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Talent Management and Organizational Sustainability: Role of Engagement and Satisfaction
No full textObjectives-This study aims to determine the role of talent management in achieving organizational sustainability. This study also examines the role of engagement and satisfaction in achieving organizational sustainability goals (ie social, economic, and environmental).
Methodology– This research focuses on the internal organization and the student activity unit at Nahdlatul Ulama University, Sidoarjo. Data collection was carried out through a closed questionnaire with a purposive sampling technique. Data be analyzed using PLS (Partial Least Squares) program with outer and inner models.
Results–Results indicate a significant direct impact of talent management on achieving organizational sustainability. The research findings improve understanding of the role of talent management in achieving organizational sustainability. The results also confirm that engagement and satisfaction have a positive influence and be a mediator between talent management and organizational sustainability.
Implications– This study only focuses on the small organizational sector in a university. The findings imply that organizations can consider talent management as a strategy in maintaining the organization. The research findings imply that acquiring, developing and retaining talented members can be an important strategy for achieving organizational sustainability. In addition, the engagement and satisfaction can provide a positive role between talent management and achieving organizational sustainability
Islamic Bank: A Bank of Ethics in Compliance with Corporate Social Responsibility
No full textPurpose: This paper aims to shed light on the issue's prospects, as ethics in Islamic banking may become another distinguishing factor when compared to its conventional counterpart. This comparative research will compare co-operative banks that emphasize ethical operations to Islamic banking in Pakistan. Although ethics in other countries' co-operative banks has become a new market segment and succeeded because it drew many new customers who wanted to engage in a morally sound investment, Islamic banks continue to concentrate only on sharia.
Design/Methodology/Approach: The qualitative method is used in this study by analyzing statutes, particularly Islamic jurisprudences, local and international protocols, conventions, and treaties
Findings: In this work, it shows that ethics has the potential to make Islamic banking a full-fledged financial system if it is used as one of Islam's three pillars.
Implications/Originality/Value: In the Islamic economy, Islamic banking is unquestionably at the forefront. Along with Faith (Aqidah) and Islamic Legal Jurisprudence (Sharia), Ethics (Akhlak), as in corporate social responsibility, is a core part of Islam that doesn't get as much attention as it should. An Islamic bank should primarily concentrate on sharia despite balancing those three pillars. In practice, a business with a high ethical standard must be profitable, legal, honest, and ethical while also considering long-term sustainability
Critical Appraisal of a Contemporary Residential Building: A Case Study in the City of Uch Sharif South Punjab Pakistan
No full textPurpose: In the city of Uch, if one looks critically at the current practice of demolishing old traditional houses and constructing new ones, it can easily be ascertained that in any society or a part of society there are internal and external factors that influence the local trends in every walk of life including building design and construction.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Whether those trends are socio-culturally appropriate or not in their entirety, we need to enquire if there is a justifiable and positive balance between those internal and external societal factors that result in the demolition of the traditional houses. In the field survey of Uch Sharif, one contemporary building was evaluated as compared to a traditional building for selection based on the approximate age of the building.
Findings: The degree to which the original design was modified, its cultural appropriateness, environmental comfort in terms of temperature and relative humidity audited inside the building, use of local materials and techniques, plan type and presence of architectural elements. The results show that traditional buildings are fast diminishing causing irreplaceable examples of traditional wisdom and ingenious craftsmanship to be struck down one after the other by the cyclone of urbanization supercharged by market forces.
Implications/Originality/Value: Through research, it was concluded that the Contemporary buildings, which are replacing traditional buildings, are less responsive to the local climate, culture, skills, and the issue of cost which core of the design criteria of traditional buildings. 
Conflicts, Political Distance and Import Volume of Pakistan, a Gravity Model Estimation
No full textPurpose: This article, analyze causal relation of conflicts, political distance and Pakistan's import flows. The severity of interstate military conflicts is higher between Pakistan and India. While the animosity and chauvinism between Pakistan and India increase the intensity of both armed and verbal conflicts. Comparing interstate-armed conflicts and interstate military verbal conflicts, the former has more severity than later.
