Human resource professionals’ effectiveness, organizational culture and high performance work system link: evidence from Pakistan

HR professionals’ effectiveness is widely discussed as the most significant factor within the organization to gain sustainable competitive advantage at the present time.Nonetheless, the study investigates the impact of organizational culture on HR professionals’ effectiveness in telecom sector of Pakistan.Moreover, it also examines the moderating role of high performance work system in above mentioned correlation.A total of 75 survey questionnaires were distributed to HR managers of telecom firms, out of which 40 HR manager responded which makes 53.3% response rate.The study has used SmartPLS 3 for the assessment of the hypothesized model.The statistical results have established the strong positive effect of organizational culture on HR professionals’ effectiveness, however, findings reveal high performance work system doesn’t moderate this relationship.The study concludes organizations with strong organizational culture can achieve sustainable competitive advantage by augmenting HR professionals’ effectiveness, moreover, organizations have to align their HR strategies with robust HR system which can enhance HR professionals’ effectiveness.The findings of the study are of a great value to both theory and practice and have vital implications for academicians, practitioners and policy makers

The influence of organizational culture on employees’ performance: evidence from Oman

This article focuses on the overview of the student attrition model as well as related theory that are pertinent to student attrition studies. It comprises an investigation into the prominent student attrition models, such as the Undergraduate Dropout Process Model presented by Spady, and Tinto’s Model of Institutional Departure.Then, the focus is on the work by Bean that resulted in the Student Attrition Model, and the Pascarella produced the Conceptual Model for Research on Student-Faculty Informal Contact, as well as an exploration of attrition studies in Malaysian Higher Education. In addition, an initial conceptual research model derived from existing prominent student attrition models was proposed by the researchers for investigation in Malaysian Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) student attrition studies, as well as for academic student attrition studie

Factors Influencing training effectiveness: Evidence from public sector in Bahrain

The objective of this study is to explore problems faced by training programmes implemented at the public sector in Bahrain. Key issues discussed are related to training and development. The significance of the training cannot be ignored in delivering the needed knowledge and capabilities. Therefore, the training should be effective enough to attain these objectives. This study evaluates in accordance with vocational training a number of contextual factors discovered to have an influence in a different combination with other previously examined effective factors. It explores the relationship between them. It also identifies types of relation between the training effectiveness and the contextual factors. The framework of this study is established according to the Kirkpatrick training model. This model consists of four levels measuring training effectiveness namely reaction, learning, behavior, and result. Instrument utilized in this study was a 122 item questionnaire combined to respond to 2 hypotheses. The questionnaire was self-administered in staggered among the targeted respondents. It is revealed that contextual factors namely training environment, and trainee motivation have positive effectiveness in programms conducted in the public sector. This study provides critical inputs and contribution to literatures related to training in the public sector in Bahrain

Student attrition at technical and vocational educational training (TVET) institutions: the case of XCel Technical College in Malaysia

Student attrition is a challenging issue for tertiary education institutions, especially Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) institutions. There are a lot of explanations why students withdraw from college level programmes and the causes may be unique for students who sign up in a course that suits their interest areas.Small student retention rates reflect negatively on the reputation of the institution and even more, its academic status.This would, in turn, influence institution enrolment, finances, and future plans for development.Thus, this research effort was designed to investigate the influences of students’ withdrawal from these institutions before completion of their studies. As this research took the qualitative approach, data collection was performed through interviews and focus group discussions involving two groups of students (i.e., those who dropped out and those who continued with their studies) from XCel Technical College. The findings showed that the students’ reasons for dropping out from the TVET institutions programme are varied, all which were classified into two categories, namely institutional factors (e.g., training facilities, learning materials, and scheduling) and student characteristics (e.g., parental/family influence and urgency of getting employment).This findings support the results of earlier studies which highlighted that student characteristics, institutional factor, educational and occupational goals and commitments, financial status and other personal factors, are important to their retention in higher education programs (Bafatoom, 2010; Bean, 1980; Braxton, 2005; Pascarella & Terenzini, 1983; Spady, 1970, 1971; Tinto, 1975, 1993)

The Predicted Trainer and Training Environment Influence toward Vocational Training Effectiveness in Bahrain

