{"title":"The Impact of the Social Networking Sites on the Research Activity of University Students","authors":"Asif Mahmood","doi":"10.30537/SIJMB.V5I2.342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30537/SIJMB.V5I2.342","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the widespread utilization of online networking by students and its expanded use by teachers, almost no experimental proof is accessible concerning the effect of social networking use on learner, learning and engagement. This paper investigates the impact of social Networking Sites on the research activity of university students. The sample is composed of 200 students from the PU, Lahore and UET, Lahore, out of which 87 male (43.5%) and 113 females (56.5%) responded the questionnaire of survey. The finding reveals that Facebook was utilized for different sorts of scholastic also co-curricular talks. The ANOVA results demonstrated that the trial gathering had an altogether more noteworthy expand in engagement than the control bunch, and additionally higher semester evaluation point midpoints. This research also demonstrates that the motivation behind joining a social networking site differs among the students, however, the reason for being is to stay connected with the group to further impart learning to others. Presentation to late information, abilities and innovation in their general vicinity of specialization started things out.","PeriodicalId":437099,"journal":{"name":"Sukkur IBA Journal of Management and Business","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133343391","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":"Authentic Leadership and Organization Citizenship Behavior: A Case of Pakistani Electronic News Media Industry","authors":"Mukaram Khan, S. Zubair","doi":"10.30537/SIJMB.V5I1.113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30537/SIJMB.V5I1.113","url":null,"abstract":"The role of leadership in an organizational system has remained of central concern in organization studies. Over the time, the emergence of various theories has unfolded the unique influential roles of leadership embedded in organizational management. Among various leadership styles and theories, a relatively new concept of Authentic Leadership (AL) is worthy of attention with respect to the changing demands of the media industry. The origin of the concept of authenticity is found in ancient Greek philosophy and it is defined in history as “being true to oneself”. Trust is the basic constituent based on which people can count on one another and work together in a conducive environment. AL is an idea to leadership that focuses on developing leader’s legitimacy via “honest relationships with followers”. In this study, AL is measured through four dimensions that include Self-awareness, Balanced Processing, Moral Perspective and Relational Transparency. Media is expected to be a watchdog on affairs of the state and government, therefore, the public requires media industry to be responsive, transparent and unbiased based on principles of ethics and true reporting. In order to achieve a positive environment and culture in the organization, this study focuses on the idea of Organization Citizenship Behavior (OCB) in connection with AL. This paper investigates the relationship between the said variables and tries to find out the impact of AL on OCB, for that matter, a quantitative research strategy has been followed. Respondents for this study were conveniently selected from bureau offices of six news channels making the sample size to be 220","PeriodicalId":437099,"journal":{"name":"Sukkur IBA Journal of Management and Business","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130523651","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 Culture and Knowledge Sharing Behavior: Examining Serial Mechanisms","authors":"Saliha Gul Abbasi, G. Dastgeer","doi":"10.30537/sijmb.v5i1.114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30537/sijmb.v5i1.114","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to examine how hierarchy organizational culture affect the knowledge sharing behavior of teachers in higher education institutions and universities and its mediated link through formal knowledge governance mechanism and knowledge sharing opportunity. A sample of 269 teachers was drawn from university teachers in Pakistan and structural equation modeling is used to test the hypotheses. The results of this study suggest that first, hierarchy organizational culture is positively associated with knowledge sharing behavior of teachers. Second, formal knowledge governance mechanism fully mediated the relationship between hierarchy organizational culture and knowledge sharing behavior. Third, knowledge sharing opportunity fully mediated the relationship between hierarchy organizational culture and knowledge sharing behavior. Finally, the relationship between hierarchy organizational culture and knowledge sharing behavior is sequentially and fully mediated by formal knowledge governance mechanism and knowledge sharing opportunity. Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed followed by limitations of the study along with suggestions for future research.","PeriodicalId":437099,"journal":{"name":"Sukkur IBA Journal of Management and Business","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123300969","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":"Are gold markets weak form efficient? Evidence from China, India and Russia","authors":"Bi-Juan Chang","doi":"10.30537/SIJMB.V5I1.189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30537/SIJMB.V5I1.189","url":null,"abstract":"The main purpose of this study is to determine the weak form efficiency of the emerging gold markets such as China, India and Russia with the special focus on testing random walks (RWS) and martingale difference sequence (MDS) hypotheses during different periods of time. This study uses biased free statistical techniques such as runs test, parametric variance ratio tests and recent modified non-parametric variance ratio tests based on ranks and signs by using daily spot gold prices from January 12, 1993 to October 28, 2016. Findings of the study suggest that Russian gold market is weak form efficient throughout the period whereas other two markets are found weak form efficient during second sub period only that is, January 2000 to December 2005.","PeriodicalId":437099,"journal":{"name":"Sukkur IBA Journal of Management and Business","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114365732","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 