Category: Journals

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The objective of this study was to find out the impact of employees organizational commitment on readiness for change during the change process. The study was carried out among the teaching and non-teaching staff of Higher Education Institutions, (HEIs) of Karachi. The sample comprised of 168 respondents from various HEIs of Karachi including Private and public sector organizations. To assess the employees readiness for change the scale of (Kwahk and Lee, 2008) and for organizational commitment “Three component model” of Meyer and Allen (1997) and scales of (Hersovitch and Meyer, 2002) were used. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) technique was used to find out the results of the analysis which suggested Affective (AC) and Continuance commitment (CC) have a significant influence on the readiness for change whereas, normative commitment (NC) do not significantly influence the employees readiness for change in institutions of higher education. This study is one of the first to empirically establish a relationship between change readiness behaviors among the employees of the HEIs of Karachi, Pakistan. One of the important theoretical contributions of the study is that the three-component model which has been empirically tested in various socio-economic settings in the Western context and in a Pakistani public sector organization may also be employed in the Higher education sector of Pakistan, which helps in understanding the change related behavior of the employees with respect to policy making and adaptability to the new and updated requirements of the academia including curriculum, assessment methodology and others.

Keywords: 

Higher Learning Institutions (HEIs), Organizational Commitment, Readiness for Change

DOI: 

https://doi.org/10.31384/jisrmsse/2018.16.1.1

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The objective of the present article is to highlight the concept of innovation performance, its importance and the different elements that could potentially enhance it within an organization. Through critical appraisal of the literature, the paper has attempted to shed light on how innovation performance is essentially important for businesses to thrive in the current global
economy via focusing on prospects like corporate entrepreneurship and employee engagement.
The review has concluded that Innovation and more importantly, employee performance towards bringing innovative is critical for businesses. Corporate entrepreneurship is an evolving concept
that talks about nurturing and establishing such an environment that supports and motivates people to work with initiative mindset, indulging in creativity and innovation within the
organization. Notably, past empirical evidence has underscored employee engagement to be highly significant in enhancing performance focused outcomes. The paper had attempted to establish how corporate entrepreneurship can enhance innovation performance within an organization. Importantly, the paper has also outlined pivotal role of employee engagement as a
potential moderator to enrich this relationship. The paper has forwarded research model highlighting severe paucity of research and mature significance for fostering innovation performance at the workplace.
Key words: Corporate Entrepreneurship, Employee Engagement, Innovation Performance,
Creativity

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In the regime of globalization, many companies around the world attempt to globalize their business network beyond domestic boundaries. The stimulus behind that is to nourish, avail opportunities, and earn profits by leveraging the global skills and resources. Such an extension of business can not only benefit them but also to the domestic economies, and overseas economies too in many respects. This study intensively examines the way investors and financers’ assist Pakistani companies to expand their business worldwide. When companies flourish their business ventures and even go global, investors feel confident in investing with them. Similarly, financers trust them and finance them at soft/discounted terms. This is a novel study in the matrix of Pakistan. One earlier research on this issue in some other country ascertained only about the role of bank lending in corporate globalization, while this probe also enlarges its scope by probing about the relationship among investors and globally expanding companies.          

The research design of this study consists of sequential hybrid research approaches. At the first stage, a qualitative study was conducted to have basic acquaintance about the core theme of the investigation, corporate globalization and the role of investors and banks cum lending agencies to support Pakistani companies. At the second stage, quantitative study was conducted to test the hypotheses. The samples belong to the population of top-five export-oriented sectors in Pakistan since many of their companies have globalized their operations. The findings reveal evidence of trust and support by investors, banks, and lending entities to these companies.

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Globalization, Corporate Globalization, Bank Lending and Corporate Globalization in Pakistan

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The main objective of this study was to ascertain the impact of job clarity on nurses’ job satisfaction in the public hospitals of Sindh province of Pakistan. The results presented a valid and reliable measurement model so that a structural model could be built upon it for testing research hypotheses. Results indicate that job clarity has an insignificant impact on job satisfaction among nurses in Pakistan. Moreover, the fairness perception does not moderate; rather, it is found to be a strong predictor of nurses’ job satisfaction. In other words, people have a lack of clarity about tasks, roles, and responsibilities, often end up affecting their outcomes. Therefore, it is recommended to strengthen the element of fairness in jobs to boost job satisfaction. HR policies and general policy makers in the organization have a greater role in this regards to ensure that the work and task are divided on fair grounds and so the rewards.

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The purpose of this study is to explore the unused (behavioural and technological) scopes of learning management system acceptance by succeeding an extra inclusive method to address learning management intention adoption. CFA and SEM analyses have been used to examine the data gathered from university students. The study attempts to investigate the part of technological variables in explaining behavioural intention of individuals to adopt learning management by integrating two pre-established frameworks of UTAUT2 (modified) and TTF. The empirical outcomes proven the significant impact of task (TAC) and technology characteristics (TEC) in simplifying task technology fit (TTF). The outcomes of this study also support the significant relationship of task technology fit (TTF) and facilitating condition (FC) with intention to adopt learning management system. The current study offers an all-inclusive method to explain the acceptance of learning management system by joining two recognised theories of technology acceptance. The strength of current study is based on combining behavioural and technological features of learning management system. The explanatory power of our research model suggests the very best explanatory power that described 60.1% of the behavioural intention to adopt learning management.

