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Effect of Stress on Executive Performance

Abstract Stress is an inevitable reality of life. But stress isn’t always a bad thing. It’s a natural, physical response that can generate our fight- or-flight response. Stress can increase our awareness in difficult or treacherous situations, allowing us to act hastily in the moment. Without it, humans wouldn’t have survived this long. But if stress is invariable over time, it can be unfavourable to health. So, stress prevention and management ...

Weakly Supervised Deep Learning for Customer Review Sentiment Classification

Abstract Sentiment analysis is one of the key challenges for mining online user generated content. In this work, we focus on customer reviews which are an important form of opinionated content. The goal is to identify each sentence’s semantic orientation (e.g. positive or negative) of a review. Traditional sentiment classification methods often involve substantial human efforts, e.g. lexicon construction, feature engineering. In recent years, d...

Characterizing and Predicting Early Reviewers for Effective Product Marketing on Ecommerce Websites

Abstract Online  reviews  have  become  an  important  source  of  instruction  for  users before manufacture an informed procure decision. Early reviews of a product tend to have a high  effect  on  the  ensuing  product  sales.  In  this  paper,  we  take  the  initiative  to  study  the behavior  characteristics  of  early  reviewers  through  their  posted  reviews  on  two  real-world large e-commerce  platforms,  i.e.,  Amazon  and Yelp.  In s...

A Generalised Flow for B2B Sales Predictive Modelling

PURPOSE:  The paper and packaging company that provided the data for this research has a long history of sales expertise. This expertise is captured predominantly in the intuition of sales representatives, many of whom have worked in the industry for 20 years or more  AIM:  Intuition  is  not  easy  to  record  and  disseminate  across  an  entire  sales  force,  however,  and  thus  one  of  the company’s most valuable resources is inaccessible to the broader organiza...

Study on Advertising Activities of Airtel in the Indian Telecom Market

ABSTRACT:  The purpose of the research paper is to study the promotional activities of Airtel in the Indian telecom market. Promotional activities not only help in enhancing the customer base but also pave the way to better corporate image. A company needs better promotional tools in order to survive and sustain the turbulent Indian market and the prevailing scenario. Bharti Airtel Limited or commonly known as Airtel is one of India’s most popular providers of...

Armed Intervention and the Challenges of Maritime Security in the Gulf of Aden, 2008-2011

ABSTRACT The economic collapse and civil war that ensued in Somalia after President Siad Barre gave rise to piracy, armed robbery and dumping of toxic wastes in and around the Gulf of Aden. The attendant humanitarian crisis attracted the intervention of the international community. This study evaluated armed intervention and the challenges of maritime security in the Gulf of Aden between 2008 and 2011. The objectives were to: (i) determine whether the application of the principle of political...

Oil Price Shocks and Oil Sector Stock Prices in Nigeria

ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of oil price shocks on oil sector stock prices in Nigeria using a high frequency data between January 2000 to December 2010. The empirical results indicates that no significant effect of oil price is found on oil sector stock prices but there are significant effects of such macroeconomic variables as interest rate, exchange rate and real gross domestic product on oil sector stock prices in Nigeria. Therefore the volatility in oil price does not nece...

Marital Conflict among Couples: The Case of Durbete Town, Amhara Region of Ethiopia

ABSTRACT This study explored the prevalence, causes, consequences and coping strategies of marital conflict in Durbete town. The study employed mixed approach with cross- sectional descriptive survey research design. A total of 390 people were participated: 386 (193 men and 193 women couples) as survey respondents and four interviewees. Survey respondents were selected through stratified and proportional random sampling technique. Four interviewees were purposely selected from elders, lawyers...

The Role of Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (NEITI) in Economic Development: A Study of Oil & Gas Free Zone, Onne Rivers State.

Introduction Economic Development: this involves growth in total real national income and real per-capital income of a developing country like Nigeria over a long period of time. It implies the achievement of the entire society and the attainment of a number of set economic objectives that can improve the standard of living of  people. Put simply, economic  development is real growth including substantial change in the economy with export value for both the aid giving and aid receiving c...

A Study on “Challenges of Six Sigma Implementation in Human Resource Management” Special Reference to Information Technology Sector

When we think of applying the Six Sigma in to HRM, an inevitable question is that, to what an extent all the processes of HRM are measurable. Many companies attempted to implement this methodology and got backward in middle of the process or beginning due to the challenges in implementing Six Sigma in HRM. Measurability of a process depends on the perception of an individual HR person; this is mainly due to the non-measurable nature of HR processes. Most of the organizations not conside...

Role of Management Education in Entrepreneurship Development in India

Abstract The growth of entrepreneurship is the need of hour today. With the kind of saturation of job market and the development of artificial intelligence, there will be further severe imbalance in the demand and supply of jobs. This could create a big economic crisis and lead to many other macro-economic fluctuations. Hence the challenge is to prepare for the near future by equipping the current human resource. Management, which is considered as one of skill based professional course, is th...

Sustainable Integrated Model for Classroom Engagement

India’s higher education system, following the United States and China, is the third-largest in the world. Indian government already recognized the importance and spends 6% of GDP on education. Engaged students are expected to perform better. Classroom engagement refers to teacher - student involvement throughout the learning process. It is a multidimensional construct that can be measured with all the dimensions dynamically interrelated like Behavioral engagement, Emotional engagement...

A Critical Study on the Effects of Organization Structure on Employee & Job Satisfaction

Abstract In this paper, A Critical Study on the Effects of Organization Structure on Employee & Job Satisfaction.In this research of the researcher, some factors of job satisfaction of employees in Samsung company were explored and found effective way to give employees satisfaction to get the most profit in the company. Employees are very important for Samsung company nowadays. It is very important for a manager to identify employee satisfaction in the company by following the rules and regul...

The Effects of Organisation Structure on Job Satisfaction

Abstract These are directly related to the organization such as the size of the organization, structure of the organization, employee-employer relationship, management ability, leadership, delegation and all such things are the factors affecting job satisfaction.Organizational factors include work, salary, promotion, supervision, work group and work situation.Job satisfaction describes how satisfied a person is with his job. The happier people are within their jobs, the more satisfied they a...


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