Volume 3, Issue 10

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1) The Analysis of Çeşme Battle (1770) in Terms of Management Functions.
Author’s detail:Mesud Ünal-9 Eylül University-Administration Faculty
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Having management and leadership characteristics, a commander executes management functions. It can be stated that a commander can successfully accomplish the orders given in peacetime by using management functions such as planning, assignment, coordination and control. However, the management functions mentioned above will be insufficient for accomplishing the same orders in wartime. To overcome the change in the battle environment, a commander should also master the leadership functions of leading, gathering for the same purpose and motivation and should use these functions by integrating management functions. Strategic and tactical causes of the Battle of Çeşme, a war between Ottoman and Russia in 1770, are researched in terms of management functions in this article.
Key Words: Organization, Management, Leadership, Strategic Leadership.
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2) The Analysis of Sinop Battle (1853) in Terms of Management Functions.
Author’s detail:Mesud Ünal-9 Eylül University-Administration Faculty
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Commander performs management functions by the means of possessing management and leadership features; it has been said that a commander succeeds orders which are given during peacetime with the help of planning, staffing, coordination and management functions. Commander has to manage leadership functions, give direction, create common purpose and motivate in order to cope with changes in the environment. In this paper, The Sinop Battle which took place between the Ottoman Empire and Russia in 1853, were examined in terms of strategic and tactical reasons management functions.
Key Words: Organization, Management, Leadership, Strategic Leadership.
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3) Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment (Study of Commercial Banks of Sukkur Region, Sindh, Pakistan).
Author’s detail:⁽¹⁾Sarmad Rahat-Lecturer, Department of Economics, Shah Abdul Latif University,Khairpur, Sindh, Pakistan⁽²⁾Urooj Talpur-Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan⁽³⁾Dr. Khalid Noor Panhwar-Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan⁽⁴⁾ Mohammad Ali Pasha Panhwar-Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan.
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As the study of job satisfaction and organizational commitment is too much debatable and research oriented, in this regard we choose it to work out with the commercial banking sector (public and private) of Sukkur region, by collecting data through the questionnaire, personally providing and receiving the responses from different level of personnel in officer grade and get it analyzed through SPSS. 16. Through reliability analysis, factor analysis, linear regression, and finally the Pearson 1-tailed correlation, and concluded that organizational commitment and job satisfaction is highly correlated with each other and organizational commitment is positively related to job satisfaction (significant).
Key Words:Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, Commercial Banks.
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4) Workaholism and Psychological Well-Being among Employees of Banking and Telecom Sector.
⁽¹⁾Warda Sahar⁽²⁾Shaista Waqar-⁽¹⁾Quaid-i-Azam University, National Institute of Psychology, Islamabad, Pakistan-⁽²⁾Quaid-i-Azam University, National Institute of Psychology, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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The aim of the present study was to find the relationship between workaholism and psychological well-being among employees of banking and telecom sector. The sample consisted of 276 employees from both public and private sector. Workaholism was measured by using Work Battery (Spence & Robbins, 1992) and psychological well-being was measured by using Psychological Well-Being Scale (Ryff & Keyes, 1995). The results showed significant positive relationship between workaholism and psychological well-being. Group comparisons revealed that employees working in banks exhibited higher levels of workaholism than employees of telecom sector while no gender differences were observed. Implications, limitations and suggestions have been highlighted.
Key Words:Workaholism, Psychological Well-Being, Demographic Characteristics, Eudaimonic, Hedionic.
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5) Is the Quality of Service Related to Job Satisfaction? Study of Commercial Banks of Sukkur Region, Sindh, Pakistan.
Author’s Details:⁽¹⁾Mohammad Salih Memon-Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration, Shah Abdul Latif University,Khairpur, Sindh, Pakistan⁽²⁾Urooj Talpur-Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan⁽³⁾Dr. Khalid Noor Panhwar-Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan⁽⁴⁾Mohammad Ali Pasha Panhwar-Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan
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Study of quality of service and job satisfaction in commercial banks is not carried out before in Pakistan, so because of the competitive environment and saturation of markets financial service providers are of the opinion that they want to add the value in their services for which they can improve the job satisfaction level which again linked with their market share, in this connection study was carried out from the commercial banks working in the Sukkur region, data collected through designing a questionnaire and analyzed through SPSS. 16. Finally concluded that service quality is highly correlated with the job satisfaction of employees, it is also positively and significantly related to the job satisfaction.
