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International Research Journal of Management and Social Sciences

A quantitative research is conducted to determine how motivation affects employee performance and... more A quantitative research is conducted to determine how motivation affects employee performance and how to it can be practiced, as well as the relationship between motivation and promotion and reward programs in Pakistani private banks. Questionnaires were administered to three levels of staff including high-level, middle-level and frontline managers. A total of 280 closed questionnaires were published among participants to examine motivation and employee performance, and Smart PLS SEM was used to examine the relationship between influences and variables. The results of structural equation modeling show that there is a positive and significant relationship between motivation and employee performance. The results of the current study suggest that Pakistan’s private banking industry should pay attention to rewards and promotions. Employees perform better, but receive less rewards. Prizes and rewards are not based on the number of tasks or workloads. In addition, current research and ana...

This study aims to identify the problems faced by foreign students in Jamshoro Education City. Th... more This study aims to identify the problems faced by foreign students in Jamshoro Education City. There are three universities in Jamshoro Education City which are MUET (Mehran University of Engineering and Technology), LUHMS (Liaquat University of Health and Medical Sciences) and University of Sindh. In these three universities, ten to fifteen foreign countries students are studying in different departments, so for knowing the intake of admissions of foreign students either increasing and decreasing from 2001-2009 and Identification of foreign student’s problems aids management to over grave challenges of educational sectors to facilitate international students. Problem refers to a complex situation which cripples mentality of foreign students, whereas problem solving has needed the performance in the shape of information, decision making and actions for solve the problems easily without any huge lose. This research proposes changes can be incorporated at Jamshoro Education City. In t...

Poverty has posed enormous challenge to many nations and the governments of many developing count... more Poverty has posed enormous challenge to many nations and the governments of many developing countries have taken extra initiatives to develop strategic poverty reduction programs. However despite of all such measures this enigma is still intractable. There is a constant need to understand the nature, dynamics and causes of poverty in order to overcome and eradicate this menace. Therefore this study aims to examine the perception of poor people for being poor and also to examine the factors and reasons of poverty. This research draws on qualitative research method and observations since the individual interviews of 10 participants were conducted who had the earning of Rs.15000 per month. As a result this study captured the deprived people who felt being underprivileged and almost had no access to the basic needs e.g. food, house, clothing, education health facilities and many physiological needs. So much so that increasing level of societal injustice between rich and poor is constant...

Background: The theme of current study is to identify the causes and remedies of workplace procra... more Background: The theme of current study is to identify the causes and remedies of workplace procrastination. Therefore, existing study put more efforts to identify the causes and remedies of workplace procrastination in Pakistan. One of the major problems being faced by the firms in Pakistan is workplace procrastination. This research attempts to find out the reasons which cause procrastination at workplace in public and private sector firms. Methodology: The sample size of 446 respondents has been used and among all 396 questionnaires have been filled from the employees of different companies around the Karachi. The 50 samples have been collected with the help of the personal interviews from these employees. Therefore, qualitative and quantitative both approaches are used here. Further, descriptive test, multicollinearity test and Pearson correlation test are employed for analysis purpose. Results: The major findings of this paper includes Lack of motivation, Poor time management, P...

Women’s outside work has now become emerging trend and due to their employment participation this... more Women’s outside work has now become emerging trend and due to their employment participation this new trend impacts the overall national development. Several new employment opportunities also encouraged by women participation in workforce and made positive effects on national development but instead of this broad national benefit women’s work is again being criticized due to which they found difficulty to make decision to either go for work or not. The opponents argued that women’ work effect their child care and development. The working women’s roles invisibility reflecting the widespread worldview in Europe, United Kingdom and United States that considered women’s work complementary to the family. The study of 60 respondents was attempt to find out the effects of women on their child development, in which 3 types of questionnaires were used to focus 3 different age group of Child and their developments in relation to their mothers work it was found that most of the University empl...

