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Green Human Resource Management Practices and Organizational Sustainability: The Mediating Role of Employee Green Engagement in Pakistan’s Service Sector
Full text linkThis study investigates the influence of Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) practices, namely green recruitment, green training, green performance management, and green rewards, on organizational sustainability, with a focus on the mediating role of employee green engagement in Pakistan’s service sector. Drawing upon the Resource-Based View (RBV) and Social Exchange Theory (SET), the study employs a quantitative survey design, collecting responses from 400 employees across banking, telecommunications, and hospitality firms. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was applied to test the hypothesized relationships. Results demonstrate that all four GHRM practices significantly enhance organizational sustainability, with green training and green performance management exhibiting the strongest effects. Importantly, employee green engagement was found to partially mediate these relationships, highlighting its pivotal role in translating HR practices into sustainable outcomes. The findings contribute to the growing GHRM literature by contextualizing insights within an emerging economy and service-sector setting, where institutional support for sustainability remains limited. Practical implications underscore the need for managers to integrate training, appraisal, and incentive systems with green engagement strategies, while policymakers are encouraged to create enabling regulatory frameworks. Limitations and future research directions are also discussed
Cultivating Gratefulness: The Power of Combined Gratitude Interventions in Youth: Zara Haroon, Amna Khawar and Amina Muazzam
Full text linkGratitude interventions, as a promising and accessible approach, enhance well-being and psychological resilience by fostering greater appreciation and optimism. The present research aimed to determine the effectiveness of combined gratitude interventions on youth. The four-week adapted version of combined gratitude interventions consisted of three techniques, namely Count Your Blessings, Gratitude Letters, and Loving Kindness Meditation. The sample, comprising 30 participants (16 male and 14 female) aged 15-24 years (M=20.20, SD=0.99), was drawn from two colleges in Lahore, Pakistan. The study employed a quasi-experimental research design. Nonprobability purposive sampling strategy was used. The self-report measure of gratitude was used as the screening tool to select participants for the intervention. Pre and post-intervention results showed statistically significant differences in gratitude (p-value=0.00), social gratitude (p-value=0.00), and expression of gratitude (pvalue=0.00). However, gratitude towards God remained non-significant at the post-intervention level. The fourweek follow-up session was conducted to check the lasting impact of gratitude interventions. The paired sample t-test was used to evaluate the difference between the pre-test and post-test assessments. Compared to postintervention assessments, participants maintained a significant increase in gratitude scores. Further, Bonferroni post-hoc analysis revealed significant mean differences at all three levels (pre-test, post-test, and follow-up). The findings suggest that the combined gratitude interventions effectively enhanced gratitude levels among Pakistani youth. The findings are helpful for clinicians, administrators of educational institutions, and policymakers to incentivize mental health programs that incorporate gratitude practices to support mental health and well-being at a broader societal level.
Effects of Investor Risk Behavior in International Transmission of United States of America’s Monetary Policy: The Experience of Eight African Countries
Full text linkAlthough US monetary policy and international investor behaviour dynamics influence Federal Reserve policy spillovers, the interactive effect of investor behaviour with conventional and unconventional US monetary policy spillovers remains unexplored. With Africa’s increased macroeconomic turbulence amidst the US unconventional monetary policy (UMP), information on such an interaction effect can help mitigate spillovers. This study examines the moderating effect of investor risk behaviour on US monetary policy transmission to African countries using a Bayesian VAR framework with data from 2006 to 2022. The results show that investor behaviour moderates US monetary policy transmissions through capital flows, exchange rate, and interest rate differentials to the African countries. The interactive effect on the conventional US policy transmission is relatively weak, and this has important implications for macroeconomic policy, as managing cross-border spillovers can be counter-productive if the influence of investor behaviour is underestimated. Establishing the influence of investor behaviour on US monetary policy spillovers is novel, but considering the influence of other global factors like crude oil prices on the transmission process will be an addition to the literature
From Capability to Functioning: Exploring the Effect of Economic Freedom on Economic Complexity
Full text linkThe competitive advantage of a nation can be assessed using economic complexity, which measures long-term success and productive potential. The economic complexity (EC), foreign direct investment (FDI), innovations (INN) link, and the economic freedom (EF) moderation are examined in this study. Sustained growth and development require an increase in productivity, which is measured using economic complexity. A Feasible Generalized Least Squares (FGLS) estimation on 53 developing nations between 2002-2021 showed that national productivity is deterred by unregulated economic freedom. It diminishes the effect of innovation and FDI but increases the effect of growth, implying that freedom and productivity have a complicated relation within the context of innovation, FDI, and growth. Further investigation is required for this role of freedom in developing countries. Policy makers can regulate economic freedom so that it can become facilitative for innovation and FDI, while its growth impact must be exploited
U.n.I – Building a Community-Led Student Network in Pakistan
