Relationship between Procrastination, Job Performance and Mindfulness in Male and Female Employees: A Mediating Model

Self-determination theory is a commonly applied framework for identifying and understanding procrastination, mindfulness and job performance. This approach has further been used to comprehend telecom employee issues. Apart from previous theoretical recommendations, there exist only a few of empirical studies on above matter. The endeavor of the current study is to investigate the mediating role of mindfulness between procrastination and job performance across male and female employees. Purposive sampling technique was applied based on cross-sectional approach. Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS; Brown & Ryan, 2003), Tuckman’s Procrastination Scale (TPS; Tuckman, 1991), and Job Performance Scale (JP-S; Wright, Kacmar, Mcmahan, &Deleeuw, 1995) have been used to a sample of 400 male and female employees  from different telecom’s employee of Rawalpindi and Islamabad in Pakistan. The correlation as well as moderation to mediation analyses have been used to investigate the study data. Findings demonstrate that procrastination is associated with lower level of mindfulness in female and male employees. Additionally, mindfulness is also linked to higher level of job performance in female employees. Moreover, mindfulness had positive influence to enhance job performance in male employees. Results reveal that procrastination is associated with higher level of job performance because higher level of the mindfulness across female and male employees. These results support the self-determination theory recommending that mindfulness could decrease procrastination and increase job performance in male and female employees. These findings also suggest that procrastination could inhibit job performance in male and female employees

Semiconformal symmetry- A new symmetry of the spacetime manifold of the general relativity

In this paper we have introduced a new symmetry property of spacetime which is named as semiconformal curvature collineation, and its relationship with other known symmetry properties has been established. This new symmetry property of the spacetime has also been studied for non-null and null electromagnetic fields

Relationship between Procrastination, Job Performance and Mindfulness in Male and Female Employees: A Mediating Model

Self-determination theory is a commonly applied framework for identifying and understanding procrastination, mindfulness and job performance. This approach has further been used to comprehend telecom employee issues. Apart from previous theoretical recommendations, there exist only a few of empirical studies on above matter. The endeavor of the current study is to investigate the mediating role of mindfulness between procrastination and job performance across male and female employees. Purposive sampling technique was applied based on cross-sectional approach. Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS; Brown & Ryan, 2003), Tuckman’s Procrastination Scale (TPS; Tuckman, 1991), and Job Performance Scale (JP-S; Wright, Kacmar, Mcmahan, &Deleeuw, 1995) have been used to a sample of 400 male and female employees  from different telecom’s employee of Rawalpindi and Islamabad in Pakistan. The correlation as well as moderation to mediation analyses have been used to investigate the study data. Findings demonstrate that procrastination is associated with lower level of mindfulness in female and male employees. Additionally, mindfulness is also linked to higher level of job performance in female employees. Moreover, mindfulness had positive influence to enhance job performance in male employees. Results reveal that procrastination is associated with higher level of job performance because higher level of the mindfulness across female and male employees. These results support the self-determination theory recommending that mindfulness could decrease procrastination and increase job performance in male and female employees. These findings also suggest that procrastination could inhibit job performance in male and female employees

Saudi’s Export Demand Function: The ARDL Approach

Saudi Arabia has been witnessing a rapid growth in exports more specifically since the inception of 21st century. The paper intends to estimate Saudi’s export demand function using bound test approach to cointegration developed by Pesaran et al (2001). The result shows that there is long run equilibrium relationship between demand for export, world income and real effective exchange rate. The elasticity of demand for Saudi’s export with respect to world income and real effective exchange rate (REER) has been found to elastic, both, in the short run as well in the long run. The export has been found to more elastic in the short run than in the long run with respect to both the variables. Key Words: Export demand, price and income elasticity, bound test. JEL Classification: F1

A Causal Relationship between FDI Inflows and Export: The Case of India

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is considered as an important means of promoting export of the host countries. By training the local work force and upgrading the technical and managerial skills, it helps in raising the efficiency and productivity of the factors and hence competitive strength in the international market. In addition to this, by facilitating access to large international market, FDI makes a significant positive contribution to the host country’s exports. However this is true if FDI comes for efficiency reason and not for domestic market. The present study examines the nature of relationship between export and FDI in India over the period 1980-2010. Using Johansen co-integration method, the paper finds a stable long run equilibrium relationship between FDI and export growth. The result of Granger causality based on vector error correction model (VECM) shows that causality runs from export to FDI inflow direction and not from FDI inflow to export direction. In the short run, however, neither export Granger cause FDI inflow nor FDI inflow Granger cause export from India. Key words: Foreign Direct Investment, Export, cointegration, causality

Revealed Comparative Advantage of Saudi’s Exports

Saudi Arabia is an oil based economy, getting about 40% of its GDP and around 90% of its export earnings from oil and gases. This paper aims at identifying the products in which country has comparative advantage using Balassa’s method of revealed comparative advantage, and to examine their long run and short run relationship with export price and world income. The paper found that Saudi Arabia has comparative advantage in exporting mineral fuels, oil, distillation products; non-mineral products like organic chemicals; fertilizers; and plastic and articles threof. The study further finds that mineral fuels, oil, distillation products and plastic and articles threof have significant relationship with world income and export price. Organic chemicals is found to be significantly related to world income but not to export price. Key Words: Export, comparative advantage, bound tes

Determinants of India’s Agricultural Export

In the past decade, India has emerged as a major agricultural exporter, with exports climbing from just over $5 billion in 2003 to a record of more than$39 billion in 2013. India became the world’s seventh-largest exporter of agricultural products in 2013, surpassing Australia. In terms of net exports, India is now the world’s sixth-largest net exporter, with net exports doubles those of the EU-28. The study found that there exist a long run cointegration relationship between agricultural exports of India and Real effective exchange rate (REER), demand for agricultural products, agricultural production and India’s per capita income. All these variables Granger cause agricultural export in the short run as well as in the long run. Keywords: Agricultural Exports, REER, World import of agricultural goods, agricultural production, per capita income. JEL: F14, Q170

Generalized Exponentiated Moment Exponential Distribution

Moment distributions have a vital role in mathematics and statistics, in particular in probability theory, in the perspective research related to ecology, reliability, biomedical field, econometrics, survey sampling and in life-testing. Hasnain (2013) developed an exponentiated moment exponential (EME) distribution and discussed some of its important properties. In the present work, we propose a generalization of EME distribution which we call it generalized EME (GEME) distribution and develop various properties of the distribution. We also present characterizations of the distribution in terms of conditional expectation as well as based on hazard function of the GEME random variable

Diagnostic value of fine needle aspiration cytology in parotid tumors

Objective: To evaluate the usefulness and accuracy of fine needle aspiration cytology in the diagnosis of parotid gland tumors.Methods: We reviewed files of all patients who underwent parotidectomy for various parotid pathologies at Aga Khan University Hospital. Study design included a comparison between results of preoperative FNAC with final histopathological diagnosis. Galen & Ganbino method was used to calculate sensitivity and specificity of FNAC.Results: Among 50 patients reviewed, there was one false positive and 3 false negative results reported on FNAC. This gives a sensitivity of FNAC for reporting malignancy to be 74% and specificity to rule out malignancy 97%. No significant complications were reported while performing the procedure.CONCLUSION: FNAC is a safe and effective modality in diagnosis and treatment planning of patients with parotid tumors