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The arbitral award and the powers of the arbitrator appointed by the court in accordance with the UAE arbitration law
Get PDFThis study talked about the arbitral award and the powers of the arbitrator appointed by the court in accordance with the UAE Federal Arbitration Law No. (6) of 2018. This law regulates the procedures and methods to be followed in accordance with the UAE Arbitration Law and not violate public order. This study adopted a qualitative methodology through the descriptive، analytical and comparative method by extrapolating and analyzing the rules and texts of Federal Law No. (6) of 2018 on arbitration، compared to other legislation. This study aimed to clarify the nature of the arbitrator and arbitration، its legal status، and the similarities and differences between arbitration and the judiciary. This study showed that the UAE Arbitration Law sets legal rules and principles that obligate the parties to the arbitration and the arbitrators to settle the dispute within a certain period. Moreover، this study explained the rules related to the legal adaptation of the relationship that binds the litigants to the arbitrator، the arbitration center، and the nature of the arbitrator’s work. The study also dealt with the limits of the arbitrator، his powers and responsibility، the method of his selection by the court، and the arbitrator's authority to determine the applicable law. This study also differentiated between legal restrictions and the agreement in commercial arbitration. The results of this study showed that the Federal Arbitration Law No. 56 of 2018 regulated the internal arbitration rules، and the legislator did not stipulate these rules under independent procedural rules that clearly show how to organize the duties of the arbitrator and the scope of his responsibility to protect the rights of the contestants and strengthen the arbitration system. The study suggested that the UAE legislator organise the arbitration rules and establish comprehensive rules for all aspects of arbitrators and the arbitral system. In addition to reconsidering the establishment of provisions related to electronic arbitration in line with the development of the virtual world. Moreover، this study recommends setting up an arbitration system that is not limited to traders only، but rather opens the way to other categories of civil society
The employees' perceptions towards whistle -blowing in Nigeria
Get PDFWhistleblowing has become an increasingly important topic in Nigeria, particularly in the context of combating corruption and promoting transparency within organizations. The aim of this study is to investigate the Employees perceptions on whistleblowing in Nigeria investigating the intricate dynamics surrounding whistleblowing perceptions within organizational contexts, focusing on the employees in Nigeria. A total number of 357 sample employees were chosen from 5000 populations using Kreiji and Morgan table was selected in which 319 employees responded to the questionnaire in Abuja Nigeria. Statistical Package software for Social Science (SPSS) Version 23 was used to analyse the descriptive analysis of the data. The smart Pls was used to test the reliability and validity of the data as well as the hypothesis. The study explores three key dimensions: the relationship between organizational culture and whistleblowing perception, the influence of trustful leadership, and the impact of well-defined policies and procedures and also mediating role of organizational justice. Findings reveal a nuanced or indirect relationship between organizational culture and whistleblowing, influenced by situational context and personal considerations. Trustful leadership is identified as a significant positive influence on employees' perceptions of whistleblowing, fostering a culture of openness and accountability. Additionally, clear policies and procedures are directly associated with favorable attitudes toward whistleblowing, establishing transparency and accountability. The research further delves into the mediating role of organizational justice, emphasizing its substantial influence on shaping positive attitudes toward whistleblowing. These findings contribute to a comprehensive understanding of the multifaceted nature of whistleblowing perceptions, highlighting the crucial role of organizational support and effective leadership in fostering a culture that encourages ethical reporting
The influence of transformational leadership and knowledge management on employee innovation in Dubai customs – mediating role of organizational trust and moderating role of training
No full textThe regulatory environment at Dubai Customs presents an urgent need to understand how to foster creativity among its employees. Therefore, this research aims to study the different effects of transformational leadership, knowledge management, organizational trust and personal skills training on employee creativity within Dubai Customs in the United Arab Emirates. The proposed conceptual framework examines the impact of transformational leadership and knowledge management on employee creativity, along with the role of organizational trust as a mediating variable and personal skills training as a moderating variable. The proposed conceptual framework includes ten hypotheses to explore and clarify the relationships between the variables involved, including direct relationships, as well as mediating and moderating effects. The study used quantitative methods