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{"title":"A Study of the Contemporary Role of Talent Management in Building Sustainability Culture in Organizations","authors":"Y. Rizvi, Raksha Garg","doi":"10.18843/RWJASC/V8I2/09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18843/RWJASC/V8I2/09","url":null,"abstract":"Sustainability is no longer a choice that organizations can make just for the sake of improving corporate image; it has rather become a necessity, a compulsory step that is imperative for all organizations and the avoidance of which would harm its own survival in the long run. Strategic human resource management is becoming a dominant approach towards managing human resource in the organizations that is more inclined towards sustainability. This paper aims to review the researches done in the area of talent management in building sustainable organizations and provide insights into the importance of the HR function in building a culture of sustainability in organizations. This study will help organizations and HR executives in designing and aligning their policies and practices in ways that would support the implementation of organizational sustainability strategy.","PeriodicalId":243104,"journal":{"name":"Researchers World","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121755656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ted Hughes’s Vision of Power and Energy: A Special Reference to “the Hawk in the Rain”","authors":"D. Sharma","doi":"10.18843/RWJASC/V8I2(1)/09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18843/RWJASC/V8I2(1)/09","url":null,"abstract":"Ted Hughes is a versatile genius. He is one of the foremost poets in English literature. The violence is present in Hughes's poetry \"as a desperate wish to be out of the human altogether. Hughes is a poet who finds the human condition too much to take.\" The poetry of Ted Hughes has an element of violence. For him violence and power go together.The Hawk in the Rain is the first collection of poems by Ted Hughes. \"The Hawk in the Rain\" pitches us into the thick of a battle between vitality and death, which Hughes claimed was his only subject. It is, in this poem as in many, a one-sided battle. The poem \"The Hawk in the Rain\" presents a contrast between the steadiness, stability and strength of a hawk and the unsteadiness and sense of danger of a human being. We find the most vivid picture of the hawk being hurled down by a furious dream, and dashing against the earth, to be killed that instant. \"The Hawk in the Rain\" illustrates Hughes's vision of power and energy.","PeriodicalId":243104,"journal":{"name":"Researchers World","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127403300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Business Architecture Development for Integrated Agriculture Information System (Iais) Using Togaf Framework","authors":"R. Delima, H. B. Santoso, J. Purwadi","doi":"10.18843/RWJASC/V8I2(1)/01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18843/RWJASC/V8I2(1)/01","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION:Indonesia is one of the largest agricultural countries in the world. During 2010 - 2013, this sector has contributed 14.9% in Indonesia's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (Direktorat Pangan dan Pertanian, 2013) with 26.14 million of household works in agriculture sector (Badan Pusat Statistik, 2013). Based on those data, agricultural sector has big influence to Indonesia economic and society welfare. One of its ways to improve productivity and quality of agricultural product in Indonesia is by utilization of Information and Communication Technology in Agriculture Sector.Implementation of Information and Communication Technology in agricultural sector gives some benefits: (1) Increasing agriculture production; (2) Mitigating risk in agriculture sector; (3) Supporting profit optimization to farmers; (4) Increasing effectiveness in information sharing and communication between stakeholder in agriculture sector; (5) Increasing farmer's bargaining power; and (6) Supporting agriculture environmentally friendly (Delima, Santoso, & Purwadi, 2016). ICT brings big benefits to increase productivity, but implementation of ICT is still minimized. Some of the applications of agriculture with Indonesia language as the main language is still limited and can't be accessed, such as publication, public service, and product sales and agriculture tools from some vendors. Meanwhile, some of agricultural website which use Indonesian language as the main language as information and knowledge source is still limited (Delima & Purwadi, 2015). This problem is the main reason to develop Integrated Agriculture Information System (IAIS).Nowadays, IAIS is still in development phase. This system is specifically in place to process data, information, and knowledge in agriculture sector. IAIS is planned to be an integrated agriculture system that has some connected subsystems and able to link stakeholders in agriculture sector.The development process of a complex and integrated system needs well planned activities in some phases in order for all components in the system to have good interoperability capacity. System development plan is covered in system blueprint. System blueprint includes strategic development: (1) Organization vision and mission; (2) Data, Information, and Knowledge requirements; (3) Infrastructure requirements; (4) Application requirements; (5) Human resources requirements. Blueprint can be a guidance