This research aims to examine the development of vocational training issues faced in the public sector extent in Bahrain. Training implication should not be overlooked in delivering the required capabilities and knowledge in performing a certain task. The proposed research framework is established with a reference to the training evaluation model of Kirkpatrick, however, the study analyzes one of four levels for evaluating training effectiveness, those are reaction, learning, behavior, and the level of interests; result. A quantitative research design is applied. The survey instrument comprised of 29 items that tested two hypotheses. It was distributed to 382 respondents according to their interests using the purposive sampling technique adopted across 4 different public sector organizations in Bahrain. However, 128 were the usable ones from the returned 155 questionnaires. It is discovered that the contextual factor namely trainer has a positive influence on the training programmes implemented in this sector. Also, surprisingly this study unlocks an interesting and challenging area in the training environment for scholars in exploring and improving the quality of training programmes. The study essentially contributes to the paucity in training antecedents and training effectiveness in the public sector literature-related research. Hence, enhancing training effectiveness requires the management and practitioners to enhance the training antecedents to ensure the achievement of training/organization objectives. Understanding the importance of these certain types of factors will help the management to enhance the trainees’ gaining and therefore their performance. Thus, training antecedents should play an important role before trainee’s training. Managers should as well be involved with sponsoring reliable factors and drawing up a comprehensive vision

Examining the role of job resources on work engagement in the academic setting

The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between job resources, namely autonomy, social support and performance feedback and work engagement.Data were gathered through questionnaire from a sample of academicians (n = 532) who worked in four public universities (Mu’tah University, The University of Jordan, The Hashemite University and Yarmouk University) located in the southern, middle and northern region of Jordan.Results indicate that autonomy, social support and performance feedback were a significant factor in influencing academicians work engagement.These findings generally supported past findings, which suggested that employees are more likely to engage with their work if they are given the autonomy, social support and performance feedback.The findings were discussed and implications were also put forward

Faktor jurulatih mempengaruhi keberkesanan latihan: Satu kajian empirikal di Jabatan Meteorologi Malaysia

Pembangunan sumber manusia terutamanya latihan banyak menghuraikan tentang betapa pentingnya latihan di dalam sesebuah organisai.Oleh itu, faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi keberkesanan latihan perlu dititikberatkan agar tidak berlakunya pembaziran.Sehubungan dengan itu, kajian ini telah dijalankan untuk mengukur perkaitan di antara keberkesanan latihan dan faktor yang mempengaruhinya iaitu faktor jurulatih dengan menggunakan 105 borang soalselidik yang diisi dengan lengkap oleh kakitangan di Jabatan Meteorologi Malaysia.Dapatan analisa regresi digunakan untuk mengkaji kekuatan hubungan antara pembolehubah bebas iaitu faktor jurulatih dengan pembolehubah bersandar iaitu keberkesanan latihan. Secara amnya, dapatan kajian ini mengesahkan bahawa faktor jurulatih amat mempengaruhi keberkesanan latihan.Selanjutnya, implikasi dan perbincangan kajian turut dihuraikan dalam kertas kajian ini

Islam Hadhari’s principles and reward management practices: A study in Malaysian private organizations

This study is an attempt to provide further insights into the theory and practice of reward management in the local context as Malaysia is implementing Islam Hadhari’s principles in the country.This study also further investigates the relationship between Islam Hadhari’s principles and perceptions of non-monetary and monetary rewards toward the reward program influences.The study adopts a quantitative approach using Partial Least Square (PLS) based Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) approach.The study will benefit the human resource practitioners theoretically and practically by providing direction and suggestions in designing and implementing the non-monetary and monetary rewards for Malaysian private organizations from Islamic perspectives

Iklim organisasi penyederhana dalam hubungan budaya organisasi dan amalan kerja berprestasi tinggi

Todays world business competition become more open and challenging, This situation demands the organizations more focused to evaluate their role of internal factor such as value and work environment become more quality and competitive advantage.This study was undertaken to explore the influence of organizational climate in the relationship between organizational culture and high performance work system.A cross-sectional survey was performed to identify the current scenario of internal perception among 187 employees in Malaysian broadcasting industry. Result from hierarchy multiple regression analysis showed that there were significant interaction between organizational culture and organizational climate with high performance work system. The findings of this study confirm that the organizational climate acted as a moderator for high performance work practice in the organization.Results suggest that greater use of high performance work practice is associated with positive organizational culture and climates

Gain enhancement of microstrip patch antenna using artificial magnetic conductor

The paper presents an artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) structure to enhance the gain of the double microstrip patch antenna. By placing this kind of metamaterial in between the two Rogers RT5880 substrates, the antenna achieved lots of improvement especially in terms of size miniaturization, bandwidth, return loss, gain and efficiency. The antenna is intended to operate at 16 GHz where the prospect fifth generation (5G) spectrum might be located. Integration of AMC structure into the proposed antenna helps to improve nearly 16.3% of gain and almost 23.6% of size reduction