The Influence of Organizational Culture on HRM Practices at Academic Institutions in Oman

Organizational culture is one of the factors which affect employee's behavior. Culture is the most important factor accounting for success or failure in organizations and it is even more important today than it was in the past because of increased competition and changes. Studies in the organizational psychology literature have shown that organizational culture and HRM practice are major factors to the Organizational Success. Organizational culture encompasses values and behaviors that contribute to the unique social and psychological environment of an organization. Organizational culture also represents the collective values, beliefs and principles of organizational members. Culture and HRM are connected to each other from many ways and as pointed out by Jackson and Schuler organizational culture and HRM cannot be separated in an organization and culture has influential effect on the administration of HR. This paper shows the results of the influence of organizational culture on human resource practices in some selected departments in the institution where the authors are working. The statistical analysis was based on one hundred respondents from different departments and it shows that there is a close relationship between organizational culture and recruitment process, training programs, job performance management, performance of employees, pay structure, and compensation administration.

Analysis of the relationship between Inflation and unemployment rate: Case study USA

USA has the biggest economy in the world supposed the power of the GDP, making plenitude of common resources and a great dedicated productivity. The USA is considered as a post-modern, USA is distinguished worldwide in both monetary and military command, an unmistakable political and social compel, and a pioneer in advancements. In our research, we ponder about the connection amongst expansion and joblessness. There are different types of unemployment, can be shortened as Basic type, Local type, Traditional type, Regular types, Frictional types, Repetitive types. And inflation be present as a long haul ascend on the costs of merchandise and ventures affected by the cheapening of cash. However, there are focal points for expansion, we will talk about it later, we need first to concentrate in a portion of the harmful parts of swelling. Inflationary questions arise once happenstance surprising swelling that isn't acceptably synchronized thru a rise in people's incomes. on the occasion that salaries do not match the increment of the goods prices, everyone's acquiring power have been successfully decreased, that be able to thusly rapid a narrowing or else stale budget. Moreover, over the top growth be able to similarly cause obliteration in departure reserve reserves by way of it decreases the obtaining impact the cash that investors besides financial specialists have hoarded absent. the case study will be applied on United Nations of America which will cover the period of time starting from 1929 until 2011 utilizing relapse and correlation analysis examination. In this study an investigation for the examined statistics is led, Three viewpoints are practical in the examination, control charts, Pareto charts, correlation analysis and box plot with curve fitting results.

The Power of Private Label in Retail Market

Globally, own store brands or private labels are rapidly gaining share at the cost of manufacture brands. In India, where the share of organised retail is minuscule, manufacture brands still dominate. With the retail sector poised for growth, national brand manufacturers will have to contend with competition within distribution channel, which calls for revised marketing strategy locally, to thwart the threat of the private label in a store. The phenomenon also offers national brand manufacturers the opportunity to service the production needs of the private labels efficiently. The problem is India's internet-savvy consumers aren't as convinced about Private labels as their global counterparts. Consumers may be happy with the quality of private label when it comes to kitchen towels and staples like wheat flour but are wary when it comes to buying a store version of, say, baby food or shampoo. The paper has also discussed the different types branding strategies used by retailers in the developing countries. The manufacturer brands have an advantage relative to own brand where symbolic association and/or product innovation are important to customers. Conversely, where symbolic associations and product innovations are less important there is an opportunity for retailers to compete successfully with manufacturer brands if they can demonstrate comparable product quality and provide value or money. This paper deals with the power of private label in modern retail market.

