bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Does Temptation Associate with Unethical Intention? A Mediating Role of Monetary Intelligence: Evidence from MBA Students in Nepal
Authors: Dabadi Bhanu , Pokhrel Laxman 
Published: January 2024

Purpose- The purpose of this study is to examine the mediating role of Monetary Intelligence (MI) between Temptation (TEM) and Unethical Intention (UI) among MBA students in Nepalese Business Schools.
Design/ Methodology/ approach- The research applied a cross-sectional survey research design to collect data from 341 MBA students in Nepali Business Schools. The purposive sampling method was used to reach the respondents. The Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) was applied to test the stated hypotheses.
Finding- The study revealed that TEM has a significant influence on UI. However, MI and TEM do not significantly influence UI. Likewise, the specific indirect effects and total effects are not significant. Therefore, the results of the mediational analysis illustrated no effect (no mediation) results.
Practical implications- This study focuses on understanding the significance of MI in relation to TEM to trigger UI among MBA students at Nepali Business Schools. This paper paves the path for undertaking complex higher-order constructs in the existing PLS-SEM literature. Likewise, human resource managers could develop their recruitment, training, and performance appraisal mechanism based on understanding the temptation of prospective employees and their possibility of engaging in unethical behaviours.
Originality- This paper has investigated Temptation (reflective-formative), Monetary Intelligence (reflective-formative), and Unethical Intention (reflective-reflective) to explain the mediational mechanism of MI with TEM and UI. The present study is among the earliest studies to examine unethical intention in the Nepali context.
Keywords: Monetary intelligence, formative construct, reflective construct, temptation, unethical intention
JEL: M10
The Impact of Workforce Diversity Management on Organizational Performance: A Study in Nepalese Hospitality Sector
Authors: Rijal Rheet 
Published: January 2024

Background: The 1960s and 1970s in the United States marked a pivotal era in recognising the importance of workplace diversity and equal opportunities, leading to the establishment of the President's Committee on Equal Employment and the enactment of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. This historical backdrop has evolved into a contemporary emphasis on diverse dimensions, such as demographic, cultural, and cognitive aspects, underscoring its critical role in improving organisational performance—an insight extended to the study's focus on Nepal's hospitality sector.
Objectives: This research aims to investigate the impacts of workplace diversity on organisational performance with the mediating role of inclusion and employee engagement solely.
Methods: The study followed a positivist research paradigm, deductive reasoning, a causal-comparative research method, and snowball sampling techniques for its procedural operations. The study's target populations were the staff employed in hospitality sectors in Nepal. The study incorporated 439 as a sample size. The structured survey questionnaire was used to collect the primary data. The data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics like percentages, frequency, and structural equation modelling. In order to analyse the data, SPSS 20 and AMOS 22 were used.
Results: The study supports hypotheses related to the positive influence of workforce diversity on employee inclusion, the positive effects of employee inclusion and engagement on organisational performance, and the partial mediation role of both employee inclusion and engagement in the relationship between workforce diversity and organisational performance. However, the study rejects hypotheses suggesting a direct impact of workforce diversity on employee engagement and organisational performance in the Nepalese hospitality sector.
Conclusions: The crucial role of fostering employee inclusion positively impacts loyalty and effort. While workforce diversity may not directly impact organisational performance, focusing on inclusion can lead to better outcomes. Organisations are urged to prioritise creating inclusive environments for enhanced employee commitment and to better align with the needs of a diverse customer base.
Implications: This research benefits human resource (HR) managers and businesses as it furnishes information that can be utilised to enhance legislative frameworks and establish measures for monitoring employee diversity policies. The findings of this study also aid established and emerging businesses in determining crucial considerations related to staff diversity. Employees currently employed will benefit from this research as it sheds light on the significance of staff diversity in terms of organisational success and growth.
Paper type: Research Paper
Key Words: Quantitative research, Diversity management, Gender, Age, Hospitality.
Economic Growth, Public Expenditure, and Infrastructure on Provincial Financial Development of Nepal
Authors: Gajurel Ram Prasad 
Published: January 2024

