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Papers by Sana Arz Bhutto
International Journal of Social Science & Entrepreneurship
This study investigated the impacts of social media marketing (SMM) on young customers' resta... more This study investigated the impacts of social media marketing (SMM) on young customers' restaurant purchase intentions. The conceptual model of the study is based on social media marketing on purchase variables such as entertainment (ENT), interaction (INT), and E-word of mouth by mediators such as brand trust (BT) and brand awareness (BA) on customer purchase intention (PI). This research design is quantitative and data is obtained by a non-probability sampling technique. The survey questionnaire is designed on a five-point Likert scale. The sample size was 187 and used structural equation modelling (SEM) was used for data analysis. In this respect, current study results are reliable with previous studies as entertainment and interaction influenced airline service purchase intention by mediating the effect of trust. The other mediating variable is brand awareness which is impacted by entertainment, interaction and e-word of mouth and has strong relationships, which are indicate...
This research aims to examine the impact of workplace spirituality on turnover intentions in the ... more This research aims to examine the impact of workplace spirituality on turnover intentions in the healthcare sector of Istanbul. A twenty-three item scale was developed and the data was collected from 323 employees of the healthcare sector of Istanbul and the Multiple Regression Analysis was used as the statistical technique. Results indicated that all the dimensions of workplace spirituality namely meaningful work, spiritual association, compassion, and alignment values have a significant negative association with the turnover intentions. Therefore, it is recommended that practitioners in the healthcare sector of Istanbul be realize the importance of spirituality at the workplace in order to reduce the turnover intention among the employees
The aim of this study is to investigate the factors which can affect the knowledge management in ... more The aim of this study is to investigate the factors which can affect the knowledge management in Al-Madinah International University, Malaysia. This study employs a quantitative methodology for whichquestionnaires were distributed to on-campus staff at the university and a sample of 138 responses was collected for multiple regression analysis. Statistical Packages (SPSS) software was used to analyze the structure model. The results show that the motivation factors such as social interaction, trust, management support, learning orientation and motivation can provide explanation of knowledge sharing. This study found a positive correlation between sharing knowledge and the social interaction. Therefore, this study suggests that when knowledge is built and is shared then it creates a positive impact on an organizations employees. This study will contribute to the literature in the field of knowledge sharing. Comparatively, the studies focusing on knowledge sharing among Malaysian unive...
Reviews of Management Sciences, Jul 1, 2021
Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business, 2021
The aim of this study is to investigate the role of employee engagement as a mediator between the... more The aim of this study is to investigate the role of employee engagement as a mediator between the High-Performance Work System and the Service-Oriented Organizational Citizenship Behavior (Service-Oriented OCB). Furthermore, work-life balance as a moderator, the impact Service-Oriented OCB on customer satisfaction will be investigated. This study employs a quantitative methodology for which questionnaires were distributed to sixty restaurants in Karachi, and a sample of 418 responses was collected for structural equation modeling analysis. Smart PLS software was used to analyze the structure model. The results show that HPWS has a positive impact on Service-Oriented OCB. It is assumed that the role of work engagement as a mediator between HPWS and Service-Oriented OCB is significant. This study found that Service-Oriented OCB has a positive impact on customer satisfaction. Work-life balance was also found to have a moderating influence. The findings confirmed the black box mechanism and the HPWS procedures in restaurants. This study suggests implementing effective HPWS practices to influence employees' work engagement, which leads to Service-Oriented OCB and employees being able to optimize their performance to influence customer satisfaction. The study contributes to the existing body of knowledge in human resource management.
This study aims to examine the role of training and absorptive capacity as a mediator to examine ... more This study aims to examine the role of training and absorptive capacity as a mediator to examine the impact of human capital dimensions on the performance of an organization. This study employs the quantitative approach for analysis. A sample of 208 respondents was collected from the textile factories based in Karachi and Faisalabad. Data was analyzed using the PLS-SEM technique. PLS-SEM algorithm was used to check the validity and reliability of the data. PLS-SEM bootstrapping was used for studying the impact. The results show that the skills have an insignificant impact on organizational performance. Education and skills have an insignificant indirect impact on the performance of an organization. The research findings show that the human capital dimensions are full and partially mediated via absorptive capacity and training. The findings revealed that if we implement one by one dimension of human capital then it will not cause any increase in the organization’s performance but if ...
