{"title":"Optimizing Customer Satisfaction by Using Kano's Model for Eco-efficiency and Green Design","authors":"Lara F. Hourani","doi":"10.11648/J.JIM.20150405.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.JIM.20150405.30","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents Kano model to measure customer satisfaction for the eco-efficiency and green design. This method can be used to support the designer for reducing the environmental impact of the product throughout its life cycle and as a supporting tool for designers to invent novel, useful, and environmentally friendly products, our approach is to develop this method by linking concepts from marketing and environments to show the competitive advantage of creating a high level of customer satisfaction by adopting the requirements of the eco-efficiency and green design. For that I will begins with a brief discussion for the eco-efficiency and green design then identify the requirements of the eco-efficiency and green design and lastly propose Kano model to measure customer satisfaction for the eco-efficiency and green design. Kano’s model of customer satisfaction, a methodology is introduced which determines which influence the components of products and services have on customer satisfaction. And also demonstrate how the results of a customer survey can be interpreted and how conclusions can be drawn and used to demonstrate the customer satisfaction for eco-efficiency and green design. As we see the result of the study shows that the eco-efficiency and green design for the goods and services have a competitive advantage","PeriodicalId":42560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Investment Management","volume":"31 1","pages":"285"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2015-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64816106","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":"An Impact of Banking Activities of Private Commercial Islamic Bank to Economic Development in Bangladesh: A Case Study on First Security Islami Bank Limited (FSIBL)","authors":"Md Nazirul Islam Sarker, M. Rashid","doi":"10.11648/J.JIM.20150405.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.JIM.20150405.28","url":null,"abstract":"Banks are the most important parts of the financial system of any country. Specially, developing country like Bangladesh, proper banking system is very important and essential to play a vital role, because capital market system in Bangladesh is not advanced like other country’s capital market. The study analyses published texts, articles, websites and annual report of this bank through a content analysis. Key findings of this study manifest the contribution of this bank in different areas of economic development in Bangladesh like generating employment, earning foreign remittance, strengthening rural economy, promoting ecology and green banking, boosting industrialization, developing the SMEs, assisting in foreign trade (import-export) and developing the housing sector etc. This study also identifies FSIBL’s significant contribution to the national exchequer. This paper contributes to the field of economic development of Bangladesh and the role of FSIBL behind it and fills the gap of literature in this specific area. The study suggests that Islamic banking has a great impact on the economic development in Bangladesh","PeriodicalId":42560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Investment Management","volume":"4 1","pages":"264"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2015-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64815658","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":"Impact of Monetary Policy on Stock Price: Evidence from Bangladesh","authors":"Afrin Rifat","doi":"10.11648/J.JIM.20150405.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.JIM.20150405.29","url":null,"abstract":"This study intends to explore the impact of monetary policy on the performance of stock market from the perspective of a developing country-namely Bangladesh. The issue of monetary policy has been a subject of debate among several financial economists since a long time. Monetary policy is basically that part of the macroeconomics, which aims to achieve a set of objectives that are, conveyed in terms of several macroeconomic variables such as inflation, real output, money supply, exchange rate etc. As a result, any change in the monetary policy will have an effect on these variables. Understanding the sensitivity of stock market with respect to these variables of monetary policy frameworks is very important, particularly to recognize the monetary policy mechanism transmission into the stock market. This paper investigates whether current economic activities or more specifically the monetary policy tools of Bangladesh can explain stock market returns by using a number of econometric models of measuring long-run and short-run relationship between monetary policy tools and stock price","PeriodicalId":42560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Investment Management","volume":"4 1","pages":"273"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2015-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64815923","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":"Conflict Resolution and Management: The Macro Perspective","authors":"M. Onyesom, Emeke Francis Igbesi","doi":"10.11648/J.JIM.20150405.