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SERVICE QUALITY AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AS PREDICTORS OF FACULTY JOB SATISFACTION
Get PDFThe objective of this study is to examine the impact ofperceived internal service quality and organizational culture onfaculty’s job satisfaction. A survey questionnaire was operationalizedbased on the dimensions proposed by Owlia and Aspinwall, Cameronand Freeman and Spector to the data collect from 348 medical facultymembers employed by12 medical schools of Pakistan. Our findingssuggest that hierarchal culture is the strongest contributor of facultyjob satisfaction lacking behind the other culture types. “Assuranceand empathy” contributes more to job satisfaction than any otherdimension of service quality. And, as a whole, service quality hasemerged as a stronger predictor of job satisfaction than organizationalculture. This paper has both practical and theoretical contributionsto improve the overall quality of higher education
Educating Before Birth via Talking to the Baby in the Womb: Prenatal Innovations
Get PDFEducation is the only major weapon that enables nations to progress socio-economically and gives a huge rise to their human development index. More so, it is considered to be the most fundamental requirement for poverty eradication, for addressing socio-political issues and for stabilizing peace and harmony among nations. Education is a lifelong process and does not have a preset parameter for its accessibility and provision (Sharkey, 1998). Learning is innate and natural and the human mind is set to learn since its conception. Additionally, in the recent era, investigations are focused on education and learning even before birth and extensive emphasis is now paid on experimenting on prenatal education by providing pre-birth interventions for babies inside the womb (Hepper, 1991; Kleindorfer & Robertson, 2013; Partanen, et al., 2013; Sharkey, 1998)
A Comparitive Study of Subject Knowledge of B.Ed Graduates of Formal and Non-Formal Teacher Education Systems
Get PDFThis study was designed to compare the subject knowledge of B.Ed graduates of formal and non-formal teacher education systems. The population of the study included all teachers from Girls High and Higher Secondary Schools both from private and public sectors from the district of Peshawar. Out of the total population, twenty schools were randomly selected from which 60 teachers from formal and 60 from non-formal system (6 teachers from each school) were randomly selected. A test was prepared and personally distributed among 120 teachers. The data were organized and analyzed through descriptive analysis. It was found that B.Ed. graduates from formal system had more subject knowledge as compared to B.Ed. graduates from non-formal teacher education system. It is recommended that the graduates as well as the teacher educators need to update their knowledge and work for continuous professional development
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CORPORATE TAX AND PRIVATE INVESTMENT IN PAKISTAN: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
Get PDFInvestment plays a pivotal role in promoting growth andbringing prosperity countries. However higher Corporate Tax rates are considered to be one of the main hurdles in the way of Investment.Keeping in view this fact, the present study has been an effort toempirically explore this contrivance for Pakistan. The Study usedtime series data for the time period 1984-2014 by applying AutoRegressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) technique for econometricsanalysis. Results show that higher corporate tax rate has mitigated private investment in Pakistan. High tax rate for corporate sector increases the cost and reduces the corporate profits; hence it decreases private investment. The present study recommends that corporate tax rate should be decreased to enhance private investment in Pakistan
ACCREDITATION OF BUSINESS EDUCATION IN PAKISTAN: A STEP TOWARDS INTERNATIONALIZATION
Get PDFTo meet the challenges of the quality of higher education in Pakistan, National Business Education Accreditation Council (NBEAC) has introduced national level accreditation standards to assure prospective students, of the high standing of their program. The present research aims to compare the standards of NBEAC with international standards of EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System) to assess whether NBEAC has the capacity to address education mobility across countries. The finding of the research concluded that NBEAC standards are very well compatible with EQUIS standards. Thus, NBEAC accreditation can be used as a step towards international accreditation by Pakistani institutions
MARKETING STRATEGIES TO EXTRINSICALLY MOTIVATE TAX PAYERS IN PAKISTAN
