Written by Mehmet KIZILOĞLU
Published On Issue 2 Vol 3, 2018
Employee monitoring activities are becoming increasingly widespread with the technological opportunities that are developing day by day. Organizations are monitoring their employees' performances, behaviors and personal attributes at any time and as often as they like, using very different methods. Organizations perform monitoring activities by setting reasons such as security, justice, legal obligations, quality and productivity improvement. This situation causes problems such as decreasing
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Written by Kadriye ÖZKOL KILINǹ
Published On Issue 2 Vol 3, 2018
This study was conducted to assess psychological capital levels of nurses. This descriptive study was carried out with 192 nurses working in a university hospital. The data were collected using Information Form and Psychological Capital Questionnaire PCQ) and assessed in SPSS 18 program. The nurses obtained a mean total score of 4.24±0.55 from PCQ. Additionally, total scores of nurses who were female, worked in nurse-position and were satisfied with working in the hospital and this profes
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Written by Abdur RAHIM BABAR¹
Published On Issue 2 Vol 3, 2018
The present study has been designed to explore the effects of modernization on the family structure. The family system of any society plays a crucial role in social, cultural and religious values of the society. The family is one of the most important and fundamental institutions of the society. The survival of a society depends on the institution of the family. The structure of Pakistani society like many others has been witnessing a social change. Due to the modernization, employment opportuni
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Written by Faraz AHMAD¹
Published On Issue 2 Vol 3, 2018
The paper investigated whether the predictability of return was efficient or adaptive in two different emerging stock markets of Asia; Pakistan and India, by using time series data. For this purpose, the daily returns data of KSE-100 and NIFTY-50 was examined. The sample covered the data of 24 years of the both stock markets (for KSE-100; from January 1992 to December 2015 and for NIFTY-50; from January 1994 to October 2017). A sub sample analysis was used in this research, and the both stock ma
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Written by Muhammad Naeem SHAHID¹*
Published On Issue 2 Vol 3, 2018
The current study aimed to investigate the relationship between the behavioral biases of the investors and the performance of their investment decisions. Behavioral biases mean how an individual acts in a particular situation. Most of the investors take their decisions on the basis of their intuitions rather than relying on the information available from different sources. Furthermore, some investors don’t even try to get information regarding the movements of stock prices. Investment deci
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Written by Nasrin BORUMANDNIA¹
Published On Issue 2 Vol 3, 2018
Sometimes the Bayesian models include a spatial prior which is computationally intractable, because normalizing constants are appeared in the posterior distributions. Computing of normalizing constants is a fundamental computational problem in many Spatiotemporal Bayesian inferences. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data sets are a popular example of huge data sets and big data analytics that their spatial and temporal dependence structures are very complex. Therefore, Spatiotemporal
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Written by Ozlem BALABAN¹
Published On Issue 2 Vol 3, 2018
The balanced scorecard has been developed to overcome the shortcomings of the traditional measurement approaches and find the practical solutions to the measurement problems. It consists of finance, customers, internal processes, and learning/development dimensions. The objectives in these four dimensions are linked to each other through cause and effect relations, and the intangible assets included in the learning/development dimension constitute the basis of these dimensions, as it has been st
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Written by Rabia KHOKHAR*
Published On Issue 2 Vol 3, 2018
Employee Turnover has been considered as one of the main concerning issues in any organization. Therefore, a lot of examinations have been conducted to identify the factors influencing the Employee Turnover. In the studies done earlier, the Organizational Culture as a determinant of the Employee Turnover has not been much taken into consideration. In this regard, the present study aimed to uncover the relationship between the Organizational Culture and the Employee Turnover. Data from people wor
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Written by Muhammad Fayyaz SHEIKH¹
Published On Issue 2 Vol 3, 2018
The purpose of this study is to examine whether earnings management is influenced by executive compensation, concentrated/family ownership, or board structure in an emerging market. The study used an unbalanced panel data from non-financial firms listed at Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) and employed multiple regression with robust econometric estimation procedures. The study found that CEO compensation does not influence earnings management. Ownership concentration leads to higher earnings manage
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Written by Murat H. GUKEPSHOKOV¹
Published On Issue 2 Vol 3, 2018
In this article, ways to improve the civil law of the Russian Federation on procurement were examined. Due to the globalization and the active participation of Russian entities in foreign economic activity, an increase in the abuse of international tendering of procurement, as well as the frequent use of the foreign trade contracts of Russian legal entities with foreign counterparts of English law and the analyses of problems and proposals of their solution in the present date scientific and pra
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Written by Hina AMIN¹
Published On Issue 2 Vol 3, 2018
In the organizations, group work is essential for effective performance, and conflicts can occur at any place where more than one person works. Intra group conflict is the current phenomena for study that guides employees to do their tasks better even in conflicts. The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of intra group conflicts (emotional and cognitive conflicts) on the employees’ work effectiveness, and the moderating role of cultural diversity at work place. The sample size o
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Written by Assel MAKHADIYEVA¹
Published On Issue 2 Vol 3, 2018
The present research includes some scientists' research studies and the views of great thinkers who have contributed to the formation of Kazakh family values. In this investigation, it has been studied that children with autistic spectrum disorders would cause changes in family values, affect the education of siblings, lead to changes in relationship between the couples and with the children. Statistical data of divorces as the result of conflicts in the familes have been shown. It was ident
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Written by Nadeem NAZIR*
Published On Issue 2 Vol 3, 2018
