International Journal of Business and General Management

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Authors: KHALID W. HAMEED

The simulation of any block in a communication system is an important issue. This importance increased especially when introduce new technology. The massive MIMO, where the number of antennas is very large is a promising technology to achieve high through put and better power efficiency. So, the simulation of it is very important. Here in a new scheme is introduced and compared with existence methods. The new method is clearly have big advantages over the exits methods and identical with those results.

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Authors: SHANMUKH SAGAR K, MAYURI. K & HYMA JYOTHI S

India’s exports of marine products had their beginning as early as 1938-39. Before 1960, when our exports were dominated by dried items the markets of Indian marine products were largely confined to neighboring countries like Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Singapore etc. This situation changed with the development of technology/modernization; dried products gave way to canned and frozen items. During 2010-11, European Union (EU) continued as the largest market with a percentage share of 26.78% in dollar realization followed by South East Asia 16.43%, China 15.41%, USA 15.35%, Japan 13.06%, Middle East 5.19% and Other Countries 7.79%. (MPEDA 2011) During the total study period i.e. 1995-96 to 20014-15, the quantum of marine product exports of India to European Union registered a highest CAGR of 18 per cent followed by South East Asia with 13 per cent. During the same period, marine product exports to China recorded a CAGR of -1 per cent. The value of marine product of exports of India to South East Countries and Middle East Countries have shown an increasing CAGR per cent over four quinquennial sub–periods(i.e. 1995-96 to 2000-01, 2000-01 to 2005-06, 2005-06 to 2010-11 & 2009-10 to 2014-15). During the overall period i.e. 1995-96 to 20014-15, both in terms of quantity and value of exports, India registered CAGR of 7 and 13 per cent respectively. During the total study period the coefficient of variation is highest in marine product exports to South East Asia, Middle East Asia followed by U.S.A. The direction of trade statistics revealed that 38 per cent of total quantum exports were made to China and South East Asia during the trienniums ending 1997-98 and 2014-15 respectively (fig 1&2). During the same periods, in terms of value Japan occupied first place with 47 per cent and 25 per cent each of USA and South East Asia In composition of India’s marine product exports by quantum, frozen fin fish exports occupied first place with a share of 43 and 33 per cent of total during the trienniums ending 1997-98 and 2014-15 respectively. But in terms of value of marine product exports frozen shrimp took a major share of 66 and 63 per cent during the same periods. In India, quality control measures and increase in infrastructure facilities for production of value added items help in achieving the superior market, insurance coverage for the fish/ shrimp farming should be strengthened and packaging of seafood is to be upgraded so as to catch up with the rest of the world.

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Authors: D. GOKULNATH & DEEPA NAIR

The study was conducted to identify the various television-viewing habits among youth of Tamil Nadu (India) and to analyse the content that is preferred by youth. It also helps to understand the mix of programmes that youth of Tamil Nadu like especially with the changing current trends. The effect of western cultural invasion and globalisation has brought about lot of changes in the socio-cultural scene with consequences on the entertainment industry. Sampling was done among 200 youth (age group 18 to 30).The results shows that youth are more interested in music, movies and comedy related programmes. It is proved that female youth are interested in daily soaps and lifestyle shows whereas male youth like watching knowledge based programmes and foreign content. And there is a good scope for launching an exclusive channel for youth in Tamil Nadu (India).This study is important as it is a feasibility study for launching a youth general entertainment channel.

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Authors: DHANRAJ SHARMA

This research is conducted to examine the investment performance of the Indian mutual fund schemes from April 2000 to March 2014. To achieve the major objective of the study, various portfolio evaluation techniques are applied on a sample size of 62 mutual fund schemes developed by Treynor (1965) Sharpe (1966) and Jensen (1972). The research also characterized the results on the risk and return relationship of sample mutual fund schemes managed by asset management companies with their benchmark index. The study found that majority of the schemes are not providing significant positive return in terms of relative risk adjusted measures and absolute risk adjusted measures within the study period.

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Authors: G. S. SHINDE & N.P. TAYADE

The study will find out the Customer Satisfaction level of the customer or decline of customers, to know the perception of customers regarding the charges or rates offered by the Mahindra Tractor and to know the any suggestions from customers to improve the service. The study is scheduled through Primary data and other information thereby preparing Questionnaires, which focus by various variables, and attributes that are important to know the Satisfaction level and factors affecting on the Purchase decision. The Research caused in Latur district with the sample size of 800. The collected data are tabulated and data analysis is carried out and all suggestions are given according to the Analyzed data graphs and charts are used to illustrate the Statistical data and Findings. This Research we find out that Latur Region 34% Land below than 20 hectare. In this research we also found that 41.9% famers cultivate their land by Bullocks and these may be the potential customer for 15 Hp tractors and peoples are more aware about the Mahindra Tractor. This research also helps to find out the parameter of Consumer buying behaviour pattern of Mahindra Tractor. This Research also helps to find out the major competitors of Mahindra Tractor. In Latur region major competitor for Mahindra Arjun is New Holland Tractor because new Holland Tractor is more efficient than Mahindra Tractors.

