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Status of Wonder Women: Challenges for Young Future Women Entrepreneurs in Pakistan
Full text linkWomen entrepreneurs in Pakistan face numerous difficulties in their successful business career and poses unusual status and intensity. These challenges affect women entrepreneurs differently depending on diverse situations. This study aimed is to shed light on the challenges affecting women to get success in business and to point out the issues faced by them while being entrepreneurs. It highlighted the challenges confronted by Pakistani business women and to open discussion which may empower researchers to get the clear scenario of occupations and industry down to the four-digit code. Gathering secondary data from Labor Force Survey-2014-15, UN Women (2016), Pakistan Bureau of Statistics 2015, the little data book on financial inclusion 2015, Women Economic Participation and Empowerment Status Report, (2016-2015), this study provides recommendations assisting the federal and provincial agencies to introduce women friendly laws to reduce gender biases as well as to take note on gender specific measure to ease the business environment for women in Pakistan.
Analysis and Solutions of Career Problems: A Case of Fresh Graduates of Industrial & Production Engineering
Full text linkDepartment of Industrial & Production Engineering started its glorious journey from 2006 in Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology. Since then approximately 250 students graduated and continuously enhancing the global quality of the department through leading discovery and innovation. Despite some senior graduates’ shines in career after a long struggle, some problems come their way and make them realize that they should be more careful about them in their University life. In order to get the regarding information, we surveyed about 100 graduates of IPE from different series. Previous graduates are now working in different sectors with a different designation. Their experience about their career life will help us to find out the problems faced by the fresh IPE graduates as well as it will help us to solve the problems in our University life. We analysed the data & build methodology through the brainstorming process & finally achieved our result. This will provide a way to overcome the problems faced by the fresh IPE (Industrial & Production Engineering) graduates in their initial career
Creating a country brand identity: A Review of Literature
Full text linkThis study is based on evaluating different factors that affect country as a brand. As the brand should have proper positioning and differentiation strategies, the country should also stand for something different, unique, and should have proper positioning. The country identity and brand image has strong impact on its economy. Through literature review the major factors were identified that affect the brand image of the country, and its impact on the economy, as a result of consumer purchase intention towards its products and brands.The most important factor identified through literature were tourism, country exports, country policies, and the people of the country themselves. The study also recommends what a country governments and decision makers should do to make a country differentiated through its tourism, country policies, and through its communication strategies. As the differentiation strategies also should be aligned with the country core competencies, the recommendations are also based on country core competencies. The impact of these major factors are evaluated on the country exports, its tourism, its image, as on its economy.
HR Professionals’ Preferred Skill for Business Graduates in Service Sector
Full text linkThe current study attempts to explore the skills that are valued by service sector HR professionals (public listed) and to identify the top four needed skills by service sector HR professionals. Based on the literature review two objectives were formulated that seventeen skills are the anticipated attributes for employability and the most preferred skills preferred by HR professionals are adaptability, leadership, team work and work ethics. To assess employability,” Employer Perspective of the Business School Graduate” scale was adapted from Jackson (2013) study. The sample of the study consisted of 126 HR professionals from public listed companies in service sector. Rotated Component Matrix was used to calculate the top four preferred skills. The findings of the study suggest that four skills were preferred by HR professionals i.e. 1) adaptability, 2) leadership, 3) teamwork, and 4) work ethics. The implication of the findings is discussed in the study.
Human Dynamics of Street Administration: A Study on Traffic Wardens in Karachi
Full text linkThe study investigated the myriad of psychological and physical stress factors affecting traffic wardens in Karachi. It was hypothesized that traffic wardens do not feel satisfied or stressed with their jobs and also that job tenure has no relation to their job satisfaction and stress. A mixed method approach with 15 semi-structured interviews and 50 survey form was adopted using convenient sampling. Job stress and satisfaction was measured using a self-made questionnaire (a =.797 & .582). Analysis indicated that traffic wardens were satisfied with their jobs and employment duration was not found to be associated with job satisfaction and stress.
