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The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of person-organization fit, quality of work-life and organizational justice on employee performance at PT Jambi Regional Development Bank in Jambi West Region using job satisfaction as a mediator. This study uses a quantitative approach with a population of 201 respondents and a sample of 134 respondents. Data collection techniques using questionnaires. The data analysis technique used in this study is The Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) statistical software AMOS 5.00 on the model and study of hypotheses. The results showed that person-organization Fit had a positive and significant effect on job satisfaction. Quality of Work Life has a positive and significant effect on job satisfaction. Organizational justice has a positive and significant effect on job satisfaction. Person-Organization Fit does not affect employee performance. Quality of Work Life does not affect employee performance. Organizational justice does not affect employee performance. Person-Organization Fit has a positive and significant effect on employee performance through job satisfaction. Quality of Work Life has a positive and significant effect on employee performance through job satisfaction. Organizational justice has a positive and significant effect on employee performance through job satisfaction. Job satisfaction has a positive and significant effect on employee performance. The findings of this study state that the variables Person-Organization Fit (P-O Fit), Quality of work-life, Organizational Justice, and job satisfaction have never been tested all simultaneously on employee performance. The second finding of this study is that job satisfaction has a strong effect on performance. In addition, research at PT Bank Pembangunan Daerah Jambi in Jambi West Region is still very rarely done.  

Using Attribution Theory, this study aims to examine several predictor variables such as independence, objectivity, professional skepticism, and the ability and experience of investigative auditors that potentially affect the effectiveness of audit procedures in revealing fraud. This research involved a total of 120 auditors consisting of auditors of the Supreme Audit Agency of the Republic of Indonesia (BPK) and auditors of the Indonesian Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP) representatives of the Special Region of Yogyakarta Indonesia as the research sample. The regression analysis revealed that the professional skepticism, the ability, and the experience of the investigative auditors had a significantly positive effect on the effectiveness of audit procedures in revealing fraud. The results serve as a material consideration for government auditing agencies, such as the BPK and BPKP to increase their effectiveness in implementing audit procedures using various means, such as through sustainable training and education programs as well as by increasing professional skepticism in conducting audits.

A high level of brand awareness and brand image enhances customers` favourable word-of-mouth referrals which in turn, strengthens their WTP a high price for a brand. Despite the increasing importance of brand awareness and brand image to customers` word-of-mouth referrals and their WTP a high price, there are limited studies on the mediated role of brand image in the influence of brand awareness on customers` word-of-mouth referrals and their WTP a high price, particularly in the herbal industry. Hence, this study aimed to investigate the mediated role of brand image in the impact of brand awareness on word-of-mouth referrals and WTP a high price in the herbal industry. Using a systematic sampling strategy, data were collected from 265 samples of customers in the Cape Coast herbal market. The research hypotheses were statistically tested via structural equation modelling with the help of smart PLS 3.3.3. The study establishes that the relationship between brand awareness, word-of-mouth and WTP a high price is partly attributed to the influence of brand image. Besides, the study found that word-of-mouth contributes partially to the influence of brand awareness and brand image on WTP a high price. The study confirmed that brand image is critical in developing brand awareness to strengthen customers` word-of-mouth referrals and their WTP a high price in the herbal industry.

This paper investigated interaction and discourse during teacher classroom practices in the Senior Phase Natural Sciences in some rural schools positioned in the Vhembe District of the Limpopo Province, South Africa. The research method employed was a qualitative interpretative multiple case study design. Two schools were selected, and one Natural Science teacher from each school participated in this study. Classroom observations and interviews were used to collect data from Senior phase Natural Sciences teachers. Natural sciences teachers were interviewed in their schools and observed during classroom practice. The findings of the study show that the type of discourse observed from Natural Sciences teachers was authoritative discourse and the pattern of discourse employed was Initiation Response Evaluation. Teacher questioning was used to develop the lesson and evaluate learner understanding. Teachers used an interactive-authoritative communicative approach during their lesson presentations. The consequences of the approaches the teachers use limit the opportunities for learners to interact amongst themselves and the subject content. It is recommended that besides focusing on subject matter knowledge during continuous development programs, there is a need to focus on interactions and discourse. Furthermore, there is a need to conduct further studies on a large scale so that a suitable intervention program can be designed for in-service teachers.

