Satisfaction and Behavioral Intention of Clients in Big T Event Management Company

This study aims to examine the influencing factors on client satisfaction and to analyze the effect of client satisfaction on behavioral intention of client in BIG T Event Management Company. The scope of the study covers the clients whose took corporate events form BIG T Event Management Company. Descriptive and analytical research methods are used to achieve the above objectives. Both primary data and secondary data are used in this study. Sample population is 60 out of 71 clients according to Yamane sampling formula. Respondents are selected by using simple random sampling method. Primary data are collected by using structured questionnaires with 5-point Likert scale. Linear regression method is applied to analyse the data. The result reveals that delivery and flexibility have significant effects on customer satisfaction among four competitive priorities. Regression result reveals that flexibility is the main determinant factor on customer satisfaction. It is also found that customer satisfaction has a direct positive effect on behavioural intention of the customers. The study recommends that BIG T Company should focus a sense of flexibility in order to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances by monitoring the latest trends and technology at the foreign countries and creating innovative event plans. In addition, it should find the reliable third parties and suppliers of event decorations and equipment in order to deliver the service as expected. Finally, BIG T Company should conduct a post-event survey to explore whether customers enjoyed about the event, and where company has room to improve for customer satisfaction

Influence of Serviciescape on Customer Satisfaction and Repatronage Intention Towards the Rock by Color Stones Restaurant (Zaw Win Htut, 2022)

The main purposes of this study are to examine the effect of servicescape factors on customer satisfaction towards The Rock by Color Stones Restaurant and to analyze the effect of customer satisfaction on repatronage intention towards The Rock by Color Stones Restaurant. Both primary and secondary data are used in this study. Systematic random sampling method is used to conduct personal interview with every 5th coming customer into the restaurant. Data Collection period is from 1st November to 30th November (3 days a week: Friday, Saturday and Sunday) in 2022. Structured questionnaire with 5-point Likert scale is applied for primary data collection. All four servicescape factors namely ambient conditions, spatial layout and functionality, signs, symbols and artefacts, and facility cleanliness have a strong positive effect on customer satisfaction. Among them, ambient conditions is the most effective factor on customer satisfaction. Findings indicate that customer satisfaction has a positive effect on repatronage intention of customers. The Rock by Color Stones Restaurant should be applied an effective kitchen exhaust filtration system based upon molecular filtration and the Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) scent diffuser. To improve spatial layout and functionality, the fine dining should accommodate 20 square feet per person by taking into account space needed for traffic aisles, wait stations, cashier, etc. Illuminated signs from the wall or ceiling should also be hanged for directing customers to the bar, exit, rest rooms or the checkout counter. The Rock by Color Stones Restaurant should always ensure to clean and sanitize a work area before closing the restaurant and before starting to prepare food to preventing foodborne illness. Finally, the restaurant management of The Rock by Color Stones Restaurant should focus the servicescape of other restaurants in order to attract more customers and retain loyal customers

Health behavior, stress and obesity among working age women in Myanmar

Aim:  This study aimed to determine the prevalence of overweight and obesity and to investigate the association between socioeconomic factors, health behaviors, health literacy, knowledge, attitude, physical and mental health status, and overweight and obesity among working age women in Myanmar. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 1,094 women aged 18 to 59 years old who were recruited by using multistage random sampling from 12 townships out of 6 districts among three states/regions. A structured questionnaire was developed and applied to assess the prevalence of overweight and obesity. Generalized Linear Mixed Model (GLMM) was performed to determine the association between dependent and independent variables after controlling the effects of covariates presenting adjusted OR and 95% confidence interval. Results: More than half of the respondents were with overweight and obesity (51.28%; 95%CI: 48.31-54.23). The multivariable analysis indicated that factors significantly associated with overweight and obesity included; aged 31-59 years (Adjusted Odds Ratio (AOR) = 1.72, 95%CI:1.22-2.40), living without family (AOR= 2.07, 95%CI:1.20-3.57), average monthly income ≥200,000MMK (AOR= 1.38, 95%CI:1.05-1.82), parity≥1 (AOR= 1.61, 95%CI: 1.17- 2.23), high fat & protein consumption ≥5-days per week (AOR= 2.90, 95%CI:1.91-4.39), alcohol consumption (AOR= 2.53, 95%CI:1.91-3.36) and moderate-severe stress (AOR= 1.47, 95%CI:1.11-1.94). Conclusion: More than half of working age women were with overweight and obesity. Socioeconomic status, health behavior and stress are the factors behind over nutrition. The findings provide relevant evidence to develop the appropriate policies and public health interventions in order to minimize the burden of overweight and obesity. Likewise, it is anticipated that this outcome would support the prevention of cardiovascular and other chronic diseases. &nbsp