Social Media Usage in Recruitment Practices in Egypt

Nowadays, networking within online social media platforms isn't just about swapping pictures and music, or discussing the trivial details of a night out, a TV show or a sporting event. Social media is increasingly becoming the space where professional life happens. The recent option by Face book to update user profile pages to offer a 'LinkedIn style' professional view, suggests that social media, on the whole, is becoming a medium for work as well as play.( Sophia,2009) Recruitment is a process of finding and attracting capable applicants for employment. E-recruiting is the use of internet technology to attract candidates and aid the recruitment process. This usually means using one's own company website, a third-party job site or job board, a CV database, social media or search engine marketing. Social Media recruiting (social recruiting) is the part of e-recruiting.( Palonka et al,2013) Social media in recruitment and selection occurs when recruitment representative view social networks platforms such as: LinkedIn, Facebook in the employment selection process leading to the acceptance or rejection of job applicants. The goal of this research is to assessing the recent status of the usage of social media networks in recruitment and selection process in Egyptian organizations as today social media networks and platforms provide great opportunities for business and job seekers to a certain extent. By applying an exploratory study on a random sampling procedure was used to select 200 firms from different types of sectors. The respondents of this study incorporated 130 business owners and human resources managers in Egypt through online survey. The results revealed that the 54 percentage of the respondents use social media to support their recruitment effort human while 31percent don't know and plan to use it .the results revealed that LinkedIn and FB are the most social media platforms used in recruitment , also the paper surveyed some obstacles and advantages for social media recruitment.

Financial and Qualitative Determinants of Voluntary Environmental/sustainability Reporting in the Canadian Mining Sector

The ever increasing attention given to the environmental threats facing the planet have permeated almost all areas of human endeavor. Accounting and corporate reporting has not been immune to this effect and is a key area of interest. Much of the environmental damage and the public costs associated with its clean-up is a result of commercial activity. Captured under the headings of social responsibility accounting, environmental accounting, integrated reporting or sustainability accounting, there are only limited mechanisms in accounting standards that directly address environmental issues and the associated costs and benefits. The majority of reporting mechanisms over the last three decades are largely voluntary so companies can choose whether or not to provide this type of information to users of financial statements. The existing literature in this area has focused on how these disclosures (voluntary or otherwise) have affected user decision making, primarily investors and creditors, and shareholder value. What factors lead to a decision to do voluntary reporting with respect to environmental issues? This research focusses on the Canadian mining sector (exclusive of oil and gas) and examines the financial and qualitative characteristics of companies and their respective reporting methods to build a generic profile of a company that would most likely to provide such voluntary reporting. Analysis of annual reports and the associated audited financial statements of companies in the sector will provide the raw data to build this generic profile. We can infer that companies that are inclined to report on environmental issues, beyond their regulatory responsibilities, are likely to be better environmental stewards. Understanding the financial and qualitative characteristics and having a profile can aid in regulatory decision making and provide potential and current investors an additional analytical tool for assessing corporate social responsibility with regard to environmental and sustainability issues.

Co-Movement and Volatility Analysis of Sugar: Spot and Future

Co-movement and volatility analysis between variables are an important considerations in investment related decisions. The relationships of spot and two future priced sugar contracts are examined against the currency and main index of Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines and Thailand. Sugar which is produced in many countries around the world is the world's largest crop by production in metric tons. Co-movement and volatility analysis includes correlation, vector autoregression, Johansen cointegration test, impulse responses, pairwise Granger causality test and three GARCH models. The three GARCH models are the GARCH, GJR-GARCH and EGARCH models. A long run relationships exists between the three sugar variables, the three sugar variables and the Shanghai SE A Share Index; as well as between the tree sugar variables and the Thai Bhat. Co-movement results indicate that unidirectional and bidirectional relationships exist among the variables. A bi-directional relationship exists between sugar spot and CSCE sugar 11 future as well as between sugar spot and Liffe sugar future. Sugar spot and sugar future have a uni-directional relationship with the indices of Bangkok, Indonesia, Philippines, China, and India. Sugar spot and sugar futures Granger causes the currencies of Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and India. The volatility analysis done shows that the AIC and SIC results of the GARCH models which indicates that the original GARCH model fits the data the best for sugar spot and the CSCE sugar 11 future. The EGARCH model fits the data the best for Liffe sugar future.