Pakistan is an agricultural country and Pulses as being a part of its sub sectors, contributes a ... more Pakistan is an agricultural country and Pulses as being a part of its sub sectors, contributes a significant part in countries economy although its part is very little but their significance level is not limited because pulses are encountered as the most significant food item specially for poor’s and it is inexpensive source of protein as compared to other protein substitutes but throughout the world pulses are encountered as inferior diet among all other nutritional items. This study focuses on exports of pulses to explore the pulses development within country. The study is based on secondary data collected through the official documents of Bureau of Statistics, TDAP, crop reporting and many others. The trend analysis covers the period of 1995-2013 includes the charts and pie diagrams and pulses exports were measured through OLS techniques. By the trend analysis it is come to know that pulses exports showed a decreasing pattern up to 2013, however 2005-2006 proved as a boosting per...

Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews, 2021

Purpose of the study: This study examines the influence of investment decisions and consumption o... more Purpose of the study: This study examines the influence of investment decisions and consumption on asset pricing from 1980 to 2016. Methodology: This study has used a quantitative research design and a secondary source is deployed to collect data from 1980 to 2016. The data was gathered from Saint Louis Fed, whereas Standard and Poor’s 500 (S&P 500 index at a closing price of the first day of the month) was from Yahoo Finance. The software used for the data analysis was R Studio and statistical methods such as descriptive statistics, Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) model Fitting and Consumption Capital Asset Pricing Model (CCAPM) Fitting was performed to examine the influence of investment decisions and consumption on asset pricing. Main Findings: The finding of the study shows that Personal Consumption Expenditures: Nondurable Goods (PCE): Nondurable goods, (PCEN) and 1-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Rate (GS1) jointly accounted for about 7.9% of the variance observable in exc...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are considered as powerful instrument to help in the developm... more Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are considered as powerful instrument to help in the development of a country and improve the employment and poverty base of the country specifically for the developing countries. But unfortunately there are many constraints which prevent the growth of these sectors. Among many constraints, access to financial resources is the major hindrance. The purpose of this study is to determine the challenges faced by micro, small and medium enterprises in credit obtaining such as absence of collateral, high interest rates and poor infrastructure and also it will identify what are sources of funding available to the SMEs. Data was collected using questionnaires. 28 questionnaires were circulated in Bahawalpur, Pakistan using convenience sampling technique. The major findings of the study are. Among major constraints lack of finance, biggest one is the high interest rate, which erode all the profit of the firms and gave them no advantage of having credit. Se...

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal [SQUMJ], 2021

Objectives: A modified Blalock-Taussig (mBT) shunt procedure is a common palliative surgery used ... more Objectives: A modified Blalock-Taussig (mBT) shunt procedure is a common palliative surgery used to treat infants and children with cyanotic congenital heart disease (CCHD). This study aimed to report the outcomes of infants and children undergoing mBT shunt procedures in Oman. In addition, risk factors associated with early mortality, inter-stage mortality and reintervention were assessed. Methods: This retrospective cohort study was conducted from January 2016 to December 2018 at the National Heart Centre, Muscat, Oman. All paediatric patients with CCHD undergoing mBT shunt procedures as a primary palliative procedure during this period were included. Data were retrieved from electronic hospital records. Kaplan-Meier survival curves were used to describe overall survival. Results: A total of 50 infants and children were included in the study. The in-hospital mortality and inter-stage mortality rates were 10% and 6.7%, respectively. Preoperative mechanical ventilation (odds ratio [...

The study was conducted to analyze the type of loan offers by various banks in Hyderabad and shor... more The study was conducted to analyze the type of loan offers by various banks in Hyderabad and short term and long term credit ratings of banks as the loan is a form of debt, for which interested people borrow many for several reason such as to purchase home, car, to run a business or to fulfill their other wants. Credit card facilities are also available as a point of sale to avoid carrying cash within hand at every place. This research is exploratory in nature. Sample was determined as per convenience through a combination of survey, questionnaires and structured interviews. 30 responses were collected from Hyderabad the prominent city of Sindh, Pakistan. Once the data was collected the analysis was drawn through excel. It was realized that banks are getting higher percentage of profits on loans that is kibor+5-6%. There are variety of products but credit cards and auto loan have more demand. There are high interest rates on credit cards. In auto loan bank took possessions of auto a...

