32 research outputs found
Identifying Key Areas of Worklife and Their Interactive Effect in Explaining Pakistani Nurses’ Burnout
We examined the effect of incongruence in the areas of worklife (AWL) on burnout of nurses. Specifically, we were interested in identifying the most important AWL and interactions among AWL and psychological resilience in explaining nurses’ burnout. Incongruence in the worklife escalates burnout and resilience is a coping trait. The phenomenon needs to be studied in developing countries where entirely different health dilemmas exist. A cross sectional survey was conducted from 147 nurses. SEM through AMOS 21 and Process Macro of SPSS was used for data analysis. Two AWL namely control and reward, emerged out to be the most important factors in explaining burnout; community further mitigated reward-burnout relationship. Also, psychological resilience has a powerful independent explanatory role. Healthcare work environment must be equipped to minimize incongruence of the AWL. This congruence would need job redesigning to increase control of nurses over their jobs and reinforcement with all kinds of reward coupled with a supportive co-worker’s community
Inculcation of Green Behavior in Employees: A Multilevel Moderated Mediation Approach
In this era of globalization, preventing organizations from undermining and degrading
the environment has become a great challenge, especially when considering that organizations are
among the major contributors to environmental deterioration. As a result, scholars have recently
begun to focus on understanding the key determinants of employee green behavior (EGB), a nascent
field within the area of sustainable development and organizational behavior. This study extends the
emerging discussion over EGB by investigating how green behavior can be inculcated into employees’
mindsets and under what conditions this can best be accomplished. The present research examines the
relationship between ethical leadership and EGB by the mediating mechanisms of green psychological
climate, employees’ harmonious environmental passion, and employees’ environmental commitment,
through the underpinnings of social learning theory. Further, the study examines the contingency
effects of leaders’ pro-environmental attitudes to determine how leaders with ethical attributes
and pro-environmental attitudes can create a green psychological climate that ultimately leads
to EGB through employees’ harmonious environmental passion and employees’ environmental
commitment. The approach to implementing theory development is deductive as the research
employed a quantitative research design and survey administration with a time-lagged approach.
Multi-level data were collected from 400 respondents working in public and private sector hospitals
and universities in Pakistan. The analysis was conducted in MPlus. The results show positive and
statistically significant effects of ethical leadership on EGB through the serial mediations of a green
psychological climate and employees’ harmonious environmental passion, and a green psychological
climate and employees’ environmental commitment. Moreover, the leaders’ pro-environmental
attitude contingency strengthens the indirect impact of ethical leadership on EGB. This research
provides several managerial implications through which organizations can strategically concentrate
on EGB, including saving energy by turning off unused lights, reducing waste, and recycling
Corporate social responsibility and firms' financial performance: A new insight
A vast stream of literature has investigated the effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR)
on firms’ financial performance (FFP). However, this effect has remained unclear and undecided.
For instance, numerous studies have examined the direct impact of firms’ CSR initiatives on FFP,
as well as examining various mechanisms to explain this relationship, but found inconsistent
results. The indecisive results indicate that researchers lack consensus to define a mechanism
to understand how and under what conditions CSR can affect FFP. Thus, this research aims to
investigate how firms’ CSR perception and disclosure derive accounting- (return on equity: ROE,
earnings per share: EPS), market- (Tobin Q) and perception-based firms’ financial performance
through the mediation of competitive advantage and boundary conditions of family ownership and
CEO narcissism. This research underpins the theoretical lens of the resource-based view to derive
hypotheses. The research design employed in this study is quantitative, and the approach to theory
development is deductive. Multi-method and multi-source data with temporal breaks are collected
from 60 manufacturing firms listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSE). Primary data are collected
from the top and middle managers, while secondary data are collected from the annual reports
published by these firms. This research found that competitive advantage significantly mediated the
indirect impact of perceived CSR and disclosure on FFP. Further, this relationship is strengthened by
the contingencies of family ownership and CEO narcissism. Our results will assist the management
of the firms to understand the implications of CSR perceptions and disclosure to derive a competitive
advantage that ultimately translates into the firms’ financial performance. Further, this research also
revealed that managers should concentrate on the boundary conditions of family ownership and
CEO narcissism as well. In particular, this research contributes to understand why CSR is viewed to
have a strategic importance for the firms and how a resource-based perspective might be utilized in
such endeavors
An empirical examination of brand hate influence on negative consumer behaviors through NeWOM intensity. Does consumer personality matter?
