Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nasreen Zehra Author-Name: Riffat Faizan Title: The Impact ofOccupational Stress on Employees at Project BasedOrganizations (PBOs) in Pakistan Publication-Status: Published Abstract: This paper discusses the stress management impacts on the employee performances at workplace. Additionally, research evaluates the stress control's role in increasing employee motivation and overall satisfaction in project based organizations. Survey questionnaire and open-ended interviews are primary instruments used in this study. Total 112 employees participated in survey questionnaire while total 26 managers were interviewed. Findings revealed that unrealistic demands generate stress at workplace. Interestingly, we found traditional assumption of pay scale creating stress is opposed as 57% respondents have content with the pay scale thus pay scale is not the fundamental factor for generating stress. Furthermore, stress exists and operates in both micro and macro environment having equally significant impact on individuals. Their respective performance hinder due to decline in the working efficiency and quality work. Interestingly, we found that work-life balance is not effective in stress reduction but act as additional stressor for employees under chronic stress. Keywords: Occupational stress; pay scale; personal stressors; work-life balance Journal: International Journal of Applied Business and Management Studies Pages: 1-9 Volume: 2 Issue: 1 Year: 2017 Month: June DOI: 10.68099/ijabms.2017.251 File-URL: https://journal.bauderpress.org.tr/index.php/ijabms/article/view/251 File-Function: Abstract page File-Format: text/html File-URL: https://journal.bauderpress.org.tr/index.php/ijabms/article/download/251/180 File-Function: Full text File-Format: application/pdf Handle: RePEc:bau:ijabms:v:2:y:2017:i:1:id:251 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Akhtar Baloch Author-Name: Abuzar Wajidi Title: Job satisfaction and organizational commitment under Traditional and Modern T&D program: Evidence from Public Banking Sector of Pakistan Publication-Status: Published Abstract: This article investigates the impact of traditional and modern training programs on the overall performance and commitment to employees in public banking sector of Pakistan. Additionally, the study examines the relationship between antecedents of organizational commitment and job satisfaction. Bank of Khyber, First Women Bank, National Bank of Pakistan, Sindh Bank, and The Bank of Punjab are currently operating public banks in Pakistan. Thus, all five considered in this study using strata sampling technique. Total 26 Branch Managers participated in interviews whereas 292 completed survey questionnaire. Results showed modern T&D methods preferred by contractual employees whereas permanent employees prefer traditional methods of training and development. Moreover, T&D significantly affect the continuance commitment (CC) of female employees whereas salary increment enhances males' normative commitment (NC) and affective commitment (AC). Additionally, both modern and traditional T&D methods improve job satisfaction. AC and NC are relatively higher in public bank employees in comparison to CC, resulting from training and development program. Keywords: Training and Development; job satisfaction; organizational commitment; public banking sector Journal: International Journal of Applied Business and Management Studies Pages: 10-16 Volume: 2 Issue: 1 Year: 2017 Month: June DOI: 10.68099/ijabms.2017.252 File-URL: https://journal.bauderpress.org.tr/index.php/ijabms/article/view/252 File-Function: Abstract page File-Format: text/html File-URL: https://journal.bauderpress.org.tr/index.php/ijabms/article/download/252/181 File-Function: Full text File-Format: application/pdf Handle: RePEc:bau:ijabms:v:2:y:2017:i:1:id:252 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marouan Sghair Author-Name: John Aston Title: The Impact of Various Economic Factors in accessing Finance within the Business Sector: Cases from UK Financial Services Companies Publication-Status: Published Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of various econmic factors such as inflation, interest rate, financial crises, and government regulations on the access to finance in the business sector specifically considering the financial experts' persepctive operating in the UK financial services companies. The study examines the relationship between variables of interest in post recession period. Total five out of top fifty British Financial Services' Companies were selected through convenience sampling. Addtionally, 38 respondents were selected through purposive sampling, based on their knowledge, level of management, and experiences in the sector. The findings showed that interest rate, government regulations, and financial crises have signigicant relationship in accessing financial resource. Interestingly, 83% remain neutral about the relationship between inflation and raising funds. Keywords: Inflation; interest rate; government regulation; financial crises; economic factors Journal: International Journal of Applied Business and Management Studies Pages: 16-25 Volume: 2 Issue: 1 Year: 2017 Month: June DOI: 10.68099/ijabms.2017.253 File-URL: https://journal.bauderpress.org.tr/index.php/ijabms/article/view/253 File-Function: Abstract page File-Format: text/html File-URL: https://journal.bauderpress.org.tr/index.php/ijabms/article/download/253/182 File-Function: Full text File-Format: application/pdf Handle: RePEc:bau:ijabms:v:2:y:2017:i:1:id:253 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sree Lekshmi Sreekumaran Nair Author-Name: John Aston Author-Name: Eugene Kozlovski Title: How 'organizational factors' outclass 'personal factors' in retaining Female Employees in Indian IT SMES Publication-Status: Published Abstract: The article examines organizational and personal factors in relation to the retention of the female workers in the IT SMEs. The organizations operating in the business cities of India were targeted using convenience sampling technique. In addition to that, purposive sampling was used for reaching only female participants. Total 250 females out of 380 completed survey from 30 different software SMEs. The findings of this cross-sectional study reflects that the effectiveness of organizational factors such as work-life balance practices and policies, supervisory support, and technological assistance enable female workers to exhibit higher performance under stress. Interestingly, the myth of personal factor such as personality, well-being, and emotional intelligence previously found to be effective, in actual does not improve retention rate of female