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IMPROVING ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE PERCEPTIONS THROUGH ORGANIZATION’S RETENTION STRATEGY. THE MODERATING ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONAL HIERARCHY
Get PDFA positive organizational climate can enhance the organizational success of the organization. Several factors may affect an organization\u27s climate, especially those that directly relate to the perceptions the employees hold about the organization. Especially the perception of those employees who intend to stay with the organization. So, organizations should consider retention as a strategy to create a compassionate climate within the organization. Moreover, such perceptions may vary at different hierarchical positions employees hold in an organization. This study examines a conceptual model that tests the mediating role of intention to stay between organizational support and organizational climate with an overarching role of organizational hierarchy among the bank managers. Structural equation modeling is used to test the model through multigroup analysis. The results indicate differences in the intent to stay among higher-level managers compared to the lower and middle-level managers. Furthermore, the results show similar perceptions of managers working at all managerial positions relating to perceived organizational support and organizational climate. The findings reveal that no matter how much the organization is supportive, the managers\u27 willingness to stay or leave may differ based on their position and may not necessarily alter their perceptions about the bank\u27s climat
EXPLORING FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS AS MODERATOR ON NEXUS BETWEEN EXCESS CASH HOLDING AND FIRM’S PERFORMANCE
Get PDFProficient working capital administration is getting significant for café firms adapting to frail money related conditions and expanded monetary vulnerability. The study is coordinated on the basis of information of 56 firms in Pakistan gathered over the period of 10 years 2009-2018 to discover the relationship of holding excess cash and firm’s performance in the presence of financial constraints. Two speculations were created for examination, how abundance money holding impact venture and furthermore to inspect the association under the moderation role of financial constraints. Holding of excess cash, income, market to book proportion were taken as self-ruling elements while adventure of complete assets, return on value, return on resources and influence were taken as dependent components and money related necessities, for instance, liquidity was taken as coordinating variable while firm age, firm size and benefit were taken as control factors. The first outcome was that we recognized the speculation that there was a remarkable influence of excess cash holding for financial impediment firms. As the second outcome was, that there was balanced impact of financial need in the affiliation between holding of excess cash in regard with firm’s performance
IMPACT OF RISK MANAGEMENT ON PROJECT SUCCESS WITH THE MODERATING ROLE OF MANAGERIAL COMPETENCY
Get PDFThe primary purpose of this research is to analyze the influence of causal relationships among risk management and project success and the moderating role of management competence. The study\u27s definite viewpoint is the organization of the IT sector in Pakistan. The study approach was quantitative and deductive, with Sekaran (2003) estimating the sample size. The model was checked with a sample size of 227 respondents, including workers from Pakistan\u27s IT industry organizations. Empirical findings suggest that risk management is positively correlated with project performance. Management expertise also positively moderates the relationship between risk management and project performance in a beneficial direction. This study is helpful for project-based organizations to increase the bar and provide workers with means and ways to achieve their project success
EFFECT OF SOFT TQM PRACTICES ON JOB SATISFACTION AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT OF HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS
Get PDFThis study aims to measure the effect of soft TQM practices on job satisfaction and organizational commitment of healthcare professionals. Data were collected from three ISO 9000:2008 certified hospitals located in two northern cities of Pakistan. Out of 800 self-administered questionnaires distributed to doctors and nurses, 530 filled questionnaires were returned. Results were drawn by applying reliability, correlation, and linear regression analyses. Study proves that soft TQM practices exert a positive effect on organizational commitment and job satisfaction of healthcare professionals. However, the study fails to find any significant impact of top management commitment, leadership, and customer focus on job satisfaction. Contrary to previous work, the study proves the negative effect of customer focus on organizational commitment. Hospital administration should be committed to successfully implement the TQM practices for the improvement of organizational commitment and job satisfaction of healthcare professionals. This study can be considered as a pioneer work that examined the relationship of TQM practices with job satisfaction and organizational commitment of healthcare professionals in Pakistan
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN UNEMPLOYMENT, POVERTY AND CRIME: AN EMPIRICAL CROSS-SECTIONAL ANALYSIS OF PESHAWAR, KHYBERPAKHTUNKHWA
Get PDFThe current research studies the impact of crime on unemployment and poverty in Peshawar. The survey was carried out in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and a crosssectional method was used, and a total of 190 respondents were interviewed through an organized questioner. The main dependent variable was crime while the independent variable education, unemployment, and poverty. Structural equation modeling was employed, and as a tool, Smart Pls and SPSS were employed for analysis. Results show that unemployment and poverty had a positive impact on crime. The study followed a descriptive method rationally using a survey questionnaire for data collection. In total, a sample number of 116 responses is valid applied led to a conclusion. These individuals are easily tempted into criminal activities largely due to their low-slung socio-economic background. Furthermore, the study recommended a holistic adult empowerment programs be supported by government stakeholders as well as non-government to alleviate unemployment and poverty. Resultantly, boost up the adolescent concentration, directing towards better and rewarding activities; more strategically smart yout
