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IMPACT OF PARENTING STYLES ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN BAHAWALPUR
Get PDFThis study intended to explore the impact of different parenting styles on academic achievements of the university students. Randomly selected 91 male and 109 female students from different departments of the Islamia University of Bahawalpur were participated in the study. The data was collected with their consent through two scales. The first scale was parental Authority Questionnaire Revised version used to measure Parental authority. Second was Academic Performance scale which used to measure academic performance of students. The results were derived through statistical analysis of the data, using SPSS software. As hypothesized, it was found out that the authoritative parenting style boosts the academic achievements of the university students. Parenting styles also have significant impact on the academic achievements. Gender and family system was found significantly different but the locality of the students was insignificant. Present research has contributed in gaining the deeper understanding of the constructs understudy
TRAINEES’ BEHAVIOR, ORGANIZATIONAL INTERVENTIONS AND THEIR IMPACT ON TRAINING EFFECTIVENESS: A CASE OF PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANIZATION OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA.
Get PDFThe main motive of this study was to explore the impact of trainees’ behaviors (motivation, employees’ commitment and learning) and organizational interventions (training needs assessment and training framing) and the cumulative impact on training effectiveness in the public sector organizations of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. A total of 635 respondents, associated with government organizations working in BPS-17 & above and have successfully completed their trainings in last two years were selected through stratified random sampling technique. Data was analyzed with the help of structural equation modeling technique. To validate the study model, confirmatory factor analysis was used. Results revealed that employees’ commitment, TNA, employees’ learning, employees’ motivation and training framing has positive impact on training effectiveness. The results of current study will help future researchers to understand and explore the association in similar settings. It is expected that policymakers, and administrators of public sector organizations may use these results for the training effectiveness, and will enable them to utilize organizational resources (human and financial) in efficient and effective manner. Qualitative study in pre and post training, may discover some further aspects of the resulted associatio
NATURE AND SALIENT FEATURES OF PAKISTAN’S MANUFACTURING SECTOR: A COMPREHENSIVE INSIGHT
Get PDFThe study investigates the nature and salient features of Pakistan’s manufacturing sector by focusing on the structure, conduct and performance aspects for 2004-2018. In structural analysis, Pakistan State Oil Company Ltd has turned out to be the largest firm according to gross sales criterion while Oil & Gas Development. Co. Ltd is classified as the largest firm according to the total assets criterion. Six industries are categorized as most heavily concentrated industries, five industries are in moderately concentrated industries while four industries are placed in the least heavily concentrated industries according to four-firm concentration criterion while according to Herfindahl-Hirschman Index principle, six industries are characterized as highly concentrated industries, two industries are in moderately concentrated industries while seven industries are placed in low concentrated industries. Demand and market conditions point out the disparity between the own-price elasticity of market demand and the own-price elasticity of a firm’s product. In conduct analysis, Learner’s index shows that there is imperfect competition in Pakistan’s manufacturing sector. The chemicals & Pharmaceuticals industry has come out with high advertising while the Petroleum Products industry has the lowest advisement intensity. In performance analysis, Spinning, Weaving has more gross profit to sales ratio while Electrical Machinery & Apparatus has the lowest gross profit to sales ratio. The Motor Vehicles industry is at the top for Charnes-Cooper-Rhodes (CCR), BankerCharnes-Cooper (BCC) criteria while for scale efficiency, the cement industry stands at the ape
RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING IN HIGH TECH FIRMS: ASSESSING THE ROLE OF HELPING INITIATIVE AND LEADER’S EMPATHY ON JOB PERFORMANCE
Get PDFThe current study is having the capacity to address the major ongoing issues of the IT sector of Pakistan, as the underlying sector is facing issues regarding the job performance of the employees. Responsible leadership is got importance due to its emergence in this sector. In order to check the impact of responsible leadership and knowledge sharing on job performance, this study has also incorporated the moderating factor of leader empathy and mediating role of helping initiatives at the workplace as well. For the completion of the study, a sample of 273 respondents was drawn out of the population in order to generalize the results to the whole population. These respondents were taken out from the IT sector of Pakistan, SPSS and AMOS were used to analyse the data. Through the help of the analysis, the researcher found out that there is no impact of responsible leadership on job performance and no impact has been observed while studying the knowledge sharing and helping initiatives as well. The rest of the study hypothesis are proved significant. This is also having its practical, theoretical, and policy-making contributions. This study is also significant by its nature as it took the leader empathy as a moderator to check the job performance of employees of the high technological sector of Pakistan
DETERMINANTS OF PARTICIPATION IN ROTATING SAVINGS AND CREDIT ASSOCIATIONS (ROSCAs) IN OGUN STATE, NIGERIA
Get PDFDue to favorable disposition of residents to participation in Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (ROSCAs) in the Ogun State, Nigeria many individuals are nursing the ambition to establish one. This study provides empirical link between the socio-economic characteristics of residents within the division with a view to helping prospective foreman to understand factors that predispose residents to participation for decision-making. Data were obtained from 400 respondents and 25 randomly selected residents and foremen respectively within the division. Structured questionnaire and semi-structured interview were the instrument for data collection. The mixed-method collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, logit regression model and content analysis as applicable. Irrespective of the respondents’ ROSCA participation status, a typical respondent had about two members of his/her household working. Education, marital status, sex and annual income of the respondents were significant (p<0.05) predictors of participation in the ROSCAs. Based on the study findings, it is recommended that the prospective foreman targets residents that are married, with relatively higher income level and the less-educated to increase probability of participation in the association. 