and the data collected were primary data gathered through a well-structured questionnaire. The study encompassed all Dubai Customs employees, totalling 4,500 individuals, with a target sample size of 354 employees. The final dataset comprised 371 respondents selected using a simple random sampling technique. The results revealed that the predictive power of the employee creativity variable was 0.580, reflecting a moderate effect. Moreover, the results demonstrated significant effects, with path coefficients ranging from 0.147 for knowledge management to 0.318 for transformational leadership. Additionally, the results showed that organizational trust had an acceptable predictive power of 0.440, while transformational leadership exhibited a positive impact with a path coefficient of 0.204, and knowledge management contributed effectively with a path coefficient of 0.275. In terms of mediating influence, the results indicated partial mediation via organizational trust for both transformational leadership and knowledge management, with indirect impacts of 0.065 and 0.088 respectively. Concerning moderating effects, the results suggested that soft skills training played a modulating role in the relationship between transformational leadership and employee creativity, with a path coefficient of 0.129, while other factors did not demonstrate significant effects. Consequently, decision-makers must actively promote both transformational leadership and knowledge management, employing personal skills training as an essential tool. Future research can replicate the proposed model in different contexts and expand the framework by introducing different mediating and moderating variables
The intention of private companies to pay business zakat: A study in Kedah
No full textThe global economy recession during and post COVID-19 has been impacted to all sectors business. This situation will definitely have an impact on the collection of business zakat by all State Zakat Centers in Malaysia. Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour, this study revealed whether the theoretical foundations could explain the tendency of payers in discharging business zakat more clearly. This study aimed to examine the influencing factors to the tendency of the payer. The factors examined in this study were attitude, subjective norms, trust, and knowledge of zakat. A total of 254 questionnaires were distributed to entrepreneurs and 108 questionnaires were answered by private companies which were used for further analysis. Questionnaires were distributed through ‘google forms’ via WhatsApp application and email to business zakat payers. This study had used the analytical methods including independent T Test, One -Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Pearson Correlation and Multiple Regression. Finally, this research concluded with suggestions and recommendations that can help private companies to have the tendency to pay business zakat by following the correct zakat calculation. Among the recommendations was that the Lembaga Zakat Negeri Kedah (LZNK) and the Government should assist in raising awareness of the obligation to pay zakat to the public, especially for business zakat. This study demonstrated that all independent variables have a relationship with the dependent variable. However, it was discovered in this study that the two (2) independent variables that had the significant influence on the dependent variables were attitude and knowledge of zakat
Happiness of primary school teacher in Malaysia: its economic, non-economic determinants and impact on job performance
No full textDespite various policies and efforts by the government to improve the happiness of teachers, it appears that there are still a lot of dissatisfaction or unhappiness as have been raised by primary school teachers. This highlights that a need of a thorough understanding of factors influencing the happiness of teachers and their influence on teacher’s job performance. There are extensive studies that examine determinants of happiness. However, the role of aspiration effect, job performance and the income-happiness relationship among the primary school teachers are yet to be explored. Thus, this study aims to estimate the determinants of happiness and how this happiness influences job performance among the primary school teachers in Malaysia, including the interacting effects of aspiration. Using a survey data of 1510 teachers, the descriptive statistics and ordered logit model are employed. The hypothesis of interacting effect of aspiration is tested by its interacting effect with religiousness. Results of descriptive statistics analysis reveal that around 5% of them are found to be unhappy and not satisfied with their job and work life. The unhappiness and dissatisfaction on promotion have been expressed by the teachers. The estimated ordered logit model suggests that the determinants of happiness among the primary school teachers are aspiration, religious perceptions, interaction between aspiration and religion, achievement of life goal, school environment, ethnicity, marital status, family size, and teachers’ health status. The aspiration is found to have a negative and significant effect on the relationship between religion and happiness. In particular, the school environment has high significant influences on teacher’s happiness. Happiness has found to have a positive impact on job performance. This indicated that teachers who have higher level of happiness are more likely to show excellent job performance. Based on these findings, the theoretical and policy implications are discussed