Limited research has investigated the consequences of brand hate, particularly the pathways and contingent factors. This study addresses a critical gap by investigating the mediation of negative electronic word-of-mouth (NeWOM) intensity between brand hate and the two different forms of consumers’ coping behaviors: boycott (instrumental aggression) and brand sabotage (hostile aggression). It also demonstrates the moderating role of the Big Five personality traits in these pathways. An empirical survey with 391 participants recruited through Prolific reveals that brand hate directly affects NeWOM intensity, consumer boycott, and brand sabotage. These effects are more substantial for those who score high in neuroticism, extraversion, and conscientiousness. On the other hand, the effects of brand hate on NeWOM intensity and boycott are more profound when agreeableness is low. In contrast, only brand hate-to-boycott relationship strengthens when openness is low. Interestingly, NeWOM intensity mediates the relationships between brand hate and the two consumer behaviors, i.e., consumer boycott and brand sabotage. These findings enrich the literature on negative consumer-brand relationships and provide managers assistance in developing effective strategies for de-escalating consumers’ use of aggressive behaviors in response to brand hate
Self-Congruence Facets and Emotional Brand Attachment: The Role of Product Involvement and Product Type
Consumers have emotional bond with the brands that are closer to their self-concept. The
product involvement is consumers’ perception of relevance of a product with needs, goals
and consumers’ self-concept. Therefore, the study aims to reconsider the role of product
involvement in the association of self-congruence facets and emotional brand attachment.
Furthermore, the study investigates the association of self-congruence facets and
emotional brand attachment depending upon product type. The study followed a mixed
method research approach and involved a focus group study and a survey. Hypotheses
testing (through AMOS and Process Macro) indicated that ideal self-congruence yielded
substantial influence on product involvement and emotional brand attachment. Whereas,
ideal self-congruence direct effect on emotional brand attachment turned out to be
insignificant in presence of mediator. Furthermore, the effect of product involvement on
emotional brand attachment significantly depends upon product type. The conditional
indirect effect of self-congruence facets was stronger for hedonic brands as compared to
utilitarian brands. The study contributes to marketing literature by discovering product
involvement as processing mechanism between the debate of self-congruence facets and
emotional brand attachment. The study is first in nature to investigate the moderating role
of product type in the relationship and exploring conditional indirect on emotional brand
attachment
An Analysis of Pakistani Corporate Sector
Khan, K. I., Qadeer, F., Mata, M. N., Dantas, R. M., Xavier Rita, J., & Martins, J. N. (2021). Debt Market Trends and Predictors of Specialization: An Analysis of Pakistani Corporate Sector. JOURNAL OF RISK AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, 14(5), 1-16. [224]. https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm14050224Recently, debt structure research has started focusing on the strategic perspective of financing choices, particularly to understand the reasons for debt specialization (DS). This paper examines trends of specialization over time and industry by using a comprehensive dataset on types of debt employed by the public limited companies during 2009-2018. The objective of the current study is to analyze the effect of debt market conditions by identifying significant predictors of DS. Time-series and cross-sectional results confirm the existence of DS, which is further validated by the findings of the cluster analysis. The empirical results indicate that overall, 61% of the companies solely rely on a single type of debt, mostly on short-term obligations accompanied by long-term secured and other debts. Moreover, small, mature, rated, group-affiliated, and low-leverage companies incline more towards this strategy. Credit rating, debt maturity, financial and interest coverage ratios serve as the primary determinants of the debt market that are significantly associated with the measures of DS. The results contribute to the capital structure literature by specifying that financing choice has an important implication in deciding the debt structure composition of the organizations.publishersversionpublishe
Science, Technology and Innovation through Entrepreneurship Education in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
The purpose of this study is to investigate the ways of achieving Science, Technology
and Innovation (STI) in UAE. Previously, sustainability within an entrepreneurship context has
been related to economic viability as opposed to sustainability in its broadest sense. Through a
survey research method, we have highlighted the effects of three independent variables and two
intervening variables on three important outcomes, innovation, need for achievement and motivation,
which ultimately contributes towards STI. These data have been collected from the students of a
well-known university in Al-Ain, UAE. The responses of 251 students have been utilized for analysis.
For hypotheses testing, we used AMOS 18 (Structural Equation Modeling) and SPSS 20. The study
revealed that all of the predictors have a strong effect on the outcome variables, which leads to STI
in UAE. There is a strong need to revise the curriculum of higher education institutions of UAE
to develop self-confidence, locus of control and risk taking propensity among students. The study
provides novel insight into entrepreneurship education and serves as an initial benchmark in the field
Science, Technology and Innovation through Entrepreneurship Education in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
The purpose of this study is to investigate the ways of achieving Science, Technology
and Innovation (STI) in UAE. Previously, sustainability within an entrepreneurship context has
been related to economic viability as opposed to sustainability in its broadest sense. Through a
survey research method, we have highlighted the effects of three independent variables and two
intervening variables on three important outcomes, innovation, need for achievement and motivation,
which ultimately contributes towards STI. These data have been collected from the students of a
well-known university in Al-Ain, UAE. The responses of 251 students have been utilized for analysis.
For hypotheses testing, we used AMOS 18 (Structural Equation Modeling) and SPSS 20. The study
revealed that all of the predictors have a strong effect on the outcome variables, which leads to STI
in UAE. There is a strong need to revise the curriculum of higher education institutions of UAE
to develop self-confidence, locus of control and risk taking propensity among students. The study
provides novel insight into entrepreneurship education and serves as an initial benchmark in the field