Employee Welfare Measures

The welfare measures for employees in an organization have always and will keep playing a pivotal role in enhancing the morale of the employees. These schemes facilitate thrust for both the employee and employer relations. An employee's welfare is inherent core component, as they act as life blood for achieving the objectives of an organization. The main intention behind implementing the welfare measures is to secure the employee force by providing proper human condition of work and minimizing its hazardous effect on the life of the employees and their family members. This chapter determines the various welfare measures implemented with its impact on the employees' work efficacy in different public and private sector manufacturing organizations. This chapter also articulates the importance of welfare, symptoms of frustration, standards set by the employees, implications of welfare measures and its effectiveness on employees' and the organizational productivity.

The Effect of Country of Origin, Service Quality, and Brand Redeployment After M&A

Many companies worldwide underwent merger and acquisition to expand the business. The purpose of the research is to confirm that general country attribute; service quality and the redeployment strategies are variables needed by the company to smooth the process of the merger and acquisition. The data were collected from 150 respondents through offline and online questionnaire. Cronbach's Alpha and Confirmatory Factorial Analysis were utilized to determine reliability and validity of the constructs. Simple and multiple linear regressions are the hypothesis testing chosen for this study. ANOVA and Post-Hoc Duncan are performed to differentiate which of the five redeployment strategies is the best used by the company after done the merger and acquisition. The results conclude that general country attributes and service quality are positively linked to purchase intention. On the other hand, corporate brand redeployment alternatives are shown to have no impact on consumer purchase intention in the case of Tigerair Mandala Airlines.

Life-Style Distinction Between Customers and Non-Customers of Sikkim Cymbidium

For marketers, it is a vital to be able to differentiate customers from non-customers for their product. Sikkim a tiny Himalayan state in India is the home of globally known cymbidium orchids. It has been identified as a product that can boost local economy. In order to achieve this, it is important to formulate marketing strategies. One important input in strategy formulation is to prepare a customer profile. This is based on demographic, geographic and psychographic factors. This paper develops a customer profile purely on identified Activities, Interest and Opinions (AIO). Methodology involves collecting data from buyers and non-buyers of Cymbidium orchids about their life-style. Statements were framed on Likert scale (1-5). In all five variables have been tested. Final analysis is based on discriminant analysis. Results indicate a weak discriminant function but 90% respondents are correctly identified as buyers and non-buyers.

Firms' Strategic Positioning Modeling in Dynamic Strategy Space Agent-Based Approach

The aim of this research is firms' strategic positioning modeling in a dynamic strategy space consisting of the customers and competitors. Presented model provides the possibility of choosing superior position to other competitors and customers for each firm, so that it can maximize its profit and market share. According to this that the best position choice can have different meanings for different companies in an industry, so the studied firms were divided into six groups based on a series of the obtained indicators of experts in the cosmetics-sanitary industry in Iran and two scenarios were tested for the superior position choice (closing to the best firm, locating in the best position) on them. Finally, the appropriate approach was offered for firms in each group in choosing the superior position by using the simulation results agent-based approach.

Information Technology, Globalization, and Local Conditions

In small markets such as many emerging economies of South East Asia, disruptive startups have two important challenges to contend with – managing the forces of globalization and coping with idiosyncratic local rules and regulation. While globalization offers extraordinary opportunities to access new ideas and the ability to reach customers faraway, it can lead to risky dependencies on powerful, foreign suppliers and partners. Disruptive startups in small emerging economies also have to deal with peculiar rules and regulations rooted in local politics, religion or history. This chapter explores the interplay between the strategic choices facing a disruptive startup and the entrepreneur's management of globalization forces along with local complications. The analysis is driven by case studies of two South East Asian startups that have exploited opportunities presented by information technology to disrupt incumbents in the media and tourism industries.

