Management Arts

The study – Professionalism, Gender and Media Competences in Broadcast Organisations in Nigeria – was aimed at ascertaining if women, as a result of their gender, were deprived of some duties in the media; if the broadcast organisations engaged in gender balancing in assigning news beats and if women occupied decision-making positions in the news organisations. It was also meant to ascertain, from the women’s point of view, the attitude of men towards women in decision-making positions. The study covered female journalists and producers in four broadcast organisations in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria, namely Akwa Ibom Broadcasting Corporation, AKBC, both Television and Radio Services; Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Channel 12, Uyo and Atlantic FM, Uyo. Fifty three female media operatives constituted the population of the study, and all of them were polled. The measuring instrument was the questionnaire. The findings showed that women had, on merit, without any gender balancing act, risen to positions of trust in the media, and were no longer restricted to the soft beats hitherto reserved for women. It was concluded that the growing influence of women both in number and position in the peripheral media was a signpost to the revolution which was imminent in the media at the centre.

This paper aims to study the effectiveness of the current education systems from the point of view of satisfying the industry demand for workforce. The current system is translated into the terminology of supply chain management (SCM), as it can be formulated as a ‘push system’ in SCM. As opposed to this education system which is highly centralized and lacks cooperation between the stakeholders, a new ‘pull system’ is proposed in this research. The proposed system incorporates high level of cooperation between the educational institutions and the stakeholders in the policy-making process. Shift from a push system to a pull system is considered along with a shift from the current paradigm of social sciences to the new paradigm, named as Quantum Paradigm. The concepts of SCM are evaluated through the window of quantum theory. The research also covers management issues for the educational leaders in practice.

Rapid growth of internet and market globalization, have led the organizations to try on attracting customers in such competitive electronic market. In this battle, the only way to gain competitive advantage and becoming market’ leader, is providing highly qualified electronic services. In this research, the quality of Tejarat Bank’ e-services in Iran and its relation with customer satisfaction have been evaluated. The research is an applied descriptive survey. The dimensions of e-banking services’ quality include Efficiency, Reliability, Security, Privacy, Trust, Responsiveness, Contact, Website Design, Service Variety. The population contains all of Internet banking customers of Tehran. Sample volume was calculated by Cochran method and was 270. Then, a questionnaire was designed based on SERVPERF questionnaire framework and was distributed among the respondents. The calculated data were analyzed through SPSS. The results for first hypothesis showed that e-banking services of Tejarat Bank had an optimum quality of the customers’ viewpoint with 95% significance. The results of second hypothesis showed that, with 95% of significance, there was a positive relation between service quality and customer satisfaction. Also, the dimensions of Efficiency, Reliability, Service Variety, Responsiveness, Website design and Privacy had the most relation with customer satisfaction, respectively

Quality of work life is a large step forward from the traditional job design of scientific management which focused solely on specialization and efficiency for the performance of narrow tasks, adopting division of labour, rigid hierarchy, and standardization of labour to reach its objective of efficiency. Quality of work life can be defined as “The quality of relationship between employees and the total working environment”. Quality of work life is “The degree to which members of a work organization are able to satisfy important personnel needs through their experience in the organization”. “Happy employees could able to produce higher productivity. The happiness can be perceived only when the employees good satisfaction on the work load, working condition, relationship with peers, superiors and subordinates about the climate plays a crucial role to determine the level of job satisfaction. The present study is descriptive in nature, which includes surveys and fact findings enquiries of different kind. Both Primary and Secondary Data were collected in order to obtain the related information for this study. Sample size of this study was 100. The data thus collected through questionnaire were subdued into suitable tabular forms. For analyzing the data and interpretation, simple statistical tools like percentage, chi-square and Henry Garrot Ranking method were used. At last the findings, suggestions and conclusion were made for the improvement of quality of work life in the organization.

