International Journals of Multidisciplinary Research
Academy (IJMRA)

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Teacher must act as a leader because his/her role is very effective in educational change. Influence of personality traits on leadership styles has been a significant topic in management but no research emphasis has been given to teacher's personality influence on their leadership behaviors. This research investigates the correlation between these two aspects. Quantitative research is done by means of survey to a convenient sample of 150 teachers of public Secondary schools of Lahore.
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Globalization has changed the way firms, industries contend with competition, and for any country to be relevant in this 21st century, there is a need for a paradigm shift in the way governance and businesses are conducted. It is against this backdrop that many emerging economies have embarked on economic restructuring and Nigeria is no exception. For a country like Nigeria with her vision 20:20, which is geared towards making her amongst the top 20 economies in the world, there is a need for her small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to play the leading role in this regard.
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In the present study, we have presented a statistical analysis for paired comparison data through Bayesian approach. In the method of paired comparisons, objects are presented in pairs to the judges. The Bradley-Terry model for paired comparisons is considered for Bayesian analysis. The prior distribution for the parameters of the model is supposed to be belonged to the member of the Dirichlet family and the method for elicitation of hyperparameters is based on the prior predictive distribution.
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At times, costs cannot be traced to specific units without considerable difficulty or a clerical labour not justified by the result manufacturing overhead represents all costs incurred in the factory over and above direct material cost, and direct labour cost. In other words, it is the aggregate of factory indirect material cost, factory indirect labour cost factory indirect services. The items of overhead, which cannot be identified with specified departments, are prorated or distributed among the related departments and this proration of distribution is technically referred to as apportionment.
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Consumers today have a lot of choice in terms of shopping for products. They exhibit different behavior when purchasing a high involvement product, as compared to a low involvement product. This research paper tries to prove this difference in behavior statistically with the help of primary data collected from respondents. Also, an attempt has been made to find out the impact of product involvement on purchasing intention of the people of Vadodara city.
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In the present study A Quasi Experimental Study a research design was used to achieve the objectives of the study. The study was conducted in selected slums of Pune city. In the present study the sample comprised of 60 people. A structured questionnaire knowledge regarding swine flu was prepared to study the sample. Descriptive and inferential statistics had been used to analyze the data obtained through interviews. This study indicates that the planned teaching is effective in increasing the knowledge of people regarding swine flu.
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Efficient product costing is much emphasized in today's manufacturing environment because of their importance in management decisions. Product costs need to be as accurate as possible. If the costs are not accurate, pricing is not optimal. Product costing has direct and indirect effects on cash flows of companies. Volatile raw material prices bring challenges to reliability of product costing. The main contribution of this article is to investigate the effects of uncertain raw material prices in the context of product costing.
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Today most of the theorist has emphasized the importance of human resource as single most important factors for sustaining competitive edge. Morale is considered to be the main element in the mental phenomenon driving performance in the organization. Employee welfare relates to all the benefits which are provided by the organization to provide comfort .In today era welfare facilities are necessity for an organization to have sustainable, efficient and satisfied workforce. This paper seeks to investigate the role played by welfare practices in the process of motivating Employees.
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This paper challenges the stereotypical portrayal of English Language teaching of all .By analyzing the pedagogy of a 'traditional' teacher. The paper starts by distinguishing between 'pedagogy'-the teacher's personal construction of beliefs and practices about teaching and learning-and `methodology'-a generalized set of procedures underpinned by a theoretical rationale. Demonstrate your ability to apply rhetorical theory to your understanding of the teaching of writing.
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The Persons with Disabilities Act 1995 indicates that disabled persons should have access to education at all levels. Though service to disabled children in India is more than 100 years old, the coverage of these children in the formal school system is not even 5 per cent. The report of manpower development published by the Rehabilitation Council of India reveals that more than 1,00,000 teachers will be needed in the next ten years to cater to the educational needs of disabled children in schools. Bachelor's and master's level teacher programmes are needed for preparing teachers to help disabled children realise the objective of education for all.
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For last few years every other day we read the news of farmers committing suicides. The number of farmers who have committed suicides since 1997 has crossed 1 lakhs. In this context the actual problems being faced are to be understood and analysed. Innovative remedies have to be thought of which are to be implemented with sincerity by the Government and the implementing agencies, alongwith putting in place ways to rehabilitate the affected farmers. An attempt has been made in this article to address the issue of farmers plight leading to suicide and measures to address the issue have been suggested.
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With the advent of globalization there has been a notable change in the level of participation of different organizations through different sectors in our economy. The changed scenario was much more revolutionary in terms of products offered, products differentiation, adaptability, intensity of competition, etc. There were new product offerings by the participants in terms of various dimensions considering various points of reference. Simultaneously, organizations representing two different periods were on the same platform.
