Importance of Human Development and Challenges

Vietnam has achieved many achievements in human development, which is reflected in the increase in HDI rankings, increase in component indexes as well as HDI value, the growth rate of HDI among the highest in the world but there are many challenges that Vietnam needs to overcome to get higher HDI. This research collected and analyzed secondary data to analyze, compare and evaluate data on HDI, IHDI, inequality, gender gap, disparities in regions and people groups and some other related indicators to indicate Viet Nam's achievements in human development since 1990, and more importantly, the study identified challenges in gender gaps, disparities in regions and people groups. In order to overcome these challenges and increase HDI much more, based on the analysis of the state of Vietnam's human development and its challenges, the study proposed some policy suggestions such as: (1) Closing the gender gap in education and labor participation; (2) Reducing disparities among regions and population groups; (3). Improving the access ability to education and health care for the poor; (4) Improving people's income and quality of life.

A Study on Knowledge Management on Working Productivity

Knowledge management nowadays had been considered as a main element for achieving organizational success and survival in today’s knowledge age and competitive environments. The performance of the Lebanese Banking Sector nowadays is fluctuating, and the main reason behind that is the absence of knowledge management in the workplace and by that absence of communication among employees and managers in their workplace. The primary motivation which lies behind the research is to identify the importance of knowledge sharing, and how it affects employees’ involvement and engagement in the workplace. The research had implemented both quantitative and qualitative methods, and the data were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics to validate the research hypotheses scientifically. The findings of the research proved that there is a significant positive relationship between Knowledge enhancement, E-Learning, Knowledge management and organizational commitment.

Banking Employee Performance from Sulawesi – A Case Study

This study proposed to analyze and investigate the impact of strategic leadership and job design to improve work motivation and performance of employee in Bank BPD South Sulawesi and West Sulawesi. The analysis was performed using SEM analysis method with 130 respondents. This study suggested: strategic leadership and job design have a positive and significant direct impact on work motivation and performance, strategic leadership and job design have a positive and significant non-direct impact on performance mediated by work motivation.

Ecological Citizenship Through Education and Management

The dominance of the Indonesian population in 2018 for the productive age group (aged 15-64) reached 67.6% of 265,000,000 people, with 25.2% adolescents among the productive ages. Adolescence seek new ways to redefine themselves (identity processes) and to explore new ideas and challenges, so it is important to understand how they influence others and how they could have an impact on their families, communities, and the world. This understanding will encourage adolescents to become political actors to take action (WTTA) by influencing society on ecological citizenship, which concerns rights, entitlements, duties, obligations, and responsibilities to ensure that ecological footprints make a sustainable impact. Adolescents need community and social support to develop this ecological citizenship along with their own identity processing and coping with their life struggles. The idea of this paper is to offer food chemistry education as an alternative health and nutrition information so as to facilitate the ability of adolescents to achieve the appropriate development for ecological citizenship. This paper aims to discuss how food chemistry education develops Indonesian adolescents as the future generation who will manage the quality of the environment by becoming ecological citizens through their various life struggles. The discussion will be based on a literature review.

A Study on Financial Literacy and Need for Financial Education

Fillecya (Financial Literacy) Boards adopts the idea of financial literacy education for the community, where the need for people to have better knowledge, confidence, and skills in financial management, where experts believe that financial literacy knowledge is significantly related to individual financial behavior of consumers. The important point in this research is how to teach financial literacy early on to children as the pillars of national development. One reliable alternative strategy in teaching children is through games, where children learn while playing and education will enter naturally. This research emphasizes the Fillecya Board as a medium for early financial literacy education. Scientifically, the Fillecya Board will have a positive contribution to scientific development in the field of financial literacy which is in line with the times. On the other hand, Fillecya also acts as a place for learning while playing for children and a means to train decision making. From the social aspect, fillecya will be able to increase solidarity between children and train healthy competition. By using the Research and Development research approach by using the Four-D model, namely define, design, develop and disseminate. For the first year, the results of this study show that all teachers which is this research respondent felt the need to develop financial literacy learning media. This is considered necessary because so far, the direct instruction method has not been able to make students understand about the material and need more time to achieve this learning goal. The results of this study indicate that more interactive media are needed in this study, one of which is fillecya.

The Economy between Fluctuations in Oil Revenues and Diversifying Sources of Income in Arab Countries

The Economic Monitor offers an overview of key economic trends and policies over the preceding six months and discusses conclusions from recent World Bank work on Iraq, putting them in a longer-term and global sense and evaluating the impact of these developments and other policy adjustments Iraq's outlook. The macroeconomy, capital markets, and indices of human health and growth are all included. It is aimed at a broad range of people, like policymakers, industry executives, stock market players, and Iraq's analysts and practitioners. The research problem was represented by the fact that the Iraqi economy is single-source due to its dependence on the crude oil sector, which constitutes more than (60%) of the gross domestic product. Crude oil revenues constitute more than (90%) and neglect other economic sectors such as agriculture, industry, and tourism, whose percentage did not exceed (30%) of the gross domestic product. The weakness of non-oil exports in the foreign trade sector is the failure of macroeconomic policies to diversify the Iraqi economy. The research aims to achieve many goals, the most important of which are: identifying the concept and indicators of diversification. As well as an analysis of the Iraqi economic structure during the period (2008-2019). A forward-looking vision for economic diversification in Iraq.