to develop and implement system.Enterprise Architecture (EA) approach is used to develop IAIS blueprint. Enterprise Architecture is used because of its ability to integrate all functions in Information Technology with organization business process (Marques, Borges, Sousa, & Pinho, 2011). Enterprise Architecture has 4 different architecture layers: (1) Business Architecture; (2) Application Architecture; (3) Information Architecture and (4) Technical Architecture. This article discusses about the development of Business Architecture for IAIS. Business Arc","PeriodicalId":243104,"journal":{"name":"Researchers World","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125275777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"URBAN LOCAL SELF GOVERNMENT IN INDIA: INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT AND PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS","authors":"Smritimala Bhattacharyya, Anupam Dey, Gautam Bandyopadhyay","doi":"10.18843/RWJASC/V8I2/04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18843/RWJASC/V8I2/04","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION:Governments at all levels have to play a major role in developing urban infrastructure which strengthens the base of an economy. Indian Constitutionhas provided for a three tiers federal structure (Union, State and Local) specifying the powers and responsibilities for all the tires of the governments. Therefore, it is the desired intention of the Constitution that all the tiers of the Governments work in a co -ordinated manner well within limits of the Constitution for urban infrastructure development. Third tier of Governments are generally termed as local self-governments and it has two wings, one which operates in the rural areas and the other in the urban areas. Constitutional status has been provided to these local governments through the 73th and 74th Constitutional Amendment Acts, 1992. Local self-governmentoperating in urban areas are commonly known as \"Urban Local Self Governments\".Prior to the Amendment Act, the plan for local infrastructure development were used to be drawn by the upper tier governmentswhere local requirement would not be considered. Therefore, the amendment is a direction to the state governments for transfer of power and responsibilities to the local governments with respect to preparation of plans for economic development and social justice, and also for the implementation of development schemes as may be required to enable the local governments to function as institutions of self-government. Unfortunately the issue of empowerment of the local selfgovernments has been left at the discretion of the state governments and as a result legislation primarily aims to make urban local bodies accountable to their stategovernment rather than to the citizens (The World Bank, 2007).Urban Local Self Governments (hereinafter referred to as ULSG) are of three types: (i) Nagar Panchayats for areas in transition from a rural area tourban area; (ii) Municipal Councils for smaller urban areas; (iii) Municipal Corporations for larger urban areas.India is also in the stage of rapid urbanization like other countries in the World and the constitution has provided different and concurrent list of works for different levels of governments. The role of ULGs, after becoming statutorily responsible for providing basic infrastructural facilities and maintenance of the same in the urban areas, has become more and more important.ULSGs find it difficult to balance between the limited financial resources and the unlimited needs for public services. (Tesu, 2011).FINANCIAL ANALYSIS OF ULSGs:ULSGs are statutorily responsible to carry out decentralized functions effectively and this requires presence of two important elements: adequate level of revenue either raised locally or transferred from the central government and the authority to make decisions about expenditures (Meddzi and Gondo, 2010). Finance of ULSGs consists of two major sources: own source and external source. Own source of receipts basically includes tax and non-tax receipts","PeriodicalId":243104,"journal":{"name":"Researchers World","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114644213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"THE DEVELOPING OF NATIONALISM IN ACEHNES LOCAL WISDOM FOR THOSE WHO RUNS THE ISLAMIC SHARIA","authors":"Sulaiman, HafidhMaksum","doi":"10.18843/RWJASC/V8I2(1)/07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18843/RWJASC/V8I2(1)/07","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION:Nationalism is an understanding that creates and maintains the sovereignty of a country to realize the concept of general identity for a group of people (residents). This bonding occurs and grows in society when people (residents) start thinking about living together in a particular area, i.e a country that is no longer under the control of other nations (Kahim, 1995, p. 18). (Riff, 1982, p. 54). (Komalasari, 2008). It should be understood that Indonesia has various ethnic groups who inhabit in islands. Every island is isolated from one to another due to natural factors, resulting in an environment where relationship among islands is not easy. These conditions encourage the growth of tribal characteristics in terms of linguistic, and cultural ones which are different from one to another so it rises to the distinctive nature of each, according to the environment.Under different conditions, the nationalism of Acehnese grew through the signal of their senses