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{"title":"Managing Software Adoption by Employees -A Study Specific toIT Company in Bangalore","authors":"M. K. Prasad, Prof. J. Gajendra Naidu","doi":"10.9790/487X-1907022833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.9790/487X-1907022833","url":null,"abstract":"Every day, organization across the globe purchase new software/ digital platform that promises more speed, improved performance, increased output, cost savings and general betterness. For CIO’s and CXO’s these new technologies/software are introduced with great expectations that often go unfulfilled. That’s because 75%*of new platform/software implementations fail and the biggest reason is employees simply don’t understands its benefits & usage and results in low adoption.This study is confined to employees adoption on new software related to product lifecycle management (product conceptualization, design, develop and go to market for mass production and distributions). In this study researcher tried to gauge the adoption level of users on the digital platform/new software being used for product design & development (PLM software). It’s well established fact that success of any new software depends on not only on the power of its functionalities, features and benefits but on how the users understood the benefits, its usage and get adopted to achieve the intended objectives of higher productivity. In any transformation journey, its known fact that employees are critical determinant to ensure the success of any new software/digital platform implementation. Poor engagement of employees results in a slower speed of adoption, lower ultimate utilization and impact overall value of the investment. If an organization focus more on managing human aspect of change can help employees get engaged during the early cycle of change& adoption process and ultimately helps in reducing the learning curve and improve the benefitstoeachand every employee. Employee’s engagement is core to effective adoption. Any adoption initiative needs well planned and contextual framework to ensure engagement of employees proactively in early stage of implementation cycle to ensure adoption. In any new software/platform implementation adoption alsodepends on education to critical mass on product benefits, what’sin it for me (WIIFM), design thinking, ease of usage, top management buy-in and commitments, performance support and how employees are motivated and sustain the momentum.Any employee’s adoption on newsoftware requires2 fold approach: 1) assess and identify employees’adoption risksand mitigation proactively through various pertinent change management interventions 2) involvement of employees/users through design thinking and continuouseducation to impacted stakeholders (leaders, managers, platform champions/catalyst) about projects progress, milestones, benefits, expectations, performance support and regular feedback on platform usage and improvement.Our study indicates culture of organization, attitude, norms and perception of employees, immersive learning plays pivotal role in early and effective adoption. A structuredchange and adoption management framework on gauging employees’readiness, design thinking, risks identification & mitigation and putting contextual interventio","PeriodicalId":165213,"journal":{"name":"IOSR Journal of Business and Management","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126437269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Direct And Indirect Effect Of Store Awareness And Store Perceived Quality On Store Brand Choice.Empirical Evidence From Selected Supermarket Retail Industry In Kenya.","authors":"S. Gabriel, Dr.Ronald Bonuke","doi":"10.9790/487X-1906068088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.9790/487X-1906068088","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study was to examine the direct and indirect effect of store awareness and store perceived quality on store brand choice. Explanatory research design and systematic sampling technique was used to collect data with the aid of a questionnaire from a sample size of 384 of shoppers. Reliability test of the research instrument was done by the use of Cronbach alpha. In order to test the hypotheses, and the mediation effect, bootstrapping procedure was followed by testing the direct and indirect effect. The findings shows the significant direct effect of store awareness on both store brand choice and store perceived quality. Store perceived quality was also found to significantly, positively and directly affect store brand choice. Lastly the result shows that Store perceived quality mediates the relationship between Store awareness and Store brand choice, hence providing new knowledge in research literature. Marketers have to recognize the central role of perceived product and service quality through creation of awareness strategies like having unique symbols or logos of their stores in order to be able to anticipate store royalty from customers and consequently purchase behavior.","PeriodicalId":165213,"journal":{"name":"IOSR Journal of Business and Management","volume":"138 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131688856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Economic Analysis of Coconut in West Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh","authors":"K. Reddy, Dr.Prabhu Kumar, Dr.S.V.Ramana Rao","doi":"10.9790/487X-1906066872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.9790/487X-1906066872","url":null,"abstract":"The present study is an attempt to analyze the feasibility of investment in coconut orchards and to find out the profitability of coconut crop. So, present study was taken up with overall objective of enquiring into economics of