Full text linkThe case examines the problems U.n.I - Pakistan\u27s first university-validated student networking platform - faces as it seeks to expand its operations without losing its strong position in 2025. LUMS undergraduate Hamza Bin Mubeen founded the platform in 2023 to help students collaborate safely and securely within an institution-approved digital space. Now U.n.I serve 9,200+ active learners across five universities and maintain an industry-best 25% retention rate, proving that its model is viable. At the same time, the case raises three significant issues: first, ensuring users\u27 trust in the service as it seeks sustainable income, second, maintaining the platform\u27s quality as it expands to other campuses, and third, defending its place amid famous social media platforms. The case further explains how the U.N.I.\u27s strategy to verify students and its organic growth strategy gives insights into how digital platforms can create and capture value in the Pakistani education tech sector. Moreover, it explores the main challenge of balancing rapid expansion with a community-driven environment for student entrepreneurs
Generation Z and the Prospects of Peace: Youth Perceptions from ConflictAffected Areas of Pakistan: Dr. Rahman Ullah, Ms. Fatima Amjid Khan and Mr. Fazil Wahid
Full text linkThis study examines how Generation Z in conflict-affected regions of Pakistan perceives peace and understands its role in peacebuilding processes. Grounded in the Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, the research explores how youth navigate political instability, institutional mistrust, and socio-economic inequality to construct everyday meanings of peace. Using a qualitative approach, the study draws on fifty semi-structured interviews with university students from Kohat University, primarily representing conflict-prone districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Thematic analysis reveals five interlinked themes: (1) political stability as a prerequisite for peace and good governance; (2) ethical and independent media as a site of both accountability and civic engagement; (3) education as a transformative tool that fosters critical thinking, tolerance, and participatory citizenship; (4) the contested role of traditional justice systems like the Jirga in local dispute resolution; and (5) digital platforms as spaces for everyday activism, where youth challenge dominant narratives and promote alternative visions of justice. While many participants expressed disillusionment with existing institutions, they also articulated resilient strategies to reclaim agency through education, media, and civic participation. The study underscores the generational shift from passive media consumption to active digital engagement, linking youth-led activism with broader peacebuilding efforts. It recommends youth-inclusive governance, peace-oriented curriculum reform, and balanced media regulations to support sustainable peace. By centering youth perspectives, this research contributes to a deeper understanding of how conflict-affected communities imagine peace not as the absence of violence, but as the presence of justice, dignity, and voice.
Nexus between Cashlessness and Economic Growth: Comparative Evidence from Developing and Developed Economies
Full text linkAn economic system defined as the "cashless payment system" replaces the traditional physical national exchange stream with modern technological platforms, including internet banking, plastic card introductions, and online transactions. The transition from a cash payment system to a cashless system often occurs in four fundamental stages, according to Thomas (2013), which are categorized as inception, transitioning, tipping, and advanced. This study explores the impact of cashless payments on economic growth in developed and developing countries. Besides, it also scrutinizes how economic growth varies in each transitional phase of cashless payments. Using a sample of 38 countries and utilizing panel data spanning from 2010 to 2021, our study identifies the following outcomes: Firstly, cashless payment positively impacts the economic growth in both developing and developed economies. Moreover, the effect of cashless payments on economic growth is relatively higher in developed economies than in developing economies. Secondly, empirical analysis reports that growth varies with the level of transitional stages of cashless payments. To be more explicit, it is found that the response of growth against the inception stage of cashless payment is relatively lower as compared to the corresponding transition, tipping, and advanced stages
Nexus Between Feedback Loops, Innovation capability and TQM Factors for Logistical Performance
Full text linkThe objective of this research is to explore the linkages and interdependence of the interacting variables of innovation capabilities, TQM factors and sub-variables of logistical performance. There are multiple variables which can act as the entry points for improving the logistical performance in the supply chain. This research examines the causal loop diagrams with the interacting variables of innovation capabilities and key factors of TQM to access the logistical performance. Conceptual model is the proposed framework that provides the foundation stone to develop the block diagram and simulated system dynamics model using simulation software STELLA and acts as a building block of the neural networks using python and deep learning
Planning Horizon Liquidity constraints: M. Aslam Chaudhary and Malik Muhammad
No full textThis Study examines leff\u27s claim that corruption improves efficiency by avoiding cumbersome and lengthy government procedures in less developed countries. Using three different measures of corruption from the World Bank Survey, the study concludes that corruption does not improve government\u27s efficiency for the sample of 54 less developed countries after controlling other variables. Thus, government instead of selling their inefficient units should adopt meaningful policies to combat corruption
Dimensions and Spread of Unemployment
Full text linkThis study aims at, to analyze unemployment spell by utilizing Borooah (2002) technique which adjust aggregate unemployment rate for differences in the distribution of unemployment spell. So far, there is not a single study pertaining to Pakistan which may have been focused on this issue. Besides, forecasts for unemployment are estimated by region/province, age and gender. It has been identified that females are more victim of unemployment than males. The NWFP is at the top having high level of unemployment, as compared to other provinces. Moreover, it appears that the official level of unemployment identified by the public sector is much lower than the real level of unemployment in Pakistan. The above cited findings of the study draw attention of economic managers to pay attention not only to unemployment problem but also to its spell at province level, for different age groups and by gender