THE MEDIATING ROLE OF AFFECTIVE BRAND COMMITMENT AND CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT IN DEVELOPING PURCHASE INTENTION OF FASHION APPAREL BRANDS
Get PDFThe purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of consumer brand identification on customer engagement and affective brand commitment. The research also aims to evaluate the mediating effects of affective commitment and customer engagement in the association between consumer brand identification and purchase intention. Using a convenience sampling approach, 443 participants were chosen among customers of fashion apparel brands in Pakistan through a self-administered online survey. For the estimation of the model, partial least squares (PLS) structural equations modeling (SEM) was used because studied constructs are comparatively latest or evolving. Results reveal that consumer brand identification affects affective commitment and customer engagement. Moreover, customer engagement and affective brand commitment partially mediate the relationships between consumer brand identification and purchase intention. The findings also demonstrate that customer engagement has an impact on purchase intention. Managers should engage customers to increase their willingness to buy fashion apparel brands. The paper only looks at Pakistani fashion clothing brands. Future studies could use a longitudinal approach and compare nations and other industries with diverse culture
THE IMPACTS OF FLUCTUATIONS IN PUBLIC REVENUE AND EXPENDITURES ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN PAKISTAN: AN IMPULSE RESPONSE APPROACH
Get PDFAllocation of public revenue among productive and non-productive expenditure and its impact on GDP are not extensively studies in Pakistan. In this study, we examine the relationship between government revenue, productive and nonproductive expenditure and economic growth and sustainability over the period of 1978-2018 with the help of Johansen co-integration, error correction test and Impulse Response Function. The result of the study affirms a significant long run and the short run relationship between the fiscal instruments and the economic growth in Pakistan. Finally, impulse response illustrates that when direct tax is higher than GDP, productive and unproductive expenditures are also increased. It has also been observed some unproductive expenditures smooth the way for the economic growth. For the future better implication of fiscal policy and to achieve economic growth and development Government should take steps to increase its revenue through taxes. Tax collections can be increased by proper utilization of tax revenue and by educating people that tax is the responsibility not the penalt
COMMUNITY HEALTH, QUALITY EDUCATION AND POVERTY REDUCTION: HOW IMPORTANT THE FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH ARE IN PAKISTAN?
Get PDFThe main focus of the study is to investigate the strength of binding between financial development, economic growth and sustainable development goals (SDGs) including community health, education and poverty reduction for Pakistan. The autoregressive distributed lag approach was used to analyze the relationship among the variables using data ranging from 1972 to 2018. The empirical evidences showed a joint collision of financial development and economic growth on SDGs i.e., infant mortality, life expectancy, quality education and poverty reduction. Similarly, SDGs and economic growth together cause the accomplishment of financial development. The attainment of SDGs such as increased private per capita consumption expenditure, enrollment at primary and secondary level and low infant mortality rate and life expectancy along with economic growth showed its impact on the financial development for Pakistan
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT: NEXUS OF COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS: Khizra Sultan, Shakeel Sarwar, Muhammad Rizwan, Waseem Ahmad Khan
No full textThis research paper finds out the relationship between the process of performance management and the factors that influence it either in positive manner or negative. Performance management is, to a big extent, responsible for the overall productivity of the firm by assessing and controlling the performance of employees on a micro level. Many factors like training, support of authorities, behaviour, organizational culture and reward systems influence the process of performance management. Top management carry out performance management by setting individual organizational goals of employees so that they align with the collective organizational goals, to ensure compliance within the organization. Then by reviewing employees\u27 performance against the goals, they grant the rewards. Performance management also establishes its relation with the top level employees of the firm. As the workers perform well, the job satisfaction of the employer increases
IMPACT OF POVERTY INCIDENCE AND SEVERITY IN NIGERIA: THE TOURISM PERSPECTIVE
Get PDFThis study reviews the incidence and severity of poverty as it relates to tourism in Nigeria. It examines the causes and effects of tourism and how it affects tourism participation. The study employs the Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs as its basis for theoretical underpinning. The study relied on secondary data and literatures for its review. The study found out that the major reasons for underdevelopment in the area is neglect of the tourism sector of the country which in turn caused many more people to become poorer. It recommends that government should diversify and work on tourism potentials especially in host communities which are majorly rural areas. This in turn is expected to alleviate poverty in the communities. It is expected that this work will be useful for the purpose of politicking and making policies that will better the life of the poor