coconut production with the objectives to examine the per hectare resource use pattern and costs and return structure, to study problems faced in production of coconut growers. The methodology adopted was, on the basis of area under highest area under coconut cultivation west Godavari districts was selected purposively. The annual per hectare cost of production (Cost C ) for coconut worked out to Rs. 58425.35. The analysis of investment in coconut orchard showed that, the investment made in coconut plantation is economically viable with Benefit cost ratio (BCR) greater than unity(1.23), Net present value (NPV) was positive (Rs. 47371.18) and Internal rate of return (IIR) was higher than prevailing rate of interest (12 %).","PeriodicalId":165213,"journal":{"name":"IOSR Journal of Business and Management","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116586150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Profit Influential Factors of Women Entrepreneurs’ Enterprises: A Case Study in Sylhet City, Bangladesh.","authors":"Md. Anowar Hossain, Brazendra Nath Roy","doi":"10.9790/487X-1907022127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.9790/487X-1907022127","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, women-owned businesses have experienced rapid growth in certain industries of the world including Bangladesh. Entrepreneurship is an economic activity which is undertaken by an individual or group of individuals. Women are a part of the nation’s manpower. This manpower of Bangladesh has already shown its immense potential in different socio-economic sectors. The purpose of the study is to investigate the available support services & factors those affect the profit earned by female entrepreneurs. In this study, data were collected from different areas in Sylhet City of Bangladesh and used the Pearson’s correlation since the questionnaires were employed to collect primary data from the field. The major finding of the study is training, easy finance in start up, family support are the major influential factors those affect profit of women entrepreneur’s enterprises. The study also finds specific obstacles to women’s entrepreneurship in Sylhet city: type of education, lack of role models in entrepreneurship, gendering of entrepreneurship, weak social status, competing demands on time and access to finance. Based on these findings, policy makers can increase the ability of women to participate in the work place. More generally, improving the contribution of financial institutions will expand benefits in terms of women’s entrepreneurship in Sylhet city as well as in Bangladesh.","PeriodicalId":165213,"journal":{"name":"IOSR Journal of Business and Management","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122420835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Causes and Effects of Cost Overruns in Public Building Construction Projects Delivery, In Imo State, Nigeria","authors":"Anyanwu Columbus Ikechukwu, I. Fidelis, Okorocha A. Kelvin","doi":"10.9790/487X-1907021320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.9790/487X-1907021320","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined the causes and effects of cost overruns in public building construction project delivery in Imo State, Nigeria. Specifically, the study examined the profile characteristics of the building construction project workers, examined also the nature of cost overruns in building projects execution in Nigeria, identified the main causes of cost overruns on building construction projects in Nigeria, ascertained the effects of cost overruns on building construction industry and on the economy of Nigeria, in general and determined the factors that can prevent cost overruns in public building construction projects in Nigeria. Multistage sampling technique was used to select a sample of 100 building construction project workers. Data were collected using structured questionnaire and were analysed using mean, frequency counts and percentages. Results showed that 80% of the workers were males, 54% were between the ages of 26 – 35, and 80% were married, 85% had secondary and tertiary education. The result also showed that cost overruns occur when there is an underestimation of actual cost during the budgeting of the building construction project (X = 2.19), when cost escalation occurs due to factors such as inflation (X = 2.28), when construction projects are not completed on time, within budget and with the appropriate technical or quality performance (X = 2.46), and when there is an extra cost incurred beyond the contractual cost agreed during the tender stage of the project (X = 2.23). Further, the results showed that the main causes of cost overruns in building construction projects in Nigeria include difficulty in obtaining construction materials (X = 2.19), deficiencies in prepared cost estimates (X = 2.11), unexpected subsoil conditions (X = 2.08), problems in finance and payment arrangements (X = 2.09), design changes (X = 2.72) and availability of skilled labour (X = 2.24). The results also showed that the effects of cost overruns on the building construction and on the Nigerian economy in general include added cost over and above those initialy agreed upon by the client (X = 2.40), less returns on investment on the part of the contractor (X = 2.39), higher prices to the end user (X = 2.38), tarnishing of the reputations of the professionals (X = 2.15),and loss of profits for the contractor (X = 2.40). The effects on the construction industry is project abandonment and drop in building activities (X = 2.48), and also decrease in property and service production for the nation (X = 2.45); also decrease in the rate of national growth (X = 2.10).The results also showed that the