Vol. 9(4) April 2016
The Perfect Nap
Murphy Autumn, Hassing Monica, Mishra Jitendra and Mishra Bharat
Work place napping is natural low cost activity to increase
worker productivity. Most employers do not mind a coffee break, lunch break, but
if employees take a nap break, they will probably get fired. In today’s fast-paced
society and cut throat global competition, most companies frown on the idea of “napping”
in the workplace in the workplace. But the concern of napping is going through a
slow revolution because of the concerns about the “bottom- line” reduced productivity
and profits due to sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation is estimated to cost US
businesses $18 billion annually17. Napping has been scientifically proven to boost
alertness and creativity. This has interesting implication for the workplace. If
managers were to let their employees 20-30 minutes nap during the afternoon, it
could increase productivity. Today’s 24/7 culture has created a sleep deprived nation,
with too many people cheating on their sleep. The paper cites some examples of businesses
that have already come to this realization i.e. NASA, Google, Zappos and Huffington
Post to name a few. These businesses have implemented nap areas to boost employee
productivity, creativity and wellness.
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Exploratory study on women entrepreneurs in Maharashtra
with reference to issues in financial matters
Pawar Avinash
The informed Indian women need to go far to accomplish
measure up to rights and position since conventions are profound established in
Indian culture where the sociological set up has been a male ruled one. Regardless
of all the social obstacles, Indian women stand tall from whatever is left of the
group and are extolled for their accomplishments in their individual field. The
change of social fabric of the Indian culture, as far as expanded instructive status
of women and differed goals for better living, required an adjustment in the way
of life of Indian women. She has contended with man and effectively remained strong
with him in each stroll of life and business is no special case for this. These
women pioneers are self-assured, convincing and willing to go for brake. They figured
out how to survive and succeed in this vicious rivalry with their diligent work,
tirelessness and diligence.
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Design an ideal supply chain strategy
Nguyen Thi Xuan Trang
This is a review paper to find out the best approach
for the firm to design an ideal supply chain strategy that aims at gaining sustainable
competitive advantages in the era of globalization today. There are various arguments
about what an ideal supply chain is. That can be an efficient and responsive supply
chain, a supply chain with five objectives (quality, speed, dependability, flexibility
and cost), a supply chain using the lean systems approach, a Triple-A supply chain
or a supply chain towards sustainability. It is found that expectations in objectives
of each approach have become higher and higher over time respectively. Among these
approaches, the idea of Lee9 with a Triple-A supply chain proved to be more progressive
than others at the aspect of alignment in the supply chain that were divided into
three types (alignment of information, alignment of identities and alignment of
incentives). However, in comparison with a Triple-A supply chain with the characteristic
of agility, lean planning and control seems to be more suitable than agile planning
and control in case of potential capacity stability and low demand uncertainty.
Finally, one noticeable thing is that despite which approach, the first vital pre-requisite
for a firm to achieve an ideal supply chain is an integrated supply chain.
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