People are considered to be a key enablers of innovation since they initiate the change as well as become part of a change which positively affects the innovation process. UAE is known to be an innovation-driven economy while the practices of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in UAE are little known. This paper aims to explore the strategies adopted by SME sector in UAE to enhance innovative work behaviour of employees. In this study, the researcher adopted the qualitative research to explore the strategies adopted by SMEs in UAE to enhance innovative work behaviour, A survey was conducted with 74 managers/ supervisors and leaders of SMEs in UAE through a structured questionnaire which attempted to ask about the strategies, how these are practiced by SMEs and what is the impact of these strategies on the innovative work behaviour. It was found from the research that the opportunity enhancing strategies namely autonomy, task composition and feedback positively impact innovative work behaviour of employees in UAE while ability enhancing strategy (training and development) and three motivation-enhancing strategies (reward and recognition, job security and employee involvement/ engagement).
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B. Oginni, sola Olalekan Ayantunji, T. S. Olaniyan, K. Ajibola, Adetoun Ramat Balogun
This study examined the relationship between job satisfaction and job contentment in the context of Nigerian banks using selected banks in the Southwest of Nigeria as the unit of analysis. A structured questionnaire was administered to elicit relevant information from 123 respondents using both stratified and simple random techniques. The study identified six (6) components of job satisfaction that drive job contentment such as job security, salary, human relations, promotion, organizational benefits, and job characteristics, and also established a positive relationship between job satisfaction components and job contentment. It was found that salary, job security, and organizational benefits drive job contentment more among employees in the banking industry but job security was considered to be the most potent drive of job contentment among all while the relationship among all the job satisfaction components with job contentment was a moderate relationship except human relations that has a weak relationship at 0.05 level of significance. The regression result showed that all the components of job satisfaction have an effect on employee job contentment and it was concluded that the six components of job satisfaction should be entrenched in the organizational retention strategies to guarantee job contentment among employees in the banking industry. Thus, recommended that the implementation of the organizational policies towards the components of job satisfaction should be fair, just, and free of any form of sentiments that can affect their perception and feelings about these components.
{"title":"Job satisfaction and job contentment in the context of the Nigerian banks","authors":"B. Oginni, sola Olalekan Ayantunji, T. S. Olaniyan, K. Ajibola, Adetoun Ramat Balogun","doi":"10.37383/sbj180103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37383/sbj180103","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined the relationship between job satisfaction and job contentment in the context of Nigerian banks using selected banks in the Southwest of Nigeria as the unit of analysis. A structured questionnaire was administered to elicit relevant information from 123 respondents using both stratified and simple random techniques. The study identified six (6) components of job satisfaction that drive job contentment such as job security, salary, human relations, promotion, organizational benefits, and job characteristics, and also established a positive relationship between job satisfaction components and job contentment. It was found that salary, job security, and organizational benefits drive job contentment more among employees in the banking industry but job security was considered to be the most potent drive of job contentment among all while the relationship among all the job satisfaction components with job contentment was a moderate relationship except human relations that has a weak relationship at 0.05 level of significance. The regression result showed that all the components of job satisfaction have an effect on employee job contentment and it was concluded that the six components of job satisfaction should be entrenched in the organizational retention strategies to guarantee job contentment among employees in the banking industry. Thus, recommended that the implementation of the organizational policies towards the components of job satisfaction should be fair, just, and free of any form of sentiments that can affect their perception and feelings about these components.","PeriodicalId":393952,"journal":{"name":"SKYLINE BUSINESS JOURNAL","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124040316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The paper tries to explain the relationship between CSR practices and the firm performance across automotive SMEs in Bulgaria. The paper suggests that development and implementation of CSR measures is critical for the success of the SMEs across the emerging automotive sector in this EU country. The study aims at broadening knowledge at Corporate Social Responsibility literature in the context of SMEs business domain. The study represents quantitative analysis on CSR measures based on the ESG goals set by the United Nations. The collected data in the paper are secondary and it has been collected from the Bulgarian Statistical Institute, the Union of the Automobile Industry in Bulgaria and individual companies’ websites. Additional data have been gathered from the Automotive SMEs’ annual reports of the companies as well. The paper empirical data findings for the period 2018-2020 show that Automotive SMEs have been adopting westernized best practices on CSR, which positively affect their performance and prosperity.