International Research Journal of Management and Social Sciences

A quantitative research is conducted to determine how motivation affects employee performance and... more A quantitative research is conducted to determine how motivation affects employee performance and how to it can be practiced, as well as the relationship between motivation and promotion and reward programs in Pakistani private banks. Questionnaires were administered to three levels of staff including high-level, middle-level and frontline managers. A total of 280 closed questionnaires were published among participants to examine motivation and employee performance, and Smart PLS SEM was used to examine the relationship between influences and variables. The results of structural equation modeling show that there is a positive and significant relationship between motivation and employee performance. The results of the current study suggest that Pakistan’s private banking industry should pay attention to rewards and promotions. Employees perform better, but receive less rewards. Prizes and rewards are not based on the number of tasks or workloads. In addition, current research and ana...

This study aims to identify the problems faced by foreign students in Jamshoro Education City. Th... more This study aims to identify the problems faced by foreign students in Jamshoro Education City. There are three universities in Jamshoro Education City which are MUET (Mehran University of Engineering and Technology), LUHMS (Liaquat University of Health and Medical Sciences) and University of Sindh. In these three universities, ten to fifteen foreign countries students are studying in different departments, so for knowing the intake of admissions of foreign students either increasing and decreasing from 2001-2009 and Identification of foreign student’s problems aids management to over grave challenges of educational sectors to facilitate international students. Problem refers to a complex situation which cripples mentality of foreign students, whereas problem solving has needed the performance in the shape of information, decision making and actions for solve the problems easily without any huge lose. This research proposes changes can be incorporated at Jamshoro Education City. In t...

Poverty has posed enormous challenge to many nations and the governments of many developing count... more Poverty has posed enormous challenge to many nations and the governments of many developing countries have taken extra initiatives to develop strategic poverty reduction programs. However despite of all such measures this enigma is still intractable. There is a constant need to understand the nature, dynamics and causes of poverty in order to overcome and eradicate this menace. Therefore this study aims to examine the perception of poor people for being poor and also to examine the factors and reasons of poverty. This research draws on qualitative research method and observations since the individual interviews of 10 participants were conducted who had the earning of Rs.15000 per month. As a result this study captured the deprived people who felt being underprivileged and almost had no access to the basic needs e.g. food, house, clothing, education health facilities and many physiological needs. So much so that increasing level of societal injustice between rich and poor is constant...

Background: The theme of current study is to identify the causes and remedies of workplace procra... more Background: The theme of current study is to identify the causes and remedies of workplace procrastination. Therefore, existing study put more efforts to identify the causes and remedies of workplace procrastination in Pakistan. One of the major problems being faced by the firms in Pakistan is workplace procrastination. This research attempts to find out the reasons which cause procrastination at workplace in public and private sector firms. Methodology: The sample size of 446 respondents has been used and among all 396 questionnaires have been filled from the employees of different companies around the Karachi. The 50 samples have been collected with the help of the personal interviews from these employees. Therefore, qualitative and quantitative both approaches are used here. Further, descriptive test, multicollinearity test and Pearson correlation test are employed for analysis purpose. Results: The major findings of this paper includes Lack of motivation, Poor time management, P...

Women’s outside work has now become emerging trend and due to their employment participation this... more Women’s outside work has now become emerging trend and due to their employment participation this new trend impacts the overall national development. Several new employment opportunities also encouraged by women participation in workforce and made positive effects on national development but instead of this broad national benefit women’s work is again being criticized due to which they found difficulty to make decision to either go for work or not. The opponents argued that women’ work effect their child care and development. The working women’s roles invisibility reflecting the widespread worldview in Europe, United Kingdom and United States that considered women’s work complementary to the family. The study of 60 respondents was attempt to find out the effects of women on their child development, in which 3 types of questionnaires were used to focus 3 different age group of Child and their developments in relation to their mothers work it was found that most of the University empl...

