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{"title":"Cronyism as a coping strategy: how do female academics deal with the lack of emancipative support?","authors":"Mohamed Mousa, Doaa Althalathini, Hala A. Abdelgaffar","doi":"10.1108/apjba-12-2022-0527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/apjba-12-2022-0527","url":null,"abstract":"PurposeThis paper aims to explore how female academics use cronyism to cope with the lack of emancipative support resulting from their intense teaching and research duties, poor representation at senior administrative levels and their exhausting familial commitments.Design/methodology/approachQualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with 32 female academics working full-time at four public universities in Egypt.FindingsThe findings showed that the low action resources (considering their unreasonable teaching loads, research requirements and supervision engagements), emancipative values (the unfair representation of female academics at senior administrative levels) and civic entitlement (universities not serious about promoting gender equality) are perceived by female academics as a lack of empowerment that necessitates their adoption of cronyism as their main coping strategy. Moreover, in male-dominated societies, female academics who do not have the power to shape their work-related status tend to use undesirable behaviours such as cronyism to mitigate the negative consequences of the shocks they encounter.Originality/valueThis paper contributes by filling a gap in human resources management in which empirical studies on the relationship between cronyism, emancipation and career shocks have been limited so far.","PeriodicalId":45401,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42111495","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 interaction of organizational politics and political skill on employees' exposure to workplace cyberbullying: the conservation of resources theory perspective","authors":"Peerayuth Charoensukmongkol","doi":"10.1108/apjba-08-2022-0364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/apjba-08-2022-0364","url":null,"abstract":"PurposeConsidering the detrimental impact of workplace cyberbullying on employees and organizations, it is necessary to understand factors that potentially induce employees to engage in cyberbullying and to recognize personal characteristics that may help employees mitigate its impact. This research applies the conservation of resources (COR) theory to investigate the effect of organizational politics and political skill on employees' exposure to workplace cyberbullying as well as to analyze the subsequent impact on emotional exhaustion. Moreover, the interaction effect of political skill and organizational politics on employees' exposure to workplace cyberbullying is analyzed.Design/methodology/approachThe total of 358 complete questionnaires were obtained from one medium-sized public university in Thailand. The partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was used to analyze the data.FindingsThe analysis supports the positive association between organizational politics and employees' exposure to workplace cyberbullying. Employees' exposure to workplace cyberbullying also has a positive association with emotional exhaustion. On the other hand, the analysis showed that political skill has a negative association with employees' exposure to workplace cyberbullying. The result from the moderating effect analysis further shows that political skill also reduces the impact of organizational politics on employees' exposure to workplace cyberbullying.Originality/valueThe incorporation of the COR theory provides theoretical insight into how political skill of employees can buffer the impact of organizational politics on exposure to workplace cyberbullying. It advances the knowledge found in previous research that lacked solid theory to explain the interaction between organizational politics and political skill of employees in the area of workplace cyberbullying.","PeriodicalId":45401,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46669712","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":"Analisis Strategi Pengembangan Wahana Tirta Pesona di Kota Bandar Lampung","authors":"Jumini Rahayu, Aprilianto Amir, Hinfa Mosshananza","doi":"10.37090/bpj.v3i1.1125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37090/bpj.v3i1.1125","url":null,"abstract":"Tourism is an activity carried out by individual or group in the form of a trip to visit a certain place with the aim of having a vacation, and seeing the features and beauty of this tour. Tirta Pesona rides are one of the tours located in the city of Bandar Lampung. The purpose of this study was to analyze the strategy for developing Wahana Tirta Pesona tourism in the city of Bandar Lampung. The type of research used in this study is a type of qualitative research. Based on the results of interviews, the main attraction of the Wahana Tirta Pesona tourist attraction is the natural beauty that is very natural. So that the management goes according to the planned objectives in the tourism development strategy where the manager focuses on developing facilities and increasing promotions so that the number of visitors does not continue to decrease. The techniques and planning possessed by the Wahana Tirta Pesona tourist attraction are quite good, but are not running effectively in their implementation. Based on the results of interviews and observations, it can be concluded that the development strategies at tourist sites that have been carried out have been implemented but are still ineffective, resulting in a decrease in the number of visitors. The decrease in the number of visitors was caused by several other factors such as the impact of the Covid'19 pandemic, lack of promotional activities, lack of maintenance, and lack of access road facilities and infrastructure to the location. The management has tried to develop tourism objects including constructing other supporting facilities.
