Anderias Tani, E. Saldanha, Domingos M. B. Barreto
{"title":"The The Role of Customer Satisfaction on the Relationship between Service Quality, Price and Word of Mouth (WOM): The Experience of EDTL.EP in Dili, Timor-Leste","authors":"Anderias Tani, E. Saldanha, Domingos M. B. Barreto","doi":"10.51703/bm.v3i2.53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51703/bm.v3i2.53","url":null,"abstract":"Service quality, price, customer satisfaction and word of mouth (WOM) appear to be the most important variables in today’s business market, and many researchers have focused their attentions on their relationships. This research aims to test the influence of service quality and price to customer satisfaction and WOM, as well as the mediation effect of customer satisfaction in the relationship between service quality and price with WOM. Using accidental sample method, this study collects data from 315 respondents from Timor-Leste Electricity, State-owned Entreprise namely Eletricidade de Timor Leste, Empresa Publica (EDTL.EP) customers who are based in Dili Municipality, and tests hypothesis using SMART-PLS 3.0. Result shows that relationship between both service quality, price, customer satisfaction and WOM have positive and significant effect. This study contributes to the extensive discussions related to service quality, price, customer satisfaction and WOM in different industries. It is also expected to contribute to the improvement EDTL.EP management to provide better service quality and meet customers’ expectation to encourage more positive recommendations to other customers via WOM.","PeriodicalId":388650,"journal":{"name":"Timor Leste Journal of Business and Management","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121972921","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}
Helio Brites da Silva, Vimolwan Yukongdi, Finia Ribeiro, Elisabeth Barreto
{"title":"Barriers to Career Advancement in the Hotel Industry in Timor-Leste: Study of Gender Stereotyping, Old Boys’ Network and Gender Differences","authors":"Helio Brites da Silva, Vimolwan Yukongdi, Finia Ribeiro, Elisabeth Barreto","doi":"10.51703/bm.v3i2.50","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51703/bm.v3i2.50","url":null,"abstract":"The hotel industry in Timor-Leste is female-dominated. However, women are under-represented in managerial and senior executive positions. This study examines the relative importance of gender stereotyping and old boys’ network variables as barriers that impact women’s and men’s career advancement in the hotel industry in Dili, Timor-Leste. A survey questionnaire was distributed at 20 hotels in Dili, Timor-Leste, and 16 hotels granted approval, represented by 385 individuals (226 women and 159 men). These data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The results from this study indicated that gender stereotyping had a significant influence as a barrier to career advancement. Old boy’s network had no significant barrier to the career advancement for both in women versus men comparison. Furthermore, the male group scores higher than the female group in the variables of stereotyping in gender differences analysis as the higher scores represent the biases against women. This study is the first study to examine barriers for individuals’ career advancement in the hotel industry of Dili, Timor-Leste. This study suggests theoretical and practical implications on barriers for men’s and women’s career advancement and mitigates gender inequality in the organization.","PeriodicalId":388650,"journal":{"name":"Timor Leste Journal of Business and Management","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124801104","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}
Paulino Mendonça, A. D. C. Soares, Gede Riana, C. A. Da Costa
{"title":"The Influence of Employee Involvement, Work Environment, and Teamwork on Employee Performance (Case Study: Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dili Timor-Leste)","authors":"Paulino Mendonça, A. D. C. Soares, Gede Riana, C. A. Da Costa","doi":"10.51703/bm.v3i1.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51703/bm.v3i1.32","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this research is to investigate the influence of work environment, teamwork employee involvement on employee performance. The population in this study were 680 employees of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in Dili, Timor-Leste. The research sample, determined based on the Solving formula, was156. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) -Partial Least Square (PLS) was used as the data analysis method Descriptive analysis conducted with the SPSS program, whereas inferential analysis conducted with the Smart-PLS 3.0 program. The research findings show that work environment and teamwork were not significantly related to employee performance. Employee involvement fully mediated the effect of work environment and teamwork on employee performance","PeriodicalId":388650,"journal":{"name":"Timor Leste Journal of Business and Management","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130234983","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 Transformational Leadership on Employee Performance Through Work Climate and Organizational Commitment","authors":"Salustiano dos Reis Piedade","doi":"10.51703/bm.v3i1.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51703/bm.v3i1.36","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of transformational leadership on employee performance with work climate and organizational commitment as mediating variables. The research is conducted in the Ministry of Education of Timor-Leste. The population of this study was 765 employees in the Ministry of Education. The hypothesis testing is conducted using Smart-PLS 3.0. The results showed that transformational leadership had no effect on employee performance. The results showed that the work climate and organizational commitment play a full role in mediating the effect of transformational leadership on employee performance. This research is based on the inconsistency result of the previous studies on the effect of transformational leadership on employee performance. The inconsistency of the results of previous studies is a gap in this study. This research will integrate the work climate and organizational commitment as a mediating role in the influence of transformational leadership on employee performance.","PeriodicalId":388650,"journal":{"name":"Timor Leste Journal of Business and Management","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129428301","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}
