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{"title":"The Mediating Role of Employer Branding Between Employee Satisfaction and Talent Management","authors":"Kaenat Malik","doi":"10.46745/ilma.jbs.2019.15.02.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46745/ilma.jbs.2019.15.02.06","url":null,"abstract":"In today’s competitive world, it has become difficult for organizations to manage and attract a talented workforce. In view of this most firms are using employer branding strategies to attract and retain the employees. In view of its importance, we have developed a new conceptual framework that has five direct hypotheses and three indirect hypotheses. We have collected data from 400 faculty members of the leading business institutes of Karachi. The questionnaire was adapted from the earlier established scales. Smart PLS 3.2 was used for data analysis. This study found that it is important for firms to forego old HR practices and adopt employer branding. The HR manager in the present era required to spend considerable time building the image of the firms by interacting with all the stakeholders of the firms. A strong brand image is not only attractive to new employees, but it also enhances the job satisfaction level of the existing employees. Employers branding promotes a conducive environment due to which employees’ satisfaction level increases but they also develop a sustainable relationship with firms. Thus both the employees and employers benefit from it.","PeriodicalId":407267,"journal":{"name":"IBT Journal of Business Studies","volume":"62 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":"126807645","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":"Determination the Role and Problems of Inventory Management and Supply chain Profitability: A case study of Cement companies in Sindh, Pakistan","authors":"Abdul Razaque Memon","doi":"10.46745/ilma.jbs.2022.18.01.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46745/ilma.jbs.2022.18.01.02","url":null,"abstract":"Cement companies are private constrained are considered as one of the Pakistan’s biggest revenue produced. Lucky is one of the biggest cement company in Pakistan. In arrange to improve its client fulfillment it offers a wide extend of items in terms of Cement, and cement based items. Lucky Cement has significant intrigued towards the Green Supply Chain Administration. Nevertheless, it is one of the changeableness assignments to execute the green supply chain administration over the conventional supply chain but it gets to be the need of the advanced time and its usage is advantageous through each angle of trade. The reason of this inquire about is to examine and analyze the challenges for Green Supply Chain Administration in Lucky Cement private limited constrained and to supply proposals in this respect. The investigate discoveries are based on SWOT investigation and to uncover equality, shortcomings, openings and dangers with regard to challenges confronted by Lucky cement in executing Green Supply Chain Administration. A few convincible proposals is been given in this respect to overcome the challenges confronted by Lucky cement in actualizing or to receive the Green Supply Chain Administration. This investigate is of subjective in nature and burn case think about technique is utilized for point-by-point examination of Lucky cement as it were. Through non-probability, based inspecting strategy essential in hand information based on organized interviews was collected from concerns. The discoveries of the investigate concludes that the Lucky cement require execute Green Supply Chain Administration in its fabricating and crude fabric acquirement prepare and has sufficient potential to actualize it in arrange to improve efficiency and to manage with the client and the administrative weight. The company can contribute straightforwardly on nearby agriculturists by giving mindfulness so that they can make strides the abdicate of eatable oil seed edit, the company can too collaborate with their providers in arrange to center on switch coordination’s of their cement from clients for reusing reason or by getting skill of Green Supply Chain Administration experts.","PeriodicalId":407267,"journal":{"name":"IBT Journal of Business Studies","volume":"2 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":"116915941","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":"Nexus between Risk Management and Financial Performance of Conventional Bank in Pakistan","authors":"R. Mughal","doi":"10.46745/ilma.jbs.2022.18.02.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46745/ilma.jbs.2022.18.02.05","url":null,"abstract":"The study investigates the nexus between risk management and performance of Habib Bank Limited using the annual financial time series data from 2005 to 2021. The dependent variable is the bank performance measured by using return on equity. The independent variables are the financial risks, which include credit risk, liquidity risk, and operational risk. The findings suggest that the credit risk and liquidity risk negatively impact the performance of Habib Bank Limited, which means that the increase in credit risk and liquidity risk would result in declining the profitability of Habib Bank Limited. Moreover, operational risk has a significant positive effect on the bank's performance. The study concludes that Habib Bank Limited needs to control its credit and liquidity risks to perform well in the market. It is recommended that Habib Bank Limited adopt strict policies and do a risk analysis of each borrower before issuing the loan. Habib Bank Limited must offer attractive financial products to motivate the depositors to deposit more in the account to control the liquidity risk.","PeriodicalId":407267,"journal":{"name":"IBT Journal of Business Studies","volume":"86 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":"122565281","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":"Critical Discourse Analysis: A Critical Approach To Expose Hidden Realities In The Discourse Of Sustainable Development","authors":"Masood Ahmed","doi":"10.46745/ilma.jbs.2019.15.02.