{"title":"A BLUEPRINT FOR INDIA’S ECONOMIC FUTURE A Method to Address Economic Recession, Remove Poverty, Terrorism, Improve Law and Order, Reduce Drug Abuse, Inflation and Taxes in an Interest Free Based Economy","authors":"N. Khan","doi":"10.19085/JOURNAL.SIJMD030701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19085/JOURNAL.SIJMD030701","url":null,"abstract":"I have developed a new financial instrument which will be much more valuable than the bonds or the treasury bills government sold in the open market to raise much needed funds to run the country. These are all interest based instruments and can only be used by institutions. The instrument I am proposing is without interest and will be used by everybody to purchase goods and services in the government and the private sector resulting in up to 66% discounts. This is why these will be massively bought up front in large amounts in the shortest period of time of one month to run the country for at least a year and much more by the end of the year.","PeriodicalId":431805,"journal":{"name":"Scholedge International Journal of Management & Development","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124267858","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":"Open Source Software Test Automation Tools: A Competitive Necessity","authors":"K. Saravanan, E. P. C. Prasad","doi":"10.19085/JOURNAL.SIJMD030601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19085/JOURNAL.SIJMD030601","url":null,"abstract":"Software Testing is one of the critical activities in developing quality software. To enhance test efficiency and to improve repeatability of tests , several testing tools were developed and rolled out by proprietary commercial vendors like HP, IBM, etc., In the past decade, Proprietary software test automation tools dominated the automation market and were extensively adopted. But in recent past, Open Source test automation tools are acknowledged as reliable and are being adopted rapidly by IT companies. When companies started adopting Open source test automation tools, these tools were perceived as Competitive advantage to keep them abreast of technology developments, reduce cost, train testers, test in-house developed applications and so on. But today, we are witnessing Open Source test automation tools evolving as industry standard and have become a competitive necessity in IT Industry. This paper explores on how Open Source Test Automation tools have become a Competitive Necessity.","PeriodicalId":431805,"journal":{"name":"Scholedge International Journal of Management & Development","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126821856","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":"Globalization, Gender (IN) Equality and the Transnational Diffusion of Other Social Movements","authors":"O. Moldovan","doi":"10.19085/journal.sijmd030602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19085/journal.sijmd030602","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to analyze how globalization has influenced the spread of different social movements, with a peculiar focus on gender issues, the Islamist expansion and the Gandhian nonviolence repertoire and self-immolation. These particular social movements were chosen due to their heterogeneity as they entail different contents (central claims being made) and repertoires (forms of manifestation). If the Islamist movement, the Gandhian repertoire of nonviolence and self-immolation have reached a global level due to conscious actions undertaken by leaders and networks of followers spreading from the less developed to the more developed regions of the globalized world, the plight of gender equality seems to follow a different pattern. Many of the positive outcomes connected with the feminist movement (such as a better economic situation for women, better job market penetration, more equal wages) stem not necessarily from conscious and coordinated actions (although these were often organized and contributed) but can largely be seen as secondary outcomes (spill-overs) of FDI penetration and trade openness. In brief, once western companies relocated to new eastern/southern locations they required female labor force and were more inclined to offer more equal payment than local capitalist/companies. As such, the higher level of gender equality brought by globalization in the ‘poor South’ was largely an unintended effect or a positive externality of FDI penetration and the more gender inclusive labor practices of western companies.","PeriodicalId":431805,"journal":{"name":"Scholedge International Journal of Management & Development","volume":"40 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125736369","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":"Understanding organizational culture to transform a workplace behavior: Evidence from a liberal arts University","authors":"O. Guillaume, A. Austin","doi":"10.19085/JOURNAL.SIJMD030401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19085/JOURNAL.SIJMD030401","url":null,"abstract":"Nelson and Quick (2013) describe organizational cultures as “a pattern of basic assumptions that are considered valid and that are taught to new members as a way to perceive, think and feel in the organization” (p.592). Organizational cultures are a vital part of any company’s environment and provide employees with the necessary tools to integrate themselves into the overall organizational dynamic; however, most organizational cultures are plagued with dysfunctional dynamics that have stemmed from a dysfunctional personality of a key leader in their environment. This paper is based on the experience of designing and delivering special change, the organizational culture has been, for the most part, healthy and thriving. In this paper, we will review some of the problems facing the University and how key organizational leaders have successfully influenced change in a manner that has led to the valuable organizational culture in place today.","PeriodicalId":431805,"journal":{"name":"Scholedge International Journal of Management & Development","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114069241","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":"Linking Digital India As A Tool For Curbing Farmer Suicides – A Case Study Of Telangana State","authors":"S. Chandra","doi":"10.19085/JOURNAL.SIJMD030302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19085/JOURNAL.SIJMD030302","url":null,"abstract":"Digital India, a prestigious programme of NDA led Government with a projected value of Rs.113000 Crore is aimed to transform India to Digital empowered society and knowledge economy and among the 9 concentrated areas of Digital India, the present study evaluates the Digital India programme as a tool of opportunistic and social welfare initiative to curb one of the most rising problems in the agricultural sector in the country. Though agriculture, still the major employment provider has been in the situation of crisis due to rising farmer suicides. Farmers have been facing problems including lack of agricultural infrastructural assistance from government, lack of financial assistance regularity from banks and most importantly, the sector has been facing the problem of providing marketable information of yield for farmers. All these resulted in depressed conditions to farmers both financially and mentally which have lead to rising suicide cases especially in the last five years. The state of Telangana has been taken as a case for the present study and the study focuses on how Digital India programme can act as a tool of information provider for farmers, remedial