This has been a novel study for the investigation of the relationship between the opportunistic behaviour and the agency confliction prevailing in the family-owned firms. The research empirically tested the conceptual model of agency conflict, and the opportunistic behaviour (opportunism) under the umbrella of stewardship and agency theory. A sample of family firms from Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) was selected; and the primary data from the family directors/managers of various family listed co
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Written by Yusuf A. MALKANDUEV¹
Published On Issue 2 Vol 3, 2018
The article considers the importance of innovative development of the Russian agro industrial complex as an indispensable condition for importing substitution in the agro-food market. Disclosed about the current state of the agrarian sector in Russia, including state regulation and information and consulting support. The foundations for the creation of an innovative system in the agro-industrial complex of Russia based on the sectoral structure, system-forming participants and infrastructural el
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Written by Aniqa KHOKHAR*
Published On Issue 2 Vol 3, 2018
Impulsive buying has been studied for many years but there have been limited research studies on males as impulsive buyers. Data from 284 educated male consumers were collected through a structured close-ended questionnaire. The regression model was used for data analysis. This research highlighted that emotional state and socialization have an impact on the males’ impulsive buying behaviour. Whereas, promotion, branding of a product, in-store strategies, scarcity of a product, and p
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Written by Indira R. MIKITAEVA¹
Published On Issue 2 Vol 3, 2018
The article examines the role of state regulation of the agrarian sector of the economy in Russia. The agrarian sector cannot compete with the industrial sector of regional economies due to its specificity and dependency on natural factors, seasonality and cyclical nature of production. Mr. Osudarstvennoe regulation of the agricultural sector is one of the main objectives of raising economic efficiency of both agricultural producers and the industry in general. In the course of the study, the ma
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Written by Marina T. TEKUEVA¹.²*
Published On Issue 2 Vol 3, 2018
The current state of the entire agro-industrial complex dictates the need for a radical revision of the methods of state support. Therefore, experience of using rational elements in organizing the system of state regulation of agricultural production in advanced economies will be interesting and useful for our country. Experience of many developed countries is useful, where agricultural production is of paramount importance in connection with the state provides finance for the agricultural produ
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Written by Marina T. TEKUEVA¹*
Published On Issue 2 Vol 3, 2018
This research deals with the status of the science of administrative law in modern conditions which is connected with the cardinal renewal of the administrative law that currently takes place, primarily with the constitutional consolidation of the separation of powers, rethinking and reforming of its traditional institutions, and also raising questions about the need for new legal institutions. In this connection, a number of topical theoretical problems arise in the science of administrative la
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Written by Nihal SUTUTEMIZ¹
Published On Issue 2 Vol 3, 2018
This study had two aims. The first was to determine whether the products purchased on-line by the consumers were in hedonic or utilitarian product category and whether these categories were related to gender or not, while the second aim was to determine the hedonic and utilitarian factors that drive consumers to online shopping, and whether these factors were related to gender or not. The study had several subsidiary aims such as defining the place of online shopping among the internet usage aim
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Written by Kalim ULLAH¹*
Published On Issue 2 Vol 3, 2018
The presage of Entrepreneurship has been known as the driver of any emergent economy. Literature has suggested that e-entrepreneurial intention has been still understudied in developing countries. At concurrent, the internet usage rate has been more preferable for the Pakistani youth. The youth can be called as the future entrepreneurs. This study used the advanced techniques of PLS software for testing the new dimensional model known as entrepreneurial attitude orientation model to test whether
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Written by Sule KURT¹*
Published On Issue 2 Vol 3, 2018
Aim: The aim of the study was to determine the job satisfaction levels of the nurses working in public hospitals. Method: This descriptive study was carried out with 404 nurses (60%) accepted to take part in the study from 673 nurses working in hospitals depending on The Secretaryship of Public Hospital Association. The data were collected by the personal information form (16 questions) prepared by the researcher, and the job satisfaction scale (36 articles) in a period between June 1st an
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Written by Hasan FARAJOLLAHI¹
Published On Issue 2 Vol 3, 2018
The present article aims to investigate the effects of positive and negative shocks of exchange rate on the asymmetry of exchange-rate pass-through on domestic prices in Iran during 1981-2014. To this aim, first, using the Markov-Switching model, the positive and negative shocks were extracted. Then, using the co-integration test of Johansen and Juselius, the asymmetry of exchange-rate pass-through to producer prices in Iran, along with the effectiveness of nominal exchange rate variables, gross
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Written by Kadriye ÖZKOL KILINǹ*
Published On Issue 2 Vol 3, 2018
The aim of the present study is to determine whether or not nurses perceived their nurse managers as authentic leaders. The study was conducted with 309 nurses recruited using stratified sampling method among nurses (n=1569) who worked in the hospitals in the city center of Trabzon. It was found that 53.7% of the nurses had bachelor’s/post-graduate degrees, 77.7% of them had 4A personnel cadre and 59.5% of them worked in the public hospitals. Authentic leadership mean score of the nurse ma
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Written by Hussam AL HALBUSI¹*
Published On Issue 2 Vol 3, 2018
A total of 223 participants belonging to the banking domain in Iraq participated in this study to verify the hypothesis. This study explored the effect of ethical leadership and how it affected the turnover intention through arbitrating effect on ethical climate. It was proposed that leaders function as role models at the workplace. Particularly, the behaviour of leaders critically affected the ethical climate perception. In turn, it positively affected the turnover intention of the members of t
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Written by Emrah ÖZSOY¹
Published On Issue 2 Vol 3, 2018
This research aims to adapt and examine the validity and accuracy of the 6-item Machiavellian Managerial Practice Scale in Turkish, which is a sub-dimension of the Organizational Machiavellianism Scale developed by Kessler et al., (2010). In this context, construct validity (only in terms of convergent validity), factor structure (confirmatory factor analysis) and reliability (internal consistency) of the Machiavellian Managerial Practices Scale were tested. In order to test construct validity,
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