Purpose: Financial development is inevitable to finance the domestic resources in the development of Nepal at the provincial level. This paper intends to evaluate the nexus of financial development at the provincial level with economic growth, public expenditure, and infrastructure.
Design/Methodology/Approach: The targeted variables––financial development is a proxy by branches of banks and financial institutions and other regressors––economic growth (a proxy by annual growth in gross domestic product), public expenditure (proxied by current and capital expenditure), infrastructure (proxied by road networks, number of schools, electricity production) are considered throughout 2019 to 2023 across the seven provinces of Nepal. A fixed effect panel data model (FEM) is taken to estimate the intended outcome. To check the heteroscedasticity, autocorrelation, and cross-sectional dependency (CD), the CD test and Panel-Corrected Standard Errors (PCSE) are regressions that are also performed.
Findings: The stylised facts, as a whole, indicate that the growth nexus has had a negative impact. However, infrastructure exerts a more significant influence on the financial development of Nepal's provinces. Additionally, combined public spending that is neither capital nor current has helped advance financial development in the provinces.
Value/Originality: The results of the study highlight the necessity of prioritising infrastructure improvements and effective combined public spending to support financial development in Nepal's provinces. It offers unique insights not previously explored in Nepalese academia. Updated and relevant data are collected and applied to the different channels to evaluate the nexus of financial development at the province level of Nepal.
Recommendation: Policymakers should give due consideration to the effective mobilisation of fiscal resources with proper fiscal discipline in every aspect. Moreover, enhancing the allocation of development finance has the potential to stimulate financial development across all areas herein examined.
Keywords: Economic growth, public expenditure, infrastructure, financial development, fixed effect model
JEL classification: H54, H72, G21, O47, C33
Institutionalising the Effects of Remuneration and Welfare Packages on Employees’ Performance in Public Universities in Nigeria
Authors: Ibrahim O Salawu , Abubakar S  Yushau Alfakoro 
Published: January 2024

Background: Employee remunerations and welfare packages naturally constitute the two major determinate factors that stimulate negative or positive reactions towards employee performance in an organisation.
Objective: The study examines the effects of remuneration and welfare packages on employee performance in Nigerian public universities.
Methodology: The researcher employed a mixed research method. A total of 100 questionnaires were administered to the academics and non-academic staff of the University of Ilorin and Kwara State University Malate through random sampling; hypotheses were tested using simple percentages and chi-square.
Results: This menace has resulted in many negative effects, such as strikes, protests, corruption, dismal performance, slow development, side work, and nonchalant attitude, among other factors, within the staff of Nigerian public universities.
Conclusion: Policies on remunerations should be reviewed, salaries and wages should be paid as when due; also, employees taking home pay should be capable of taking care of their needs, and welfare packages should be improved in order to improve employee performance for an effective, efficient and workable Nigeria public enterprises.
Keywords: Remuneration, University, Welfare, Staff, Employee, Performance.
Homemakers’ Participation in Household Decision Making
Authors: Dahal Anita , Adhikari Chahana 
Published: January 2024

Purpose: This study is conducted to identify homemakers’ participation in household decision making who are the member of community-based organization.
Methods: The study was conducted in ward no. 30 of Pokhara Metropolitan City, where the ward represents the smallest unit of local government. The study interviewed homemaker women who were participating in Community-based Organization. The primary data were collected from purposively sampled 120 homemaker women using structured closed ended questionnaires schedule. The collected data are processed and analysed in SPSS software where the test of association (The Chi square test) was performed to find the relationship among the variables of household decision making, together with social-economic and demographic variables.
Findings: The findings show that homemakers included in study have actively participating in household decision making. The Chi square test result indicates that there is no association between age and number of children with level of homemakers’ participation in household decision making. Also, other demographic variables such as marital status, caste or ethnicity, education, and family type have no significance association with household decision making.
Conclusion: From this study we can say that the participation level of the women in household decision making who are the member of community-based organization is high. The participation of women in community-based organization like women’s group, saving and cooperatives, community committees empower the women and support to build confident in household decision making.
Keywords: Homemaker, Participation, Decision Making, Women, Community Based Organisation.
Paper type: Research Paper
Bahasa Indonesia
Authors: Agustine Daniar Arisandi Dwi , Hakimah Nurul , Nurmayanti Rani 
Published: January 2024

