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ANALYSIS OF VOLATILITY SPILLOVER OF PORTFOLIO RETURNS: EVIDENCE FROM PAKISTANI STOCK MARKET
Get PDFThe present study attempts to model and analyze the lagged asymmetric volatility spillover effect between the high/low beta portfolio returns and the economic variables returns in case of Pakistan for the time period of July 2001 to June 2015 respectively. The lagged effect is taken to analyze and model the previous effect of the volatility spillover of the portfolio returns and the economic variables on the current volatility spillover of the respective variables respectively. The study also attempts to study the leverage effect (asymmetry) of the respective variables by employing the EGARCH model respectively. The findings of the present study indicate the significant differing volatility spillover effect of high beta portfolio returns and the low beta portfolio returns with all of the four economic variable returns respectivel
Under the Shadow of Destructive Leadership: Causal Effect of Job stress on Turnover Intention of Employees in Call Centers
Get PDFThe purpose of the study is to analyze the dark side of leadership behaviors leading to cause job stress and their impact on turnover intention of employees as work outcome. Working under the dark shadow of destructive leaders creates stress and anxiety that effect indirectly and consequently lead employees to turnover from their job position or designation. The research study is exploratory in approach. The scales were adapted from that measure to analyze the destructive leadership exhibiting negative behaviors causing job stress, also highlights the evidence in support of the conceptual model. The sample chosen for this research are employees working in telecommunication call centers of Lahore city region in Pakistan that generated 250 respondents by survey data collection. AMOS (SEM) was employed for data analysis. The results showed that Abusive supervision and Derailed leadership behaviors contained the positive influence on Turnover intention followed by mediating effect of job stress analyzed by bootstrapping technique contained partial and full mediation in relation with turnover intention respectively. Outcome from the conducted study depicted that more knowledge and awareness about the leadership behaviors and perspective in organizations in relation to its consequences is needed to be dealt with. The study provided evidence along with a proposed model that directed the readers‟ and researchers attention towards the dark side behaviors of leader in a stress building environment such as telecommunication sector. This empirical study provides a preliminary evidence of the mediating role job stress when faced with destructive behaviors of leaders that stresses to have an impact on Turnover Intention of employees
IMPACT OF AGENTIC WORK BEHAVIORS ON JOB SATISFACTION AND LIFE SATISFACTION: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF TEACHERS IN HEI OF BALOCHISTAN
Get PDFThe main objective of this study is to determine the impact of two agentic work behaviors (task focus and heedful relating) on job and life satisfaction among a sample of 210 full time employed university teachers in the public and private sector universities of Balochistan. Data for the present study were gathered by distributing self-administered questionnaire among the participants. The results were analyzed by using SPSS 20 software. Pearson correlation coefficient and Multiple Linear Regression were applied to determine the impact of independent variables on dependent variables. Correlations results indicated the positive significant relationship among task focus, heedful relating, job satisfaction and life satisfaction. Moreover, the Linear Regression analysis showed that both task focus and heedful relating work behaviours have their positive impact on job and life satisfaction. These findings imply that organizations should reconstruct their policies in such a manner that must endeavor and encourage the employees to practice agentic work behaviors at workplace so that they are both physically and mentally healthy
The Influence of Leadership Styles on Employees Performance under Perceptions of Organizational Politics: A Study of Telecom Sector in Pakistan
Get PDFThe purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship of leadership styles and employee performance. In addition to that, this study also examines the mediation effect of perceived organizational politics between leadership styles and employee performance in the telecom sector of Lahore, Pakistan. Positivism research paradigm and deductive research approach has been adopted. Survey research method and focus group interviews have been triangulated in order to validate the findings of the research. Random sampling technique has been used in which 360 questionnaires has been distributed in the selected telecom companies of Lahore, Pakistan and 249 valid questionnaire were received at a response rate of 69%. Results of this study indicated that transformational leadership is insignificantly related with employee performance while transactional leadership significantly related with the employee performance. This findings of this study also indicated that perceived organizational politics fully mediate the relationship of transformational leadership and employee performance. Moreover, perceived organizational politics partially mediate the relationship of transactional leadership and employee performance. Future implications and limitations are also discussed
Mediating Role of Work Engagement in the Relationship between Job Satisfaction and Turnover Intention: An empirical evidence from Hospitals in Lahore, Pakistan
