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Organizational Change and Organizational Effectiveness of Secondary Banking System in Albania
Authors: Shoraj Dritan , Zogjani Adem , Govori Fadil
Published: October 2020

Continuous organizational changes are required as well as successful implementation approaches of modern managerial methods.  However, organizational changes in Business Organizations may often occur at inconvenient time, subject to the psychological preparation of employees or the whole staff in general. In these circumstances, the employees displayed strong resistance to accept changes although they may be decisive for the survival of Business Organizations.  Further, what makes the Business Organization employees accept or refuse organizational changes?  Which is the impact of their resistance on change implementation? Is it closely connected with their personal interests or is it merely a contradiction for the purpose of convenience? These questions and many others will be answered during this investigation through an empirical and theoretical analysis. The study will show the connection between organizational changes in terms of organizational effectiveness. Additionally, it will present a clear overview of the reality of Albanian Business Organizations regarding the organizational change and their mode of operation
The Role of Design Factors in Influencing Training Transfer among Small Businesswomen
Authors: Tajudin Anas , Noor Norlina Mohamed , Raja Mustapha Raja Munirah
Published: October 2020

The objective of this research is to investigate the effect of design factors which consist of training content, training delivery, trainer competency and opportunity to use on small businesswomen’s goal setting activities. The instrument for this research is adapted and modified from the Training Transfer Model and Model for Excellence (American Society of Training and Development Competency Research). Four independent variables: training content, training delivery and trainer’s competency and opportunity to use; and goal setting as dependent variable formed the framework for this research. Multiple regressions were used to investigate the relationship between design factors and goal setting. Findings from a survey of 246 small businesswomen attending training programs organized by government agencies showed that opportunity to use made the strongest contribution towards goal setting followed by training content, trainer’s competency and training delivery. Awareness on the constraints or barriers in the design factors can assist the primary stakeholders (organizer and trainers) and human resource personnel in developing effective training programs. Thus, this alertness can help to create a fair situation for them to accomplish their training objectives. Finally it is also beneficial to the trainees to transfer the knowledge and skills to their own businesses.
Implementation of Solvency II and its potential impact on market of insurance companies
Authors: Korbasová Petra
Published: October 2020

The ambition of this article is to demonstrate positives, but also the fall back of the Solvency II and of the delayed and uncoordinated implementation among the national regulators.

This article summarizes the trends in insurance market regulation following the introduction and consequent implementation of the Solvency II as a new regulatory framework for the insurance companies. Solvency II represents a critical step in terms of tightening of the regulatory framework for the insurance providers, especially by setting stricter rules for reporting and capital adequacy.

On the other hand, Solvency II represent a major risk of increased costs related to implementation of the Solvency II principles in day to day business reporting of the insurance companies potentially harming status quo of the insurance market as the costs related to implementation of Solvency II and their reporting to national regulators.
Development of an HR Practitioner Competency Model and Determining the Important Business Competencies: An Empirical Study in Malaysia
Authors: Hamid Abdul
Published: October 2020

The objectives of this study are to develop an HR competency model perceived by the HR professionals and to determine their roles as strategic business partner (SBP) in Malaysia. An empirical study was carried out during 2009-2010 among the HR practitioners and consultants. Data were collected by using structured questionnaires and a total of 380 (n) complete questionnaires were used for the statistical analysis. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was carried out to develop the HR practitioner competency model. Findings demonstrated that the ‘generic/ behavioral competency’ category and ‘technical HR competency’ category were significant to the competency model. Though, six business competency factors were found statistically important, but the overall business competency category was not significant. That implies HR professionals highly contribute to the operational activities rather than being strategic business partner (SBP). The findings can be useful in establishing competency frameworks, measuring human capital capabilities, designing training programs, establishing on-boarding programs, developing career and succession plans, and drawing the appropriate reward plans.
Partnership Strategy in SMEs Industry to develop Competitiveness and the Implication to the Corporate Performance : A Study on SMEs development in West Java Indonesia
Authors: Mulyawan Iwan , Amalia Solihati , Suhaeni Tintin
Published: October 2020

