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CONFLICT MANAGEMENT STYLES IN OIL & GAS SECTOR IN SULTANATE OF OMAN

Mr. Arvind Hans, Mr. Abdullah Salim Hamood Al Bariki

Oil and gas sector has been dominated the overall structural fabric of Oman’s economy for the last 30 years. This sector served as the catalyst for growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Oman.
A descriptive study was conducted to identify the conflict management styles in this sector of Oman. Main objective was to identify and describe the various factors of conflict and conflict-management styles used in this sector to resolve interpersonal conflict. Data was collected through questionnaire schedules and unstructured interview. Data analysis and interpretation was done based on the responses of 100 respondents, in which attempts were made to contain the views of existing conflict management resolution techniques and procedures. Finally results were discussed and conflict management styles used in these companies were reported. It was found that oil & gas sector companies were either using collaborative style or accommodative style in managing conflict in lower level management. These conflict management styles were predominantly used by this sector for achieving long term goals.

A DESCRIPTIVE COMPARATIVE STUDY ON XP VS WATERFALL METHODOLOGY

M. Varusai Mohamed , S. Balaj

Many software companies are now developing object oriented software and the people working in the IT companies must have the idea of object oriented CASE tools.  Most of the projects in the IT Company go failure due to improper communication with the client.  So the communication is the most important value in the IT Company for the project success.  Even though if the communication is good with the customer, sometime the customer do not like the project deliverables due to its complexity in programming.  In this case, the simplicity is important for the project success and to make the customer satisfied.  The simplicity provides the environment to update the projects easily for its future enhancements.   It is important for the IT companies to choose a suitable methodology for their project success.   Now a day getting requirements from the customer for the system development is a big process in the busy world and providing simplicity in the project deliverables is not easy.   But some IT companies are still using some of the traditional methodologies like water fall for the project life cycle.  This paper is a comparative study between XP methodology Vs water fall methodology based on some values. This paper describes the importance of XP methodology over waterfall methodology and explains how XP methodology stresses customer communication during the system development.

Waterfall , XP methodology

WOMEN EMPLOYMENT IN SULTANATE OF OMAN – AN INSPIRINGSOURCE FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH

D.Padmalosani

International Journal of Information Technology and Business Management  pp 021 – 036   Vol 04. No. 1 — 2012

Women play a vital role in the growth of the family and women started sharing their shoulders in  the  country’s economic  growth as  well.  Now days,  Women Employment shows  a  positive trend throughout the world.  Women participation in active roles of the country is high in Sultanate of Oman comparatively with GCC, whereas the role of women is still restricted.  With the realization that Education is the greatest asset which makes the country to grow faster, the government started giving full encouragement and support to the women in making their schooling and university education in equal with boys, it has decreed that women should be given career opportunities and equal pay. In the country, many women now have jobs, especially with the government. Omani women and Expatriates have made rapid progress in the field of education in the recent past, and many of them are highly educated. Women are given full support to involve herself in the various positions in education, employment, business, politics, social service and other leading sectors. Hence, an attempt is made in this paper which highlights the various roles and contributions of women in various sectors in the Sultanate of Oman. Also, the paper is amid to analyze the employment status of women in government and private sector and its projection for the future. Further, it is proposed to measure the contribution of women for the Oman’s economic growth.

The study is analytical in nature and will use secondary data available with various government departments in Sultanate of Oman. Around 5 years (2005 to 2010) employment data will be used to analyze the employment trends in different sectors. Required statistical tools like Regression analysis, Trend analysis will be used in this research paper.

Women Employment, Education, Sultanate of Oman

RESTRUCTURING OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
ACCOUNTING AND TAX APPLICATIONS IN
VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS WITH IKMEP PROJECT

Assist. Prof.Aysel Güney

The Project of Development of the Human Resources through Vocational Education (IKMEP) which is carried out by the Ministry of National Education Presidency of Projects Coordination Center in Turkey is a two year project which aims at ensuring the employment purposed collaboration between the workforce market and the vocational schools and the vocational technical secondary education organizations and encouraging the development of human resources through the modernization of the vocational education and enhancing its quality in the perspective of lifelong learning process. The purpose of this project could be defined as ensuring the employment collaboration between the workforce market and the vocational schools and the vocational technical secondary education organizations and, with the lifelong learning approach, encouraging the development of the human resources through the modernization of vocational education and enhancing its quality. …………………….

Accounting Curriculum, Change, Project.

EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF VLAN AND ACL IN LOCAL AREA NETWORK

Abubucker Samsudeen Shaffi, Mohaned Al-Obaidy

Most of the Organizations such as public and private sectors have started deploying computers to their employees to perform their daily work and access resources from their network. This technology has enabled to operate their businesses much faster and more conveniently and also make easy for the organization; there are some problems still faced by the organization such as poor network design by having large broadcast within the network, low security and overhead management. Therefore, many organisations have decided to implement VLAN (Virtual Local area Networks) and ACL (Access Control List) to solve these problems. This paper indicates to redesign Local Area Network by using VLAN and ACL solution.

VLAN, ACL

THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR IMPEMENTING INCENTIVE COMPATIBILITY IN SUPPLY CHAINS GOVERNED BY INFORMATION ASYMMETRY

A.K. Lazaris, P.H. Yannakopoulos

Information asymmetry disintegrates the performance of Supply Chains, by inducing misallocation of the available and potential resources, discriminatory pricing and allocation policies leading to winners and losers in the wealth creation game, arbitrage, lead-times variations and unpredictability. We provide the theoretical underpinning that can reinforce truthful information sharing, that is an incentive compatible mechanism. We focus on scenarios about allocating the capacity of a supplier. An implementation of the mechanism was presented in the form of SSCC protocols by Lazaris (2008). Managerial implications are issues for further discussions.