The COVID-19 pandemic that disrupted national economic activities had an impact on the MSME sector. This study examines the mediating role of company performance in supporting competitive advantage during the pandemic, which is a difficult time for MSMEs. This research collaborates entrepreneurial orientation and market orientation so that it can be predicted the factors that support MSMEs in creating competitive advantage. The sample of this research is the owners or business actors of MSMEs in the Cilacap district as many as 100 respondents and PLS-SEM is used to analyze the data. The results show that business performance acts as a full mediation for entrepreneurial orientation and competitive advantage. Market orientation has a direct effect on competitive advantage, but business performance does not mediate market orientation and competitive advantage. The results of the study also show that there are market orientation findings that act as a full mediation of the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and competitive advantage. From these results, it can be concluded that entrepreneurial orientation requires business performance and market orientation to influence competitive advantage.

An organisation's performance suffers when employees are not adequately skilled in certain job areas.  This article sought to investigate whether training and development affected the delivery of citizen-centric services in a government department in South Africa. The study adopted a mixed research methodology and a non-experimental research design. The data was collected via 20 open-ended interviews and 130 structured questionnaires. The study results indicated that shifting the government's focus to citizen-centricity would improve efficiency and service delivery. One of the significant findings suggests that training in service delivery requirements awareness could positively improve and motivate public officials' performance to remain relevant to the needs of citizens.

This study aims to re-examine the issues that involve outreaching the urgency of labor law for informal sector workers in the concept of the welfare state in Indonesia. The research method used is a normative juridical approach or a study of documents or literature that only focuses on labor laws currently in force in Indonesia. The qualitative method approach that is descriptive-analytic is used to describe the relationship of a phenomenon, idea, data, or fact that is found objectively. This study found that the rights, dignity, standard of living, and even the working environment of informal sector workers are still neglected by labor law in Indonesia today. The national labor law has not accommodated legal protection, guarantees, and social security, so there is a legal vacuum for informal sector workers. This condition contradicts the philosophy of Pancasila and the constitution, the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia. Thus, efforts to develop labor laws are expected to be carried out by the government together with the legislature to make all parties have the same position in the production process for the achievement of the company's progress. will have implications for national economic growth. On the other hand, this effort is expected to create legal harmonization in the field of employment in general and especially for informal sector workers in the welfare state in Indonesia.

This empirical study seeks to examine the impact of resonant leadership characterized by sub-variables (mindfulness, hope, and compassion) in reducing workplace bullying in the Commerce and Industry Chamber in Sulaymaniyah City - Kurdistan Region - Iraq. For conducting this study, the data was collected through primary sources using a survey questionnaire collected data from a population consisting of (50) employees of the chamber and a sample size consisting of (45) employees. The obtained data were analyzed using statistical analysis tools by SPSS V.24 . The results showed that resonant leadership has a significant negative impact on workplace bullying. This study recommends providing the appropriate organizational environment and culture in the workplace that works to reduce workplace bullying. The outcome of the research shows that the high existence of workplace bullying, meanwhile using resonant leadership reduces workplace bullying efficiently.

This paper explores the relationship between content marketing and consumer brand loyalty to the ‘New-China-Chic’ brand. It constructs a structural equation model, Through questionnaires distributed to the fan groups of various brands and offline stores, results show that the four different dimensions of content marketing strategy, namely the culture, entertainment, emotion and interaction, are the main factors affecting consumers' loyalty to the ‘New-China-Chic’ brand. Among them, emotional content and cultural content??= 0.304??= 0.209) have a strong impact on brand loyalty. Brand identity also plays a strong intermediary role in the relationship between the four different dimensions of content marketing and brand loyalty. Moreover, the data shows that consumer ethnocentrism has a significant regulatory effect on brand identity and brand loyalty in cultural content and emotional content, while interactive content and entertainment content have a weak impact.

