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The impact of internal controls on SACCO performance in Rukiga, Uganda
No full textPurpose: The research on the internal controls of Rukiga SACCO was conducted in Rukiga District to examine the segregation of duties, determine the impact of independent checks, and assess the risk management on the financial performance of the organization.
Research methodology: This research was carried out after the cross-sectional survey. The bivariate correlations between the predictor components and the dependent variable were examined using a Pearson correlation matrix, and a linear regression model was used to fit the data.
Results: The regression model results showed that segregation of duties (R=762), independent checks (R=676), and risk management (R=899) had beneficial influence on Rukiga SACCO performance. Furthermore, the performance was impacted by risk management, separation of roles, and independent checks.
Limitations: The structured questionnaire, which was administered by the participant, served as the primary data collection tool. The probability of non-responses occurred due to the loss of control over the questionnaire after submission to respondents. This situation had a significant impact on the data analysis and the generalizability of the findings.
Contribution: Task segregation, independent auditing, and risk management should be considered to achieve loan portfolio expansion, profitability development, and market share increase, which were crucial elements of Rukiga SACCO performance
Supportive leadership and employee creativity: Will Leader-Member Exchange mediate the relationship?
No full textPurpose: Purpose: This study proposes to integrate supportive leadership, leader-member exchange (LMX), and employee creativity. It suggests that LMX can play a role as a mediator.
Research methodology: A total of 200 participants were included in this study. They were working for a tobacco company located in a district in Kulon Progo, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Analysis for hypotheses was done in SPSS and AMOS.
Results: It was found that supportive leadership was positively related to leader-member exchange (LMX) and employee creativity. Leader-member exchange (LMX) was positively related to employee creativity. Finally, leader-member exchange (LMX) mediated the relationship between supportive leadership and employee creativity.
Limitations: The participants of this study were taken from one company. This might lower the generalizability of the results. Another limitation of this study is the use is a cross-sectional method in the data collection which might result in a common method variance. Future studies could employ other data collection methods. For example, a multi-wave of data collection can remedy the problem.
Contribution: The study suggests that a supportive leadership style is necessary to implement because it can promote a higher quality of the relationship between employees and their supervisors. More importantly, this aligns with the organizational effort to foster employee creativity.
Novelty: The study found that supportive leadership can promote leader-member exchange (LMX) quality. Since the dyad relationship quality characterized by leader-member exchange (LMX) is necessary for team effectiveness, the investigation of the link may provide an understanding of the factors that may influence leader-member exchange (LMX)
Technology and banking operations: Perspectives of international students in a Ghanaian University
No full textPurpose: The study analysed perceptions of international students in a Ghanaian private university college on the effect of information technology on banking operations as they have experienced it in Ghana.
Research methodology: A mixed methods research approach was used for this study. Data were collected from 60 international students who were sampled randomly from the population of international students in the college. Descriptive statistics from IBM SPSS Statistics 24 was used to analyse quantitative data, while thematic analysis was used to analyse qualitative data.
Results: Findings showed that even though information technology affects banking operations positively by making operations efficient, easier and faster for both employees and customers; it has increased the rate of fraudulent banking activities. This has exposed clients and employees alike, to a higher risk of fraud and other fraud-related activities.
Limitations: This study was limited to international students of a private university college in Ghana. Data were collected from an online survey; hence a limitation to the number of international students who participated in the study.
Contribution: Despite the fact that information technology influences banking operations in Ghana positively, it has resulted in increased fraudulent activities related to banking operations. This requires that policymakers improve online security in the banking space.
Novelty: There is an emphasis that though technology’s use in banking operations has a positive effect, it also presents banking institutions with an increased risk of fraud as perceived by international students schooling in a private tertiary institution in Ghana
Blackboard System and Students’ Academic Performance: An Experimental Study in The Philippines
No full textPurpose: The main purpose of this study is to determine the Blackboard System's effectiveness on students' academic performance in Araling Panlipunan.