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.JIM.20150405.25","url":null,"abstract":"Conflict is an inevitable phenomenon in this universe as long as humankind exists. This implies that conflict is natural to human nature. However, conflicts usually occur from the pursuit of divergent interests, goals and aspirations by individuals or groups in a defined social or physical environment. Thus, conflict is present when two or more parties perceive that their interests are incompatible, express hostile attitudes, or take, pursue their interests through actions that damage the other parties. Our contemporary world is experiencing varied dimensions of conflicts cutting across religious, tribal, national, racial and socio-cultural inclinations. These macro dimensions of conflicts are open or external expression of dissatisfaction of the aggrieved group which is aimed at injuring other group(s) or reducing if not totally eliminating the existing relationship between the groups. Conflict that has degenerated to macro level becomes difficult and complex for the parties involved to personally resolve their differences alone without the aid of external assistance. Hence, this paper addressed effective styles of conflict resolution and management from the macro perspective","PeriodicalId":42560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Investment Management","volume":"4 1","pages":"250"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2015-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64815757","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":"Ranking Multi Criteria Decision Making Methods for a Problem by Area Under Receiver Operating Characteristic","authors":"Seyed Behnam Khakbaz, Maryam Karimi Davijani","doi":"10.11648/J.JIM.20150405.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.JIM.20150405.21","url":null,"abstract":"One of the major challenges in decision making is selection among MCDM (multi criteria decision making) methods. These methods do not provide same answer to decision maker. Therefore selecting the best answer is an important dilemma. To solve this problem, methods like Borda and Copeland compilation have been proposed. However, applying these methods leads to a hybrid solution which is not necessarily the best answer. In this paper a new approach is proposed to rank different MCDM methods. This approach is AUROC (area under receiver operating characteristic) which is a data mining tool for ranking classification models. The results would show great potential of applying AUROC for ranking MCDM methods in an immense selection problem with historical outcome","PeriodicalId":42560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Investment Management","volume":"4 1","pages":"210"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2015-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64815747","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":"Identifying Stakeholders in Land Use Management Process and Its Critical Factors in ASEAN","authors":"T. Tambunan","doi":"10.11648/J.JIM.20150405.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.JIM.20150405.24","url":null,"abstract":"The main aim of this qualitative-based research is two folds: to identify the main stakeholders who are directly and indirectly impacted by land and who have actually or potentially influence on land use management (LUM) and the critical factors which determine the smooth coordination and cooperation among stakeholders in member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Through reviewing available key literature in individual ASEAN member states (AMSs), it shows that at the macro (aggregate)-level, there are three key stakeholders in LUM, i.e. government, companies, and community. Whereas, at the micro (disaggregate)-level, there can be a large number of stakeholders. With respect to government, many department or agencies may involve in LUM. One important finding of this study is that individual villagers or farmers are not always easy to be integrated in the land use planning and LUM; while farmer groups should be the engine of this integration","PeriodicalId":42560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Investment Management","volume":"7 1","pages":"237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2015-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64815707","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 Level of Compliance with International Accounting Standard IAS 18 by Listed Firms in Bahrain","authors":"Isa Adnan Budaraj, A. Sarea","doi":"10.11648/J.JIM.20150405.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.JIM.20150405.22","url":null,"abstract":"This Study examines the association between five firm-specific characteristics and the level of compliance with International Accounting Standards (IAS 18) by listed Firms in Bahrain Bourse. A self-constructed compliance checklist was developed and the compliance index was derived to represent the level of compliance among publically traded firms in Bahrain Bourse for the year 2013 to IAS 18 disclosure requirements. The results detected an aggregate mean compliance of 63% to IAS 18 disclosure requirements. A significant positive relationship was found between the level of compliance and a company’s size, and auditor type. A significant negative relationship was found between the IAS 18 disclosure level and a company’s debt level (leverage). However, a significant relationship between the level of IAS 18 disclosure level and a company’s profits or age could not be established in this research. The results of this research can benefit investors and companies as well, as the results will determine what level of compliance to IAS 18 are listed companies in Bahrain Bourse are committed to, and how transparent are the revenues they are reporting in their financials","PeriodicalId":42560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Investment Management","volume":"4 1","pages":"216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2015-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64815375","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}
