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<#LINE#>Six-Sigma Application in the Hotel Industry: Is It Effective for Performance Improvement?<#LINE#>Kamar@MahmoudS.Abou<#LINE#>1-14<#LINE#>1.ISCA-RJMS-2014-096.pdf<#LINE#>Department of Hotel Studies, Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Sadat City University, EGYPT<#LINE#>7/11/2014<#LINE#>15/11/2014<#LINE#> Six-Sigma (6) is a quality improvement strategy that provides a clear roadmap for organizations to deliver nearly perfect products and services. After initial success in manufacturing organizations, Six-Sigma has gradually gained widespread application in service organizations, including hotels and lodging. Although the hotel industry has an increased interest in Six-Sigma implementation and many hotels have yielded tangible benefits from this approach, the literature is limited. Moreover, the relationship between Six-Sigma implementation and its performance improvement outcomes is a rarely examined subject in the hospitality context. Therefore, this study attempts to assess the effectiveness of Six-Sigma and examine its impacts on various performance measures of upscale hotels in Egypt, seeking for what values and benefits it brings to improve the overall performance. To achieve this objective, the researcher surveyed 123upscale hotels in Egypt. Data were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS 18). The results indicated that only 31 percent of the respondent hotels are actively involved in a documented Six-Sigma project. A notable proportion of these hotels have less than three years experience with the Six-Sigma approach. This clearly illustrates that Six-Sigma is a relatively new approach within the Egyptian hotel industry. The findings indicated that Six-Sigma implementation is positively and significantly associated with the operational and competitive performance of the surveyed hotels. Hotels implementing Six-Sigma have achieved more benefits as compared to other hotels implementing other quality management programs (i.e. TQM and ISO 9001). Therefore, it seems advisable for Egyptian hotels to be involved in formal Six-Sigma projects in order to improve their overall performance. <#LINE#> @ @ Linderman K., Schroeder R.G., Zaheer S. and Choo A.S., Six-Sigma: A Goal Theoretic Perspective, Journal of Operations Management, (21), 193- 203(2003) @No $ @ @ Snee R.D. and Hoerl R.W., Leading Six-Sigma, Prentice-Hall, ISBN: 0130084573, Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 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<#LINE#>Role of Cash Management System in Banking Sector<#LINE#>Chandekar@MurlidharG.,AmrutaMandar@Khedkar<#LINE#>15-17<#LINE#>2.ISCA-RJMS-2014-090.pdf<#LINE#>VMV Commerce,JJP Science,JMT Arts Nagpur, MS, INDIA @ Dept.of Commerce (Business Management) R.T.M. Nagpur Univ, Nagpur, MS INDIA<#LINE#>13/10/2014<#LINE#>12/11/2014<#LINE#> In the wake of the financial crisis, banks around the world have to adapt to a different and rapidly changing business Cash is the life blood of any business. It is very important factor to any orgnisation. It helps to achieve the objectives of the business and helps to carry the smooth working of an orgnisation. The very prominent process in an economy is the cash flow and currency flow within the economy. It has unique assets and most important to quality system to be able to maintain the flow of cash and currency between outlets, Banks and customers. With the changing enviournment of today’s era bank has faced a huge challenge that is change, banks needs to be very careful and updated with the changing standards. To overcome the shrinking deposits, to increase the number of accounts etc. bank has to be updated and come up with the new technique Cash Management Services. Hence the objective of this paper is to study the Role of cash management system in Banking Sector. <#LINE#> @ @ Robbins S., Bergman R., Stagg I. and Coulter M., Management, Prentice-Hall Astrellia Ptv,. Ltd., Sydney (2000) @No $ @ @ Cash Management Trends in India, http://cmt// gtnews.com, 20/11/2013  3.Niraj Vedadwa President, Head–Global Sales and Marketing, Nucleus Software, New Delhi http://gsm//nucleussoftware.com,12/12/2013 @No $ @ @  Barney, Rickey W., the Management of Organisations, Houghthon Mifflin Company, USA  @No $ @ @  Niraj Vedwa, Cash Management and Payment Developments in India :Bank Offerings and New Corporate Best Practices, http://cab.org.in/CAB/Calling/Content/RISK-Management in Agriculture Cash Management and Payments in India.pdf ,12/1/2014 @No $ @ @ Tamal Bandyopadhay, How to spread banking services in rural India, http://iba.org/doc ,6/2/2014 @No $ @ @  Door-Step-Banking ,http://www.scribd.com/doc/13351987 /, 6/3/2014 @No $ @ @ Association Rule - Extracting Knowledge Using Market Basket Analysis Raorane A.A., Kulkarni R.V. and Jitkar B.D., Res.J.Recent Sci.,1(2), 19-27 (2012) @No $ @ @ Micro Finance and Risk Management for Poor in IndiaAggarwal Vijender, Aggarwal Rachna and Khanna Parul, Res.J.Recent Sci.,1(2), 104-107 (2012) @No $ @ @ Effect of Organized retail on Unorganized retail in Indian retail market Gupta Himanshu, Dubey Neetu and Patani Pawan, Res. J. Management Sci.,1(1), 7-13 (2012) @No $ @ @ Systems Approach to Determine the Significance of the Critical Success Factors of a Knowledge Management System Mathew A.O., Nair G.K. and Rodrigues L.L.R , Res. J. Management Sci.,1(1), 28-36  (2012) @No $ @ @ Relationship among Organizational Commitment, Trust and Job Satisfaction: An Empirical Study in Banking Industry M Sheik Mohamed, M Mohiadeen Abdul Kader and H. Anisa, Res. J. Management Sci.,1(2), 1-7 (2012) @No
<#LINE#>Solving Linear Tri-level Programming Problem using Approaches Based on Line Search and an Approximate Algorithm<#LINE#>Hosseini@Eghbal,KamalabadiIsa@Nakhai<#LINE#>18-26<#LINE#>3.ISCA-RJMS-2014-093.pdf<#LINE#>Candidate at Payamenur University of Tehran, Department of Mathematics, Tehran @ Industrial Engineering at University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, IRAN<#LINE#>27/10/2014<#LINE#>14/11/2014<#LINE#> In the recent years, the bi-level and tri-level programming problems (TLPP) are interested by many researchers and TLPP is known as an appropriate tool to solve the real problems in several areas such as economic, traffic, finance, management, and so on. Also, it has been proven that the general TLPP is an NP-hard problem. The literature shows a few attempts for solving using TLPP. 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