Management Arts

In the judiciary, ICT can be adopted to enhance efficiency, access, timeliness, transparency and accountability, and helping the judiciaries to provide adequate services (Sturges, 2008; Yen, 2005). The use of information and communication technology (ICT) is considered one of the key strategic elements to significantly improve the administration of justice in a country since the benefits are enjoyed directly by the citizens. The rapid development of technology opens up new opportunities that were unthinkable only a few years ago (Tseng et al 2008). Specific objectives of the study were: To establish the influence of Skills development on implementation of ICT in the Kenyan judiciary, to determine the influence of strategic leadership on implementation of ICT in the Kenyan judiciary, to establish the extent of which organizational technological preparedness affects ICT adoption in Kenyan judiciary. This study used descriptive design. The population included a sample size of 44 members of staff in Mariakani Law Courts. Judicial officers and staff in the court were chosen as the target population since they interact with majority of the technologies and are aware of all the ICT needs in the court system. Data was collected using structured questionnaires, and findings analyzed using SPSS software. The findings of the study showed that there is a positive relationship between ICT skills development, strategic leadership and organization technological preparedness with implementation of ICT at the Judiciary in Kenya

The paper investigates the impact of corporate social responsibility on firms’ financial performances in Pakistan. The data of 50 companies listed in Karachi stock exchange are used over the time 2005-2013. Return on equity, and return on asset is used as a proxy of company’s financial performance. Whereas, community performance, environment management system and employee relations are taken as a proxy of corporate social responsibility. The data is collected from the annual financial statements published by the companies. The community performance, environment management system and employee relations confirm significant positive relationship with return on equity. The community performance confirms a significant positive relationship with return on asset; environment management system proves significant positive; on contrary, employee relation is insignificant and has no role in firms’ financial performances. The results conclude the significant role of corporate social responsibility on the firms’ financial performance in developing countries.

This paper has two primary purposes; first, we expand confines of Resource Opportunity (hence forth referred to as; RO) by introducing two entrepreneurial concepts: 1) entrepreneurial recognition, which we describe as the recognition of opportunities and opportunity seeking behaviour as a resource and 2) the method of combining and organizing resources as a resource. The second objective is to build theory for the field of entrepreneurship that can potentially cover micro and macro issues by focusing on the resources as the unit of analysis. This attempt is ordered around the four conditions of RO: resource heterogeneity, ex post limits to competition, imperfect factor mobility and ex ante limits to competition. By defining entrepreneurship which we define as the recognition and exploitation of opportunities which result in firm creation that seeks to obtain entrepreneurial rents, through the four conditions of RO we hypothetically inform and expand current research in both entrepreneurship and RO.

The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between employees’ perceptions of authentic leadership and employee engagement. Study was conducted in one of the multinational manufacturing companies that based in North Malaysia. A total of 118 employees working in the company provided responses to the scales to assess the perceptions of the authentic leadership and employee engagement. The result indicated a significant positive relationship between employees’ perceptions of authentic leadership and employee engagement. Interventions in developing authentic leadership among supervisors and managers and limitations of the study are also being discussed in the study.

IT-Business alignment has been consistently rated as one of the top ten IT management concern for last three decades. Theoretically, alignment can be defined as the degree of fit and combination between an organization’s IS (Information System) strategy and business strategy. More precisely, banks operates in a strategic Information System environment, where the alignment between IT and business should be significantly focused on organizational performance. However, this study suggests that technological innovation, strategic alignment, human resources are not an isolated source of improvement, but part of a system which mutually-reinforcing organizational performances. This research followed quantitative approach and survey questionnaire, so therefore, all 46 Bangladeshi bank (excluding foreign banks) were approached, a total number of 40 observations were usable and giving the study repose rate of 87%, which utilized for subsequent analysis. For this research, different type of analysis has been done, such as Factor analysis, Multiple-regression, t-test, ANOVA, where finding of the study is, technological innovation, strategic alignment and qualified human resources on organizational performance was identified to have a significant impact on organizational performances.

In this paper, one of the artificial intelligence techniques called networks for prediction of reliability of the tire is neuro-fuzzy network. At first key indices which are effective on reliability of tire are identified and then some rules have been designed and applied for system training with use of experts’ views. ANFIS system implements Takagi –Sugno fuzzy system as a system and inference and deduction of the system are mixed and an efficient tool is provided for simulating a nonlinear mapping. In the performed simulations, some 4-input networks are different with membership functions and have been studied in different iterations for prediction and finally the model which had high predictability was selected as optimal model.

The study aimed at exploring the strategies used for classroom management at graduation level in National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad. Classroom management is a skill every teacher needs to posses to bring about a positive change in students behavior to learn effectively. The sample of the study was 30 teachers of different departments of National University of Modern languages, whose grades ranges from 18BPS to 19 BPS and professional experiences ranges from 1 to 25 years. A questionnaire was used to collect the data which included 17 closes ended and 3 open ended questions. The study revealed that teachers are using multiple management strategies in the classroom; it also concludes that teachers are aware of the significance of classroom management strategies.

There has been tremendous growth in wireless technology in the last decade. This advancement has changed people do business in mobile environment (M-Business). This is where M-Commerce or Ubiquitous Commerce (U-Commerce) step in which promises to allow shoppers to purchase goods and have services using mobile phones, wearable PCs and handhelds and in the same way brings challenges for both individuals and society. This paper is intended to bring out the facts about the feasibility of M-Commerce today; the strength and opportunities, the weaknesses and threats lying ahead. The highlight of this paper is to explore the issues that arise from the effects of M- commerce and the challenges lying ahead from which in future, the researchers may spell-out the ways to serve M- commerce as drivers of the growing market demand in the long-term.

Team-based learning (TBL) is an effective way of incorporating interactive small group peer teaching and enthusiasm for learning. The objective of this study is to evaluated student perceptions of team based learning by using a survey that elicited perceptions of different modes of learning between UK and Pakistani students. Overall 733 students were selected on the basis of quota sampling between two countries. Student preferences of teamwork were measured with 15 items scale. These were self administered questionnaire asking for responses on a five point Likert scale. Structural equation model (SEM) was applied on the obtained data set to find the difference between the preferences of English and Pakistani students regarding teamwork. Both groups had a common definition of teams and agreed on the value of teams with regard to satisfaction and productivity. The result shows that there exists difference in student preferences of teamwork. Students of both the cultures show positive response that teams are effective way to learn the management courses and increase their productivity and working in a team improve their ability to learn new things. However, Pakistani students showed more preference for teamwork as compared to UK students. Their attitudes diverged, however, with regard to the presence of slackers on the team. Possible reasons for the similarities and divergence are discussed.

HVA foods (Pvt) Ltd, is a company that is committed to enhancing the quality of life of discerning global consumers by providing natural beverages. Its parent Company HVA Lanka Exports (Pvt) Ltd, was established in 1990 as an off shore office of HVA International B V of The Netherlands. After becoming a fully Sri Lankan Enterprise by the mid 90s, HVA Foods has been the proud Winner of Six Gold Awards as the exporter of the year in both traditional and non-traditional exports from Sri Lanka. Their commitment to quality was acknowledged with the ISO 22000 in September 2007 to both HVA Foods (Pvt) Ltd and HVA Lanka Exports (Pvt) Ltd.