European Journal of Business and Management, 2016
The present study aims to investigate the impact of Green Human Resource like green recruitment, ... more The present study aims to investigate the impact of Green Human Resource like green recruitment, green training and development and green learning on the Firm Performance in Pakistan. Responses are gathered from 376 Pakistani firms. The HR Managers provided the information regarding green HRM in their firms. All the responses were collected on five point likert scale using a close ended questionnaire. The data was analyzed using SPSS. Multiple regression analysis is applied to test the effect of green HRM variables; green recruitment, green training and development and green learning on firm performance. The result indicates that all variables significantly affect the performance of the firm. The results are very useful for HR department and top management to develop their policies of green HRM. Future research can be conducted on other functions of HRM and its relation with employees and firm performance. Keywords : green human resource mangement, firm perfromance, green recruitmen...
The study has analyzed the emerging issues which are barriers in handling the governance in Pakis... more The study has analyzed the emerging issues which are barriers in handling the governance in Pakistani Universities through intellectual capital management. The objective of this study is to find out about the policies designed to run the system of the universities, a review of the current practices will be done to make recommendations of adopting some best practices of governance. The framework will be designed under the Pakistani context so an examination of the present challenges in intellectual capital management can be done. The practices of good governance and how these practices are managed will be the prime focus of the paper. The role of the participants in the governance and the stake holders involved who play a key role in the intellectual capital management by providing smooth system of management. The governing bodies of the Pakistani universities and their relationships with the shareholders, what role shareholders play in management will be analyzed. The sources of the...
European Journal of Business and Management, 2016
This study was aimed to examine the antecedents of organizational commitment in public andprivate... more This study was aimed to examine the antecedents of organizational commitment in public andprivate organizations of Pakistan. Organizational commitment is a behavior that extends beyondthe functions and conduct formally required of workers in an organization. Such behavior iscritical because of its role in better organizational performance. This present study is quantitativein nature and aimed at evaluating antecedents of organizational commitment. A questionnairewas designed and data was collected from a sample of 350 people within public and private sector organizations. We used nine hypothesis to test the relationship and used descriptive analysis, correlation analysis and reliability test. We found a strong relationship between organizational commitment and employee retention. We found interesting comparison and results for public and private organizations. The result of the study suggest different strategies that can be implemented to increase employees’ commitment and performan...
Research on humanities and social sciences, 2016
The intense competition in Pakistani industries and rapid changes in work environment has been a ... more The intense competition in Pakistani industries and rapid changes in work environment has been a cause of several compromises on other important fronts like cutting off from family and friends. Assuming work/life imbalance prevails more in developing countries like Pakistan along with high level of work pressures. This study examines and tests the impact of work life balance and job satisfaction on person’s social life as well as personal life. The results indicate that most of the employees are not satisfied their work-life balance as more time is spent at work with is much more than the official duty timings. The main reason of the time which employees want is to have their Work Life Balance. The study further illustrates that work life balance varies as the change of gender as well as marital status and it differs from person to person. Keywords: Work life balance, work life conflict, Pakistani commercial banks.
European Journal of Business and Management, 2016
This research aims to study psychological contract breach using sense making from the employees’ ... more This research aims to study psychological contract breach using sense making from the employees’ perspective. In the subject of human resources management, the term ‘Psychological Contract' refers to the actual but unwritten expectancy of an employee toward their employer (Shruthi, & Hemanth, 2012). This study involves the data collection from twelve interviews following critical incident technique. The findings support the survey on psychological contract breach that how employees feel when their promises breach and feel betray and revealing both the prevalence and the negative consequences of contract breach. This study focuses on the important but neglected issue of when perceptions of psychological contract breach and feelings of violation are likely to arise. The results provide insight into when psychological contract breach and violation are most likely to be experienced. How people get neglected by management and no interest to work anymore. The results are useful for t...
