Organization Theory Review

Principals’ Administrative Behaviour in Nigerian Secondary Schools: Challenges and Remedies

Yusuf Suleiman, Mustapha Adam Ishola, Adetunji Lukman — Tue, 10 May 2022 06:28:48 +0000

The principal administrative behavior serves as a motivator whose
effectiveness in school business requires focus and commitment.
Actualizing the organization goal often poses severe challenge to
administrators. This paper is therefore designed to examine the various
challenges facing principals’ administrative behavior in Nigerian secondary
schools. The paper focuses on concept of principal administrative behavior,
school principals’ tasks in the realization of educational aims, factors
hindering principals’ administrative behavior in school administration,
relevance of principals’ administrative behavior in school administration.
Based on this, it was recommended that conferences, seminars and
workshops and other staff development programs should be sponsored by
the government to serve as motivational strategies for secondary school
principals. Also, persistent change in educational policies should be guided
against by the government to ensure consistency in educational system.
Government should endeavor to provide to schools the educational
resources which will improve principals’ administrative behavior
effectively and efficiently.

Socio-Economic Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Nigerian Worker: An Empirical Analysis

Faruk Abubakar, Tijani Amoto, Abdul malik — Tue, 10 May 2022 06:33:45 +0000

The current study investigated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on
workers in Nigeria from a socioeconomic standpoint. Nigeria remains one
of the most highly affected countries on the African continent; hence the
Nigerian government has emulated other countries in taking measures to
curtail the spread of the pandemic. These measures include but are not
limited to lockdown orders, due to which individuals stop going to work, as
well as the closure of factories and businesses. The lockdown order has been
applauded for being effective in curtailing the spread of the virus; however,
it is deemed to adversely affect the Nigerian workers in both the public and
private sectors. Many authors have contributed to literature related to the
COVID-19 pandemic, but there is still a paucity of literature investigating
the socio-economic effect of the lockdown order on Nigerian workers. To
the best of our knowledge, there is no empirical study that investigates the
COVID-19 pandemic and its socio-economic impact on civil servants and
bankers. The study adopted a survey research design and primary data
gathered through the survey was analyzed. The data collection instrument
was a questionnaire, which was filled in online using Google Forms. The
collected data was analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation
(PPMC) and t-test statistical tools. The findings of the study revealed that
COVID-19 has an inverse and minimal effect on the socio-economic
condition of public and private sector workers. The research proposed,
among other things, that the government should place mechanisms to curb
excessive price increase of products and services, ensuring that workers in
both the public and private sectors are not exploited during the COVID-19
pandemic.

Workforce Competency Models for Multiple Construction Projects: A Review

Mohammad Mahoud, Vahid Shahhosseini — Tue, 10 May 2022 06:38:11 +0000

In recent decades, several definitions of competency have been presented by prominent thinkers
and scholars of this field, each of them deals with the competency from a certain angle and
expressed different dimensions. Furthermore, the competency approach in human resource
management (HRM) is not a new trend, and the subject of competence is a very old subject
matter. On the contrary, human resource competence is one of the most important issues of any
organization, which includes diverse, attractive and, simultaneously, sophisticated topics. Today,
due to the dramatic changes in the field of HRM and the trend of managers to meritocracy in the
organization, the planning of an organization based on competency has a special place. Different
studies in this field show that the necessity to pay attention to the mission perspective, strategy,
organizational goals and structure will be an integral part in the successful assignment of human
resources and, without regard to this, the organization's approach cannot be determined. The use
of human resource competency models in multiple construction projects requires a major
paradigm, which in HRM literature refers to the competency-based human resource management
(CBHRM), and changes the thinking of human resource managers across individuals and
organizations, generally. This competency-based management approach is a coherent approach
for managing human capital in the long term, based on a common set of competency models
related to the macro strategies of each project in this field. In this paper, the researcher initially
reviewed the diversity of conceptual frameworks and components of competency models in
construction projects. Then, the competency models of the project manager, civil engineer, and
construction foreman and worker are identified in project-oriented organizations. At the end of
the research, a set of competencies of professional, ethical, cultural and social behaviour is
presented in a variety of competency models.

Impact of Non-Performing Loans and Capital Ratio on the Profitability of Banks: Evidence from Banking Sector of Pakistan

Umar Farooq, Sidra Qayyum, Bilal Haider Subhani — Tue, 10 May 2022 06:41:16 +0000

This research expresses how non-performing loans hoists the profitability
of the banks. The deductive approach has been used in this study and
profitability used as explained variable. The non-performing loans and
capital ratio used as explanatory variables and proxies by seven key ratios.
Five years data were used ranges from the year 2010 to 2014.This study
used fixed effect model for estimating the regression among variables. The
statistical results show that the non-performing loans may increase the
profitability of banks in some cases but normally showers the adverse effect
on profitability. The outputs of the study suggest that bank should enhance
the more loans because it may cause the more profitability instead of
thinking about non-performing loans as default loans. Because, nonperforming loans just passes from the stage of performing loans which are
the main source of earnings for banks. They should keep an optimistic
thought about loans. This research is an initiative which highlights the
dynamic effects of non-performing loans in determining the profitability of
banks specifically in Pakistanand shows the positive side of non-performing
loans.

Role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Combined Disaster Management

Muhammad Arfan, Zara Khan, Nael Qadri, M. Hassan Hameed, Abdul Rehman Amir — Tue, 10 May 2022 06:44:32 +0000

Disaster management is an important part in case of catastrophe for the wellbeing of humanity to save them from severe effects. For active disaster management combined approaches may be used such as applications of artificial intelligence, e.g. geographical analysis, risk mapping and tracking, obscure sensing ability, advance technologies for drone and machine learning and urban planning based on smart cities technology, analysis of hotspots and analysis of environmental impacts are modern technologies which needs to be studied more in the context of disaster management. Researchers of social sciences used different procedures and technology to analyze the hazards, risks and catastrophe between disciplinal.They utilized empirical and evaluative collection of data and itsanalysis techniques. The current study is an overview of present applications of AI being helpful in disaster management throughout its tetrahedral states. AI is important in all states of disaster management as it's a faster solution than other technologies. Integration of two basic supportive tools which are Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographically Information System (GIS) in disaster management provides higher level of planning and its analysis. It can help authorities to take quick and effective decisions in case of natural disaster.