using multiple regression analysis, T test, F test and Determination test.The results of data analysis showed that motivation influenced on teacher job satisfaction and performance at Kalam Kudus Christian School in Pekanbaru. From the results of this study concluded that motivation, leadership and organizational culture were variables that could influence on teacher job satisfaction and performance at the Kalam Kudus Christian School in Pekanbaru.

Keywords: Motivation, Leadership, Organizational Culture, Job Satisfaction and Performance

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Abstract: Traditionally, businesses primarily exist to make profit. The profit motive has often been perceived as representing a lack of concern for all other objectives of an organisation. But, today businesses are realising that in order to stay profitable in a rapidly changing environment, they would have to become socially responsible. Hence, there is a growing demand and expectation from various stakeholders who expect business to go beyond their profit agenda and be socially responsible. The belief that beyond making profit for the shareholders, business enterprises should also serve the interest of all other stakeholders has culminated into the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). This concept has engendered considerable interest in recent years. CSR refers to strategies corporations or firms conduct their business in a way that it's ethical, society friendly and beneficial.........

Keywords: Business, corporations, corporate social responsibility, community development, environment, organisation, stakeholders

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Abstract: This study aims to investigate the Impact of Cognitive Empowerment on Human Resource Development among Employees at Jordan Phosphate Mines Company. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used; a simple regression analysis was used to test the extent to which the dependent variable (human resource development) was affected by the independent variable (cognitive empowerment). The results of the hypothesis test showed that the effect of cognitive empowerment on human resource development was positive and statistically significant. Accordingly, cognitive empowerment has a significant role in the company;the study also suggestedproviding a suitable climate of employees to share the knowledge and increasing learning, taking care of the human resource developmentto increase the productivity by best maximizingexploitation of employees and flourish the tools to create responsibility.

Keywords:-cognitive empowerment, human resource development, Jordan Phosphate Mines Company

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Abstract: Fashion Industry is highly sophisticated Industry in which the concept of global fashion is a product of contemporary clothing which is designed in one country, manufactured in another and sold worldwide. In present fashion retailing, technology has a great impact on customers as disruptive technology is spreading across fashion industry especially Asia region which includes India. It is critical for fashion retailers to formulate competitive strategy to respond to these changes. Having this background in mind, the study is an effort which addresses PESTEL (political, economic, Socio-cultural, technology, environment, legal) and Environmental and social factors which is posing serious threat to sustainability of fashion model.

Keyword(s): Fashion retailing, Fashion, Textile, Fast fashion, PESTEL

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Abstract: Business incubators have now become a recent line of research because of the importance they have for the economic development of countries. Its beginnings, according to various studies, data from the 70s of the last century, predominantly in the United States of America and Western Europe. But incubators are not only developed for knowledge and research, but also for specific economic development models. So much so that this new type of companies will help to strengthen the entrepreneurial talents used in research and innovation, designing research, development and product strategies of the products generated in the incubated companies. Background: This research is carried out with the purpose of contributing to the institution, so it has been considered to analyze the different Incubator models of existing companies to know their performance and operation and to be able to propose the one that by its nature meets the needs and demands of the Graduate College.....

Keywords: Incubator, business, companies, entrepreneurship

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