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A Survey Of The Non-Optimization Techniques Used In An Integrated Steel Plant, Sankarshan Basu, Goutam Dutta

Management Dynamics

This is a survey paper looking at the various different applications of the non-Optimization techniques in Operations Research techniques used in the steel industry particularly in the process of steel making all across the world. The paper is divided in to applications under the heads of Queuing Theory, Simulation, Statistical Process Control, Artificial Intelligence and Other Non-Optimizing methods. The survey covers a large number of papers across steel making facilities, all across the world, and it is seen that different locations have different types of applications of the various techniques mentioned above. In each of the papers mentioned above, we …

Management Dynamics For De-Stereotyping The Corporate Culture: An Alternative To European And North American Concepts, Magoroh Maruyama, Kuniko Maruyama

Management Dynamics

In countries where the management is not dominated by the established orthodoxy of European and North American theories, principles and practices, it is possible to use alternative concepts with less ponderous resistance. Most of the researchers who follow the established orthodoxy either: (a) take it for granted that the corporate cultures are preconditioned by or reflect their country cultures, and therefore they begin their research with a study of country cultures, and then proceed to interpret corporate cultures in terms of country cultures; or (b) infer the country cultures from an aggregate of corporate cultures. In both cases they intentionally …

Developing And Evaluating A Psychoeducation Booklet About The Mental Health Effects Of Discrimination, Margarita Manzano, Ellalandra Arakelow, Aldona Chorzepa, Leigha Clarke, Skylor Loiseau, Dawson Hughes, Theodore Macgowan, Elizabeth Brondolo

Journal of Vincentian Social Action

Discrimination has been consistently linked to depression. Despite evidence suggesting that individuals targeted for discrimination want to discuss discrimination-related stress, research suggests that therapists are not engaging in these conversations. There are limited psychoeducational materials available to support conversations about race-related stress and mental health, and there are limited data on their effects. This paper describes the development and initial evaluation of a new psychoeducational booklet which provides information about discrimination and depression. The information provided is based on social cognitive models of the relations of discrimination to depression. We provide a description of the development of the psychoeducational materials, …

Providing Immunizations In The Early Stages Of The Covid-19 Pandemic; A Community Pharmacist And Student Pharmacist's View, Nicole Yioupis, Sophia Villa, Noelle J. Ryan-Bloom, Carmela Avena-Woods

Journal of Vincentian Social Action

This article describes the experience of a community pharmacist and two student pharmacists early in 2020. It shares their unique experiences in providing novel vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic while completing their Community Pharmacy Advance Pharmacy Practice Experientials (APPEs) at St. John’s University, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Having the ability to participate in vaccination clinics, serving various communities, during an unprecedented time had a positive impact not only the community they served, but the experience also helped to cultivate them as future pharmacists.

Discrimination, Acculturative Stress, And Academic Achievement In Emerging Adults, Rebecca Steele, Amanda Rosado, Nancy Hernandez, Elizabeth Brondolo

Journal of Vincentian Social Action

Researchers report an association of racial discrimination to academic achievement for racial/ethnic minority students. Racial discrimination is manifest on multiple levels, including interpersonal discrimination, discrimination in schools, and societal and cultural discrimination. Researchers have generally focused their efforts on examining the effects of one type of discrimination on academic achievement. Further, mediators of this relation have not been fully explored. In a sample of 78 college students, we found only interpersonal racial/ethnic discrimination, and not school-based or societal discrimination was negatively associated with GPA. However, the effects did not hold once controlling for demographic factors. We examined two potential mediators …

The Sisterarchy Of Indian Feminism, Shweta Sinha

Journal of Vincentian Social Action

The paradigm of feminism in India is deeply entrenched in its socio-cultural-political-economic reality. It is an ever-evolving byproduct of patriarchy borne out of the caste-system, colonialism, urbanism (‘Westernism’), and capitalism. As a result, the plurality within Indian feminism is predicated on the multiple patriarchies that exist within the Indian society. Therefore, while parsing feminism in India, it is imperative to identify and acknowledge the various sub-groups and intersectionality that exist within the larger framework of women’s issues.

