Interdisciplinary Journal of Contemporary Research In Business

A Consumer Focused Study of Transport Service Quality: A Case Study of Selected State Transport Corporations in Nigeria

The development of a safe quick and cheap transportation system in Nigeria is becoming increasingly difficult to achieve because of the down-turn in the economy. In response to this problem, both the Federal and the State governments introduced the Urban Mass Transit Programme to complement the efforts of the existing public transport corporations. These corporations were plagued by insensitivity to the needs of their customers. Specifically, this study identified the present level of commute...

A Snap Shot On Business Ethic and Ethic in Business

An ethical issue in business is increasing and it is being focused on by the business markets, customers and communities. It was important from the beginning and is important also now as well. And every company or organization for being survival and comparative should pay much more attention to this important. This paper aims to study the ethic and some of related issues around it.

A Study of Globalization in International Business

In a rapidly changing environment, organizations constantly change goals and seemingly confront corporate cultural conflicts. And the global economy has altered economic structures and social policies and cause communities to enter to such a dynamic environment. In this dynamic environment called globalization every company should try to learn the lessons of globalization. This paper aims to study the globalization and its related issues in detail.

A Study to Explore Task and Role of Educational Managers in Educational Organizations of Nwfp

The purpose of this descriptive survey was to explore task and role of educational managers in educational organizations such as academic institutions of secondary and higher secondary schools of NWFP. Out of 24 districts of the province 8 were included in study. 256 educational managers were included in the sample through random sampling techniques. The objectives of the study were, (1) to determine the role and function of acceptable behavior of educational managers (2) to investigate the s...

An Empirical Study of Impact of Job Satisfaction On Job Performance in the Public Sector Organizations

The job satisfaction of employees is the most imperative factor in public sector regulatory authorities in Pakistan. To enhance the productivity and effectiveness of the employees one needs to examine what factors influences the job satisfaction. The purpose of this descriptive-correlational study was to test link between job satisfaction, job retention and job performance. Sample of 568 employees from public sector regulatory authorities was selected for this study. Employing a descriptive-c...

Antecedents of Turnover and Absenteeism: Evidence From Public Sector Institutions of Pakistan

In this study, we examined main factors that determine the turnover intentions and absenteeism in public sector institutions of Pakistan. Data was collected through self administered questionnaires. Results indicate that in public sector, turnover and absenteeism rates largely depends upon job stress, career opportunities and job satisfaction. Turnover and absenteeism can be reduced by implementing new techniques and strategies like providing better career opportunities and enhanced working e...

Attitude and Awareness of Bannu Community Towards Reproductive Health Education

The paper investigates the attitude and awareness of the members of Bannu community towards reproductive health education. The objectives of the study were to find out the extent of attitude, and level of awareness of members of Bannu community towards reproductive health education. For fulfillment of these objectives, two research questions were formulated. For data collection, questionnaire and structured interview were used. The sample consisted of 300 respondents, was randomly selected fr...

Comparison Among Opinions of Teachers by Designation, Age, Experience and Qualification Regarding the Role of Heads of Teaching Departments in the Promotion of Communication at Postgraduate Level

The purpose of the study was to compare the views of teachers by designation, age, experience and qualification regarding the role of heads of teaching departments in the promotion of communication in universities and postgraduate colleges. The population of the study consisted of all teachers in universities and postgraduate colleges in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. For this purpose, eight universities and eight postgraduate colleges were randomly selected by the researcher as a sample. The sample con...

Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment and Its Impact On Gdp Growth in Pakistan

The purpose of this article is to identify the determinants of Foreign Direct investment and its impact on GDP growth in Pakistan. In this research we will use secondary data about FDI and their Determinants. To investigate the impact of FDI on GDP & Determinants of FDI different statistical tests are applied on the data collected over the period of 1975-2008. This study present positive and significant impact of Foreign Direct investment on GDP of Pakistan. Furthermore, the results indic...

Developing a User's Feedback Index to Improve the Design and Construction Phase of Private Housing in Developing Metropolitan

It has been observed that designers are not always fully aware of consequences of their design solution, only through post occupational survey the designer usually realizes that what mistakes or bad decisions have been taken during the design process. It is a common conception that present day buildings are more vulnerable to design faults and resulting maintenance as compare to older counter parts. Despite the technological advancement of contemporary time prevention of building from unplann...

