Vol. 12(2) June 2019
Lean Manufacturing at Seaver Finishing
Seaver Olivia and Motwani Jaideep
Page No: 1-5
The philosophy of lean manufacturing originated at the
Toyota Motor Corporation has been implemented successfully in both the manufacturing
and service sector. In this case study, we describe how Seaver Finishing, a family-owned
electrodeposition facility in Grand Haven, Michigan, USA, has made some positive
strides in their lean implementation, after encountering earlier unsuccessful implementation
in 2007. This case study is valuable to Indian manufacturing organizations that
are in the process of implementing the lean philosophy or are struggling with their
lean implementation.
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Re-Considering Antecedents of Swiss Employees’ ‘Will
to Meaning’ and their Role for Facilitating Intrinsic Motivation – A Quantitative
Approach
Busse Ronald and Risse Christopher
Page No: 6-14
As it has become received wisdom that intrinsic motivation
sustainably drives employee performance, we ask how to foster intrinsic motivation.
On the basis of primary data from a representative Swiss sample (N = 213), we re-visit
the seminal work of Busse et al11 in order to reveal organisational framework conditions
which are most fruitful in facilitating the emergence of a ‘meaningful self at the
workplace’.
Our quantitative analyses find ‘perceptions of the organisation’, ‘perceptions of
the relation between self and work’ and ‘perceptions of the relation between self
and organisation’ to be the main drivers. We then develop recommendations for practicing
managers about how to satisfy workforces’ inherent ‘will to meaning’, admit limitations
of our work and illuminate future research directions.
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Generation ‘Z’- The segment of contest for marketers
Saxena Swati
Page No: 15
The study is aimed to bring out the paradigm shift in
the behavioral aspects of the generational shift in the marketplace. It is a thought
evolving write up for educators, marketers and businesses that will compel them
to think about the millennials.
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Do Tanzanian Procuring Entities comply with Tender
Advertisement and Disclosure? A Survey
Matto Mordecai Chrysostom
Page No: 16-22
Literature indicates that tender advertising facilitates
appropriate competition, enhances transparency, develops markets and helps in the
battle against corruption. Nevertheless, there are hardly any empirical studies
that assess the extent of compliance of tender advertisement and disclosure by procuring
entities. The purpose of this study is to assess the extent to which the tender
invitation notice for procurement of goods, non-consultancy services and works prepared
by PPRA and procuring entities complied with procurement regulations. The study
applies a descriptive cross section survey design. The data was collected on a sample
of two daily newspapers appeared from 1st July 2016 to 30th June 2017. These newspapers
retrieved from the Institute of Accountancy Arusha’s library. The newspapers selected
for this study were Mwananchi (swahili) and Daily News (English) issued daily from
Monday to Sunday.
The study reveals that, the standard tender invitation notice for procurement of
goods, non-consultancy services and works prepared by the PPRA did not fully comply
with regulation 182 as it complies by 86.1%. Likewise, the study finds substantial
weaknesses on the tender notices prepared by procuring entities as it complies by
78%. The major limitation of this study is that, it assesses only the adverts for
the procurement made using competitive tendering. Further, the adverts for invitation
for quotation, pre-qualification, expression of interest, request for proposals
and disposal of assets were completely ignored because they did not fall under regulation
182. Failure to comply fully with regulation 182, the procuring entities in Tanzania
restrict competition, transparency and increase the percentage of corruption red
flags. The study challenges the extent to which the standard bidding documents prepared
by regulatory authority comply with the procurement law.
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Assessment of SEZ location impact on business development
in Madhya Pradesh, India
Thakur Devendra Singh and Dubey Sanjeev
Page No: 23-28
Land is the primary requirement for setting up SEZ. In
Madhya Pradesh, the first green zone SEZ was operated in 2004, referred as Indore
SEZ, located at Pithampur near Indore city. The present study is evaluating the
impact of location of Indore SEZ on business development in Madhya Pradesh, India.
