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An efficient genetic algorithm for single row facility layout
(Optimization Letters, 2014)
The single row facility layout is the NP-Hard problem of arranging facilities
with given lengths on a line, so as to minimize the weighted sum of the distances
between all pairs of facilities. Owing to its computational ...
Make performance-management systems work for your company
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2014)
The purpose of this paper is to highlight the leadership route for managers to manage performance appraisal effectively.
Design/methodology/approach
– This paper outlines the importance of playing down personal feelings ...
HRM innovations in rapid growth contexts: the healthcare sector in India
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)
Human resource management (HRM) researchers have shown that rapid-growth organizations face HR challenges that vastly differ from their low-growth counterparts. These include acquiring and retaining key talent, and adapting ...
Inter-sectoral terms of trade and aggregate supply response ingujarat and Indian agriculture
(Springer India, 2014)
This paper empirically investigates the role of inter-sectoral terms of trade in determining the growth performance of agriculture in Gujarat and all of India during the period 1960-2011. Structural breaks endogenously ...
Cost and benefit of disinflation policy in India
(Economic & Political Weekly, 2014)
The Reserve Bank of India’s monetary policy stance is based on assertions that there is no trade-off between inflation and growth and that disinflation will result in more growth. This note examines recent empirical evidence ...
Relative growth performance of Gujarat: a comment on the recent debate
(Economic & Political Weekly, 2014)
EPW has been publishing a number of articles on the relative economic performance of Gujarat, and on growth and human development in India under the United Progressive Alliance vs the National Democratic Alliance (28 ...
Short term association between ambient air pollution and mortality and modification by temperature in five Indian cities
(Elsevier, 2014)
Indian cities are among the most polluted areas globally, yet assessments of short term mortality impacts due to pollution have been limited. Furthermore, studies examining temperature – pollution interactions on mortality ...
Modelling and coherent forecasting of zero-inflated count time series
(SAGE Publications, 2014)
In this article, a new kind of stationary zero-inflated Pegram’s operator based integer-valued time series process of order p with Poisson marginal or ZIPPAR(p) process is constructed for modelling count time series ...
Women entrepreneurship in India: a case study of designz boutique of bhavna kikla
(International Journal of Economics, Commerce and Management United Kingdom, 2014)
Women entrepreneur represent a group of women who have broken away from the beaten track and are exploring new vistas of economic participation. Women endowed with high drive, creativity, innovation and those who are keen ...
Employee creativity: mediating & moderating role of psychological capital
(Shri Ram Centre for Industrial Relations, Human Resources, Economic & Social Development, 2014)
The present study develops a multi-level causal framework linking HRM practices, positive psychological capital and employee creativity. The paper develops propositions about the mediating and moderating role of psychological ...