Get PDFThe basic purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between job satisfaction and turnover intention in the presence of mediating variable of work engagement in hospitals of Lahore, Pakistan. Data was collected through self-administered questionnaire which was distributed among public and private hospital nurses holding positions of nurse or head nurse. The sample size was 270. SPSS and AMOS software was used for demographic and inferential analysis. Results conclude that job satisfaction with determinants of JS (pay, promotion, nature of job etc.) have negative relationship with turnover intention. Results also showed that work engagement has partial mediating role in the relationship of job satisfaction and turnover intention. This study mainly focused on service sector (hospitals) in Lahore. So the results are limited to only service sector which narrow down its generalizability. Current study is cross sectional and longitudinal study is recommended to generalize results. The survey data was collected from nurses of one city that is Lahore it required to do similar research on other cities of Punjab. Various studies in literature have explored relationships among different variables of organizational behavior rather than explaining any other mechanism; they have focused much on their relationships but less on mediating relationship of work engagement
Evaluation of Short-run Market Performance of Initial Public Offerings: Evidence from Karachi Stock Exchange
Get PDFThis study analyses short-run underpricing of Initial Public Offering at Karachi Stock Market of Pakistan by applying different event study models. The data were used for the period 2001-2013. The short-run performance of the IPO was evaluated by initial return on first day, yearly return for the first, fifth, tenth and fifteenth days after being listed of a firm and abnormal returns in different states of the economy. For analysis of short-run performance of IPO under different states of economy, data were divided into four states i.e. normal, boom, recession, recovery and general. It was found that IPOs gave positive significant initial return of 182.35%. In normal, boom and general states of economy, it provided significant positive return but in recession and recovery, it was insignificant
Changing Demographics and Economic Growth: A Case Study of Pakistan
Get PDFThe objective of this study is to determine the relationship between various demographic variables and economic growth of Pakistan for the period of 1980-2012. Time series econometric technique has been used for the analysis. Johansen’s co-integration test showed presence of long run relationship between different demographic variables. After establishing the presence of error correction term in the model, variance decomposition test has been used to identify the individual shocks between the variables. The study concludes that the demographic transition has very important role in the economic growth of Pakistan
Emotional Labor and Emotional Exhaustion in Emergency Medical Service Employees, Pakistan
Get PDFThe work of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is stressful and drains them emotionally. This research investigates the impact of Emotional Labor Strategies i.e. Surface Acting, Deep Acting and Authenticity or Expression of Naturally Felt-emotions on Emotional Exhaustion of EMS employees in Pakistan. By nature this study is quantitative, and 110 employees (Emergency Medical Technicians) of Punjab Emergency Service Rescue 1122 participated in the data collection process. Primary data was collected through questionnaire. Data was further analyzed by descriptive statistic, correlation and linear regression. Results illustrate that EMS professionals are mostly engaged in deep acting and authenticity or expression of naturally-felt emotions than surface acting. Linear regressions were run to investigate the impact of each emotional labor strategy i.e. Surface acting, deep acting and authenticity or ENFE on Emotional Exhaustion. Results reveal that surface acting has positive impact on emotional exhaustion while deep acting and authenticity or ENFE have negative association with emotional exhaustion. This study adds to the extant literature by giving empirical insight into the relationship between emotional labor strategies and emotional exhaustion. It provides guidance to Emergency Medical Service’s (EMS) as how to familiarize and employ the effective emotion’s coping strategies
Intellectual Capital and Organizational Performance: Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Orientation in SMEs Sector of Pakistan
Get PDFThe emergence of modern societies has created many challenges for organizations to counter hyper competition in the market. In this regard, firms that are innovatively using their intellectual resources have not only preeminent chances to grow and sustain in intensive competitive milieu but also reap significant performance in the marketplace. Therefore, the main endeavor of this study is to investigate the impact of intellectual capital on organizational performance of small and medium enterprises of Pakistan. Further, the mediating role of entrepreneurial orientation which is recently recognized as the most crucial factor in ameliorating firm performance is also empirically tested in the model. The study has employed structural equation modeling (SEM) and principle component analysis (PCA) to test the mediating model. It has been found that human capital and relational capital have direct and indirect effect on organizational performance while structural capital does not show any direct relationship with organizational performance. The findings of this research facilitate the policy makers, practitioners and entrepreneur’s/owner mangers of Pakistan in particular and other developing country in general to formulate strategies that can accelerate performance and strengthen SMEs operations across borders
Impact of Knowledge based HR Practices on Innovation with the Mediating Effect on Employee’s Creativity
Get PDFThe purpose of this research is to concentrate on the mindful and orderly administrative activities for business with knowledge in firms (i.e. knowledge management (KM) practices), which aims at innovation performance improvements through proactive management of knowledge assets. The study examined the impact that the KM practices have on innovation performance. A study was conducted to obtain experiential evidence by using questionnaire. The data have been collected from 366 respondents from FMCGs within Lahore City. A structured questionnaire was framed containing 27 questions. This research is significant for practitioners, policy makers and from theoretical point of view. Quantitative data have been collected for research purpose. The results reveal that employee’s creativity plays a positive role in innovation of an organization. Therefore, all hypotheses are acknowledged. The study clarifies that the knowledge based HR practices have effect on innovation and it affects positively employee’s creativity too.