It has been commonly acknowledged that the micro, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play a very important and strategic role in the national economic especially in the GDP, the regional GDP, employment, income distribution and the poverty reduction. The population of SMEs in Indonesia has reached up to 53,823,732 units or 99.9% which are distributed throughout the Indonesian regions (The Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs, 2012), and in the West Java Province itself there are 8,731,790 business units. This shows that through optimum capitalizing, it would bring significant contribution to the people’s welfare (BPS, 2011).Under the national development program aiming at pro poor, pro growth and pro rural, the counseling program to develop the SMEs should be prioritized. According to Zuhal (2010) the employment rate of 99.5% is the basic foundation and that the counseling and guiding in technological support to increase the productivity has been needed. However, the problem arising is that the competitiveness is pretty low which is due to the financing and marketing (BPS, 2011). Thus the mortality and frequency of shifting in types of business operation has become the common phenomena. The mission as prescribed in the Law number 20 regarding SMEs is to uplift the competitiveness and develop the business climate through a policy regarding partnership. One of the partnership aspects is the mutually beneficial relation between SMEs and the large scale business facilitated by both the Central and Regional Government to stimulate the partnership (Law number 20 of 2008 Chapter V articles 11 and 25).

Partnership is not a new strategy but it has come up as an important issue due to the complexity and risks both in the national and international economic environment as well as the limited capability and resources in a business unit. Therefore the strategic partnership is sought to enhance the relation between the demand and supply in the form of cooperation between independent business organizations. Striving for the sales in the hight competition requires collaborative venture to face technology, extend the resources, increase productivity and quality, and penetrate new markets (Cravens, 2013).  Thus, this research attempts to find out to what extent the effect of the strategic partnership can increase the competitiveness and the implication to the performance of SMEs in West Java.
Cultural Antecedence of Knowledge Sharing and Organizational Performance
Authors: Werdiningsih Rini - , Subekti Immanuel
Published: October 2020

The central issue in this research is how voluntary solidarity and reciprocal interaction improves organizational performance through the support of knowledge sharing culture. The population in this study was private Universities’ (PTS) lecturers at Semarang which was selected as group random sample. The data was collected through the questionnaires of 241 respondents. The data was analyzed using structural equation model (SEM) with AMOS 19.00 system. The study shows that (1) the voluntary solidarity gave positive influence on knowledge sharing culture, (2) reciprocal interaction brought positive and significant effect on knowledge sharing culture, (3) voluntary solidarity brought positive and significant effect on the organizational performance, (4) reciprocal interaction dimension had positive and significant effect on organizational performance, (5) knowledge sharing culture brought positive and significant effect on the organizational performance.
Exploration of Risk taking behaviors for Financial decision making in Malaysia
Authors: Rahman Mahfuzur , Albaity Mohamed , Isa Che Ruhana
Published: October 2020

We used and evaluated a simple real payoff choice investment alternatives to measure risk taking behavior of Malaysian youth and also applied this measure to examine differences in risk taking behavior of male, female, younger and older adult university students. Participants chose which of ten 50/50 chance to win or loss alternative they wish to choose. We found significant ethnic difference when Malay and Chinese were placed in-groups, Chinese showed a stronger pro-risk position than Malay. While no significant difference was found between Indian and Chinese. However, overall there was a significant gender difference in investment risk taking behavior. Females turned out in a stronger pro-risk position than males. In terms of choosing investment alternatives, there was a significant difference between age groups, such that younger adults were relatively more risk taker than older adults.
Determinants of CEO Compensation
Authors: Khanna Vivek
Published: October 2020

Using a panel data analysis, the study explores the influence of size of a firm, firm-performance, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) duality and management pattern on CEO compensation. The final sample for the study comprises of a total of 300 Indian companies over a period of three years (2007-08 to 2009-10). The proposed relations are tested using the random-effects generalized least squares regression analysis. The age of the company and industry are introduced as the control variables. In conformity with the proposed hypotheses the analysis reveals that the size of the firm and the performance of the firm have a positive influence on firm performance. However, as regards the management pattern, the analysis reveals an inverse relationship. Further, no relationship is found between CEO duality and compensation. The findings of the study are discussed and implications for the managers are highlighted.
Exchange rate re-examined: The varying impact of import and export on exchange rate volatility
Authors: Azimi Mohammad Naim
Published: October 2020

This paper examines the varying impact of the Import and Export on the impulsiveness nature of the Exchange Rate in four EU (European Union) economies such as Austria, Germany, France and Italy for a period of 56 years from 1960 – 2015. In achieving an accurate result for testing this competing null hypothesis, variables are pooled by regression and the computation of random effects model is found to be rational upon which, the ultimate conclusion is drawn. The statistical results obtained from random effects model show that export is not a significant variable to impact the exchange rate while the import is found to be significant to impact the impulsiveness of the exchange rate across the economies over the concerned period of time. The validity and non-existence of cross sectional independence is further documented by statistical results obtained from the Hausman test.
First Name Office Culture and Employee Behavior in Work Places
Authors: Ugwuzor Miebi
Published: October 2020