Amongst all the marginalized factions that exist within the feminist framework, this study attempts to investigate a specific caste/class-based intersectional perspective, i.e., Dalit …

Understanding Barriers To Sexual Assault Reporting Among Undergraduate Sorority Women, Isabella Rivera

Journal of Vincentian Social Action

This study aimed to examine the correlation between knowledge of sexual health and sexual assault, and the subsequent disclosure of sexual assault amongst undergraduate women in sororities at St. John’s University. During the academic year (2019-2020), the number of reported sexual assaults on campus was discrepant among the perception of the student body, with students believing there to be a higher number of incidents than reported to the University. Possible causes of the lack of formal sexual assault reporting were investigated. This included the knowledge of undergraduate women at St. John’s University pertaining to sexual health, reproductive health, university resources, …

Manger A Travers Les Cultures: A Comparative Look At Food Waste, Awareness And Redistribution Potential, Chloe Bergeron

Journal of Vincentian Social Action

In the most recent nation-wide studies, France’s estimated annual food waste, as of 2017, is 1.8% (Barilla Center, 2017). Conversely, the United States’ estimated annual food waste, as of 2010, is between 30-40% (USDA, 2010). This research compared University of Paris students’ and St. John’s University students’ awareness and knowledge of food waste on an individual, university, and governmental level to gain an in-depth understanding of the impacts of reduction practices and awareness methods such as campaigns and education. This study examines university students’ relationship to food and food waste in the United States versus France, redistribution potential, and the …

Jovsa: The Faculty/Student Research Connection, Anthony C. Marziliano, Hira Shafeeq, Marc E. Gillespie

Journal of Vincentian Social Action

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The Artist's Artist, Katherine Cacopardo

Honors Scholars Collaborative Projects

My senior project is the creation of a brand identity that explores how sounds, words, and imagery work together to create a complete experience by illustrating the recorded music and lyrics of fellow honors student McCall Chapin. My project includes album/single artwork, one music video, one lyric video and lyric video concepts for each of the other songs, streaming strategy, social strategy, and supplementary photos and graphics for promoting the work on social media. The idea is to create a complete brand that not only fits who McCall Chapin is as an artist but also visually tells the story of …

2022 Private Capital Markets Report, Craig R. Everett

Pepperdine Private Capital Markets Report

The Pepperdine private cost of capital survey was originally launched in 2007 and is the first comprehensive and simultaneous investigation of the major private capital market segments. This year’s survey specifically examined the behavior of senior lenders, asset‐based lenders, mezzanine funds, private equity groups, venture capital firms, angel investors, privately‐held businesses, investment bankers, business brokers, limited partners, and business appraisers. The Pepperdine survey investigated, for each private capital market segment, the important benchmarks that must be met in order to qualify for capital, how much capital is typically accessible, what the required returns are for extending capital in today’s economic …

Small Town To The World Wide Web: Designing A Website For A Local Business, Madison Cozzens

Honors Projects

The Raspberry and The Rose is a small business in Medina, OH, and had a multitude of visual communication issues that needed to be solved. But what's an online presence without a website? "Small Town to the World Wide Web: Designing a Website for a Local Business" focuses on fulfilling a local business's need for a strong online presence. It dives into how a user's experience on the website can impact brand loyalty, foot traffic, and overall perception of a business. The ultimate goal of this project is to provide insight into how a non-e-commerce website can impact a business.

Application Of Consumer Based Brand Equity Model In Indian Banking Sector, Tahir Ahmad Wani, Saiyed Wajid Ali, Qubra

Management Dynamics

With advent of new technologies, banking sector has undergone a great transformation. While this has improved the customer's service experience, it has also posed a challenge for the banks to differentiate their services from the competitors. Now banks are finding it hard to make a name for them and create a brand identity that distinguishes them from the other players in the market. As a result, Indian banks are trying to enhance their brand equity by all means possible. This study is aimed at examining the applicability and practicality of consumer based brand equity model in the Indian banking sector. …

Customer Satisfaction In Retailing Sector: A Gap Analysis, Nitasha Sharma, Raman Sharma

