Process Improvement has been used for decades as a means to become better and more efficient. Whilst many organizations have used considerable resources for process improvement, investments in process improvement have not always led to changes and improvements expected. One most important aspects of management is to motivate the work force. However, management often fails to deliver. In fact, b...

The purpose of this research paper is to develop a framework to understand the consumer’s preference affecting variables and consumer’s perception choice in telecommunication service providers in India. The present study use a hybrid approach to access the relative efficiency based on fuzzy AHP and DEA model. The fuzzy AHP is used to determine weights of the consumer’s preference as criteria an...

The recent progress in artificial intelligence is allowing assistive systems like the voice-based assistant, virtual agents to become more personalized and adaptable. The role of these systems is also shifting from being a mere assistant to a personal companion. However ‘personal companionship’ being a subjective term lies open to interpretation, thus posing a challenge for the creators of thes...

Despite all theoretically and empirically motivated criticism of GDP as a social welfare and progress indicator, its role in economics, public policy, politics and society continues to be influential. To resolve this paradox, one has to recognize that many economists accept the criticism of the GDP indicator but deny its relevance. This paper evaluates the reasons for denial. This entails five ...

Over the past two decades, organizational researchers have used and assessed the effectiveness of various Internet tools for conducting surveys. The various Internet tools used included email, the Web, and a combination of email and the Web. As with any evolving data collection tool, the use of various Internet tools must be carefully examined. This paper presents an overview of major issues th...

In the educational context it is examined the teacher-stress association. The teacher’s stress is related with variables of academic environment, of out of the school and of the teacher. The impact of that association can be see in the teacher’s health, in his achievement and in the quality of the teaching-learning process. With the objective to present one view of how issue is being considered...

This survey is accomplished by the purpose of effective social and cultural factors on educational progress of high-school students in Shoush city.Out of 3200 persons about 280 persons were selected as sample volume according to Cochran formula. Sampling method was simple random.The most appropriate theory for this research is Parsons systematical theory .In this survey ,the relation of 8 varia...

GENESIS is a UK project funded by its Economic and Social Research Council through the National Centre for e-Social Science research node program. Some GENESIS work aims to develop simulation models that represent individual humans and their organisations and how they change their location and influence over time. For this I am developing two models that operate at different temporal resolution...