An Empirical Note on Perceptions of Patients and Physicians in Direct-to-Consumer Promotion of Pharmaceutical Products

Direct promotion of pharmaceutical products to patients is not legal in India. Internet healthcare websites, however, have rendered this law as merely a paper-feast. Patients today increasingly flock to websites to find health related information, including those related to drugs. This paper attempts to identify the differences in the perception of physicians and patients in this context. This is an important issue as differences in perception may result in newer conflict-points between patients and physicians. The study is based on a survey involving 400 patients and 200 physicians. The results indicate that major differences exist in the beliefs held by physicians' and patients' vis-à-vis merits and demerits of DTC-promotion through online-health related websites. As patients and physicians operate as a team while health-solutions are made available to the patients, such major differences in their beliefs regarding the merits and demerits of DTC-promotion may result in emergence of fault-lines in their relationship.

Reviewing Emotional Intelligence With Leadership Theory

Leadership theories hold a pertinent place in the effective management of people. In the Contemporary scenario, business leaders and managers have a huge onus on themselves of driving a workforce thriving with diverse Human Resource Management challenges. Interest in the role Emotional Intelligence in the workplace has increased in recent years, with greater emphasis on the benefits of understanding and utilizing emotions for managing people at work. In the contemporary scenario, the role of emotional intelligence competencies as predictors of leadership is being researched in order to leverage this information for increased leader effectiveness and performance. The present study identifies the congruence between various aspects of emotional intelligence and essential leadership competencies. It also identifies the role of Emotional intelligence in the effectiveness of Transformational Leaders.

Preferences, Benefits, and Barriers of Web 2.0 Tools for Knowledge Sharing in Brunei Darussalam's Tertiary Education

This paper is aimed to assess the current knowledge sharing processes in tertiary education in Brunei Darussalam. It identifies and examines the preferences, benefits and barriers of knowledge sharing and knowledge sharing platforms utilized in tertiary education. A descriptive research method is employed, in which quantitative approach was selected to collect data on the use of Web 2.0 tools, especially social media, for knowledge sharing in tertiary education in Brunei Darussalam. This study revealed that respondents highly utilize emails and Web 2.0 tools for knowledge sharing, which are normally provided by their host universities as information and knowledge sharing platforms. Web 2.0 tools, especially social media, are considered suitable platforms for sharing knowledge. However, there are some concerns in using Web 2.0 tools for knowledge sharing, mainly in term of privacy issues and reliability of information and knowledge shared due to its high risk of collaborators.

Research Study on Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development in Mongolia

There is scientific consensus that Mongolia is already facing the negative consequences of climate change. Raising public awareness and increasing education initiatives is one of the most important ways to adapt and mitigate climate change. The paper consists of two main sections. The first section reviewed the policies and provisions in support developing climate change education for sustainable development and analyzed the level of teachers' knowledge of climate change education for sustainable development and determined the needs for teacher training. The second part assessed the coverage level of climate change education for sustainability in national educational standards, curricula and textbooks in Mongolia. To evaluate the coverage level, the team defined the concepts and coverage of Climate change education (CCE), Disaster risk reduction (DRR) and Education for sustainable development (ESD) and developed the indicators to analyze CCE/DRR/ESD content coverage on the curricula and textbooks.

“We Still Don't Like You but We Want Your Money”

The history of Chinese migration goes back nearly as long as colonial settlement. The first major wave, which brought a noticeable number of Chinese to Australia, was the gold rush. Although the Chinese were the first non-British migrants they were heavily discriminated and looked down upon. Under the ‘White Australia Policy', it was guaranteed that the Chinese would not become in any real way, part of the Australian population. Yet despite all these difficulties, by 2010-2011 Chinese migrants became the largest migrant group in Australia. This change is significant as it was a turning point in Australia's demographic makeup (Armillei & Mascitelli, 2016). This paper examines the phenomenon of Chinese migration into Australia and how it evolved from the early years of discrimination to more recent years when the Chinese are seen in more economic opportunist forms. The true motivations of the Australian authorities for opening up to the Chinese are indeed questionable which can aptly be summarised as “we may still not like you but we want your money”.