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Two major economies in Asia, India and South Korea signed the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) on 7th August 2009. The agreement came into force from 1st January 2010. The Government of India contends that the CEPA would facilitate trade in services through additional commitments made by both countries to ease the movement of independent professional and contractual service suppliers. The current paper analyses the challenges and the opportunities ahead of India and Korea.
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Civilized Islam (Progressive Islam) or also known as Islam Hadhari in Malaysia, is characterized by ten fundamental principles which incorporate the sense of moderation of Islam and how Muslims should be guided in following its path while they face this modern world challenges. Previous literature studies showed that there were poor understanding and acceptance towards Civilized Islam among the non Muslims in Malaysia.
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The study deals with the "work culture prevailing in EFX, division of Prasad Corporation" Chennai. The study was conducted among the workers of EFX, division of Prasad Corporation. The objective of this study is to find out the work culture prevailing in the organization, employee's attitude towards the organization mission, working conditions and also interpersonal relationship in the organization.
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Dairy farming is one of the important enterprises which dominate the economic activities of the tribal people in the rural areas of Odisha in India. Increasing demand for milk and milk products in recent years intensifies dairy farming as profitable enterprise for tribals. The tribal entrepreneurs have been confronting to several constraints in this sector which hinder their way for development. The present study was undertaken in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha in India, to find out the constraints faced by tribal entrepreneurs and to suggest suitable measures to overcome these constraints.
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India is the world largest democracies, having been recognized the Press (Media) as the Fourth Estate. The Press/journalism means writing, informing the current issues and incidents of present and the past. The general practice of investigating and reporting of events, happenings and trends to a broad audience. Though, there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the citizenry. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and business, journalism also covers the sports, cultural aspects of society such as arts, films and entertainment.
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This article inspects the efficiency of the foreign exchange market after the global financial crisis of 2007-08. A BDS independence test was applied to the returns of weekly exchange rates of the Euro, the Australian Dollar, the Swiss Franc, the New Zealand Dollar, and the Singapore Dollar against the US Dollar, one time from 2002 to 2007, and the other time from 2007 to 2011. The results indicates that the exchange rates returns are independent and identically distributed (iid) before the crisis, but they are founded not to be iid after the crisis, that is, Efficient Markets Hypothesis cannot be rejected before the crisis, while it is rejected after the crisis.
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Banking reforms made customers to access their services more conveniently. Among the services offered by the banks, ATM services play key role to minimize customers' time and energy. Having satisfied customers and to retain them for a longer period of time it is necessary to provide ATM services on round the clock as well as anywhere in the nation. The study focus on the customer satisfaction towards ATM services offered by the banks and tries to suggest some ways out to improve their level of services to keep the force on. The study area is restricted to Navi Mumbai city of Maharashtra.
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The title of the research paper, is presented as a theoretical paper for the study. The research paper will outline and discuss a method of emotions in communication that mingled with cultural perception. The aim of this method is to integrate recent developments in emotions research into a communication-theoretical framework in the study.
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Financial inclusion is delivery of banking services at an affordable cost to the vast sections of disadvantaged and low income groups. Unrestrained access to public goods and services is the sine qua non of an open and efficient society. As banking services are in the nature of public good, it is essential that availability of banking and payment services to the entire population without discrimination is the prime objective of the public policy. The present paper is an attempt by the authors to understand the perception of the beneficiaries in general towards the basic banking services accessibility in the study area.
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Earnings management has been identified by regulators and practitioners as a tool used by managers to mislead investors about the underlying economic conditions of their firms. Although, the relationship between ownership structure and the discretionery behaviour of managers has been considerably discussed in developed countries, an examination into this relationship has only recently attracted the attention of researchers in the developing economies such as Nigeria.
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The present study is undertaken to know the satisfaction levels of employees about labour welfare measures in KCP limited (Cement Division). For the purpose of the study, convenience random sampling method is adopted to carry out the study by the researcher. Out of 925 employees, 90 are selected covering almost all the departments. A questionnaire is used for present study to know the opinions of the employees on each statement. The results of the research reveal that majority of the employees are satisfied with all the welfare measures provided by the organization.
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Education is a powerful instrument of socio-economic and political change. Hence, it is necessary to improve quality of education at different levels of its field. Teachers need to be qualified in teaching methodology. Improvement of quality of teaching is essential for futuristic development. This is an experimental study of teaching Physics through compact disk programs of AllamaIqbal Open University, Islamabad and through lecture method of teaching.
