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{"title":"EFFECT OF STRESS ON FEMALE TEACHERS’ PERFORMANCE IN PRIVATE SCHOOLS AT SECONDARY LEVEL","authors":"Saba Sarwar, G. Haider","doi":"10.22159/ijss.2022.v10i6.44488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22159/ijss.2022.v10i6.44488","url":null,"abstract":"Stress can be a painful condition of a person; it may be internal or external. This paper investigates and describes the effect of stress on female teacher’s performance in private schools at secondary level. The objectives of the study were to identify the causes of stress and investigate the effect of stress on female teacher’s performance. The study was descriptive and quantitative in nature. Research based on the survey method. Population of the study was 218 private secondary schools in city Faisalabad. Using the random sampling technique, 50 schools were selected at secondary level and 400 female teachers were included in this study. Descriptive and inferential statistics were applied on the data. It was founded that the female teachers at private sector facing high level of stress. It is concluded that teachers of private secondary schools cope on their level of stress using the different stress management strategies.","PeriodicalId":254239,"journal":{"name":"Innovare Journal of Social Sciences","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133647678","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":"IRANIAN FOLKLORE, PROVERBS, AND ASPIRATION FOR DEVELOPMENT","authors":"Fariba Karami","doi":"10.22159/ijss.2022.v10i5.44539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22159/ijss.2022.v10i5.44539","url":null,"abstract":"Social scientists strongly believe that cultural norms and values shape, stimulate, direct, and influence all activities of human societies. This study attempts to provide a sociological analysis of cultural components, in particular the content of the proverbs included in Dehkhoda’s Amsal va Hekam (Proverbs and Parables) and their role in Iran’s underdevelopment. This book was chosen because it is by far the most comprehensive book in this regard with more than 50,000 proverbs. Through a content analysis of all these proverbs using the qualitative content analysis approach, the researcher concluded that 2510 proverbs were related to development, of which 894 proverbs (35%) conveyed development-consistent concepts and 1616 others (65%) conveyed anti-development concepts. In addition, using the field study method and interviews with 40 people with relatively good knowledge of proverbs, it was shown that 276 proverbs contained development-related concepts, of which 64 proverbs (23%) conveyed development-consistent and 212 others (77%) conveyed anti-development concepts. It was concluded that a considerable number of the proverbs conveyed concepts such as fatalism, a lack of innovativeness, death, misogyny, contentment, and so on. Obviously, such a culture in the community leads to passivity of its members. Given the unquestionable role of cultural factors in human activities and that of cultural components such as proverbs in Iran’s underdevelopment process, cultural planners need to pay more attention to these factors and provide appropriate solutions to reduce the negative effects of the development-impeding proverbs as well as other similar cultural components in society.","PeriodicalId":254239,"journal":{"name":"Innovare Journal of Social Sciences","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134072760","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":"ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE AND PERFORMANCE OF EMPLOYEES IN SOME SELECTED BANKS IN ONDO STATE","authors":"Samuel Bayode Oladimeji, Idowu PAUL OLANITORI","doi":"10.22159/ijss.2022.v10i5.43596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22159/ijss.2022.v10i5.43596","url":null,"abstract":"Organizational change in the form of structural, technical, functional, and behavioral change most of the time has negative challenges on the employees in terms of adjustment, downsizing, transfer, and rescheduling of duties. It is in the light of this, that this study investigated the nature and processes of organizational change, with a view to clarifying the links between organizational change and performance of employees in the seventeen sampled banks in Akure, Ondo State. Akure town in Ondo State was purposively selected for this study because the town houses the State head offices of all the banks operating in Ondo State. In other to have a representation of each unit in the banks covered in this study, purposive sampling technique was used in selecting respondents in four units/departments namely business development, operations, compliance/audit and security. Questionnaire was administered to elicit information from the selected respondents for this study. Out of the 17 banks selected in Akure, 254 employees were randomly selected as respondents for this study. Secondary data were sourced from banks, journals, internet resources and government documents. Data collected were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. The results established that the major organizational changes that were witnessed in the selected banks include structural change (78.08%); functional change (79.16%); technological change (85%); and behavioral change (82.6%). The results revealed that lack of a company-wide definition of change (54.4%); lack of a strategic plan for change (72%); view of quality as a quick fix (71.2%); were key major factors that ignited organizational change in the selected banks in the study area. In addition, the study discovered evidence of significant positive relationship between employees’ performance and structural change (r=1,017; ρ=˃0.05), behavioral change (r=10.026; p˂0.05), functional change (r=3.395; p˂0.05), while technical change (r=–5.342; p˂0.05) had negative relationship with innovative performance of employees in the selected banks in Akure, Ondo State. The study concludes that it is important for banks in developing countries particularly Nigeria, to formulate effective organizational change strategies and create more awareness among employees about organizational change to allay the fear of the aftermath