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Employees are considered to be the valuable assets of the organization as the source of ideas for innovation, quality and other important inputs needed to compete in the modern competitive world comes from employees and not from inanimate machines. Therefore, organizations are making attempts to provide better HR policies so that employees work with zeal and enthusiasm in the accomplishment of organizational goals. The present study examines the impact of human resource policies on the performance of employees in banking sector in India. A sample of 109 employees from some selected banks namely State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, Canara Bank and Allahabad Bank has been selected for the study. Data have been collected through questionnaires designed on a five point Likert scale from Aligarh, Agra, Mathura, Ghaziabad and Delhi. Mean, Standard deviation and linear regression has been used as the statistical tool for analysis. The analysis of data highlights that there is a significant impact of HR policies on the performance of employees banking sector.

This paper presents the importance of professional development for teachers in Al-Buraq School for Basic Education and to what extent it plays a vital role in improving their teaching and performance. Studying this topic is a way to figure out teachers’ attitudes towards professional development and the change it might cause to affect their behaviors and beliefs about gaining new skills, methods, strategies of effective teaching. “Teacher development is a professional growth a teacher achieves as a result of gaining increased experience and examining his or his teaching systematically” (Glathorn, 1995). To do this project we found ourselves totally surrounded with different types of teachers: teachers who are highly motivated, passionate and strongly enthusiastic to the work, teachers who lack motivation, and teachers who are relatively motivated to the teaching profession in different ways. A questionnaire was used to collect data about this subject. Teachers participated fully in answering the required information within the limited time. Accordingly, the questionnaires have been analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) program version 19. The results are shown in the tables below and it showed that teachers have really positive attitudes towards continuing their professional development. In addition, we came up with great evidences of the necessity of top management supports for training courses. It also emphasizes that there is a real significant relationship between professional development courses and learners’ outcomes.

This study was anchored on the proposition that proper utilization of competencies creates proficiencies that build a niche for the firm. The study sought to make a contribution by focusing on how competencies can be crafted by it to knowledge management in an integrated structure to improve performance of multinational firms. The broad objective of the study was to determine the how firm competencies and knowledge management integrated to enhance competitive advantage of MNC’s in Kenya. This study was anchored on the resource based view theory and knowledge based view theory. The study adopted positivism orientation and a descriptive cross sectional survey was used to find out whether there was a significant association among study variables at a specific point in time. The study population was 104 multinational corporations operating in Kenya. Primary data was collected on a semi- structured questionnaire comprising a five point likert-type scale. Data was analyzed using infernal statistics. Correlation and multiple regression evaluated the relationship between the variables. Regression analysis was used to predict the unknown value of variables from two or more variables. The study established a significant relationship between firm competencies and knowledge management of MNCs. A significant relationship between knowledge management and firm competencies was established. The study has made a unique theoretical contribution by linking the theoretical views into an integrated framework. The findings of this study were consistent with past studies and supported theoretical assertions that sustained competitive advantage cannot be explained by isolated factors. The study concluded that for multinational corporations to enhance their performance they must utilize the competencies that they have, make use of the knowledge they possess and create synchrony between the variables. The current study extends knowledge frontiers in international business arena to cover competencies as a mature discipline that affects multinationals performance. Theoretically, the study increases knowledge in relation to the firm competencies- performance relationship. Policy makers will utilize the study findings to facilitate multinational corporations align to policies that will lead to economic prosperity. The study has a major implication on managerial practice in that managers can realize their organizations full potential by crafting competencies and embracing knowledge management to upsurge improved performance. Firms can also be encouraged to develop strategies consistent with superior performance. The study also discussed concepts in a bid to explore policies that can strengthen linkages between international business research and national objectives. Future studies need to emphasize on other variables that may affect the performance of multinationals either directly or as moderating variables.

This document describes an enterprise solution to fine tune ways of working to achieve maximum efficiency and effective communication on task assignment through an optimized communication model. Solution described in this paper is highly effective in project environment.

The paper discusses how high-performance work environments can potentially influence employees’ satisfaction and organizational culture in companies where they are created. In many modern organizations, high-performance work environments are developed to achieve higher productivity, improved performance and quality, higher revenues, and employees’ commitment. The problem is that there is no single idea regarding the impact of these environments on employees’ satisfaction and associated culture in organizations. The paper is focused on describing possible correlations between high-performance work environments, employee satisfaction, and organizational culture. The method applied in this study is the quantitative descriptive research based on the analysis of statistical data related to high-performance work environments and job satisfaction. The data analysis indicates that positive correlations can be observed between high-performance environments and their features, improved culture, and job satisfaction.