This research aims to study the mediating role of absorptive capacity and training in the relatio... more This research aims to study the mediating role of absorptive capacity and training in the relationship among the dimensions of human capital and organizational performance. The export of the textile sector is constantly declining. The investigation was done on three dimensions of Human Capital (HC), namely skills, health and education and two mediating variables which are training and absorptive capacity while organizational performance is as a dependent variable. A structured questionnaire was adapted. The data was collected from 280 respondents from Karachi and Faisalabad textile factories. To check the reliability and validity of data, the PLS-SEM algorithm was used. For finding a relationship, PLS-SEM bootstrapping was used. The research findings show that skills don’t have a significant impact on organizational performance. Skills and education don’t have a specific indirect impact on organizational performance. Findings show that dimensions of human capital are partial and fu...
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021
This study aims to investigate the factors influencing research community participation and open ... more This study aims to investigate the factors influencing research community participation and open innovation through the mediating role of absorptive capacity from the lens of Resource Based View and Dynamic Capability perspectives. Based on a survey of 115 senior engineering faculties from three research universities in Malaysia, this study applies the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) to investigate the research model. The findings demonstrate that top management support has a major impact on research community participation. The findings also suggest that absorptive capacity mediates the association between research community participation and open innovation capability. This study provides a theoretical basis on the resources and capability that are pertinent for open innovation. From a practical perspective, the relationships among research community participation, absorptive capacity, and open innovation suggest how universities can promote research community participation an...
European Journal of Scientific Research
The objective of this study is to determine role of packaging on consumer’s buying behavior. The ... more The objective of this study is to determine role of packaging on consumer’s buying behavior. The purpose of this research is to examine the essential factors, which are driving the success of a brand. This research also identified the relationship between the dependent and independent variables. This is the primary research and data has been collected through questionnaire and for analysis purpose SPSS software has been used. In this study samples of 150 respondents has been collected and tested the reliability of the model. According to the finding of the research study, it has been observed that the packaging is the most important factor. It is further concluded that the packaging elements like its Colour, Packaging material, Design of Wrapper and innovation are more important factors when consumers making any buying decision. Finally it has also been concluded that the Packaging is one of the most important and powerful factor, which influences consumer’s purchase decision.
... Idress Ahmad Khan MBA Candidate Department of Business Administration, University of Sindh, J... more ... Idress Ahmad Khan MBA Candidate Department of Business Administration, University of Sindh, Jamshoro. Hyderabad, Pakistan. Sana Arz Bhutto MPhil Candidate Hamdard Institute of Education & Social Sciences. Karachi, Pakistan Arsalan Mujahid Ghouri ...
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This study investigates the role of service innovation as a mediator between FinTech adoption and... more This study investigates the role of service innovation as a mediator between FinTech adoption and firm growth. Furthermore, the study also explores the role of human resource competency in FinTech adoption. Survey questionnaires were given to participants in this study, which used a quantitative methodology and were distributed to fifty-five United States banks. A sample of 311 responses was collected and analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results show that human resource competencies such as creating, adapting (to change), deciding to initiate action and interpreting analysis positively impact FinTech adoption. This study also discovered that service innovation contributes to firm growth. The findings confirmed the influence of human resource competencies on FinTech adoption in banks. This study suggests implementing effective human resource practices to develop employee competencies. Employee performance can be optimized to impact service innovation and business growth, which promotes the adoption of FinTech. The research adds to the body of knowledge already available by providing evidence of mediating role between FinTech adoption and firm growth.
Financial Equilibrium models have been widely studied in finance literature especially with respe... more Financial Equilibrium models have been widely studied in finance literature especially with respect to asset pricing theories. Validity of CAPM and Preference of APT over CAPM has been interest of academia as well as professionals. This research investigates number of potential factors explaining returns in Turkish markets as suggested by Ross (1980) when presented APT. For this purpose data of Istanbul Stock All exchanges from January 1, 2003 to December 31, 2013 has been used all the listed companies have been considered for this purpose. Our results suggest that in most of portfolios made for purpose of this research has two significant factors explaining returns although most of portfolios were having three orthogonal factors. It was rare that three factors were significantly explaining returns but it was not investigated that what are those factors.
