Management Arts

This research will explore conceptual framework of Globalization and subsequently discuss how Globalization affected contemporary work organization in general and Indian work organization located in special economic zones (sezs) in particular.This research is an exploratory qualitative study. It is based on extensive review of literature summing up the findings on the topic in question. Finally an answer to the issues discussed in the systematic literature review has been suggested at the conclusion.

This article studies the problems and obstacles impeding the development of tourism industry in Iran focusing on marketing and promotion. For this purpose, it initially deals with the literature of tourism and marketing and then the importance of the research is expressed. After the data was collected and analyzed, the following items were identified as main obstacles to the development of tourism industry in Iran: lack of promotion in Iran’s attractions in target markets; inefficiency of national and international transportation facilities and systems; low quality of services such as hospitality and entertainment facilities; International negative publicity against Iran and insufficient training of people who are involved in the country’s tourism industry. The results from the research indicated that lack of promotions in the target markets (outside Iran) has become an obstacle to attracting tourists to Iran and negative untrue publicity against Iran launched by some international communities has become an obstacle to attracting tourists to the country. It was also confirmed that lack of suitable accommodations and recreation/entertainment facilities has become an obstacle to attracting tourists to Iran and the low quality of transportation in the country has become an obstacle to attracting tourists to Iran.

This article deals with the role of religion of Islam in tourism industry. In this respect it studies the relationship between Islam and tourism, aspects of the interconnection between Islam and tourism, manners of Muslims as hosts and guests, and finally the international collaboration in Islamic tourism industry. The study showed the religion of Islam has had profound influences in destination conditions and inbound and outbound tourists and has been influential in determining the content, direction and implementation of tourism policy.

The objective of this paper is to analyze the different perspectives of the roles played by the maquiladora in Central America as a lever of economic growth and social development in the region. Maquiladoras are industries that import materials and equipment, perform assembly or manufacturing processes, then re-export the finished goods to other countries. After a brief historical review of the maquiladoras emergence in the Central America region, the context is analyzed to underline the legal regime of temporal import and legal regime of managerial oriented free zone or fiscal precinct. Afterwards, the impacts that the maquiladoras have had in the regional economic growth and employment generation under the variable of the Asian competence is analyzed. After the discussion, prospective scenarios are analyzed and several strategies are recommended, including the promoting and creation of maquiladoras that go beyond the competitive advantage of cheap human labor. The Central America countries must design and implement strategies of diversification of the maquiladora development process in industrial sectors that require greater added value and technological innovation.

The National Radioactive Waste Management Centre was established in June 1995. The Centre is responsible for all national radioactive waste safety operations in Ghana at its centralized waste management facility. It also aims at promoting research and development activities in radioactive waste management in Ghana. Despite the myriad of challenges confronting the centre in executing these mandates it is however, making giant strides in the safe management of radioactive waste in Ghana.

This paper expounds processes of read understood and information transferred from epistemology and ontology according to customers’ requirements of knowledge service. It points out that method frames of content contrast were to access knowledge points via study on definition of knowledge and forms of semantic description. Some literatures would be contrasted with couple to couple by computer technology in order to raise read understanding efficiency.

Innovation is the process through which the entrepreneur converts market opportunities into workable, profitable and marketable ideas. It is the application of something creative that has a significant impact on an organization, an industry or the society at large. Innovation is critical not only to facilitate differentiation, but also to bring about sustainable competitive advantage. The study employed survey research using questionnaire as the instrument for data collection. Two hundred subjects responded to the questionnaire. Five hypotheses were formulated and tested using multiple regression, t-test, Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient and Analysis of Variance. The study suggested, among other findings, that there is an association or relationship between cultural values and entrepreneurial innovativeness in Nigeria. Based on the findings of this study, it was recommended among others that entrepreneurs should consider their cultural values and ethnic dispositions in their business pursuits since they can go a long way in determining entrepreneurial innovativeness.

The aim of the paper is to analyze the service quality of technical education being imparted by various institutes in Jammu region. The objective is to determine the satisfaction level of students and the study found that the gap between perception and expectation is negative which proves that no institution is considered satisfactory by the students. But comparing all, MIET is showing the best results in SERVQUAL measure as it has the least gap between perception and expectation. GCET is also scoring well in case of assurance as it has a well qualified teaching staff as compared to other private institutes and also provides assurance of Quality education and placement opportunities.

In the fast growing Quartz watch segment there are many competitors in the market environment for TITAN who captured the market with their innovative and energetic strategies. Nowadays, the quartz watch market has been emerged with global competitors and others with introduction of their style and fashion watches in India. In view of the background, this research tries to examine the present marketing strategy of TITAN and to suggest an improved system for widening the market base and also to increase the sales volume. The purpose of the study also includes to the awareness level of TITAN quartz watch from the public. The sampling method adopted is non – probability convenience sampling. To analyse the data and interpret the results, various statistical tools like simple percentage analysis, Chi – square Test and ANOVA – one way are applied.