scholarly journals Perception of Consumer Rights among the College Students: A Case of Tikapur Municipality

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-32
Author(s):  
Dhabindra Rawal
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Consumer Rights ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Right ◽  
First Time ◽  
Basic Consumer

This study aims at examining consumes’ perception towards marketing practices and consumer rights in Tikapur Municipality, Kailali based on an empirical study of college students in connection to John Kennedy’s bill of four consumer rights, namely, the right to safety, the right to be informed, the right to choose, and the right to be heard. This study depends on a convenience sample of 60 students selected from Management, Education and Humanities faculties studying in graduate level at Tikapur Multiple Campus and Birendra Vidhya Mandir Campus at Tikapur, with a structured questionnaire to measure consumer attitudes regarding the four basic consumer rights, utilizing a fivepoint Likert Scale for measurement. The overall findings communicate that the current consumers’ attitudes towards marketing practices related to protection of consumer rights is low favorable, indicating that more work will be needed for improvement. This study explores the status of perceived consumer rights for the first time in study area. It suggests marketers and public policy makers to pay more attention to the current status of consumer rights, and formulate more useful legislations with implications for better business strategies.

scholarly journals Relationships Between Supervision and Teachers’ Performance and Attitude in Secondary Schools in Malaysia

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402092550
Author(s):  
Kazi Enamul Hoque ◽  
Husaina Banu Bt Kenayathulla ◽  
Malar Vili D/O Subramaniam ◽  
Reazul Islam
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Status ◽  
Supervision Practices ◽  
The Right ◽  
Supervisory Practices ◽  
Analyze Data

This study was carried out to determine the relationships between supervision and teachers’ performance and attitude in secondary schools in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This is a quantitative study where the 5-point Likert-type-scale questionnaire was used to analyze data using descriptive and inferential statistics. Simple random sampling was used to select the respondents. This study entailed respondents from various schools in one of the districts in Kuala Lumpur which comprises 200 teachers and 50 supervisors. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the status of supervision practices, teachers’ attitude toward supervision, and teachers’ level of performance after supervision. Multiple regression analysis was used to test the relationships between supervision (supervisory practices–directive, collaborative, and nondirective approach) and teachers’ performance and attitude. The current status of supervisory practices, teachers’ attitude toward supervision, and teachers’ performance after supervision is found at moderate level in secondary schools in Malaysia. As a whole, supervisory practices are not correlated with teachers’ performance and attitude. But worthy to mention, directive supervision is positively and significantly related to teachers’ performance and attitude. This study result will benefit the policy makers, school supervisors and headmasters to choose the right kind of supervisory practices which can contribute to better teaching performance.

Level of consumer awareness among the college students

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (01) ◽  
pp. 10-18
Author(s):  
Dhavindra Rawal
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Buying Behavior ◽  
Consumer Awareness ◽  
Point Rating Scale ◽  
Management Students ◽  
Purposive Sample ◽  
Awareness Level

This study aims at examining consumers’ awareness level towards labeling information of product in marketing practices based on an empirical study of college students in Tikapur  Municipality, Kailali. This study depends on a purposive sample of 180 students whichhave been selected from management, education and humanities faculties studying in graduate level at Tikapur Multiple Campus and Birendra Vidhya Mandir Campus at Tikapur, with a structured questionnaire to measure consumer buying behavior regarding the basic labeling information of packaged products, utilizing a four-point rating scale for measurement. The overall findings communicate that the aggregate consumers’ awareness level is low towards labeling information of packaged product in marketing practices. Furthermore, awareness level of management students is high in comparison to nonmanagementstudent.Similarly,maleconsumersarefoundmoreawarethanfemale.Thisstudyexploresthestatusandlevelofconsumerawarenessforthefirsttimeinstudyareaalongwiththesuggestionstoconsumers,businessmen,consumerforum,governmentunitsandpublic policymakers to improve the current status of consumer awareness, with implications for better business strategies and more useful to  consumerism.

Millennium Development Goals

2014 ◽  
pp. 56-76
Author(s):  
P. Raj Devasagayam ◽  
Nicholas R. Stark ◽  
Nitin David
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Business Professionals ◽  
Corporate Sector ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Development Goals

This chapter introduces the business audience to Millennium Development Goals (MDG) proposed by the United Nations in 2000 that were accepted as policy markers by nations on all continents. Current status of achievements in the MDG is summarized to draw attention to the current needs in each of the eight MDGs. Further, the theory of creative capitalism is used to draw connections between MDG and business strategies. It is suggested that businesses are in a unique position to help achieve the MDG while strengthening their market base and behaving in a socially responsible and responsive manner. The research concludes by providing a possible roadmap for achieving the MDG by the target year 2015 based on a mutually beneficial alliance between the corporate sector and the state. The study will be of interest to scholars, educators, public policy makers, and business professionals.