Background: Food that is not safe will be vulnerable to contamination from chemical, biological, and physical hazards. Food poisoning can be prevented by implementing the “Five Keys to Safer Food”. Food handlers who have low knowledge and attitudes towards food safety have 2,167 times risk of making their processed food unsafe. Food safety education is useful for adding insight into food handlers, they can implement in their work to improve quality and consumer confidence. Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the knowledge level and attitudes toward food safety for food handlers at Pondok Sawah Catering Turen before and after being given education. Design: This research uses descriptive quantitative. The research population was 13 people. The sampling technique used purposive sampling and obtained 13 people. Results: There was a change in knowledge of food handlers with the highest increase based on characteristic, adult (31%), junior high school education level (38%), working period ? 3 years (31%), and female (46%). There was a change in the attitudes of food handlers with the highest increase based on the characteristic, adult (31%), high school education level (23%), working period < 3 years (31%), and female (38%) after provided food safety education. Conclusions: There was a change in the knowledge levels and attitudes of food handlers after provided food safety education.
Peran Guru PAI Dalam Program Bimbingan dan Konseling Perkembangan
Authors: Maudita Prasastia , Budi Haryanto  
Published: January 2024

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui peran guru PAI dalam program bimbingan konseling perkembangan. Metode yang dipakai pada penelitian ini adalah studi pustaka (library research), yaitu dalam menggabungkan data memerlukan pemahaman yang mendalam dan harus mempelajari isi dari berbagai sumber yang berhubungan dengan penelitian. Berdasarkan hasil dari penelitian yang dilakukan oleh peneliti, dapat disimpulkan bahwa peran guru PAI dalam program bimbingan konseling perkembangan yaitu selain mengajar di kelas juga berperan untuk membimbing, memotivasi, menasihati, dan berperan menjadi konselor untuk menyelesaikan masalah yang di alami oleh siswa. Pada bimbingan dan konseling perkembangan ini tidak berfokus pada permasalahan saja, tetapi juga mengupayakan pada perkembangan tertentu contohnya seperti meningkatkan potensi, memilih cita-cita, merancang masa depan, mengembangkan diri untuk menentukan pekerjaan sesuai dengan kemampuan yang dimiliki. Kesimpulan dalam penelitian ini yaitu, guru PAI diharapkan dapat menjadi teladan yang baik untuk para peserta didiknya. Karena setiap apa yang dilakukan oleh guru dapat ditiru oleh siswa.
Kata kunci: peran guru PAI, bimbingan dan konseling, perkembangan
Harapan Siswa yang Mengalami Stres Akademik
Authors: Fitri Yulianti  , Ilfiandra  , Ipah Saripah  
Published: January 2024

Penelitian ini didasari bahwa stres akademik yang dialami oleh siswa dapat berkurang ketika siswa memiliki tingkat harapan yang tinggi. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif kuantitatif. Partisipan pada penelitian ini merupakan 52 siswa yang ditentukan berdasarkan tingkat stres akademik dengan menggunakan instrumen stres akademik untuk mengetahui kondisi stres akademik siswa. Pengumpulan data harapan siswa yang mengalami stres akademik menggunakan Indonesian Hope Scale yang telah dikembangkan oleh Asiah berdasarkan konsep harapan Snyder. Dari data yang diperoleh menunjukkan bahwa 12% siswa berada pada kategori tinggi, 71% siswa berada pada kategori sedang dan 17% dari 52 siswa berada pada kategori tinggi. Kesimpulan berdasarkan pengolahan data dan pembahasan diketahui bahwa harapan pada siswa yang mengalami stres akademik berada pada kategori sedang atau belum sepenuhnya memiliki tingkat harapan yang penuh. Data hasil tingkat harapan siswa yang mengalami stres akademik dapat dijadikan sebagai dasar pelaksanaan layanan bimbingan dan konseling dalam mengembangkan harapan siswa yang mengalami stres akademik.
Kata kunci: harapan, siswa, stres akademik
Implementasi Bimbingan Sosial Terhadap Masyarakat Terdampak Bencana Banjir Dalam Mengurangi Kecemasan Di Badan Penanggulangan Bencana Daerah (BPBD) Batubara
Authors: Mahpuja Aulia Tambunan  , Zulkarnain Abdurrahman  
Published: January 2024