Does Correlation Exist Between Inflation and Corruption: Comparison of Pakistan with India

Corruption is the reality that affects so many aspects of the country's economic growth including foreign direct investment, gross domestic products, exchange rate and inflation etc. Corruption and inflation relationship is an important subject in business economics in this present decade. The topic "relationship between corruption and inflation" has a lot of significance because if some body talks about the inflation the other person quickly perceives that corruption might be that factor tha...

Does Market Size Affect Fdi? The Case of Pakistan

Market size normally remains a vital determinant for FDI inflows and it is endorsing the emergence of regionalization. The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of market size along with exchange rate and corporate tax rate on FDI inflows in a low income country like Pakistan. ARDL approach to cointegration and an error correction model based on ARDL is used to estimate relationships among variables. Time series data from 1984 to 2008 is used in this study. This study observes market...

Effect of Leadership On Employees Performance in Multinational Pharmaceutical Companies in Pakistan

The study was conducted to examine the effect of leadership on employee's performance in multinational pharmaceutical companies in Pakistan. The leadership behaviors were assessed with respect to 5 factors (motivation, promoting challenging standards, visibility and availability, championing excellence and team working). Data was collected from 50 leaders through questionnaire by selecting 10 leaders from each 5 multinational pharmaceutical companies. The results were presented in terms of co...

Effect of Organizational Culture On Success of Knowledge Management System's Implementation (Case Study: Saderat Bank in Isfahan Province)

The purpose of this research is to test intermediatory effect of organizational culture model in relation between knowledge management and organizational benefits and also to study the positive relation between knowledge management and organizational benefits. This subject is related to strategic issues of the organization like sharing of knowledge and creating of new capacities for taking action through learning process. The required data has been collected by distributing of questionnaires ...

Entrepreneurial Intentions Among the Business Students of Higher Education Institutes of Punjab

Entrepreneurship is considered as the mean of wealth creation and personal fulfillment (Ma and Tan, 2005). This study attempts to find the entrepreneurial intentions among the business students of higher education institutes of Punjab. The data is collected from 300 students and the results indicate that males and people having families with business exposure are more inclined to start their own business enterprise than females and students not having family business exposure. In addition, en...

Ethnic Evaluations of Black Models in Advertising: Identity, Comparison, and Skin Tone

This study investigates the interaction effects of strength of ethnic identity (high/low), social comparison (comparer/noncomparer), and model skin tone (light/dark) on source credibility and advertisement evaluations among Black respondents. A 2 x 2 x 2 between-subjects experimental design revealed a marginally significant two-way interaction (strength of ethnic identification x model skin tone) and a significant three-way interaction. Strong ethnic identifiers rated light-skinned and dark-s...

Evaluation of Member Service Quality; a Case Study of Royal Palm Golf & Country Club

The study focused on problems the current employees of the organization are facing due to which it is not gaining work force competitive advantage in the market. The researchers used questionnaire method to acquire information from the employees of the company so that a detailed understanding of the problems of the employees could be established. The researcher distributed about 120 questionnaires from which one hundred are select as final for the build up of results. With the help of collect...

Exchange Rate Depreciation and Import Demand in Nigeria (1986 - 2008)

This paper has examined the direction and extent of exchange rate impact on import demand for the different groups of products in Nigeria for the period 1986 -2008, using the traditional polynomial distributed lag model. The empirical result shows that the demand for these product groups was import inelastic, and that apart from the one product group - manufactured goods, - exchange rate depreciation made appreciable impact on import demand for the period covered by the investigation. Depreci...

Exploring Motivational Factors in the Professional Development Career Choice of a Teacher

The purpose of this study was to explore the role of motivational factors in the professional development career choice of teacher in the academic institutions of Rawalpindi. Motivation can be defined as the process of activating, maintaining and directing behavior toward a particular goal. The main objectives of the study were to identify the motivational factors in selecting teaching professional as career of choice of teachers and to identify the importance of selecting teaching profession...

Exploring the Paradox of Organizational Learning and Learning Organization

Organizational learning was and still is the area of interest for academicians, organizational development experts, and researchers because of its inherent ability to generate competitive advantage. Organizations need to build core competencies to outperform their rivals and for that they need organizations that are proactive, futuristic, strategic in thinking, and are capable of adaptability and are flexible to acquire new learnings. The concept of learning organization has a wide spread acc...

