{"title":"Developing and Implementing an Airline Stores and Purchases Accounting System: A Case Study of PIA","authors":"Syed Sartaj Qasim","doi":"10.22555/ijelcs.v3i2.2314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22555/ijelcs.v3i2.2314","url":null,"abstract":"This case study explains the process of developing and implementing a new microcomputer based accounting system for the Stores and Purchases department of PIA. After briefly highlighting some difficulties which were experienced under the existing manual accounting system, the study continues to chart the various steps which were taken to analyse and map different processes and explains how various modules were developed and tested through parallel runs and ultimately resulted in full cutover to the new computerized accounting system. The role of involving all the existing staff and using their expertise and inputs in the development of the new computerized accounting system has been highlighted as a major factor in its successful implementation.","PeriodicalId":32665,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Experiential Learning Case Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45880065","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":"Exploring Authentic Leadership In Relation To Job Satisfaction in Public and Private Sector Universities","authors":"Said Saeed, Riasat Ali","doi":"10.22555/IJELCS.V3I2.2158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22555/IJELCS.V3I2.2158","url":null,"abstract":"The study aims to explore the authentic leadership attributes (ALA) and its impact on job satisfaction. The objectives of the study were to investigate the ALA of leaders and measure the relationship between ALA and job satisfaction at the university level. The population of the study was 6975. The sample of the study was 967. The mixed method approach was used to collect information from the sample through a modified form of ALQ developed by Walumbwa, Avolio, Gardener, Wernsing, & Peterson (2008) and interviews. The analysis was done with percentage, Mean, STD, independent sample t-test, one way ANOVA, Pearson’s rank correlation and thematic analysis. It was found that r value (.426) which was significant at .000 showed significant positive and average level correlations between ALA and job satisfaction at the university level. It is recommended that research studies may be conducted at primary, secondary and college level as these areas are in need of authentic leaders.","PeriodicalId":32665,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Experiential Learning Case Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41658255","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":"HR Personnels Perception for the Importance and Success of Social Networking Sites Integration in Recruitment","authors":"Quratulain Ezam, Nawaz Ahmad, Amant Ali Jalbani","doi":"10.22555/IJELCS.V3I2.2309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22555/IJELCS.V3I2.2309","url":null,"abstract":"Today in the period of globalization when everybody and everything appears to be associated over the globe through the progressive improvement in the field of information technology. In the present-day business world, the utilization of the Internet has turned into an integrated and fundamental tool. Consistently an ever-increasing number of organizations arrive at the digital or virtual sphere by making their organization LinkedIn profile, Twitter account, as well as a Facebook page. The purposive, nonprobability sampling technique utilized for the current study. The sample of 203 Human Resource personnel selected from private and public limited companies. All of the HR personnel’s are serving in Karachi based private and public limited companies. All respondents are power users of Social Networking Sites in the recruitment process as well as the traditional recruitment process as predefined criteria of the study. The beneficial aspects are found out by this inquiry which may lead the awareness among HR personnel’s and companies as well that the most worthy sites for the recruitment practice are LinkedIn, Indeed.com, Rozee.pk, and Facebook.","PeriodicalId":32665,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Experiential Learning Case Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49188706","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}
S. Rehman, S. A. Saeed, Shahnawaz Khan, Ovais Mufti, Asfiya N. M. Ahmad, Taimoor Sultan
{"title":"Express TV: Competing In a Cluttered World of Media for Consumer Preferences and Viewership Patterns","authors":"S. Rehman, S. A. Saeed, Shahnawaz Khan, Ovais Mufti, Asfiya N. M. Ahmad, Taimoor Sultan","doi":"10.22555/IJELCS.V3I1.1818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22555/IJELCS.V3I1.1818","url":null,"abstract":"Express News TV Channel found some reports that their TV channel viewership was declining. In Pakistan, however, the viewership data is managed, still the system is not properly managed and has many loopholes. This can be imagined through the information that one of the most populated area of Karachi, Gulshan Iqbal, TV viewing patterns are evaluated through less than ten people meters. Express news therefore decided to conduct a full survey that included the viewership patterns, the most preferred TV shows, and hosts, morning shows, and anchors. The study revealed interesting