Sustainability Reporting and Accounting in Measuring the Costs of Flared Dry Gas Industry

The sector oil and gas are very importance in the Iraqi economy, and natural gas cause less pollution to the environment. Due to the conditions that the country went through, the existing infrastructure is unable to process the quantities of natural gas associated with the extraction of crude oil, therefore it is treated by burning. This has harmful effects on the environment and society. In addition, the expenditure on treating is very large and the country suffer a large loss of revenue in the atmosphere. Therefore, the responsible authorities should decide to limit these burning processes through the information on economy, environment and society that sustainability accounting provides. Also, the company being studied shows that there are a lot of costs incurred by burning dry gas for two reasons: compressors stop working and network pressure. This is a waste of the natural resource and of large sums that could have been revenues for the country. Although there are also disadvantages on the environment and society, the company’s expenditure on the environment and society is small compared to the costs spent on producing dry gas. This does not support sustainable development, and the study concludes with some conclusions and recommendations.

Quality of Work Life and Its Effect Upon Entrepreneurial Management

The study aims to reveal quality of work life and its effect upon entrepreneurial thinking, and it results from a problem that most service organizations suffer from, poor working environment conditions for individuals, which affected the efficiency of their performance when demonstrating their abilities and creative ideas during their work. So, the study community is the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs with a sample of (214) individuals out of the total community of officials in the middle management of the bodies and departments of the ministry with a number (478). The questionnaire was used as a main tool, visits and personal interviews, and the analytical descriptive approach was adopted using the statistical measures Cronbach's Alpha, weighted arithmetic means, standard deviations, (Z-TEST) and (F-TEST), the relative importance and simple and multiple linear regression analysis, stepwise with the help of AMOS25, Excel v.10 and SPSS v.25 programs. The most prominent conclusions are the presence of a top correlation between the quality of work life and entrepreneurial thinking at a significant level, the high correlation with the entrepreneurial thinking is the organization climate , and the lower correlation with the entrepreneurial thinking are fees and bonuses , as well as the presence of a noticeable effect on the quality of life with its six dimensions together in the entrepreneurial thinking of the Ministry with a factor of determining its rate (74.4%) at a moral level. By diagnosing the most influential dimensions in entrepreneurial thinking by analyzing the gradual linear regression to indicate the organizational climate, training and development of employees, health conditions and occupational keep, and opportunities for Upgrading and career advancement, Collectively in entrepreneurial thinking with a factor of determination of (72.4%) at the level of significance less than the level of morale and exclude wages, bonuses and material work environment that is less influenced in the entrepreneurial thinking.

Study and Analysis of Optimal Portfolio of Investment in Banks

The current research aims to study and analyze the investment portfolio in banks and how to manage, study and analysis on the Iraqi banks period 2010-2018 to show the impact of the efficiency of the management of investment portfolio on the profitability of commercial banks listed on the Iraqi Stock Exchange. The study was conducted on all Iraqi commercial banks listed in the Iraqi financial market, where the researcher first calculated the 2012 index and the risk of the investment portfolio and the return of the investment portfolio, the banks, which represent the independent variable, return on investment and return on equity, and the risk-free return as control and subsidiary variables. A financial analysis aimed at identifying the effect of the efficiency of the management of the investment portfolio on the profitability of commercial banks. The results of the analysis were identical with the results of the statistical analysis, which was performed using the simple regression equation and multiple regression to identify the effect and correlation coefficient Pearson to identify the relationship between the independent variable and the dependent variable. The main results of the study were the absence of statistically significant impact on the level of risk-free return on The return on investment and the return on equity and the absence of statistically significant impact at the same level of return on the investment portfolio on both the return on investment and the return on equity and the exi

Employee Job Satisfaction and Work Motivation in The Context of Public Sector Organization

The purpose of this research was to measure the effect of work motivation on employee job satisfaction in Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), Batticaloa district. A Self-administered questionnaire consisting of several measures was employed to gather data from the technical and supporting employees who work in different sections of the CEB like the Distribution Maintenance Office, Area Chief Engineer Office, Distribution Construction Engineer Office and Sub Stores of Batticaloa district. A simple random sampling method was applied to get 285 responses from the respondents. The gathered data were utilized to test the model using the PLS-SEM approach with Smart PLS. The results showed that the essential features of work motivation are manager’s leadership styles, motivation practices, employee job expectations, reward management system and working environment, whereas the identified consequence was employee job satisfaction. All five variables had a positive effect on job satisfaction and among them, employee job expectations and manager’s leadership style had the highest influence and the reward management system had the least influence on job satisfaction. Further, this study offers thoughts for managers by pinpointing the critical factors influencing that motivate employees in CEB.