The study is examined how employee’s job performance is affected by job involvement and reward system. The main objective of this study is examined how job performance of the employees is affected through described independent variables that are job involvement and reward system in banking sectors. This study examined that Effective Reward system and job involvement of employees playing important role in every organization since from many years and organization itself pays more attention to these kinds of sensitive matters because organization knows these 2 matters can increase their overall profit or increase organizational productivity. This study shows Reward system refers to that program which is offered by any organization for the purpose to increase employee performance and employee productivity.

CSR in India has traditionally been seen as a philanthropic activity because of social life, economic conditions and lack infrastructure. The present study has made an endeavour to comprehend the status and activities made by extensive firms of India in setting to CSR policy framing and implementation. The Government of India has also enhanced its focus on persuading companies to participate in addressing social and developmental issues, not only as a part of their social responsibility but also their business practices. India has entered or taken a transformational change by including into new CSR activities.

Faith in Arabic means 'aqada,ya’qidu, ‘aqdun or ‘uqdah. Generally faith implies strong ties or knots. This knot is tying and usually in the form of bonds associated with maknawi or hissi, where this maknawi bond is stronger than hissi because it can expand by humans. Among the words that are often associated with ‘Aqada’ (maknawi), in sale and purchase (aqada al-Bay’), which means the bond purchase. Apart from that, it also associates with such an agreement (‘aqada al-‘Ahd), which bonds the agreement. The Quran frequently uses the word with the purpose of bonding.

The Study examined gender-based labour contribution and decision making role among maize farming households in Lafia Local Government Area, North-central Nigeria. Data were collected using structured questionnaire from 60 households randomly selected and analyzed with descriptive statistics and decision making index (DMI). The results showed that Male members of maize farming households contributed 74% of the total household labour needed for maize production per hectare in the study area. However, labour contribution towards post-harvest farm operations by female farmers was 16% higher than that of male. Male farmers in maize farming households dominated decision making role for all activities (with DMI? l) except for processing (1.6) and consumption (1.6) of farm produce decision activities. Poor income, culturally gender-assigned responsibility, poor access to farm inputs, multiple domestic responsibility were ranked major constraints to women contribution to household farming decisions. In order to encourage greater participation of women in agricultural production and household farming decisions for increased food production and income, efforts should be made towards improving women access to farm inputs and credit facility. Literacy and sensitization progamme on gender issues should be embark upon for the purpose of promoting shared responsibilities.

Public infrastructure is very vital for the functioning of an urban area. Potable water specifically remains a major United Nations target conveyed through the Millennium development goals. It is crucial for health, safety, environmental sustainability as well as for economic growth and development. Evidence from literature suggests that infrastructure services generally have positive effects on housing values, as they constitute positive externalities to surrounding properties. To this end, an investigation was made on the relative contribution of public water infrastructure on housing rental values in a residential neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria using a hedonic regression model. Findings from the study revealed the relative impact of public water supply on property rental values. The application of the findings of this study will help direct policy formulation in the areas of urban infrastructure planning and development for investment returns and cost recovery. This is particularly necessary in a region characterized by incoherent institutional arrangements and poor financing strategies for urban infrastructure delivery and maintenance.

With the developing economies like India has opened their flood gates for foreign players as a part of economic reforms many foreign automobile companies like Ford, General Motors, Hyundai, Mercedes-Benz, Peugeot and Volvo etc has entered into Indian market. This has also attracted the giant auto component suppliers throughout the world to come and invest in the Indian automotive industry. As the protection from the government to the small and medium auto component manufacturers has been lifted , the only way they can survive , if they do understand need of market better than their competitors and do adopt better B2B marketing strategies and become marketing oriented rather than production or sales oriented. As it has been found that firms with better marketing orientation has good record of business success. Hence this paper makes an attempt in finding relationship between marketing orientation and performance of small and medium sized auto component manufacturers. It was found that firms with higher level marketing orientation has better profit growth over firms with low level of marketing orientation. The findings are of immense value to marketing practitioners and academicians.