Keywords

UTAUT2, learning value, learning management system, e-learning, TTF

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The purpose of this study is to analyze the dimensions of job satisfaction and organizational commitment by using a more comprehensive approach to address job performance. The structural equation modeling analyses have been used to analyze the data collected from managers of fast-moving consumer goods. This study strives to examine the role of normative organizational commitment, affective organizational commitment, and continuous organizational commitment in predicting individuals’ job satisfaction, which further leads to job performance. The findings of the confirmatory factor analysis establish the excellent model fitness of the studied model. Furthermore, the results of structural equation modeling conclude that the significant association of all three forms of commitment to affect the job satisfaction of employees positively. The results indicate that normative commitment is the most influential form of organizational commitment, while continuous commitment is the least influential in impacting job satisfaction. Furthermore, the outcomes established a significant positive relationship between job satisfaction and job performance of employees of the fast-moving consumer goods sector of Pakistan.

Keywords: Employee commitment, job performance, job satisfaction, Pakistan

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Globalization persists the tendency to alter numerous aspects of today’s world including religion, transport, language, living styles, and international relations; however, its potential to influence quality of environment is the prime concern for trade and environmental policies guidelines (Audi and Ali 2018). In response to the growing interest for identifying the dynamic relationship between globalization and environmental performance, the present study seeks to investigate the critical link between globalization and ecological footprints in top 15 globalized countries between 1970 and 2016. Applying the novel methods of quantile-on-quantile regression (QQ) and Granger causality in quantiles, the findings examine the manners in which quantiles of globalization affect the quantiles of ecological footprints and vice versa. The empirical results suggest that globalization has a long-term positive effect on ecological footprint and vice versa in case of Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Canada, and Portugal. On the other hand, the estimated results indicate a negative effect between globalization and ecological footprint in the case of France, Germany, the UK, and Hungary. These results extend the recent findings on the globalization–environment nexus implying that the magnitude of relationship among both variables varies with countries demanding individual focus and cautions for postulating environmental and trade policies.

Keywords: Globalization, Ecological footprints, Quantile-on-quantile approach, Granger casuality in quantiles

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The present study is pioneer in examining the combined effects of HR Involvement, Performance Pay practices and HR Analytics in determining job satisfaction (JOS). Given the vitality of JOS in raising firm’s performance growth, the current study further investigates the influence of HR analytics, job satisfaction and HR involvement in driving organizational performance. Given the limited empirical work in this regard, the current study would add greater value to the existing literature in identifying the critical association of HR, IT and Performance nexus. The results of partial least square structural equation modelling confirm that HR analytics, performance pay practices and HR involvement have positively and significantly impact on job satisfaction. Moreover, the results of partial least square equation modelling displaying likewise demonstrate that HR analytics, HR involvement and Job satisfaction have a positive and significant impact on firm performance in multinational firms of Malaysia. Technical speaking, the results of partial least square modelling
affirm that the three components, i.e., HR analytics, performance pay, and HR involvement are significantly and positively impact on firm performance in different multinational firms in Malaysia.
Finally, the results suggested that HR analytics, HR involvement and job satisfaction are positive and significant contributors to enhance the performance of multinational firms in Malaysia.
Keywords: HR Analytics, HR Involvement, Performance pay practices, Malaysia.

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 This paper aims to analyze the efficient stock market hypothesis as responsive to American Presidential Election, 2016. The meta-analysis has been done combining content analysis and event study methodology. The all major newspapers, news channels, public polls, literature and five important indices as Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), NASDAQ Stock Market Composit Indexe (NASDAQ-COMP), Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (SPX-500), New York Stock Exchange Composite Index (NYSE-COMP) and Other U.S Indexes-Russell 2000 (RUT-2000) are critically examined and empirically analyzed. The findings from content analysis reflect that stunned winning of Mr Trump from Republican Party worked as shock for American stock market. From event study, findings confirmed that all the major indices reflected a decline on winning of Trump and losing of Ms. Clinton from Democratic. The results are supported empirically and practically through the political event like BREXIT that resulted in shock to Global stock index and loss of $2 Trillion.

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Efficient Stock Market, American Presidential Election, Stock Market Index

DOI: https://doi.org/10.25115/eae.v38i1.2948

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This research paper has addressed an explicit gap in the literature of pharmaceutical industry and healthcare management for a marketing promotion technique, direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA), which has remained to be an academically neglected area by the scholars of Pakistan. Thus, the purpose of this research was to unearth the prevalence of direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of over-the-counter (OTC) or non-prescription medicines and to assess its impact on consumer purchase behavior. Mixing of two qualitative methods comprising meta synthesis of literature followed by twenty five in-depth qualitative interviews with medical doctors, pharmacists, drug policy developers cum regulators and marketers of OTC medicines, and patients in Karachi-Pakistan (comprising medical doctors, pharmacists, and healthcare marketers) took place. Samples were selected
through snowball sampling method, while the data was analyzed through thematic analysis. The research presents quite useful insights as it has revealed that DTCA is exploited by certain unscrupulous circles, which are attempting to market their
unlicensed and unregistered medicines while with prior approval, federal drug authority only allows DTCA for only registered OTC medicines and some multivitamin complexes. It was concluded that DTCA has a profound influence only on perceptions and need recognition stage out of the five stages of consumer purchasing model. Thus, pharmaceutical and health industry experts are advised to change their attitude towards DTCA in Pakistan and must avail it as useful means of promotion and branding of medicines in Pakistan in conjunction with such othertools.

Keywords: Direct-to-consumer Advertising, Pharmaceutical Marketing, Healthcare Policy and Management, Consumer Behavior