Methodology: The Gravity model is used to analyze the relationship between conflicts, political distance and Pakistan's import volume. The panel data consist on 171 countries and 1980 to 2013time period. Findings: Conflict between Pakistan and India, the interstate-armed conflicts are less impactful than interstate military verbal conflicts on import volume. The other important finding is the changing role of political distance. Political distance significantly reduces Pakistan's import volume when we regress interstate military conflicts and political distance between Pakistan and its importing partners. Interstate military conflicts between Pakistan and India and political distance between Pakistan and its importing partners show less intensity to reduce Pakistan's imports.
Implications: Pakistan replaced the United States of America with China as major partners that share a significant proportion of its import market due to close political preferences. At the same time, there was no significant trade between Pakistan and India because both countries indulge in military conflicts
Socio-Cultural Interest and Motivational Barriers for Female Sports Participation in Pakistan: A Comparative Study of Universities and Colleges
No full textPurpose: This study's primary objective was to analyze the situation of Pakistani females' sports participation and to determine which Socio-Cultural, Interest, and Motivational barriers currently impede their sports participation and how these barriers can be reduced by adopting the feministic approach in sports, which is based on Bandura's social cognitive theory.
Methodology: This study employed mix-method research methodology, based on both qualitative and quantitative research design. Qualitative data of 8-HODs and quantitative data of 592-female students from the 8 selected public colleges and universities in Southern Punjab-Pakistan was collected through close-ended and open ended questionnaires with convenient sampling technique. For data analysis, SPSS v.20 was used. Descriptive and correlations analysis was conducted to find the differences and association among the variables.
Conclusionsː Regarding sociocultural factors, this study shows that family support, interest, and motivation are significantly and positively corelated with female sports participation, whereas religious and cultural limitations have an nonsignificant and negative impact on female sports participation. Although these socio-cultural factors impact is not much significant in the colleges as compare to the universities, but overall, their parents’ negative attitude, expectations for academic performance and unawareness regarding sports benefits, females feel uncomfortable, less passion and interest in sports participation. Further, it was also found, in both universities and colleges, that Islamic dress code, male permission, no proper changing rooms, cultural conflicts, mix-gender sports, less freedom of solely movement, discouragement by society/culture are the major dimensions of religious and cultural limitations towards sports participation. Along with new dimensions and locality, the current study was a first attempt to provide the practitioners, policy makers and researchers to understand the issues of cultural and religious, interest and motivation and family support towards female sports participation in Pakistan
Impact of E-retailing Ethics on Consumer Repurchase Intention
No full textPurpose: Online retailing has grown tremendously over the last decade, particularly in the COVID 19 period but little attention has been given to ethical problems arising from it. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of e-retailing ethics on consumer repurchase intention aiming to highlight the significance of ethical consideration in e-retailing business..
Design/Methodology/Approach: This is a quantitative study and the sample size is 212 participants. Male participants were 129 and Female participants were 83. Respondents mainly included consumers with varying frequencies of online purchasing. The conceptual framework comprised of reliability, non-deception, security, trust and e-service quality as independent variables moderated by shopping habits. The dependent variable was repurchase intention. PlS-SEM was used to analyze the data. The participants mostly were residents of Karachi.
Findings: The repurchase intention of consumers is directly impacted by three independent variables of e-retailing ethics out of five tested in the study i.e. E-service quality, reliability and non-deception while remaining variables trust and security proved insignificant. The study results further revealed that reliability, non-deception, and e-service quality are also positively moderated by shoping habits while security and trust proved insignificant.
Implications/Originality/Value: The findings can be used by online retailing outlets to design marketing strategies for successfully running their store
Effects of Poverty on Education in Rural Pakistan
No full textPurpose: The study's goal is to look into the impact of poverty on schooling in rural Pakistan. The purpose of the research is to see if pupils in Pakistan are truly affected by the country's economic situation and how much a standard of life can influence a student's education rural community.
