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Knowledge sharing behavior as mediating role on openness to experience and innovative work behavior
No full textPurpose: This study aimed to examine the mediating effect of knowledge sharing behavior on the relationship between openness to experience and innovative work behavior on students at the University of Indonesia.
Research methodology: Quantitative approach with a cross-sectional study was employed for the research. The study population consisted of 306 students in Universitas Indonesia. Data were elicited through a questionnaire with convenience sampling technique while the analysis was carried out using PROCESS by Hayes.
Results: The results of this study revealed that knowledge sharing behavior has a partially mediating role in the relationship between openness to experience and innovative work behavior.
Limitations: The challenge was the unevenness sample from each faculty, most of the students selected for the study through a random method were from the Faculty of Psychology. This could affect the generalizability of the findings.
Contribution: The results of this study can be used as a reference for training innovation programs that will be given to Universitas Indonesia students for the purpose of making them better prepared to innovate
Stakeholder Synergy For Sustainable Tourism
No full textPurpose: This study aims to describe the synergy between stakeholders in revitalizing tourist destinations to support sustainable tourism in Way Tebabeng, North Lampung.
Methods: The research was conducted using a descriptive-qualitative approach, and the data collection techniques are in the form of interviews, observations, and documentation.
Results: The results show that the synergy of stakeholders is not optimal due to the one-way communication, leading to coordination which only takes place at the beginning. The inhibiting factors for the revitalization of the Way Tebabeng destination are the lack of budget, leaders, and human resource factors.
Limitation: This study uses a qualitative approach with a limited level of generalization. Therefore, it should be reviewed with other approaches and wider research locations.
Contribution: The revitalization of tourism destinations in terms of synergy between stakeholders was reviewed as the basis for developing policies, especially in local communities
Teaching and Learning of English as a Foreign Language: The Impact of COVID-19
No full textPurpose: The purpose of this study was to discover the primary changes that the higher education systems–especially at the department level–brought in their teaching systems as a result of COVID-19. Considering COVID-19, this study also explored the challenges and opportunities EFL learners experienced in their learning contexts.
Research Methodology: A qualitative research design was employed in the present study where semi-structured interviews were used to collect data from the study population who were 3 teachers and 7 students sampled through the purposive sampling technique from the English Department at Badghis Institute of Higher Education in Badghis, Afghanistan. The collected data from the participants were transcribed and read several times and the emerged codes and themes were analyzed accordingly.
Results: The findings of this study indicated that there were some major changes in the teaching instructions where the learners faced some barriers when trying to adapt themselves to new changes. On the other hand, the paper revealed some opportunities EFL learners experienced in dealing with the changes in the teaching and learning system.
Limitations: The limited sample size and the non-random selection method could be listed as limitations of this study.
Contributions: The current paper provides the readers with suggestive approaches and opportunities university teachers and students could consider during any future pandemic
Emergency Online Teaching-Learning Model in the Context of Higher-Level Education due to the COVID-19 Pandemic
No full textPurpose: The study aims at determining a new and complete picture of the ongoing online teaching-learning model based on the university student’s perception of online learning and university teachers’ experiences with their online teaching.
Methodology: This study followed a mixed-method approach where both qualitative and quantitative methods are applied. In total 335 university students of both males and females are selected randomly using a questionnaire through Google format.
Results: Online platform is the best option to save students from collapsing the academic world in the pandemic situation and so this study developed a new teaching and learning model analysing the practical situation of respondents. It is the main result of it.
Limitations: We started this research in 2021 during the horrible COVID-19. Due to which we could not go to the field and collect the data, we have collected the data through the online platform. These are the major limitations of the study.
Contribution: However, we mentioned a model for maintaining a graduate-level educational system if any kind of pandemic will come in the future
Upshot of supply chain assimilation and competitive advantage on organizational performance in Ethiopia, Hawassa Industrial Park
No full textPurpose: The aim of the investigation remained to observe the upshot of supply chain assimilation (SCA) and competitive advantage towards organizational recital in Ethiopian industrial Park corporation special reference of Hawassa Industry Park.
Research methodology: To that end, the study adopted an explanatory research design with a mixed approach; and it utilizes a stratified sampling technique to select the relevant firms. In cooperation, first-hand and second-hand sources of data were accessed.
Results: SCA has a considerable effect on both competitive advantage and Business recital and SCA has an indirect considerable upshot on Business recital over and done with a competitive advantage in the case firms’.
Limitations: The study has been unable to see the upstream side of the firms from the perspective of their supplier since they are located abroad but from the firms’ perspective.
Contribution: This study has a significant contribution to firms that are engaged in manufacturing, ministers of trade and investment, and future researchers
Directors’ stock-purchases on stock performance: Evidence from Colombo Stock Exchange
No full textPurpose: This study examines how directors’ stock-purchase transactions would result in stock performance, assessing whether directors’ stock-purchase transactions are rapidly reflected in stock prices in Colombo Stock Exchange, Sri Lanka. Moreover, it studies how stock-purchase transactions based on directors’ gender, would result in stock performance.