effects as these will enhance the outputs of their workforce. The study recommended that the Nigerian banking structure and procedures should be improved upon and made to pay attention to risks and continuously scan the environment in order to consolidate the benefit of change.","PeriodicalId":254239,"journal":{"name":"Innovare Journal of Social Sciences","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134020345","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":"ELEMENTARY EDUCATION IN REAL AND VIRTUAL LIFE IN COVID-19: ANALYSIS OF PRESENT AND FUTURE LEARNING","authors":"Haider Ali","doi":"10.22159/ijss.2022.v10i5.44486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22159/ijss.2022.v10i5.44486","url":null,"abstract":"In Pakistan, educational institutions are presently solely focused on traditional methods of instruction, that is, the typical classroom face-to-facelectures. While several teaching units have now begun mixed learning, many of them are still struggling with old practices. The unexpected breakoutof COVID-19, a serious infection transmitted by the Coronavirus, shocked the whole world. The education system around the globe was threatened bythis situation and compelled teachers to move to an online teaching mode at once. Accordingly, numerous initiatives have been implemented by theDepartment of School Education to introduce policies of social exclusion, and online instruction is accompanied by rapid curriculum transformationin the context of the Tele School Program (PTV) etc. Digital content is more comfortable, since it will offer a diverse and lively atmosphere for teachingand learning. However, the curriculum development is required to occur immediately without adequate planning due to lack of time. The informationgathered was analyzed and recommendations were forwarded on the basis of the study findings to serve as an input for forthcoming plans and policiesand to enhance the efficiency of teaching learning practices in similar circumstances. Hence, it is recommended that government should provide allfacilities regarding virtual learning for the future and also training by conducting workshops and seminars on modern lines to make them able toutilize modern techniques.","PeriodicalId":254239,"journal":{"name":"Innovare Journal of Social Sciences","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127279190","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":"WHERE THE LIMIT OF NORMALITY AND ABNORMALITY IN THE MIND BEGINS AND ENDS","authors":"Yener Özen","doi":"10.22159/ijss.2022.v10i5.45474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22159/ijss.2022.v10i5.45474","url":null,"abstract":"There are various factors that determine the concepts of normal and abnormal, and these are not constant factors. For this reason, it is debatable whether a definition is always valid for every society, for every person. Human behavior cannot be clearly separated into normal and abnormal. The duration and severity of these concepts also need to be clarified. A behavior can be considered abnormal to the extent that it deviates from the mean, lasts for a long time, and is severe. However, it is difficult to distinguish between normal and abnormal. Since no clear boundary can be drawn between them, it is not easy to answer the questions where normality begins and ends and where abnormality begins.","PeriodicalId":254239,"journal":{"name":"Innovare Journal of Social Sciences","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134164503","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":"COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND DISTANCE LEARNING","authors":"Amor Hasić","doi":"10.22159/ijss.2022.v10i4.45668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22159/ijss.2022.v10i4.45668","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic is for the first time in 2020 in Wuhan Province, China. It later spread to other countries in the world. In early April, the school in 194 countries, from pre-school to higher education, is closed. Approximately 1.5 billion students are affected by this situation, and therefore their status as full-time students have ceased. All countries with the COVID-19 pandemic aimed to provide continuing education without break. Traditional educational techniques are significantly disrupted by social alienation and restriction policies. Many scientists have shared their work on teaching and learning in different ways after the outbreak of COVID-19. There is face-to-face teaching abolished in many schools, colleges, and universities. Our state of Montenegro, following the example other countries in the world, introduced distance learning. The purpose of this research is to: (1) Application of learning and teaching activities with the help of communication technologies in mathematics teaching. (2) Determine the efficiency of distance learning mathematics. (3) Students’ reaction and observation before and after the application of distance learning. (4) Support and implementation of recommendations by the Ministry of Education.","PeriodicalId":254239,"journal":{"name":"Innovare Journal of Social Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131325795","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":"PREDICTING THE GROWTH TREND OF DEMAND FOR DISTANCE EDUCATION IN IRAN: A CASE STUDY OF PAYAME NOOR UNIVERSITY","authors":"A. Shayestehfar, M. Farajollahi","doi":"10.22159/ijss.2022.v10i4.44676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22159/ijss.2022.v10i4.44676","url":null,"abstract":"Awareness of the strategic role of higher education has led many countries to pursue long-term goals. The aim of this study is to identify the factors affecting the growth trend of the student in higher education by 2029. The statistical population of the whole is Payame Noor University. The method of this research is documentary-analytical. First, the factors influencing the demand for higher education, especially in open and distance education, were examined and analyzed using a regression model. Research data evaluated using the ordinary least squares regression method. The results show that economic factors have the most critical impact on increasing the demand for distance education. The forecast results show