of nationhood and fate similarity which was followed with resistance against the invaders and other rejections. In the sense, the reactions of the Acehnese towards invaders' actions and attitudes which marked the rebellion in some areas wereconducted by the Acehnese personages. The rebellion sware politically separate from the invaders and to repel invaders from Aceh' s land.The implementation of Islamic sharia in Aceh is able to overcome new problems such as the rising sense of nationalism among Indonesian people. The flow problem can create Achenese nationalism identity. If we look at now a days from nationalism attitude (as the important elements in the growth of nationalism), we experienced changes towards better direction. (Maksum, 2017, p. 77).Islamic sharia is one of the solutions in creating Acehnese nationalism, because in Islamic sharia, we are demanded to act good to fellows without any discrimination and to teach love to the home land. (Zainuddin, 1961, p. 21).DISCUSSION:a. Nationalism in Islamic Perspective:Islam to its adherents is not only a religion in the sense of Western studies, but it is also a system that encompasses all aspects in human life. In his book, (Boisard, 1980, p. 183) assess that the universality of islam as a religion and social system can be proved from four terms : metaphysical term, religious term, sociological and political terms. As the belief in oneness of god is poured in a very strong belief, Islam is a universal ideology that can not be equated with ideologies of any religion. Besides this fundamental aspect, Islamic concept of human being is to help the universality of human. Human beings are independent and responsible. However, a human being is not secluded because he or shelive in a social environment and he or she will need to bear the consequences of his or her deeds. Double-Islamic conception of the individual is appropriate with the concept of universality that is accepted by modern western philosophy.Islam also teaches moral univer","PeriodicalId":243104,"journal":{"name":"Researchers World","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114244885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"SMEs MARKETING STRATEGIES DEVELOPMENT IN IMPROVING COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES (STUDY ON CENTER OF MAKING BEADS IN JOMBANG)","authors":"Widyastuti, Nadia Asandimitra Haryono, Monika Tiarawati","doi":"10.18843/RWJASC/V8I2(1)/03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18843/RWJASC/V8I2(1)/03","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION:The increasing business competition in this globalization era is something unavoidable among business players. The success of SMEs in the globalization era depends on planning and implementation of own strategies (Porter, 1980). Although SMEs play an important role in the national economy, SMEs still have low competitiveness. The study results from Center for Industry SME and Business Competetition Studies of Trisakti University shows that the competitiveness of the micro, small and medium enterprises in Indonesia is the lowest compared to member countries of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Sarwani, 2012).Low competitiveness impact company's long-term existence. Competitive advantage is one factor to be considered by companies to achieve its objectives. (Porter, 2008) said that the competitive advantage is the most important thing in terms of a company's performance to compete and grow so they can defend themselves from the market's competitive pressures.The competitive advantage for the company is a company's ability to provide added value to its products. The added value that will attract consumers who must be willing to buy your products that have the same benefits as competitors but at lower prices, or have unique characteristics compared with competitors, but at a higher price (Porter, 1985). SMEs that have a competitive advantage manufacture products that are competitive. Competitive products marked with a quality product, in accordance to the wishes of consumers and be able to compete with similar products and has its own uniqueness (Song & Parry, 1997)(Sriyana, 2010), in his research on SMEs in Bantul, found that SMEs are still facing fundamental problems such as product quality, marketing and business sustainability. Marketing problems faced by SMEs in general is limited market access. They were only able to sell their products in the area where it is produced and have not been able to reach a larger extent.The competitive advantage for the company is that the company is implementing a strategy that cannot be replicated by its competitors (Barney, 1991). According to (Knight, Summer 2000), the company's potential is shown by the company's business strategy in responding to the challenges and opportunities caused by the business environment. Company implements its strategy in order to attract customers and deal with a variety of environmental problems, such as competitors and suppliers.Strategy is everything executed by the company to achieve its objectives. According to (Rostro & Grudzewski, 2008), understand the rules of marketing can help companies determine the strategies undertaken in gaining a competitive advantage. (Varadarajan & Cunningham, 1995) states that the purpose of such marketing strategy is to achieve a competitive advantage. Creating products that have more value for consumers, promotion and setting competitive prices are some forms of marketing strategies that can help SMEs dominate