The globe is facing challenges such as wars, poverty, injustice, environmental degradation, inequality, and climate change. These challenges have unsettled man in his habitation on the globe thereby prompting the United Nations to engage all nations to unite in addressing these global challenges. The interaction of the United Nations with the global community led to the understanding that eradicating poverty must be coupled with strategies that promote economic growth whilst addressing a myriad of social needs as well as climate change and environmental issues. Amongst the strategies to tackle the global challenges indicated above are sustainable accounting and the green economy. As members of the global community, South African listed companies also have a role to play in combating sustainability challenges. This paper contributes to the literature on sustainability, particularly on the adoption of the green economy and sustainable accounting by listed companies in the South African context as well as lessons learned in the process.

Human capital is a significant element in the attainment of sustained competitive advantage and economic survival of organizations. The study explored whether human capital mediates the nexus of human resource management practices and organizational performance. A field study was conducted among 11 internationally and 4 indigenously owned banks. The hypothesized relationships were supported by the data. The results show that the association between selective staffing with the levels of human capital was significant. The results also show that the levels of human capital influenced organizational performance significantly. The results further show that human capital mediated the nexus of HRM practices and organizational performance. The generalizability of the results obtained may be constrained since the present study focused on the banking industry. The study suggests the creation and maintenance of valuable human capital promote competitiveness and sustained competitive advantage. The study contributes to the extant literature by empirically evidencing that human capital mediated the nexus of HRM practice and organizational performance.  

Given that undergraduates, graduates and tertiary institutions of higher learning are uncertain Given that undergraduates, graduates, and tertiary institutions of higher learning are uncertain regarding the expectations of employers in the work organizations on the skill that graduates possess, the study presented in this paper attempts to provide some meaningful clues in that directions. The study followed a research question that interrogates what employability skills employers expect graduates to possess for an entry-level job. Designed as a descriptive study, a quantitative research approach was chosen, where the survey method of data collection was employed through a closed-ended structured questionnaire. The study targeted employers (managers) of public and private work organizations in the health and education sectors in a South African town Mthatha, from where a sample of 41 participants (representing organizations) was drawn. The study employed a stratified random sampling in selecting the participants, which ensured that the principle of selecting representatives of the target population was met. Data collected from the participants were analyzed by the use of selected descriptive tools. The analyzed data revealed that all employers expect graduates to possess all the 13 skill areas that employees require to function in the workplace. Surprisingly, the employers mostly expect least from the young graduates in terms of quantitative skills and leadership capabilities. While this finding corroborates what exists in the literature, it provides a new dimension with regard to priority skills needed by employers in the South African labor market. The study, therefore, recommends that the work organizations and higher institutions of learning should form a partnership and a close relationship so that they can assist one another in building the employability skills of graduates.

The study examined corporate governance and corporate sustainability impact on the performance of South African listed companies. Data retrieved from 30 companies for the period 2010-2020 was analysed using panel fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) and dynamic ordinary least square (DOLS) methods. Dependent variables were grouped into the Accounting-based approach and the Market-based approach. Explanatory variables were also grouped into Corporate Governance and Accounting ratios. Findings revealed a strong relationship between corporate governance and company performance. This was substantiated by the result from Board gender diversity, which revealed both positive and negative relationships that were significant under both approaches. Directors’ remuneration revealed a positive but insignificant relationship under both approaches, while Board size revealed a negative relationship under both approaches. Further findings also revealed a strong relationship between corporate sustainability performance and company performance. This was established by the results from the ESG and ROA and ROE, which revealed negative but significant relationships under the first approach and became positive and significant under the second approach. Lastly, a strong relationship between corporate governance and corporate sustainability performance was revealed as shown between ESP and directors’ remuneration and a negative but significant relationship with board size and gender diversity. A cross-country based investigation to ascertain whether the same results can be achieved should be carried out.

