scholarly journals The impact of governance on strengthening organizational immunity in greater Madaba municipality: A Case Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 1881-1892
Author(s):  
Ziad Ali Alshawabkeh

This study aims to investigate the effect of governance in strengthening the organizational immunity in the Greater Madaba municipality. The study includes two variables, an independent variable, governance and four dimensions including organizational justice, accountability, sustainability, and transparency, and the dependent variable is organizational immunity. The researcher designed a questionnaire consisting of (30) items that included the independent variables, organizational justice, accountability, sustainability, and transparency, and the dependent variable, organizational immunity, and it was distributed to employees of the Greater Madaba municipality, where the researcher used the random sample method, as the size of the study population reached (210) employees. The study used a sample size of 136. The study found a set of results, including the level of both organizational immunity and governance in Greater Madaba municipality, was high, according to the viewpoint of the sample members, and the existence of a statistically significant impact at the level of significance (α ≤ 5%) of governance with its combined dimensions, organizational justice, accountability, sustainability, and transparency, on the organizational immunity in the Greater Madaba municipality. Likewise, the absence of a statistically significant impact at the level of significance (α ≤ 5%) for sustainability was one of the governance dimensions in organizational immunity in Greater Madaba, and there was no effect of transparency on regulatory immunity. The study recommends that the Municipality of Madaba focus on providing programs to develop employees and involve them in training courses in institutes, specialized centers, and universities and pay attention to sustainability and transparency.

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Tariq Ali Abdullah Amr ◽  
Mohammed Abdurasheed Ali Zomailan

The study aimed to identify the impact level of administrative empowerment on employees' creativity at Kamaran Factory. The analytical descriptive method was used and the study population consisted of all the employees (400) who work in the factory. 133 employees were selected for the study using the random stratified method. The questionnaire was used to collect data from the study sample and the SPSS V20 package was used for the statistical analysis. Major study findings revealed that there were varying degrees of the level of practicing administrative empowerment and the employees' creativity in favor of the dependent variable (employees' creativity). There was also a statistically direct effect of the independent variable (administrative empowerment) on the employees' creativity at Kamaran factory.  Further, (44%) of the variables that occur in the employees' creativity were attributed to the variables which occur in the administrative empowerment, and the remaining (56%) were attributed to other factors which are beyond the scope of this study. Keywords: administrative creativity, training, entrusting of powers, administrative empowerment.


2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Naser Fhad Naser Alajmi ◽  
Ayyoub Alsawalhah

This study aimed to identify the impact of situational leadership on the strategic capabilities of the Kuwait National Petroleum Company, and the case study approach was followed to achieve the objectives of the study. The study population consists of employees in the Kuwait National Petroleum Company, and a convenience sample of 100 employees has been drawn to distribute the study questionnaire to them. It was found that there is an impact of situational leadership in its dimensions (leadership skills, leadership styles, participation in decision-making, and situational planning) on the strategic capabilities of the Kuwait National Petroleum Company. The study recommends the need to work on establishing an organizational environment that stimulates and supports the strategic capabilities of the company, by paying attention to the factors of situational leadership within the company, and educating the company’s employees about the goals and importance of situational leadership and the consequences thereof through training courses and holding conferences and workshops in order to enhance strategic capabilities.


Author(s):  
Bashar Walid Hussain, Farid Mohammad Qawasmeh

This study aims to identify the impact of managerial communications on organizational change management in Jordan Customs Department. To achieve the study objective which uses analytical and descriptive type of a case study, a questionnaire was developed by the researcher consisting of (52) items, and distributed among seven dimensions. The study population consisted of all employees in Jordan Customs Department totaling around (3466) male and female employees, while the study sample was (215) elements representing (6.2%) of the population. The researcher then collected the data and used SPSS for analysis. The most important result of the study is as follows: • There is a positive and significant statistical impact at the level of significance (α≤0.05) of managerial communications dimensions (comm. directions, comm. Tools, comm. skills, and comm. obstacles) on organizational change management dimensions (individual, group, and systems perspectives). • The level of managerial communications dimensions is high (4.04) on 5-Likert scale. • The level organizational change management dimensions is high (4.04) on 5-Likert scale While the study came up with the following key recommendation: • To support and widespread the culture of change among all employees of Jordan Customs Department, and to convince them about the importance of change and attract their initiatives and participation.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 308
Author(s):  
Ola Mohammad Khersiat

This study investigates the impact of applying IFRS 15 standard on the profitability of Jordanian telecommunications companies (case study: Jordan Orange Telecom). The study addresses three independent variables, namely, contract revenue, customer contract assets and customer contract liabilities and their impact on the ROA, ROE and PM in Orange Jordan. The researcher has investigated the relationship and impact of the independent variables on dependent variables by analysing financial statements after applying IFRS15 for 2017, 2018, 2019. The study concludes that there is a relationship and impact between contract revenue and ROA and ROE, where the correlation coefficient amounted to (99.8, 99.0) respectively, with a level of significance (0.02, 0.04). The coefficient of determination (R2) amounted to (99.6%), indicating that contract revenue interprets (99.6%) of the return on assets in Orange Telecom. Also, the coefficient of determination (R2) amounted to (99.9%), indicating that contract revenues interpret (99.9%) of the ROE in Orange Telecom. The correlation coefficient between contract revenue and PM amounted to (99.2) with a level of significance (0.08), where a correlation relationship is noticed but with a level of significance exceeding (0.05). As for customer contract assets and customer contract liabilities, no relationship or impact is found betweem these and ROA, ROE and PM in Jordan Orange Telecom.Accordingly, the study recommends that companies in Jordan should abide by IFRS15 in order to increase corporate profitability.


