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System dynamics of manpower planning strategies under various demand scenarios Pages 2689-2698 Right click to download the paper Download PDF

Authors: Michael Mutingi

DOI: 10.5267/j.msl.2012.09.027

Keywords: Human resource, Manpower system, Strategy evaluation simulation, System dynamics

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The development of human resources recruitment and training strategies in a dynamic environment poses a challenge to many policy makers in various organisations. The goal of every human resource manager is to recruit, train and deploy the right personnel at the right place and at the right time in order to meet organizational requirements. We develop a system dynamics simulation model that captures the dynamic behaviour of a typical corporate manpower system. Three major strategies are indentified and simulated under different manpower demand scenarios. Based on a set of performance indices, the impact of the strategies is simulated under assumed demand scenarios including steady increasing, fluctuating, and s-shaped demand. Useful managerial insights are derived from the study. The model is a decision support tool for developing reliable dynamic manpower policies in terms of recruitment, training capacity, available skills, and attrition. This approach can assist organizations to design effective manpower strategies.
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Journal: MSL | Year: 2012 | Volume: 2 | Issue: 8 | Views: 1303 | Reviews: 0

 
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Improving efficiencies in logistics operations by converging tangible & intangible aspects Pages 2699-2710 Right click to download the paper Download PDF

Authors: Sanjay Sharma, Gurkirat Singh, Pankaj Maan

DOI: 10.5267/j.msl.2012.10.009

Keywords: Intangible aspects, Logistics operations, Efficiencies, Proposed convergence, Tangible aspects

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The principal objective of this paper is to conceptualize the scope of improving the responsiveness of logistics by eradicating the restrictions posed by unnecessary delays and human factors, in conjunction with underscoring the positive externalities that will emerge as societal benefits. Various attributes like ‘idle time’, ‘geographical & regional aspects’, ‘truckers limitations’, and ‘uncertainties’ have been taken into consideration to expand the outlook of logistics operations. This paper assembles knowledge to propose an approach to establish the convergence of various relevant aspects of the operational dimension of trade & transport facilitation. Furthermore, these are the aspects which although studied disjointedly were hitherto ignored as interrelated while planning logistics operations.
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Journal: MSL | Year: 2012 | Volume: 2 | Issue: 8 | Views: 882 | Reviews: 0

 
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A study on effects of knowledge management on organizational entrepreneurship: A case study of educational system Pages 2711-2716 Right click to download the paper Download PDF

Authors: Naser Azad, Esmaeil Mehrabi Majolan

DOI: 10.5267/j.msl.2012.10.020

Keywords: Change management, Knowledge management, Structural equation modeling

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Knowledge management plays an important role in business development specially in educational system. The proposed study designs and distributes a questionnaire among experts who are involved in education systems in province of Tehran, Iran. The population of this survey includes 1680 people who are enrolled in administration levels of this province and using a simple sapling technique is calculated as 313. The questionnaire consists of 30 questions in Likert scale and there are six categories for the proposed study of this paper including the concept of knowledge, management, knowledge tools, knowledge measurement, change management, knowledge content. We have used LISREL software package to find the relationship between entrepreneurship and knowledge management components. Based on the results of this survey, knowledge content is number one priority followed by knowledge tools and concept of knowledge. The other factors including management, knowledge measurement and change management are in lower levels of importance.
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Journal: MSL | Year: 2012 | Volume: 2 | Issue: 8 | Views: 970 | Reviews: 0

 
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Investigating knowledge management critical success factors in carpet industry Pages 2717-2722 Right click to download the paper Download PDF

Authors: Naser Azad, Seyed Mohsen Seyed Aliakbar, Mehdi Ansar

DOI: 10.5267/j.msl.2012.10.019

Keywords: Factor analysis, Carpet industry, Knowledge management

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This paper presents an empirical study to learn more about challenges in carpet industry using factor analysis. The proposed study of this paper designs a questionnaire consists of 51 questions in Likert scale and distribute it among experts in Carpet industry. We have analyzed the data using factor analysis and deleted 10 most redundant questions. Cronbach alpha was calculated as 0.88 for the remaining questions, which is well above the minimum desirable limit. We have also managed to remove six more questions using principal axis factoring leaving 8 basic components including 35 different questions. The proposed study of this paper has categorized eight factors including specialized relationships, knowledge coordinator, knowledge tool, knowledge organization, knowledge processes, knowledge chain, knowledge hardware and Knowledge feasibility study. Investigating details of the results of each eight items could help us build better strategies to help this industry grow faster and more reliable in today & apos; s business world.
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Journal: MSL | Year: 2012 | Volume: 2 | Issue: 8 | Views: 870 | Reviews: 0

 
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Investigating internal and external factors influencing profitability of banking industry Pages 2723-2730 Right click to download the paper Download PDF

Authors: Hadi Noori, Mehdi Taghavi

DOI: 10.5267/j.msl.2012.10.018

Keywords: Banking profitability, Return on assets, Time series analysis

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This paper presents an empirical investigation to learn the impact of some internal and external factors on profitability in banking system. The proposed model of this paper introduces three econometrics methods to study the behavior of internal, external and a combination of both factors on return on assets. The proposed study of this paper uses Vector Auto- Regressive (VAR) and Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) to provide estimation of the proposed model and we use historical data over the period of 1989-2010. The results of the first model for internal factors, we consider some independent variables including ratio of total revenue on total assets (TR) and ratio of total equities on total assets (TE). The second model considers the effects of external variables on ROA such as growth domestic product (GDP) and market share (MS) and the last model includes a combination of both internal and external factors. The results indicates that there is a positive and meaningful relationship between logarithm of growth domestic product and return on equities, which means as we expect one unit increase in LGDP, there is an increase of 0.012 on ROA. In addition, when the market share increase by one percent, there will be an increase 0.025% increase on ROA and an increase of one percent in the ratio of TR will yield to an increase of one percent in ROA.
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Journal: MSL | Year: 2012 | Volume: 2 | Issue: 8 | Views: 2835 | Reviews: 0

