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Defining and Measuring Professionalism in Professions of Service Sector.
Get PDFThe purpose of this paper is intended to measure the degree of professionalism in the professions like doctors, professors, lawyers, librarians, and advertisers. The study will measure the level of professionalism among them on the base of which their expectations for outcomes in the respective fields can be denied or honored. Moreover, the study will identify problem areas in these professions and opportunities for improving the quality of professional’s work. This study attempts to measure professional’s individual attributes by using questionnaire developed by William Snizek in 1972. This tool measures five factors of professionalism: organization as major referent, belief in public service, belief in self-regulation, sense of calling to the field and autonomy. Professionalism will be measured by calculating means of each factor and collective mean of factors for each profession. The study suggest that all under study professions have professionalism in them but there is room for improvement as wel
Jordan Energy Sector Choices and Challenges
Get PDFEnergy is the lifeline for the whole of the service and industry sector in any country. Any imbalance in the energy sector is reflected on other sectors and the standard of living in the country. Energy problems are one of the most complex challenges facing governments. Especially in countries that rely on external energy sources. This situation is increased complexity by the presence of immediate changes in international relations and in fuel prices. Jordan is among the countries that depend on foreign energy sources and is located in the most volatile regions of the world in middle of the Middle East. Jordan is suffering from a permanent energy crisis that needs solutions which are compatible with many factors that may affect energy choices and decisions and alternatives available to get out of this crisis. Therefore, this study will attempt to focus on the Jordanian situation and identify the challenges and available choices. A comparison will be made of the available alternatives through Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP). The results show that the priority of the energy solutions is to expand the mining of uranium and shale as well as to expand the construction of renewable power plants, as well as maintenance and modernization of existing plants and the establishment of new refineries
Determining the Factors of Profitability in Islamic and Conventional Banks Of Pakistan: Management Perspective
Get PDFoai:ojs2.journal.seisense.com:article/1Banks plays vital role in capitalist economy. During the period of financial turmoil, it has been viewed that banks lost a huge capital due to non-recovery of loans from customers. Since there are two type of banks working in Pakistan therefore this thesis analyse which banks performance was better during the financial crunch between 2008 - 2012. The objective of this thesis is to determine the factor affecting the profitability of Islamic and Conventional banks in Pakistan during the period 2008 – 2012.
Data was collected through financial books of seventeen conventional and five Islamic banks. Two dependent variables i.e. Return on Asset and Return on Equity were used to determine the profitability of Islamic and conventional banks in Pakistan. Whereas Liquidity, Credit Risk, Capitalization, Efficiency, Bank Size, Economic Performance, Inflation and a dummy variable were used as Independent variables. Panel Data analysis is used to find out the result of secondary data. Initially the analysis was conducted on whole industry, which then applied on Islamic and Conventional banks separately
Effect of Dividend Policy on Firm’s Performance: A Case Study of Cement Sector of Pakistan
Get PDFThe basic aim of this study is to investigate that whether the dividend policy makes an impact on the firm performance in Pakistan specially in cement sector. Data used have been collected from annual reports of the sample companies and website of Pakistan Stock Exchange from 2012 to 2016. The results of OLS indicate that there is an insignificant positive relationship between return on equity (ROE) and Dividend per share (D.P.S) which imply that by increasing cost dividend per share, return on equity increases for the selected companies. Furthermore, a significant positive relationship between earning per share (EPS) and return-on-equity (R.O.E) was found. In the case of firm size, significant relationship was found with ROE and financial leverage showed an insignificant relationship with firm performance (R.O.E). Hence this study supports the relevant theories of dividend policy
Relationship between HR Practices & Employee Turnover Intentions by Taking Moderating Effect of Neuroticism and Extroversion.: Empirical Analysis of Selected Banks from Pakistan
Get PDFThe study is an association study because the relationship between employee turnover intentions and HR practices is studied by taking moderation effect of neuroticism and extroversion. The hypotheses are tested by taking Banking Industry in context of Pakistan. This tested the relationship of different independent factors (HR practices) with employee turnover intentions, the major causes among them, and the magnifying effect of neuroticism and extroversion, and its significance thereon. Data is collected through self-administered questionnaires and is analyzed by using different analytical techniques in SPSS including regression analysis, principal component analysis and descriptive statistics