facts about the standing of Express News programs and TV viewers’ preferences of the same.","PeriodicalId":32665,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Experiential Learning Case Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41538455","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":"Consumer Willingness to Use Digital Coupons: A Case of Karachi Market in Pakistan","authors":"Kazi Afaq Ahmed, Z. Sarwar","doi":"10.22555/IJELCS.V3I1.1993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22555/IJELCS.V3I1.1993","url":null,"abstract":"The coupon concept since its emergency in 1887 in US as marketing tool has gained lot of popularity in US market and emerged as effective marketing tool in South Asian Market. Unlike Indian and US Markets, the uptake of coupons has been very slow in Pakistan. This study aimed to check consumer willingness to use mobile coupons in Pakistan revealed that the interest and usage of mobile applications is growing with each day. People are willing to convert from traditional to digital platforms, similar to what we have noticed in the secondary research. Hi-Tec HHD devices are expanding throughout along with the usage. This research showed that the people are fond of downloading free mobile apps, which are mainly social, and gaming apps and a very small portion of the audience downloads paid apps (high-end market). It has been analyzed that the 50% of the audience would like to download a paid coupons app, which offers buy one get one free but there is a small portion of the population who is willing to spend Rs.4500 on purchasing the coupons book like Vouch365. There is a great potential for a business in Pakistan for the companies like Entertain Asia to penetrate into the market.","PeriodicalId":32665,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Experiential Learning Case Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47739234","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}
Samiullah Sarwar, Zaeemah Muhammad Idris, Sheikhain Ali
{"title":"Paid Academic Writing Services: A Perceptional Study of Business Students","authors":"Samiullah Sarwar, Zaeemah Muhammad Idris, Sheikhain Ali","doi":"10.22555/IJELCS.V3I1.2078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22555/IJELCS.V3I1.2078","url":null,"abstract":"It seems challenging to detect the beneficiary students of the Academic Paid Writing Services, which refers to a practice in which authors or students appoint professional writers to produce scholarly work (including research papers, university assignments, research reports, and so on) with a predefined style. This study aimed to explore the factors leading the students in higher education to choose the paid Academic Writing Services (PAWS), which affects their performance and personal development due to contract cheating and make them realize that learning is better than grades as through self-explorations only a person can get something better. By employing quantitative approach to obtain information associated with PAWS, data was gathered from 117 business students enrolled in six Higher Education Institutes in Karachi, Pakistan, using adopted questionnaire having close-ended questions with 5-point Likert scale, measuring students’ attitude towards class assignments, their awareness about plagiarism, and their attitude about academic paid writing services. The results revealed that male students were more inclined towards paid writing services than their counterpart female students were and the increase in Students’ Attitude towards Assignments brought the increase academic paid writing services. Therefore, academic professionals servicing in universities are recommended to take due care of the two factors to prevent the increased paid academic wiring services.","PeriodicalId":32665,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Experiential Learning Case Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44169492","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":"Implementation of Microsoft SQL Server using ‘AlwaysOn’ for High Availability and Disaster Recovery without Shared Storage","authors":"Z. Hayat, Tariq Rahim Soomro","doi":"10.22555/IJELCS.V3I1.1891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22555/IJELCS.V3I1.1891","url":null,"abstract":"It is important for any organization to handle increase in data; normally this is the job of the DBA in organization to take care of this data growth, along with its protection and its availability. High availability of data is also most important for organizations, for that purpose, shared storage is usually the solution, for example, SAN or NAS storage as Microsoft Cluster Database instances. Mostly Organization does not have shared storage in their infrastructure, which was required for Microsoft cluster SQL database instance; due to that they used other native methods to implement like log shipping or database mirroring, which was not efficient method for high-availability and disaster-recovery solution. After that, Microsoft introduced native method called SQL AlwaysOn method that could be implemented without using SAN and NAS storage method to implement high availability and disaster recovery without using shared storage. SQL AlwaysOn option is using only Microsoft cluster service and shared folder between the nodes. This paper written for DBA and System Administrators; and is