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46745/ilma.jbs.2019.15.02.01","url":null,"abstract":"The acceptability of sustainable development as the concept to response to increasing social environmental challenges has led many firms to adopt sustainable development in the form of corporate sustainability. However, the evidence show there is little impact of the so called sustainable activities of the firms on the society and environment and business as usual continues. In the paper it is suggested that to understand why such impact has not occurred we need to look at the current discourses on sustainable development and corporate sustainability through the lens of critical theory and its methodology of critical discourses analysis. Major discourses prevailing in Sustainable Development and Corporate Sustainability have been discussed. It is found out that dominant discourse of Business Case for Sustainability is marginalizing the other discourses that favor nature or society over economics as the central theme of sustainability. The implications of the findings is such that unless the dominant discourse Business Case for Sustainability is not challenged the goals of Sustainable Development would remain elusive and the path towards social and environmental degradation would continue.","PeriodicalId":407267,"journal":{"name":"IBT Journal of Business Studies","volume":"49 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":"114315425","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 Unification of Product Life-cycle and Industry Life-cycle: A Framework for Telecom Sector in Pakistan","authors":"Amena Sibghatullah, Musarrat Shamshir, K. Siddiqui, Nazia Saeed","doi":"10.46745/ilma.jbs.2019.15.01.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46745/ilma.jbs.2019.15.01.02","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to propose a strategic framework using the Unified Life Cycle (ULC)model by combining Product lifecycle (PLC) and Industry life cycle (ILC). Data collection and analysis involves multi-stage qualitative methods. At first stage qualitative data was collected through interviews and focus groups while at a later part of the research qualitative data was again collected from the marketing experts (N = 100). This paper shows originality on many counts. Firstly, both PLC and ILC have shown weaknesses and limitations in earlier researches. This research has unified both PLC and ILC into one ULC combining the strengths and reducing the weakness of both life cycles. Secondly, earlier studies failed to provide any integrated strategic framework of selecting appropriate pricing strategies; using both PLC and ILC in silos. The current research provides an integrated strategic framework for pricing strategy selection using newly proposed strategic framework labelled as ULC.","PeriodicalId":407267,"journal":{"name":"IBT Journal of Business Studies","volume":"163 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":"134365007","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 Dynamic Effects of Terrorism on Tourism: A Bound Testing Co-integration Approach","authors":"J. Shah","doi":"10.46745/ILMA.JBS.2020.16.01.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46745/ILMA.JBS.2020.16.01.04","url":null,"abstract":"Tourism industry is considered a key driver promoting socioeconomic development in under development economy, but there are several factors which hindering this development. The terror incidence in swat valley have severely affected tourism industry of the area. Terrorism is a growing hazard across the globe with severs socio-economic consequences. Pakistan is also playing it’s was against terrorism that it has affected its various economic activities including tourism. During the first decade of the ongoing century, northern mountainous area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which was famous for tourism, was badly affected by incidences of terror2. The objective of this research work is to estimate the impact of terror incidents on domestic tourism in Pakistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Swat Valley (TA –domestic visitors’ arrivals).The current research is an effort to evaluate the short-term and long-term association between events of terror and domestic visitation. Primary data was collected using stratified random sampling techniques and interview method and secondary data was taken from various sources to evaluate the model. Auto Regressive Distributive Lag (ARDL) model is used to evaluate the data. The ARDL bound test confirms the co-integration between terror incidents and tourism. Additionally, the examined findings undoubtedly ensure the negative short-term and long-term impact of events of terror on domestic tourism in the study area.","PeriodicalId":407267,"journal":{"name":"IBT Journal of Business Studies","volume":"113 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":"128654418","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 Impact of CCC and WC on The Profitability of KMI-30 Index","authors":"S. Riaz, Athar Iqbal, M. I. Khan","doi":"10.46745/ilma.jbs.2019.15.01.