IMPACT OF MAINTAINING QUALITY IN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY What is Quality? The term quality means different things to different people. Some take it as the degree of excellence of a product while some take it to be the ability of a product to satisfy a need. According to the International Organization for Standardization‚ quality means “the degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfils the requirement.” So what is the importance of quality in the construction industry? Every construction
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Chapter 1 Introduction Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism ©2006 Pearson Education‚ Inc. Upper Saddle River‚ NJ 07458 Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism‚ 4th edition Kotler‚ Bowen‚ and Makens “Marketing is so basic that it cannot be considered a separate function. It is the whole of business seen from the point of view of its final result‚ that is‚ from the customers point of view…Business success is not determined by the producer‚ but by the customer.” -Peter Drucker ©2006 Pearson Education
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An ion is an atom or molecule in which the total number of electrons is not equal to the total number of protons‚ giving it a net positive or negative electrical charge. The name was given by physicist Michael Faraday for the substances that allow a current to pass ("go") between electrodes in a solution‚ when an electric field is applied. It is from Greek ιον‚ meaning "going." The word ion also is responsible for electrical current being symbolized by the letter i in chemistry and physics. An anion
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“Globalisation has been a blessing for Singapore’s development.” The world we live in today is characterised by globalised markets and a merciless pace of change. Powered by relentless technological advances‚ the forces of globalization have undoubtedly driven the ever-accelerating expansion in economic activity and capital flows‚ even opening previously closed sectors and countries. The economies of countries are becoming increasingly integrated with one another. Indeed‚ living in today’s
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“Global Economic crisis: Impact on IT Industry in India.” Abstract: Globalization has ensured that none of the economies of the world stays insulated from the global economic crisis. But there was a general belief that the emerging economies could remain largely apart from the global economic meltdown and provide an alternative engine of growth to the world economy. The effect of the crisis on the Indian economy was not significant in the beginning. The argument soon proved unfounded as the global
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Introduction Globalization or (globalisation) is the process by which the people of the world are unified into a single society and function together. Globalization is often used to refer to economic globalization: the integration of national economies into the international economy through trade‚ foreign direct investment‚ capital flows‚ migration‚ and the spread of technology. This process is usually recognized as being driven by a combination of economic‚ technological‚ socio-cultural‚ political
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The Impact of garments industries on the economy of Bangladesh: Introduction: Bangladesh is currently one of the 12 largest exporters of garments products in U.S.A and U.K. In spite of this‚ the real situation does not come in front of the world. That is they are not becoming influenced like before any more. We can see this by the price level of our garments products in the world market. The quantity we are exporting is huge but at a very low price. In the statistics the impact may be huge but
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Globalization makes the world homogeneous Introduction * “Globalization is a process in which worldwide economic‚ political‚ cultural‚ and social relations have become increasingly mediate across time and space” (Rantanen‚ 2005:3). Globalization is the process that keep on going and there would be no exactly time when it started. Even globalization has already started along time ago when people did migration to all over the world. However Globalization in the context of media‚ there are only
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out of producing product A into producing product B. our analysis simple we consider an economy that produces only two products‚ A and B (see Fig. 2.1). Imagine that all of an economy’s resources‚ such as land‚ labour and capital‚ were used in industry A. Then Q0 of A would be
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SERVICE QUALITY IN HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY THROUGH MANAGING THE ‘MOMENT OF TRUTH’: A THEORETICAL APPROACH Deborah Christine Widjaja Lecturer‚ Hotel Management Program‚ Faculty of Economics‚ Petra Christian University Email: dwidjaja@peter.petra.ac.id Abstract: Hospitality industry is one of the service businesses that pays so much attention to service quality as it is the main intangible product that it produces. This short article examines how to manage service quality in hospitality industry through managing
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