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Authors: SONALI SAHA

This study is intended to analyze the impact of workplace Design on employee’s productivity. The paper commences with a summary of how the quality of the employee’s workplace Design impacts on the level of employee’s motivation and subsequent productivity. The workplace Design impacts employee morale, productivity and engagement - both positively and negatively. The work place Design in a majority of industry is unsafe and unhealthy. People working in such Design are prone to occupational disease and it impacts on employee’s productivity. What are the key factors in the employee’s workplace Design that impact greatly on their level of motivation and productivity. The role of researcher intends to find out the relationship between workplace design and productivity. Since its conception, a number of researches have been carried out on Employee Productivity, most of them in United States of America. A visible research gap exists in the area of identification and measurement of drivers of Employee’s workplace Design and its impact on Employee Productivity. This points out the relative importance of this concept and hence the need for research on the same in the Indian context as well

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Authors: TEJIL THOMAS & M.A. JOSEPH

Hospitality organisations in the unorganised sector make huge investments in human resources concerning the efforts of hiring, training, development and retention of employees with them. Therefore, employee turnover is critical for any organisation in the industry as it is a common phenomenon in recent times. It bears lots of negative impacts on the productivity and consistency of the organisations, in providing proposed product and services. The frequent change in the workforce will change the quality of output as well as the work culture of the organization. It is exorbitant to any service organization. An efficient Human Resource Department is indispensable in this concern to recognize the mess timely and to do accordingly to get a committed and satisfied workforce. The article focuses on the reasons for high turnover and employee satisfaction on job, company and superior related matters.

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Authors: ROSINI K

A cooperative ("coop") is an autonomous association of people who voluntarily cooperate for their mutual social, economic, and cultural benefit. Cooperatives include non-profit community organizations and businesses that are owned and managed by the people who use their services (a consumer cooperative) or by the people who work there (a worker cooperative) or by the people who live there (a housing cooperative), hybrids such as worker cooperatives that are also consumer cooperatives or credit unions, multi-stakeholder cooperatives such as those that bring together civil society and local actors to deliver community needs, and second and third tier cooperatives whose members are other cooperatives. Cooperatives should be treated in accordance with national law and practice and on terms no less favourable than those accorded to other forms of enterprise and social organization. Governments should introduce support measures, where appropriate, for the activities of cooperatives that meet specific social and public policy outcomes, such as employment promotion or the development of activities benefiting disadvantaged groups or regions. Such measures could include, among others and in so far as possible, tax benefits, loans, grants, access to public works programmes, and special procurement provisions. Governments should facilitate access of cooperatives to support services in order to strengthen them, their business viability and their capacity to create employment and income.

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Authors: P. VERMA & U. VERMA

This work examines the role of various macro-economic factors such as GDP, inflation, exchange rate, export, import, energy generation, capital account as percentage of GDP, coal generation and trade balance in estimating the foreign direct investment (FDI) in India. The statistical approaches; Regression, Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average(ARIMA), ARIMAX and Vector Error Correction Modeling (VECM) have been used to obtain the suitable/causal relationships within/among the variables under study. Regression equations with an apparently high degree of fit, as measured by the coefficient of multiple correlation R2, but with a low value of the Durbin-Watson statistic, couldn’t provide adequate predictive accuracy because of the non-stationary behaviour of most of the series. To improve the predictive accuracy, the analysis was further extended by following ARIMA, ARIMAX and VECM approaches. The emphasis is given to see whether ARIMA model including other time series as input variables or VECM helps in estimating FDI as ARIMA models alone (unlike regression) couldn’t provide convincing results. Thus, for this empirical study, we found that VECM model with energy generation, coal exraction and capital account as explanatory variables outperformed the Regression/ ARIMA/ARIMAX models for estimating the value of FDI in India. However, ARIMA(1,1,0) model with GDP as explanatory variable showed the superiority over Regression/ ARIMA models for estimating the same.

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Authors: NUZHATH KHATOON

The term teaching effectiveness implies that the teacher actions such as ways of explaining and questioning and the characteristics and personality traits, such as intelligence, knowledge and emotional stability that account for the teacher effect on student achievement (Nathaniel, 2009). Beside research pursuit, teacher must be with high academic caliber. Unfortunately many teachers are good in teaching and bad in research and vice versa. Because of lacunae in ideal blending of research and teaching, many teachers have ambiguous feeling. Professional teacher should strive towards higher standard of attainment spirit of inquiry and develop love for knowledge. The paper focused on the emotional stability, self professional development and its role in effective teaching. Six Osmania University affiliated MBA and Engineering (Professional) colleges and AICTE approved are randomly selected for the primary data collection. The study show that teachers with high level of emotional stability experienced greater growth of self professional development and highly productive in their profession.

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Authors: S. PRAVEENA, K. MAHENDRAN & T. SAMSAI

The study was conducted to analyze the financial performance of sugar companies in India. Sugar industry is volatile in nature and commercially utilizes the rural resources to meet the demand for sugar and also generates surplus energy to meet the increasing energy needs. Totally forty companies were taken for the study. Ten companies from each zone were selected based on annual volume of sales and market capitalization. Profitability ratios are calculated to measure the overall efficiency of the business. Profitability ratio analysis will not be complete by just computing return on equity (ROE). It is essential to find out the factors that have an impact on the ROE. For this purpose DuPont analysis and Path analysis are used in the study. From the results, there was a significant difference between the return on equity and the DuPont variables and also there is no significant difference between the equity multiplier and the return on equity.