Pakistan is an agricultural country and Pulses as being a part of its sub sectors, contributes a ... more Pakistan is an agricultural country and Pulses as being a part of its sub sectors, contributes a significant part in countries economy although its part is very little but their significance level is not limited because pulses are encountered as the most significant food item specially for poor’s and it is inexpensive source of protein as compared to other protein substitutes but throughout the world pulses are encountered as inferior diet among all other nutritional items. This study focuses on exports of pulses to explore the pulses development within country. The study is based on secondary data collected through the official documents of Bureau of Statistics, TDAP, crop reporting and many others. The trend analysis covers the period of 1995-2013 includes the charts and pie diagrams and pulses exports were measured through OLS techniques. By the trend analysis it is come to know that pulses exports showed a decreasing pattern up to 2013, however 2005-2006 proved as a boosting per...

Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews, 2021

Purpose of the study: This study examines the influence of investment decisions and consumption o... more Purpose of the study: This study examines the influence of investment decisions and consumption on asset pricing from 1980 to 2016. Methodology: This study has used a quantitative research design and a secondary source is deployed to collect data from 1980 to 2016. The data was gathered from Saint Louis Fed, whereas Standard and Poor’s 500 (S&P 500 index at a closing price of the first day of the month) was from Yahoo Finance. The software used for the data analysis was R Studio and statistical methods such as descriptive statistics, Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) model Fitting and Consumption Capital Asset Pricing Model (CCAPM) Fitting was performed to examine the influence of investment decisions and consumption on asset pricing. Main Findings: The finding of the study shows that Personal Consumption Expenditures: Nondurable Goods (PCE): Nondurable goods, (PCEN) and 1-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Rate (GS1) jointly accounted for about 7.9% of the variance observable in exc...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are considered as powerful instrument to help in the developm... more Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are considered as powerful instrument to help in the development of a country and improve the employment and poverty base of the country specifically for the developing countries. But unfortunately there are many constraints which prevent the growth of these sectors. Among many constraints, access to financial resources is the major hindrance. The purpose of this study is to determine the challenges faced by micro, small and medium enterprises in credit obtaining such as absence of collateral, high interest rates and poor infrastructure and also it will identify what are sources of funding available to the SMEs. Data was collected using questionnaires. 28 questionnaires were circulated in Bahawalpur, Pakistan using convenience sampling technique. The major findings of the study are. Among major constraints lack of finance, biggest one is the high interest rate, which erode all the profit of the firms and gave them no advantage of having credit. Se...

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal [SQUMJ], 2021

Objectives: A modified Blalock-Taussig (mBT) shunt procedure is a common palliative surgery used ... more Objectives: A modified Blalock-Taussig (mBT) shunt procedure is a common palliative surgery used to treat infants and children with cyanotic congenital heart disease (CCHD). This study aimed to report the outcomes of infants and children undergoing mBT shunt procedures in Oman. In addition, risk factors associated with early mortality, inter-stage mortality and reintervention were assessed. Methods: This retrospective cohort study was conducted from January 2016 to December 2018 at the National Heart Centre, Muscat, Oman. All paediatric patients with CCHD undergoing mBT shunt procedures as a primary palliative procedure during this period were included. Data were retrieved from electronic hospital records. Kaplan-Meier survival curves were used to describe overall survival. Results: A total of 50 infants and children were included in the study. The in-hospital mortality and inter-stage mortality rates were 10% and 6.7%, respectively. Preoperative mechanical ventilation (odds ratio [...

The study was conducted to analyze the type of loan offers by various banks in Hyderabad and shor... more The study was conducted to analyze the type of loan offers by various banks in Hyderabad and short term and long term credit ratings of banks as the loan is a form of debt, for which interested people borrow many for several reason such as to purchase home, car, to run a business or to fulfill their other wants. Credit card facilities are also available as a point of sale to avoid carrying cash within hand at every place. This research is exploratory in nature. Sample was determined as per convenience through a combination of survey, questionnaires and structured interviews. 30 responses were collected from Hyderabad the prominent city of Sindh, Pakistan. Once the data was collected the analysis was drawn through excel. It was realized that banks are getting higher percentage of profits on loans that is kibor+5-6%. There are variety of products but credit cards and auto loan have more demand. There are high interest rates on credit cards. In auto loan bank took possessions of auto a...