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

2020 ◽  
pp. 694-706
Author(s):  
Frans Viljoen
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Fair Trial ◽  
Customary International Law ◽  
Human Rights Treaties ◽  
Introductory Note ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Right ◽  
First Time ◽  
Family Code

The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights is the newest of the three regional human rights courts. This brief analysis provides an overview of the most salient aspects of the Court’s 2018 case-law with respect to jurisdiction, provisional measures, admissibility, merits decisions, and reparations orders. Continuing its trajectory of increasing productivity, the Court in 2018 handed down the highest number of merits decisions in its brief history. As in previous years, most of these were fair-trial-related cases against Tanzania. The Court’s 2018 case-law contains a number of firsts. In Gombert v. Côte d’Ivoire, the Court for the first time ruled as inadmissible a case previously settled by an African subregional court, the Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States. In Anudo v. Tanzania, dealing with the right to nationality, the Court for the first time found a violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, on the basis that the Declaration has attained the status of customary international law. In Makungu v. Tanzania, it for the first time ordered the applicant’s release as an appropriate remedy for serious fair trial violations. The Court’s most significant decision of 2018 is the Mali Marriage case, in which it held aspects of the 2011 Malian Family Code to be in violation not only of human rights treaties emanating from the African Union, but also the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women.

scholarly journals Dark Entrepreneurship, the ‘Dark Triad’ and Its Potential ‘Light Triad’ Realization in ‘Green Entrepreneurship’

Urban Science ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Cooke
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Dark Triad ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Original Response ◽  
Business Dynamics ◽  
Wide Scale ◽  
Green Entrepreneurship ◽  
First Time

This contribution seeks to achieve three main objectives. First it draws on a substantial, but often overlooked literature on wide-scale international decline in entrepreneurship as recorded in the ‘business dynamics’ literature. This has serious implications for academic study of entrepreneurship which must re-direct its focus to problems of entrepreneurial unattractiveness dating from at least the 1980s. More important, public policy makers and political ideologists need further to be apprised of the erroneous nature of many of their beliefs and further change the subsidy regimes they bestow on often unproductive entrepreneurship. Second, the contribution seeks one part of the explanation of the declining attractiveness of entrepreneurship in the psychology of the ‘dark triad’ of negative personality traits that has been connected to the literature on ‘dark entrepreneurship’ as a possible and partial, but important reason for the growing unattractiveness of entrepreneurship. The contribution devotes attention to the ‘Mindfulness’ movement in considering the detoxification of ‘dark entrepreneurship’. Finally, in what may be an original response to this analysis, the contribution draws attention to recent work on a putative ‘light triad’ of personality traits and applies it, possibly for the first time, to secondarily researched accounts of ‘green entrepreneurship’. The conclusion is that there may be a future for green entrepreneurship as a means for recovery in the current status of more traditional ‘business dynamics’.

scholarly journals To Strengthen the Practice of Ecological Civilization in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (17) ◽  
pp. 4661 ◽  
Author(s):  
I-Shin Chang ◽  
Wenqi Wang ◽  
Jing Wu
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Interpersonal Behavior ◽  
Ecological Civilization ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Status ◽  
Social Reference ◽  
The Government ◽  
Facilitating Conditions ◽  
The Right ◽  
Personal Interests

Ecological civilization is the inevitable route of human development. However, the practice of ecological civilization is not as positive as expected, especially for college students. Hence, the aim of this research is to investigate how to strengthen the practice of college students towards ecological civilization in China. Based on the Triandis’ Interpersonal Behavior Model, a questionnaire survey is performed to explore the status quo of factors affecting college students’ ecological civilization behaviors. Results reveal that society does not provide enough facilities for ecological civilization. Thus, as personal interests conflicting with the environment, some college students would not carry out the concept of ecological civilization. Meanwhile, though most of college students have the right attitude and good habits of water saving and waste batteries proposal, the guidance of ecological civilization for the habits of takeout and online shopping has not been formed. Also, college students could not actively participate in ecological civilization construction. Therefore, to strengthen ecological civilization practice, it is indispensable to acquire joint efforts from individuals, government, families, universities and social organizations. The practice of ecological civilization is inseparable from the efforts of every college student. Besides, the government, every social organization, every family, and every university should create appropriate facilitating conditions, so that college students could form ecological civilization habits consciously. At the same time, universities, society and family should form good social reference standards to directly and indirectly educate college students so as to help them identify their roles and self-concept.