workers at operational level. In addition to that, detailed analysis revealed that supervisory support is most closely interlinked with retention, followed by policies and procedures of Work Life Balance, and lastly technological assistance. Moreover, societal norms have significant role to certain extent in the creating retention related perception of female workers. Keywords: personal factors; organizational factors; retention strategies; female workforce; Work-life balance Journal: International Journal of Applied Business and Management Studies Pages: 26-36 Volume: 2 Issue: 1 Year: 2017 Month: June DOI: 10.68099/ijabms.2017.254 File-URL: https://journal.bauderpress.org.tr/index.php/ijabms/article/view/254 File-Function: Abstract page File-Format: text/html File-URL: https://journal.bauderpress.org.tr/index.php/ijabms/article/download/254/183 File-Function: Full text File-Format: application/pdf Handle: RePEc:bau:ijabms:v:2:y:2017:i:1:id:254 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mairum Zahid Author-Name: Taha Shaikh Author-Name: Syeda Zufiesha Zehra Title: Impact of Organizational Culture on the Pakistani Hotels Workforce's Job Satisfaction: Qualitative Report Publication-Status: Published Abstract: The influence of organizational culture on the level of job satisfaction depends on the ability to cope up with the stress and working environment. This investigation tackle the purpose of Denison's prototypical for searching the organizational culture and Spector JGS assessment to inspect workforce job gratification in the course of 5 points Likert Scale. The investigation studied 220 hotel employees from middle range 3 star hotels in Pakistan. For interpretation, researchers chiefly used MS Excel for classifying, coding, and fractionizing raw facts into processed meaningful themes. Current investigation demonstrates that employee's job satisfaction chiefly dependent on organizational culture. The study undertakes in the direction of achieving organizational goals by initiating fortify strategies towards building the strength to obtain the objective. Moreover if organizations built a strong environment of learning as a part of their culture than it boosts the commitment level of employees. Further, it also helps employees to unfolding their career achievements. On the other hand, it is observed that females are occupied with higher level of job satisfaction while males have lower. Although, high level of job satisfaction exists but its more evident by this research that premiums, bonuses, and other types of incentives aid employees to lead from low level of job satisfaction to reach on their higher apex level of job satisfaction. Keywords: Organizational culture; financial rewards; job satisfaction; hotel workforce; gender perspective Journal: International Journal of Applied Business and Management Studies Pages: 37-46 Volume: 2 Issue: 1 Year: 2017 Month: June DOI: 10.68099/ijabms.2017.255 File-URL: https://journal.bauderpress.org.tr/index.php/ijabms/article/view/255 File-Function: Abstract page File-Format: text/html File-URL: https://journal.bauderpress.org.tr/index.php/ijabms/article/download/255/184 File-Function: Full text File-Format: application/pdf Handle: RePEc:bau:ijabms:v:2:y:2017:i:1:id:255 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rao Shahzaib Khan Author-Name: Bismah Rao Author-Name: Khurram Usman Author-Name: Safia Afzal Title: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction between Transformational Leadership and Organizational Commitment within the SMEs of Karachi Publication-Status: Published Abstract: The mediating role of job satisfaction between transformational leadership style and the organizational commitment within the SMEs in Karachi is the aim of this study. The correlation between variables is explored through quantitative methods. Total 190 respondents participated from 49 SMEs in Karachi. The results showed that job satisfaction has significant mediating role between variables of interest. This study confirmed that there is a positive strong correlation between transformational leadership and organizational commitment. Employees having high job satisfaction showed higher organizational commitment. Females scored more in comparison to males in terms of overall organizational commitment. However, males have high affective and normative while females have high continuance commitment. Keywords: organizational commitment; transformational leadership; job satisfaction; SMEs Journal: International Journal of Applied Business and Management Studies Pages: 46-55 Volume: 2 Issue: 1 Year: 2017 Month: June DOI: 10.68099/ijabms.2017.256 File-URL: https://journal.bauderpress.org.tr/index.php/ijabms/article/view/256 File-Function: Abstract page File-Format: text/html File-URL: https://journal.bauderpress.org.tr/index.php/ijabms/article/download/256/185 File-Function: Full text File-Format: application/pdf Handle: RePEc:bau:ijabms:v:2:y:2017:i:1:id:256 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: İsmail Erkan Author-Name: Abdulaziz Elwalda Author-Name: Mushfiqur Rahman Author-Name: Serap Sap Author-Name: Seden Doğan Title: Mobile word of mouth (MWOM) in messaging applications: An integrative framework of the impact of MWOM communication Publication-Status: Published Abstract: Electronic word of mouth simply refers to brand-related conversations between consumers, and it has been considered as one of the most helpful information sources. The advent of mobile messaging applications (e.g. WhatsApp, Viber, Line) has freely and easily allowed customers to do brand-related conversations usingtheir smartphones, which is called mobile word of mouth (MWOM). The aim of this research is to develop an integrative framework of the impact of MWOM communication among consumers. To do this, we applied five well-establiesdrobust marketing and information systems theories: Theory of Reasoned Action, Theory of Planned Behaviour, Technology Acceptance Model, Information Adoption Model, and Information Acceptance Model. The framework developed in this study provides an important foundation for future MWOM research work. Keywords: mobile word of mouth; MWOM; eWOM; messaging applications; mobile purchase intention; mobile purchase; viber; whatsapp Journal: International Journal of Applied Business and Management Studies Pages: 55-67 Volume: 2 Issue: 1 Year: 2017 Month: June DOI: 10.68099/ijabms.2017.257 File-URL: https://journal.bauderpress.org.tr/index.php/ijabms/article/view/257 File-Function: Abstract page File-Format: text/html File-URL: https://journal.bauderpress.org.tr/index.php/ijabms/article/download/257/186 File-Function: Full text File-Format: application/pdf Handle: RePEc:bau:ijabms:v:2:y:2017:i:1:id:257