C. Zilidis, C. Kastanioti, N. Polyzos, J. Yfantopoulos
{"title":"Development of a Health Workeforce Monitoring System in Greece","authors":"C. Zilidis, C. Kastanioti, N. Polyzos, J. Yfantopoulos","doi":"10.11648/J.JIM.20150405.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.JIM.20150405.27","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Recent Greek economic crisis has had a mayor impact on healthcare system. A complete absence of planning human resources leeds to a need for healthcare workforce management tools, among them a re-distribution at a national and regional level following international indicators. Objectives: Aim of the study was to collect data on the current and future demand for and supply of human resources in the Greek health system, to map these data and finally to propose a model for future projections or actions. Methods: Data collected from various sources mainly of Ministry of Education for the supply and Ministry of Health for the demand. These data were aggregated in order tables to be standardized for future standard collection by these Ministries and the National Statistical Authority. The proposed model constitutes a combination between a stock-and-flow model and a workforce-to-population ratio approach. Results: Greece insists to an obvious oversupply of health professionals (over 7.000 annually), while demand can not absorb over 20-25% of these staff. Due to economic crisis, there is an urgent need for reinforcing especially public sector in terms of new hires mainly of nursing and midwifery staff, and re-distribution of all. Conclusions: The main results indicate that health policy makers could reach an optimal matching between future supply of and demand for healthcare workforce by adjusting the flexible supply components. This presupposes an accurate and stable system of data collection. On the demand side, it is also important to collect demographics and other related data that are more indicative of health needs","PeriodicalId":42560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Investment Management","volume":"4 1","pages":"256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2015-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64815479","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":"Savings, Inflation and Economic Growth Linkages: A Re-Examination with Nigeria Data","authors":"R. Edeme, I. Ifelunini","doi":"10.11648/J.JIM.20150405.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.JIM.20150405.16","url":null,"abstract":"The inter-relationship among savings, inflation and economic growth is an important conjuncture in the linkage evaluation of economic performance. Towards making them sustainable, the Nigeria government has initiated reforms, some of which in the last seven years. Despite these reforms, no study has been undertaken on the linkages among these variables with existing studies having confided themselves to looking only at the relationship between inflation and investment and the impact of inflation and economic growth. Using annual time series data from 1980-2013, this study examined the linkages among savings, inflation and economic growth in Nigeria using the 2-stage least squares (2SLS) method. The study found inflation and real interest to be negatively related with economic growth while exchange rate has positive effect on economic growth. Also economic growth, unemployment and real interest rate negatively affected inflation rate, while indirect taxes had positive impact on inflation. The result further shows that economic growth; exchange rate and foreign direct investment engender savings while depreciation rate endangers savings. The study also established threshold level of 8 percent of inflationary level was found to be consistent with Nigeria growth; beyond this point inflation will endanger growth","PeriodicalId":42560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Investment Management","volume":"22 1","pages":"180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2015-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64815194","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":"Impact of Motivational Strategies on Employee Motivational Level: A Case Study of National Bank of Pakistan in Azad Jammu and Kashmir","authors":"Shagufta Ashraf, Ghulam Mustafa Azam, W. Ashraf","doi":"10.11648/J.JIM.20150405.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/J.JIM.20150405.18","url":null,"abstract":"The study sought to find out the motivational strategies and its impact on employee motivational level. The purpose of the study is to provide effective motivational strategies for banking sector of Azad Kashmir to use to motivate employee’s, improve and increase productivity in organization. The Literature review enables us to understand the various theories on motivation and the effects have on productivity. The researcher adopted a questionnaire to collect primary data regarding what will make employees to perform and increase productivity. The study was conducted by collecting data from sample of 90 respondents selected from five districts of Azad Jammu and Kashmir including Mirpur , Kotli, Palandri and Bagh and Rawalakot using questionnaire. The data was analyzed using frequencies and percentage distribution. The result shows that “Advancement Opportunity” has the highest impact on motivational level on employees working in National Bank of Pakistan working in Azad Kashmir","PeriodicalId":42560,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Investment Management","volume":"4 1","pages":"191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2015-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64814991","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}