Impact of PECA-2016 Provisions on Freedom of Speech: A Case of Pakistan

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-11
Author(s):  
Sheraz Khan ◽  
Pardis Moslemzadeh Tehrani ◽  
Mehwish Iftikhar
Keyword(s):  
Document Analysis ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Quality Research ◽  
Digital Space ◽  
Secure Access ◽  
Penal Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
Electronic Crime

Prevention of Electronic Crime Act, PECA-2016 is a procedural and penal law in Pakistan deals with the cyber or digital space. This research is to explore about the freedom of speech regime in Pakistan. It also provides the in-depth overview of PECA-2016 and analyses the effect of certain provisions of PECA-2016 on the practice of freedom of speech in cyberspace e.g. internet and whether these provisions promote or hinder the right to freedom of speech. The research is purely qualitative based on thorough document analysis. Results demonstrates that certain provisions of PECA do not have enough safeguards to secure access to quality research and quality knowledge- including freedom of human rights , specially right to freedom of speech, both, online and offline. Hence, it is suggested to policy makers to improve or repeal the current status of PECA-2016 on priority basis.

scholarly journals The status of Donkeys (Equus asinus) in Greece

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 212 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. ARSENOS (Γ. ΑΡΣΕΝΟΣ) ◽  
A. I. GELASAKIS (Α. Ι. ΓΕΛΑΣΑΚΗΣ) ◽  
E. I. PAPADOPOULOS (ΕΛ. ΠΑΠΑΔΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ)
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Conservation Policy ◽  
Breeding Programme ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Equus Asinus ◽  
The Status ◽  
First Time ◽  
Time Information ◽  
Of Greece

The paper presents, for the first time, information about donkeys (Equus asinus) in Greece. Most of the information was obtained from interviews of donkey owners, using a purpose built questionnaire. The population of donkeys in Greece showeda remarkable decrease over the last decades. From 508,000 in 1955, there were only 14,570 in 2008, a decrease of 97%. The existing donkeys were characterised by a large diversity in phenotypes. The lack of any breeding programme for donkeys, the importation of jacks from foreign breeds, the loss of interest and under-appreciation, together with the ignorance of health and welfare needs of such animals were the main reasons that shaped the current status. The health and welfare status of donkeys differed enormously across different areas of Greece, reflecting differences in the cultural, economical and "emotional" importance of individual animals. It was revealed that many problems were associated with diseases originating in malnutrition, parasites and bad husbandry management. Moreover, current and future trends, resulting from social and economical developments in rural areas of Greece, are discussed. Given the trends currently affecting the status of donkeys in Greece we concluded that a conservation policy should be adopted, because the number of donkeys will continue to fall.

Research on current status and cultivation approaches of college students’ financial literacy in China under the campus loan perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 002072092098350
Author(s):  
Ning Yida ◽  
Liu Huijun ◽  
Feng Litao
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Financial Risk ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Discrimination Ability ◽  
Development History ◽  
The Status ◽  
Internet Finance ◽  
History Of ◽  
Survey Results

This paper first reviews the development history of campus loans in China and the scale of Internet finance consumption, then conducts a survey of the status of college students’ financial literacy by using universities and colleges in Hunan as an empirical study. Basing on the survey results, we can find the general lack of financial literacy among college students. Finally, it expounds the cultivation path of college students’ financial literacy from three aspects in China, namely, establishing financial information security awareness, cultivating financial risk prevention awareness and improving financial discrimination ability, so as to control campus loan risks.

Psychological Resilience Provides No Independent Protection From Suicidal Risk

Crisis ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danica W. Y. Liu ◽  
A. Kate Fairweather-Schmidt ◽  
Richard Burns ◽  
Rachel M. Roberts ◽  
Kaarin J. Anstey
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Psychological Resilience ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Life Project ◽  
Resilience Factors ◽  
First Time

Abstract. Background: Little is known about the role of resilience in the likelihood of suicidal ideation (SI) over time. Aims: We examined the association between resilience and SI in a young-adult cohort over 4 years. Our objectives were to determine whether resilience was associated with SI at follow-up or, conversely, whether SI was associated with lowered resilience at follow-up. Method: Participants were selected from the Personality and Total Health (PATH) Through Life Project from Canberra and Queanbeyan, Australia, aged 28–32 years at the first time point and 32–36 at the second. Multinomial, linear, and binary regression analyses explored the association between resilience and SI over two time points. Models were adjusted for suicidality risk factors. Results: While unadjusted analyses identified associations between resilience and SI, these effects were fully explained by the inclusion of other suicidality risk factors. Conclusion: Despite strong cross-sectional associations, resilience and SI appear to be unrelated in a longitudinal context, once risk/resilience factors are controlled for. As independent indicators of psychological well-being, suicidality and resilience are essential if current status is to be captured. However, the addition of other factors (e.g., support, mastery) makes this association tenuous. Consequently, resilience per se may not be protective of SI.

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