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui implementasi bimbingan sosial terhadap Masyarakat terdampak bencana banjir dalam mengurangi kecemasan sosial di BPBD Batubara. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif deskriptif. Hasil penelitian yaitu : 1. Implementasi bimbingan sosial identifikasi, melakukan diagonis, pragonis, pemberian bantuan dan evaluasi serta tindak lanjut. 2. Metode bimbingan menggunakan metode langsung individu dan kelompok berupa ceramah, sosiodrama dan menggunakan media sosial. 3. Factor pendukung adanya dukungan dari pemerintah, factor penghambat, factor geiologis, kurang anggaran dana, fasilita rusak dan kurang kesadaran dari individu. 4. Penanganan banjir melalui trauma healing dengan play therapy dan konseling. pada dasarnya kesimpulannya adalah bahwa bimbingan sosial yang dilakukan Bpbd sangat membantu masyarakat dalam mengatasi kecemasan yang mereka alami terkait bencana banjir yang melanda kota mereka khususnya anak –anak sebab anak-anak rentan dengan trauma maka daripada itu dengan adanya bimbingan sosial membantu mereka untuk mengatasi hal tersebut sehingga mampu beradaptasi dan melakukan kegiatan kehidupan selanjutnya lebih baik.
Kata kunci: bimbingan sosial, masyarakat, banjir
COVID -19 en Ecuador: golpe de timón favorable a la criminalidad organizada de cuello blanco
Authors: Noboa Maria Fernanda , Moreano Hernan , Ruiz Luis 
Published: January 2024

La pandemia del COVID -19 ha sido el factor detonante, que evidencia la profunda crisis civilizatoria que se ha venido gestando hace una década. La pandemia sacudió y sigue sacudiendo al planeta por sus diversas variantes y la velocidad exponencial de contagios que conlleva a elevadas tasas de mortalidad de la población.
Este artículo reflexiona la complejidad de la pandemia como un factor detonante para la corrupción de cuello blanco[1]. Para ello, el enfoque metodológico analítico escogido articula la construcción de una mirada mixta aglutinando las diversas herramientas trabajadas por el futurista Sohail Inayatullah, tales como: Triángulo de Futuros y la Construcción de Escenarios de doble variable. Todo esto en el marco de una discusión onto-epistémica en complejidad de la problemática relacional pandemia/corrupción en Ecuador -casos emblemáticos- aludiendo a entornos discontinuos, heterogéneos, disruptivos y aleatorios, lo que deriva en el ambiente propicio para que la corrupción forme parte de la criminalidad organizada a nivel del Estado.
Los resultados del proceso analítico mostraron que la incidencia de una débil gobernanza frente a la pandemia, en un entorno de elevada incertidumbre, exige la construcción analítica que trascienda la mirada coyuntural de la problemática e incorpore los enfoques de largo plazo, y en este caso concreto la prospectiva hermenéutica. Las conclusiones preliminares sugieren la necesidad de repensar y redimensionar el valor de la subjetividad, el conocimiento experiencial y extra-académico para el diseño consensuado de futuros posibles, asegurando una óptima conducción política y manejo de lo público.
Interfacing Diaspora with Ecological Humanities in Amitav Ghoshâ€™s <i>The Hungry Tide</i>
Authors: Prasad Murari 
Published: January 2024

