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Using 'appreciative inquiry' in India to improve infection control practices in maternity care: A qualitative study
(Co-Action Publishing, 2015)
Background: Infections acquired during childbirth are a common cause of maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity. Changing provider behaviour and organisational settings within the health system is key to reducing ...
A multi-tier linking approach to analyze performance of autonomous vehicle-based storage and retrieval systems
(Elsevier Ltd, 2017)
To improve operational flexibility, throughput capacity, and responsiveness in order fulfillment operations, several distribution centers are implementing autonomous vehicle-based storage and retrieval system (AVS/RS) in ...
Donning the mask: Effects of emotional labour strategies on burnout and job satisfaction in community healthcare
(Oxford University Press, 2016)
Emotional labour involves management of one's emotions to match the demands of their roles. This emotion display involves just expression (surface-level emotional labour) or experience in addition to expression (deep-level ...
An enhanced memetic algorithm for Single-Objective bilevel optimization problems
(MIT Press Journals, 2017)
Bilevel optimization, as the name reflects, deals with optimization at two interconnected hierarchical levels. The aim is to identify the optimum of an upper-level leader problem, subject to the optimality of a lower-level ...
Beyond job security and money: Driving factors of motivation for government doctors in India
(2014)
Background: Despite many efforts from government to address the shortage of medical officers (MOs) in rural areas, rural health centres continue to suffer from severe shortage of MOs. Lack of motivation to join and continue ...
Exploring the role of HRM in service delivery in healthcare organizations: A study of an Indian hospital
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2013)
The new service management school of thought acknowledges a set of new human resource management (HRM) practices, underpinned by the concept of satisfaction mirror between customers and front-line workers. HRM practices ...
A review of health system infection control measures in developing countries: What can be learned to reduce maternal mortality
(2011)
A functional health system is a necessary part of efforts to achieve maternal mortality reduction in developing countries. Puerperal sepsis is an infection contracted during childbirth and one of the commonest causes of ...
eWOM: Extant Research Review and Future Research Avenues
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2016)
Word-of-mouth (WOM) communication is widely accepted as a critical factor in building marketing strategies and communications. Invention of the Internet and proliferation of social media have added a new electronic dimension ...
Constitutional mandate and judicial initiatives influencing water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programmes in India
(IWA Publishing, 2017)
This paper undertakes a thorough review of the legislative and policy framework of water supply and sanitation in India within the larger backdrop of the universal affirmation of right to water and sanitation under the UN ...
Prospects for the Indian Economy
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2012)