Elephants born in the high stress season have faster reproductive ageing

Senescent declines in reproduction and survival are found across the tree of life, but little is known of the factors causing individual variation in reproductive ageing rates. One contributor may be variation in early developmental conditions, but only a few studies quantify the effects of early environment on reproductive ageing and none concern comparably long-lived species to humans. We determine the effects of ‘stressful’ birth conditions on lifetime reproduction in a large semi-captive population of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus). We categorise birth month into stressful vs. not-stressful periods based on longitudinal measures of glucocorticoid metabolites in reproductive-aged females, which peak during heavy workload and the start of the monsoon in June-August. Females born in these months exhibit faster reproductive senescence in adulthood and have significantly reduced lifetime reproductive success than their counterparts born at other times of year. Improving developmental conditions could therefore delay reproductive ageing in species as long-lived as humans

Systematic Review of Immunosuppressant Guidelines in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Funding The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Conflict of interest statement The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest. Supplemental material Supplemental material for this article is available F Barlow-Pay, T Win Htut et al. online.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Relationship between Principals' Transformational Leadership Style and Teachers' Job Performance and Satisfaction in Selected Basic Education High Schools in Mandalay

This study focused on the transformational leadership style of principals on teachers’ job performance and satisfaction. There were 6 principals and 399 teachers from selected Basic Education High Schools in Mandalay participated in this study. In this study, the researcher used two instruments, namely questionnaire for principals (Questionnaire 1) and questionnaire for teachers (Questionnaire 2). In order to collect the general information of selected schools and demographic information of principals, questionnaires for principals (Questionnaire 1) developed by researcher were used. Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire developed by Bass and Avolio (1995) to measure the principals’ transformational leadership style, “Performance of Teachers” developed by Kim and Richard (1991) to investigate the teachers’ job performance, and “Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS)” developed by Spector (1994) to find out the teachers’ job satisfaction were utilized in (Questionnaire 2). After collecting the data, descriptive statistics and the bivariate correlation of the variables were calculated by using SPSS. When studying the relationship between principals’ transformational leadership style and teachers’ job performance, it was found that these variables were highly correlated at the 99% confidence level. Result (r=0.662, p<0.01) indicated that a high and significant relationship existed between principals’ transformational leadership style and teachers’ job performance. Moreover, it was found that principals’ transformational leadership style was positively and moderately correlated with job satisfaction of teachers at the 99% confidence level. Result (r=.430, p<0.01) stated that principals’ transformational leadership style had a significant and moderate effect on teachers’ job satisfaction. When studying the correlation between teachers’ job performance and satisfaction, the result (r=.402, p<0.01) indicated a positive and moderate relationship existed between teachers’ job performance and satisfaction in selected high schools. The study helps provide guidance and direction to principals who wish to exercise their leadership on a more appropriate and relevant way particularly in a context of change

Investigating Classroom Management Approaches of Teachers at Selected Basic Education High Schools

