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{"title":"Authentic Transformational Leadership and Empowerment in Organization Context - A Review of Literature","authors":"Esther Ogonda Mcoyoo","doi":"10.20431/2349-0349.1009004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2349-0349.1009004","url":null,"abstract":": Whether in the government organizations, private sector, or not-for-profits, barely a day ends without the media highlighting on unethical, inauthentic conduct of a leader. Within the leadership literature, not much attention has been paid to Authentic transformational leadership. And the limited literature available covers very few contexts. The purpose of this conceptual paper is to explore how authentic transformational leadership could lead to authentic transformational leadership and the empowerment of individuals, organizations, and communities at large. The paper analyses existing conceptual, theoretical, and empirical studies and raise a number of immerging issues that are used to present a new theoretical model appropriate for the development and application of the Authentic transformational leadership construct and its resulting outcomes, specifically, empowerment. Three theories that have informed the study are transformative paradigm, empowerment theory, and participatory theory. The paper further recommends an integrated theoretical framework for exploring Authentic Transformational Leadership and enhancing empowerment while recognizing the significant role played by religion, credible and cooperative environment in the context of the twenty-first-century organization. situational leadership, path-goal leadership, the 'Leader-member exchange (LMX) theory, transformational leadership, authentic leadership, servant Leadership, adaptive leadership focuses and team leadership.","PeriodicalId":277653,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Managerial Studies and Research","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133786704","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":"Factors Influencing Consumer Choice of Brands of Custard in Enugu State","authors":"Zita U Mmamel, V. O. Okolo","doi":"10.20431/2349-0349.0711005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2349-0349.0711005","url":null,"abstract":"In this era where consumer is the king in every market transaction, the study of consumer behaviour has become essential as no business can be said to be successful without consumer patronage (Brosekhan & Velayutham, 2013). In the struggle for profitable survival, the manufacturer looks outwards at the consumers rather than inwards at his production processes and capacity. However, when studying the consumer, one must consider both the economic circumstances and the demographic character of the individual and the more powerful influences of prejudices, feelings, attitudes, opinions and beliefs (Modi & Jhulka, 2012).","PeriodicalId":277653,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Managerial Studies and Research","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115711262","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":"Factors Affecting Non-Performing Loans in Europe Before and After Global Financial Crisis","authors":"Ioannis Katsampoxakis, Charalampos Basdekis","doi":"10.20431/2349-0349.1009003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2349-0349.1009003","url":null,"abstract":": Non-performing loans is a major importance issue that banks need to keenly consider for banking system’s viability and economies sustainability, as banking sector’s stability is the foundation of macroeconomic policy. There are several macroeconomic and banking factors affecting non-performing loans and this paper aims to investigate the deterministic factors from both perspectives. For the purposes of our paper, we applied dymanic panel data analysis, using both macroeconomic and banking factors, in order to examine their impact on non-performing loans for the period 2005-2019 for 10 European countries (Greece, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Ukraine, Spain, France and Austria). According to empirical results unemployment, lending interest rates and household consumption expenditure affect in positive statistical significant way non-performing loans. Moreover, our results indicate that economies with solid systems are more favorable to overcome crises, related to weaker economies. The nonperforming loans in strong economies didn’t overcome their average even after the outbreak of global financial crisis, in contrary to weaker economies. Thus, it is derived a strong linkage between healthy banking systems and robust economies. Our findings consist a good basis for policymakers and investors, in order to plan their policy, make decisions and take the necessary measures to mitigate the risk derived from the factors affecting the launch of non-performing loans, cracking the foundation of the banking system and threating economic stability.","PeriodicalId":277653,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Managerial Studies and Research","volume":"201 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124405486","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":"Legislative Inclusion of an Anti-Abuse Clause in the Administrative Act for Violations of the Principle of Legality","authors":"Master Mario Eric Anaya Arteaga, Dr. Martin Vivanco Vargas, Dr. Josefina Morgan Beltran","doi":"10.20431/2349-0349.1007006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2349-0349.1007006","url":null,"abstract":": This research work is based on preventing the taxpayer from being subjected to a violation of his subjective public rights, human rights in general and sometimes being in