Management Dynamics

The financial reforms initiated in the year 1991 posed a lot of challenges before the Indian Retail sector. One of the major challenges that is faced by the Indian retail sector deals with customer satisfaction and loyalty. Today the customers have become more aware and rational in their approach than ever before. Formulation of marketing strategies in order to attract more and more customers is now becoming a key survival for every participant in the retail sector. Therefore, the current study is an attempt to find out gap between expected and perceived satisfaction level of customers in retail sector. For …

Buddhist Guidelines For Managing Self: Insights For Modern Day Managers, Ipshita Bansal, Nivedita Trivedi

Management Dynamics

In today's scenario of tough competition and ran for success, managers forget their trae self They are doing whatever they can do to win the race without thinking ethically. The need here arises to manage personal competencies that include self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-expectations. An individual who possesses self-confidence and positive attitude is considered to be a person with healthy self. In present scenario developing a positive self is the need of the hour. For building a healthy self, individuals can take refuge in teachings of Gautam Buddha. Based on teachings of Gautam Buddha of four noble truths, mindfulness, eight fold …

Challenges In Management Education, Kuldeep Kumar

Management Dynamics

With the advancement and exponential availability of the internet, mobile phones and smart phones, there is also consequent significant development and innovative advances in the multifaceted areas of management and commerce. For example, traditional commerce has shifted to electronic commerce (E-commerce) and mobile commerce (M-commerce), traditional marketing is shifting towards digital marketing or internet marketing, including Co-opetition (Cooperation and Competition), and, accordingly, there is more emphasis on psychological and service marketing. Globalization and its development are playing a major role in various management activities and trade. Fraud, bribery and corruption are increasing and there is more emphasis on Forensic Accounting …

The Factors Influencing Consumer Buying Decision Of Electronic Products, Bijay Prasad Kushwaha, N. Sambasiva Rao, Sohail Yasin Ahmad

Management Dynamics

Consumer behaviour study is an effort to understand the buying tendencies of buyers for their end use. Consumer buying decisions direct how healthy the company's selling policy fits market demand. The persistent invention in electronic products accompanied by great price war followed by various opponent products available in every market, has commanded sellers to focus on the consumers' buying behaviour. This study examines the effect of influencing determinants on consumer buying decision of electronic products amongst different socio-demographic profiles. The comprehensive analysis indicates that social and personal factors are strongly associated with the consumer buying decision of consumers which supports …

Social Media Impacts On Personnel Competence And Capability Building Systems, Rashmi, Garima Nijhawan

Management Dynamics

The widespread use of social media has evaded all aspects of employees' life, including their work life. This article explores the impact of social websites on organizations' Human Resource Management activities. This theoretic discourse outlines the opportunities accorded by social media for the enhancement of capability building systems in companies, with respect to internal branding, collaboration, communication, recruitment and talent management.

The Effect Of Work Environment, Promotion Opportunities And Benefits On Ocb: An Empirical Study, Sumayya Begum, Mohammad Amzad Hossain Sarker

Management Dynamics

This study examines the effect of work environment, promotion opportunities and benefits on organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). A convenient sample of eighty medical promotion officers was surveyed from Incepta Pharmaceuticals Limited, Bangladesh. The questionnaire was used to obtain information through five point Likert Scale. Multiple regressions were used to analyze the data collected. The Pearson correlation results support three hypotheses stating that there is a positive relationship among work environment, benefit, promotional opportunities, and organizational citizenship behavior. Though ANOVA shows that the overall result is significant but the coefficient result revealed that only work environment has significant effect on OCB, …

Non-Linear Relationship Between Macroeconomic Variables And Stock Prices In India: An Artificial Neural Networks Approach, Taufeeque Ahmad Siddiqui, Yusuf Abdullah

Management Dynamics

Neural networks are powerful forecasting tools that draw on the most recent developments in artificial intelligence research. They are non-linear models that can be trained to map past and future values of time series data and thereby extract hidden structures and relationships that direct the data. Many studies have shown that artificial neural networks have the capacity to learn the underlying mechanics of stock markets. In fact, artificial neural networks have been widely used for forecasting financial markets. However, such applications to Indian stock markets are scarce. The paper investigates the application of artificial neural networks to the dynamic interrelations …

