This book explores the differences between Western and non-Western cultures to provide a more comprehensive understanding of psychological contract and its consequences on employees' behavioral, attitudinal, and cognitive outcomes. Further, it discusses the culturally-relevant elements of HR practices that affect employee expectations, job satisfaction, commitment, and motivation based on their perceptions of the level of fulfilment of their psychological contract. Integrating both qualitative and quantitative methods, it is the first book to examine the current state of the South Asian workforce and will advance research on industrial relations, employee relationship management, and corporate management of South Asian employees around the world.
This study presents data collected from students commencing an enabling program at an Australian university in 2013. Students were asked to identify the three most important reasons for them undertaking the program. The responses identified focussed on four main factors: future educational and career aspirations; a desire to have new experiences; the need for new skills and knowledge; and academic and personal support needs. Results showed that younger students straight from school saw the program as an opportunity to secure entry to their degree of choice. Mature students who had a gap of some years in their education career saw the opportunity offered through the enabling program more in regard to gaining new skills and experiencing university study before embarking on their full degree program.
It is widely argued that industrial production contributes to the global greenhouse gas emissions, particularly carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions in any countries whether industrialized or developing. This is mainly due to the industrial processes that combine scarce resources to produce tangible goods and intangible services. The industrial processes emit large amounts of CO 2 because of the two reasons. First, many manufacturing facilities directly use fossil fuels to create heat and steam needed at various stages of production. Second, energy intensive activities at the manufacturing facilities use more electricity than any other sector so the energy that they use is responsible for vast amounts of CO 2 emissions. Therefore, the per capita emissions in the industrialized countries are typically as much as ten times the average in the developing countries. Apparently, vast industrial activities are primarily thought to be responsible for such carbon emissions. There have been conducted a considerable number of studies forecasting industrial production and carbon emissions for the industrialized countries but no studies have thus far looked into this issue for the developing countries, most of which are primarily agriculture dependent. This study is thus an effort to forecast and analyze the causality and long run association between CO 2 emissions and industrial production using Vector Error Correction Model (VECM). Other econometric techniques, such as unit root test and Granger causality test have also been used to achieve the objective in a comprehensive and convincing way. The empirical results reveal for Bangladesh that there is no Granger causality between industrial production and CO 2 emission in any direction. The results from VECM reveal for Bangladesh that any disequilibrium between CO 2 emission and industrial production could take approximately 54 years to converge to the long-run equilibrium. But the adjustment rate for the country's industrial production is positive, as it should be, as well as relatively faster at the rate of 83 percent a year. So any disequilibrium will be corrected mostly by the adjustment in the country's industrial production. The study concludes that the current CO 2 emissions in Bangladesh are below the equilibrium level, which is an advantageous situation for the country. Therefore, it is expected that the Bangladesh's industrial sector will not face stricter CO 2 emission controlling policies and regulations in the near future.
This cross-sectional study was carried out in department of cardiology, Combined Military Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh and department of cardiology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh during the period of April 2000 to November 2001. The study was designed to see the coronary arteriographic (CAG) pattern in patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and to compare the CAG findings between HCM patients and normal coronary patients, HCM was diagnosed by using diagnostic criteria defined by Western Working Group. The patients with hypertention, congenitalheart disease, valvular heart disease, coronary artery disease were excluded from the study. Among total 60 subjects, 30 had HCM and 30 age and sex matched control. The mean age of cases was 45.00±15.38 years and control subjects was 44.35±15.14 years. HCM cases had significantly higher left ventricular systolic pressure, higher left ventricular end diastolic pressure and more ejection fraction than control. Origin of coronary artery both in control and HCM cases were normal.