Agustinus Nahak Seran, Domingas R. da C. Ximenes, Margaretta Evy M.D. Da Silva, E. Saldanha
{"title":"The Impact of Tourist Experience Quality and Involvement on Tourist Recommendation Intention: Evidence From Ramelau Mountain as Tourist Destination in Timor-Leste","authors":"Agustinus Nahak Seran, Domingas R. da C. Ximenes, Margaretta Evy M.D. Da Silva, E. Saldanha","doi":"10.51703/bm.v3i1.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51703/bm.v3i1.39","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to test a model linking tourist experience quality, involvement and recommendation intention. The data was collected from 397 tourists as respondents used a five scale likert questionnaires, and SMART-PLS 3.1 was used for data analysis. The result of this research showed that tourist experience quality and involvement positively and significantly influenced on tourist recommendation intention. This study enriches the empirical debates on tourist experience quality, involvement and recommendation intention in emergent tourist destination. Study also provides insight description to the government and tourism industry to improve Ramelau Mountain as tourism destination by providing memorable experience quality and tourism engagement to enhance tourists to revisit and recommend to the other potential tourists to visit Ramelau Mountain.","PeriodicalId":388650,"journal":{"name":"Timor Leste Journal of Business and Management","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114709778","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}
Remigia Maria Jeronimo Viana, E. Saldanha, Domingos M. B. Barreto
{"title":"The Impact of Tourism Destination Image on Tourist Behavioral Intention through Tourist Satisfaction: Evidence from the Ramelau Mountain, Timor-Leste","authors":"Remigia Maria Jeronimo Viana, E. Saldanha, Domingos M. B. Barreto","doi":"10.51703/bm.v3i1.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51703/bm.v3i1.33","url":null,"abstract":"The objectives of the research are to investigate the influence of destination image and tourist satisfaction on tourist behavioral intention, and to test the mediation effect of tourist satisfaction on the relationship between destination image and tourist behavioral intention. Using accidental sampling method, 400 tourists visited Ramelau Mountain participated in the survey by filling up the prepared questionnaires. While Smart-PLS 3.1 was used for data analysis. The result of the research demonstrates that tourist destination image and tourist satisfaction positively and significantly influences tourist behavioral intention, and tourist satisfaction significantly influences the relationship between destination image and behavioral intention. Empirically the research helps enrich studies on tourist destinations with tourist behavioral intention in countries that just start developing their tourism industry. This study also assists the government in developing natural attractions, culture, infrastructure, facility, accessibility, value, and price to change tourist behavioral intention to visit and revisit, and to recommend tourist destinations to other people.","PeriodicalId":388650,"journal":{"name":"Timor Leste Journal of Business and Management","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123858939","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}
E. Saldanha, Virginia dos Santos, Salustiano dos Reis Piedade, Agustinus Nahak Seran, J. Freitas
{"title":"The Effects of Responsible Tourism on the Quality of Life of Community in Tourism Destination of Com Village","authors":"E. Saldanha, Virginia dos Santos, Salustiano dos Reis Piedade, Agustinus Nahak Seran, J. Freitas","doi":"10.51703/BM.V2I0.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51703/BM.V2I0.31","url":null,"abstract":"This research aims to investigate the influence of responsible economic and social tourism on the quality of life of the community in a tourism destination. A-276 local households were selected to become respondents of the research. To this, pre-designed structural questionnaires were distributed to 276 households and returned, while Smart-PLS 3.0 was used to analyze the data. The findings revealed that responsible economic and social tourisms had significant impacts on the quality of life of the community. This implies that government and other stakeholders should develop appropriate strategy for responsible tourism to enhance economic growth and social reinforcement, ultimately contribute to improve the quality of life of the community in the tourism destination.","PeriodicalId":388650,"journal":{"name":"Timor Leste Journal of Business and Management","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129355307","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}
Elizabeth da Silva Andrade, A. M. Amaral, Carla Alexandra da Costa