Programming Ethics in Self-Driving Cars: Ethical Dilemma
Get PDFSelf-driving cars promise to revolutionize the automotive industry. Besides being productive and fuel-efficient, they would be significantly safer than the human-operated cars. However, in the rare case when they do get into an accident, they can calculate and opt for the reactive measure to take based on their programming. The manufacturer, it seems, must decide the ethics that self-driving cars should follow in such scenarios. In circumstances where they must choose between the lives of the passengers and the pedestrians, some researchers have argued that the best solution is to choose for the safety of the passengers over the pedestrians. Such a strategy, they argue will make sense as cars will have better control over the passenger and, therefore, will help in faster adoption of self-driving cars. However, this line of thinking seems simplistic at best. The author suggests areexamination of the ethical issues while taking into account the social and technological aspects as well
Determinants of Adolescents Well Being
Get PDFWell-being is a dynamic concept that includes subjective, social, and psychological dimensions as well as health-related behaviors. Adolescents form two-thirds of our population, this is a unique group of people with special needs. The study aims to identify the lifestyle and behavioral patterns of this group and subsequently come up with issues that require special attention. The Competitive environment in every field has propelled maladjustment in different spheres of life such as home, social, health, emotion and educational problems. In order to address adolescents’ psychological issues, it becomes everyone’s responsibility to give assistance to protect the future generation
A Comparative Study of Banking Industry Based on Appraisal System, Rewards and Employee Performance
Get PDFPurpose- This study was aimed to throw light on the appraisal and reward system, and its effects on job satisfaction and employee performance in the banking sector of Pakistan.
Design/Methodology- The research was based on primary data collected from the two major cities of Pakistan, Lahore and Kasur. A total of 250 structured questionnaires were rotated to Islamic and conventional banks in different parts of both cities. Out of these 222 questionnaires were returned and were in usable form. The data so collected was analyzed with the help of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). statistical techniques such as regression analysis, correlation analysis, descriptive analysis and t-test were used.
Findings- The results of the study revealed that appraisal was negatively correlated while the reward system was positively correlated to employee performance.
Practical implications- This research will help banks in reviewing their policies to make optimum use of their employees to meet certain goals of the bank. This research reveals that the appraisal system of the bank is affecting negatively on employees performance. This study will help in developing criteria which will help managers to appraise the employees in an effective way
Capital Structure Dynamics and Bank Affiliation of Business Groups: Evidence from Pakistan
Get PDFObjective – An empirical investigation to assess the impact of the bank-affiliated business group on firm’s capital structure decisions.
Design/methodology/approach – A sample of 146 group affiliated firms and subsamples for bank and non-bank affiliated firms was analyzed with random-effect panel regression model to determine the relationship of the bank-affiliated business group on firm’s capital structure determinants of listed firms in Pakistan using data for 2006-2011.
Findings – We have found that bank-affiliated firms financing decisions are significantly different from that of non-bank affiliated firms with a common factor of the internal capital market. Bank-affiliated firm capital structure determinants of growth, asset tangibility, non-debt tax shield and operating risk show significantly different association with choice of leverage compared to non-bank affiliated firms.
Policy implications – Our results show that group affiliated firms particularly bank-affiliated firms are the reason for market imperfections and have successfully eliminated the market distortions keeping others at a disadvantage. Hence, Policymakers are suggested to improve the regulatory system and its implementation.
Originality/value – According to best of our knowledge, this is the first study to extend the literature of firm financing decisions in relation to bank-group affiliation in Pakistan
An Effective performance Management System: Empirical study from Saudi Arabia
No full textThe goal of the paper is to find the characteristics which can lead to an effective performance management systems. The paper suggested a model with a set of characteristics in three critical intervals for the performance management process: when identifying performance objectives, when measuring performance, and when developing performance