Human Resources Development for The Business Process Outsourcing Industry in India – A Scheme for Quality Improvement
India’s Business Process Outsourcing industry is among the largest in the world. However, it is facing constraints to its growth due to shortage of employable talent. This shortage is mainly related to behavioral skills, particularly in the English language, among students from socio-economic strata often described as ‘disadvantaged’. The shortage is caused by inadequate school education and training. In this paper, we develop and test a design, for a training scheme to address these inadequacies. The scheme involves the use of university students as mentors, using two techniques from previous research on internet assisted educational technology. Results of a small-sample study to measure the effectiveness of the proposed scheme are described and shown to be worth further investigation.
Implications for practice or policy
• This scheme can be used to design effective training programs for the BPO industry.
• University students can find gainful employment as mentors for this scheme.
• Trainees can be prepared for the BPO industry in a stress-free and efficient learning environment.
• Researchers can use this scheme to measure the effectiveness of self organized learning environments.
Derivation of Integrated Heckman-Conway-Maxwell-Poisson Model
The main objective of this paper was to illustrate derivation of Heckman-Conway-Maxwell-Poisson ‘HeckCOMPoisson’ model. HeckCOMPoisson model is an integrated model from Heckman and Conway-Maxwell-Poisson model. HeckCOMPoisson was developed to handle count model with selection. The model perform perfectly in terms of Goodness-of-Fit (GOF) and in prediction of count data with selection and handling under-dispersion and over-dispersion experienced in count data. HeckCOMPoisson distribution is flexible and gives robust models for dispersed counts.
Procurement Processes in The Public Sector: A Case Study of Lagos State, Nigeria.
The study to examine procurement systems and their impacts on cost management and delivery, the study's objectives are to identify different procurement methods deployed often by Lagos construction professionals, look at issues that can arise when using different procurement systems for building projects, and look at how procurement systems affect construction costs. The primary source, a standardized and well-structured questionnaire, and secondary sources, which covered books, journals, applicable literature, peer-reviewed journals, official government publications, newspapers, magazines, and online sources, were utilized to obtain the data for this study. This study employed a descriptive survey research design. A sample size of fifty (50) respondents was obtained using a stratified random sampling technique from the total number of professionals employed in the various construction industries in Lagos State. Standardized methods were used to analyze the data that was gathered. The data gathered was analyzed using descriptive statistics. Project stakeholders and clients should work together to ensure that the right procurement methods that would significantly reduce project costs are implemented in order to guarantee effective delivery and the best results when projects are done.
Application of Heckman-Conway-Maxwell-Poisson Model for Analysing Corruption
The main objective of this paper was to illustrate application of Heckman-Conway-Maxwell-Poisson ‘HeckCOMPoisson’ model for analyzing corruption. HeckCOMPoisson model is an integrated model from Heckman and Conway-Maxwell-Poisson model. HeckCOMPoisson was developed to handle count model with selection. The specific objective of this paper was to test the fitness of the integrated HeckCOMPoisson model in predicting number of people paying bribes. Corruption is among the most serious problems of the societies because it destroys the democratic progress by creating unemployment, increasing poverty level among other negative effects. To achieve the objective of this paper, summary tables were created, graphs were drawn and the results discussed extensively. This paper used the corruption data of 2019 from Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) of Kenya. The results of this study showed that HeckCOMPoisson perform perfectly in terms of Goodness-of-Fit (GOF) and in prediction of count data with selection and handling under-dispersion and over-dispersion experienced in count data. The results of this study proved that HeckCOMPoisson distribution is flexible and gives robust models for dispersed counts. By parametrizing HeckCOMPoisson distributions via the mean, variance and model prediction, this study placed HeckCOMPoisson models on the same level of interpretability and parsimony as other popular, competing count models.
Importance of Forming the Soft Skills Club at Entry Level of Engineering Graduation for Rural Indian Students
Soft Skills are very essential now-a-days. It is becoming the demand of corporate sector that whoever they hire for job position, he must have some basic soft skills such as Inter Communication skill, Intra Communication skill, Teamwork, Leadership skill, Adaptability skill and so on. But it is the fact that there is less awareness among rural students about these soft skills and which becomes the main reason that they get set back most of the time when they appear for campus drives. They meet difficulties to acquire these soft skills because of lack of trainings and guidance found especially in rural engineering colleges of India. Therefore, it can be a big task and challenge to the rural engineering students to get into the required processes of skill acquisition and all with the lack of communicative environment in both places school or colleges and home as well. It becomes really barrier to students when time comes to them to present something in front of an audience, while delivering seminar to other people or interacting with professors or colleagues or other professionals at all levels that becomes the main cause to produce inferiority complex about acquisition of soft skills. Because of such terrific situations, they meet failure in getting recruited in campus selection or meet failure in facing an interview or any other activities which are conducted to test their soft skills. Such poor competent students easily meet failure in achieving the higher expectations of corporate world afterwards. Therefore, in order to resolve such issues of students who belong to rural sector-based engineering colleges, there is a need to produce some platforms like Soft Skill Club under which some speaking-based activities, group activities, presentations can be conducted to improve their communicative competence, stage daring, body language and personality traits as well. Therefore, this research paper highlights the importance of Soft Skill Club to the First Year of Engineering but rural students in India.
Patient Monitoring System
The increased use of mobile technologies and smart devices in the health zone has brought on extraordinary effect on the world’s critical care. Health specialists and doctors are using these technologies to create critical change in medicinal services during clinical settings. Likewise, many users are being served from the upsides of the M-Health (Mobile Health) applications and E-Health (social insurance upheld by ICT) to enhance, help and assist their well-being. The Internet of things is progressively permitting to coordinate gadgets fit for associating with the Internet and gives data on the condition of health of patients and give data continuously to specialists who help. The main aim of this ‘Patient Monitoring System’ is to build up a system fit for observing vital body signs, for example, body temperature, heart rate, pulse oximetry. The System is additionally equipped for fall detection and sleep pattern analysis. To accomplish this, the system involves many sensors to screen fundamental signs that can be interfaced to the doctor’s mobile or the web. The gadget will exchange the readings from the sensor to cloud remotely and the information gathered will be accessible for analysis progressively. It has the capacity of reading and transmitting emergency signs to the cloud and then to doctor’s web portal or to Doctor’s Smartphone. These readings can be utilized to recognize the health state of the patient and as an alert system against the emergency health condition.