 Keywords: development strategy, strategy implementation, tourism","PeriodicalId":45401,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135752957","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":"Strategi Manajemen dalam Meningkatkan Kinerja Karyawan pada PT. Agta Sinar Jaya di Bandar Lampung","authors":"Suryani Suryani","doi":"10.37090/bpj.v3i1.1120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37090/bpj.v3i1.1120","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study was to determine the implementation of management strategies in improving employee performance at PT. Agta Sinar Jaya in Bandar Lampung, to explain the relationship of work discipline to the performance of employees of PT. Agta Sinar Jaya in Bandar Lampung, and to explain the evaluation of management strategies in improving the performance of employees of PT. Agta Sinar Jaya in Bandar Lampung. The type of research used is field research, which is descriptive in nature with a qualitative approach to obtain data that is relevant to the research being conducted. The required data was obtained through interviews conducted with a company director and several employees who were the source of research data at PT. Agta Sinar Jaya. The research results shown that management strategies in improving employee performance at PT. Agta Sinar Jaya still has not been implemented properly, because of the rolling position system, so that employees don't understand their respective new positions and need time to adapt first so they can do their jobs well. Management strategy on discipline in improving performance at PT. Agta Sinar Jaya, there are still about 80% of employees who are not disciplined. Evaluation of management strategies in improving performance at PT. Agta Sinar Jaya, in general, employees work well after attending debriefing and training and applying discipline by giving rewards and punishments.
 Keywords: performance, management, strategy","PeriodicalId":45401,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135753138","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":"Pengaruh Pemasaran Digital terhadap Penjualan pada Toko Pakaian Mega Mall Bengkulu","authors":"Ovita Charolina, Samsul Akmal, Desi Wulandari","doi":"10.37090/bpj.v3i1.1123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37090/bpj.v3i1.1123","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to determine the effect of digital marketing on sales at the clothing store Mega Mall Bengkulu. This type of research is quantitative, the sample in this study amounted to 55 clothing stores, the data collection method used was the distribution of questionnaires and the method of data analysis using SPSS. The results of the research on the validity test show that digital marketing is valid with a sig value. 2 tailed < 0.05 while in sales there is an invalid statement because it has a sig value. 2 tailed > 0.05. In the digital marketing reliability test, it is said to be reliable because X 0.984 > 0.60 while in sales it is said to be reliable because Y 0.511 > 0.60. In the normality test, digital marketing and sales have a normal distribution because it is significant with a value of 0.200 > 0.05. In the heteroscedasticity test there are no symptoms and in simple linear regression the constant value (a) is 26.842 or 2684% and the regression coefficient (b) x is 0.116 or 11.6% with a significant level of 0.000 it is said that digital marketing (X) has a positive effect on sales (Y).&#x0D; Keywords : Digital Marketing and Sales","PeriodicalId":45401,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135753136","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":"Analisis Dampak Manajemen Strategis terhadap Kinerja UMKM di Provinsi Lampung","authors":"Suryani Suryani","doi":"10.37090/bpj.v3i1.1124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37090/bpj.v3i1.1124","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to analyze the impact of strategic management on the performance of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Lampung Province. MSMEs have a significant role in regional and national economic growth, but the challenges faced by MSMEs often affect their overall performance. This study uses a qualitative approach by collecting data/information through interviews with several MSME actors/owners operating in Lampung Province. The in-depth and structured interviews focused on strategic management aspects, including strategic planning, strategy implementation, control and performance evaluation. In addition, MSME performance data is also collected, such as sales growth, profitability, operational efficiency, and market share. The results of this study indicate that MSMEs that implement strategic management well tend to achieve better performance than those who focus less on this aspect. Good strategic planning allows MSMEs to have a clear long-term vision and goals, while effective strategy implementation helps them to better face market challenges. Tight control allows SMEs to respond quickly to changing situations, and regular performance evaluations allow them to improve weaknesses and capitalize on existing potential.&#x0D; Keywords: performance, strategic management, SMMEs.","PeriodicalId":45401,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135753137","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":"Pengaruh Cash Ratio dan Earning Per Share Terhadap Dividend Pay Out Ratio pada Perusahaan Manufaktur yang Terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia","authors":"Peri Setiawan, None Suradi, Aprilianto Amir","doi":"10.37090/bpj.v3i1.1122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37090/bpj.v3i1.1122","url":null,"abstract":"The capital market is one of the ways chosen by the company in meeting the needs of additional company funds to develop the company's operations to survive in the global economy. Investors invest their capital in shares in a company with the main objective of obtaining a return on investment in the form of dividends and capital gains. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of Cash Ratio and Earnings Per Share on Dividend Payout Ratio in manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. The data used are secondary data that is produced from other existing sources, for example research must go through others or search through documents, journals or books (name, year, page,). This research is a quantitative study with a descriptive approach. Samples of this study using panel data, were taken as many as 8 manufacturing companies that were in accordance with predetermined criteria with the research period 2016 - 2020. The study used the software of SPSS 2.0 and the results ere Cash Ratio effects the Dividend Payout Ratio based on the results of calculations and analysis can be calculated t-value = 6.255 with a sig. Value = 0.000., This significant value <0.05,. Earning Per Share has a significant effect on the Dividend Payout Ratio based on the results of calculations and analysis obtained calculated t-value = 3.837 with a sig. value. = 0.001, sig. value = 0.001 < 0.05, Cash ratio and Earning Per Share have a significant effect on the Dividend Payout Ratio based on the calculation and analysis results obtained value t-calculate = 69.818 the value of sig. = 0.000 because the value of sig. < 0.05 the result of the coefficient of being amended adjust R2 obtained 0.951, means that this study contributed 95.1% while 4.9% was determined by other factors outside this study, this hall showed that the available data had qualified for the use of the panel data regression model. From the results of the analysis, it shows that the Cash Ratio, and Earning Per Share effect to the Dividen Payout Ratio.