2020 ◽  
Vol 76 ◽  
pp. 01004
Author(s):  
Dewi Astuti

This study investigates whether the ownership of a retirement program is owned only by those who have a purpose in life in old age or also owned by those who focus on working well now and do not have a purpose in life in old age. The study population is employees, and entrepreneurs who have worked, with sample criteria have a steady income with a specific educational background. The number of samples is 52 respondents. The result revealed that having the purpose of life in old age, and focusing on the purpose of life at the moment encourage someone to have a pension program. The results of the study stated that the effect of the independent variables on the dependent variable appeared weak. The independent variable "has the purpose of old age life" and the independent variable "focus on life goals current" can explain 0.69 % of the dependent variable "has retirement fund program.


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 743
Author(s):  
Kiki Novitasari ◽  
Suherman Rosyidi

The aim of this study was to know the impact of macroeconomic indicators changes toward the total amount of collected zakah in BAZNAS during the period 2012-2016. This study uses qualitative approach by using liniear regression analysis technique. Futhermore dependent variable used in this study is the amount of zakah, while the independent variable are inflation, gold price, money supply and industrial production index. The determination of sampling uses non probability sampling with saturated sample method, on the other hand, the whole population was used as the sample of this study. Moreover, the data used in this study is secondary data.


Author(s):  
Hoda Atemah Al-Masry

This study aimed to investigate the difficulties of teaching scientific concepts among students of the basic stage from the point of view of science teachers in Irbid governorate through applying to a sample of (56) teachers. And. A study tool has been developed consisting of (24) paragraphs, each of which represents one of the difficulties of learning the concept. The tool has been verified and verified. The study reached the following results: The difficulties of learning scientific concepts were moderate, and there were no statistically significant differences at the level of significance ( = 0.05) in the difficulties of learning scientific concepts from the point of view of science teachers attributed to the impact of sex and educational qualification. The researcher recommended a number of recommendations, the most important of which were: Reviewing the content of science books so that the number of scientific concepts contained in the curriculum content is reduced in order not to overwork the student by memorizing a large number of scientific concepts, and holding training courses for science teachers in order to train them on how to choose methods Appropriate teaching to teach scientific concepts.


Author(s):  
Didit Purnomo

This research analyzes (a) patterns of labor migration from Wonogiri Regency, (b) the impact of migration on the welfare level by taking into account the income level of migrant Wonogiri Regency, and (c) the role of migrants seen from homelands conditions. The results of binary logistic analysis showed that the variables age, education, and marital status, have a significant effect on intention nomads to settle in the overseas area. Based on survey findings in the field, 88.8 percent of Wonogiri nomads do not want to settle in the overseas regions. The economic analysis through linear regression analysis to explain the role of the nomads and the impact on the regional origin that shows only one independent variable that is used has a significant influence on the local nomads income overseas, namely: level of education, while the other independent variables are family dependents, ownership of property in the area of origin, length of stay in overseas, and marital status had no significant effect.


Author(s):  
Edy Effendi ◽  
Muhammad Imron

Research on the role of the APIP review of the Ministry/agency Work Plan and Budget document to determine the impact on the efficiency of ministry/agency spending (case study at the Ministry of Religion). The method used in this study uses simple linear regression with dummy. The use of linear regression is used to examine the relationship between independent variables (certain types of expenditure) and dependent variables (total expenditure). Whereas, dummy is used to find out before and after the APIP review is done. Throughout the author's search, this research has never been done. Based on the results of linear regression obtained, the APIP review significantly had a positive effect on official travel expenditure and honorarium but did not significantly affect building spending and equipment. Abstrak   Penelitian atas peran reviu APIP atas dokumen Rencana Kerja dan Anggaran Kementerian Negara/Lembaga untuk mengetahui dampaknya terhadap efisiensi belanja kementerian/lembaga (studi kasus pada Kementerian Agama). Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini menggunakan regresi linier sederhana dengan dummy. Penggunaan regresi liner digunakan untuk meneliti hubungan antara variable independen (jenis belanja tertentu) dan variable dependen (total belanja). Sedangkan, dummy digunakan untuk mengetahui sebelum dan setelah reviu APIP dilakukan. Sepanjang penelusuran penulis, penelitian ini belum pernah dilakukan. Berdasarkan hasil regresi linier diperoleh, reviu APIP signifikan berpengaruh positif terhadap  belanja perjalanan dinas dan honorarium tetapi tidak signifikan berbengaruh terhadap belanja gedung dan alat.


2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
Rudain Othman Yousif

<p>This study aimed to find the impact of personal selling on the purchasing behavior for youth in buying clothes. To achieve the objectives of the study, hypotheses were formulated and tested on a sample of the target community made up of 289 young men and women. The questionnaire design (32) was divided into five dimensions, four dimensions based on the personal characteristics of salespersons and their display of goods, characteristics of clothing stores, promotion done by salespersons in the sale of clothing, and the fifth focused on youth’s clothes purchasing behavior. The results of the study showed that 76.7% of males and 99.1% of females prefer to purchase from clothing retail stores. The sampling showed that salespersons in retail stores are honest in dealing with their customers but do not have the ability to negotiate with them. They neither have the required sales skill nor play a big role in stimulating sales, and they do not grant discounts to customers. The study recommended the importance of training and qualification for salespersons in personal selling to help them deal truthfully with customers and develop the ability to negotiate. Salespersons should be granted the authority to give discounts to customers.</p>


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