Key Words:Service Quality, Job Satisfaction, Operations Management 
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6) A Study of factors affecting Academic Entrepreneurship in University of Tehran Science and Technology Park.
Author’s Details:⁽¹⁾Mehdi Tajpour ^،MA Student, Faculty of Entrepreneurship, Tehran University, Iran⁽²⁾Somyeh Hossini ^،MA Student, Faculty of Entrepreneurship, Tehran University, Iran
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After the education and research mission, academic entrepreneurship is the new important mission of the university. The concept of academic entrepreneurship correlates with the commercialization of knowledge. The present study seeks to find the factors affecting academic entrepreneurship. The methodology based on the goal is practical, based on the method of obtaining data is descriptive- correlation and based on the collected data that have obtained through questionnaire is quantitative. Population consists of 130 knowledge based firmsin university of Tehran Science and Technology Park that 100 firms were selected by using a stratified random sampling. The validity of research tools’ content is approved by six elite professors with academic entrepreneurship and the reliability of the variables are calculated by Cranach’s alpha that institutional trust and external factors are 72% and 66% respectively. The research results suggested that there is meaningful relationship between external factors and academic entrepreneurship and also there is not meaningful relationship between institutional trust and academic entrepreneurship.
Keywords: Institutional Trust, External Factors, Academic Entrepreneurship, university of Tehran Science and Technology Park
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7) Role of Career Commitment in Employee Job Satisfaction of Commercial Banks Employees of Sukkur Region Sukkur, Sindh Pakistan.
Author’s Details:⁽¹⁾Kanwal Syed-Research Scholar, Department of Public Administration SALU Khairpur, Sindh, Pakistan⁽²⁾UroojTalpur-Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan⁽³⁾Dr. Khalid Noor Panhwar-Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan⁽⁴⁾Mohammad Ali Pasha Panhwar-Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan
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The research on employee job satisfaction is wide area of the management science but it need to work for its determinants, in this connection the study of career commitment and job satisfaction was carried out in the commercial banking sector of Sukkur region @ sukkur, Sindh, Pakistan, data was collected through the questionnaire and administered personally, for checking the relationship SPSS was used, at first instance the reliability analysis of the data collection instrument was checked and followed by exploratory factor analysis, linear regression, and Pearson (1-tailed) correlation was checked. The results suggested that over all model is not fit because the career commitment is not completely predicting the job satisfaction but the significant, and the strength of relation of career commitment with job satisfaction was not powerful but the significant.
Key Words:Career Commitment, Employee Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, Career Commitment Measure.
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8) Experimental Modelling of Vehicle Velocity and Applied Load Effect on Tyre Traction in Wet Natural Terrain.
Author’s Details:⁽¹⁾ Franco Muleya, ⁽²⁾ Sunday Nwaubani and ⁽³⁾ David Reid-⁽¹⁾PhD student, Department of Engineering and the Built Environment, Faculty of Science and Technology, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge and Chelmsford, CM1 1SQ, UK (corresponding author) ⁽²⁾Senior Lecturer and Pathway Leader for Civil Engineering, Department of Engineering and the Built Environment, Faculty of Science and Technology, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge and Chelmsford, CM1 1SQ,UK-⁽³⁾Retired, Senior lecturer and Deputy Dean, Faculty of Science and Technology, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge and Chelmsford, CM1 1SQ, UK,
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This paper presents the results of an investigation into the effect of vehicle velocity and applied load on tyre traction at a given vehicle speed selection in wet clay and sand terrain beds. This experimental investigation was carried out using a highly modified and instrumented wheeled mobility scooter renamed MOBILITY SF-3713. This vehicle was run on hard ground in order to obtain benchmark results. It was then run on sand and clay terrain test beds under controlled laboratory conditions. Results from this experiment indicate that terrain type, applied load, velocity and tyre inflation pressure all have significant effects on net traction output of the vehicle. The results suggest that reliable prediction of this relationship can assist earth moving and deformable haulage road engineers in making economic and operational decisions that affect tractive efficiency of wheeled plant. The results from the experiment were also found to be consistent with the results obtained from the mathematical model developed earlier.
Keywords: Wheel-soil interaction, traction, drawbar-pull, natural terrain
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9) Work commitment and Employee Job Satisfaction: Study of Commercial Banks.