Bridging of something requires a gap, and Audit expectation gap still exists since the time it wa... more Bridging of something requires a gap, and Audit expectation gap still exists since the time it was identified in 1970s, and to cover a gap requires identification of areas which needs to be covered, specially the areas which are the reason of creation of this gap. This paper attempts to expand the literature by identifying the factors which result in creation of this gap through a comprehensive review of literature, specially focusing the key countries in which studies are made regarding audit expectation gap as well as to highlight the groups among which the audit expectation gap exists, so that all necessary aspects should be taken into necessary consideration, and necessary attempts should be made to cover it. It is revealed that audit expectation gap exists due to difference of opinions about the factors like auditors' role with respect to company and financial statements, audit knowledge, auditor's attitude towards their profession, audit process, auditors' independence, fraud detection, importance of auditing, preparation of financial statements, performance of company, parties to whom auditors are responsible, prohibitions and regulations of audit firm, reliability of financial reports and usefulness of financial statements among auditors, accountants, bankers, brokers, creditors, directors, educators, government, investors, journalists, jurors, shareholder, students and government. Various policy implications are also discussed herewith.
Industrial Engineering Letters, 2016
Talent management (TM) a new concept in Human resource management, yet it is difficult to measure... more Talent management (TM) a new concept in Human resource management, yet it is difficult to measure. The role of TM in enhancing organizational performance is a critical challenge in where the strategic staff is considered as a talent of the organization. The present study aims to measure the influence of TM on organizational performance particularly in service sector companies in Pakistan. The study uses survey method to collect the data from the organization. Descriptive and inferential tests are performed. The results reveal the significant effect of talent management on organizational overall performance. The findings recommend the HR directors to design TM scheme for all levels of employees within organization. The results are useful for preparing strategies for employee attraction, retention, learning & development and career development. Keywords : Talent management, Human Resource management, organizational performance, service sector
International Journal of Social Science & Entrepreneurship
This study investigated the impacts of social media marketing (SMM) on young customers' resta... more This study investigated the impacts of social media marketing (SMM) on young customers' restaurant purchase intentions. The conceptual model of the study is based on social media marketing on purchase variables such as entertainment (ENT), interaction (INT), and E-word of mouth by mediators such as brand trust (BT) and brand awareness (BA) on customer purchase intention (PI). This research design is quantitative and data is obtained by a non-probability sampling technique. The survey questionnaire is designed on a five-point Likert scale. The sample size was 187 and used structural equation modelling (SEM) was used for data analysis. In this respect, current study results are reliable with previous studies as entertainment and interaction influenced airline service purchase intention by mediating the effect of trust. The other mediating variable is brand awareness which is impacted by entertainment, interaction and e-word of mouth and has strong relationships, which are indicate...
This research aims to examine the impact of workplace spirituality on turnover intentions in the ... more This research aims to examine the impact of workplace spirituality on turnover intentions in the healthcare sector of Istanbul. A twenty-three item scale was developed and the data was collected from 323 employees of the healthcare sector of Istanbul and the Multiple Regression Analysis was used as the statistical technique. Results indicated that all the dimensions of workplace spirituality namely meaningful work, spiritual association, compassion, and alignment values have a significant negative association with the turnover intentions. Therefore, it is recommended that practitioners in the healthcare sector of Istanbul be realize the importance of spirituality at the workplace in order to reduce the turnover intention among the employees
The aim of this study is to investigate the factors which can affect the knowledge management in ... more The aim of this study is to investigate the factors which can affect the knowledge management in Al-Madinah International University, Malaysia. This study employs a quantitative methodology for whichquestionnaires were distributed to on-campus staff at the university and a sample of 138 responses was collected for multiple regression analysis. Statistical Packages (SPSS) software was used to analyze the structure model. The results show that the motivation factors such as social interaction, trust, management support, learning orientation and motivation can provide explanation of knowledge sharing. This study found a positive correlation between sharing knowledge and the social interaction. Therefore, this study suggests that when knowledge is built and is shared then it creates a positive impact on an organizations employees. This study will contribute to the literature in the field of knowledge sharing. Comparatively, the studies focusing on knowledge sharing among Malaysian unive...
