CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF THE CAREER PATH BETWEEN CAREER PERFORMANCE ATTRIBUTES AND EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC SECTOR IN OMAN

The aim of the present study is to review and develop a conceptual model of the relationship between career performance attributes, career path, and employee performance of the public sector in Oman. The study used online empirical recourses by the name of career performance attributes, career path, and employee performance in different online database sources such as Google Scholars, Springer Link, Wiley, Science Direct, JSTOR, Emerald full text, Scopus, and EBSCO HOST, etc. The review study summarized that Job satisfaction is the positive emotion result from the appraisal of job experience and fulfillment of employee needs. The study also found that job satisfaction can gain high performance whereas the dissatisfied performance of employees yields low employee performance. Moreover, the study also observed that career development and life changes have become very challenging for working women and there are numerous studies targeted towards gaining a better understanding of this issue, its consequences and the significance of these challenges. Finally, the research develops a conceptual framework that is to be followed in order to analyze the various elements and aspects. The framework has been designed by considering the various variables and their intricacies in particular relation to the subject matter of the research work in Oman and the regions.

CONSTRUCTION OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) DISCLOSURE INDEX AND ITS PRACTICES BY LISTED COMPANIES IN OMAN

The importance of Corporate Social Responsibility has been acknowledged greatly as an objective of business sustainability. Whereas the measurement of CSR is always a source of argument among researchers. There are different approaches identified and used by researchers to measure CSR. The main objective of this study is to measure CSR disclosure by constructing an index based on content analysis. The study used the data of non-financial listed companies' annual reports to construct an index for the period 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. Thus, 291 firm-year observations are used in this study to construct and measure the CSR disclosure index. 40 elements are used to measure CSR disclosure based on five sub-themes. The result of the study reveals that as CSR disclosure requirement is mandatory in Oman according to the new corporate governance system, thus the listed companies are trying to cope and developing CSR charters. The evidence indicates that some companies have high CSR disclosure while few companies are still struggling with developing CSR charter and disclosing their activities. However, CSR disclosure improves significantly from 2016 to 2019, which shows a strict implementation of the code of corporate governance.

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK BETWEEN THE E-SERVICE, DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONS ATTRIBUTES AND EFFICIENCY OF THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION, OMAN

As the Sultanate of Oman in the process of uses e-services among public services by adopting of technological implication in the services of the government in recent time. Therefore, it is a timely initiative to develop a conceptual framework between the e- service, digital transformations attributes and efficiency of the digital transformation, Oman. In order to development of conceptual model study examined review of literature on about the effectiveness of electronic services and digital transformation in the selected public sector in the Sultanate of Oman. The study used online empirical sources in the names of organizational, technology, environment and human resource factors, as well as the effectiveness of digital change in various online database sources such as Google Scholars, Springer Link, Wiley, Science Direct, JSTOR, Emerald Full text, Scopus and EBSCO HOST, etc. The study review results show that organizational, technological, environmental and human factors play an important role in ensuring the effectiveness of the public sector in the digital transformation in the Sultanate of Oman. The study also found that there is mediating role of E-service in the relationship between digital transformations attributes and the digital transformation. Based on the summary of literature review, the study provides guidance for the future scope of empirical research and develop a conceptual framework between the e- service, digital transformations attributes and efficiency of the digital transformation to conduct a rigorous study in Oman and its regions.

THE INSTITUTIONAL ATTRIBUTES AND EMPLOYABILITY READINESS AMONG ENGINEERING GRADUATES IN THE HIGH EDUCATION INSTITUTE’S IN OMAN

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of Institutional attributes on the employability readiness of the engineering graduates of the High Education Institutes in Oman. The study adopted a self-directed structured questionnaire was distributed to a sample of engineering students and graduates from a number of colleges and universities. The study used structural equation modelling (SEM) for analysing the collected data. The findings of the statistical analysis of the study showed that Omani graduates signify the contribution of the HEIs Policies, Classroom environment, the implementation of Student Centric Approach strategies on the graduates’ readiness for employability skills attainment. Also, the findings of the study recommend HEIs to improve their teaching quality, overall Syllabus and Course Curriculum, assessment strategies, and teaching materials to enhance their graduates with required graduates’ readiness for employability skills. Specifically, study findings showed Institutional attributes factor could high have an influence on the Readiness for Employability of the graduates in Oman when the HEIs reform effectively the Institution-Related attributes factors analysed in the research study. Finally, the study’s implementations and recommendations could be transferred to the Gulf and Arab or other countries’ contexts having similar settings of HE systems and similar issues of skills gap and employability concern of their graduates.

CAPITAL MARKET DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA

The motivation behind this study is to experimentally look at the connection between capital market improvement and monetary development in Nigeria. The examination investigated the Central Bank of Nigeria quarterly information from 1981Q1 to 2017Q4 with the E-sees programming bundle (variant 9.0). The Vector Auto Regression (VAR) procedure was utilized to investigate the information, while theory testing depended on the Block Exogeneity Wald test. The predetermined models included stationarity tests, diminished structure VAR gauge, and primary examination. The Augmented Dickey-Fuller Test demonstrates that the examination factors are fixed at first contrast or I(1). The VAR establishes plot corresponding to unit circle demonstrates that our predetermined diminished structure VAR models are steady. The Lagrange Multiplier (LM) symptomatic tests demonstrate that our predetermined VAR models are effectively indicated. The p-esteem shows that market capitalization proportion is critical in clarifying varieties in financial development (p = 0.0205). Notwithstanding, the worth of stock proportion and banking framework capitalization proportion is not huge in deciding the Real Gross Domestic Product in Nigeria. All in all, capital market advancement in Nigeria is worked with by vigorous market capitalization. Nonetheless, it is restricted by diminishing volume of stock and lessening banking framework capitalization. It is suggested that the monetary area ought to take on forceful capital market drives and vigorous monetary development approaches to support financial development in an arising economy.

The Permanent Income Hypothesis: Evidence from Ghana

This study aims to test the validity of the PIH for Ghana using aggregate annual data of GDP per capita and household consumption expenditure per capita from 1971 to 2017. The data used were taken from UN statistics. The PIH holds that the income a consumer expects to persist throughout his or her life is what determines their consumption. Earlier studies have shown that the PIH implies the magnitude of the revision in permanent income arising from innovation in the income process is proportional to the magnitude of the revision in consumption arising from the same innovation. This study tests this implication. Innovation in the income process here is the part of the income process that could not be forecasted. The study generates the innovation in the income process by estimating an ARMA model for income and then estimates a consumption equation by OLS using the consumption variable and the generated innovation in income variable.The study finds that the magnitude of the revision in permanent income arising from the innovation in income is larger than the magnitude of the revision in consumption resulting from the same innovation. This implies consumption response to changes in income is smaller than what the PIH predicts. This result is taken as evidence that the PIH does not hold for Ghana.