IMPACT : International Journal of Research in Business Management

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Authors: HIMANI AGARWAL & R.K SURI

The efforts would be an how MOOCs can be a disruptive strategy for the institutes of higher education and therefore why such institute should do planning to adopt MOOCs in a new business model and what necessary could be the challenges and opportunities for the faculty members working in the area of higher education and why it has become important to understand about MOOCs would be answered by highlighting the motivation for MOOCs, MOOCs can be adopted for any level of education but this paper try to emphasize on what MOOCs can contribute for higher education

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Authors: XIAO ZHOU

2015 became a significant landmark for new media industry development globally, especially in China. Tencent has become the China's largest media platform, just as that Facebook has become the first big user entry of American news media. We need change our way to think about and use those social media platform. First of all, we need understand the evolution of our economy system brought by new media. This article uses the SCP (structure - conduct - performance) model to analyze the cross overlap areas between China's top 100 internet enterprises and China's capital markets. And author creates a 4×4 matrix tool with 16 interactive communication modes to analyzes the changing path of user preference on digital social platform from C2C to S2S mode as its internal logic. In conclusion, this article finds three important changes of China's new media industry and proposes some systematic, reasonable and feasible management strategy: First change is the comprehensive platform developing tendency. Second change is the growing expanding investment merger accelerates the cross-shareholdings and strategic cooperation between platform type enterprises, and help the small micro content enterprises creating a large "long tail"; Third one is imperative and destined internationalization, which helping China's manufacturing industry to upgrade and to meet the increasing demand of Chinese consumers

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Authors: OGBAN, MICHAEL E & AKUJURU, VICTOR A

The environmental condition that brings about reduction in the value and marketability of property and sometimes those adjacent it is known as stigmatization. It could also be considered as diminution of value associated with increased environmental risk and Residential properties located in close proximity to dump sites are mostly affected. This paper studies the impact of stigma on the value of residential properties located adjacent to a waste dump by reviewing relevant literature and surveying Estate Surveyors and Valuers and property occupants near the Rumuolumeni dump site in Obio/Akpor local Government area of River state. Data were obtained from the respondents and were analyzed using descriptive statistics, the results showed that properties in close proximity to waste dump site suffer a diminution in value due to the impact of the dump and recommend amongst other things the need for government to construct a well engineered sanitary landfill to reduce or possibly eliminate health and environmental risk associated with waste dumps.

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Authors: T. SRINIVASAN & M. MOHAMED ISMAIL

Quality of work life indicates a proper balance both in work and personal life which also ensures the organizational productivity and employee’s job satisfaction. It is one of the major parts for the employees’ motivation in an organisation. It may reflect the working conditions and employees’ mind set to accept the prevailing conditions in the organisation. The intervention in the quality of work life makes full use of a worker’s potential, it ensures greater participation and involvement of workers, and it can make work more easy, quality improvement and increasing the efficiency. In this paper, an attempt has been made to analyse the quality of work life and the level of acceptance in public and private sector bank employees in Madurai district. This research attempts to correlate the nine dimensions of quality of work life and demographic variables of employees in both the public and private sector banks in Madurai district. The opinion was collected from 600 employees, and a detailed analysis is made to arrive at the conclusion.