{"title":"The Influence of Lecturer’s Personality on Work Performance Through Mediation of Motivation (Case Studies in Private and Public Higher Institute of Education in Díli)","authors":"Elizabeth da Silva Andrade, A. M. Amaral, Carla Alexandra da Costa","doi":"10.51703/BM.V2I0.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51703/BM.V2I0.26","url":null,"abstract":"Work Performance of lecturer becomes a determinant factor that gives an influence to the lecturer’s personality through the mediation of motivation. The purposes of this study as follows: (1) Test of the influence of lecturer’s personality on work achievement. (2) Test of lecturer’s personality in terms of motivation; (3) Test of lecturer’s personality in terms of work achievement; (4) Test of the impact of motivation mediation on relationship of lecturer’s personality and work achievement. The method used in this study is quantitative study through survey done for some lecturers as study correspondents in both Private and Public Institute of Higher Education in Dili. There are 1.805 total population and used Solving Formula in order to find 100 samples that become respondents. The research instrument of obtaining the data is via questionnaire that developed form previous research, that’s why there is no need to have both validation and reliability test instrument. The data analysis used SPSS and Smart-PLS 3.0 to analyze that data and hypothesis. The result shows that it does have positive relationship between the lecturer’s personality toward work achievement and it does have significant relationship between both variables. It also has positive and significant relationship between lecturer’s personality and motivation. Also, there is positive and significant relationship between variable of motivation and variable of of work achievement. Therefore, motivation can be a good mediation to influence positively and significantly of both lecturer’s personality and work achievement.","PeriodicalId":388650,"journal":{"name":"Timor Leste Journal of Business and Management","volume":"145 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134108743","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 Mediation Effect of Customer Satisfaction on the Relationship Between Service Quality and Customer Loyalty","authors":"Ana Fransisca Flores, E. Saldanha, Manuel Vong","doi":"10.51703/BM.V2I2.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51703/BM.V2I2.22","url":null,"abstract":"Sustainability of hotel’s performance can be determined by service quality, satisfaction and customer loyalty. The level of customer satisfaction can be increased if hotels offer good quality performance, and so it can retain customers to stay in a hotel. Thus, this research aims to identify and explain the influence of service quality for customer loyalty and test the effect of customer satisfaction mediation for the relationship between service quality and customer loyalty in the room division of the hotel. This research was conducted at hotel industries in Dili. Respondents for this research were their customers, and research instruments were questionnaires adopted from previous researches, and SMART-PLS 3.0 was used to test the hypothesis. This research shows that service quality and customer satisfaction are not significant to influence customer loyalty in the room division of hotels in Dili. Moreover, customer satisfaction does not have the effect of mediation for the relationship between service quality and customer loyalty. This research can contribute to enrich the theory and empirical about service quality, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty. In a practical level, this research can help hotel managers to develop their strategies in order to retain their customers through good service quality. This research can also help the government to aquire data on the level of customer satisfaction for the service quality of hotels in Timor-Leste, and so can develop the policy of human capital training to improve service quality in hotels and other service industries","PeriodicalId":388650,"journal":{"name":"Timor Leste Journal of Business and Management","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131645374","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}
Jorge B. Da Cunha, Edio da Costa, Remyanus Tunti, Melnyi Ehonia Timu
{"title":"Development of Monitoring System for Scholar Data in the Ministry of Health Timor-Leste","authors":"Jorge B. Da Cunha, Edio da Costa, Remyanus Tunti, Melnyi Ehonia Timu","doi":"10.51703/bm.v1i1.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51703/bm.v1i1.8","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this study is to develop the monitoring system of scholarship data in the Ministry of Health Timor-Leste to facilitate monitoring activities of the Timorese students within the country or abroad. And also, how to know when the scholars complete their studies and the cost which has been spent each year. The methods used to develop the system are Waterfall Modeling, Data Flow Diagram (DFD) and Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD). The programming language used to build the system are Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) 5.6.2, My Structured Query Language (MySQL) 5.1.37, and Xamp 3.2.2. The observation and interview are used to collect the data from the Ministry of Health Timor-Leste. The result of the system is able to monitor the scholars who will graduate every year, and also be able to know about the total of scholars studying in every area. The system is also able to monitor the payment data every scholar and the operational cost, producing reports such as field of study in each student, and payment detail each student during the process of the study.","PeriodicalId":388650,"journal":{"name":"Timor Leste Journal of Business and Management","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114777202","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}