Comparative Analysis of the Early Childhood Education in Public and Private Sector Schools

This study was designed to compare the situation of Early Childhood Education (ECE), provided in public and private sector schools. The major objectives of the study were to evaluate the learning abilities of the students who were receiving early childhood education, to study demographic variations of students in relation with their learning ability and to study availability of physical facilities in the public and private sector schools for early childhood education. In this study, data of 100 respondents was collected from two distinct groups; students enrolled in ECE and teachers teaching to ECE level. Among them 60 students and 40 teachers were included. Data was collected from the schools located at Rawalpindi and Islamabad. In order to make a comparison between public and private sector schools quantitative approaches was used. For the measurement of students’ learning ability data was collected with the help of a standardized tool developed by ASER (2014) for English, Urdu, Math, General Knowledge and for the measurement of teachers’ perception regarding availability of physical facilities in public and private sector schools a separate research tool was developed by the researchers. Findings revealed that learning level of students who were enrolled in the private schools was higher than the students enrolled in public sector schools and girl’s studying in private schools have high learning level than boys in public school. Results also revealed that overall there was a lack of physical facilities for pre primary children in both sector schools. Findings of the study would be helpful for public and private sector schools and agencies those are working in early childhood education. Study would be helpful in creating awarenessamong teachers and administrators about the importance of ECE in relation with learning abilities of students

Impact of Organizational Culture on Employee’s Performance

This present study was an effort to explore the impact of organization culture on employee’s performance. The objectives of study were to determine the relationship between organizational culture and employee’s performance, to find out the gender based differences regarding employee’s performance and to find out the gender based differences regarding organizational culture. Role based performance and organizational culture questionnaires were used. The 20 items questionnaire relating employee’s performance and 17 items concerning organizational culture were used to collect the data for study. Sample of 60 employees were taken from different organizations. Mean, standard deviation, t-test and Pearson correlation were used for statistical analysis. The findings indicates that there is positive relationship between employees performance and organizational culture and also indicates that there is no significant difference in responses between gender of employees regarding organizational culture and employee performance. Keywords: organizational culture, employee’s performanc

Changing the HRM Vision into Reality the Role of Manager’s Skills for Implementing Change Within the Organization: A Chinese Study

The global corporate competitive survival behavior has changed dramatically over the past few years, the change process which has forced organization’s to engage in frequent changes large and small. The palpable truth, that changes are the additional burden on the manager’s shoulders. The assumption is that not all managers have the capability to carry the burden successfully to attain the targets. The Coffee Chain is one of the identifiable hospitality industry has high sensitivity to the external environmental changes. To survive in the competitive environment, coffee chains must have a vision to react quickly to the changing business models. To be successful in the industry, there are winning techniques proposed in the competency of people management. This study investigated the skill set of the managers to the competency in people management while implementing change in the organization. The questionnaire was constructed, tested and managed to a total of 447 individuals in the coffee chain organizations in China. Total 447 usable surveys were analyzed using Microsoft excel and Chi-Square analysis to test the study hypotheses. The result showed that managers motivating, communication, trust, empowerment and delegating skills for implementing change have a positive and significant impact on the employee's in the coffee organizations in China. This study suggests the value of interpersonal skills in successfully implementing change, specifically the abilities to motivate, communicate, and create supportive environments for teams. Managers who possess and demonstrate these skills are perceived as more effective in driving change.

FINANCIAL REWARDS CLIMATE AND ITS IMPACT ON EMPLOYEE ATTITUDES TOWARDS JOB SATISFACTION IN THE RETAIL ORGANIZATIONS

Job satisfaction is an attitudinal variable that reflects how people feel about their jobs overall. All aspects of the particular job, good or bad, Positive or negative, are likely to contribute to the development of feelings of satisfaction or dissatisfaction. The endeavor of this research was to find out whether financial rewards have an influence on the attitudes and feeling of employees. A questionnaire was constructed, analyzed and managed a total of 172 employees in the retail organization. Thus 172 usable surveys were analyzed the attitudes of employees on different aspects of their job. Findings showed that financial rewards caused positive job satisfaction of employees and boosted their commitment and increase the output of the organization. However, a high level of employee dissatisfaction was recorded in employee compensation and the amount of work they perform and the amount of responsibilities they accept. The result of this study highlights the role of job satisfaction of employees' and responsibilities of organizations in the promotion of good quality practices of HRM in retail business, and offers a substitute alleyway for employees' satisfaction and performance

Pengaruh Faktor Financial dan Non-Financial Terhadap Financial Distress (Studi pada Industri FNB yang Terdaftar di BEI Periode 2016 – 2021)

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of CEO education, CEO expertise, leverage, and operating cash flow on financial distress in the food and beverage industry listed on the IDX for the 2016 to 2021 period. This study used a quantitative method with purposive sampling as a sampling method. The samples obtained were 102 companies and the type of data used was secondary data consisting of financial reports from 2016 to 2021 and each company's CEO profile. The data analysis technique used is logistic regression analysis. Based on the results of this study, it is known that CEO education, CEO expertise,and leverage do not have a significant effect on financial distress, while operating cash flow has a significant effect in a negative direction on financial distres