A total number of 250 one day-old broiler cobb500™ chicks were used to study effect of nano silver on performance of growth and some physiological parameters of broiler chicks in the diet or drinking water under south Sinai condition. Chicks were randomly distributed into 5 equal experimental treatments of 50 chicks each. Every treatment was sub-divided into 5 replicates (10 chicks/ replicates), the chicks were housed in cages from hatch up to 5 weeks of age. The first group was fed the basal diet as a control(C), while, the other four treatments were fed diets containing either 10 and 15 mg/liter of drinking water silver (Ag NPs) for T1 and T2, respectively, while T3 and T4 treatments were fed on 10 and 15 mg / kg diets, respectively. Results obtained could be summarized as follows: Live body weight was increased significantly varied (P<0.01) among the different experimental treatment with the Ag NPs in drinking water and diets more than that of the control diet. Live body weight was improved with the Ag NPs level in the drinking water at 10 mg/ liter of drinking water and 10 mg/kg diets. Feed conversion ratio was better when given via the drinking water. Results on different growing period for clicks recorded significant differences in all carcass traits. Body weight and feed consumption were significant increase, synchronous with the increasing in thyroid hormone, total protein, IGG and AIGM. The same enhanced were in decrease of total lipid and cholesterol in blood, synchronous with the increasing in thyroid hormone; total protein; IGG and AIGM. The same enhanced were in decrease of total lipid and cholesterol in blood. The effect of the material used harmless to the birds and it is clear from the liver and kidney function means no side effects of the substance under study. In conclusion, View, the nano form of silver with 10 ppm/ liter of drinking water can be used on growth improve or some physiological parameters for broiler chicks under semiarid condition.

This research was guided to investigate the effects of supplementation of DL-methionine (DLM) and liquid DL-methionine hydroxy analog free acid (MHA) in diets on productive performance, hematological, blood metabolites and histological parameters in broiler chickens under summer conditions in Sina. A total number of 180 one day old Hubbard broiler chicks, with initial body weight (46.9 ± 2.5 g), were divided into 6 equal treatment groups. The treatment were DL-methionine (DLM) at 0.25% level, acid liquid methionine (ALM) and methionine hydroxyl analogue Ca salt (MHA) at 0.29 and 0.30%, respectively with and without dietary L-Threonine (0.0 and 1.0 g/kg diet). Chicks were raised for 35 days in battery cages under semi – arid conditions (high ambient temperature and relative humidity) in open-side housing. The obtained results indicate: The productive performance of DLM and MHA were not significantly different. Supplementation of DLM and MHA significantly improved final body weight, body weight gain, average daily gain, and feed conversion ratio when compared to the control group (P<0.01). The use of DLM enhanced the plasma methionine concentration (P<0.01) and increased the heterophil/lymphocyte ratio (P<0.05). While MHA elevated the plasma urea and uric acid concentration levels (P<0.05).

Plants have a crucial role in maintaining fitness of human beings in one way or other. These medicinal plants with complicated secondary metabolites provide medicinal and curative properties. Medicines based on plant and plant products, is the tradition of Kerala, which is now used as the basis of many of the modern medicaments. There are many plants, which are used by folklore for the treatment of cuts, wounds and burns that promote the repair mechanisms in the natural way. Since our traditional knowledge is on the verge of extinction, the present study was undertaken to document some of the medicinal plants used by Malapandaram tribal community settled at Adichipuzha, near Ranni to treat cuts and wounds.

Principal leadership issues are becoming increasingly debated and explored in international and comparative contexts due to the changing context of educational provision. In the South African education context and the world over, there is unprecedented interest in how school leadership influences the performance of learners. Teaching and learning environments in schools have become more complex and diverse, where effective principalship is required to achieve high standards of educational success. The quality of leadership in schools is the cornerstone for driving transformational change that is required in schools. In this article, we argue that principals need to adopt leadership styles that would enhance the culture of teaching and learning. It was the goal of our qualitative study to explore the role of school principals in improving learning outcomes. Six schools in the North-West province, South Africa, were purposively selected to participate in this study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with principals and teachers from the selected schools. We found that principals use several leadership styles to enhance the culture of teaching and learning in their schools. The study concluded that leadership in schools plays a significant role in improving learner performance.

The social representations of school performance have proven to be very diverse, and vary according to the aspirations of the stakeholders involved, the position they occupy in the system and the issues attached to it. In Morocco, there are multiple stakeholders in the public education system (The ministry of education and its decentralized services, teacher unions, the civil society, parents, students, etc.), and each of them has a specific mission which is in dynamic complementation with the other stakeholders in the system. The school principal remains the local actor par excellence. He occupies a decisive position in the functioning of the school. This position, which involves critical decision making, is where the execution of educational policies is exercised and where the aspirations of the different stakeholders are expressed. This paper aims at questioning how school principals perceive the \"performance of their schools\". In other words, it enquires on the signification (meaning) that these school leaders give to the performance of a school. To respond to this inquiry, data is collected using a questionnaire, which is administered to 40 different schools in the region of Guelmim Oued Noun.