The Educational Impacts of Needs National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (Needs) on Poverty Reduction in Sokoto State, Nigeria
Get PDFPoverty is a global phenomenon and its consequences are dehumanising and traumatic. Several programmes and policies have been implemented in Nigeria in order to enhance economic progress and lead to a reduction in poverty. One of such programmes is the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS). The NEEDS encompassed all sectors of the Nigerian economy so that the impact would be wholesome. Education is certainly one of the sectors that was given much attention by the NEEDS programme. There seems to be no study on the impact of the NEEDS education policy on poverty reduction, especially in Sokoto State. This could perhaps be the reason why Sokoto State is perpetually leading the poverty table amongst the States in Nigeria. The objective of this study is to assess the educational impact of the NEEDS programme on poverty reduction in Sokoto State of the northwestern Nigeria. A total of 826 participants and non-participants were sampled in the study area for this purpose. Applied econometric techniques for development economics like the logit and ordered logit regression models, together with differencein- difference estimation technique were used to analyse the data. The results identified marital status, tribe, educational level, occupation, ICT literacy, and equal opportunity for education as germane to the participation in the NEEDS programme. The findings of this study reveal that access to education, equal opportunity to education, skills acquisition, and ICT literacy all have positive and significant relationship with poverty reduction. On policy implication, this study shows that most poor people will continue to suffer when the quality of education is poor. Education should then be planned in accordance with poverty reduction so that the system should not only target poverty reduction but also poverty elimination. This study benefits policy makers, academic research, and government economic planning department
The Influence of Social Media Communication Management on Clients' Satisfaction With Dubai Police Service - The Mediating Role of Service Quality
No full textThis study focuses on predicting service quality and client satisfaction within the context of social media marketing for public services, specifically examining the impact of social media marketing strategies on client satisfaction with the Dubai police services. The conceptual framework comprises of determinants of social media communication management, which include four variables, namely advertising, promotion, publicity, and public relations. These social media management strategies are hypothesized to exert both direct and indirect impact on client satisfaction, mediated by service quality. The theoretical underpinnings of the study draw from the Relationship Marketing Theory (RMT), supporting the idea that the proposed four independent variables serve as an engaging marketing strategy for customers, and the Expectancy Disconfirmation Theory (EDT), affirming that perceived service quality improves client satisfaction. The research methodology employs scientific-quantitative methods. The population for this research are Dubai citizens aged 18, as they are eligible users of Dubai police services. Convenience sampling was employed, and data were collected through an online survey. The actual data collection revealed that the total subjects successfully collected online with complete answers are 455 and the final valid dataset for analysis comprised 387 subjects (85.05%). The findings reveal that 59.0% of Clients’ Satisfaction (CLS) variance can be explained by the four independent variables and service quality. Among the variables, Promotion, Publicity, Public Relations, and Advertising have path coefficient values of 0.276, 0.241, 0.101, and 0.092 respectively, indicating their respective impacts on client satisfaction. Service quality significantly mediates three relationships out of the four independent variables. The study establishes that the four main predictors impact Clients’ Satisfaction (CLS) either directly or indirectly. Assessing the total effect, the order of precedence for the four main variables is publicity (0.352), promotion (0.340), advertising (0.238), and public relations (0.124)
An enhanced support vector regression -African Buffalo optimisation algorithm for electricity time series forecasting
Get PDFTime series forecasting enables informed decision-making and stakeholder benefit. Electricity production-consumption balance is vital in modern economies. Load forecasting predicts electricity consumption, influenced by factors like population, weather, policies, and socio-economic activities. Support Vector Regression (SVR) is a widely used regression technique, but its efficacy depends on optimal tuning of parameters, which is challenging. This study proposes a hybrid approach combining SVR and the African Buffalo Optimization (ABO) algorithm. The classical ABO algorithm faces limitations in population initialization, exploration, and exploitation. Therefore, enhancements have been made to these stages to improve performance. The study presents a series of hybrid algorithms that leverage ABO to optimize SVR hyperparameters. SVR-ABO uses the classical ABO approach. SVR-popABO enhances population diversity using a