a true state of defenselessness by the tax authorities. The foregoing can occur due to various circumstances or modalities, from the misinterpretation or rather the interpretation that the tax authorities in Mexico make in their favor, of the legislation, as well as the misuse of their faculties and powers that the same legislation , agreements, regulations, etc. They grant them, many times they do it through the misuse or improper use of legal figures or institutions when carrying out their administrative acts, other times simply by not doing what the law requires them to do in a mandatory manner, that is, both in action behaviors and omission, but always violating the principle of legality. It is a documentary study in relation to the analysis of the articles of the Legislation in Mexico.","PeriodicalId":277653,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Managerial Studies and Research","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114739195","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":"Service Delivery in Selected Insurance Firms in Kenya: What is the Value of Channel Distribution?","authors":"Benadette Kemboi Kiprono, Godfrey Kinyua PhD","doi":"10.20431/2349-0349.0912003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2349-0349.0912003","url":null,"abstract":": The current level of service delivery coupled with market penetration is a clear illustration that there exist innumerable market opportunities available for insurance service providers; thus, necessitating the need for identifying avenues of increasing profitability and service delivery for insurance firms. To remain competitive and meet the growing demands of clients, insurance firms are bombarded with the need to foster good service delivery, yet this has not happened. Further, it’s also emerging that most of the insurance service providers have not yet embraced channel distribution to improve their service delivery and performance. The study’s general objective was investigating relationship between channel distribution and service delivery in Jubilee Insurance Limited in Nairobi City County, Kenya. Michael Porter’s Competitive Forces and Service Quality Model were the theories in which the study was based on. The descriptive design was adopted. Study’s target population comprised of the employees of Jubilee Insurance Limited, APA Insurance Company and GA Insurance Company. The total unit of population was 338, whereby stratified sampling design was used to arrive at a sample size of 100 respondents. The collection of research data was done using structured questionnaire. Quantitative data were analyzed using statistical software for social science to get inferential and descriptive statistics. The presentation of the results was done through figures, tables and graphs. Findings established that channel differentiation has a positive influence on service delivery (r = 0.818, p = 0.000). The study concluded that channel distribution significantly affected service delivery among selected insurance firms in Nairobi City County, Kenya. Given the positive correlation between channel and service delivery, the study recommended that more should be done to keep up with the ever changing trends in distribution like the use of digital platforms to ensure clients get connected with the services offered by the insurance companies. Companies should also try and shorten the distribution channel. Other than that, efforts should be made to keep track of the distribution process.","PeriodicalId":277653,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Managerial Studies and Research","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114940438","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":"Ethical Leadership and Program Performance in the Community Development Context: A Review of Literature","authors":"Lydia W. Gathenya","doi":"10.20431/2349-0349.1005005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2349-0349.1005005","url":null,"abstract":": Increased ethical challenges in the 21st century organizations has bolstered research in ethical leadership. leadership that is devoid of ethics is destructive to organizational stakeholders and the society in general. Although ethical leadership has gained more scholarly attention, there is limited research done on the influence of ethical leadership and program performance in the community development context, hence, the impacts have not been fully explored. Programs implemented by community development organizations are done over a specific period of time, and have well outlined objectives and performance indicators. Like institutions in the corporate sector, these organizations are prone to ethical challenges in the course of execution of their programs. These include corruption, fraud, unethical use of information, lack of accountability, misuse communication and technology. Existing studies have been critiqued on the basis of difficulties in establishing appropriate rewards for ethical behaviour, lack of efficient measurement parameters of ethical practices and lack of consensus on the responsibility of enforcing the ethical values in organizations. Therefore, review and synthesis of existing literature is highly required. Scholars have also suggested that it is critical to explore the practice of ethical leadership across different sectors in order to draw the contextual peculiarities. Consequently, there is a research gap in application of ethical leadership in the community development context. The researcher thus reviews extant conceptual, theoretical and empirical literature on ethical leadership and points to various gaps that present a case for a new theoretical model, linking ethical leadership to program performance