This study focused on investigating the classroom management approaches of teachers. The pilot test was participated by 82 teachers from selected Basic Education High School in Chan Mya Thar Zi Township. There were 453 teachers from the six selected schools in that township. In this study, quantitative research method was mainly used to collect data. The study was conducted by the use of two Questionnaire for principals and teachers, namely Questionnaire for principals and Questionnaire for teachers. In order to collect the general information of selected schools and demographic information of principals, Questionnaire for principals was used. In Questionnaire for Teachers, Classroom Management Inventory developed by Yasar (2008) was mainly used to investigate the classroom management approaches of teachers from selected high schools. It consists of two dimensions of classroom management approaches of teachers: Teacher-Centered and Student-Centered Classroom Management Approaches. Descriptive statistics, the independent sample t-test, One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), and Post-Hoc Turkey Tests were used to investigate the classroom management approaches of teachers and to find out the differences between the various independent variables. The results of the study indicated that the mean value of Teacher-Centered Classroom Management Approach was (X ̅ =3.25) and the mean value of Student-Centered Classroom Management Approach was (X ̅ =3.58). So, the teachers prefer to use Student-Centered Classroom Management Approach rather than Teacher-Centered Classroom Management Approach. But, the significant differences were not found in classroom management approaches of teachers with respect to gender, positions, years of teaching experiences, and the average number of students in their classes. Finally, suggestions and recommendations for the classroom management approaches of teachers were discussed

Sex-specific links between the social landscape and faecal glucocorticoid metabolites in semi-captive Asian elephants

Although social behaviour is common in group-living mammals, our understanding of its mechanisms in long-lived animals is largely based on studies in human and non-human primates. There are health and fitness benefits associated with strong social ties, including increased life span, reproductive success, and lower disease risk, which are attributed to the proximate effects of lowered circulating glucocorticoid hormones. However, to deepen our understanding of health-social dynamics, we must explore species beyond the primate order. Here, using Asian elephants as a model species, we combine social data generated from semi-captive timber elephants in Myanmar with measurements of faecal glucocorticoid metabolite (FGM) concentrations. These data enable a “natural experiment” because individuals live in work groups with different demographic compositions. We examine sex-specific FGM concentrations for four different aspects of an individuals’ social world: general sociality, work group size, sex ratio and the presence of immatures (&lt;5 years) within the work group. Males experienced lower FGM concentrations when engaged in more social behaviours and residing in female-biased work groups. Surprisingly, females only exhibited lower FGM concentrations when residing with calves. Together, our findings highlight the importance of sociality on individual physiological function among elephants, which may have broad implications for the benefits of social interactions among mammals.</p

Males have more aggressive and less sociable personalities than females in semi-captive Asian elephants

Personality, i.e. consistent between-individual differences in behaviour, has been documented in many species. Yet little is known about how males and females of long-lived, highly social species differ in their measures of personality structure. We investigated sex differences in the mean, variance, and covariance of three previously reported personality traits (Attentiveness, Sociability, Aggressiveness) in 150 female and 107 male Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) from a semi-captive population in Myanmar. These three personality traits were obtained by performing exploratory factor analysis on 28 behavioural items that had been rated by experienced elephant handlers. We found that males scored significantly higher on Aggressiveness and tended to score lower on Sociability than females. However, no sex difference was found in the mean scores of Attentiveness. Variances for the three personality traits did not differ between the sexes, suggesting that male and female elephants share the same range of personality variation. Likewise, trait covariances were similar between the sexes. While both sexes show complex sociality in the wild, female Asian elephants typically live in highly social family units, whereas male elephants' social bonds are weaker. Males usually form dominance ranks by aggressive interactions, especially during musth. Our results on a large sample of individuals living in their natural environment are thus in agreement with elephant life-histories and parallel the findings of sex differences in other long-lived highly social species with similar life-histories

Evolutionary significance of maternal kinship in a long-lived mammal

Preferential treatment of kin is widespread across social species and is considered a central prerequisite to the evolution of cooperation through kin selection. Though it is well known that, among most social mammals, females will remain within their natal group and often bias social behaviour towards female maternal kin, less is known about the fitness consequences of these relationships. We test the fitness benefits of living with maternal sisters, measured by age-specific female reproduction, using an unusually large database of a semi-captive Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) population. This study system is particularly valuable to an exploration of reproductive trends in a long-lived mammal, because it includes life-history data that span multiple generations, enabling a study of the effects of kinship across a female's lifespan. We find that living near a sister significantly increased the likelihood of annual reproduction among young female elephants, and this effect was strongest when living near a sister 0-5 years younger. Our results show that fitness benefits gained from relationships with kin are age-specific, establish the basis necessary for the formation and maintenance of close social relationships with female kin, and highlight the adaptive importance of matriliny in a long-lived mammal.This article is part of the theme issue 'The evolution of female-biased kinship in humans and other mammals'.</p