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The examination of the behavioural responses of the reciprocal first name exchange as a policy in firms in Nigeria was the main objective of this research.  It was also the intent of this empirical work to highlight the challenges and issues of the transferability and applicability of contemporary work culture within the context of the Nigerian cultural environment. For this study, the cross sectional survey design was adopted and the questionnaire method of data collection was used .A non parametric Bivariate Correlation was employed for the purpose of data analysis. The findings revealed that the lower the level of comfort employees felt with the reciprocal use of first names as a policy in workplaces the more dysfunctional their behaviours. It was recommended among other things that corporate policies, practices and strategies must take cognizance of local national cultural specifics.
The Mediating Effect of Training Perspective on the Relationship Between Competency Potential and Career Progression of Technical Vocational Trainers
Authors: Tulo Amparo A. , Gempes Gloria P.
Published: October 2020

Abstract- The purpose of the study was to determine if the training perspective on trainers’ methodology had a significant mediating effect on the relationship between competency potential and career progression of the technical vocational trainers in Davao Region, Philippines. The design used was non-experimental quantitative research utilizing correlation technique. Descriptive statistics, pearson r, regression, mediation through sobel test and medgraph were the tools employed to attain the objectives of the study. The 407 respondents were found to show very high levels of competency potential, training perspective and career progression. It was found out that the three variables were significantly related. However, the result failed to achieve full mediation of training perspective on the relationship between the correlated variables. This implies that training perspective only mediated partially the relationship between competency potential and career progression. The result signifies that direct effect on career progression maybe due to the combination of competency potential and other variables not covered in the study.
Shaken But Unruffled: Stories of Psychologically Distressed Public Secondary School Teachers
Authors: Olmedo Armando Mazo , Gempes Gloria Pacifico
Published: October 2020

Psychological distress is a global phenomenon that affects not only the psychological and physical well-being but also the profession of  teachers  around the world. The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore the experiences of psychologically distressed public secondary school teachers, their coping strategies, and insights they can share to their peers and to the academe in general. The participants of this inquiry were five female teachers from the public secondary schools of Davao del Norte division of Davao region, Philippines who experienced distress caused by school and personal stressors. Furthermore, informants  underwent face-to-face in-depth interview. After a thorough analysis of the data using thematic, numeration and cross-case analysis procedures, it was found out that students’ misbehavior was the most common cause of teachers’ distress. On the coping strategies employed by them, it also came out that controlling the emotion was their most usual coping strategy against their distressful experiences. Moreover, teaching as both profession and ministry was the strongest insight. Finally, this study has provided some important implications on how to address the said phenomenon, suggested relevant insights for meaningful learning, and considered vital related topics which  necessitate future undertakings.
A Comparative Analysis on the Causes of Occupational Stress among Men and Women Employees and its Effect on Performance at the workplace of Information Technology Sector, Hyderabad
Authors: Prasad KDV , Vaidya Rajesh , Kumar V Anil , Rekha B
Published: October 2020

The research study presents the outcome of a comparative analysis on causes of occupational stress among the Men and Women employees and its effect on the employee performance at the workplace of Information Technology Sector (ITS), Hyderabad. A survey of 200 employees consisting 110 Men and 90 Women working in the IT sector was carried out to assess the six independent stress causing factors Job related, Organizational Related, Career, Physiological, Behavioral and Individual factors and its effect on employees’ Performance a dependent factor. The descriptive analysis, correlation techniques and parametric statistics like t-test, F-test and multiple regression analysis carried out to arrive at the conclusions. To measure the reliability of the scale used for this study, and internal consistencies of the survey questionnaire, the reliability static Cronbach’s alpha (C-alpha) and Spearman-Brown split-half reliability statistics were estimated. The overall C-alpha is 0.89 whereas the Spearman-Brown split half statistic is 0.83. The C-alpha values ranged from 0.62 to 0.76 for Men and 0.60 to 0.74 for Women, for all the 6 independent and one dependent factor. The results of the study indicate that the medium level occupational stress exists at the workplace in general, effecting the performance moderately. Health-wise, some employees developed chronic neck and back pain, an effect of long sitting hours at work. The study confirms that Women will have more stress than Men, however the factors causing the stress among the Men and Women are not similar.
Flexible man-man motivation performance management system for Industry 4.0
Authors: Chromjakova Felicita
Published: October 2020

