Shadiullah Khan

Gomal University · Department of Public Administration

The current study proposes to understand the dynamic relationship between employees’ job insecurity and mental and health related issues, through the mediating role of perceived control. The relationship is based upon theoretical underpinning of Appraisal Theory. Results indicated that Perceived Control mediated the relationship between JIS and MHC...

The current research study focus on investigating the model of leadership, its effectiveness and emotional intelligence level among the banking sector employees proposed by (Badrui-Harun, Zainol, Amar and Sheri.,2016). In order to get appropriate response data was obtained from banking sector employees located in Islamabad through random sampling t...

Lack of financial resources is considered one of the main constraints of women participation in economic development. The microfinance is considered as one of the important tool for resolving this problem. The overall aim of this study is to explore the impact of microfinance on women microenterprises. With the help of survey design; the primary da...

For the economic development and poverty alleviation of any state, academicians are the role model of the system, accountable for producing specialized workforce. This role becomes more important in the background of the developing countries (DCs). In the current research, the researcher made an effort to investigate the impact of job satisfaction...

It is a matter of great concern that the dissatisfaction among the academician`s distort their commitment level to such an extent that the concerned academic institution has to bear the cost of their departure in many respects. All analysis circles around the idea of identifying, analyzing and calculating the role of job satisfaction and organizati...

For the economic development and poverty alleviation of any state, academicians are the role model of the system, accountable for producing specialized workforce. This role becomes more important in the background of the developing countries (DCs). In the current research, the researcher made an effort to investigate the impact of job satisfaction...

The commitment of academicians is incredibly significant for an academic institution. Once the employee’s commitment diminishes, the institution could face the challenge of complexity in retaining them. Organizational commitment (OC) is becoming an increasingly significant issue in competitive educational environment of higher education institution...

This study evaluated the impact of microfinance on overall household financial position, accumulation of household assets and quality of life of the First Microfinance Bank (FMFB) client's in urban zone of District Quetta. The field data was collected through structured questionnaires from 75 clients i.e. 57 members from treatment group and 18 memb...

Employment traits have been studied having an impact over the organization commitment of the teachers. However, the scholars have inconsistent views regarding the relative strength of different traits groups such as Experience, Education, Type of Organizations, Chairpersonship, Salary and Designation over the commitment. In existing study, Meyer an...

Context (social, organizational, human and job-related) plays dominant role in the determination of the job satisfaction of employees in any organization however; its role differs from advanced to developing countries both in terms of number of the factors as well as the intensity of different contexts. The context of organizations in the developin...

Performance Appraisal System (PAS) in the civil service of Pakistan has been established to fulfill various purposes. Previously, this aspect of PAS in the civil service has not been investigated. In this study we examine perceptions of the civil servants regarding various purposes of the PAS. Data was collected from the civil servants working in t...

Students, Teachers (Colleagues), and Administrative-heads are commonly used as the 'Evaluators' of teachers' performance in most of the higher education institutions. There is diversity of views about the validity and reliability of evaluations by these stakeholders. For example, researchers point to the fact that demographic attributes of the eval...

The role of demographic attributes on the user-attitudes is well-reported and recorded in the literature on the development and use of eLearning systems in the higher education institutions (HEIs) of the world. Given the increasing role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in almost every aspect of life, the organizations (including...

The job satisfaction of an employee prevails between two extremes of satisfaction and dissatisfaction from his/her job in any kind of organization. Where does an employee stand on the continuum of two extremes, depends on different job-related and contextual factors. Almost every research on the organizational behaviors like job satisfaction identi...

The interrelationships between different perceptions and attitudes of e-Learning users are widely researched, which reveals that whatever the perception and theory of a user about the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and e-Learning environment are, the same is reflected in his/her attitude towards using educational technologies for...

Several theories have been proposed to view this attitude of job satisfaction in the organizational work environment. Human behavior is made of belief (cognition) and action (physical) therefore most of the theories either emphasize cognitive or prioritize action/behavior levels to be important in the employee’s attitudes of motivation/satisfaction...

The interrelationships between different perceptions and attitudes of e-Learning users are widely researched, which reveals that whatever the perception and theory of a user about the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and e-Learning environment are, the same is reflected in his/her attitude towards using educational technologies for...

Research focusing on public perceptions of government has been widespread; however, little attention has been devoted to local government units. This focus is particularly interesting considering the enhanced role that local governmental units have assumed in recent years. Focusing on people perception of the recent decentralized government in Nort...

Local government reform 2001 is an important part of the Government of Pakistan's programme for democratic renewal. The main feature of introducing the Local Government System was to empower the people at the grassroots level and to transfer power from the elite to the masses. This paper uses councillors‘ data from north-western Pakistan to examine...

The problem under investigation was to determine the evaluation of academic performance of university teachers as perceived by their students. Significance of this study was to know a). The methods of teaching used regarding their performance during teaching learning process. b). is there any significant difference among the academic performance of...

Participation is considered as a key to success in developmental activities. Participatory approach has proved its worth in many developing countries including Pakistan. The approach when was applied in NWFP the results were not so encouraging. The paper in hand assesses the application of Participatory approach in a typical district of Charsadda,...

The government is almost the sole source of services in the rural sector of developing countries. Being closest to the people and central to the participatory development, local government in these countries has been assigned a strong role to play in rural development. This study is basically designed to evaluate the 'district government system' in...