outcomes. The model assesses the association between ethical leadership and program performance as mediated by organizational culture. The framework illustrates the causal linkages established through the research.","PeriodicalId":277653,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Managerial Studies and Research","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123515856","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 Effect of the Distinctiveness of Stimulation on the Survival Processing Superiority","authors":"Guifang Fu, Hengyan Ding, Cheng Caiqi","doi":"10.20431/2349-0349.0712009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2349-0349.0712009","url":null,"abstract":"Evolutionary psychology holds that our psychological mechanisms have evolved as the product of the hunter-gathering society of our ancestors’ (Tooby & Cosmides, 1990, 1995). It originates from Darwin’s theory (1859) of natural selection. This evolutionary perspective has recently been applied to psychology. The assumption (Nicholson, 1997) of the evolutionary psychology is that, we are not only physically adapted, but also mentally adapted. Humans are evolved to be mentally adaptive to their ancestor’s hunter-gathering society (Tooby & Cosmides, 1990). Our brain can be regarded as an adaptive organ like other physical adaptations (e.g. immune system protects human from disease). The role of evolutionary psychology is to identify these specific modulations of human mind (Barkow, Cosmides, & Tooby, 1992; Li, 2018). One simple example of adapted modulation is the fear of snakes and spiders. Serious studies showed (Mineka & Öhman, 2002; Öhman & Mineka, 2003; Rakison & Derringer, 2008) that human and other primates fear snakes and spiders more intensely than most other objects, even like cars and guns, which is more dangerous in the modern society. Evolutionary psychology explains that this fear helps human to avoid danger swiftly in the wild world (Mineka & Öhman, 2002). The adaptation of human also comes along with by-products and noise (Barkow et al., 1992; Confer et al., 2010). For instance, the fear of harmless snakes and spiders is byproduct of adaptation. Noise, however, is the random characteristics that are result from casual environment or genetic mutations.","PeriodicalId":277653,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Managerial Studies and Research","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125071160","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":"Effect of Supplier Development on Operational Performance of Manufacturing Firms in Nigeria","authors":"Hassana Sani Ndanusa, Dr. Cross Ogohi Daniel","doi":"10.20431/2349-0349.0806002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2349-0349.0806002","url":null,"abstract":"Conventionally, the marketplace is almost saturated. Thus, since firms compete for limited market, future-centric firms are forced to be more strategic with regards to their resource utilization so as to gain competitive advantage. Hitherto, the hype has been on the employees, reduction of wastages and production costs within an organization, however, emerging trend has suggested that Supplier Development could serve as a more modern tool of competitive advantage that firms can leverage on to improve and sustain their organizational performance. Supplier Development has been characteristically defined as any premeditated long-term business strategy (a cooperative efforts) instituted by a buying firm to create, increase, expand and maintain the core competencies and capabilities of supplying-firm(s) principally to meet the buying firm's shortand/or long-term supply needs (Al-Doori, 2019; Popoola, 2019). Contemporarily, there is no gainsaying to the fact that supplier development has become the most influential management process for achieving and improving organizational performance. As a matter of fact, corporate success nowadays transcends customers and/or employees relationship management, to include suppliers’ technical, competence and capabilities development. Observably, fast-paced growth experienced within the last three decades globally, has reinforced the interconnectedness between buying and supplying firms to manage supply chain as part of a broader business strategy, and in particular to build and exploit shared relationships with supply chain partners. Abstract: Emerging trend has suggested that Supplier Development could serve as a more modern tool of competitive advantage that firms can leverage on to improve and sustain their organizational performance. This study investigates the effect of supplier development on operational performance of manufacturing firms in Nigeria with particular reference to Dangote Sugar Refinery (DSR). The specific objectives of this research are to; Determine whether supplier technical support has statistically significant effect on competitive advantage at Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc, Evaluate whether early supplier involvement has statistically significant effect on cost efficiency at Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc and Ascertain whether supplier audit has statistically significant effect of supplier financial supports on operational efficiency at Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc.. Primary data was collected by means of a well-structured questionnaire and the data collected were collated and analyzed using the Statistical Product and Service Solution (SPSS). Methodologically, descriptive survey research design of the quantitative approach was employed. Study population covered the entire top middle and lower level management staff of the Dangote Sugar Refinery (DSR) Plc. in Apapa, Lagos, Bompai in Kano and Nkpor-Onitsha