From the mid-1980s, Morocco confirmed its choice to liberalize trade so that international trade could become a lever for development. However, despite these ambitions, the persistence of the trade deficit has led us to reflect on the challenges of exports and the factors that can trigger the emergence of new competition. At this level, logistics has become one of the key factors to circumvent the obstacles that affect the supply of Moroccan exports. This paper aims to study and assess the impact of the determinants of logistics performance on export performance in the Moroccan context. It follows that the general concepts will be defined, and a review of the literature on the importance of the determinants of logistics performance in exporting companies will be presented, as well as the theoretical and practical research work that has studied the impact of determinants of logistics performance on export performance. The data were collected from the logistics directors and managers of 90 Moroccan exporting companies and later were analyzed by using the structural equation modelling technique to test the hypotheses and validate the research model. The results of our empirical study showed that the three determinants of logistics performance (collaboration, information sharing and logistics strategy) positively affect the export performance of Moroccan firms, also, we have distinguished that the three determinants play a very important role in improving the company's activities and strengthening the relationship between suppliers and customers, and finally, we found that all hypotheses of our study are validated. Our study has shown that there are certain determinants of logistics performance (collaboration, information sharing and logistics strategy) that contribute to the improvement of export performance in companies. In addition, we will verify our conceptual model in other countries which would allow us to identify universal trends and we have distinguished that there are other determinants and other important variables that will be integrated in our future research model.

The goal of human resource management research is to establish the impact of LMX on employee performance in health education institutions through job satisfaction and innovation moderated by knowledge exchange. It is critical for an organization's success to be able to apply LMX theory to work satisfaction, innovation, and knowledge exchange. Knowledge Sharing was used as a moderating variable in this study. Employees' inventive behavior is encouraged by the act of exchanging knowledge and collectively developing new knowledge, which involves synergistic teamwork between individuals. Quantitative research was used in this study. Questionnaires were distributed as part of the data collection process. The author enlisted the help of three Palangka Raya-based health education institutions as correspondents. On 75 respondents, data was collected using simple random sampling, and data was analyzed using descriptive statistical analysis and inferential statistical analysis. The findings revealed a link between LMX, innovation, and the moderating of knowledge sharing on performance. As a result of the findings, it is critical to use LMX and innovation in order to boost employee performance.

School curriculum in post-colonial societies has been castigated, not only as alien and irrelevant, but as dehumanizing and marginalizing to the indigenous people. This study gleans insights into how Ubuntu (humanness) – a strand of indigenous African knowledge - is being implemented in Zimbabwe’s New Curriculum Framework 2015-2022. This qualitative desktop study, couched within the Southern Theory framework, teases the enactment of Ubuntu (or lack of it) in classroom practice. Critical discourse analysis was adopted as the research design in reviewing 15 studies published between 2016 and 2021 on the implementation of Ubuntu in Zimbabwean primary and secondary schools. Findings indicate that, while Ubuntu is espoused as the overarching reform philosophy, not much has been done to nurture classroom practice that promotes collective participation, communitarianism, humility, and love for humanity – the key principles of Ubuntu. This critical discourse shows that most teachers, because of their training, limited knowledge, urbanization and westernization, are not keen to practice Ubuntu in their classrooms. Paltry salaries and poor working conditions also demotivate most teachers from embracing curriculum change and experimenting with new ideas.