Many companies are oriented on the 4th industrial revolution, they solve daily a lot of new working situation in management and organization of own production processes. The purpose of this paper Is to present methodological tool for motivation of own staff by implementation of Industry 4.0 concept. There is most important by this concept to manage and lead all employees for effective and profitable communication with e-technologies used in company. Important dates for the methodology proposal were taken from surveys realized in selected industrial companies (2014, 2015), oriented on the implementation of Industry 4.0 concept in 3 countries. According to results achieved, quantitative and qualitative analyses were realized and identified core motivation trends for effective e-processes. Presented results show key parameters and orientation strategies for flexible employees motivation, integrated in process teams in the area of production planning and organization. There is important to use various motivation strategies, dependent from the process – product – personality motivation of employees. This methodology proposal has the limitations in the small amount of companies that have implemented Industry 4.0 concept. If we are interesting on the new production management strategies in this environment, we should take positive and negative feedback from existing companies for effective new man-man strategies connected with e-processes. The research and results presented in this article open new ways of managerial strategies for production departments and industrial enterprises in the era of 4th industrial revolution. Many companies focus their attention solely on the implementation of e-technologies and e-processes, while still pay less attention to an equally important element – human. In practice will help this methodology to optimize man-man cooperation and teamwork for profitability of complex e-production systems and e-technologies. This paper extends managerial strategy configuration model highlighting new ways of man-man strategies that motivate company employees effective to cooperate with new-implemented e-technologies in according to achievement of optimal process performance.
A Taxonomy of electricity demand forecasting techniques and a selection strategy
Authors: Maniatis Paraschos
Published: October 2020

In this research, a taxonomy of known electricity demand forecasting techniques is presented based on extensive empirical studies. In addition, a decision strategy for selecting an electricity demand forecasting method has been presented. The strategy has been formulated based on an eight-factor model created by World Bank and inputs gathered from electricity demand forecasting experts (through a questionnaire). The techniques have been assessed based on time horizon, accuracy, complexity, skill level, data volumes, geographical coverage, adaptability, and cost. The experts rated ARIMA (Autoregressive integrated moving average) with exponential smoothing and Kalman filtering as the most adopted method. The next most adopted method is Artificial Neural Networks with preprocessed Linear and Fuzzy inputs. However, now Support Vector Regression may replace this method, which is currently tested by many electrical engineers engaged in electricity demand forecasting. In addition to these highlighted methods, this research also presents the ratings of other techniques based on the eight-factor model of World Bank.
Determinants of Faculty Retention: A Study of Engineering and Management Institutes in the State of Uttar Pradesh and NCR Delhi
Authors: Singh Rajkumar , Mittal R. K.
Published: October 2020

Quality education is absolutely essential for the overall development of the human resource base of a country. This requires imparting of appropriate knowledge, skills and values to the students. To achieve this faculty is the main source and instrument. In the present scenario where engineering and management institutes have increased manifold in last two decades, an imbalance between demand for qualified and trained faculty and its supply has emerged. In this situation, the recruitment and retention of talented faculty becomes crucial. However, due to demand exceeding the supply, heavy faculty turnovers is being observed in recent years. The present study examines the major factors on which the retention of faculty depends. To identify the factors on which faculty retention depends, the existing literature has been thoroughly examined and the important factors have been identified. Based on these factors, a questionnaire has been developed, whose reliability and validity has been tested. The developed questionnaire has been administered on management and engineering institutes operating in U.P. and N.C.R. Delhi. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFC) technique has been used to identify the most significant factors affecting faculty retention. The results of the study could be used by management and engineering institutes to devise strategies for effective use of faculty and their retention.
Minimizing Asymmetric Information in Online Markets through Knowledge Management
Authors: Arbi Khalil Ahmed , Kausar Abdul Rashid , Salim Imran
Published: October 2020

This article is about the role of knowledge management in minimizing the asymmetric information in online business. The asymmetry of information is the prime concern in online markets where consumer and seller are located in distant locations and they cannot see each other.  The success of ecommerce business depends heavily on the minimization of asymmetric information between the seller and buyers. As the online business is done through codified knowledge and it is easy to manage the codified knowledge so by efficient use of KM principles and processes it has now become easy to minimize the asymmetric information among the seller and buyers. The article discusses the types of asymmetric information which can ne be minimized through use of codified online knowledge.
Corporate Social Responsibilities and Firm Performance: A Comparative study of Banking and Non-Bank Sector in Nigeria
Authors: Nkemjika Ogujiofor Magnus , Nkechi Ofor
Published: October 2020