practices through Digital India programme for curbing the farmer suicides. The study further deals with the factors influencing Digital India programme and the areas in farming which require Digital India assistance. The study is based on both primary and secondary data sources. Primary data is collected from farmer families in select districts of Telangana State. Secondary data sources include the reports issued by the state government on farmer suicides, agricultural yield, reports from banks and other published sources from internet and news papers.","PeriodicalId":431805,"journal":{"name":"Scholedge International Journal of Management & Development","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132528551","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":"Study on organizational commitment and workplace empowerment as predictors of organization citizenship behaviour","authors":"Shiney Chib","doi":"10.19085/JOURNAL.SIJMD030301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19085/JOURNAL.SIJMD030301","url":null,"abstract":"Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) can be defined as, anything positive and constructive that employees do voluntarily, which supports co-workers and benefits the company. These employees are always ready to ‘go the extra mile’ or ‘go above and beyond’ the minimum efforts required to do a merely satisfactory job. Human capital plays a key role in achieving organization objectives with the highest effectiveness. Employee empowerment is a strategy and philosophy and helps employees own their work and take responsibility for their results. Organizational commitment is individual’s psychological involvement and attachment to the organization and is very important for organizational success. It predicts work variables such as turnover, organizational citizenship behavior and job performance. This paper is an effort to analyze work place empowerment and organizational commitment as a predictor of organizational citizenship behavior.","PeriodicalId":431805,"journal":{"name":"Scholedge International Journal of Management & Development","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116491358","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 Pop Culture, Emotional Trust, Inconsistent Reviews and Consumer Purchase Intention on Zalora’s Women Product in Indonesia","authors":"Ratih Puspitaningtyas Faeni","doi":"10.19085/JOURNAL.SIJMD030201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19085/JOURNAL.SIJMD030201","url":null,"abstract":"The paper observed the several variables which impacts on the female consumer purchase intention on Zalora products in Indonesia. Respondents in this study were women aged 18-30 years who have a Facebook account and like the Facebook fanpage of Zalora Indonesia (https://www.facebook.com/ZaloraIndonesia). This study used analysis of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The data were processed with IBM SPSS AMOS 21.The analysis results in this study showed that pop culture, emotional trust and inconsistent reviews impacted on the female consumer purchase intention on the Zalora products in Indonesia.","PeriodicalId":431805,"journal":{"name":"Scholedge International Journal of Management & Development","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122259838","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":"Manager Characteristics, HR Renewal, Marketing Strategies, Partnership Motivation, Work Orientation, Work Standardization, on SMES Business Resilience in the Competition: A SMES Study in Jakarta Indonesia","authors":"D. Faeni","doi":"10.19085/JOURNAL.SIJMD030202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19085/JOURNAL.SIJMD030202","url":null,"abstract":"In the business competition today, SMEs are required to have a reliable strategy in order to survive. With a good strategy, it is expected that SMEs can boost their performance to gain market share. In order to survive in the fierce competition, SMEs must improve their ability. The purpose of this study was to analyze the influence of SMEs managers characteristics, HR renewal, marketing strategies, motivation partnership, work orientation, work standardization, and SMEs’ business resilience in the competition. The population in this study was the manager or owner of medium-sized enterprises in Jakarta. The data were obtained through questionnaire from 200 owners or managers of SMEs with purposive sampling in Jakarta. The model is developed from relevant literature to produce seven hypotheses which tested with multiple regression analysis of SPSS 16.0. The study resulted that the variables, e.g., manager characteristics, HR renewal, marketing strategies, partnership motivation, job orientation, work standardization, jointly, have positive and significant impact on SME resilience toward business competition. The empirical findings showed that SMEs ability was improved through product excellence and renovation of shop atmosphere in order to create pleasant, clean, and neat arrangement of goods environment.","PeriodicalId":431805,"journal":{"name":"Scholedge International Journal of Management & Development","volume":"84 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126081403","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":"Dynamics of external debt and capital flight in India","authors":"S. Saxena, I. Shanker","doi":"10.19085/JOURNAL.SIJMD030203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19085/JOURNAL.SIJMD030203","url":null,"abstract":"Countries at early stages of development have small stocks of capital and are likely to have investment opportunities with rates of return higher than those in advanced economies. The external debt for productive investment within reasonable levels enhances economic growth, but beyond certain levels additional indebtedness reduces growth. The mounting burden of debt servicing and debt crisis motivates capital flight, a paradoxical situation in which resources are flowing out of developing countries. This paper investigates the relationship between external debt and capital flight via TSLS (Two Staged Least Square Method). The results indicate positive relationship between external debt and capital Flight in India.","PeriodicalId":431805,"journal":{"name":"Scholedge International Journal of Management & Development","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128791324","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":"Local government financial condition and sustainable development of communities in Nigeria","authors":"O. Usang, B. Salim","doi":"10.19085/JOURNAL.SIJMD030102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19085/JOURNAL.SIJMD030102","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims at examining the financial condition of local governments in Nigeria and to assess its implications on sustainable development of communities. Secondary data from 122 local governments for a period of three years were utilized in examining the financial conditions of local governments in Nigeria. Findings show that the financial condition of local governments in Nigeria is poor, indicating financial distress. Hence, the deteriorating state of communities as less is available for development. There is need for the development of revenue generating and management strategies by local government administrators in order to ensure sustainable community development.","PeriodicalId":431805,"journal":{"name":"Scholedge International Journal of Management & Development","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128482131","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}