Research methodology: The study employed a quasi-experimental pre-test and post-test non-equivalent group design and was entirely quantitative. Seventy (70) Ligaya High School students in Grade 7 who were divided into the control and experimental groups made up the study's subjects. Both groups received instruction on related subjects throughout the first quarter of the Araling Panlipunan grading period. The t-test for dependent and independent samples was the statistical tool employed to evaluate the hypothesis.
Results: Results indicate that using the Blackboard System to teach Araling Panlipunan is a more effective approach than using the traditional lecture technique. Further, it has a significant impact on students and learning processes. Teachers also gained great benefits in using this system since it provided them an easy way of tracking student progress reducing a lot of paperwork load.
Limitations: This study was limited to only Grade 7 Araling Panlipunan learners in the school year 2019-2020. The duration of the experiment was only focused on the First Quarter grading period.
Contribution: One of the key goals of the study is to raise the standard of education by using new technological trends, which will assist them to advance their skills and competencies in technology. Teachers will also benefit from the study to help them improve their craft with the use of effective pedagogy with ICT to cope with the changing world
Measuring the future of NFT as digital asset in realizing economic revitalization
No full textPurpose: Indonesia is a democratic country based on the principles of justice, togetherness and balance as the goals of the state as stated in the 4th paragraph of the 1945 Constitution. In this regard, the development of creative industries that are oriented towards the fulfillment of social welfare within the framework of shared prosperity becomes a fundamental basis in the practice of life.
Research Methodology: The author uses a normative juridical research method that is descriptive analysis. Data collection is done through literature study and the data used in this paper is secondary data obtained through library materials collected through literature study, then analyzed qualitatively to obtain writing conclusions.
Results: The results show that digital asset transformation is an extensive, instrumental and comprehensive approach to respond to technological disruption, especially in the era of society 5.0.
Limitations: The dimensions of life are required to be adaptive to the times, associated with the current Covid-19 Pandemic situation. The pandemic has become a disruptive momentum due to the movement of global supply chains into digital and virtual spaces, such as in buying and selling goods and services, as well as interpersonal interactions.
Contribution: With the fantastic number at the digital market in Indonesia, collaboration of all parties must be implemented in achieving the vision, mission and goals of business development through the use of NFT (Non-Fungible Token) as a digital asset. In solving the various challenges of NFT in Indonesia, the author phenomenologically initiates the importance of “pentahelix” synergy in educating the public that NFT can be developed as a business instrument
The Neutrality Dilemma of Civil Servant in 2020 Local Leaders Election on Malaka Regency
No full textPurpose: This study discusses the problem of neutrality of civil servants in the government of Malaka Regency. There are indications of violations committed by civil servants during the campaign period.
Research methodology: This research is a case study where the researcher investigates the phenomena that exist in the field.
Results: (1) The dilemma of neutrality of civil servants in the 2020 Malaka Regional Election occurred because civil servants did not have the power or capacity to fulfill all aspects that would make them neutral, namely legal, material, strategic or superior aspects such as aspects of political action. (2) The cause of the neutrality dilemma for civil servants is due to the patron-client factor and position compensation.
Limitations: Researchers find it difficult to meet civil servants in the Malaka district.
Contribution: Propose efforts to prevent the dilemma of neutrality of civil servants in the 2020 Malaka Regional Head Election by implementing a merit system, clear division of tasks and free from political interference, rational hierarchical authority structure, impersonal relations between members, mechanism for appointment or recruitment and promotion of employee positions civil service based on technical skills and bureaucratic reform
Analysing financial performance of listed cement industries in Nigeria: Financial Ratio Approach
No full textPurpose: The grounds for this study are to reflect a quantitative connection allying the financial statements of different firms at different periods and how the financial performance (FP) of firms can be measured using financial ratios.
Research methodology: This research employs descriptive research with a quantitative approach focusing on calculations. Data were analysed through the Financial Ratio Analysis (FRA).