The objective this study is to ascertain the relationship between CSR and performance. The study   compared what is obtainable in the Nigerian banking sector and the Nigerian manufacturing sector. Ten firms were selected, five each from the aforementioned sectors. Ordinary least square statistical technique was employed for the study .Result shows that CSR has significant impact on the performance of both firms in the manufacturing and the banking sector. The study also reveals that manufacturing companies expend more on CRS activities than bank. The study recommended that statutory bodies should mandate banks to go beyond donation and look at other areas of CSR. It further recommended that managements of the two sectors should take advantage of CSR in order to enhance   their corporate performance
Fiscal Policy Reforms in Kosovo
Authors: Statovci Bedri , Jakupi Shefket
Published: October 2020

Fiscal policy represents one of the most important components of economic policy and as such it should be treated in its context.For this there are at least two reasons:First, economic policy defines the goals and criteria of fiscal policy in order to assess its contribution to the implementation of economic policies, andSecond, defining the connection between the objectives and instruments, theory of economic policy explains the process of fulfilling the objectives of economic policy, part of which process is fiscal policy itself. Therefore, in the following, in a quite direct manner, we will address the interdependence between economic policy and fiscal policy.The word policy, in everyday life is used to clarify the principles on which various activities run, in order to realize the goals set by the designated authorities by determining the holders of those activities, their size as well as means by which those goals should be realized.In order to achieve prosperity and political stability, national governments aim at achieving economic equilibrium. Kosovo is one of the last countries in Europe to transition to a market economy. The transition process has begun from a very difficult starting point.During the years after the war, a symbolic economic growth occurred, which has been attributed mainly to remittances, investments in infrastructure and privatization. Investments, despite continuous growth, are considered insufficient to boost domestic production.This pattern of growth has not been able to meet the development needs of the state and failed to translate into a better standard of living for citizens, given that neither unemployment nor poverty are reduced. (The Progress Report on Kosovo, European Commission 2011).
Effect of Globalization on Nigerian Financial Sector
Authors: Nwamaka Ozuomba Chidinma , Uchenna Onyemaechi , Nkechi Ikpeazu
Published: October 2020

The study examined the effect of globalization on the Nigerian financial sector and to ascertain the contribution of globalization on the Nigerian stock exchange and commercial banks. Assets of the Nigerian stock exchange and commercial banks were used as performance indicators. The data used are Nigerian yearly data from 1983 to 2014; the data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, ordinary least square statistical technique, Johannes’s co-integration and error correction mechanism. We used Augmented Dickey-fuller statistics test for stationary. We proxy globalization with degree of openness measured by total trade divided by gross domestic product, foreign direct investment flows, Real Gross Domestic Product, external debt flows, nominal exchange rate and gross capital formation. Two null hypotheses were formulated and were tested. They were rejected based on overall significant of models using F statistics at 5 percent level of significance. The result of our estimate based on overall significant of models using F statistics at 5 percent level of significance shows that Nigerian financial sector as a whole has benefited from globalization. Some of the globalization proxy variables take out a priori signs while some did not. However, the foreign direct investment flows and Real Gross Domestic Product affected the performance of the Nigeria Stock Exchange and commercial banks positively while degree of openness, external debt flows, nominal exchange rate and gross capital formation affected the Nigeria stock exchange and Commercial Banks negatively. This shows that Nigerian foreign trade is low. External debt flow has a negative effect on the Nigerian stock Exchange and positive on commercial banks. Nigeria should discourage external loans. Gross capital formation and external debt flows affected the Nigeria stock exchange negatively. We therefore recommend that the recent re-capitalization and debt recovery exercise and monitoring macroeconomic stability be encouraged to gain confidence by investors in the financial sector.
Challenges in strengthening the Communication and Behavioral skills for greater employability of engineering students: A study of NCR Delhi (India)
Authors: Ghosh Pallavi , Mittal R. K.
Published: October 2020

Engineering education in the last few decades, has been growng incredibly in importance and reputation due to certain skills, technical knowledge and proficiencies that are imparted to the passed out graduates for their employability. It is an accepted fact that India has an immense potential to be a global technology leader. Since independence, the initial focus of government policy was to develop good engineering institutes and provide engineers required for developing  the economy. The setting up of the Indian Institutes of Technology, the Regional Engineering Colleges (and their subsequent conversion to the National Institutes of Technology),were targeted at achieving this objective. Indian engineers established their reputation for advanced engineering and design skills. Engineering in India isalso a preferred option for bright students at the 10+2 level. This has resulted in a spurt in the students intake of engineering colleges primarily in the private sector. Despite this, industry leaders whine about the absence of quality engineers for their industry. Also accompanied by major unemployment rates amongst graduating engineers.