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Ground water quality was studied in some villages of Dudu tehseel of Jaipur district by systematic collection and analysis of samples. The samples were collected during the month of February, 2009 and were analyzed for pH, total dissolved solids, chloride, nitrate and fluoride. The analysis showed that three villages had high fluoride and nitrate level than the maximum permissible limits when compared with the prescribed Indian Standard Limits for drinking water. TDS, Chloride values were high in Gadoti region whereas found lowest in Kapadiawas region.
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The study was aimed at obtaining information pertaining to the tea pest prevalence in some tea gardens of Tezpur sub-division of Sonitpur district of Assam with reference to the plant protection measures adopted in those gardens. For this study, a sampling survey of ten tea gardens of the district was carried out. The study shows that altogether six types of pests are found to affect tea plantations and 22 types of pest control agents are used for controlling different types of tea pests. Organochloriones, Pyrethroids, fungicides and pesticides of other categories are used by 100% gardens with application percentages of 4.55, 13.6, 13.6 and 27.3 respectively.
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The success of any organization is highly dependent on how it attracts recruits, motivates, and retains its work force. Today's organizations need to be more flexible so that they are equipped to develop their work-force and enjoy their commitment. Therefore, organizations are required to adopt a strategy to improve the employees' 'quality of work life '(QWL) to satisfy both the organizational objectives and employee needs. This article reviews the meaning of QWL and analyses the socio-economic conditions of workers in the house of pearl global industry, Chennai.
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This paper is a result of the study conducted with the objective of examining street beggars and begging life in Dodoma and Singida Municipalities in Central Tanzania. The current paper examined the feelings of street beggars on begging life and their survival livelihoods in urban areas of central Tanzania. This study employed a cross-sectional research design. The population of the study consisted of street beggars and non-street beggars, municipal officials, councilors, business people and community members.
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Transparency in public affairs is sine-qua-non to flourish and grow a democratic societal set up. Transparency in public offices' work schedule is a way towards accountability, which is a kind of check on corruption. India is a big democratic country and giving right to know to the citizens is a step towards the transparency in public matters. In a Democratic set up, government is formed by the people for the people. That's why people must be aware about the functioning of the government and if there is any delay in any work then they must be aware about the reasons of the delay.
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Science is believed to be a mute servant of the society, catering to the needs, comforts and pleasures of human beings. It was thought that science, the material power, had nothing to contribute to the value system of life. 'Equality'� of groups and sections of the people all over the world was the ideology of a politician or a social reformer, and science had nothing to say either for or against.
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The main purpose of this research is to know the cross cultural counterfeit characteristics and find out an effective anti-counterfeit strategy. The authors conducted five different studies with two respondents groups from two countries, South Korea as Developed country and Bangladesh as an under-developed country. First study tried to find out the answer of why consumers buy counterfeit product and results show that Low price, almost same quality, Availability and Short term consumption habit were the main reason.
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William Shakespeare was born to John Shakespeare and mother Mary Arden some time in late April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. There is no record of his birth, but his baptism was recorded by the church, thus his birthday is assumed to be the 23 of April. His father was a prominent and prosperous alderman in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, and was later granted a coat of arms by the College of Heralds.
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This paper investigates the productivity of the agroforestry systems and its contribution to household income among farmers in Lushoto District, Tanga, Tanzania. Specifically, the study aimed to determine and compare the level of household's farm production and net income between farmers practicing and not practicing agroforestry. A total of 134 respondents from four villages in Soni and Ubiri wards were involved.
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Crop Diversification is the multiple cropping system i.e. addition of more crops to the existing cropping system along with use of crop species, that could be refined to manufactured products etc. Region like Murshidabad, which is mostly based on agriculture and occupied by different crops has both a tendency to specialize and diversify. The technique crop diversification index identifies the areas having a tendency of crop diversification in the study area, it also aids to know the cropping pattern, crop concentration, crop variation etc.
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English has become the worldwide lingua franca of science. Large groups of people have become aware of the importance of learning English language for their profession. This study investigated the English language needs of nursing students and nursing practitioners in the workplace. The participants consisted of 144 nursing practitioners working in three different hospitals in Urmia, Iran and 91 nursing students majoring in Urmia Medical Sciences University.
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Teamwork is the key factor to attain success, no matter how big or how small an organization is. In an organization's context, it is simply not good enough to be individually brilliant or creative .While this is certainly desirable, it is even more desirable that companies create conditions conducive to a collective pursuit in the journey towards excellence. One of the best ways of accomplishing this objective is effective team work. Teamwork is about galvanizing a group of people towards a common objective while simultaneously addressing the head yet appealing to the heart.
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