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46745/ilma.jbs.2019.15.01.07","url":null,"abstract":"This research purpose is to investigate the impact of WC and CCC on prosperity of the companies, listed in KMI-30 Index. For this research data was gathered from firm’s annual reports. Data of 30companies listed in KMI-30 Index was collected over the period of 2010 till 2014. Data was collected to check significance of ROE, Tobin’s Q, and ROA. To analyze these variables regression analysis was used to measure the impact on dependent variable through independent variables. The study concluded that cash conversion cycle and debt to assets ratio were most significant variable on the dependent variables i.e. ROA, Tobin’s Q and ROE. It was recommended to the companies of listed in the KMI-30 to maintain the CCC at their minimum level or in lines with the industry norms, so they can avoid the liquidity problem along with the reduce the shortfall of cash requirement which were needed to smoothly run the operations of the companies.","PeriodicalId":407267,"journal":{"name":"IBT Journal of Business Studies","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":"131279482","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 Escalator Use on Mall Love among Adult Pakistani Visitors","authors":"Sobia Zaman","doi":"10.46745/ILMA.JBS.2020.16.01.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46745/ILMA.JBS.2020.16.01.14","url":null,"abstract":"The study examines the role of escalator-use in the generation of mall love among adult Pakistani visitors. It assesses the influence of hedonic and utilitarian value on mall love through visitors’ attitude and emotional experience. The theoretical foundation of this research is founded on Technology Acceptance Model by Davis (1986). Around 1000 mall visitors were approached through the mall-intercept method in thirteen shopping malls in major cities of Pakistan. Among them, 500 responses were utilized for data analysis. Non-probability convenience sampling was considered as the best choice. Proposed relationships between the constructs were tested through Confirmatory Factor Analysis. The findings revealed that ‘hedonic value’ has a direct positive influence on visitors’ mall love. While testing mediation, the results indicated that emotional experience, attitude and escalator use strengthen the relationship between hedonic and utilitarian value and mall love. It is interesting to observe that the use of escalators in shopping mall results in developing mall love among visitors in Pakistan. This study will benefit the entire gamut of stakeholders including shopping mall managers, academic researchers, and practitioners. This study will benefit mall management by offering them practical suggestions regarding attracting visitors through better management of the mall environment.","PeriodicalId":407267,"journal":{"name":"IBT Journal of Business Studies","volume":"44 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":"121880932","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":"Do HRM Practices Influence Perceived Financial Performance? A Case of Banks in Pakistan","authors":"Shariq Ahmed","doi":"10.46745/ilma.jbs.2022.18.02.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46745/ilma.jbs.2022.18.02.03","url":null,"abstract":"Recently ubiquity in Human Resource Management (HRM) literature has been found and much more focus is directed towards exploring HRM practices and their effect on perceived financial performance of a firm. This study is an endeavor to contribute in the Pakistan context literature of HRM vis-à-vis Financial Performance paradigm. It was aimed at finding the relationship pattern of HRM practices over its contribution in firm’s performance. A questionnaire was deployed to ascertain the extent of relationship among the two and financial services sector was chosen to fill the questionnaire. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) was employed for analysis to understand the structural dimensions of exogenous and endogenous constructs. Out of the six HRM practices, only two came out to be significantly impacting the perceived financial performance of firms. Compensation Policy and Decentralization results were found to be affecting the perception of employees towards the financial growth of the firms.","PeriodicalId":407267,"journal":{"name":"IBT Journal of Business Studies","volume":"56 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":"114760443","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":"Workforce Competencies and Digital Transformation: A Literature Survey","authors":"Tazeen Imran","doi":"10.46745/ilma.jbs.2022.18.01.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46745/ilma.jbs.2022.18.01.01","url":null,"abstract":"The 21st century is an era of disruption, vanishing entities lagging behind to transform themselves. Digital transformation therefore has gained much recognition especially in the 21st century, as the technological advancement assists in significantly optimizing business operations, product service and design innovation. Organizations around the world are investing and making constant efforts in digital transformation by updating and upgrading their business processes in order to improve the firm’s performance and achieve competitive advantage. However digital transformation requires the workforce to possess adequate competencies, both for implementation and utilization post implementation, as these technological changes bring intense shifts in the attitude and behaviour of the traditional ways of doing. This paper, therefore, attempts to bridge the gap in literature for the changing needs of today’s workforce competencies that are deemed necessary in the era of digital transformation, by gathering evidences from literature analysis. The paper contributes to the body of literature by directing industry practitioners and researchers to adopt a wider outlook, while undergoing the journey of digital transformation, which encompasses diversity in workforce competencies. The researcher has discussed diversity and digital transformation, with the perspective of what digital transformation needs is what gender diversity offers.","PeriodicalId":407267,"journal":{"name":"IBT Journal of Business Studies","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":"124348296","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}