The aim of the current study is to investigate the role of job satisfaction as a mediating variable from the influence of workload, work stress and organizational climate on turnover intention. This study utilizes a questionnaire as a data collection instrument, a total of 116 questionnaires were obtained from employees of Bank BTN Syariah Malang (BTN Islamic Banking of Malang). Structural equation model (SEM) based on partial least squares (PLS) was employed as a method to analyze the data. The present study found a significant effect between workload and work stress on job satisfaction and turnover intention. However, organizational climate does not support the proposed hypothesis that organizational climate does not show a vital role in predicting job satisfaction and turnover intention. Furthermore, job satisfaction convincingly affects employees’ intention to leave. Finally, job satisfaction is proven to be a mediator of the influence of workload and work stress on turnover intention. However, unexpectedly, job satisfaction did not mediate the relationship between organizational climate and turnover intention.

This study aims to examine the factors that affect customers repurchase intention in the e-commerce marketplace during the COVID-19 pandemic on Java Island in Indonesia, using the extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) theory and UI/UX Concept. Perceived ease of use, shopping experience, e-trust, and age are variables that are predicted to affect e-commerce marketplace repurchase intention behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic. The data were collected through an online survey from e-commerce marketplace customers in Java who have had at least two experiences of purchasing goods or services through e-commerce in Java. In total, 250 valid responses were analyzed to test hypotheses using structural equation modeling and multi-group analysis.  The results show that perceived ease of use, shopping experience, and e-trust are found to significantly affect the repurchase intention in e-commerce marketplace. The study also show that e-trust has a role in mediating the relationship between both perceived ease of use towards repurchase intention and shopping experience towards repurchase intention. However, the multi-group analysis did not find any significant differences between shopping experience and repurchase intention across age groups. Finally, this paper ended with some discussions, implications, limitations, and conclusions.

The development of information technology has changed the business model of firms in the industry that are in contact with technology. One of them is in the music industry, which currently has penetrated the online platform with a series of accompanying issues. This study uses a conceptual approach to Technology Acceptance Model to understand this relationship. Although in fact similar research has been carried out by a number of researchers, this topic remains an interesting object to study considering that technology acceptance cannot be separated from the environment in which consumers are located. This research was conducted with a quantitative approach to test the research hypotheses using data obtained from questionnaires distributed to 102 respondents spread across the Yogyakarta area. This study found that perceived usefulness and perceived price do not have a significant influence on perceived value. On the other hand, perceived playfulness and perceived ease of use have a significant influence on perceived value. This finding emphasizes that the online music business is more in touch with entertainment products. With respondents who are dominated by young people in a developing country, it is shown that pleasure is a highly prioritized part of overcoming other considerations, especially price and usability. Another finding is that the greater the perceived value of online music, the higher the intention in purchasing the product would be. This study adds to the literature and information about how consumers respond in different regions (Yogyakarta, Indonesia) as one the developing countries on the factors that affect the perceived value and purchase intention, thus it can be used to test the generality of the results of previous studies.

Company performance is one measure for companies in order to create surplus value by producing a product or service to gain business profits. One of the factors that affect the performance of the company is the performance factor of its employees. Employee performance can be influenced by servant leadership style. Servant leadership prioritizes followers and prioritizes service to subordinates in a work relationship so that it will have an impact on the emergence of job involvement and employee loyalty to the company which will then affect the enhancement and improvement of employee performance. This study was conducted to determine the role of the job investment variable and employee loyalty variable as mediating variables in the effect of servant leadership on employee performance. This research was conducted using a saturated sample involving 182 employees who were respondents from a plastic manufacturing company packaging for Bottled Drinking Water (AMDK). The results of data processing with the SmartPLS 3.3.3 application resulted in the conclusion that servant leadership has a positive and significant effect on job involvement. Servant leadership has a positive but not significant effect on employee loyalty. Job involvement has a positive and significant effect on employee performance. Employee loyalty has a positive and significant effect on employee performance. Job involvement has a positive and significant effect on employee loyalty. Servant leadership has a positive and significant effect on employee performance through job involvement. Servant leadership has a positive but not significant effect on employee performance through employee loyalty. Servant leadership has a positive and significant effect on employee performance through job involvement and employee loyalty.