Author’s Details:⁽¹⁾Ahsan Ali Soomro-Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, SALU Khairpur, Sindh, Pakistan⁽²⁾Urooj Talpur-Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan⁽³⁾Mohammad Ali Pasha Panhwar-Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan⁽⁴⁾Dr. Khalid Noor Panhwar-Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan
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The competition in commercial banking sector in Pakistan is at the peak and expectations of every owner of the institution is to be the leader of market, in this context they are eager to find out the determinants of employee job satisfaction, keeping in view the above situation researchers meet together from different disciplines to work out the issue. In this connection study of commercial banks of Sukkur region, Sindh Pakistan was carried out through collecting the primary data from the officers and employees of different commercial banks, used the same through SPSS, and results states that over all model is fit and significant and work commitment is positively and significantly correlated/related to each other.
Key Words:job satisfaction, work commitment, commercial banks, decision makers, work motivation.
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10) Assessment the Social Insurance in Vietnam.
Author’s Details:⁽¹⁾Tran Viet Hoang-PhD, National University Ho Chi Minh City-Linh Trung Ward, Thu Duc District, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam ⁽²⁾Nguyen Anh Phong- PhD candidate, Faculty of Finance and Banking, University of Economics and Law Linh Xuan Ward, Thu Duc District, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
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This paper focuses on the evaluation and analysis of revenue and expenditure of the Social Insurance (SI) in Vietnam in recent years (2010-2012). In addition to an overall assessment on the operation of social insurance revenues and expenditures, the research analyzes the causes affecting the collection and expenditure of social insurance leads to the instability of social insurance funds. The assessment and analysis of this paper is based onspecific research and data collection.The research also proposes solutions to overcome the remaining difficulties in the management of social insurance funds.
Key word: Social Insurance, imbalance of SI, welfare system
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11) Analyzing the Impact of Dogmatism on New Product Adoption.
Author’s Details:⁽¹⁾Muhammad Ismail Soomro-Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration Shah Abdul Latif University Khairpur⁽²⁾Dr: Minhoon Khan Laghari-Professor, Department of Business Administration Shah Abdul Latif University Khairpur⁽³⁾Muhammad Ali Brohi-Research Scholar, Department of Business Administration Shah Abdul Latif University Khairpur⁽⁴⁾AmjadHussainLashari-Research Scholar, Department of Business Administration Shah Abdul Latif University Khairpur.
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This empirical study explores impact of dogmatism on new product adoption in the Context of Pakistan. The Dogmatism is used as independent variable, new product adoption is used as dependent variable in this Research, and Mobile phone industry is selected for this study. Survey method is used to collect data; Results are supporting the Hypothesis that there is negative impact of dogmatism on new product adoption. This study is one among few Studies which have explored the impact of dogmatism on new product adoption. This study will help marketers understanding the importance of consumer personality trait dogmatism and its significant impact on the adoption behavior of the consumers in the cell phone products.
Keywords: Dogmatism, New product adoption
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12) Reading Comprehension for Children with Hyperlexia – A Scaffolding Method.
Author’s Details:⁽¹⁾Patricia Mui Hoon Ng, ⁽²⁾Noel Kok Hwee Chia-¹Master of Education (Special Education Candidature), Early Childhood & Special Education, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore ²Associate Professor, Early Childhood & Special Education, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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Children with language disorders can exhibit symptoms of hyperlexia, a superior level of word recognition relative to other linguistic or cognitive functioning. Language disorders have been described by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association as deficits in comprehension and/or use of spoken, written and/or other symbol systems [1]. This study examines the effectiveness of an intervention known as the Scaffolding Interrogative Method (SIM) [2], [3] that mitigates the causal factors by leveraging on the learning style of such children. Measures of comprehension test scores using a repeated baseline-intervention method found higher scores during intervention as compared to the baseline conditions. A second dependent measure using standardized instruments for pre-/post-test found an improvement in the comprehension age with no corresponding increase in reading age for all the subjects. Moreover, the gap between the two variables was reduced to a level below the operationalized criteria of hyperlexia for them. Hence, the SIM is recommended as an intervention for use in withdrawal sessions in school and home tutoring as it can be applied on a one-to-one or small group instruction basis.
Keywords: Hyperlexia, children, reading comprehension, scaffolding schemata.   
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13) Transactional Leadership Style and Employees’ Turnover Intention in Information Technology Organizations.
