Purpose This paper aims to investigate how extrinsic and intrinsic religiosity influences the mediator variables, such as consumers’ brand image and materialism in the Indonesian banking sector (e.g. conventional and Islamic). It also examines how mediators influence consumers’ preferences. Design/methodology/approach The sample consists of 575 bank consumers. The experiment method was used to test the research hypotheses through three studies. Findings The empirical results indicate that religiosity positively affects consumers' decision-making process, precisely when bank products are based on Islamic principles. Furthermore, consumers' brand image and materialism partially mediate religiosity and consumers’ preferences. Research limitations/implications This study was limited to Indonesian bank consumers. Therefore, future study is needed to analyze cross-region. Practical implications Bank managers and regulators need to enhance Islamic banks' products and services and the varying principle between conventional banks. They also need to enlighten consumers from the perspective of business and religiosity. Originality/value This study contributes to consumers’ behavior literature and the decision-making process of developing and testing a model of religious determinants of consumer preference toward bank products.

This study is a survey study and implemented in 335 employees working the parent implementation units and all units implementing the state-owned electricity company PT. Perusahaan Listrik Negara (Persero) Region of South and West Sulawesi. Result Analysis of a Moment Structures (AMOS) provides evidence that leadership, compensation, organizational culture, and emotional intelligence and significant positive effect on job satisfaction. Other test results show that leadership, compensation, organizational culture, and emotional intelligence and significant positive effect on employee performance. Testing indirect effects provide evidence that leadership, compensation, organizational culture, and emotional intelligence positive and significant effect on the performance of employees through job satisfaction as variable. An intervening recently disclosed results that job satisfaction has a direct positive influence and significant impact on employee performance. The coefficient effects (direct effect) leadership, compensation, organizational culture, and emotional intelligence on employee performance are positive. Coefficient of indirect effects (indirect effects) exogenous variables on the performance of employees through job satisfaction is positive effect. The total effect is the sum of the direct and indirect effect through job satisfaction obtained a positive value, which means that there is the effect of the direct effects and the indirect effects of exogenous variables on performance through employee satisfaction

This research investigates whether and how empowerment leadership and talent management influence the mediator variables (employees’ job satisfaction) in the organization context. It also examines how the mediators should influence employees’ job performance. 575 employees were recruited for a survey study, and Structural Equation Modeling was used to test the research hypotheses. The empirical results indicate that empowerment leadership and talent management have significant and positive effects on employees’ job satisfaction. Furthermore, employees’ job satisfaction has partial mediators between predictors variables to employees’ job performance.

Sharia engagement is an individual, physical, emotional and spiritual attachment that is influenced by belief, justice, balance, fredoom and respontibility towards the organization. The object of research is the employees of sharia banking located in Makassar City. Through cluster tehniques sampling of samples processed in the study were 185 emplyees spread across 13 sharia banking offices. Using structural equation modeling (SEM) the results of the study show that organizational commitment, compensation, and leadership directly have a significant positive effect on sharia engagement. Whereas, indirectly organizational commitment, compensation, and leadership have a positive and insignificant effect on employee performance. Then, through Syariah Engagement organizational commitment, compensation, and leadership have a significant positive effect on the performance of Islamic Banking employees in Makassar City.

Nurses and midwives is a profession which serves human beings and humanity, in the sense that the profession of nurses and midwives will give priority to the health of individuals, family and society above their own interest. The services provided by nurses and midwives is based on their knowledge and know-how in nursing which integrates the attitude, intellectual capacity and technical skills of the nurses and midwives based on their willingness and competence in helping others in health and sickness. This research is conducted on nurses and midwives in regional referral hospitals in South Sulawesi, which is comprised of seven hospitals in the municipality of Palopo, regency of Bone, regency of Bulukumba, municipality of Parepare and three other hospitals in the municipality of Makassar. The focus of this research is on the empowerment felt by nurses and midwives in relation to role ambiguity and conflict, job burnout and emotional intelligence. Sample was taken using proportional area random sampling where each unit is determined as much as 10 percent by Gay (in Umar, 2004:108). Sample size is about 200 people. The design of this research is explanatory, which tries to explain the relation among variables through confirmatory analysis and proposition testing. The result of the research shows that: (1) the empowerment has positive and significant impact on role ambiguity and conflict, due to the high expectation and lack of workers in the hospitals, (2) role ambiguity and conflict has positive and significant impact on job burnout, (3) empowerment has insignificant impact on job burnout, (4) job burnout has insignificant impact on emotional intelligence, and (5) empowerment has significant and positive impact on emotional intelligence. This research found that task and responsibility should be adapted to job description and further research should develop other variables in the hospital, improve the autonomy and independence of the nurses and midwives so as to reduce role ambiguity and conflict.