Reviews of Management Sciences, Jul 1, 2021
Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business, 2021
The aim of this study is to investigate the role of employee engagement as a mediator between the... more The aim of this study is to investigate the role of employee engagement as a mediator between the High-Performance Work System and the Service-Oriented Organizational Citizenship Behavior (Service-Oriented OCB). Furthermore, work-life balance as a moderator, the impact Service-Oriented OCB on customer satisfaction will be investigated. This study employs a quantitative methodology for which questionnaires were distributed to sixty restaurants in Karachi, and a sample of 418 responses was collected for structural equation modeling analysis. Smart PLS software was used to analyze the structure model. The results show that HPWS has a positive impact on Service-Oriented OCB. It is assumed that the role of work engagement as a mediator between HPWS and Service-Oriented OCB is significant. This study found that Service-Oriented OCB has a positive impact on customer satisfaction. Work-life balance was also found to have a moderating influence. The findings confirmed the black box mechanism and the HPWS procedures in restaurants. This study suggests implementing effective HPWS practices to influence employees' work engagement, which leads to Service-Oriented OCB and employees being able to optimize their performance to influence customer satisfaction. The study contributes to the existing body of knowledge in human resource management.
This study aims to examine the role of training and absorptive capacity as a mediator to examine ... more This study aims to examine the role of training and absorptive capacity as a mediator to examine the impact of human capital dimensions on the performance of an organization. This study employs the quantitative approach for analysis. A sample of 208 respondents was collected from the textile factories based in Karachi and Faisalabad. Data was analyzed using the PLS-SEM technique. PLS-SEM algorithm was used to check the validity and reliability of the data. PLS-SEM bootstrapping was used for studying the impact. The results show that the skills have an insignificant impact on organizational performance. Education and skills have an insignificant indirect impact on the performance of an organization. The research findings show that the human capital dimensions are full and partially mediated via absorptive capacity and training. The findings revealed that if we implement one by one dimension of human capital then it will not cause any increase in the organization’s performance but if ...
European Journal of Business and Management, 2016
The present study aims to investigate the impact of Green Human Resource like green recruitment, ... more The present study aims to investigate the impact of Green Human Resource like green recruitment, green training and development and green learning on the Firm Performance in Pakistan. Responses are gathered from 376 Pakistani firms. The HR Managers provided the information regarding green HRM in their firms. All the responses were collected on five point likert scale using a close ended questionnaire. The data was analyzed using SPSS. Multiple regression analysis is applied to test the effect of green HRM variables; green recruitment, green training and development and green learning on firm performance. The result indicates that all variables significantly affect the performance of the firm. The results are very useful for HR department and top management to develop their policies of green HRM. Future research can be conducted on other functions of HRM and its relation with employees and firm performance. Keywords : green human resource mangement, firm perfromance, green recruitmen...
The study has analyzed the emerging issues which are barriers in handling the governance in Pakis... more The study has analyzed the emerging issues which are barriers in handling the governance in Pakistani Universities through intellectual capital management. The objective of this study is to find out about the policies designed to run the system of the universities, a review of the current practices will be done to make recommendations of adopting some best practices of governance. The framework will be designed under the Pakistani context so an examination of the present challenges in intellectual capital management can be done. The practices of good governance and how these practices are managed will be the prime focus of the paper. The role of the participants in the governance and the stake holders involved who play a key role in the intellectual capital management by providing smooth system of management. The governing bodies of the Pakistani universities and their relationships with the shareholders, what role shareholders play in management will be analyzed. The sources of the...