Research Methodology: The analysis covers a period from March 2013 to March 2019, and includes 141 directors’ stock purchases. Research issues are investigated using an event-study methodology.
Results: Significant negative abnormal returns follow directors’ stock-purchase transactions, which indicates they are not rapidly reflected in stock prices. Gender-wise, male directors’ stock-purchase transactions result in significantly negative abnormal returns, whereas for its female counterpart, no significantly abnormal returns are observed. Further, both male and female directors’ stock-purchase transactions are not rapidly reflected in stock prices.
Limitation: The study does not consider the number of shares purchased. Certain director stock purchases have to be omitted due to a lack of data.
Contribution: Policy-makers could implement actions to prevent harmful trading activities and to improve the reporting timelines of directors' stock purchases. Consequently, the information asymmetry could be minimized. Hence, investors could engage in stock purchases confidently, which results in mitigating the company’s cost of capital
Teenage pregnancy and its consequences: Evidence from a South-eastern rural community of Nigeria
No full textPurpose: This paper aims to investigate the relationship between education and teenage pregnancy, and its grave consequences on vulnerable teenagers.
Methodology: A systematic random sampling method was used to select a sample of two hundred young teenagers from the eight villages that make up the Ihuokpara community. Frequency tables and pie charts were used for the analysis and interpretation of data, while chi-square (x2) was used in testing the hypothesis.
Results: The findings revealed that teenage pregnancies occur as a result of a lack of education (Ignorance) about sexuality and other reproductive health-related issues. However, the findings also revealed that there is a water-tight relationship existing between education and the tide of teen pregnancy so that the rate of awareness of sexuality determines the rate of teenage pregnancy.
Limitations: This study only examines some factors such as the low level of education (ignorance) about sexuality, human reproduction, sexual health, and other reproductive health-related issues that may cause teenage pregnancy in Ihuokpara. The future researcher may find other factors that are not included in this study.
Contribution: This study hopefully can give some things that are important for the individual, family, and communities to lend their support to others in their articulated efforts toward the teenage pregnancy cases
Leading local government during COVID-19: An empirical finding from Ghana
No full textPurpose: This is to look into the impact of leadership on employee output in the local governance sector during the COVID – 19 Era.
Research Methodology: A quantitative and descriptive approach, as well as a census method, were used to sample 220 employees. A structured questionnaire was used to gather data, multiple linear regression was used to test hypotheses, and SPSS version 20 was used to input, process, and analyze data.
Result: The findings demonstrate that visionary, laissez-faire, and servant leadership styles have a considerable impact on staff output. Furthermore, employees' output is unaffected by autocratic and charismatic leadership styles.
Limitation: The research only investigated five different types of leadership styles. Within the central region, it was similarly limited to only one metropolitan assembly.
Contribution: It was demonstrated by the theory that under the local government, some various forces and situations drive the organization's activities; thus, leadership should be ready to change and dynamically position themselves to handle issues that arise
Rewarding or Sanctioning Performance? A critique on group dominance and counter-group dominance in public organizations
No full textPurpose: This study aimed to determine the synergy between performance rewards and performance sanctions.
Research methodology: A desk research was adopted in which obtainable literature was consulted regarding the emerging themes and sub-themes of the study.
Results: Results suggest that PRS are key elements in organizational management. Both monetary - and non-monetary rewards play significant roles but there is a greater move towards non-monetary rewards among modern-day organizations and public managers. Execution of performance sanctions is an essential aspect of enforcing performance though there are challenges inhibiting the process of identifying employees to be sanctioned. In this paper, it has been noted that direct supervisors are likely to suggest sanctions as a way of venting their anger against the unsuspecting victims. That is why it is imperative to reflect on whether the emphasis on performance rewards and sanctions is perpetuating group dominance and how probable the counter-group dominance group can abide by and/or ward off elements of subjugation in public organizations.
Limitations: This study relied solely on secondary data yet adoption of primary data would yield significantly.
Contribution: The results of this study are useful in guiding future field-based studies as well as those involved in human resource management in both the public sector and the private sector
Corona Virus (COVID-19) Pandemic Knowledge, Perceptions and Practices among Nigerian Academic Communities
No full textPurpose: This study assesses Nigerian academic communities’ (NAC) knowledge, perception, and practices regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.
Research Methodology: Online snowball sampling technique with 5-point Likert scale online questionnaire was used to assess NAC knowledge, perception, and practices amidst coronavirus pandemic. About 368 participants comprised of academic and non-academic staff from north central geopolitical zone of Nigeria participated in the study. Responses were analysed using the SPSS.
Result: NAC gathered, shared, and updated their knowledge about COVID-19 mostly through social media. Participants professed social media as the most effective platform for education and updates on COVID-19 compared to the conventional media and government sources. Despite that, participants were discovered to have slight issues in differentiating real news from fake ones. The participants reasonably practised precautionary measures as directed by the government and centre for disease control.
Limitations: This study is limited to academic environment while COVID-19 affects all sundries and sectors of the economy respectively.
Contribution: This study contributes to the knowledge and insight of COVID-19 among NAC and suggests means of managing the virus to avoid further spread