How Customer Satisfaction Affects Performance of Islamic Banks in Pakistan

Islamic banks entered in Pakistani banking industry at the inception of 21st century and proved a successful experience due to remarkable progress. This study investigates the relationship between customer satisfaction and performance of Islamic banks in Pakistan. The researcher collected data from 864 respondents of 72 branches of selected Islamic banks. The data were collected by a structured questionnaire developed in the light of existing literature. The responses were analyzed through SP...

How Service Quality Affects Performance of Conventional Banks in Pakistan

This study examines the relationship between service quality and performance of conventional banks operating in Pakistan. The researcher collected data from 864 respondents of 72 branches of selected banks. The data were collected by a structured questionnaire developed in the light of existing literature. The responses were analyzed through SPSS 15.0 Version. The relationship between service quality and performance of conventional banks was assessed by Pearson's correlation and regression an...

Human Resource Management Practices in Logistic Service Provider Industry: A Case Study

Due to the continuous changes in external environment, the function of human resource (HR) department in an organization has been evolving from personnel management to strategic human resource management (SHRM). According to the resource-based view of the firm (Barney, 1986, 1991, 1995), an organization can achieve sustainability competitive advantage by creating value that is rare and difficult to imitate by competitors. Literature reviews highlighted that the 'change hand' effect of the log...

Impact of Hr Practices On Employee Engagement in Banking Sector of Pakistan

Considerable attention has been given to the identification of key drivers of Employee Engagement and its linkage to the financial results. For this purpose following study is an endeavor to investigate the impact of HR practices on employee engagement in banking sector of Pakistan. It is based on the proposition of Social Exchange Theory. A quantitative approach based survey in form of close ended structured Five Point Likert-scale questionnaires was designed and used to implore the response...

Improved Hidden Markov Model in Dna Sequence Alignment

We present an improved hidden-Markov-Model ( HMM) based method for performing global alignment of non-coding DNA sequences. The method uses an explicit model of length frequency distribution which can be specified, and allows any time reversible model of nucleotide substitution. The method uses a deterministic global optimiser to find the alignment with the highest posterior probability. We test in simulations, and compare it to a previous Monte Carlo based method , that performed very well i...

Modernization and the Alterations of the Malay Wedding Foodways in the Urban Area

Preparation and consumption of food has long been a central position and one of the most essential components in the Malay wedding. These wedding foodways practices are not only act as social event but as well catalyst the interrelationship, interaction and social bonding among the individuals in the community. Waves of modernization however are believed to perceptually alter the Malays wedding foodways. This study empirically investigates factor moderating the alteration, level of changes an...

Muslim Response to Modernity and a New Strategy of Peace in the World

Muslim countries gained political independence from mid 40s onwards. However, during the colonial rule, Western powers tried to replace the Muslim thought, culture and institutions with the Western thought and culture through all possible means. Muslim reaction to Western thought and civilization after liberation ranged from complete acceptance to resistance and total indifference. The dominating approach was of reconciliation which resulted in Westernization of the Muslim societies by the se...

Organizational Environment, Job Satisfaction and Career Growth Opportunities: A Link to Employee Turnover Intentions in Public Sector of Pakistan

This study is aimed at finding the impact of organizational environment, job satisfaction of employees and career growth opportunities upon the employee's intent to leave the organization in the public sector of Pakistan. We have used standardized scales to collect data from a random sample of 100 employees of different public sector organizations of Pakistan. Inferential statistical tests were conducted to analyze the data for exploration of the extent of relevance among the variables taken ...

Policy and Policy Making in Iran; Issues and Process

Policy and policy making are continuous and complex task that crosses all levels of the country's organizations in public and private. It is an inherent role of government and company want to be survive and competitive in this chaotic area. Policy making is kind of mapping which maps the road of a country to get its goals. This paper aims to study the policy and policy making with concentration on Iran

Role of Integrated Secondary School Mathematics On Learning Business Mathematics

In Pakistan, two decades ago, there was general mathematics for the students of humanities and the main purpose of teaching general mathematics was to provide base foundation to the students who would join fields like humanities and business education in future. Currently, integrated mathematics is compulsory for both science and humanities' students. Broadly, integrated mathematics of secondary level consists of three parts, i.e sets and numbers, algebra, geometry and trigonometry. In Pakist...