Leadership and Performance of Academic Staff in Developing Countries

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alaa S. Jameel ◽  
Abd Rahman Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
And Performance

scholarly journals Organizational Justice and Performance Among Academic Staff

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alaa S Jameel
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Job Performance ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Organizational Justice ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Stratified Sample ◽  
And Performance

Job performance is one of the most critical topics in literature. Additionally, both managers and researchers paid more attention to this topic due to a crucial role in the success of organizations. There is a limited study conducted in developing countries. Likewise, most of the previous studies focused on organizations and limited studies conducted in the education field. This paper develops a conceptual model for organizational Justice and job performance to fill this gap. The potential participants of this study were academic staff at Iraqi public universities selected depending on stratified sample technic from 9 universities located in Baghdad. Based on the finding of previous studies, the results suggest that organizational justice dimensions are one of the most important factors that influence organizational performance.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Strategic Orientation, Service Innovation, and Performance in Hotels in Angola

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6256
Author(s):  
Gerdina Handa Serafim ◽  
José Manuel Cristóvão Veríssimo
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Customer Orientation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Group Analysis ◽  
Strategic Orientation ◽  
New Business ◽  
Competitor Orientation ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Technology Orientation ◽  
The Impact

This paper aims to investigate the impacts of customer orientation, competitor orientation, learning orientation, technology orientation, and entrepreneurial orientation on hotel innovation and performance. Data from 69 hotels in four Angolan provinces were analyzed using the partial least squares (PLS) approach and multi group analysis. The results show that learning and entrepreneurial orientations have a positive impact on hotel innovation. As anticipated, innovation has a positive impact on performance. According to the multigroup analysis, only the hotel category has a moderating effect on performance. Results suggest that hotels in developing countries could add value to both customers and shareholders by promoting new services and exploring new business opportunities. To the best of our knowledge, this is one of the few studies that has researched the impact of strategic orientation on hotel innovation and financial performance in developing countries.

scholarly journals Impact of Gender, Age and Management Style on the Success of Family Business in Kosovo

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Rifat Hoxha ◽  
Hamdi Hoti
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Family Businesses ◽  
Management Style ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
And Performance

Family business is the most contributing category in the economic development of all countries. Both Developed and Developing Countries and Less Developed Family Business plays an important role in reducing unemployment and is a catalyst for developing creative ideas and innovations in all business activities. In this paper we will address some of the characteristics of managers of this business category, such as their gender, age, and style of management, and their impact on the development and growth of these businesses' performance. The paper is part of the survey conducted by the survey of over 300 family businesses in Kosovo and was used by the author for the preparation of doctoral dissertation. This paper is fulfill from the survey which is realized with professors of Economic field in University of Prizren “Ukshin HOTI” in Prizren. From those finding results of research we give some modest recommendations and it’s more raising awareness especially business management from female gender as an opportunity to duplicate the potential for a development and performance of those business. This is based on the fact that the more thought we have, the more ideas come about how we can manage a family business with contemporary style, without a gender or age complex, which can guarantee success not only in our country , but to become competitive and penetrate the markets of the most developed countries.Keywords: Family business, Gender, Age, Management style

scholarly journals Development and Performance Evaluation of a Small-scale Maize Harvester for Developing Countries

2020 ◽  
pp. 144-156
Author(s):  
Julus H. Vodounnou ◽  
Emmanuel A. Ajav ◽  
Gontrand C. Bagan ◽  
Victorin K. Chegnimonhan
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Engine Speed ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Drive Power ◽  
Smallholder Farms ◽  
Testing Experiment ◽  
And Performance ◽  
A Chain ◽  
Chain Conveyor

A small-scale maize harvester was designed and fabricated for developing countries and is composed of a harvester header, a chain conveyor, a drive power unit and a five-wheel tricycle. Fabrication of components was made and assembling of the devices on the tricycle was done. The performance evaluation of the small-scale maize harvester was done at 15% kernels moisture content (wet basis). Three rotational speeds of the engine, 1347, 1521 and 1937 rpm were used, while the forward velocity of the harvester was kept at an average of 0.617 km.hr-1. The testing experiment revealed significant effect of physical properties of maize (p<0,05). The highest machine capacity was obtained at 0.05 ha.hr-1, while the highest driving efficiency was 97.30% and the highest picking and conveying efficiencies were 84.11% and 98.21%, respectively. However, it was observed that the machine noise level decreased with increase in engine speed. Also, the engine speed affected both picking and conveying efficiencies. The designed machine is found suitable for most smallholder farms.

ICT-Based Market Information Services (MIS) Projects, Deployment Environment, and Performance

2012 ◽  
pp. 17-30
Author(s):  
Julius Juma Okello
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Transactions Costs ◽  
Market Information ◽  
Agricultural Commodity ◽  
Service Projects ◽  
And Performance

The need to provide agricultural information to farmers has led to emergence of numerous electronic-based MIS projects in developing countries. These projects aim at promoting farmer linkage to better markets. However, experiences from past and present projects show mix cases of success and failure, despite some projects meeting their goals. This study examines how the environments in which such ICT-based MIS are deployed affect their performance. It specifically uses two ICT-based market information service projects, the DrumNet and Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange (KACE) projects, to assess how the socio-economic, physical, and institutional environments in such projects are deployed affect the performance of such projects. The study finds that a number of environmental factors related to socio-economic, physical, market, and legal environment affect the performance of ICT-based projects. Some of these factors exacerbate transactions costs thus undermining the performance and even sustainability of ICT-based MIS projects. It discusses policy implications of these findings.

University Teachers' Use of Digital Technologies

2017 ◽  
pp. 686-702
Author(s):  
Daariimaa Marav ◽  
Michelle Espinoza
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Complex Relationships

This chapter is set in the context of two developing countries, Mongolia and Chile, where digital technology is seen as a powerful icon of the knowledge economy. The predominant and common discourses surrounding the uses of digital technologies in education in these developing countries usually assume rather celebratory stances of the roles digital technologies may perform in education in the digital age. Thus, the research reported here explores the realities, opportunities, and challenges that academic staff face when using digital technologies through the perspectives offered by the field of digital literacy studies. The findings illustrate the close and complex relationships between sociocultural contexts, beliefs, values, and digital literacy practices. The study suggests that more attention needs to be paid to the wider contexts affecting the digital practices around teaching and learning rather than to technologies per se.

Understanding Behavioural Intentions to Use Green ICT at Tertiary Level Education Institutions

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabah Abdullah Al-Somali
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Public University ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Behavioural Intentions ◽  
Green Ict ◽  
Positive Outlook ◽  
Ecological Concern ◽  
Significant Factors

This article is aimed at assessing the factors that affect the use of Green ICT by individuals in tertiary level education institutions in the emergent nations. A total of 226 valid questionnaires were collected from administrative and academic staff in a public university. Results indicated that behavioural intention positively influences actual green computing behaviour. Employees with a positive outlook towards Green ICT issues are practising Green ICT at work. The results also reflected that level of self-awareness and ecological concern were significant factors (p < 0.001) influencing the attitude towards the adoption and use of Green ICT. The findings from the data obtained show that TRA provides an explanation of the factors responsible for the use and acceptance of Green ICT among emergent nations, specifically Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, the study contributes to the development of strategies and frameworks to implement Green ICT strategies at tertiary level education institutions in developing countries to ensure that Green ICT is appropriately applied and accepted.

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