Relationship of Organizational Culture and Personality Traits of Students of Public and Private Schools of Lahore

The influence of organizational culture on personality traits has paramount importance in adolescent phase. Main purpose of the study was to explore the role of culture in arousing personality traits of students. The sample of the study consisted of 288 teachers and 720 students of 10th class. Three instruments were administered on the sample for data collection. The collected data was analyzed through quantitative approaches. Main findings of the study revealed that different types of organizational culture have different impact on personality traits. The findings of the study indicated that positive relationship between culture and personality traits. Therefore, female students have higher levels of personality traits than male students. It was recommended that school culture should be improved for better results of students.&nbsp

Pathologies associated with impacted maxillary canine tooth in patients presenting at a tertiary care hospital

Background: The pathologies associated with impacted maxillary canine tooth presented as radiolucent, radiopaque and mixed radiolucent radiopaque lesions on radiographs and adenomatoid odontogenic tumor was the most common pathology associated with it followed by dentigerous cyst, odontoma and calcifying odontogenic cyst after histopathological confirmation. This study was planned to determine the frequency of pathologies associated with impacted maxillary canine tooth in patients presenting at a tertiary care hospital.Methods: This cross-sectional survey was conducted at Dental / Oral Surgery Department, Shaikh Zayed Medical College / Hospital, Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan from January to December 2017. A total of 60 patients with clinical and radiographic diagnosis of impacted maxillary canine tooth were enrolled. Orthopantomogram and/or para nasal sinus view were considered as the standard radiograph for assessment of pathologies associated with impacted maxillary canine tooth which were confirmed by histopathological examination. Demographics and radiographic findings and histopathological confirmation of pathologies were noted.Results: Out of a total of 60 patients, 38 (63.33%) pathologies associated with impacted maxillary canine presented as radiolucent lesion, 11 (18.33%) each presented as radiopaque and mixed radiolucent radiopaque lesion. Adenomatoid odontogenic tumor (30%) was the most common pathology associated with impacted maxillary canine tooth. The other pathologies associated were dentigerous cyst (26.67%), odontoma (18.33%), calcifying odontogenic cyst (11.66%), calcifying odontogenic cyst with an odonotoma (6.66%), Odontogenic keratocyst (3.33%) and Ameloblastoma (3.33%).Conclusions: The most common pathology occurring predominantly with impacted maxillary canine tooth was adenomatoid odontogenic tumor followed by dentigerous cyst, odontoma and calcifying odontogenic cyst

A new approach to seasonal energy consumption forecasting using temporal convolutional networks

There has been a significant increase in the attention paid to resource management in smart grids, and several energy forecasting models have been published in the literature. It is well known that energy forecasting plays a crucial role in several applications in smart grids, including demand-side management, optimum dispatch, and load shedding. A significant challenge in smart grid models is managing forecasts efficiently while ensuring the slightest feasible prediction error. A type of artificial neural networks such as recurrent neural networks, are frequently used to forecast time series data. However, due to certain limitations like vanishing gradients and lack of memory retention of recurrent neural networks, sequential data should be modeled using convolutional networks. The reason is that they have strong capabilities to solve complex problems better than recurrent neural networks. In this research, a temporal convolutional network is proposed to handle seasonal short-term energy forecasting. The proposed temporal convolutional network computes outputs in parallel, reducing the computation time compared to the recurrent neural networks. Further performance comparison with the traditional long short-term memory in terms of MAD and sMAPE has proved that the proposed model has outperformed the recurrent neural network

Etiologies of zygomatic bone fracture at a tertiary care hospital of South Punjab, Pakistan

Background: Fracture of the zygomatic bone is a frequent maxillofacial trauma, due to its distinction which influences it to bear the brunt of facial trauma but its pattern seems to vary geographically. This study was planned to find out etiologies of zygomatic bone fracture at a tertiary care hospital of South Punjab, Pakistan.Methods: This descriptive observational study was conducted at The Department of Oral and Dental Surgery, Shaikh zayed Medical College Hospital Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan, from July December 2017. A total of 114 patients with isolated tripod zygomatic bone fracture were enrolled. Demographic characteristics of the patients along with etiologies of zygomatic bone fracture were recorded.Results: Out of a total of 114 patients having zygomatic bone fractures, there were 85 (74.6%) male. Majority of the patients, 58 (50.9%) were aged between 21 to 30 years, 78 (68.4%) belonged to rural areas, 42 (36.8%) laborers while socio-economic class of 66 (57.9%) patients was recorded to be middle income. Road traffic accidents were the commonest, seen among 48 (42.1%) patients followed by inter-personal violence and falls, noted among 26 (22.8%) and 17 (14.9%) patients respectively.Conclusions: Zygomatic bone fractures were most commonly seen among male gender and young age groups. Road traffic accidents and inter-personal violence were the most commonly noted etiologies in the present study