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Paid Academic Writing Services: A Perceptional Study of Business Students
Full text linkIt seems challenging to detect the beneficiary students of the Academic Paid Writing Services, which refers to a practice in which authors or students appoint professional writers to produce scholarly work (including research papers, university assignments, research reports, and so on) with a predefined style. This study aimed to explore the factors leading the students in higher education to choose the paid Academic Writing Services (PAWS), which affects their performance and personal development due to contract cheating and make them realize that learning is better than grades as through self-explorations only a person can get something better. By employing quantitative approach to obtain information associated with PAWS, data was gathered from 117 business students enrolled in six Higher Education Institutes in Karachi, Pakistan, using adopted questionnaire having close-ended questions with 5-point Likert scale, measuring students’ attitude towards class assignments, their awareness about plagiarism, and their attitude about academic paid writing services. The results revealed that male students were more inclined towards paid writing services than their counterpart female students were and the increase in Students’ Attitude towards Assignments brought the increase academic paid writing services. Therefore, academic professionals servicing in universities are recommended to take due care of the two factors to prevent the increased paid academic wiring services
Evaluation of Brand Equity for Automobile Car Industry: Perception of Customers in Karachi
Full text linkEstablishment of strong brand equity is now one of the most priorities to numerous Car Automaker companies, but achieving that objective is become difficult due to the reason that the services and products of several companies are homogenous and their ways of distributions channels are also similar. Nowadays, brand equity is one of the possible ways through that customers can discriminate one brand among others. By providing better brand perceptions, the companies could have satisfied base of consumers. In view of its significance, the study subjects to measure the brand image’s effects and the effects of brand loyalty, brand awareness, and perceived quality of the brand equity in automobile car sector of Karachi. Our findings confirmed about brand image, brand loyalty, brand awareness, and perceived quality that these mentioned attributes are the antecedents of brand equity for this research, revealing that increases in any of these variables would generate higher levels of brand equity. Results suggest that there will be larger impact of parameter brand image on the brand equity in the comparison with other parameters. This would carry the implication that a Car Auto Maker & Selling company if anxious to increase brand equity then it should try attempts to build customers’ brand image that may lead in generation of brand equity with higher levels
Comparison of Management Practices in Public and Private Universities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
No full text This study attempted to compare the management practices in public and private universities in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa, Pakistan. The comparison is based on availability of written rules and regulations, distribution of tasks, availability of managers, access to officers, time management, work load, staff promotion procedure and appraisal system. Additionally, the comparison is also based on transparency, political intervention, use of authorities, nepotism and biasness, human resource availability and functions, academic decisions, existence of different decision making bodies, committees and their role in policy making and implementation and management styles. The population comprised all recognized universities in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa and a convenience sampling of six universities included three from public and three from private sector. The findings showed that both sector universities had the required offices, staff members and managers. The areas where private universities were observed weak as compared to public universities were lack of proper staff vacancy advertisements and induction policies, vague appraisal system, low salary packages and limited freedom to managers. Public universities were found unsatisfactory in areas including staff induction on merit based policies and political intervention, lack of monitoring system and lack of collegiality amongst university offices. The study recommends that universities in both sectors should prepare staff and student manuals for transparency procedures, should improve the skills and knowledge of its staff/managers by conducting seminars/ workshops/ trainings in collaboration with HEC and other regulatory bodies on regular basis, and establish public private partnership to improve university management system in Pakistan
An Attitudinal Study of English as a Foreign Language in Sukkur Sindh Pakistan
Full text linkForeign language learning is a complex process and is influenced by various factors. The attitude of students towards language learning is a major decisive factor in this process; therefore, the current study was carried out to explore this phenomenon. The students of English Works Program Sukkur, Sindh, Pakistan were the target population for the current study. The said program was initiated by a Karachi based organization which enrolled fifty students for a 240 hours certificate course in English language. The students already had some formal education ranging from Intermediate to Masters level and belonged to different age groups. The aim of this quantitative study was to investigate their language learning attitudes from three aspects: behavioral, cognitive and emotional. For data collection purposes, a questionnaire comprising 30 closed-ended items was adapted from Eshghinejad, (2016), Boonrangsri, Chuaymankhong, Rermyindee, & Vongchittpinyo, (2004) and Gardner (1985). This was followed by descriptive and inferential statistical analysis by using independent sample t-test (SPSS-22). The results show that the students have positive attitudes towards learning English as a foreign language.
