Overall operational excellence is the key requirement of any business to have global competence and sustained growth. Indian industries are not the exception to this. Six Sigma has emerged as one of the most effective business improvement strategies worldwide. Nothing much has been published so far illustrating an overall experience of Indian industries with Six Sigma. This paper presents an an...

In this paper, we explore Productive Pedagogy (PP) as a framework for enhancing teacher education. Reporting results from a study involving student teachers’ application of the four principles of PP during an internship, we consider whether PP brings a firmer knowledge base to their work. Based on our analysis of the data, we argue for a more fundamental reorganisation of teacher education to f...

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International incoming grey traffic is currently one of the most important issues for both the Regulator and legal telecommunication operators in Pakistan. The major reason for higher grey traffic in Pakistan is because of international settlement rates which are higher than the cost of domestic termination rate. The grey traffic operators gain financial advantage by offering low international ...

The relationship between physical capital. human capital and the distribution of turnings is examined empirically using cross-sectional microdata within SklSAs. Comprtrarive advantage in workers and a scale-of-resources effect among firms is predicted to lead to a rel~ti~)n~hip between capital and earnings. The level of earnings is found to be positively related to capital intensity and nrgntiv...

As the NHS in England grapples with the longest funding squeeze in its history, the quest for greater productivity becomes ever more pressing. Two new analyses published this week show that the productivity of consultants in NHS hospitals has fallen over the past six years. The authors reject any notion that this means doctors need to work harder but argue that we need to rethink how we seek an...

We hypothesized that edge density more strongly influences species abundances in more productive environments. To test this hypothesis we collected songbird point count data across broad biophysical gradients and gradients in forest patch edge density in thewest and east slopes of the CascadeMountains of Oregon and Washington, U.S.A., which differ in ecological productivity. We then analyzed bi...

We study a team whose members choose a joint project and exert individual efforts to implement it. Members have private information about the productivities of alternative projects. We find conditions under which information fails to be shared and the most productive project fails to be selected. While the concealment of information can be efficient, the team’s incentive to conceal is inefficie...

The present study examined the composition of the early productive vocabulary of eight Korean- and eight English-learning children and the morpho-syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic characteristics of their caregivers' input in order to determine parallels between caregiver input and early lexical development. Vocabulary acquisition was followed using maternal diary and checklists for the Korean...