CROSS LOC TRADE BETWEEN INDIA AND PAKISTAN- CONTOURS AND DYNAMICS
Full text linkThe once economically prosperous region of Kashmir hasended up being decelerated in trade and trade relations as a falloutof the Indo-Pak conflict post partition. This phenomenon has hadcosts transcending the economy and the society at large. Thepartition has led to the division of families, local culture has beenaffected and the economy has suffered a great deal. The paper is anattempt to put cross-LoC trade in the larger framework of the conflictbetween India and Pakistan. While historicizing the conflict-ravagedeconomy of erstwhile united J&K, the paper discussescomplementariness of patrilineage and trust, which constitutes avery important aspect of cross-LoC trade since 2008. The paperattempts to highlight the common bottle necks which have beenplaced in conducting trade between the two divided parts ofKashmir. Besides, the paper also points out that the policy of banningtrade between patrilinear families is bound to have an adverseeffect on the economic future of the region and cross LoC tradeitself
Personality and Ability Traits of Teachers: Student Perceptions
Full text linkThe study attempts to explore higher education students’ perceptions of proficient teachers, which is of importance to them in their learning. Since no effective system of teacher evaluation was in place in Pakistan until recently to distinguish between good and poor teachers, research shows that poor teaching quality is pervasive in higher education institutions in the country. The study analyzed students’ views of good and poor teaching through two focus group discussions with students from two engineering schools in Pakistan. The hematic coding of data yielded the desired outcomes of students’ views according to the personality and ability traits their teachers demonstrated. It was revealed that teachers possessed both categories of characteristics to a certain extent with the shortcomings of approachability, ability to bring knowledge to the level of the students, low emotional intelligence and poor communication ability resulting there from. It is expected that action to improve teaching quality would result in awareness of the problem. Keywords: behavioral theory, cognitive theory, effective teaching, personalitycharacteristics, teacher behavio
Pedagogical Implications of Corpus-based Approaches to ELT in Pakistan
Full text linkThe advent of corpora has opened new vistas for language study and restructured linguists’ and academicians’ approaches to lexicography and English language teaching (ELT). After 1980s, the use of online language corpora and computer tools garnered tremendous attention of English language teachers and academicians. Keeping in view the modern trends and needs of learners, this research focused on the practical implications of online corpora for ELT and its utility in the Pakistani context. Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE) is used as a reference corpus for this research. MICASE is a collection of nearly 1.8 million words of transcribed speech (almost two hundred hours of recording). The transcribed data of MICASE includes wide range of speech events like seminars, lectures, advisory meetings and lab sessions. The study identified the utility of lexical items at syntactic level and its usage in various contexts. Furthermore, the layers of meanings and uses of lexicons through in-depth study of right and left collocates were explored in the reference corpus. The results showed that lexicons can be used as noun, verb and adjective depending upon the context of the study and right and left collocates play a significant role in understanding the meanings of lexical items in various contexts. Thus, this strategy can be fruitful for English language learners and academic discourse community who are interested in understanding the versatile uses of lexical items and their contextual meaning.Keywords: collocate, context, corpus, ELT, MICAS
Effects of Economic and Population Factors on Health Expenditures: Special Case of Pakistan
Full text linkThis paper aims to explore the factors affecting the health care expenditures of Pakistan by employing the Multivariate techniques for the annual data series from 1960 to 2010 .The variables we considered are Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as an economic indicator, Population of age 65 and above (P≥65), Population of age 0 to 14 (P(0-14)), Life expectancy at Birth (LE), Crude Birth rate (CBR) and population growth rate (GR) as population indicator and Total Health Expenditure (THE) as an influencing factor. Multiple regression considering Total Health Expenditure (THE) is applied as dependent on the variables mentioned above. Since Variance Inflation Factor (VIF) for all independent variables are very high, the smallest VIF is around 11 goes up to 65. The results obtained by Principal components reveal the effect of population structure and the age factor effect oppositely on Total Health Expenditures (THE). Factor Analysis suggests that the behavior of Health Expenditures is common with Gross Domestic Product (GDP), population of age 65 and above (P≥65) and life expectancy at Birth (LE) in Pakistan while population of age 0 to 14 (P (0-14)), population growth rate (GR) and Crude Birth rate (CBR) are moving in opposite direction i.e. as GDP, P≥65 and LE of Pakistan increases P (0-14), GR and CBR will decreases
HR Personnels Perception for the Importance and Success of Social Networking Sites Integration in Recruitment
Full text linkToday in the period of globalization when everybody and everything appears to be associated over the globe through the progressive improvement in the field of information technology. In the present-day business world, the utilization of the Internet has turned into an integrated and fundamental tool. Consistently an ever-increasing number of organizations arrive at the digital or virtual sphere by making their organization LinkedIn profile, Twitter account, as well as a Facebook page. The purposive, nonprobability sampling technique utilized for the current study. The sample of 203 Human Resource personnel selected from private and public limited companies. All of the HR personnel’s are serving in Karachi based private and public limited companies. All respondents are power users of Social Networking Sites in the recruitment process as well as the traditional recruitment process as predefined criteria of the study. The beneficial aspects are found out by this inquiry which may lead the awareness among HR personnel’s and companies as well that the most worthy sites for the recruitment practice are LinkedIn, Indeed.com, Rozee.pk, and Facebook