Curiouslyenough, graduates are ready for taking up their jobs, but according to the industry, who will providethememployment for their skills, knowledge and the composite professional values that they bring with them, and in fact  they are not considered‘job-ready’ at all.The lowemployabilityis on account of several factors, out of which poor communication and behavioural skills are identified to be two of the mostcritical skill attributes. An in-depthanalysis has beencarried out by developing two detailed structured questionnaires administered on 55 HR Heads from the industry to confirm and ascertain the industry‘sperspectivesabout these skills and on  20 TPOs/Directorsto find out engineering colleges‘ understanding about these skills includingthe challenges and barriersthey face in this process and also to identifypossible solutions.The results clearly indicate mis-match between industry's and institutes perspective on soft skills.The important finding of the study is to develop conducive environment and follow practical/ activities based approach to impart soft skills to engineering graduates
Career Onion: Peeling off the layers for Occupational Preferences and Career Aspirations
Authors: Ahmed Samiah , Ahmed Alia
Published: October 2020

Vocational psychology carts away the vocational behavior regarding the occupational preferences of every individual, which commences at the period of adolescence. These occupational or vocational preferences are shaped or crystallized through career guidance and theories, which further help an adolescent to climb the career ladder towards achieving career aspirations and success. This research article, focuses mainly on five theories, self-concept development theory, valence-instrumentality-expectancy theory, theory of work adjustment , tournament theory  and Maslow hierarchy of needs theory, which help the adolescents with the occupational preferences, assist in climbing the career ladder from growth stage to retirement stage, ultimately resulting in achieving career aspirations. Furthermore, researchers reveal the differences among these theories highlighting unique features of every theory in predicting occupational or career preferences. Researchers also draw the career onion, where every layer of the career onion depicts that every adolescent peels off each career layer (starting from the growth stage until he eventually peels off the last layer of the retirement age) to achieve career self-actualization.
Strategies to Implement the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence
Authors: Lawrence Nathan Allan , Hammoud Mohamad Saleh
Published: October 2020

Only a small number of U.S. businesses have adopted the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program. The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore strategies that executive business leaders use to implement the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence. The study population consisted of six business executives and two organizations in the U.S. state of Texas, all with experience in implementing the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence. The theory of high performance work systems provided the conceptual framework for the study. Data were gathered from interviews and record reviews that were conducted within the organizations. Inductive analysis was used to identify words, phrases, ideas, and actions that were consistent among participants and organizations as well as patterns and themes. Triangulation of sources between the interview and record review data was used for consistency. Three main themes emerged from data analysis: organizations embedded the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence into native work models; they also used robust strategy deployment systems with accountability for action plans to spread the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence; and, rather than specifically create goals to align with the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence, they identified actions to reach organizational strategic goals that were molded using the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence as a business model.
Green Transformational Leadership and Green Performance: The mediating role of Green Mindfulness and Green Self-efficacy
Authors: Nisar Qasim Ali , Zafar Adnan , Shoukat Mubshar , Ikram Maryam
Published: October 2020

To increase the green performance of an organization Green Transformational Leadership is very important. This study mainly focuses the impact on Green Performance of Green Transformational Leadership by considering the mediating effect of Green Self-Efficacy and Green Mindfulness.The study is descriptive and quantitative in nature. Survey questionnaire method was used and data have been collected from 200 respondents by applying simple random sampling technique. After applying required tests on AMOS and SPSS, findings revealed that transformational leadership has asignificant and positive impact on Green performance. Moreover, a result also enlightened that Green Mindfulness and Green Self-efficacy significantly and moderately mediates the relationship between Green Performance and transformational leadership. At the end, this article implementation, suggestion, and limitation have also been included for further researches.
When Change Agents Manage Change
Authors: Eldejany Raed
Published: October 2020

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The Detection of Cases of Violations of Economic Competition and Modern Program of their Settlement
Authors: Asllani Gani , Statovci Bedri
Published: October 2020

The paper addresses the issues of detection of cases of violations of economic competition by various undertakings (enterprises) such as the prohibited agreements, abuse of dominant position or other discriminatory practices, more efficient treatment in courts of such cases and easier resolution of initiated cases. Besides the national laws governing the protection and development of unfair competition from anticompetitive practices, market regulators, in particular national authorities for protection of competition tend to find easier methods of detecting violators of the market rules. Among the programs that apply in the EU two are the most important: the leniency program and the program of the settlements. Also during analyses and easier detection of cases there are two economic indicators which alerts for possible violation of competition. The paper treats the functioning of these programs and other indicators implemented by the national authorities of competition.
Fiscal Policy of Kosovo, Taxation and Reforms
Authors: Statovci Bedri , Asllani Gani
Published: October 2020

