This study inspected the effect of job autonomy on job satisfaction and organizational commitment with a moderating role of organizational culture in the fast food sector of Pakistan. A sample of 107 employees was considered for this study. Employees included waiters, managers, supervisors and floor incharges of top fast food restaurants operating in Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Results showed that an increase in job autonomy results in an increased level of job satisfaction and organizational commitment and organizational culture moderates this relationship.

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This study has been conducted to examine the influence of the type of psychological contract on employee engagement by taking job-stress as a mediator. For this purpose, data were collected from three hundred and seventeen managers and officers working in seventeen private-sector commercial banks in Peshawar through a highly structured questionnaire. Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 16 was used for data analysis. In the first phase, descriptive statistics were used to find out the type of psychological contract of the respondents, their engagement level and the level of occupational stress. In the second phase, correlation and simple linear regression were used to study the impact of psychological contract on employee engagement. Similarly Process Macro was used for the mediation analysis. Findings indicate that the employees formed a strong psychological contract with their employer, and were actively engaged while experiencing a moderate level of job-stress. Furthermore, it was confirmed that a strong psychological contract has a significant positive influence on employee engagement. The study, however, did not find any evidence in support of the mediating role of job-stress for the given sample.

The prominence of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to Pakistan is due to its positive macroeconomic fallouts. The factors that maneuver as impediment towards FDI are socioeconomic in nature. To deliberate such factors, this study is distinctive in context of incorporating governance infrastructure such as; political stability, quality of governance, and control of corruption for the period of 1980-2018. Autoregressive Distributed Lag was used to estimate the coefficient in varied time horizon. Findings concluded governance infrastructure to be significantly and positively affecting the flow of FDI. Thus, better handling of the same is essential so that the macroeconomic goals that are hindered due to lack of capital be fulfilled in ready course of time.

Introduction: Executive Functioning (EF) has been studied separately in both normal and Autistic children but there are no specific studies on the comparative analysis of strength and weaknesses of executive functioning among children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and normal children. Objective:  To evaluate and compare the strength and weakness of executive functioning (EF) among children with autism spectrum disorder and normal children. Materials & Methods: A comparative cross-sectional survey was conducted through purposive sampling from July 2018 to February 2019 involving parents of normal school going children and diagnosed Autistic children. Children aged 3 to 8 years old with ASD (n=96) and normally developed children (n=96) were compared on a battery of Executive Functioning (EF) tasks in both groups. Data were analyzed by SPSS version 21 for descriptive statistics; comparisons were done by Independent Samples T Test, keeping p≤0.05 as significant. Results: There was a male preponderance among the autistic children (67 versus 45 males in normal children). The most represented ages were 4-4.11 years and 7-8 years. Tests of Executive Function showed significant decline in all the abilities (p<0.05), except in Time Management (p=0.21). Conclusion: Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder show major deficits in Executive Functioning when compared to normal children.