Author’s Details:Angeline S.¹, Dr. S. Sudha^{2 –1}Research Scholar, Faculty of Business Administration, Sathyabama University, Chennai ²Associate Professor, Dept. of Management Studies, St. Joseph’s College of Engineering, Chennai
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Employees’ turnover intention is one of the key concerns faced by organizations in today’s world. The organizations are striving hard to overcome this problem through different strategies. Leadership style plays a vital role in retaining the relationship between the employee and the organization. This study aims to understand the relation between the transactional leadership style and employee turnover intentions. The factors considered by employees as reasons for turnover intentions were also to be determined. From the population of software engineers working in Information Technology organizations, a sample of 180 software engineers was taken for the study. A well structured questionnaire was distributed and the responses were recorded. Statistical procedures were followed to analyze the data. Results reveal that there is a positive relation between the transactional leadership style and employee turnover intentions.
Keywords:Employee turnover intentions, Information Technology, Leadership style, Transactional Leadership
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14) Manufacturing Proceses control in Auto motive Industry.
Author’s Details:⁽¹⁾Cidália Pissarra de Matos-Department of Electromechanical Engineering, University of Beira Interior; Portugal-Edifício I das Engenharias – Calçada Fonte do Lameiro, 1 P-6200-001 Covilhã (Portugal) ⁽²⁾João Carlos Oliveira Matias*-C-Mast Department of Electromechanical Engineering, University of Beira Interior; Portugal Edifício I das Engenharias – Calçada Fonte do Lameiro, 1 P-6200-001 Covilhã (Portugal) ⁽³⁾Susana Garrido Azevedo-UNIDEMI – Research Unit, Department of Business and Economics-University of Beira Interior, Portugal *Corresponding Author
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The manufacturing processes control is a very important activity in all companies. As this should be developed by a multidisciplinary team, it will affect all the product manufacturing process. So, it is very important that its implementation will be planned in order to be effective. If the correct methodology is used on the right time, it will be possible to prevent the majority of the potential problems and improve the manufacturing processes. The purpose of this article is to suggest a framework to control properly the processes in the automotive industry, using the right approach – FMEA- to identify the gaps in a early phase of the product and process development, and prevent these gaps to occur during normal production.
Keywords:PFD–Process Flow Diagram; DFMEA–Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis; PFMEA–Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis; Control Plan; FTQ –First Time Quality.
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15) The Life and Works of Alice Chipman Dewey from 1909-1919.
Author’s Details:⁽¹⁾Jeroen Staring and ⁽²⁾Jerry Aldridge –¹Dr Jeroen Staring teaches mathematics at econdary schools in The Netherlands. His 2005 Medical Sciences dissertation describes the life, work and technique of F. Matthias Alexander. In 2013 he successfully defended a second dissertation, on the early history of the NYC Bureau of Educational Experiments.
²Dr Jerry Aldridge is professor emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a representative to the United Nations for the World Organization for Early Childhood Education (OMEP). He has published extensively on progressive education and women’s issues. Before returning to Birmingham, Alabama recently, he lived in Jakarta, Indonesia and New York City.
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Much of what has been written about the life and works of Alice Chipman Dewey (1858-1927) involved her relationship to her husband, John Dewey, and her work as one of the founders of the University of Chicago Laboratory School where she served as a teacher, the developer of curriculum, and the principal (Durst, 2010; Wolfe, 2000). Much less is known about Alice Chipman Dewey during the years 1909-1919. In the second decade of the 20^th century, Alice was involved in political, social, and educational endeavors. The purpose of this case study is to describe Alice Chipman Dewey’s life and works during this period, which have been hidden or, at least, underreported in the literature. This article is dedicated to Harriet K. Cuffaro on the occasion of her 85^th birthday.
Key Words: Harriet Alice (née Chipman) Dewey (1858-1927), John Dewey (1859-1952), learning by doing.
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16) Social Support as a Coping Strategy of Ameliorating Teaching Practicum Related Stress.
Author’s Details:Christmas Denhere-Zimbabwe Ezekiel Guti University
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The current study examined the use of social support as a coping strategy to ameliorate teaching practicum related stress. A survey design was used to collect data from the respondents. The sample consisted of 72 male and 81 female (n=153) Bachelor of Education pre-service teachers. The data were analyzed using the Chi square test. The findings revealed that .all the pre-service teachers used social support as a strategy of coping with teaching practicum related stress and there were no statistically significant differentiations with regard to the participants’ gender, age and personality in the use of social support to reduce the perceived teaching practicum stress. Based on the findings the study recommended that all stakeholders should provide pre-service teachers with quality social support to enable them to reduce teaching practicum related stress.
Key Words: Stress coping strategy, teaching practicum, pre-service teacher,social support.
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