Role of Visual Merchandising in Impulse Buying Behavior: An exploration from the lens of young adult consumers","authors":"Hafsa Waseem","doi":"10.30537/SIJMB.V5I1.191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30537/SIJMB.V5I1.191","url":null,"abstract":"The study was conducted to identify the relationship between young adult consumer’s impulse buying behavior and visual merchandising. Five techniques of visual merchandising which are window display, store layout, lighting, promotional signage and brand name was considered in the study to determine the effect. A convenient sampling technique was used to gather data. The young adult consumer’s including male and female (N=290, age range between 16 to 35 years) was considered for data gathering. To study the variables, questionnaire is adapted from different author’s (Rook & Fisher, 1995),(Bhalla & Anuraag, 2010),(Wanninayake & Randiwela, 2007),(Dua & Karolia, 2008),(Bhatti & Latif, 2014). Stepwise regression showed that five dimensions of visual merchandising window display, store lay out, lighting, promotional signage and brand name effect young adults consumers’ impulse buying behavior directly. Findings also indicate that Visual merchandising has turned out to be an essential variable nowadays to attract consumers and to increase sales.","PeriodicalId":437099,"journal":{"name":"Sukkur IBA Journal of Management and Business","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115049011","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 Transformational Leadership, Job Design, and Human Resource Practices on Job Satisfaction of Banking Staff in Pakistan","authors":"A. Nasreen, K. Mehmood","doi":"10.30537/sijmb.v5i1.116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30537/sijmb.v5i1.116","url":null,"abstract":"Employee job satisfaction has been one of the crucial factors behind an organization’s success. Review of literature in the field of management, leadership, and organization behavior regarding antecedents of job satisfaction indicates that job design, transformational leadership, and human resource management practices are essential antecedents of job satisfaction as accounted by a variety of researches. However, there have been limited researches that study impact of job design, transformational leadership, and HR practices on job satisfaction in one research outline. Further, literature review indicates that such research is warranted in Pakistan because there is extremely limited research on this topic in Pakistani context. To fulfil this research gap, this study took data from banking sector as this sector is considered to be essential one contributing to Pakistan economy; and job satisfaction among bank staff has always been an important concern. The study utilized final response of 170 questionnaires from various private banks in Southern Punjab, and relied on SmartPLS3.0 for analyses of data. The study suggests that job satisfaction is affected positively by HR practices and transformational leadership, whereas job design does not affect job satisfaction in the banking context. This study makes invaluable contribution to transformational leadership theory, organization behavior, and dynamic capabilities perspective through its hypotheses testing. The study recommends banks’ management to improve quality of HR practices as well as concentrate on promoting transformational leadership style in their banks.","PeriodicalId":437099,"journal":{"name":"Sukkur IBA Journal of Management and Business","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117118278","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":"Trade Liberalization-Trade Revenue Nexus: An Empirical Enquiry of Trade Laffer Curve of Pakistan","authors":"K. Ahmad","doi":"10.30537/SIJMB.V5I1.190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30537/SIJMB.V5I1.190","url":null,"abstract":"This study tries to explore the trade revenue implication of trade liberalization for Pakistan. Laffer curve approach is used to see the non-linear relationship between trade openness and trade tax revenue. Empirical evidence shows that trade openness has constructive impact on trade tax revenue in linear term. The non-linear relationship has also been explored in the presence of other macroeconomic variables. The marginal impact of non-liner squire trade liberalization has adverse effect on trade tax revenue. In the long run, the empirical investigation proves the existence of inverted U-shaped behavior between trade liberalization and trade tax revenue in Pakistan but this behavior does not exist in short run.","PeriodicalId":437099,"journal":{"name":"Sukkur IBA Journal of Management and Business","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133007007","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":"Adverse Supply Shocks and the Financial Response: An Empirical Study of Pakistan","authors":"A. Nizamani, Erum Shaikh","doi":"10.30537/sijmb.v7i2.591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30537/sijmb.v7i2.591","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper has examined the role of monetary policy in mitigating the adverse supply shocks (i.e. rise in oil prices). A typical monetary policy is regarded as the stabilizing policy and it is responsible to safeguard an economy in the emergence of any negative shock from the external world. Pakistan's economy has been vulnerable to oil price fluctuations and it has often faced the long run negative impact, for instance the negative effects of 2008 commodity crises which were mainly because of the abrupt rise in oil prices. The monetary policy of Pakistan usually follows the tight policy stance as a response to such adverse supply shocks but the question always remain, how effective is it in mitigating those negative effects? In this regard, the present study has explored the effectiveness of monetary policy stance in Pakistan. In order to achieve the underline objective, this study has used the Shutdown Methodology in Structural Vector Autoregressive (SVAR) models on the quarterly data from 1992 to 2016. The results from the underline model have revealed that the monetary policy of Pakistan has a limited effectiveness on its main target variables of economic output and general price level.","PeriodicalId":437099,"journal":{"name":"Sukkur IBA Journal of Management and Business","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":"125886689","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}