Factors Affecting Movement Of Indian Stock Market: A Study With Special Reference To Cnx Nifty, Tanu Agarwal, Saurabb Kumar, Satyendra P. Singh

Management Dynamics

Stock markets are often referred to as barometer of an economy. Stock market indices not only tell us about the condition of stock markets but in a way they also reflect the health of an economy. Stock prices do not move in vacuum rather they are affected by a large number of factors. The objective of the study is to identify the factors affecting the movement of Indian stock market and the impact of these factors on the same. For the purpose of this study, CNX Nifty has been used to represent the movement of Indian stock markets. CNX Nifty …

Innovative Entrepreneurship: An Indian Scene Of Drivers And Obstacles, Saif Siddiqui, Sumaira Jan

Management Dynamics

Global entrepreneurship monitor (GEM) in its report in 2013 revealed that India is a nation whose economy is factor driven and not innovation driven. But still entrepreneurs here are continuously coming up with ideas, leading to the creation of such products/services which carry a great competitive advantage for them and thereby helping them to survive in this highly competitive business world. At the same time, this business world is becoming increasingly more complex. We see rapid advances in technology and most critically markets face rising churn and this causes an unprecedented rise in business failures today. Among many reasons to …

Making "Make In India" Sustainable, V. K. Sharma

Management Dynamics

First, and foremost, I deem it an honour and privilege to be addressing this very august and discerning academia-industry audience on " Make In India", which from all accounts, is by far the most contemporary national agenda, with the promise and potential of delivering sustainable inclusive economic growth. However, after going through the Conference agenda, I have decided not to speak about how to 'make' "Make in India" happen, but, instead, to speak about how to 'ensure' that "Make in India " ever remains a commercially, socio-economically and financially viable and sustainable proposition as it actually happens!

Types Of Personality And Stress Coping Approaches (Contrasting Fci And Cwc Organisations), Luxmi, Sandeep

Management Dynamics

Today the world is changing with-changing business environment .To keep a pace with this changing business environment one has to go through physical, mental, emotional and social stress. It has become important for an individual and the organization to keep them free from stress. For this purpose different kind of stress coping strategies are available. A comparative analysis was conducted on FCI and CWC organaisation to test stress coping approaches used by different personality type. For this t test, ANOVA and correlation analysis was conducted on a sample of 70 employees each from FCI and CWC organizations. Results indicated that …

Futuristic Analysis Of Banc Assurance Market Scenario In India, Suchita Vishwakarma

Management Dynamics

Banc assurance is a concept of "Rightpartnership" between a bank and a insurance company to work hand in hand and to be mutually benefitted by each other's expertise in the existing market. It is a model, in which the partner companies try to take leverage of others expertise and competencies to offer the non banking products and act as one stop shop. In India, after privatization lots of private player have entered the insurance market and hence the competing insurance companies find out new ways of increasing the business and spreading to the untapped markets of our country. In this …

Export, Import And Economic Growth In India: A Study, Jyoti Kumari

Management Dynamics

Export and Import are very crucial part of our international trade and have always been so in the past. Export helps the country to earn dearer foreign exchange which supports imports and this promotes the economic growth. This study is carried out to investigate the linkage between exports, import and GDPat factor cost at constant price in India for the period post liberalization from 1991-92 to 2012-13. It is analyzed how exports and imports contribute to the economic growth of India. This study found that imports must be supported by exports to achieve continuous growth in the economy. Export tends …

Service Quality Of Banks: Perception Of Customers Of Tier 2 Cities, Sabeeha Fatma

Management Dynamics

Customer retention has become a Herculean task in today's turbulent business environment. The situation has often been compared with a bucket in which water is being filled but the problem is that the bucket has got a hole in the bottom, thus although the bucket is getting filled, water is percolating out as well. The condition is even more difficult in service sector, where the main driver of customer retention, quality is hard to define and measure. India has witnessed many changes in last few decades. Opening of economy was one such turning point in history of India. It affected …