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Conceptual Paper on Halal and Haram: Systems Level Approach
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Islamic, as well as modern literature, on the issue of halal/haram (permissible and prohibited), primarily circulates around the product’s ingredient aspect, categorizing a particular object specifically into one of the mentioned dichotomist heads. On contrary to the usual individualistic consumer/product-centric approach, this paper discusses several macros, systems-level models, which follow the top-bottom approach.
Methodology:
A discourse, through conceptual framework analysis, this paper discusses the concept of halal and haram, to understand the nature and antecedents to the concepts as narrated in the revealed texts of Quran and Hadith.
Findings:
It is proposed that although the terms of halal and haram are elaborated extensively in literature, there are several gaps in the understanding of the concept at the systems level. Therefore, this paper presents a comprehensive understanding through conceptual framework of halal/haram using the conceptual analysis method, which grounds into Islamic literature to trace the phenomenon’s major concepts and dimensions at various systems levels, such as society and environment.
Conclusion:
The research would enrich the understanding of how the Creator has created filters to provide the believers the best to consume and balances the cosmic systems through commandments to individuals, compliances to which supplement and support the Islamic lifestyle and Islamic social structure and sustained global development
Economic Structural Reforms and Sovereign Assets-Backed Sukuk in Pakistan: A Systematic Literature Review
Get PDFPurpose: The continuous increase in internal debts without the reciprocal implementation of economic reforms proportionately increase the cost of goods for the economic growth of Pakistan, which ultimately caused serious economic problems in an economy. The core purpose of conducting this study is to propose workable /attainable solutions by imposing economic structural reforms and sovereign asset-backed Sukuk to overcome the economic problems of Pakistan.
Design/Methodology/Approach: This study consist of an In-depth analysis consists of a detailed description of the theory and conceptual framework to support the research objective of this study through a systematic literature review.
Findings: The Study found that private-public partnerships to be financed through the issuance of sovereign Asset-Backed Sukuk which can ultimately protect investor’s risk.
Implications/Originality/Value: This study also recommended that by using Assets- Backed Sukuk, an economy can increase in agriculture and industrial goods, increase in exportable goods that support the current account deficit, elimination of unfavorable balance of payments, removal of fiscal deficit and leads towards the sole objective of sustainable economic growth of Pakistan.
 
The Impact of Retention Policies on Employees Satisfaction in UFONE – Karachi
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The purpose of conducting this research is to know whether retention policies enhance or declines the committed employee satisfaction in UFONE – Karachi. It is important to realize that the preferences of employees may vary from person to person and from situation to situation.
Methodology:
This study is quantitative as well as qualitative in nature and a close-ended questionnaire is used as a research tool to gather data and SPSS is used for data analysis. Employee satisfaction is dependent whereas retention policies and procedures are independent variables in this study. Subjects were randomly selected to know the effect of retention policies on the employee. This research focuses on the impact of retention policies on job satisfaction and the scope of research was UFONE Company - Karachi. 342 out of 400 employees accepted the importance of retention polices and said that it is important for employee’s satisfaction.
Findings:
The majority of the employees are satisfied with the retention policies, however dissatisfied employees were also there who were unhappy with the retention policies of the UFONE.
Conclusion:
There is a need in UFONE to revisit their employee retention policies and adopt quantifiable measures to improve and benefit their employees
Impact Of crisis Awareness on Organizational Performance: A Strategic Leadership Perspective in SME’s
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This study is an attempt to examine the performance of the organization during the times of crisis. The larger part of the interest is to ensure that in future organizations remain resilient enough not to be affected by such crises. One of the vital elements of this study is to examine the moderating role of strategic leadership of SME’s in times of crisis. Any rumor or real time security threat could seriously challenge the prospective business opportunities especially in the tourism sector in Pakistan. In fact, this is one of the fragile business sectors exist in the modern world too.
Methodology:
The present study uses quantitative approach to empirically verify the impact of crisis situation awareness on organizational performance. The research uses tourism sector as unit of analysis. Survey questionnaire were distributed among the Owners, Operation Managers, Finance Managers, and the Administrators.
Findings:
Incharge of various travel and tourism companies and partial least square path modelling was used to draw meaningful conclusions. Results suggested that organizations which are more aware are in a better position to enhance their performance even in the times of crisis.