The performance indicator for the location factor is governed through gross state
domestic product (GSDP). The data for this study was obtained from the official
website of Open Government Data (OGD) (https://data.gov.in), SEZ India and Indore
SEZ annual reports. The analysis revealed two-fold increase in GSDP of SEZ compared
to non-SEZ from 2017 to 2018 and found significant at p<0.05 using Chi-square test.
Considering future implications, we proposed a simple model for assessment of location
impact. The model might be used for assessment of location through GSDP comparison
of inter SEZ and SEZ-non-SEZ zones.
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Research on Implicit Behavioral Intentions in the
Crowd Innovation of Cultural and Creative Industries based on the Theory of Collective
Values and Planned Behavior
Qunlin Fan and Shuangyan Pan
Page No: 29-35
In order to reveal the driving factors and formation
mechanism of impetuous behavioral intentions in the crowd innovation development
of cultural and creative industries, this study integrates the cognitive level model
and the behavioral behavior theory of values-attitude-behavior and examines the
crowd innovation development context. The influence of values, subjective norms,
attitudes and perceived behavioral control on the intentions of imposing impulsive
behaviors, as well as the regulatory role of the knowledge of development has been
studied.
Through the structural equation model analysis of 310 sample data, it is found that
the collective value and subjective norms directly and indirectly affect the impetuous
behavior intention in the crowd innovation development, and the level of knowledge
of the development of the innovation will adjust the above relationship. Based on
the above conclusions, the study proposes the path and management enlightenment
of promoting the creative mode of the dual creative’s in the cultural and creative
industries.
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A Study of Source of Information towards buying decisions
of Customers with reference to Budget Segment Car in Malwa Region
Dudhale Prateek and Patil Milind Ruparao
Page No: 36-38
This study was carried out to assess the buyers’ source
of information towards before purchasing a budget segment car. The study area is
confined to Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh. The sample selected for this study was
500 customers of Malwa region having different age, gender, educational level, income
status and occupation etc. The information on source of information before purchasing
a car was obtained with the help of simple survey-based questionnaire. Results reveal
that maximum percentage i.e. 42.6% respondents gather information about car from
family and friends. 36% respondents collected information from TV advertisements
while 15.8% visited the company showroom for information on car to be purchased.
Only 5.6% respondents’ source of information was based on reviews and other social
media platform.
It was concluded that impact of social media platform was minimal on purchase decision
of new car buyer while TV advertisement and information from company salesperson
/ showroom were next best predictors of purchase decision of customers. Opinion
of family and friends counts most when it comes to purchasing a budget segment car.
It may also be concluded that car manufacturers should focus towards advertisement
because buying decisions are most affected after family and friends’ opinion by
TV advertisements.
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A Study on Six Sigma-A breakthrough in Quality Management
with special reference to Gabriel India Ltd., Dewas
Arya Ruchi and Agal Mayank
Page No: 39-57
Due to globalization and liberalization there is much
competition in world market and in this condition if we want to stand in this world
market then we have to improve our product quality and productivity. There are so
many Quality Systems in the world market like ISO-9000, QS-9000 ISO /TS-16949 etc.
which are American techniques, but Japanese are much successful like 5’S, 3’M, TQM,
POKA YOKE, TQM, 6 Sigma etc. So, we are adopting their 6 Sigma technique. Six Sigma
is a systematic and rational approach to a Clutter free, safe workplace with the
objective of reducing waste and preparing the ground for further improvement. The
study covers all activities of an organization where failure occurred and its effect
is known as Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ).
This study is limited to effects of Six Sigma techniques, its usefulness in customer
satisfaction, quality improvement and increase productivity, better environment
within and outside of the organization. Six Sigma is a methodology for reducing
defects. The present study used a sample of 10 employees and workers from six departments
of Gabriel India Limited, Dewas. The method adopted for sampling was stratified
random sampling. Six sigma techniques have been used for analysis. As the result,
the company’s overall position becomes very good. The company achieved sufficient
profit in past four years. The profit of the company decreased in the last year
due to maintaining the comparatively high liquidity. The net working capital of
the company was maximum in the last year showing the maximum liquidity.
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