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Participation of NGOs for development of Socio-Economic status of Employees in Pakistan
Get PDFThis study investigates the development phenomena launched by local and international NGOs in the context of Pakistan especially in the field of education, health, saving, living standard, socio-economic, environment, micro-finance, good governance and social justice etc. Notwithstanding, this study examines the effect of NGOs’ policies on socio-economic development of their employees in Southern Punjab. Data were collected through questionnaires which have been analyzed with E-Views. For this study, total number of 300 respondents was selected from 12 districts of Southern Punjab. The districts included in this study are (Bahawalpur, Bhakkar, Dera Ghazi Khan, Jhang, Khanewal, Layyah, Lodhran, Multan, Muzaffargarh, Rajanpur, Rahim Yar Khan and Vehari). The number of respondents included in this survey varies from organization to organization and district to district. The non-probability (purposive sampling) method was used for the selection of employees of organization and for data collection. Hence NGOs in Pakistan play the important role of catalyst in the attainment of sustainable living standard, prosperity, attitude, per capita income, saving, right decision for family matter, level of eternal satisfaction, social status among colleagues of same level
Tax Evasion in Pakistan: Determinants and Requisite Policy Interventions
Get PDFTax evasion in Pakistan is very high that has led to deteriorated economic situation and lack of public service delivery. The paper analyzes four variables of tax morale - feelings of guilt and shame; lack of trust on government; perception about others citizens paying taxes; and level of penalties - as determinants of tax evasion in Pakistan. The paper includes survey carried out through a questionnaire distributed among carefully selected sample of 400 salaried employees to gather responses that were analyzed using t-test. The findings suggest that perception about utilization of money, elements of shame, perception about other citizens’ compliance behavior and level of penalties affect tax evasion. However, variables of guilt and perception about corruption do not have significant impact on evasion behavior. Some policy interventions have been suggested to curb the menace of evasion at the end of the paper. These policies include motivating taxpayers through methods like hypothecation, imposition of fines and penalties and publishing names of defaulters through media and tax department website
Developing an Understanding of Psychological Health of School Students in Pakistan
Get PDFIn Pakistan, psychological health of students is burning issue. Unfortunately, it looks that no more concrete strategies have been developed to assess the psychological health of school students. Teachers have no more interest and potential to assess the psychological health of students. Because of the psychological sickness, secondary school students have been found in violent activities. Keeping in view stable and productive human resource, students mental health issues should be prioritized in Pakistan (Chaudhary, 2016, p-36-37). There is an absolute lack of data regarding mental health problems in students in Pakistan (Naqvi & Khan, 2007). Therefore, this paper explores the existing situation of psychological health of students and determines the factors behind the psychological sickness of students as well. The paper intends to analyze the latest situation of the prevailing variety of psychological disorders in the Punjab province by involving thirty participants from five major cities. The paper provides the recommendations for the school education department to upgrade the teaching and administrative policies for the psychological wellbeing of the students. The paper is important for the secondary school teachers in comprehending the existing psychological health of students
Antecedents and Consequences of Human Resource Outsourcing; A Perspective from Higher Educational Institutions
Get PDFHuman Resource Outsourcing has numerous advantages in all Educational Institutions to trim down their expenses, to support up profitability keeping in mind the end goal to create superb items and administrations that can fulfill the clients require, can remain in competitive market to center around focal point of competition (Belcourt, 2006). This study focused on the antecedents and consequences of human resource outsourcing. The data was taken from past literature and results revealed that lacking human resource, demand for access to knowledge and risk management has positive effect on human resource outsourcing. Human resource outsourcing has a positive effect on competitive advantage, service production, time management and private publications and negative effect on employee morale
A Study of the Organizational Stress among Public Sector Secondary School Teachers in Punjab
Get PDFThe aim of the study was to find out the factors which create stress among public sector secondary school teachers to determine the stressors being faced by the secondary school teachers. The study was related to the secondary schools of public sector in Punjab. Punjab province is comprised of 9 divisions. Due to limited time and resources, the study was delimited to public sector secondary schools of Lahore division. The study adopted descriptive survey design using a sample of 1000 teachers drawn from 100 secondary schools from public sector in Lahore division. From each school 10 teachers were randomly selected. One rating scale was developed to collect data for the study. The percentage, mean, standard deviation and t-test were applied as descriptive and inferential statistics to analyze the collected data. In the light of the results and conclusions of the study, it may be recommended that unwanted sounds and noise may be minimized in the school environment, trainings be imparted to the staff, workload should be equally distributed and necessary facilities should be provided at schools
Spatial and Temporal relationship between NDVI and Land Surface Temperature of Faisalabad city from 2000-2015
