The objective of the study was to measure the effects of Big Five personality traits on employee’s job performance among the teaching staff in the higher educational institutes/universities in the city of Peshawar. The study employed quantitative methodology, and survey based method for data collection. Through sampling approach, data was collected from selected universities including Qurtba, Cecos, Sarhad and Iqra national university of Peshawar. Our results indicate that among the Big Five personality dimensions, openness to experience, conscientiousness, and agreeableness has positive and significant effects on employee job performance. The result for extraversion is positive but insignificant and for emotional stability, result is negative and insignificant. The Big Five personality traits explain 81% change in the employee job performance. Our result implies that candidate’s personality traits should be assessed during the recruitment and selection process of university teaching staff

Entrepreneurship is very important for the community because with entrepreneurship people are no longer dependent on jobs, and create job opportunities for others. Entrepreneurial activities in the community have a very important role to help overcome the problem of unemployment and increase people's income. The cause of the large number of unemployed because most people do not have an entrepreneurial spirit. The social environment has an important role in shaping the desire for entrepreneurship. The purpose of this correlational study is to determine the relationship between social support and entrepreneurial intentions. Respondents in this study were taken from the group of teenagers aged 15-20 years. The sampling technique in this study used a purposive sampling technique based on characteristics focused on groups of teenagers who had not worked and were not married. In addition, they also have no entrepreneurial experience. There are 46 teenagers who are respondents in this study. All of them came from Padusan Village, Pacet District, Mojokerto Regency. The data analysis technique used to fulfil the study objectives is product moment correlation analysis assisted by the SPSS 26 program. The research findings state that social support has a positive and significant relationship with entrepreneurial intentions. The higher the level of social support received by adolescents, the higher the level of entrepreneurial intentions possessed by adolescents

The ICT sector in Oman has a lot of potentials to grow and contribute to the employment creation and diversification of the economy of the country. The sector also faces global international competition and requires to give greater attention to the creative potential of its staff to compete. In the present study, we investigated how ethical leadership can influence employee innovative work behavior with the mediating role of perceived meaningful work. By using the survey method as a primary method of data collection, we generated a useable sample of 121 participants belonged to the ten selected ICT firms. We utilized the SmartPLS version 3 for data analysis. The analysis included an assessment of the measurement model for testing the reliability, convergent validity, and discriminant validity of the constructs for which we found satisfactory results. The second stage of analysis included an assessment of the structural model for hypothesis testing. We found that ethical leadership has positive and significanteffects on employee innovative work behavior (?=1.77, P<.05); and perceived meaningful work (?=.815, P<.05). We did not find significant effects of perceived meaningful work on employee innovative work behavior (?=-.077, P>.05). The analysis of indirect effects for testing the mediation hypothesis shows that perceived meaningful work does not work as a mediator between the relationship of ethical leadership and employee innovative work behavior (?=-.634, P>.05). Our findings imply that ICT firms should develop ethical leadership behavior among the supervisory staff, line managers, and team leaders to facilitate favorable employee outcomes in this particular context. Keywords:Ethical Leadership, Innovative Work Behavior, Creativity, Meaningful Work, ICT, Oman

Purpose This study aims to focus on delineating the drivers of intention to adopt mobile banking (m-banking) and its actual use among Islamic banking customers by extending the UTAUT2 model with the trust factor. The study also examined the moderating roles of age, gender and experience in the model. Design/methodology/approach An explanatory research design was used, and an online survey was conducted to collect responses from Islamic banking customers. A total of 329 completed responses were used to analyze the data. The partial least squares method was used for data analysis, and a multi-group analysis was applied for moderation-related analysis. Findings Trust positively and significantly influences the behavioral intention to adopt m-banking among Islamic banking customers. In addition, social influence, effort expectancy, hedonic motivation and habits significantly influence behavioral intentions among Islamic banking customers. Originality/value This study provides an extended UTAUT2 model that has never been tested in the context of Islamic m-banking. In addition, this study is expected to be the first scholarly research on Islamic banking in the Maldives.

Relational coordination is an emerging HR-related concept based on the network of ties between task participants and is expected to produce favorable efficiency and quality outcome. The relational coordination-employee outcome is new research dimension in the relational coordination field. The objective of the study was to test if relational coordination leads to employee related outcomes. In terms of research methodology, we followed the positivism paradigm, used deductive approach, and quantitative method of data collection and analysis. Furthermore, we used the survey based on previously developed measures for data collection. Through stratified random sampling, data is collected from doctors, nurses, and support staff from five public and five private sector hospitals. The usable questionnaires were 978. Our findings show that relational coordination among staff positively influence the employee creative involvement (employee outcome). The findings have implications for the management of healthcare and a number of recommendations are made.