Design/Methodology/Approach: This research study used a cross-sectional survey design to scientifically analyze and identifies or discusses various dimension of poverty that impacts education. The data was obtained using a questionnaire from a sample of 650 respondents drawn from the area. Using regression analysis and other results performed through STATA and Statistical Package of Social Science (SPSS).
Findings: In Pakistan, there is a long list of educational issues. We may not have the ability to change the system, but we do have the ability to change ourselves. As a result, many in positions of power are unconcerned about the government schools' weak educational system. Because parents' income is insufficient to sustain the entire family, Pakistan's rising poverty forces every member of the household to work. In this situation how can a poor man care about his children's education when he has nothing to eat.
Implications/Originality/Value: Education, more than ever, is the key to escaping poverty, while poverty remains the most significant barrier to education
Antecedents of Intrapreneurship with Mediating Effect of Career Adaptability: A Study from Pakistan
No full textPurpose: The study emphasized on exploring the antecedes of intrapreneurship by testing the career construction theory and perceived personality study from the context of Pakistan’s private sector universities.
Design/Methodology/Approach: A Total of 270 male and female academicians working in private sector universities had participated in this cross-sectional research study. The survey questionnaire was adopted from different authentic sources and evaluated for validity and reliability. MPlus software has been used for statistical findings.
Findings: It has been estimated statistically that career adaptability overall mediates between the relationship of perceived personality traits and Intrapreneurship.
Implications/Originality/Value: It might be established that all the public/private sector universities might follow almost the same policies and laws but there are some differences like payment of salaries / remuneration of the faculty members working in government sector universities and private sector universities of Punjab, Pakistan. The study highlighted such issues of personality directly and indirectly with career adaptability and intrapreneurship
A Comparative Study on Communication Skills of Out of School and School Going Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
No full textPurpose: Communication skills are essential for all individuals in the world to interact with each other. It is the beauty of communication skills to make the population of world capable to share thoughts, experiences, and views with one another. Meaningful communication is always constructed by effective coordination of cognitive, motor, social and linguistic skills. Underlying reasons of genetic or environmental factors affect the cognitive, motor, social and linguistic skills, causing delays in language and communication skills. This comparative study envisioned to find out the communication skills of school going children with IDDs and those who are out of school.
Design/Methodology/Approach: This study was descriptive in nature. A sample of 120 children with IDDSs from which 60 were school going and 60 were out of school, was selected from Punjab province of Pakistan. Parents and teachers rated the communication skills of their children with IDDs.
Findings: Communication skills in school going children with IDDs significantly and remarkably higher than children with IDDs who are out of school. Study recommends to make education accessible for all and provide all children with IDDs to equitable access to schools so that their cognitive, motor, linguistic and social needs can be fulfilled.
Implications: Parental training and awareness campaigns for the development of communication skills will be indispensable. Schools are important for the whole life grooming of individuals with intellectual disabilities
Portfolio Optimization Using Mean-Semi Variance approach with Artificial Neural Networks: Empirical Evidence from Pakistan
No full textPurpose: The challenge of managing a portfolio effectively is allocating capital among numerous stock holdings to achieve maximum profit. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to guide investors in developing optimal portfolios in the stock market of Pakistan.
Design/Methodology/Approach: To pick and optimize a portfolio in the most effective way possible, we used the daily closing stock prices of a sample of listed firms at the Pakistan stock exchange. The study applied the mean semi-variance approach and compared the performance of portfolios with equally weighted portfolios under artificial neural networks and historical-based return estimation in Pakistan.
Findings: The result shows that artificial neural network-based estimation of the expected return vector has outperformed the historical return estimation under mean semi-variance portfolio optimization and constrained mean semi-variance portfolios based on the Sharp ratio in Pakistan.
Implications/Originality/Value: The study suggests that investors, fund managers, and portfolio analysts should focus on the more sophisticated neural network-based choice for the development of portfolios in the equity market of Pakistan.