{"title":"Corporate social responsibility practices impact on company performance across Bulgarian SMEs in the automotive sector","authors":"E. Velinov, V. Vassilev","doi":"10.37383/sbj180105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37383/sbj180105","url":null,"abstract":"The paper tries to explain the relationship between CSR practices and the firm performance across automotive SMEs in Bulgaria. The paper suggests that development and implementation of CSR measures is critical for the success of the SMEs across the emerging automotive sector in this EU country. The study aims at broadening knowledge at Corporate Social Responsibility literature in the context of SMEs business domain. The study represents quantitative analysis on CSR measures based on the ESG goals set by the United Nations. The collected data in the paper are secondary and it has been collected from the Bulgarian Statistical Institute, the Union of the Automobile Industry in Bulgaria and individual companies’ websites. Additional data have been gathered from the Automotive SMEs’ annual reports of the companies as well. The paper empirical data findings for the period 2018-2020 show that Automotive SMEs have been adopting westernized best practices on CSR, which positively affect their performance and prosperity.","PeriodicalId":393952,"journal":{"name":"SKYLINE BUSINESS JOURNAL","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129324268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bitcoin volatility has created new dimensions for the investors Globally and attracted lot of other stakeholders to investigate various factors for its performance. This research work evaluates the role of the Bitcoin as diversifier in the portfolio and performance as a hedger, safe-haven investment against Gold and Oil. We use a wavelet approach to capture time scale behaving of MSCI LATAM equity indices against Bitcoin and commodities under different market conditions. Our findings suggest that Bitcoin act as safe-haven device while Gold is a better hedger device against Oil which shows diversifier properties.
{"title":"Hedging effectiveness of bitcoin on latin American equity indices: A multiscale analysis based on wavelets","authors":"Jesús C. Téllez Gaytán, Aqila Rafiuddin","doi":"10.37383/sbj180101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37383/sbj180101","url":null,"abstract":"Bitcoin volatility has created new dimensions for the investors Globally and attracted lot of other stakeholders to investigate various factors for its performance. This research work evaluates the role of the Bitcoin as diversifier in the portfolio and performance as a hedger, safe-haven investment against Gold and Oil. We use a wavelet approach to capture time scale behaving of MSCI LATAM equity indices against Bitcoin and commodities under different market conditions. Our findings suggest that Bitcoin act as safe-haven device while Gold is a better hedger device against Oil which shows diversifier properties.","PeriodicalId":393952,"journal":{"name":"SKYLINE BUSINESS JOURNAL","volume":"305 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114824602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rangarirai Mbizi, O. Sifile, L. Chikazhe, Shepherd Murebwa, Ngoni Mbaeni
The present paper examines the nexus between technological financial innovation and financial performance in banking sector. A positivist philosophical orientation guided this paper wherein an eight year quarterly panel data for a time period ranging from 2015 to 2021 for thirteen commercial banks in Zimbabwe was adopted for data collection. STATA software was used to analyse the impact of each dimension of technological financial innovation on commercial financial performance. The results showed that the use of automated teller machines and internet banking have strong positive relationship with financial performance, whilst a weak positive relationship was established between mobile banking and financial performance of commercial banks. Moreover, an insignificant association was established between electronic funds transfer and financial performance of commercial banks. The major implication was that banks should intensify the adoption of financial innovation as it enhances their operations.
{"title":"The nexus between technological financial innovation and financial performance of commercial banks in Zimbabwe","authors":"Rangarirai Mbizi, O. Sifile, L. Chikazhe, Shepherd Murebwa, Ngoni Mbaeni","doi":"10.37383/sbj180104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37383/sbj180104","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper examines the nexus between technological financial innovation and financial performance in banking sector. A positivist philosophical orientation guided this paper wherein an eight year quarterly panel data for a time period ranging from 2015 to 2021 for thirteen commercial banks in Zimbabwe was adopted for data collection. STATA software was used to analyse the impact of each dimension of technological financial innovation on commercial financial performance. The results showed that the use of automated teller machines and internet banking have strong positive relationship with financial performance, whilst a weak positive relationship was established between mobile banking and financial performance of commercial banks. Moreover, an insignificant association was established between electronic funds transfer and financial performance of commercial banks. The major implication was that banks should intensify the adoption of financial innovation as it enhances their operations.","PeriodicalId":393952,"journal":{"name":"SKYLINE BUSINESS JOURNAL","volume":"107 23","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113946065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Marketing ethics and competitiveness: A study of deposit money bank in Nigeria","authors":"","doi":"10.37383/sbj160101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37383/sbj160101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":393952,"journal":{"name":"SKYLINE BUSINESS JOURNAL","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115824276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The nexus between taxation and Nigerian economic growth","authors":"","doi":"10.37383/sbj160105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37383/sbj160105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":393952,"journal":{"name":"SKYLINE BUSINESS JOURNAL","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127078350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of Internal and External Promotional Variables on Consumer Buying Behavior in Emerging Economy – An Empirical Study","authors":"","doi":"10.37383/sbj160104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37383/sbj160104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":393952,"journal":{"name":"SKYLINE BUSINESS JOURNAL","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132965067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Organizational justice and job performance of academic staff at public universities in Iraq","authors":"","doi":"10.37383/sbj160102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37383/sbj160102","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":393952,"journal":{"name":"SKYLINE BUSINESS JOURNAL","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126692447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Determinants of leverage: evidence based on BSE listed Indian auto ancillary firms","authors":"","doi":"10.37383/sbj160103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37383/sbj160103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":393952,"journal":{"name":"SKYLINE BUSINESS JOURNAL","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124473564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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