Management Arts

The world economy collapsed into steep recession in the final quarter of 2008 with global real GDP dropping at a 6 percent annual rate. This was undoubtedly the sharpest decline in world output and especially in world industrial production and world trade of the postwar era, with virtually all countries participating in the downturn and many registering record quarterly declines in real GDP .the global economic contraction continued through the first quarter of 2009, although perhaps at a somewhat slower pace than the preceding quarter. This recession in world economy has also initiated a discussion among economist regarding synchronization of various economies of the world and recession in one country bringing effects in other. In economics Decoupling Hypothesis rejects linkage between world economy and economy of a particular country . The present paper aims to find tenability of decoupling Hypothesis in India and finds correlation between recession in world economies and Indian Economy

Retirement is of the categories, which contains widely range in studies and involves scientific and legislative societies of each country to itself. In numerous discussions with pension matters; discussion about mandatory retirement age, because of its closeness with employment; more than other retirement issues is important and it more worthy to pay attention. Also, the mandatory retirement age increase or decrease due to its different effects on different domains (such as job or income and social security organization losses) is quite a challenging and reviewable matter. Accordingly, we have tried to engage to the subject of compulsory retirement age and factors affecting its determination and to provide a good model for legislation in this field.

Woman by virtue undergoes various life transitions in her entire life which has a direct bearing on her career and health. Ever changing patterns of working and competition have gradually increased pressure on woman’s health and productivity at work. Women working in industries where more time is required like media, advertising, entertainment, and fashion is obliquely pushing them towards a synthetic lifestyle which will ultimately pose question on their identity at large. This report can be further extended towards the workplace domains on working women who are constantly under one or other life transitions in the context of their productivity at work and resultant stress.

To gain competitive advantage and stay ahead in today’s highly competitive retail environment, retailers need to know their customers with respect to their outlets, monitor the performance, assess the impact of competition, drill down into a trade area to identify customers and choose new store locations strategically. Location Intelligence with its ability to manage, display, and analyze business information spatially, is emerging as a powerful tool to help retailers achieve all the above. Location Intelligence is the ability to take organizational data and apply location to allow effective decision-making. The organizational data comes from the Business Intelligent system (BI) and the location (spatial) support is derived from the Geographic Information System (GIS). BI systems handle the ‘who’, ‘what’ and ‘when’. GIS is a powerful location tool, which enables the analysis of the “where ”Retail location analysis deals with the collection, analysis and dissemination of spatially referenced information, which is ideally handled by location intelligent systems. Location Intelligence allows easy visualization of the geographically influenced behaviors, activities, trends and processes, communicate the same for improved analysis and decision making. The focus of this paper is to understand the use of location intelligence system on retail location decisions.

One of the factors effective on success of the organizations is their human resources which has direct effect on productivity of the organizations. For this reason, performance of human resources is very important. In this paper, efficiency of personnel of Islamic Azad University, Tehran Sciences and Research Branch has been studied with approach of human resources. For efficiency analysis and ranking, two combined models of DEA and artificial neural networks (ANNs) were used. At first, analytical results of two models were compared with DEA and then two trained network models were compared with each others. Results of this research show that training method of the second model compared to the first model show potential of neural networks in identification of model, estimation of function, prediction allow to use it in order to assess the organizations with decision making branches, therefore, it can be presented as top model.

This study by using of fuzzy approach has attempted to model for predicting the risk of tourism in a fuzzy environment developed for this purpose , at first , the effective parameters of the process of determining the number of tourism in metropolises are recognized , then the variables are classified in 11 categories and according to experts’ opinions , their importance is identified by DEMATEL technique that it is reduced to 14 variables and classified to 4 groups, and considered as an input. Following the classification each with by using membership functions of linguistic variables were transformed into qualitative variables. Each variable in the fuzzy sign in fuzzy networks finally, each of the output variables of the fuzzy system derived. After the Create 11-fuzzy network, each output results as an affecting factor on main risk associated with specific weight and then the weight relation each of the small risks, the main risks was obtain. The end Tehran city as a case study assessment Tehran, with a 50.503% (average) tourism risk whit human-induced has been calculated. It should be noted that these rhythms were in various cities and countries, is different.

Mobile commerce has emerged as an innovative and consequential improved method of business over e-commerce. Mobile payment service is a modern innovation in this direction. M-Payment popularly known as ‘Pay with your mobile’ is a revolutionary, easy, convenient, and secure mobile payment service. According to Capgemini report 2008, there are approximately 30 million users of m-payments all over the world. Though it accounts for merely 1 percent of the value of gross global non-cash payments, the mobile payments market is growing very fast. In the background of these developments and changing scenario, the study examined the attitude of respondents about the new revolutionary M-payment technique. The study found that more than three fourth of the respondents have awareness and requisite know-how about introduction of M-payments facility. Retail purchases and bill payments have emerged as the two top preferences for M-payments. The survey conducted on the basis of gender of the respondents observed no significant difference in their motives and attitudes regarding the applicability and the concerns of this most far-reaching M-payments mode. It is found that the success of M-payment in principle depends on the wider acceptability of m-payments by merchants, clear picture about the settlement platform, and enactments of legislation and rules governing M-payments.

Entrepreneurship is a growing phenomenon in the competitive markets. In the past, marketing and entrepreneurship have been regarded as two distinct fields of study. A growing awareness of the importance of entrepreneurship and innovation to marketing, and of marketing to successful entrepreneurship, has recently led to attempts to combine the two disciplines as “entrepreneurial marketing”. The purpose of this paper is to address entrepreneurship perspectives, differences between small firms and entrepreneurial firms, entrepreneurial marketing processes, determinants of entrepreneurship and its implications for marketing, and finally, opportunities for marketers.

This research aims to examine the factors that influencing the Bumiputera Furniture Entrepreneurial Creativity in Kelantan, Malaysia. There are four (4) factors being studied, which is personality traits, environment, behavior and challenge. Based on some previous research, these four elements are very effective in assessing the level of creativity and innovation among entrepreneurs, especially those involving the manufacturing and production industries. Questionnaires were used as a method of data collection and were distributed to 57 furniture entrepreneurs. Then the data were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) 14.0 to test the reliability, the further analyzed using frequency analysis, descriptive-mean tests, Pearson Correlation Coefficient and Regression Analysis. In general, the result of this study shows that there is a significant relationship between personality traits, environment and behavior with creativity of Bumiputera’s furniture entrepreneurship in Kelantan. This study is expected to produce a creative entrepreneur in the furniture production, thus will contribute to long-term success. In the academic world, researchers could then see how far the value of creativity among entrepreneurs furniture influenced by four factors referred to.

The filed of Emotional Intelligence is attracting attention of researchers, journalists, academicians, and corporate trainers across the world. Emotional intelligence is quintessentially inseparable a component for success in career. Though considerable amount of research is done in the field of Emotional Intelligence all over the world, there is a paucity of research in this field in India owing to the fact that this field of study is still in the nascent stage in India. This article draws inputs from various scientific studies conducted in the field of emotional intelligence and its implication on career success of employees from Indian perspective. A conceptual model is proposed for measuring predictive ability of Emotional Intelligence for career success using simple regression.