In Kosovo and in the new consolidating countries the fiscal policy plays the primary role in the functioning of the state, its institutions and economic growth in general. In the lack of monetary policy instruments, fiscal policy remains the only means available to the Kosovo Government for promoting investments in the private sector. Therefore, sound and prudent fiscal policies is key to maintaining macroeconomic stability, particularly when considering that fiscal policy is the main instrument of economic policy in Kosovo. Special emphases is given fiscal policies applied in Kosovo, its reforms, actions to be taken on the occasion of the policy-making reforms and finally are given appropriate recommendations.
The development of Saudi Arabian Entrepreneurship and Knowledge society
Authors: Alessa Adlah A. , Alajmi Shayma Hussain
Published: October 2020

The current knowledge society has become a major factor in the distinction between countries, as many of them have sought to focus on knowledge and information; considering it the main resource. This study aims to identify the subject of the entrepreneurship's development in Saudi Arabia and contributes to the attainment of the knowledge society. We used the analytical descriptive approach and the questionnaire tool. The study population was represented by the Ministry of Economy and Planning officials in Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, the study’s sample consisted of 80 subjects, among which 60 were valid for analysis. We found that the impact on Saudi Arabia entrepreneurship, project participation and execution are reliant on support and encouragement of the concept itself while the level of education significantly influences the likelihood of project success.
Break-Even Analysis as a powerful tool in Decision-Making
Authors: Jakupi Shefket Zeqir , Statovci Bedri , Hajrizi Besart
Published: October 2020

This research paper is based on the contemporary techniques presented in the discipline of CVP Analysis. Techniques applied to carry out a complete and accurate financial analysis based on the CVP Analysis. In this paper, an application of theoretical concepts of the CVP Analysis has been realized. The quality of information and the recognition of specific features of business activity influence the achievement of a qualitative analysis. The cost-volume-profit analysis (CVP Analysis) is a powerful tool for planning and making decisions. Since the CVP analysis highlights the reciprocal cost ratio, the quantity sold and the price, it brings together all the financial information of the enterprise.
Determinants of effective Tax Rate of the top 45 Largest listed companies of Indonesia
Authors: Andreas Dr. , Savitri Enni
Published: October 2020

The capital inflows and outflows of a country are closely related to the established tax rate policy. Tax rate is one of important factors in investment decisions. Evidence that there are variations in effective tax rates amongs firms draw attention of researchers to understand the impact of tax policies on corporate tax burdens (Gupta and Newberry, 1997; Molloy, 1998). Effective tax rate is a dependent variable that is commonly used as a proxy to measure corporate tax burden. This study examined corporate effective tax rates (ETRs) of the top 45 largest listed companies of Indonesia within 2009-2014 (after tax reform of 2008, to be exact). We used two types of ETR1 and ETR2 measures as dependent variables. The first type is the ratio of current income tax expense divided by income before interest and taxes and the second type is the ratio of total income tax expense (current tax expense plus deferred tax expense) divided by income before interest and taxes (Noor et al. 2008).We also used some of independent variables related to firms’characteristics, such as firm size, capital intensity, leverage, returns on assets, and inventory intensity. The statistical results reveal that all independent variables contributed to ETR1 and ETR2 except the capital intensity is not contributed to ETR2. However, the findings provide support for the tax policy on corporate actual tax burdens.
Improving the Performance and Satisfaction of Students in Embedded Systems with PBL Approach
Authors: Harshad N. Lokhande , Shriram D. Markande
Published: October 2020

In the under graduate studies, teaching the concepts in the course on Embedded Systems has been always challenge for the faculty. Performance of many students is not up to mark as well as the joy of learning is also not observed in them. This paper is based on the experiments carried out with Project Based Learning (PBL) approach with Rubric’s reviews. The study developed a method of self-learning to apply core electronics knowledge to increase student performance and keen interest in Microcontrollers and its applications. The new design method consists of eight-week PBL strategy to work in group of three students to solve real-world problems. The student’s quality results were improved by 8 % and overall performance in scaled up by 29% as compared to successive previous two years. Also, the feedback from the students shows satisfaction as well as joy of learning
A Comparative Study of Ensemble Classifiers for Paddy Blast Disease Prediction Model
Authors: Varsha M., Dr. Poornima B.
Published: October 2020