Conclusion:
The study concludes by suggesting that in the tourism industry as the majority of the organizations or stakeholders are SME’s hence combining or bringing all resources to one platform and planning for any challenge can enable them to perform at optimal level. Researcher recommends that there are areas are also available to conduct further research on learning from failures as early events in Pakistan like attack on tourists in Fairy Meadows area and learning how to avoid and minimize damages from such uncontrollable events
WORKPLACE SPIRITUALITY AND TURNOVER INTENTION IN THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR OF ISTANBUL
Get PDFThis research aims to examine the impact of workplace spirituality on turnover intentions in the healthcare sector of Istanbul. A twenty-three item scale was developed and the data was collected from 323 employees of the healthcare sector of Istanbul and the Multiple Regression Analysis was used as the statistical technique. Results indicated that all the dimensions of workplace spirituality namely meaningful work, spiritual association, compassion, and alignment values have a significant negative association with the turnover intentions. Therefore, it is recommended that practitioners in the healthcare sector of Istanbul be realize the importance of spirituality at the workplace in order to reduce the turnover intention among the employees
Factors influencing the Buying intention toward paid mobile application; a mediating moderator approach
No full textAlthough there is supposed to be tremendous growth potential for paying for app obtaining besides the mobile game industry, there is slight understanding of what drives game thespians to make such acquisitions. The model was tested using a questioner to gather data for the Pakistan game societies. Using free edition of the paid mobile app, 310 replied with data collection. Multiple regressions were used for study model evaluation. The results show that satisfaction with mobile games substantially affects a player\u27s intention to make paid games to buy. The supposed spirited values (regularity, flow, touch, and accomplishment) have a significant effect on all players\u27 enjoyment but fail to have a significant impact on the buying intent. Satisfaction has been found to have a partial effect on a performer\u27s intent to pay app. Moderating effect of the negative results on the willingness to purchase pay apps from high price. Our study revealed higher purchase prices which decreased customer satisfaction. This study gives a deeper understanding of how values promote enjoyment among all players in the game, and paying players\u27 buying intentions. We also have further insight into marketing campaigns for mobile game applications
THE MEDIATING ROLE OF ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DIMENSIONS OF HUMAN CAPITAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE TEXTILE SECTOR OF PAKISTAN
Get PDFThe textile sector is the backbone of the economy of Pakistan. This sector contributes 60% of the total export of the country. The current budget allocation is 2.3 billion. There was only 15% implementation of this budget seen in Pakistan’s textile industry. This sector is facing many structural problems. The major problem is in analyzing the impact and measurement of human capital. There are many variables which the researchers have investigated, like job satisfaction to organizational tenure for representing the concept of human capital at both the national and as well as firm-level. However, there is a disagreement that exists among the different researchers for selecting those indicators which can appropriately represent the concept of human capital. There are more complications when it comes to the textile firms because there are not many scholastic studies which have seriously focused on investigating the indicators of human capital, specific to the textile sector of Pakistan. However, till today, no scale or criterion is available which can help in capturing the level of the human capital in this sector. By introducing of these HC measures which will be specific to the textile sector will bridge this gap. This study will contribute to increasing the performance of the textile firms by increasing their absorptive capacity by focusing on specific human capital indicators
Determining the Influences of the Employee’s Loyalty in the Organizational Setting
Get PDFThe aim of the following research is to provide a brief insight into employee loyalty towards their organization and its effects on working conditions, working environment, and bonus and incentives. As employees are considered to be key strategic assets of every organization so it is essential for the organization to study the factors which produce a profound effect on loyalty. Loyalty is said to be a unique composition of employee attributes depicting a higher quality which is difficult to find significantly affecting the prevailing organization succession.
For the progression of the research findings, the precedent research followed a T-test, F-test, ANOVA, multiple regressions, Factor analysis, Durbin Watson, correlation as the methodology. The following methodology aid inevaluating the crucial elements of the organization significantly affecting the employee loyalty. Moreover, in the research working condition, working environment and bonus and incentives served as the dependent variable, while employee loyalty as the independent variable. The researcher has employed the calculation of the observation from self-design 100 questionnaires which were filled by Muslim commercial bank employees in all over Karachi, all result have significant impact at 5% alpha.
On the basis of data, it can be concluded that the determinants of the independent variable of the current dissertation have a significant impact on employee loyalty. Moreover, all of the three independent variables have been accepted. Therefore, it is feasible to suggest that the organization should focus on the prevailing variables for enhancing the performance of the organization and driving the optimal outcome for securing the leading position in the industry
Role of Forensic Auditing in Enhancing the Efficiency of Public Sector Organization: Role of Forensic Auditing
No full textPurpose: The aim of study is to investigate the importance of forensic auditing practices in detecting and preventing financial fraud as well as enhancing the efficiency of Public owned entities. Corruption and frauds both are gargantuan twin brothers that have halted the peace of growth for economy, especially developing nations like Pakistan. Many large scale public owned entities are reeling due to corruption and fraud.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Survey was carried out and data were collected from the public sector organizations. Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) was used for data analysis.
Findings: The result reveled that forensic accounting and financial fraud control, forensic accounting and internal control quality, forensic accounting and financial reporting credibility has positive role to promote effectiveness of forensic auditing.
Implications/Originality/Value: Forensic accounting and financial reporting credibility have positive role to promote effectiveness of forensic auditing. The ultimately Public owned entities performance would be increased by controlling corruption and frauds. Thus, this study has significant insights for practitioners while making the strategies to control corruption and frauds
Migration research issues in Asia
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Purpose: The aim of this study is to highlight the issues confronted during research on migration from Asian perspectives. In addition, the study aims to convince the research dimensions to be in line with the issues of the current environment.
Approach: A quantitative approach is perceived to be an ideal technique to be employed for this research study since most of the data has been acquired from the secondary work done by different research fellows on the subject. Descriptive analysis has been presented on the work earlier done and also focused on the gap for the incumbent studies.
Findings: Intense migration occurred over the last three decade in Asia, this article’s area of concern on research conduction of international labor in Asia. This article covers research carried out in the late twenty-first century. The rising implication called for highlighting the Asian migration phenomena. The rising implication called for highlighting the Asian migration phenomena. It is evident by present work on the literature on migration, the development of research, and the development of research networks in the region. It is suggested that increased efforts should focus on the establishment of a link between internal and international migration in spite of more work on migration phenomena in the region.
Conclusion:
It is concluded that migration in Asia is a significant phenomenon, and if it continues, will hurt the associated nations due to brain drain