Determinants of customers’ intention to adopt green banking technology services within Islamic banks of the United Arab Emirates

Green Banking (GB) is encouraging environment-friendly practices and reducing the carbon footprint from banking operations by promoting paperless financial services based on the intensive use of technology. However, the adoption level of GB technology remains unsatisfactory among bank customers in the United Arab Emirates. This study explored the dimensions of individual, technological, organisational, environmental and religious determinants of the phenomenon. The study further extended the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) by examining the identified dimensions’ effect on customers’ intention to adopt GB technology, alongside the moderating role of gender, age and experience. The exploratory sequential mixed-method design was deployed in this study. A preliminary semi-structured interview was conducted among ten bank professionals to explore the dimensions of the predetermined determinants. The qualitative findings using the Thematic Content Analysis (TCA) revealed the related dimensions affecting customers’ adoption of GB technology. The developed research model was validated via a cross-sectional survey of 332 Islamic bank customers. The quantitative results using the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) confirmed the significant impact of performance expectancy, facilitating condition, customer awareness, personal innovativeness, perceived benefit, system quality and bank reputation on customers’ intention to adopt GB technology. The moderating results using Multi-Group Analysis (MGA) revealed that only gender affects the relationship between performance expectancy and customers’ intention to adopt GB technology. This study has significant theoretical, methodological and practical contributions to enhance the understanding of customers’ intention to adopt GB technology. The study could also assist bankers in designing effective strategies to diminish customers’ resistance of GB technology through the applicability of the newly proposed factors. Reflecting the moderating influence of gender provides an in-depth clarification for policy-makers in pitching GB technology to relevant customers with minimal waste of resources by formulating distinct strategies for dynamic demographic segments

Assuming Data Integrity and Empirical Evidence to The Contrary

Background: Not all respondents to surveys apply their minds or understand the posed questions, and as such provide answers which lack coherence, and this threatens the integrity of the research. Casual inspection and limited research of the 10-item Big Five Inventory (BFI-10), included in the dataset of the World Values Survey (WVS), suggested that random responses may be common. Objective: To specify the percentage of cases in the BRI-10 which include incoherent or contradictory responses and to test the extent to which the removal of these cases will improve the quality of the dataset. Method: The WVS data on the BFI-10, measuring the Big Five Personality (B5P), in South Africa (N=3 531), was used. Incoherent or contradictory responses were removed. Then the cases from the cleaned-up dataset were analysed for their theoretical validity. Results: Only 1 612 (45.7%) cases were identified as not including incoherent or contradictory responses. The cleaned-up data did not mirror the B5P- structure, as was envisaged. The test for common method bias was negative. Conclusion: In most cases the responses were incoherent. Cleaning up the data did not improve the psychometric properties of the BFI-10. This raises concerns about the quality of the WVS data, the BFI-10, and the universality of B5P-theory. Given these results, it would be unwise to use the BFI-10 in South Africa. Researchers are alerted to do a proper assessment of the psychometric properties of instruments before they use it, particularly in a cross-cultural setting

Leading Towards Voice and Innovation: The Role of Psychological Contract

Background: Empirical evidence generally suggests that psychological contract breach (PCB) leads to negative outcomes. However, some literature argues that, occasionally, PCB leads to positive outcomes. Aim: To empirically determine when these positive outcomes occur, focusing on the role of psychological contract (PC) and leadership style (LS), and outcomes such as employ voice (EV) and innovative work behaviour (IWB). Method: A cross-sectional survey design was adopted, using reputable questionnaires on PC, PCB, EV, IWB, and leadership styles. Correlation analyses were used to test direct links within the model, while regression analyses were used to test for the moderation effects. Results: Data with acceptable psychometric properties were collected from 11 organisations (N=620). The results revealed that PCB does not lead to substantial changes in IWB. PCB correlated positively with prohibitive EV, but did not influence promotive EV, which was a significant driver of IWB. Leadership styles were weak predictors of EV and IWB, and LS only partially moderated the PCB-EV relationship. Conclusion: PCB did not lead to positive outcomes. Neither did LS influencing the relationships between PCB and EV or IWB. Further, LS only partially influenced the relationships between variables, and not in a manner which positively influence IWB

Shortest Route at Dynamic Location with Node Combination-Dijkstra Algorithm

Abstract— Online transportation has become a basic requirement of the general public in support of all activities to go to work, school or vacation to the sights. Public transportation services compete to provide the best service so that consumers feel comfortable using the services offered, so that all activities are noticed, one of them is the search for the shortest route in picking the buyer or delivering to the destination. Node Combination method can minimize memory usage and this methode is more optimal when compared to A* and Ant Colony in the shortest route search like Dijkstra algorithm, but can’t store the history node that has been passed. Therefore, using node combination algorithm is very good in searching the shortest distance is not the shortest route. This paper is structured to modify the node combination algorithm to solve the problem of finding the shortest route at the dynamic location obtained from the transport fleet by displaying the nodes that have the shortest distance and will be implemented in the geographic information system in the form of map to facilitate the use of the system. Keywords— Shortest Path, Algorithm Dijkstra, Node Combination, Dynamic Location (key words

Optimalisasi Sinergi Pendidikan Tinggi Ilmu Komunikasi Dengan Industri Di Era Digital

Kegiatan komunikasi adalah kegiatan yang setiap hari dilakukan oleh manusia dalam berinteraksi dengan sesama. Cukup menarik jika komunikasi menjadi perbincangan dunia atau menjadi kajian sebuah ilmu sosial khususnya dalam ilmu komunikasi yang berkonsentrasi pada bidang media cetak, media elektronik, media baru, public relations, advertising, dan desain komunikasi visual. Komunikasi memiliki peran yang sangat penting. Di era milenial, komunikasi dilakukan dengan berbagai cara karena perkembangan teknologi komunikasi yang begitu pesat, sehingga menjadikan komunikasi sebagai alat penyampai pesan yang efektif dengan menggunakan multiplatform. Kegiatan Jambore Nasional Komunikasi II - 2018 yang diselenggarakan Asosiasi Pendidikan Tinggi Ilmu Komunikasi (ASPIKOM) Jabodetabek di Universitas Negeri Jakarta, 27-28 Maret 2018, mengundang para akademisi di seluruh Indonesia, untuk mempresentasikan hasil penelitian melalui Call for Paper. Paper yang sudah dipresentasikan, dipublikasikan dalam bentuk prosiding. Dalam rangkaian yang sama, ASPIKOM Jabodetabek juga mengundang seluruh mahasiswa Ilmu Komunikasi di Indonesia untuk mengikuti kompetisi lomba karya, yaitu: citizen journalism, penulisan esai, film dokumenter, fotografi jurnalistik, iklan layanan masyarakat, motion infographic, program public relations, short feature, serta lomba presenter dan news anchor. Lomba tersebut merupakan bentuk apresiasi ASPIKOM Jabodetabek untuk karya mahasiswa Ilmu Komunikasi. Dengan adanya kegiatan Jambore Nasional Komunikasi II - 2018, bukti nyata ASPIKOM JABODETABEK menjembatani para akademisi dan praktisi ilmu komunikasi serta seluruh mahasiswa Ilmu Komunikasi di Indonesia untuk terus berkarya demi kemajuan bersama Ilmu Komunikasi di Indonesia bahkan internasional