&#x0D; Keywords: cash ratio, earning per share, and dividend payout ratio, capital market","PeriodicalId":45401,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135752956","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":"Role of authentic leadership in enhancing employees' voice behavior through psychological capital during COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Noman M Rafique, G. Afshan, Farooque Ahmed","doi":"10.1108/apjba-04-2022-0156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/apjba-04-2022-0156","url":null,"abstract":"PurposeConsidering the importance of employees' voice behavior (VB) and psychological capital (PC) amidst the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), this study highlights the role of authentic leadership (AL) in building a psychologically strong workforce that can provide meaningful suggestions for the improvement of organization.Design/methodology/approachThe study employed a questionnaire survey to collect the data and recruited 261 participants from the telecom sector Sindh, Pakistan. The data analysis was done using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM).FindingsThe findings of the study supported the hypotheses suggesting that AL can directly influence employees' VB and indirectly via PC.Originality/valueThe study was conducted during the COVID-19 in the telecom sector of Sindh, Pakistan. This study contributes by providing useful insights into that AL is an important form of leadership that encourages employees' voluntary behavior and psychological strength during the COVID-19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":45401,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43723857","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":"Organic food purchases: does green trust play a part?","authors":"Irfana Rashid, Aashiq Hussain Lone","doi":"10.1108/apjba-11-2022-0506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/apjba-11-2022-0506","url":null,"abstract":"PurposeOrganic food consumption has received great attention due to the increase in consumer environmental and health concerns. This study intends to analyse how customers' green purchasing intentions for organic food are affected by internal factors of attitude and health consciousness and external factors of social norms and environmental concern, as well as how green trust operates as a moderator between green purchase intention and actual purchase.Design/methodology/approachA quantitative research methodology was employed in this study. The data (n = 323) were gathered via a self-administered questionnaire. The respondents, who were current purchasers of organic food, were chosen through a purposive sampling technique. Data were analysed using exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modelling with the aid of IBM SPSS 25.0 and AMOS 25.FindingsThe results reveal that customers' green purchase intention for organic products is positively influenced by internal factors (attitude and health consciousness) and external factors (social norms and environmental concern). This study also shows the moderating effect of green trust on intention and action, demonstrating the necessity of building green trust among customers to diminish green purchasing inconsistency.Practical implicationsThe study's results have ramifications for producers of organic goods, merchants and market oversight organizations. Establishing a viable strategy while considering customers' concerns about health and the environment is necessary. The formulated strategy must target specific customer niches, therefore strengthening customers' trust in and understanding of organic food items, which will in turn diminish green purchasing inconsistency in the organic industry.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the existing literature by extending the Theory of Planned Behaviour model to organic food consumption and by visualizing how various factors (internal, external and green trust) affect a consumer's inclination to make organic food purchases. The authors added to the empirical evidence that green trust plays a crucial role in stimulating green buying intentions into behaviour and ultimately diminishing green purchasing inconsistency.","PeriodicalId":45401,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47622783","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":"Role-play of employees' protean career and career success in affective organizational commitment","authors":"Muhammad Latif Khan, Rohani Salleh, Amjad Shamim, Mohamad Abdullah Hemdi","doi":"10.1108/apjba-07-2021-0337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/apjba-07-2021-0337","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose This paper aims to investigate the role-play of Protean Career Attitude (PCA) and Career Success (CS) in Affective Organizational Commitment (AOC). Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional study on 376 employees from 55 hotels in Malaysia were conducted. The co-variance-based structural equation modeling was employed to analyze the data to test the direct and indirect relationships of PCA and CS with AOC. Findings The findings reveal that self-directed career attitude (SDCA) has a positive direct influence on AOC as well as indirect influence through the mediation of OCS and SCS. However, the value-driven career attitude (VDCA) neither influences AOC nor the OCS. Originality/value This is a first paper to body of knowledge in Asian context which identify mediating role of career success (SCA and OCS) to PCA and AOC. The findings of this research are the workplace learning in hospitality management. The authors argue that hotels should not assume spontaneously PCA with diminishing AOC, but rather hotels' attention is required to identify the most important preferences of these butterfly career attitudes such as OCS and SCS. Most importantly the research negates many negative labels of PCA and adds new perception to the contemporary career literature. Higher education institutions, government, and primary, secondary, and post-secondary education departments can play a significant role in developing PCA dispositions like SDCA and VDCA toward career success. Therefore, further study should examine PCA and their relevance to career outcome like job searching and employability of students in Malaysia. The paper is the first, to one's knowledge, to assess organizational commitment with specific measures of PCA. While the results are simple, they refute many stereotypes of the new career and, in that sense, add an important perspective to the career literature.","PeriodicalId":45401,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration","volume":"132 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136161896","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}