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Synthesis of managerial fairness and its effects on perceived leader quality: the case of nationalised commercial banks of Bangladesh
(© 2005 D. U. Journal of Marketing, 2005-06-08)The concept of fairness and justice has received much allen/ion in recent literature on organisational behaviour and human resource management as a way of motivating employees for achieving organisational success. ... -
Customer satisfaction in the restaurant industry: an examination of the transaction-specific model
(© 2006 Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2006)Purpose – To determine the factors that explain customer satisfaction in the full service restaurant industry. Design/methodology/approach – Secondary research and qualitative interviews were used to build the model ... -
Managerial fairness and its effects on employees' job commitment in the nationalised commercial banks of Bangladesh
(© 2006 Journal of Business Studies, 2006-06)The study of fairness in organisations, and in panicufar, procedural fairness, has given researchers fresh insights about management. In business organisations, considerations of fairness appeal to managers, employees, ... -
Muslims in a 'White Australia': colour or religion?
(© 2006 Immigrants and Minorities., 2006-07)Muslim migration to Australia took place over three distinct periods - the Colonial, the 'White Australia' and the Multicultural periods. This article discusses the settlement issues of Muslims during the 'White Australia' ... -
Traffic congestions in Dhaka and socio-economic development in Bangladesh: some micro and macro-level connections
(© 2017 Bangladesh Development Initiative & The University Press Limited., 2007)Development Issues of Bangladesh-III has been written with the theme: human development and quality of life in Bangladesh. The two concepts, central to the evolution of a civilized society, are approached from a variety ... -
Electronic speckle pattern interferometry and related techniques using digital still cameras
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A multivariate model of perceived quality in a developing country
(© 2007 Published by Taylor & Francis Online, 2007)This paper integrates past research and proposes a framework for the analysis of consumer perceptions of quality in a developing country. In this framework, consumer-perceived quality is hypothesized to be formed from ... -
Methodological issues in socio-economic development
(Concept Publishing Company, 2007)"This set of three volumes is not just a compilation of essays in honour of Professor Ashok Kumar Dutt, it personifies his life as a person and a professional. Prof. Dutt has established his international credentials as ... -
Doctors' service orientation in public, private, and foreign hospitals
(© 2007 Emerald Group Publishing Limited., 2007)The purpose of this study is to propose a doctors' service orientation (DSO) scale and uses it to compare the services received in public, private and foreign hospitals in a developing country from the patient's perspective. ... -
Satisfaction with food services: insights from a college cafeteria
(© 2007 Taylor & Francis Online, 2007)College students' food service needs is an important area that needs more research. While the importance of offering quality education is paramount, for many colleges that are embattled in their quest to retain students, ... -
The effect of board’s quality on performance: a study of Canadian firms
(© 2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2007)We investigate the impact of board’s quality as defined by a Score published in a Canadian National Newspaper on the performance of the firm. Based on the current literature, we ranked the boards of 219 Canadian firms ... -
Reforming innercity bus transportation in a developing country: a passenger-driven model
(© National Center for Transit Research (NCTR), University of South Florida, 2007)The transportation system in Dhaka City, Bangladesh, requires significant improvements. The shortage of motorized vehicles and the excessive number of nonmotorized vehicles on the city’s streets have been the cause of ... -
Patient satisfaction with health services in Bangladesh
(© 2007 The Author, Oxford University Press in association with The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine., 2007)Concern over the quality of health care services in Bangladesh has led to loss of faith in public and private hospitals, low utilization of public health facilities, and increasing outflow of Bangladeshi patients to ... -
Mackay revisited: the case of Javanese-Australian Muslims, 1880-1999
(© 2007 Scalabrini Migration Center., 2007)The development of Queensland's sugar industry in the nineteenth century led to an influx of non-European laborers, such as Melanesians, Cingalese and Javanese. Years later, under the Immigration Restriction Act, 1901, ... -
What does it mean to be un-Australian? views of Australian Muslim students in 2006
(© 2007 People and Place., 2007)Recent political and media debates have focused on Australian values, Australianness and being un-Australian. The current war on terror and the Cronulla riots in December 2005 have raised the question of whether Muslim ... -
Calculation of the bandwidth of a graded-index optical fiber using experimentally measured quantities
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Service quality of private passenger vehicles and satisfaction of the passengers: a case study of Dhaka city
(© 2007 South Asian Management Forum, 2007-02)The use of different modes of private passenger vehicles ( PPVs) such as, yello11' cab, black cab, CNC auto rickshaw etc. are very essential for the dwellers of Dhaka city. These private vehicles are running at the street ... -
Computer simulation of Fresnel diffraction from rectangular apertures and obstacles using the Fresnel integrals approach
(© 2005 Elsevier Ltd., 2007-03)In this paper, we describe a new computer simulation technique of generating Fresnel diffraction images from rectangular apertures of arbitrary dimensions by using Fresnel integrals instead of the more common fast Fourier ... -
Muslims in Australia: the double edge of terrorism
(© 2007 Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies., 2007-11)Self-improvement is often seen as the driving force behind international migration. In other cases, people are forced to depart because of social or political upheaval, oppression or national disaster. Finally, people may ... -
Not friend, not foe: the rocky road of enfranchisement of Muslims into multicultural nationhood in Australia and New Zealand
(© 2008 Immigrants and Minorities., 2008)This paper compares the images of citizenship available through multicultural policy provisions to the Muslim minority in Australia and New Zealand. Its enfranchisement is fraught with difficulties in both countries. A ...