A Study of Three Sectors Employment Effects Resulting from Foreign Direct Investment- Empirical Analysis on the Data from Shanghai

With the development of China's reform policy, China's economy has integrating into the global economy. As a result, more and more foreign capital continues to flow into China. Since 1990, foreign direct investment (FDI) was mainly concentrated in the Yangtze River Delta region, and Shanghai enjoyed strong economic strength, thanks to its abundant human resources and convenient transportation network; as these are excellent qualities for attracting foreign investment, Shanghai became one of the major cities attracting FDI. FDI has had a tremendous impact on many aspects in Shanghai, including employment. Therefore, Shanghai was chosen as the research object of this paper. This paper is organized as follows. Firstly, a theoretical analysis of the employment effects of FDI is presented. Secondly, after combining the actual utilization of FDI and employment in Shanghai, an empirical analysis of the effects of FDI on employment's quantity, employment's distribution and employment quality is carried out by collecting relevant data and establishing regression models. This study finds that while FDI does exert a positive influence on the quantity of employment in Shanghai's tertiary industry, it is not conducive to primary and secondary industries. In addition, FDI has shown positive and negative impacts on the quality of employment. Lastly, some suggestions are proposed to enhance the positive role of FDI on employment.

Analysis of Failure of Democracies in Africa

The western model of democracy is considered by many Africans to be extremely narrow and even alien to African cultures. Democracy is not just about the right to vote and be voted for, but it is about a whole complex of rights and duties that citizens must exercise if government is to be open and accountable and. Despite the rapid spread of liberal democracy in Africa there have been failures where all the opportunities are right for success. This paper in its analysis of the failure of democracies in Africa explores the views of the modernization theory in general and the culturalist perspective in particular which argues that African traditional political institutions are autocratic, personalized and corrupt, and therefore cannot provide appropriate historical and cultural formulation for democracy in modern societies. Relying on secondary data from journals and other literary sources, the paper disagrees with the modernization and culturalist perspectives and argues that Africa's colonial experience displaced the indigenous democratic practices and replaced them with first, dictatorship and subsequently, western liberal democracy which was and has continued to be alien and as a consequence has been failing across the continent. The paper therefore, recommends that the path to democratization in Africa must be home grown and that outsiders should only help move the process forward.

Healthy Checkout and Impulse Purchases

The present work aims to implement and test a ‘healthy checkout’ in a real retailing environment in order to explore the effectiveness of this kind of intervention in terms of helping customers making healthy choices on impulse, contrary to the claim of the extant literature. By developing this research, we want to enrich the extant literature by analyzing the nature of the behaviour in front of the checkout and the effect of in-store stimuli (specifically, assortment and communication) on that nature. For the purpose of the present work, all candies and chocolate at the checkout were replaced by a selection of healthy products. The assortment included a mix of fresh fruit, dried fruit, dried fruit bars, nuts and smoothies. A structured questionnaire was submitted at the end of the shopping trip to the sample considered in different stores in the north of Italy. Participants were asked to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention (assortment and communication) and the effect of these levers on the nature of the behaviour was assessed. Our findings show that by placing healthy snacks at the checkout and by communicating them at a category level in an easy processable way it is possible to trigger healthy choices on impulse.

Every Story Has Two Sides: Co-Production in the Financial Service Industry

Co-production is an important process that alters value creation and improves relationships between service providers and their customers. Much service research has emphasized the importance of service employees as boundary spanners that interact with customers by co-production. Service employees frequently engage in co-production requirements. Such practice allows customers and service employees to access and leverage resources residing in their relationships. Clearly, marketing literature focuses on the bright side of co-production. Nevertheless, the costs and potential negative consequences associated with the dark side of co-production must be further considered. Therefore, this study aims to present a conceptual framework that explores the relationships among co-production, co-production enjoyment, co-production intensity, service effort, job stress, and employee satisfaction, and their effects on customer satisfaction. Furthermore, this study seeks to propose how the effects of co-production on co-production enjoyment, co-production intensity, service effort, job stress depend on the self-efficacy of customers and self-monitoring by service employees. This study provides interesting theoretical insights and valuable managerial implications as regards the positive and negative aspects of co-production and encourage service employees to perform service effort while minimizing job stress. Most importantly, this study provides an understanding of the specific process of co-production to enhance customer and employee satisfaction.