Results: The comparative FRA unlocks the overall FP of the three firms. The result refill that, on average, Dangote Cement plc maintain the lead, CCNN/BUA Cement second, while Lafarge Africa plc is the least in all the FP indicator used.
Limitations: The analysis is restricted to ten years FSs published by the three giant firms in the cement industries in Nigeria plc between the years 2012 to 2021.
Contribution: This analysis expatriates and, in greater detail, the benefits that can be derived from applying FR analysis as a tool for financial performance (FP) measurement. It also helps in determining how the financial performance of firms can be measured through financial ratios
Legal capacity in online loan transactions (The study on legal personal liability theory)
No full textPurpose: This study aims to determine how the law views the aspect of legal capacity in conducting online loan transactions and the exact aspect of legal capacity in the context of the Legal Personal Liability theory.
Research Methodology: This research employed a blended aspect by using a statutory approach, case approach, and theoretical approach.
Results: The author claims that the understanding of legal capacity in the legal aspect that measures age and status is inappropriate, and legal capacity must be interpreted not only in terms of age or status but it must also be interpreted more broadly, involving the ability of the parties to make decisions and the ability of the parties to carry out what has been decided by prioritizing legal personal liability.
Limitations: The author argues that positioning Legal personal Liability is very important in Loan transactions. Legal capacity should not be merely interpreted in terms of age and status aspect but it should take broad interpretation because related awareness to implement the agreement has been made. The restrictions of legal capacities based on the law in Indonesia are to be analyzed using the theory of Legal Personal Liability.
Contribution: This study is expected to educate and be useful to lecturers, legal practitioners, loan business practitioners, policymakers, the financial service authority, and all the members of the public performing loan transactions
Queer: Heterosexual and homosexual in Tatakhulu Afrika’s Bitter Eden
No full textPurpose: This study aimed to assess the depiction of homosexuality in Bitter Eden by Tatamkhulu Afrika, as well as the reasons for its positive or negative portrayal and the attitudes of gays and heterosexuals toward one another. Homosexuality covers homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, transgender, and other so-called “sexual disorders.” Additionally, it is classified as a psychopathological disorder.
Methodology/approach: The work adopted psychological and queer theory. And descriptive and qualitative methods of data analysis were used by grouping and having textual analysis.
Results: In gender studies, feminism (s) and masculinity (ies) are major issues, whereas queer studies, which were long marginalized, are now garnering more attention in the West. However, queerness, particularly homosexuality, has received little creative and critical attention in Africa. As a result, this research would fill a need left by the paucity of literature on the issue. The result of the investigation demonstrates that when it comes to African environments, homosexuality is still weird.
Limitations: The study is limited to one novel, Afrika (2002). Bitter Eden.
Contributions: The study revealed that homosexuals are stigmatized in the chosen text. The study concluded that despite the presence of homosexuality in Africa, it is still largely a closet phenomenon
Role conflict and performance of part time students in Indonesia: The effect of burnout, coping behavior and spiritual intelligence
No full textPurpose: This study examined the relationship between role conflict and the performance of part-time students in Indonesia, with a focus on the effects of burnout, coping behavior, and spiritual intelligence.
Research methodology: The study tested performance, academic performance, and work performance, with extreme work stress (burnout) positioned as the mediating factor, and coping and spiritual intelligence positioned as moderating variables.
Results: This study found that role conflict negatively affects the academic and work performance of part-time students, and burnout mediates this relationship. Coping behavior and spiritual intelligence moderate the relationship between role conflict and performance.
Limitations: Within the context of demographic factors, some authors, such as Waskito (2019), Kastaman and Coralia (2022), and Wardani and Pitensah (2021), suggest examining the effect of factors such as age and ethnic groups. Thus, in future studies, it is advisable to review the effects of demographic factors such as age, ethnicity, and income level.
Contribution: This study contributes to the existing literature by providing a new perspective on the performance of part-time students and highlights the importance of considering role conflict and its effects on their performance