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INFLUENCING OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP ON ARCHITECT’S JOB SATISFACTION AND TURNOVER INTENTION: MEDIATED BY QUALITY OF WORK LIFE (QOWL)
Get PDFThe architectural consulting service industry known has the long working hours and frequent overtime activities. This condition can be one of the problems that continue happen that can be impacted to turnover intention in a company. The purpose of this study is to analyze all variables namely transformational leadership, quality of work life (QoWL), job satisfaction and turnover intention. Also, to analyze the effects of transformational leadership on job satisfaction and turnover intention that mediated by QoWL. The data collected through primary data by questionnaire that answered by 215 Architect Employees who work in Architecture Consultants in Jakarta Indonesia. for analysis the hypotheses used Structural Equation Model. The findings in this study are the work performances influenced by how the employee’s performance and how much HR in the company. The high and low number of qualified workers in the company influenced by the QoWL of employees which will impact the company successful itself. The implications obtained in this study which transformational leader needs to increase job satisfaction in order for reducing turnover intention that can be mediated by quality of work life (QoWL).
 
“SLOW LEARNERS- A UNIVERSAL PROBLEM AND PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES TO THEM TO BE A SUCCESSFUL LEARNER”
Get PDFEducation plays an important role in a country's development. Parents strongly feel that learning should be cultivated among their children. A teacher can make this become true with his teaching efficiency. But sometimes they may fail to do such due to different reasons. There are different types of learners such as fast learners, average learners, and slow learners. This learning difficulty may arise from poor memory, unawareness about the importance of education and lack of fundamental knowledge and psychological factors. If the teacher can bring out the children's inner talents through the use of different conditions, slow learners will be happier at learning. This article tries to solve this universal problem by applying an inspiring quote from the universal scientist Albert Einstein saying "I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn". Data was collected through the Case study method. Counseling was used as a tool for their enhancement. The major finding was that slow learners were more successful by providing suitable conditions and educational opportunities to them
CORRELATES OF SELF-CONCEPT, ATTITUDE AND MATHEMATICS PERFORMANCE OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN NIGERIA
Get PDFThe study investigated the correlates of senior students’ mathematics self-concept, attitude, and mathematics performance in secondary school level of Nigeria. The population comprised all the secondary school students from the six states in Northeast, Nigeria. From the population, a total of 589 students were sampled from 18 schools purposively selected from four out of the six states in the zone. The instruments employed for the data collections were Mathematics Achievement Test (MAT) and a Mathematics Self-concept and Attitude Scale (MSCAS). The instruments were validated and the reliability was determined through test re-test method. Using Cronbach alpha analysis, high reliability coefficients of 0.83and 0.915 were obtained for MAT and MSCAS respectively. The statistical tools used in testing the hypotheses were t-test, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), correlation, and multiple regression analysis. The results of the findings revealed that the students’ self-concept correlates significantly with their attitude; and relationship exists significantly among students’ self-concept, attitude and their performance. It was recommended among other things that students’ mathematics self-concept and attitude be improved in schools by making the teaching of mathematics practical oriented such that students see it interesting and pleasurable
FACEBOOK EWOM MARKETING STRATEGY: A SOCIAL SUPPORT THEORY PERSPECTIVE
Get PDFToday, social media is a major communication medium for online users. Along the use of social media, electronic word-of-mouth (EWOM) is a common user behavior. To understating the Facebook marketing and form marketing strategy has become an increasingly important issue. Facebook ranks at top one social medium where the posts on food and dining ranks at top 5 topics. To understand the EWOM behavior, this study investigates that positive and negative EWOM over Facebook. Both social exchange theory and social support theory are applied in our study. The results suggest that trust and social support are the major reason that influence customer satisfaction and dissatisfaction of Facebook, which in turn influence the positive and negative EWOM intention respectively. The theoretical contribution of our study lies in the application of two social theories in online context. The empirical contribution is to provide our findings to e-retailers to create positive EWOM meanwhile to avoid negative EWOM. The results of our study benefits e-retailers to build up positive reputations and form marketing strategy for business growth
INTERIOR DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS TO ENHANCE STUDENT SATISFACTION IN CLASSROOMS
Get PDFThe built environment that humans live in, affects them in their cognitive, emotional and social terms. Every building has a specific purpose to serve. School buildings being the vital infrastructure to impart education, needs to be designed in ways that they provide high quality learning environment. The architectural and interior design considerations in schools may impact the learning ability, productivity and creativity of the students. To start with, the satisfaction of the students must be taken into consideration. This study comprises of exploratory research from previously done studies on similar fields, making an attempt to find out the architectural aspects necessary to be considered while designing classrooms in schools. Surveys have been conducted in schools in India to record the students’ perception of satisfaction in terms of classroom design. The final result of this study deduces a set of interior design rules which may be followed in classroom design satisfying the student user group. This study can work as an inception to other advanced studies such as linking performance of students with interior design of classrooms
PEER TUTORING: EXPLORING THE EFFECTS ON LEARNING GRADE 9 MATHEMATICS