The term â€œdiasporaâ€ is applied to an expatriate minority community whose members share certain characteristics but this concept has been a rapidly changing phenomenon in response to disparate kinds of demographic shifts, particularly during the past two decades. The increased mobility of capital and culture has made the earlier conceptualisation a problematic one. The concept needs to be recalibrated in view of the perceived challenge posed by new mobile strangers. Evidently, the movement, displacement and relocation of peoples in globalisation have increasingly accentuated the circulation of the local in the global and the new convergences have complicated the issues of citizenship and belonging.
As a polythetic term, diaspora has acquired a wide, inclusivist definition to include immigrants, expatriates, refugees, guest workers, exile community and overseas ethnic groups. In the emerging spectacle the â€œenvironmentalâ€ is increasingly embedded into the social, political and economic dimensions of displacement. This entwining is confirmed by the struggle for rights over access to natural resources and human habitats following the streams of migration, and hence the conceptual importance accorded to environment. The complex interplay of â€œenvironmentalâ€ categories such as water, land, habitat, forest, rivers with their social, political and material coordinates cannot be excluded from any disciplinary engagement with the dispersion of peoples in the â€œnew world order.â€
This article examines the perspectives on the ecological disruptions and challenges of diasporic settlement depicted by Amitav Ghosh in his novel, The Hungry Tide (2004). The novelâ€™s essential narrative is the forcible eviction of thousands of Bengali refugees from the island of Marichjhanpi by the communist-led Left Front government of West Bengal in January-May 1979. The narrative offers a palpable ecological paradigm as well as centres on the issue of refugee migrants, and thus envisions a new form of belonging in the climatically challenged world.
Ideology, Age of the Image and Television Advertising in India
Authors: Roy Dipankar 
Published: January 2024

This article will explore how the ideology of advertising converts the value-system of a â€œconstructedâ€ social life into â€œnatural realityâ€ and also how the hyperreal â€œad worldâ€ seemingly becomes a â€œrealityâ€ in its own right. It will analyse ads in their material form to see through their â€œfalseâ€ materiality. Ideology as a term has acquired many connotations in this age of globalisation. Likewise, the semiotic world of advertisements has expanded at a phenomenal pace. Commodities in a postmodern, globalised world are ubiquitous and their multimedia ad-campaigns are well and truly omnipresent. Whether they are also omnipotent is something that the paper will explore. The ad-world in the present age creates consciousness rather than getting validated by consciousness. It creates an ideology that would turn the exchange value of a commodity into a new kind of use-value. By deconstructing a few recent TV ads made in India the paper will analyse whether in the complex relationship between ideology and advertising the former functions as a process whereby social life is converted to a natural reality. The paper will also attempt to identify fault-lines of the constructed reality of the advertisements as the makers sometimes end up deconstructing the very narratives that they construct. Thus, the present study hopefully will show the self-referential nature of advertisements which will give us clues to understand the nature of the visual culture as it thrives in the world of advertisements.
STUDI FENOMENOLOGI PERANAN BUDAYA LITERASI PADA SATUAN PENDIDIKAN DASAR DAN MENENGAH DI SEKOLAH PENGGERAK
Authors: Muzakki Muhammad Alie , Putri Aprilia Riyana , Zaiyar Muhammad 
Published: January 2024

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengeksplorasi fenomena peranan budaya literasi pada tingkat pendidikan dasar dan menengah, khususnya di sekolah penggerak, dengan fokus pada kontribusi sekolah dalam membentuk budaya literasi yang berkelanjutan. Pendekatan fenomenologi digunakan untuk mendapatkan pemahaman mendalam tentang pengalaman dan makna budaya literasi di lingkungan sekolah. Melalui wawancara mendalam, observasi, dan analisis dokumen, penelitian ini melibatkan pendidik dan siswa sebagai subjek utama. Analisis data dilakukan dengan menggunakan pendekatan tematik untuk mengidentifikasi tema dan subtema yang muncul dari data kualitatif. Pemahaman tentang konsep budaya literasi, peran pendidik, dan dampak budaya literasi pada sekolah penggerak menjadi fokus utama penelitian ini. Hasil penelitian ini sekolah penggerak telah melakukan upaya internalisasi budaya literasi disekolah, hal ini berdampak pada skor literasi disekolah diatas kemampuan literasi minimal. Literasi yang terbangun terfokus pada literasi membaca dan menulis. Kendala yang muncul dalam pengembangan literasi yang lain terletak pada akses pengembangan kemampuan guru berfokus pada diversifikasi kegiatan budaya literasi selain itu perlu pemenuhan terhadap diversifikasi jenis buka dengan mempertimbangkan keminatan siswa.