European Journal of Business and Management, 2016
This study was aimed to examine the antecedents of organizational commitment in public andprivate... more This study was aimed to examine the antecedents of organizational commitment in public andprivate organizations of Pakistan. Organizational commitment is a behavior that extends beyondthe functions and conduct formally required of workers in an organization. Such behavior iscritical because of its role in better organizational performance. This present study is quantitativein nature and aimed at evaluating antecedents of organizational commitment. A questionnairewas designed and data was collected from a sample of 350 people within public and private sector organizations. We used nine hypothesis to test the relationship and used descriptive analysis, correlation analysis and reliability test. We found a strong relationship between organizational commitment and employee retention. We found interesting comparison and results for public and private organizations. The result of the study suggest different strategies that can be implemented to increase employees’ commitment and performan...
Research on humanities and social sciences, 2016
The intense competition in Pakistani industries and rapid changes in work environment has been a ... more The intense competition in Pakistani industries and rapid changes in work environment has been a cause of several compromises on other important fronts like cutting off from family and friends. Assuming work/life imbalance prevails more in developing countries like Pakistan along with high level of work pressures. This study examines and tests the impact of work life balance and job satisfaction on person’s social life as well as personal life. The results indicate that most of the employees are not satisfied their work-life balance as more time is spent at work with is much more than the official duty timings. The main reason of the time which employees want is to have their Work Life Balance. The study further illustrates that work life balance varies as the change of gender as well as marital status and it differs from person to person. Keywords: Work life balance, work life conflict, Pakistani commercial banks.
European Journal of Business and Management, 2016
This research aims to study psychological contract breach using sense making from the employees’ ... more This research aims to study psychological contract breach using sense making from the employees’ perspective. In the subject of human resources management, the term ‘Psychological Contract' refers to the actual but unwritten expectancy of an employee toward their employer (Shruthi, & Hemanth, 2012). This study involves the data collection from twelve interviews following critical incident technique. The findings support the survey on psychological contract breach that how employees feel when their promises breach and feel betray and revealing both the prevalence and the negative consequences of contract breach. This study focuses on the important but neglected issue of when perceptions of psychological contract breach and feelings of violation are likely to arise. The results provide insight into when psychological contract breach and violation are most likely to be experienced. How people get neglected by management and no interest to work anymore. The results are useful for t...
This research aims to study the mediating role of absorptive capacity and training in the relatio... more This research aims to study the mediating role of absorptive capacity and training in the relationship among the dimensions of human capital and organizational performance. The export of the textile sector is constantly declining. The investigation was done on three dimensions of Human Capital (HC), namely skills, health and education and two mediating variables which are training and absorptive capacity while organizational performance is as a dependent variable. A structured questionnaire was adapted. The data was collected from 280 respondents from Karachi and Faisalabad textile factories. To check the reliability and validity of data, the PLS-SEM algorithm was used. For finding a relationship, PLS-SEM bootstrapping was used. The research findings show that skills don’t have a significant impact on organizational performance. Skills and education don’t have a specific indirect impact on organizational performance. Findings show that dimensions of human capital are partial and fu...
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021
This study aims to investigate the factors influencing research community participation and open ... more This study aims to investigate the factors influencing research community participation and open innovation through the mediating role of absorptive capacity from the lens of Resource Based View and Dynamic Capability perspectives. Based on a survey of 115 senior engineering faculties from three research universities in Malaysia, this study applies the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) to investigate the research model. The findings demonstrate that top management support has a major impact on research community participation. The findings also suggest that absorptive capacity mediates the association between research community participation and open innovation capability. This study provides a theoretical basis on the resources and capability that are pertinent for open innovation. From a practical perspective, the relationships among research community participation, absorptive capacity, and open innovation suggest how universities can promote research community participation an...
European Journal of Scientific Research
The objective of this study is to determine role of packaging on consumer’s buying behavior. The ... more The objective of this study is to determine role of packaging on consumer’s buying behavior. The purpose of this research is to examine the essential factors, which are driving the success of a brand. This research also identified the relationship between the dependent and independent variables. This is the primary research and data has been collected through questionnaire and for analysis purpose SPSS software has been used. In this study samples of 150 respondents has been collected and tested the reliability of the model. According to the finding of the research study, it has been observed that the packaging is the most important factor. It is further concluded that the packaging elements like its Colour, Packaging material, Design of Wrapper and innovation are more important factors when consumers making any buying decision. Finally it has also been concluded that the Packaging is one of the most important and powerful factor, which influences consumer’s purchase decision.