chaotic function. SVR-explrABO includes Lévy flight to improve exploration and overcome local optima. SVR-expltABO modifies the exploitation mechanism to prevent premature convergence. These four hybrids represent a progressive refinement of the classical ABO for optimizing SVR hyperparameters. Combining the enhanced algorithms results in SVR-eABO, whose forecasting ability has been assessed using MAE, MAPE, RMSE, PA and R2. Evaluated using benchmark datasets, SVR-eABO achieves high accuracy, surpassing standard SVR and other optimization-based SVR variants like SVR-PSO, SVR-ABC, SVR-CS, and SVR-GA. For instance, SVR-eABO achieved 98.51% accuracy on the Household dataset, 98.15% accuracy on the Turkey dataset, 91.17% accuracy on the Appliances dataset, and 96.52% accuracy on the Panama dataset. The proposed SVReABO algorithm holds significant implications for improving load forecasting accuracy, enabling more efficient electricity grid management, and facilitating informed decision-making for energy providers and consumer
English pronunciation errors among Jordanian university students: The phonotactic, motivation and attitude factors
Get PDFThis study aimed at identifying pronunciation difficulties among Jordanian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students examining the roles of phonotactic structures, motivation and attitude. In addition, it aimed at examining the moderating role of motivation on the relationship between EFL students’ attitudes and intelligible pronunciation. The study employed a mixed-methods research design implementing qualitative and quantitative methods. Based on a random sampling technique, 257 Jordanian EFL students responded to the questionnaire. Audio recording and interviews were also conducted with 16 Jordanian EFL students selected purposively. Findings indicated that EFL students’ motivation has a significant relationship with EFL intelligible pronunciation; while EFL students’ attitudes have no significant relationship. However, it is found that motivation of EFL students’ significantly moderates the relationship between EFL students’ attitudes and intelligible pronunciation. Interview findings complemented questionnaires’ findings and indicated that motivation moderates this relationship. Besides, interview findings concluded that students’ perceptions of pronunciation difficulties are mostly related to socio-psycho factors. They also indicated strong motivation can enhance pronunciation intelligibility and change their attitudes to acquire intelligibility. Additionally, the interview indicated that multimedia were main strategies of enhancing intelligible pronunciation. Audio recording found that students of EFL in Jordan still face a challenge of syllable structure. Additionally; they pronounce unintelligibly /p/ and /ε/ sounds indicating that the position of /p/ sound is essential, more specifically, the medial and final positions of /p/ being more problematic. In addition, /ε/ sound is more difficult when it is preceded by voiceless sound. These findings offer several implications for EFL teachers and policy makers which could prove beneficial for Jordanian EFL students’ intelligible pronunciation in terms of increasing EFL students’ attitudes and enhancing the role of motivation to acquire intelligible pronunciation
The logistics service providers’ capabilities, the government administration, resources and competitive advantage to the performance of the operational cross-border logistics between Thailand and Malaysia
Get PDFThe economic growth of countries with shared borders primarily relies on effective cross-border logistics operations as accelerated by the relevant parties. Therefore, it is pertinent to investigate the performance of the operational cross-border logistics (POCL) between Thailand and Malaysia, where operational limitations could be resolved. This covers the relationships between government administration (GA), logistics service providers’ capabilities (LSPC), resources (R), competitive advantage (CA) and POCL. There is also a need to ascertain whether GA, LSPC and CA mediate
these relationships grounded upon the Global Value Chains (GVCs), Resources-Based View (RBV) and Competitive Advantage (CA) theories. Data was collected from 181 logistics enterprise employees in both countries. All the constructs were processed
quantitatively using the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). The Smart PLS V3 and SPSS V21 were used for data analysis. The findings indicate that R has a positive effect on LSPC, CA and GA, whilst POCL is influenced by GA, LSPC and CA. LSPC has a significant effect on CA, whilst GA has
a no significant effect on CA. In addition, GA, CA and LSPC act as significant mediators in the relationship between R and POCL. These results provide straightforward recommendations for enhancing POCL which highlight the important roles of LSPC in service and innovation capabilities, and GA in trust and reliability for
cross-border operations. In terms of resources, the focus is on how resources can be properly managed to achieve more effective operations for cross-border logistics. The findings have theoretical implications on the GVCs, RBV and CA integrated in the model, given the approaches to minimize complexities with maximum value for the operations, and recommend unique strategies for providing high quality services with competitive prices. The study supports the context of cross-border logistics which is applicable for achieving high POCL in the current circumstance