implementation of Microsoft SQL Database tier step by step.","PeriodicalId":32665,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Experiential Learning Case Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42389962","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 Factors, Teachers’ Professional Development and Teaching Practices: Findings from Female Elementary School Teachers","authors":"Sana Zaidi, N. Khan, Najmunnisa Khan","doi":"10.22555/IJELCS.V3I1.2155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22555/IJELCS.V3I1.2155","url":null,"abstract":"Development of teaching competencies has always considered the most prolific dimension in teaching education. It assists teachers in teaching and in preparing to adopt more functional orientation practices beneficial towards teaching practice. This study aimed to investigate the antecedents of teachers’ teaching practices. Primary data through survey was collected from 377 female elementary school teachers from private sector schools based in Karachi. Smart PLS was used for data analysis. Findings of this study revealed a significant relationship among organizational factors, teachers’ professional development and teachers’ teaching practices. This paper contributes to existing knowledge by reporting new empirical evidences from female elementary school teachers. Hence, this research provides practitioners and policy makers with better insights into some practices that could improve teaching practices.","PeriodicalId":32665,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Experiential Learning Case Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46334110","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":"Mitigating Risk of Failure by Expanding Family Entrepreneurship and Learning from International Franchising Experiences of Johnny Rockets: A Case Study in Pakistan","authors":"Jawaid A. Qureshi, M. S. Qureshi, M. A. Qureshi","doi":"10.22555/IJELCS.V3I1.1972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22555/IJELCS.V3I1.1972","url":null,"abstract":"It is generally believed worldwide and backed by research too that startups face a high risk of failure and eight to nine out of ten ideas may not work (Hisrich, Peters, & Shepherd, 2009). However, many experts claim that the situation can turn vice versa for family entrepreneurship (or creative family businesses) and franchise ventures (Francorp, 2016). This exploratory probe aims to discover these two phenomena for Johnny Rockets (JR) Pakistan, which is an international franchise of fast food chain of restaurants, and simultaneously it is a family business extension. Literature is reviewed from four perspectives: family entrepreneurship and business, franchise business, internationalization of companies, and fast food restaurant industry in Pakistan. Primary data is garnered from three sources: in-depth interviews from middle to top management of Johnny Rockets, owners of the franchises, and from its consumers in accordance with phenomenology method and purposive sampling to analyze their lived experiences with JR and its direct rivals. The data analytic techniques comprise thematic analysis and constant comparison. The findings unveil that in the wake of tolerating several difficulties, now Johnny Rockets seems to be on the right path of sustainable growth. The study underpins the notions that family entrepreneurship and franchise ventures enjoy a high probability of success, but it requires an organizational culture of the congenial work environment, and propensity to create a customer-centric modern learning organization, ready to accept trials and errors and continuously innovating its processes and systems.","PeriodicalId":32665,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Experiential Learning Case Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42561544","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}
Muhammad Aamir Khan, Muhammad Hanif, Tehzeeb Sakina Amir
{"title":"A Qualitative Study on Development of Enriching Performance Management System at a Pharma-Company","authors":"Muhammad Aamir Khan, Muhammad Hanif, Tehzeeb Sakina Amir","doi":"10.22555/IJELCS.V3I1.2101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22555/IJELCS.V3I1.2101","url":null,"abstract":"This case study aimed to develop a sample of enriching the performance management system using qualitative method. The job post of Import Executive in a pharma company has been selected as a sample. After taking consent from the management, a semi-structured interview approach with all related employees was undertaken. A comparison of existing performance management system was done with three other organizations of the same industry to provide a more comprehensive approach. Firstly, a systematic job evaluation was performed to transform traditional job description into competency based job description and implement job specific performance appraisal. This resulted in enrichment of performance management system. Peer evaluation and appraisal training for the supervisors have been suggested for a more comprehensive insight and a greater employee satisfaction with the performance management process.","PeriodicalId":32665,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Experiential Learning Case Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48253130","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}