factors that can help reduced or prevent cost overruns in public building construction projects in Nigeria include the application of project management scheduling tools (X = 2.68),working strictly within the scope originally planned for a project (X = 2.60), planning projects properly before the commencement of project execution (X = 2.58), selection of contracto","PeriodicalId":165213,"journal":{"name":"IOSR Journal of Business and Management","volume":"340 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131882702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Influence of Life Purpose to Instrinsic Motivation and Job Achievement among the Employees of Paper Mill Factory in East Java Province, Indonesia","authors":"Maya Ida Kesumawatie","doi":"10.9790/487X-1907031014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.9790/487X-1907031014","url":null,"abstract":"This study is to describe the relationship between life purpose and instrinsic motivation and the impact to the job achievement among the employees in paper mill factory in East Java province, Indonesia. The data was collected from 165 operator level employees in production department, consists of Deinking Plant, Stock Preparation and Paper Mill. There are three findings of the study, firstly, the life purpose significantly influences the instrinsic motivation and shown by the p value of 0,003. Secondly, the life purpose influences significantly the job achievement that shown by p value of 0,054 and thirdly, the instrinsic motivation influences the job achievement significantly, shown by p value of 0,025.","PeriodicalId":165213,"journal":{"name":"IOSR Journal of Business and Management","volume":"22 20","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113937382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Study on the Effectiveness of Inventory in Working Capital Management of Select Cement Companies in Meghalaya","authors":"Y. Lyngdoh, Dr.K.C. Biswal","doi":"10.9790/487X-1907034148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.9790/487X-1907034148","url":null,"abstract":"Inventory management which is an integral part of the working capital management is viewed as a fundamental catalyst of ensuring corporate profitability. It occupies the most strategic position in the structure of working capital of most business enterprises. It constitutes the largest component of current asset in most business enterprises. In the sphere of working capital, the efficient control of inventory has passed the most serious problem to the cement mills because about two-third of the current assets of mills are blocked in inventories. The turnover of working capital is largely governed by the turnover of inventory. The study intends to explore conceptually the inventory management options in ensuring corporate profitability.","PeriodicalId":165213,"journal":{"name":"IOSR Journal of Business and Management","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128026034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Human Resource Management and Clinical Productivity in Nigerian Federal Medical Centres","authors":"A. Jogo, J. K. Achua","doi":"10.9790/487X-1907026367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.9790/487X-1907026367","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: This study evaluates the impact of human resource training and development of Nigerian Federal Medical Centres (FMCs) to determine if the investment objective is yielding the desired results. Design/methodology/approach: The paper employs regression analysis to ascertain the statistical significance of the investment costs of human resource development on patients’ admission time, discharges and deaths, as surrogates for staff productivity. Findings: The study found that staff development and training costs of the Nigerian FMCs is not statistically significant to the identified clinical performance parameters. Practical implications: These findings are instructive to the managements of the FMCs as it has brought to the fore the need to review the staff training and development strategies with a view to enhancing the pay-offs in terms of clinical productivity of the FMCs. Originality/value: This study has provided an empirical link of strategic human resource management and productivity in healthcare organizations in Nigeria. Paper type: Research paper","PeriodicalId":165213,"journal":{"name":"IOSR Journal of Business and Management","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128013172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Value Chain Development Model of the Cocoa Oil Industry to Increase Sustainable Value Added","authors":"Sudirman Zaid, Dedy Takdir Syaefuddin, Halim Halim","doi":"10.9790/487X-1907020112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.9790/487X-1907020112","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":165213,"journal":{"name":"IOSR Journal of Business and Management","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129067254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Influence of Market Information on Decision to Invest through Nairobi Securities Exchange among Youth Groups of Kisumu County in Kenya","authors":"John Kibegwa, Barbara M. Namiinda, S. Nzioki","doi":"10.9790/487X-1907026876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.9790/487X-1907026876","url":null,"abstract":"Thesis Submitted to the School of Business and Economics in Partial Fulfillment for the Requirement of the Degree of Masters of Science in Finance and Investment of Kenya Methodist University","PeriodicalId":165213,"journal":{"name":"IOSR Journal of Business and Management","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123772024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}