Get PDFThe study estimates the land surface temperature of Faisalabad city. For the current study Landsat ETM+ images of 2000, 2003, 2010 and OLI/TIRS 2015 were acquired from USGS of the study area. Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) was developed and NDVI based classification was used to calculate the vegetation area. The digital number of thermal infrared band is converted into spectral radiance using the equation supplied by the Landsat user’s hand book. The effective at-sensor brightness temperature has been obtained from the spectral radiance using Plank’s inverse function. The surface emissivity based on NDVI is used to retrieve the final LST. The research aims to investigate the spatial and temporal pattern of vegetation and land surface temperature and also to determine the correlation between land surface temperature and Vegetation in study area from 2000 to 2015. The results reveal decrease in vegetation area results in increase in the LST. The vegetation area decreases from 34 to 14.3 percent with average increase in LST mean from 39.8 to 44 degree Celsius from 2000-2015. The research suggested that more studies should be conducted with images and sensors of higher resolution and seasonal variation can be assessed for the LST
Factors Affecting Impulsive Buying Behavior with Mediating role of Positive Mood: An Empirical Study
Get PDFThis research which is guided by impulse buying literature and “Stimulus-Organism Response (S-O-R) model”, explores the relationship between individual differences and impulse buying behavior directly and indirectly through the mediating role of positive mood. Survey methodology was conducted in order to collect data from 300 customers in Lahore. Convenience sampling technique was used and the associations between the concepts were analyzed by using PLS based SEM analysis. Results of the study prove that the factors which significantly affect impulse buying behavior are positive mood, impulse buying tendency and fashion involvement while insignificant variables for impulse buying are self-esteem, shopping enjoyment and hedonism. SE, IBT, Hedonism and Self-esteem have a direct significant impact with the mediating variable positive mood whereas FI shows an insignificant relation with PM. Results regarding mediation demonstrated that the relationship between IBB and Shopping enjoyment is completely mediated by positive mood but the relationship between fashion involvement, self-esteem, Hedonism, Impulsive buying tendency and IBB is partially mediated by positive mood. This research paper will prove beneficial for marketing practitioners and researchers by developing a comprehensive knowledge and understanding about customer’s impulse buying behavior and its relationship with its determinants. This study validates and extends the “S-O-R model of Mehrabian and Russell (1974)” by incorporating personal traits’ influences on impulse buying behavior
Impact of Software Testing Techniques on Software Project Success through Regression Analysis
Get PDFThis study is intended to evaluate the effectiveness of software testing techniques for the success of software project. The research studies Functional Testing, Performance Testing and Regression Testing as critical factors and characterizes the importance of them for the acquisition of project milestones. Furthermore, the study aims to address if software testing techniques have significant effect on project success and does software testing techniques have significant relationship with each other. The study contributes to making polices by government, by providing a broad vision about effective testing techniques implementations in software houses and shows how management can boast the business and get the rewards of successful business. This study is focused to lead new techniques in enhancing project quality in IT sector of Pakistan. Moreover, this study will give an opportunity to management to pay more attention on quality assurance department to enhance their project success and finally their business growth
Transactional and Transformational Leadership Impact on Organizational Performance: Evidence from Textile Sector of Pakistan
Get PDFThe research aimed to examine the impact of leadership styles on organizational performances in the textile industry of Pakistan. The previous studies suggest that leadership has a significant consequence on the performance of any business venture. The study focused on transformation, transactional leadership styles. A descriptive research design used to identify leadership styles practiced in textile industries of Pakistan. Questionnaires were used for data collection. The target population is 140 individuals. The results indicated that both leadership styles had significance impact on organizational performance though at a varying level. Transactional leadership had the highest impact on the performance of the organization followed by transformational leadership style
Effects of Perception of Organizational Politics on Employee’s Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Trust and Interpersonal Conflicts
Get PDFPerception of organizational politics (POP) is a critical issue for all organizations. Most of the researchers indicate that it has a negative effect on employee’s performance. This study finds the relationship between POP and employee’s well-being (EWB) by using interpersonal conflicts at work (ICW) and interpersonal trust at work (ITW) as mediators. The well-being of employees is an important factor to be studied because it covers overall happiness of employees which includes job satisfaction, performance, job loyalty etc. Therefore, without concerning the employee’s well-being, no organization can compete or lead in the competitive environment. So there is a research gap which needs to conduct a research study on employee’s well-being with the reference to perception of organizational politics. The main focus of this study is to find out the relationship between employee’s well-being and perception of organizational politics with the mediating effect of interpersonal conflicts at work and interpersonal trust at work. The sample size of this study is in a number of 223 with cross-sectional study and conducted in the famous city Lahore, Pakistan