Paddy blast has become most epidemic disease in many rice growing countries. Various statistical methods have been used for the prediction of paddy blast but previously used methods failed in predicting diseases with good accuracy. However the need to develop new model that considers both weather factors and non weather  data called blast disease data that influences paddy disease to grow. Given this point we developed ensemble classifier based paddy disease prediction model taking weather data from January 2013 to December 2019 from Agricultural and Horticulture Research Station Kathalgere Davangere District. For the predictive model we collected 7 kinds of weather data and 7 kinds of disease related data that includes Minimum Temperature, Maximum Temperature, Temperautre Difference,Relative Humidity, Stages of Paddy Cultivation, Varities of seeds, Season of cropping and so on. It is observed and analyzed that Minimum Temperature, Humidity and Rainfall has huge correlation with occurrence of disease. Since some of the variables are non numeric to convert them to numeric data one hot encoding approach is followed and to improve efficiency of ensemble classifiers  4 different filter based features selection methods are used such as Pearson’s correlation, Mutual information, ANNOVA F Value, Chi Square. Three different ensemble classifiers are used as predictive models and classifiers are compared it is observed that Bagging ensemble technique has achieved  accuracy of 98% compared to Adaboost of 97% and Voting classifier of 88%. Other classification metrics are used evaluate different classifiers like precision, recall, F1 Score, ROC and precision recall score. Our proposed ensemble classifers for paddy blast disease prediction has achieved high precision and high recall but when the solutions of model are closely looked bagging classifier is better compared to other ensemble classifers that are proposed in predicting paddy blast disease.
Vehicular Classification Based on Vibration Caused by Uncontrolled Traffic Using Fibre Optic Sensor
Authors: Awodu Onuora, Ukagwu Kelechi, Okuonghae Timothy, Azi S.O
Published: October 2020

Fibre optic vibration sensor (FOVS) converts vibration signal to light signal. Due to its prominent features, distributed fibre optic vibration sensor is preferred to conventional methods. Interest in FOVS has greatly increased over the years in structural health monitoring and vehicular traffic, hence the need to embark on this study. Distributed FOS is employed to measure the frequency of vibration caused by uncontrolled vehicular movement at Oluku By-Pass Bridge. Φ-OTDR is used to obtain millisecond snapshots of the stochastic signal arising thereof. A video shot was also recorded to match the exact timing of each excitation.

Traces obtained show several frequency peaks at various corresponding backscatter level for high and low vehicular traffic. Sampled data analyzed with Fiberizer Cloud software indicates high attenuation contribute to low total loss and low attenuation lead to high total loss. Spectral analyses of the data at low and high traffic for the stochastic signal. The corresponding frequency peaks were calculated and the results used to classify vehicles at low and high speed. The FWHM obtained with double Gaussian model for differential trace shows that high traffic gives sharp peaks with standard deviation less than 0.6 and above 0.6 for low traffic. The analyses identified peaks above 4.0x10-3 for traces with trucks and cars at high speed, while peaks less than 4.0x10-3 were obtained for traces with cars.
A Comparative Study of Ensemble Classifiers for Paddy Blast Disease Prediction Model
Authors: Varsha M., Dr. Poornima B.
Published: October 2020

Paddy blast has become most epidemic disease in many rice growing countries. Various statistical methods have been used for the prediction of paddy blast but previously used methods failed in predicting diseases with good accuracy. However the need to develop new model that considers both weather factors and non weather  data called blast disease data that influences paddy disease to grow. Given this point we developed ensemble classifer based paddy disease prediction model taking weather data from January 2013 to December 2019 from Agricultural and Horticulture Research Station Kathalgere Davangere District. For the predictive model we collected 7 kinds of weather data and 7 kinds of disease related data that includes Minimum Temperature, Maximum Temperature, Temperautre Difference,Relative Humidity, Stages of Paddy Cultivation, Varities of seeds, Season of cropping and so on. It is observed and analyzed that Minimum Temperature, Humidity and Rainfall has huge correlation with occurrence of disease. Since some of the variables are non numeric to convert them to numeric data one hot encoding approach is followed and to improve efficiency of ensemble classifiers  4 different filter based features selection methods are used such as Pearson’s correlation, Mutual information, ANNOVA F Value, Chi Square. Three different ensemble classifiers are used as predictive models and classifiers are compared it is observed that Bagging ensemble technique has achieved  accuracy of 98% compared to Adaboost of 97% and Voting classifier of 88%. Other classification metrics are used evaluate different classifiers like precision, recall, F1 Score, ROC and precision recall score. Our proposed ensemble classifers for paddy blast disease prediction has achieved high precision and high recall but when the solutions of model are closely looked bagging classifier is better compared to other ensemble classifers that are proposed in predicting paddy blast disease.
Compact Monothetic Semirings
Authors: Boris Tanana
Published: October 2020

In this article we present a brief history and some applications of semirings,  the structure of compact monothetic semirings. The classification of these semirings be based on known description of discrete cyclic semirings and compact monothetic semigroups.