 
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A survey on the impacts of brand extension strategy on consumers’ attitude for new products development Pages 2731-2738 Right click to download the paper Download PDF

Authors: Mir Ahmad Amirshahi, Jamshid Salehi Sadaghiani, Mahbobeh Rabiee, Samaneh Parsa, Pantea Salehi Sadaghianid

DOI: 10.5267/j.msl.2012.10.017

Keywords: Consumers’ attitude, Brand associations, Brand extension, Fitness, Perceived quality

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Marketing planning has been one of the most important components of production planning. A good marketing strategy can increase sales of products, which leads to higher profitability. The proposed study of this paper investigates how consumer & apos; s mental capability reacts when a new product is introduced along with a well known brand. The proposed study of this paper selects 196 people who choose 12 various products. Dependent variable is consumer perception towards new product development. Independent variables include customers consider newly offered product as replacement or supplement one. They surveyed people are also asked whether they think the new technological characteristics can incorporate older ones & apos; or not. Finally, participants are asked about their perception on product. Correlation ratio between technology transfer capabilities and perception towards the new product is calculated as 0.454, which is much more than other variables and P-value is significant when the level of significance is one percent. The other observation is that there is a positive and meaningful relationship between potential for product substitution and perception towards the new product, which has been calculated as 0.227.
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Journal: MSL | Year: 2012 | Volume: 2 | Issue: 8 | Views: 1354 | Reviews: 0

 
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Knowledge management capacity and innovation performance Pages 2739-2746 Right click to download the paper Download PDF

Authors: Niloufar Asgarian

DOI: 10.5267/j.msl.2012.10.015

Keywords: Innovation performance, Knowledge management capacity, Knowledge sharing

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The aim of this paper is to study relationship between knowledge management capacity and innovation performance. Knowledge management capacity includes knowledge sharing, knowledge application, and knowledge acquisition. For innovation performance, author considers the most important indicators including administrative innovation, product innovation, and process innovation. According to research model, 9 hypotheses are developed and the results show that there is not any positive relationship between knowledge acquisition and administrative innovation.
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Journal: MSL | Year: 2012 | Volume: 2 | Issue: 8 | Views: 1122 | Reviews: 0

 
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An empirical investigation on the relationship between parenting styles and employees' career adaptability Pages 2747-2752 Right click to download the paper Download PDF

Authors: Sedigheh Shirvan, Fatemeh Rezaei, Najmeh Sedrpoushan

DOI: 10.5267/j.msl.2012.10.014

Keywords: Career concern, Career confidence, Career control, Authoritative parenting style, Career curiosity

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he purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between parenting styles and employees's career adaptability. The statistical population includes all employees in Polyacrid's Factory of Isfahan in 2012. The proposed study selects a sample of 321 employees using cluster sampling. The study has used a based on Baumrind's theorem, which maintains three groups of permissive, authoritarian and authoritative in Likert scale. The results of our study have indicated that there is definitely a difference in parenting style among various members in terms of career concern, career curiosity and career confidence but such relationship does not exists in terms of career control. In addition, the study explains that people with permissive parenting style have less career concern, career curiosity and career confidence than those with permissive parenting style do.
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Journal: MSL | Year: 2012 | Volume: 2 | Issue: 8 | Views: 1204 | Reviews: 0

 
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A social work study to measure the effect of unemployment Pages 2753-2756 Right click to download the paper Download PDF

Authors: Faezeh Taghipour, Gholamreza Tajbakhsh, Allahyar Arabmomeni, Mohammad Reza Iravani

DOI: 10.5267/j.msl.2012.10.013

Keywords: Drug addiction, Rubbery, Unemployment

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Unemployment is believed as one of most important issues in today & apos; s economy around the world. The recent economic turmoil in European countries, for instance, has created some troubles such as increase in rate of depression, divorce, etc. In this paper, we present a social study work in one of regions of Iran. The proposed study of this paper designs and distributes a questionnaire among 80 experts who live in the region and tries to understand whether there is a correlation between unemployment and rubbery, immigration, drug addiction and non-value jobs. The survey uses Pearson correlation to test four hypotheses and the results indicate that although there is no strong correlation between unemployment and rubbery and immigration but there is a strong evidence to believe that unemployment can increase drug addiction and non-value added jobs.
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Journal: MSL | Year: 2012 | Volume: 2 | Issue: 8 | Views: 810 | Reviews: 0

 
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A hybrid of Borda and DEMTEL for productivity improvement Pages 2757-2764 Right click to download the paper Download PDF

Authors: Naser Hamidi, Parisa Yousefi, Afsaneh Rahimi, Fehimeh Jabari

DOI: 10.5267/j.msl.2012.10.012

Keywords: Burda, DEMATEL, Productivity

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Human resources are believed the primary sources of building advanced technological enterprises in today & apos; s world. Improving productivity in human resources plays essential role on empowering employees. The proposed model of this paper uses a hybrid of Burda and DEMATEL to find important factors for improving manpower productivity. The proposed model of this paper uses DEMATEL technique to find cause and effect factors and propose a linear programming technique to find important factors influencing productivity improvement. The results of our survey indicate that job enrichment, service training and job enlargement and quality of work life and training embedded are among the most important factors improving manpower productivity promotion.
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Journal: MSL | Year: 2012 | Volume: 2 | Issue: 8 | Views: 944 | Reviews: 0

 
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