the market.The bu","PeriodicalId":243104,"journal":{"name":"Researchers World","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117279767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"WHY DO PEOPLE PURCHASE HALAL COSMETICS? AN INTEGRATED MODEL IN SAUDI ARABIA","authors":"Ali Al-Hajla","doi":"10.18843/RWJASC/V8I2/03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18843/RWJASC/V8I2/03","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION:The word Halal (ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.) is defined as permissible, or lawful, in accordance to Islamic values. On the other hand, Haram means forbidden or prohibited (Alserhan, 2010; Wilson & Liu, 2010). Halal and Haram are clearly identified in the Islamic law via Quran and Hadith (acts of Prophet Mohammed peace be upon him) in regards to all types of products such as \"pharmaceutical, cosmetics, finance, investments and toiletries \" and behaviours. Accordingly, Muslims should be capable of recognising by themselves what is Halal and Haram. Haram acts, or consumption of alcohol, is regarded as a sin in Islamic law, which without repentance will be punished either during current life, or in the life thereafter, psychologically or physically. According to DEW research centre reports, the total Muslim adherents around the world is nearly 1.7 billion which makes up 23.4 per cent of the world's population and this is anticipated to rise to 27.5 per cent of the global population by 2030. Currently the Halal market is approximately $1.62 trillion per year and anticipated to rise up to $2.47 trillion by 2018. The Halal cosmetics market represent 7 per cent of global market with $54 billion, and is expected to reach $80 billion with 6.8% growth during the period of 2014 - 2020 (REUTER & DinarStandard, 2015). Despite reasonable market share for Halal cosmetics, the absence of Halal cosmetics and personal care still remains. In addition, Muslim consumers are largely forced to consume non-Halal cosmetics manufactured by non-Muslim manufacturers, which is expected to be non-Halal compliant components (Abd Rahman, Asrarhaghighi, & Ab Rahman, 2015). As argued by Mukhtar and Mohsin Butt (2012), cosmetics and personal care products have gained increased interest among Islamic marketing scholars due to the fact that most of the global brands include elements obtained from pork as stabilizers causing excessive levels of distrust regarding these brands amongst Muslim consumers who pursue use halal cosmetics and personal care.Although former studies related to Halal marketing were limited, Islamic compliant food and services, revealed that Halal products' consumers are highly loyal to halal brand. Thus their purchasing behaviour would not greatly be affected by economical changes. The high quality halal products usually provided, due to its compliance to Islamic values is increasingly attracting more non-Muslims consumers also (Alam & Sayuti, 2011; Lada, Tanakinjal, & Amin, 2009; Tieman & Ghazali, 2013). Halal products' increasing attractiveness can be related to religious commitment and beliefs that those products are healthier, cleaner and tastier (Lada et al., 2009). The importance of this study has emerged from the fact that Halal cosmetic market though it is a very promising market, according to previous figures, is suffering from a critical dearth of both theoretical and practical knowledge. Additionally, due to the fact t","PeriodicalId":243104,"journal":{"name":"Researchers World","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132251023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Persons Pronouns of Using Language and Its Use in Banyuwangi Speech Community","authors":"I. Suyitno","doi":"10.18843/RWJASC/V8I2(1)/14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18843/RWJASC/V8I2(1)/14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":243104,"journal":{"name":"Researchers World","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127543356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nahdlatul Ulama and It’s Role in the Development of Islamic Religious Education in Central Tapanuli","authors":"Sarmadan Nur Siregar","doi":"10.18843/RWJASC/V8I2(1)/12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18843/RWJASC/V8I2(1)/12","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION:History of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) as a long history of movement of Muslims in Indonesia which involves the process of institutionalization of education as an important part of it. Education, for leaders and members of NU is the most strategic agency to embody the spirit of \" al-muhāfazah al-Qadim al-Salih wa al-akhźu bi al-Jadid al-aslah\" (preserve it past the good and implement new and better). Through education, the treasures, religious affinity and strengthening the people could be done continuously from generation to generation (Salim, 2003).As a socio-religious organization that handles many fields, NU has several agencies that deal with various problems. One of them is Maarif Education Board which serving in education field. In 1936 (1356 H1), NU's educational commission succeeded to arrange regulation about NU's Madrassas Structure that should be done after it had already been approved (Hasbullah, 1999).The education units of Central Tapanuli NU are still not optimally managed according to the modern organizational perspectives. For that reason in today's competitive era, NU Central Tapanuli realized that the demand to develop a more organized