Business Excellence and Management

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Authors: Ion POPA, Simona Cătălina ŞTEFAN

The aim of this paper is to highlight the main strengths and weaknesses of the Romanian firms' management and the manner in which the key stakeholders relate to them. Our study is based on a research conducted during of year 2014, by applying a survey to two categories of respondents: on the one hand teachers, researchers and consultants and on the other managers and specialists of companies. Those two categories of respondents were chosen because it was considered to be directly involved and therefore having the most relevant information on analyzed phenomena. The research confirms that the vision regarding the strengths and weaknesses of the Romanian firms' management do not vary significantly among the different categories of respondents. At the same time, the strengths and weaknesses identified represent essential premises in establishing certain measures, proposals and directions to improve the performances and effectiveness of the Romanian firms.

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Authors: Asser KHAMIS

The first step in creating an effective staff evaluation is to determine why you want to assess your employees. These reasons may be to determine the basis for changes in compensation or position within the company, to determine if the employee is in training period and makes appropriate progresses, to determine if an employee correspond or not to the workplace, etc. Knowing the purpose of the evaluation is important because each goal has a set of objectives and tools

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Authors: Mico APOSTOLOV

In Southeast Europe, as in most developing regions, governments offer significant incentives to attract inward investment in expectation to narrow performance gaps between foreign and domestic firms. Hence, this is usually motivated by the prospect of spillover benefits to augment the primary benefits of the national income from new investment. This paper focuses on foreign direct investments and therefore foreign capital movements, labor markets and potential efficiency effects, through a case study of Macedonia. Using macroeconomic and firm-level data, we identify whether foreign ownership can bring about higher efficiency effects. By reviewing possible impact of foreign direct investments induced efficiency effects, we develop comprehensive evaluation on probable positive outcomes on enterprise restructuring due to change of ownership and corporate governance, shifts in labor market and impact on gross domestic product. Further, results give indication that there are good grounds for further developmen

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Authors: Sanjay RODE

The Mumbai Metropolitan Region is growing in terms of population, industry, educational and commercial units. The daily requirements of commodities and services by all units have increased fast. Plastic is used extensively for packing, protection and service of various commodities. The use of plastic is much higher by industry and households in region. In Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation, the density of population is higher. The concentration of small and large industries is more. Therefore the plastic use is much higher for different purposes. It leads to more waste of plastic. In Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation, the population and industrial units are less. Therefore plastic waste is less generated. Theaters are generating less plastic waste in metropolitan region. The Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and municipal corporations in Thane district will continuously generate more plastic waste in future. The tobit regression model shows that plastic waste is positively co-related and statistically significant with pollution and industry in region. Therefore the comprehensive policies are required to reduce plastic waste. This is because plastic waste is affecting on the health of human being. It also affects negatively on soil, air and water. Plastic waste is also affecting on marine resources that is birds, fish and other micro-organism. The entire food supply chain gets affected due to plastic waste. The water logging is common due to plastic waste in region. Plastic is allowed to flow with rain water. It chock ups the drainage system and it becomes the ground for mosquitoes. It further leads to dengue, malaria and other diseases in region. Many people die due to seasonal diseases in region. Therefore all the municipal corporations must sensitize people to segregate plastic waste in house. Municipal corporations must collect plastic in separate bins and process it. The long term effects are much severe in region. The plastic and e-waste can be utilized for road construction in region. All the policies will certainly help to reduce the plastic waste in region. It will also help to maintain the clean environment in region.