Get PDFThis descriptive-comparative study aimed to develop session plans with learning activities for peer tutoring on quadratic equations. It involved five classes of Grade 9 students of Bantayan National High School, Tabaco City, Albay, Philippines wherein one class was randomly selected as the peer tutored group while the remaining four classes were considered the non-peer tutored groups. The peer tutoring sessions were conducted during the Independent/Cooperative Learning (ICL) period. The sources of data included the students’ reflection entries, observation notes, responses from focus group discussions, and periodic examination results. Findings showed that there were nine session plans with learning activities developed with the integration of cooperative and contextualized learning approaches. The peer tutors were able to master the lessons since they have the opportunity to study it again and revise what they have learned. They also gained more friends, boosted their confidence, and became more interested and enthusiastic in learning and teaching Mathematics together with their peer tutees. On the other hand, the peer tutees grasped the lessons because their tutor gave immediate feedback to them. They also learned how to cooperate and participate with their group to achieve their goal. It was also showed that the peer tutees were very much engaged and eager to learn during the peer tutoring. These were some of the significant learning experiences of the peer tutors and peer tutees during the conduct of peer tutoring. In terms of performance, based on the results of their periodic examination, the peer tutored group had a better performance than those non-peer tutored groups. The session plans with learning activities for peer tutoring were then concluded to give benefits in the learning experiences and enhanced the Mathematics performance of the learners
FACTORS AFFECTING CUSTOMER SATISFACTION IN INTERNATIONAL HOTELS IN CHENZHOU CITY, CHINA
Get PDFThe significance of the customer satisfaction management in the hotel industry has been demonstrated by many researchers in the past decades. This study determined the relationship between five key factors (hotel facilities, service capability, service efficiency, service attitude, and breakfast) to the degree of the customer satisfaction with the hotel. These factors were conceptualized from the five dimensions of tangibility, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, and empathy in the SERVQUAL model proposed by Parasuraman, Zeithamal & Berry (1988). Empirical research was conducted in one of the international hotels in Chenzhou City, Hunan Province, China, focusing on the hotel’s customer satisfaction management. The data were taken from the two online reservation websites that reviewed the hotel based on the SERVQUAL model from 2017 to 2018. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to determine the relationship between the five key factors and the degree of customer satisfaction based on about 1,500 online comments. Only two (service capability and service attitude) of the five key factors turned out to have significant positive effects on the customer satisfaction in this hotel. Two other factors (hotel facilities and breakfast) have no significant positive effects, while service efficiency has an unexpected no significant negative effect on this hotel’s customer satisfaction. This study offers some suggestions for improving the future decision-making for the customer satisfaction management of this hotel and also provides a guide for other enterprises experiencing the similar situation with the mutual benefits for avoiding the mistakes in customer satisfaction management so as to improve the overall performance of the hotel
A SEMIOTIC STUDY OF THE MYSTICAL SYMBOLS OF KAMAL AL-DIN BEHZAD’S “DANCING DERVISHES” MINIATURE BASED ON JAMI'S IDEOLOGY
Get PDFOne of the Exquisite Manifestations in the compounding of literary and artistic sciences is the synthesis between the Study of Para-Textual branch of Art and Literature. The explicit schema that derives from combining Art and Literary sciences is that the sciences mentioned, Para-Textually, have similar semantic layers that can be analyzed in a convergent way by analyzing Semiotic Methodology. In this article, based on the Para-Textual and semantic roots of Persian Sufism literature and Persian Miniature, the "Dancing Dervishes" Miniature by Kamal al-Din Behzad has been analyzed with looking at Jami's Epistemological Ideas. Since the language of Persian Sufism Literature and Miniature is symbolic, this paper aims to decode symbols to examine the History of Persian Sufism and a review of Behzad's Miniatures and his thoughts based on the Jami's Epistemological Ideas in order to analyze Sufi rituals in Ancient Iran
IMPACT OF BANK-SPECIFIC AND MACROECONOMIC DETERMINANTS ON FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE IN COMMERCIAL BANKS – CASE STUDY IN THAILAND AND VIETNAM
Get PDFUnderstanding the criteria affecting the profitability of commercial banks which are bank-specific and macroeconomic determinants is imperative for forming new strategies and capturing useful procedures to improve financial performance. The current study is to investigate the impact of bank characteristic and macroeconomic factors on financial performances and bank risks of commercial banks in Thailand and Vietnam. The empirical results reveal that non-performing loan ratio, bank capital ratio, total loan to total asset ratio, and GDP growth for medium banks have a significant impact on return on asset, return on equity, and LNZ-SCORE for the case of Thailand while bank capital ratio, total deposit to total asset ratio, GDP growth rate for small banks, and inflation show a significant relationship with return on asset, return on equity, and LNZ-SCORE for the case of Vietnam. Further studies should take other factors such as internal control, operation cost, and industrial factors into consideration for purpose of getting significant and accurate estimation results and also extend more related internal bank-specific variables
COSMOPOLITAN WORLD IN CONTEMPORARY ASIA: A PHENOMENON OF ASIAN DIASPORA
Get PDFIn the world challenge moving towards modernism era, western culture endorses the “cosmopolitan” ideas to fuse into the whole system of the global world. However, multiculturalism concept argued as one of the challenges to pursue a cosmopolitan world form due to its complexity. Otherwise, while dealing with domestic issues, Asian countries are viewing multiculturalism in different perspective related to the idea of cosmopolitanism itself. The problem is, western seems hard to accept this fact or even to understand it. Western tends to criticize and highlights the problems of Asian diaspora as one of the obstacles on the towards a more cosmopolitan world. Furthermore, many issues like racial issues, gender, norms and values are always became the “unfinished business” still looking for proper solutions. Yet, there this Eastern society which is capable of conforming, and co-existing within the western sarcasm towards them. Set in phenomenology method, this paper analyze the Cosmopolitan itself according to the western perspective, and multiculturalism phenomenon itself by using multiculturalism of Bhiku Parekh’s perspective, and diaspora phenomenon, this paper seeks to offer some hypothesis of contra-productive preferences of the cosmopolitan world. This paper portrays discrepancy among values and norms of western discourse to pursue their goal through cosmopolitanism ideas