MARKETING STIMULI AND PURCHASE BEHAVIOR OF CUSTOMERS FOR SMART PHONES: A CLOSER LOOK AT CONSUMER INVOLVEMENT
Get PDFThe study has used the claims of S-O-R model regarding consumer behavior and investigates the impact of marketing stimuli on purchase behavior of Smartphone users, to add value in the concept; researcher has conceptualized the consumer involvement as a mediator between the relationships. A sample of 318 Smartphone users responded through convenient sampling technique. The findings of the research unfold that marketing stimuli has positive impact on both consumer involvement and purchase behavior. Whereas consumer involvement does mediate the relationship between marketing stimuli and purchase behavior. The major contribution of this research is that it provides deep insight into use of marketing stimuli in studying consumer purchase behavior. Further studies should prioritize the dimensions of marketing stimuli with respect to their impact on consumer involvement and purchase behavior
UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE PERFORMANCE THROUGH THE LENSES OF TALENT MANAGEMENT AND ITS FACETS
Get PDFThe research was conducted to understand the possible relationship of talent management and its four facets with role performance of the employees working in telecom sector of Pakistan. To test the hypotheses of the study, the data based on 262 respondents was collected through simple random sampling method. The primary data was collected by distributing print outs of the questionnaire for which scales were adapted from previous studies. The relationship of talent management and its facets with employee performance was tested through step wise multiple regression analysis. The relationship of talent retention with role performance was not supported by the data. Whereas, other facets of talent management viz. training and development, talent attraction and career development were having substantial relationship with role performance. In addition to this, the relationship between talent management and role performance was found positive and significant. Due to limited financial resources and paucity of time, the study has some limitations. The study is conducted based on cross sectional design and limited the sample to one major city of the country. Whereas, the longitudinal study with more geographical coverage can give more generalized results
THE NEXUS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT: THE ROLE OF MEDIA IN PAKISTAN
Get PDFPakistan is facing two front challenges from climate change and development. It has the least share in production of Green House Gases (GHGs) as well as in Carbon Offset and on the other hand, it is the country which is worst affected by climate change among South Asian countries. Similarly, the cost of sustainable development hinders the growth of Gross Domestic Products (GDP). The electronic and printed media in Pakistan is more focused on the causes and impacts of climate change as well as on the progress of sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The present study explores the diverse dimensions of the role of media in the understanding of the nexus of climate change and development to maximize the benefits for the country development particularly of GDP sector. The existing potential of Pakistani media is studied to interlink the GHGs emission and GDP, with the impacts of climate change and Carbon Offset take down by the country. In the same fashion, the relation between sustainable development and growth of GDP with inflation rate portrayed the actual struggle of the country for the SDGs progress. The paradigm shift in understanding and projecting of the nexus of climate change and development from Pakistani media will support the growth of GDP in the country
FLOURISHING OF MARITAL RELATIONSHIP: ANALYZING EDUCATION AS DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLE OF PAKISTANI HUSBANDS AND WIVES
Get PDFFlourishing within marital relationship is a notion used to describe optimum quality of relationship between husband and wife. Despite profusion of research to recognize the factors underlying a happy and satisfying marital relationship, the determinant of a flourishing marital connection remains limited. Moreover, in the effort to understand flourishing of marital relationship, role of demographic variables has always been understudied. Hence, aim of the current investigation was to investigate the effects of level of education upon flourishing of Pakistani married sample. 1002 married individuals participated in this cross sectional study. Data was gathered through self-report indigenous measure of Psychological Flourishing Scale (PFS; Fahd & Hanif, 2007). The data was analyzed by inferential statistics using One-way Analysis of Variance. Findings exhibited significant variances in marital flourishing on the basis of level of education. It was depicted that level of marital flourishing was highest among individuals with low level of education i.e. matric as compared to high levels of education i.e. Masters and M.Phil./PhD. The article is concluded by briefly foregrounding some of the study’s limitations as well as implications for the practice, and some of the directions for future research
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: A STUDY ON TELECOMMUNICATION SECTOR OF PAKISTAN
Get PDFThe corporate governance mechanisms in Pakistan are not given much importance to enhance the corporate social responsibility activities in business organizations. Organizations are expanding their boundaries and adopting new and innovative ways to show that they care for humanity. This article studies the influence of corporate governance on different corporate social responsibilities activities in Pakistani organizations. Five-point likert scale questionnaire was used to measure the impact of corporate governance on corporate social responsibility activities in the telecommunication sector of Pakistan. Regression analysis was done to test the relationship between corporate governance and corporate social responsibility, along with other correlational and descriptive statistical analysis. The results suggest that the corporate governance dimensions of discipline, social awareness, transparency, fairness and responsibility have a significant effect on corporate social responsibility