Get PDFThis study tries to explore the appropriate marketingstrategies that could motivate tax payers extrinsically resulting inwillingness towards tax compliance. The study is qualitative innature, based on highly unstructured and open ended interviews.The sample selected for the compilation of study included the business community holding valid National Income Tax Number (NTN), registered with the registration authorities.The qualitative data were processed in QSR Nvivo software that is developed for analyzing the qualitative information. Two codes were created resulting in nine codes including issues related to human resources, discrimination, threatening messages, prices of utilities, benefits, services, advertising, protection of copyrights and support for business. Based on the analysis of data, the study recommended marketing strategies thatcould result in motivating the tax payer extrinsically to enhance tax morale and facilitate tax compliance
THE ROLE OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT FOR GLOBALIZATION OF PAKISTANI COMPANIES
Get PDFThis study explors the assistance of government institutionsthrough technical capacity-building and financial assistance toward global expansion of Pakistani companies in different sectors. Many companies globalize their operations to enhance their export trade share in the world market. In Pakistan, Ministry of Commerce (MoC) and Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) uphold them in various ways. This exploratory probe employs interviews from MoC and TDAP. The feedback is cross checked from globally operating/ expanding companies from top-five export sectors in Pakistan including textile, leather, rice, seafood, and wheat. The findings indicate that the role of public bodies remains limited and undermined
Failure to get Admissions in a Discipline of their own Choice: Voices of Dejected Students
Get PDFAttaining a professional engineering degree is a dream of many pre-engineering intermediate students in Pakistan. Several students face scarcity of resources to accomplish and enliven their dreams of getting admission into an engineering institute, which results in great hardships and turmoil for them. The literature reveals that quantitative work in this area has been done to some extent, which restricts the comprehension of deeper understanding, profound feelings, perceptions, personal meanings, effects and experiences surrounding this dilemma at the time of rejection. This study has tried to ferret out the experiences of the students who could not get admission in the field of their own interest and went through the phase of uncertainty concerning their future. The research is grounded in the tradition of hermeneutic phenomenology as guided by Heidegger (1962), Gadamer (1960/2003), Casey (1993) and Levinas (1961/2004). By calling forth the philosophical and methodological tenets of this approach, the endeavor was to uncover the lived experiences of the students at the time of failure as well as how they felt about their future. A group of five students from the University of Karachi (Department of Statistics), who could not qualify in the Entrance test of a well renowned Engineering University in Karachi and later joined BS program in Actuarial Sciences, were interviewed for this research. The insights of the study reflect that lack of opportunities and failure result in a great set back for the students and harbor negative feelings in them towards education and its system. The study recommends the need to establish new public sector universities to fulfill the needs of the students to achieve their targets and simultaneously to groom them as an asset for the country
Impact of Development of Technology on Education: Key Micro and Macro Economies of Australia
Get PDFThe purpose of this paper was to discuss and examine the impact of development of technology on education in key micro and macro economies of Australia. Research for this paper included application of micro and macro economics concepts, presentation of facts that are collected from different sources as well as deeper analysis of the changes in micro and macro economies of Australia caused by technological changes in education supported by a range of other scholarly articles. The paper provides advantages and disadvantages of development of technology on education as well as impact of technology on education in key micro and macro economies of Australia. Based on the analysis, the education industry in general is benefitted by development of technology caused by increasing access to information and flexible study schedule through e-learning. The paper then moved into micro and macro analysis of the impact technology has on education. The key factors in micro economics that were discussed are long run demand and supply, labour demand and supply, resistance to change and effect on universities and the environment. In macro economics, the key factors that were discussed are increased access to education in the country, decrease in structural unemployment rate, decreased demand for Australian academics, increased level of global competition and decrease in GDP as well as increase in information asymmetry. The paper provides detailed analysis on the impact of technological development on key micro and macro economies. In general, this paper suggests that as the inevitable development of technology in education will have both positive and negative effects on Australian economies, the key challenge is in managing the development by minimising its negative impacts and nourishing the positive impact