in Anambra which according to field survey was 15,026. However, using Yamene (1967) formula sam","PeriodicalId":277653,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Managerial Studies and Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128521970","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":"Prediction and Analysis of Wuxi Stainless Steel Market Price Based on ARIMA-BP Neural Network Combination Model","authors":"Yinshan Guo, Chunhui Zhao, Xiaoxiao Qin, Jin Zhang","doi":"10.20431/2349-0349.1007005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2349-0349.1007005","url":null,"abstract":": Stainless steel is not only a high-strength and high-toughness structural material, but also an economical functional material. My country’s stainless steel industry occupies a pivotal position in the fields of construction, transportation, energy, and packaging. It is also particularly important to study its price trends and internal laws. Therefore, this paper selects the price of 201 series hot-rolled and cold-rolled stainless steel and 304-series hot-rolled and cold-rolled stainless steel in Wuxi City as the research objects, and uses the time series model and BP neural network model to model them respectively, and predicts the prices of future stainless steel .Then a parallel ARIMA-BP combined model is established, and the weights of the two models are distributed by the advantage matrix method to obtain new forecast data. Comparing and analyzing absolute error and relative error, it is concluded that the accuracy of combined prediction model is higher than that of basic prediction models such as time series and BP neural network. In addition, this paper analyzes the factors influencing the fluctuations in the price of stainless steel, and the significant degree of correlation between stainless steel price and various factors is tested by the Pearson coefficient, and the possible reasons for it are explained. Finally, the future development of stainless steel is prospected.","PeriodicalId":277653,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Managerial Studies and Research","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128572659","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":"Audit Committee Characteristics and Segment Disclosures of Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria","authors":"Ignatius A Njokuji, Gospel J Chukwu","doi":"10.20431/2349-0349.1002003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2349-0349.1002003","url":null,"abstract":"As a result of recapitalization exercise and other banking reforms such as the approval of universal banking, Nigerian deposit money banks have become bigger and more complex. Leveraging on globalization, Nigerian DMBs now have branches across the country and even outside Nigeria. They have equally diversified their operations. The consequence is that Nigerian DMBs now operate in complex and different markets with each market having unique economic dynamics necessitating adoption of different business models and corporate strategies (Ebirien & Israel, 2019). Reporting aggregated data in the circumstance will not be helpful to present and potential users of financial statements in making informed decisions (Hope et al., 2009). Accounting standard setters seem to agree with this line of reasoning and have issued standards on segment reporting. Such standards include the first accounting standard concerning segment, SFAS 14 (Financial Reporting for Segments of a Business Enterprise) published by the Financial Accounting Standards Board(FASB) of United States in 1976, SAS 24 (On Segment Reporting) issued by the defunct Nigerian Accounting Standards Board, and IFRS 8, Operating Segments. However, a strong argument against segment reporting is that segment reporting would result in disclosing proprietary information which competitors could use. Prior studies show that managers have the proclivity of withholding information (Botosan & Stanford, 2005;Kothari et al., 2009) because of conflict of interest with their principals (Jensen & Meckling, 1976). Following accounting scandals, regulators require firms to establish audit committee (AC) to oversee financial reporting. There is doubt on the ability of AC to deliver on its mandate (Bédard & Gendron, 2010; Krishnan, 2005). However, prior studies show that the effectiveness of the AC depends on its characteristics. The objective of this study therefore is to investigate the relationship of audit committee characteristics and segment disclosures in the Nigerian banking industry. Abstract: The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of audit committee characteristics on segment disclosures of banks in Nigeria. The study used secondary data obtained from the annual reports of deposit money banks listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange for the period 2018 to 2020. Four null hypotheses were formulated and analyzed using multivariate analysis. The results showed that meeting frequency has a significant negative effect on segment disclosures while audit committee gender diversity has a positive but insignificant effect on segment disclosures. The results further revealed that audit committee independence (and audit committee financial expertise) have a positive (and negative) but insignificant effect on segment disclosures, respectively. The study recommends banks to monitor closely board meetings and conduct due diligence on non-executive independent directors to ascertain their independence. The study","PeriodicalId":277653,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Managerial Studies and Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128295841","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}