Gender Differentials Among Teachers’ Classroom Management Strategies In Pakistani Context
Full text linkThe main purpose of this study was to get an insight about teachers’ classroommanagement strategies and explore the gender differences among teachers’ classroomstrategies. The present descriptive study was quantitative in nature andmethod was used. All the teachers, teaching in different Islamabad ModelSchools for Boys and Girls, Islamabad (Urban Sector) constituted the population of the. Data were collected from a sample of 126 secondary school teachers, teaching in 10 different Islamabad Model Schools for Boys and Girls, Islamabad, Pakistan. Data were collected via Classroom Management Inventory (CMI), developed by the researcher, keeping in view the Pakistani context. As a result of pilot study, reliability test of the questionnaire reflected 0.947 value of Cronbach’s Alpha, which showed the high reliability of the instrument. From the findings of the study, it was concluded that teachers’ gender affects their classroom management. Female teachers exhibited more classroom management skills on four out of six dimensions of classroom managementthan the male teachers. Classroom management being a challenging and complex task, demand knowledge and skills on the part of teachers. It is recommended that teacher trainings should contribute to such endeavour, keeping in view the gender differentials. Keywords: gender, differentials, classroom management, strategie
Performing Below the Targeted Level: An Investigation into KS3 Pupils’ Attitudes Towards Mathematics
Full text linkThis study sets out to investigate the attitude KS3 pupils have towards mathematics and the factors that influence this attitude. A case study approach was used as the pupils were a unit of the school under study and a survey method was chosen to provide scope to the study. Purposeful sampling was employed for the selection of 200 pupils from years 7 and 9 who were from target achiever and non target achiever groups. Attitudes Toward Mathematics Inventory (Tapia, 1996) was administered to the participants to measure their attitude towards mathematics. Data were analysed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 17. The result for the first hypothesis indicated that there is a significant difference on the variable of mathematics attitude of year 7 and 9 target achievers and non target achievers pupils (t=4.11, df =199, p <.05) and for the second hypothesis, the difference in the variety of attitudes is statistically significant in the pupuls from both groups (t=2.3, df =210, p <.05). The results of the research will enable teachers to understand the factors that effect attitude of pupils towards mathematics at secondary level and direct head teachers to establish effective teacher training and support system to help pupils to develop an interest in mathematics
The Application of “My Pedagogic Creed” from Experiential Learning Perspective: A Survey of School Teachers in Karachi, Pakistan
No full text This research measured the efficacy of experiential learning model proposed in “My Pedagogic Creed” by John Dewey in the perspective of teachers in the local context of Karachi, Pakistan. Literature reported that Dewey had promoted the notion of social interaction, group learning and experiential learning as strategies of teaching in the modern system of education. A survey questionnaire was developed and classified under four sections from experiential learning perspective: Aims and Objectives, Social Context of Teaching, Pedagogy and Teacher’s Behavior; hundred and seventy-one teachers participated in this survey. Results showed no significant difference in opinion of gender related to the above mentioned four variables. However, there was a significant difference in the opinion of male and female teachers with reference to their highest qualification and work experience regarding the said four variables. This study recommended more training for teachers in Karachi related to experiential learning model to improve the current scenario.Keywords: experiential learning, social interaction, group learning, Deweyis
An Analysis of Exchange Rate, J Curve and Debt Burden in Pakistan: An Analysis of Bound Testing
Full text linkRate of exchange is a significant monetary variable that control balance of trade. J curve theory explains that depreciation in domestic currency wills sure that foreign goods costly for the domestic persons and domestic goods are inexpensive for the other country. In this result, imports will reduce and exports will rises. Therefore, trade balance would be improved. This theory proved that J curve have no exist in Pakistan because imports of Pakistan contains a large numbers of necessities and this imports present no movement in exchange rate. Therefore, rate of exchange and balance of trade both have negative relationship. Debt and GDP have positive related with each other because Government of Pakistan takes the debt to promote the economic growth. This study opens new perspectives for the decision makers
Investigating the connection between consumer unethical behaivour and birthplace: Evidence from Pakistan
Full text linkFew consumers are developed plans to cheat or by-pass the given systems as well as bought items and returned those items after using few days. The major objective of this research study is to investigate the relation between individual birthplace ( i.e. rural birthplace, urban birthplace) and the consumer unethical behavior. The study also aims to determine the relationship among consumer unethical behavior, moral ideology, and urban birthplace. To meet the objectives of study, data have been obtained from 355 respondents that are living in Lahore and Gujranwala. The results reveal that moral ideology is influenced by rural birthplace as well as urban birthplace. However, the results also exhibit thatconsumers of rural birthplace are found more ethical than urban birthplace. The results show that the role of individual birthplace is not influenced byconsumer unethical behaviour(CUB)but has a statistically significant relationship with moral ideology
ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE AND EMPLOYEE CONTEXTUAL PERFORMANCE: THE MODERATING EFFECT OF ORGANIZATIONAL RESPECT
Full text linkThe study investigates the moderating effect oforganizational respect on the association between organizationjustice perceptions and contextual performance. Researchers havehypothesized that organizational respect moderates the associationbetween organizational justice (distributive, procedural,interactional) and contextual performance. In a randomized sampleof 385 nurses, dispensers and doctors to whom the self-administratedquestionnaires were distributed, it was established thatorganizational justice predicts contextual performance very well.Multiple moderation regression (MMR) results also reveal thatorganizational respect moderates the association betweenorganizational justice and contextual performance. The results fromthe existing study, offer some valuable practical implications atorganizational level. Managers can boost up employeesperformance by promoting organizational respect and focusing ontheir fair interaction with subordinates and group members. Ourmajor limitation is that workers rate themselves about theircontextual performance. There is a tendency that in self-appraisalworkers rate themselves high. Inspite of the limitations are there,yet this study is novel and unique as organizational respect wastested for its moderating effect in the health sector of Pakistan