Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adnan ul Haque Author-Name: John Aston Author-Name: Eugene Kozlovski Title: Do causes and consequences of stress affect genders differently at operational level? Comparison of the IT sectors in the UK and Pakistan Publication-Status: Published Abstract: The aim is examining the variation in causes and consequences of stress among contrasting gender in IT sector of Karachi (Pakistan) and London (UK). The potential impact of stressors on the organisational commitment of employees are examined through self-constructed 'stress model'. Through snowball and purposive sampling techniques, total 419 respondents (205 from Karachi and 214 from London) were targeted to attain quantitative perspective through on-line matrix based semi-structured survey questionnaire. Results showed that there is significant difference in causes of stress among contrasting gender. Moreover, male workers experience higher stress than females at operational level. Further, London workforce experience lower stress than Karachi workforce due to social support programme at workplace. There is significant variation in causes of stress as findings showed personal factors are leading stressors for females while organisational and environmental factors causes stress for males. Job demand, leadership, and economic uncertainty are negatively affecting male's organisational commitment while family problems and personality clashes are affecting female's organisational commitment in contrasting economies. The consequences of stress are similar for both types of employees however, males showed cognitive symptoms while females are more effectively using personal resources to over their stress and exhibit behavioural symptoms. Females have higher affective and normative commitment while males demonstrate normative commitment. Pakistan workforce demonstrated high level of stress than UK workforce. Keywords: occupational stress; causes of stress; consequences of stress; contrasting economies; social support Journal: International Journal of Applied Business and Management Studies Pages: 1-7 Volume: 1 Issue: 1 Year: 2016 Month: December DOI: 10.68099/ijabms.2016.258 File-URL: https://journal.bauderpress.org.tr/index.php/ijabms/article/view/258 File-Function: Abstract page File-Format: text/html File-URL: https://journal.bauderpress.org.tr/index.php/ijabms/article/download/258/187 File-Function: Full text File-Format: application/pdf Handle: RePEc:bau:ijabms:v:1:y:2016:i:1:id:258 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jawed Sadiqi Title: A Framework for evaluating the social housing homeownership policies: Public value perspective Publication-Status: Published Abstract: This research evaluates social housing home-ownership policies from a public value perspective. However, during late 1970s council housing sector influenced the UK Governments to reflect back on the social housing reform from traditional toward progressive management organisations. Such a transformation in central Government policy motivates the local governments to allocate other organisation such as Housing Associations to build more homes for the needy citizens and to improve accountability, efficiency, and effectiveness of council housing provisions, particularly in the local communities. Currently, government departments are continuously cutting their administration budgets by reducing numbers of employees and creating even redundancy in the local communities. This particular policy reform increases the high-risk and such reform will not proceed as planned and more importantly neglecting the public value. The aim of this research is to evaluate the social housing homeownership policies through the lens of public value that drives the decision-making process to construct a conceptual framework to enhance accountability and efficiency of tenant/customer service delivery. However, currently huge changes in the governmental legislation frameworks are familiarising on a regular basis in order to put the tenants first and deliver most suitable services. These changes will focus on different home-ownership initiatives to facilitate more opportunities for the need to improve service responsiveness, particularly in the homeownership management. Using Delphi method through a process of the qualitative case study, workshops and depth interview from the local authorities to evaluate how council housing policies formulated particularly in homeownership strategies. The current research has identified how the home-ownership policies housing is formulated and how social housing suppliers should improve customer or tenant service delivery. The main results should indicate from constructed conceptual framework from the research design and development, which must have its novelty regarding academic implications such as conceptual framework and empirical implications, must benefit local citizens for homeownership policies and practices. In summary, achieving clear vision behind housing reform and policy-making decisions to understand the drivers of these processes, which will construct a conceptual framework for decision support system of social housing homeownership policies. The novelty of this research will be unique which has its specific comprehensive consideration in regards to social housing provision of the home-ownership policy. It shows the pubic value perspective rather than indicating to a more technical aspect of home-ownership policy reform and management. Similarly, the research identifies the need for managers to become more alert of the different implications of social housing aspects and the requirement features must be combined into proper home-ownership policies framework. Also, originality of the research is that it has tried to obtain an understanding a vision into the cognitive processes like conceptual psychological process through the lens of public value. To understand the process of the decision-making that can be an asset of the top management in the local authorities. Furthermore, identify the key drivers of social housing in order to develop a conceptual framework, which will support decision-making process simpler for home-ownership policy particularly in the UK. Keywords: public value; social housing; homeownership policy; tenants; citizen; local authorities Journal: International Journal of Applied Business and Management Studies Pages: 8-27 Volume: 1 Issue: 1 Year: 2016 Month: December DOI: 10.68099/ijabms.2016.259 File-URL: https://journal.bauderpress.org.tr/index.php/ijabms/article/view/259 File-Function: Abstract page File-Format: text/html File-URL: https://journal.bauderpress.org.tr/index.php/ijabms/article/download/259/188 File-Function: Full text File-Format: application/pdf Handle: RePEc:bau:ijabms:v:1:y:2016:i:1:id:259 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ghazal Khawaja Hummayun Akhtar Author-Name: Saad Farooq Author-Name: Muhammad Usman Author-Name: Amina Amin Title: Effect of ethnic discrimination on promotion practices along with moderating role of upward influence: A study on public sector universities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Publication-Status: Published Abstract: This study examined the effect of ethnic discrimination on promotion practices along with moderating role of upward influence. Data was collected from Pushtoon managerial and non-managerial employees working in public sector universities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Using convenient sampling technique, 300 self-administered close ended questionnaires were distributed in public sector universities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Hypotheses were tested using linear regression technique. Results revealed that ethnic discrimination has significant effect on promotion practices but the upward influence has insignificant effect on promotion practices. On the other hand, the upward influence moderate between ethnic discrimination and promotion practices. Implications for research and practice have been delineated. Keywords: ethnic discrimination; promotion practices; upward influence Journal: International Journal of Applied Business and Management Studies Pages: 28-39 Volume: 1 Issue: 1 Year: 2016 Month: December DOI: 10.68099/ijabms.2016.260 File-URL: https://journal.bauderpress.org.tr/index.php/ijabms/article/view/260 File-Function: Abstract page File-Format: text/html File-URL: https://journal.bauderpress.org.tr/index.php/ijabms/article/download/260/189 File-Function: Full text File-Format: application/pdf Handle: RePEc:bau:ijabms:v:1:y:2016:i:1:id:260 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Muteb Ahmed Alamri Title: Talented employees' identification in public organization in Saudi Arabia Publication-Status: Published Abstract: This research aims at investigating talented employee identification in public organization in the context of Saudi Arabia. In order to achieve the research aim, the researcher has conducted semi- structured interview with 18 human resource managers in public organizations. Following the analysing the result, this paper demonstrates that public originations need to improve its system and policies regarding talented employee identification. Keywords: talented employees; talent; talent management Journal: International Journal of Applied Business and Management Studies Pages: 59-66 Volume: 1 Issue: 1 Year: 2016 Month: December DOI: 10.68099/ijabms.2016.261 File-URL: https://journal.bauderpress.org.tr/index.php/ijabms/article/view/261 File-Function: Abstract page File-Format: text/html File-URL: https://journal.bauderpress.org.tr/index.php/ijabms/article/download/261/190 File-Function: Full text File-Format: application/pdf Handle: RePEc:bau:ijabms:v:1:y:2016:i:1:id:261