... Idress Ahmad Khan MBA Candidate Department of Business Administration, University of Sindh, J... more ... Idress Ahmad Khan MBA Candidate Department of Business Administration, University of Sindh, Jamshoro. Hyderabad, Pakistan. Sana Arz Bhutto MPhil Candidate Hamdard Institute of Education & Social Sciences. Karachi, Pakistan Arsalan Mujahid Ghouri ...
Heliyon
This study investigates the role of service innovation as a mediator between FinTech adoption and... more This study investigates the role of service innovation as a mediator between FinTech adoption and firm growth. Furthermore, the study also explores the role of human resource competency in FinTech adoption. Survey questionnaires were given to participants in this study, which used a quantitative methodology and were distributed to fifty-five United States banks. A sample of 311 responses was collected and analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results show that human resource competencies such as creating, adapting (to change), deciding to initiate action and interpreting analysis positively impact FinTech adoption. This study also discovered that service innovation contributes to firm growth. The findings confirmed the influence of human resource competencies on FinTech adoption in banks. This study suggests implementing effective human resource practices to develop employee competencies. Employee performance can be optimized to impact service innovation and business growth, which promotes the adoption of FinTech. The research adds to the body of knowledge already available by providing evidence of mediating role between FinTech adoption and firm growth.
Financial Equilibrium models have been widely studied in finance literature especially with respe... more Financial Equilibrium models have been widely studied in finance literature especially with respect to asset pricing theories. Validity of CAPM and Preference of APT over CAPM has been interest of academia as well as professionals. This research investigates number of potential factors explaining returns in Turkish markets as suggested by Ross (1980) when presented APT. For this purpose data of Istanbul Stock All exchanges from January 1, 2003 to December 31, 2013 has been used all the listed companies have been considered for this purpose. Our results suggest that in most of portfolios made for purpose of this research has two significant factors explaining returns although most of portfolios were having three orthogonal factors. It was rare that three factors were significantly explaining returns but it was not investigated that what are those factors.
Bridging of something requires a gap, and Audit expectation gap still exists since the time it wa... more Bridging of something requires a gap, and Audit expectation gap still exists since the time it was identified in 1970s, and to cover a gap requires identification of areas which needs to be covered, specially the areas which are the reason of creation of this gap. This paper attempts to expand the literature by identifying the factors which result in creation of this gap through a comprehensive review of literature, specially focusing the key countries in which studies are made regarding audit expectation gap as well as to highlight the groups among which the audit expectation gap exists, so that all necessary aspects should be taken into necessary consideration, and necessary attempts should be made to cover it. It is revealed that audit expectation gap exists due to difference of opinions about the factors like auditors' role with respect to company and financial statements, audit knowledge, auditor's attitude towards their profession, audit process, auditors' independence, fraud detection, importance of auditing, preparation of financial statements, performance of company, parties to whom auditors are responsible, prohibitions and regulations of audit firm, reliability of financial reports and usefulness of financial statements among auditors, accountants, bankers, brokers, creditors, directors, educators, government, investors, journalists, jurors, shareholder, students and government. Various policy implications are also discussed herewith.
Industrial Engineering Letters, 2016
Talent management (TM) a new concept in Human resource management, yet it is difficult to measure... more Talent management (TM) a new concept in Human resource management, yet it is difficult to measure. The role of TM in enhancing organizational performance is a critical challenge in where the strategic staff is considered as a talent of the organization. The present study aims to measure the influence of TM on organizational performance particularly in service sector companies in Pakistan. The study uses survey method to collect the data from the organization. Descriptive and inferential tests are performed. The results reveal the significant effect of talent management on organizational overall performance. The findings recommend the HR directors to design TM scheme for all levels of employees within organization. The results are useful for preparing strategies for employee attraction, retention, learning & development and career development. Keywords : Talent management, Human Resource management, organizational performance, service sector