that the growth trend of the student population until 2029, between the two groups of men and women, is equally slightly decreasing.","PeriodicalId":254239,"journal":{"name":"Innovare Journal of Social Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130152839","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":"ASSESSMENT OF RECONSTRUCTION POLICIES ON BASIC EDUCATION INFRASTRUCTURE IN POST BOKO HARAM INSURGENCY IN NORTH EAST NIGERIA","authors":"K. Badau","doi":"10.22159/ijss.2022.v10i4.45038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22159/ijss.2022.v10i4.45038","url":null,"abstract":"Boko Haram insurgency in the Northeast Nigeria has caused damage to basic education infrastructure and reconstructing such infrastructure is essential to sustain recovery in North East Nigeria. The purpose of the study was to assess reconstruction policies of building technical and managerial capacity, achieving rapid physical reconstruction, restoring service delivery, establishing sustainable policies and institutions and sector-wide planning on basic education infrastructure in post Boko Haram insurgency in North East, Nigeria. To achieve the purpose, five research questions and hypotheses were raised. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised four hundred basic education sector staff and stakeholders from Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states. Data were collected using researcher instrument tagged “Reconstruction Policies on Basic Education Infrastructure Assessment Questionnaire” (RPBEIAQ). The instrument was validated and reliability was determined using Cronbach Alpha. The reliability coefficient was 0.78. The data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions and z-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings show that building technical and managerial capacity, rapid physical reconstruction, restoring service delivery, establishing sustainable policies, and institutions and education sector-wide planning were not achieved on basic education infrastructure in North East, Nigeria. The study concluded that key players and actors such as federal ministry of education, state ministries of education, local government education authorities, NGOs, civil societies, donor, and international aid agencies did not achieve reconstruction policies on basic education infrastructure. The study also recommended among others that sound technical and managerial capacity reconstruction policies should be built on basic education infrastructure in terms of recruitment and training of teachers and administrators to proper utilization.","PeriodicalId":254239,"journal":{"name":"Innovare Journal of Social Sciences","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127802987","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":"HUMAN RIGHTS AS TAUGHT BY THE QUR’AN, SUNNAH OF THE PROPHET (SAW), AND HIS RIGHTLY GUIDED CALIPHS","authors":"Nura Ahmed, Auwal Salisu, M. U. Yakasai","doi":"10.22159/ijss.2022.v10i4.44541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22159/ijss.2022.v10i4.44541","url":null,"abstract":"The paper examines the human rights taught by the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam (SAW) and his rightly guided caliphs. The rights in Islam are all provided by Allah, the lawgiver, that is to say, a divine revelation (Qur’an) regulates and specifies the human rights and the explanation of His prophet (SAW), otherwise called Sunnah. Therefore, Qur’an and Sunnah are vital sources of information on human rights in Islam. Similarly, the paper investigates the theoretical concepts, the origin of the human species; it also considers the difference between human beings and other creatures. Before Islam, the period was also cognizance of how human beings’ rights were respected in our contemporary era. Therefore, the relevance of rights from an Islamic point of view and western understanding is known as (Man-made Law), which only considers the rights of individuals and means the struggle. Therefore, the Islamic religion aims to have a peaceful society that provides these rights classes to people, thereby granting them religious, social, and moral satisfaction.","PeriodicalId":254239,"journal":{"name":"Innovare Journal of Social Sciences","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114965647","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":"ETHNIC PARTIES AND STATE CONTINUITY IN ETHIOPIA: A CASE ON OROMO LIBERATION FRONT (OLF) AND NATIONAL MOVEMENT OF AMHARA (NaMa)","authors":"Bekele Tafere Alemu","doi":"10.22159/ijss.2022.v10i4.45309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22159/ijss.2022.v10i4.45309","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: The objective of this article was to demonstrate the position of OLF and NaMA regarding the Ethiopian state continuity and national issues.\u0000Methods: Interview, observation, and focus group discussion were employed beside to document and manifesto analysis. The research is qualitative and used comparative case study design. The analysis technique was thematic.\u0000Results: The finding of this study reveals OLF as secessionist, consider emperor Menelik II as a black colonizer and other Ethiopian Emperors as assimilationist. It has zero value for Abyssinian values and legacies. Its participation in destructing economic sectors, sowing ethnic hatred, killing innocents, treason against the state, and unwillingness to demilitarize till today demonstrates it as a threat for national unity. Conversely, NaMA praise the works of previous Ethiopian rulers and claim Addis Ababa as the city of All Ethiopians. Unlike OLF that was formed on the basis of colonial thesis, NaMA was formed on the basis of national oppression thesis. It strongly supports unity and state continuity.\u0000Conclusion: A discussion platform among political parties for national consensus and unity has to be extensively done. Such unresolved issues will going to be a threat for state continuity. Major revisions on constitution and other legal frameworks should be adopted.","PeriodicalId":254239,"journal":{"name":"Innovare Journal of Social Sciences","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121843219","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}