education quality to be a certainity.Among the problems faced by the Nahdlatul Ulama of Central Tapanuli in efforts to develop Islamic Religious Education (IRE) in formal education is still in its weak capacity of madrassa2 / school management theory and practice from most NU's Madrassa / School Principals; and still lack the ability to formulate strategic policy to achieve the standard of content, process, educators and education personnel, and evaluation in the development of IRE.The phenomenon of the problems of Islamic religious education above in accordance with what is described by (Daulay, 2004), that the implementation of religious education is very complex, involving various aspects, because of the success is also related to various aspects, such as students, teachers, curriculum, management, methods, evaluations and so forth. To enhance the effectivity of it's implementation needs any evaluations to these aspects.Research on the development of Islamic Religious Education at the Central Tapanuli NU is very necessary because although NU in Central Tapanuli Regency as an isolated area, but Central Tapanuli Nahdlatul Ulama Branch Executive (PCNU) able to achieve the development of IRE and their educational institutions most nearly equal to Nahdlatul Ulama Branch Executive Padang Sidimpuan as the biggest Nahdlatul Ulama Branch Executive in North Sumatra. Moreover, in the history of NU in North Sumatra, Sibolga-Central Tapanuli is the second NU spreading areas after the beginning from Padang Sidimpuan.RESEARCH FOCUS:This study focused on the problem: (1) How Islamic education development policy is implemented by the Central Tapanuli Nahdlatul Ulama Branch Executive? (2) What is the role of Central Tapanuli Nahdlatul Ulama branch executive in the development of Islamic religious educati","PeriodicalId":243104,"journal":{"name":"Researchers World","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115743663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Influence of Information Disparity, Discrimination and Geographic Location on Job Search Outcome: Does Good Academic Performance Helps Outstanding Graduates Find “Good Job”?","authors":"Yixuan Gao, Jhony Choon Yeong Ng, Lumei Ding","doi":"10.18843/RWJASC/V8I2/05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18843/RWJASC/V8I2/05","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION:In many societies, conventional wisdom indicates that a person could get a better job through better education. Many people believe that if an individual graduates from a higher-ranked university with better grades, they can lead a more fulfilling career. By better job and more fulfilling career, we refer to 'job appointments' that fit a person's expectations, and pay higher salary in comparison to the salary earned by individuals who received lesser years of formal education.Nevertheless, contradictory opinions have been raised recently in many parts of the society. Recent research conducted by scholars indicates that many fresh graduates end -up holding job appointments that they have no interest (Ng, Shao, & Liu, 2016). Anecdotal evidence from news reports indicate that many graduates from branded universities ended up getting jobs that made them over-qualified. For example, working as butcher and security guards (Sina Hebei, 2013). In addition, the statistics from some countries indicate that college graduates did not earn significantly more than those who received lesser years of formal education. For example, in China, statistics indicate that the difference between the salary earned by fresh graduates after six months of their graduation and the salary of peasant workers has decreased from 33% in 2012 to 21% in 2015 (MyCOS Research Institute, 2013), (MyCOS Research Institute, 2016); (National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China, 2013), (National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China, 2016). Thus, it seems like collegial education does not necessarily equate a person with a better job and more fulfilling career.An easy way to challenge this statement is to state the fact that among a typical batch of graduates, when we consider their academic performance, there will always be outstanding students, mediocre students, and bad - performing students. Given that there will always be more mediocre and bad students in comparison to those who are outstanding, it is corollary for us to observe more cases of college students not performing well in their career. For example, the low difference between the salaries of fresh graduates and peasant workers might be due to the presence of outlining data points at the lower ends of the salary distribution. However, this does not mean that those who had outstanding academic performance in college do not have a better job.The current literature on fresh graduate employment has limited capacity in handling this opinion. The literature usually studies the issues of fresh graduate employment from a general perspective i.e., researchers tend not to focus on outstanding graduates to study their career development (Yu & Fan, 2011). Thus, given that there is a limited amount of research conducted on the outstanding student samples, we do not really know if graduates with outstanding academic performance tend to get better jobs. Thus, we conducted the current grounded ","PeriodicalId":243104,"journal":{"name":"Researchers World","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122557261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}