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    Corporate governance and performance of islamic and conventional banks in Jordan: a balanced scorecard approach
    (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2017)
    Anan Fathi Sa'ad Srouji
    Global recession and failure in the banking sector pinpointed the fact of inactive ruJes and regulations of banks that should have been previously applied. Spreading out such rules, known as corporate governance elements, may have saved the world from the previous global crisis. Tlris study emerged to compare the effect of governance elements (financial reporting quality, corporate social responsibility, and intellectual capital) on bank performance for both conventional and Islamic banks in Jordan. Bank performance was divided into fmancial perspectives (profitability, employee activity, liquidity and asset quality) and non-financial perspectives (customer related, internal business, learning and innovation, and employee related), based on the balanced scorecard. As in Jordan most research exclude banks from balance scorecard studies, this research came to clarify how bank performance is affected by corporate governance. As Jordan is an Islamic country, based on additional rules derived from Shariah and religious perspectives, this research analyzed how Shariah may affect Islamic bank performance. The study was divided into two parts. The first part analyzed the financial perspectives of bank performance, using the financial annual reports to calculate performance ratios for the period 2011-2014. The population of banks comprised 21 conventional banks and 4 Islamic banks, as all banks in Jordan. Since results maybe insignificant because of uneven groups and small population, the research came to increase the number of ratios studied. Results for the first part of the study; related to the financial performance~ indicated that conventional banks were performing better than the Islamic banks, except for the latter's greater ability to cover unexpected withdrawals. Additionally, conventional banks were less risky than the Islamic banks, except for the Islamic banks' liquid ability to perform better in crisis, which supported previous findings. Results of the second part of the study was conducted through a structured questionnaire distributed to 206 bank branch managers; this survey indicated that corporate social responsibility had no influence on bank financial and non-financial perspectives. However, fmancial reporting quality and intellectual capital bad an effect on both performance perspectives, without any significant difference between the two types of banks except for employee-related perspectives, where conventional banks seemed to reaJize the importance of employees more than the competing Islamic banks. After factoring the moderating effect of Shariah and religious perspectives, results indicated the importance of corporate social responsibility. But interestingly, the Shariah Advisory Council had no effect on the variables. Since the balanced scorecard is based on the Stakeholders' Theory, which is practically difficult to imply to all parties, this constituted the main limitation of the study. Further study is recommended to investigate other corporate governance and performance perspectives, to examine more closely the results and relationships, or to investigate the same perspectives in greater depth.
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    Consumption values, perceived consumer effectiveness, eco-knowledge and green purchase behaviour of environment friendly and energy efficient electronic products market
    (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2017)
    Mohammad Solaiman
    Over the past few decades, marketers and researchers have paid much attention to the underlying motivation for green purchase behaviour. The present study is designed to investigate the green purchase behaviour of electronic products market using the theory of consumption values. Functional value, social value, emotional value, epistemic value, conditional value, and corporate image value are tested in relation to green purchase behaviour of environment friendly and energy efficient electronic products market. In addition to that perceived consumer effectiveness is tested as the mediator between the consumption values and green purchase behaviour while eco-knowledge is tested as the moderator in the relationship between perceived consumer effectiveness and green purchase behaviour. Data are collected through a structured questionnaire survey from the six big cities of Bangladesh namely Dhaka, Chittagong, Rajshahi, Khulna, Sylhet and Comilla. The respondents of this study are the actual buyers of environmentfriendly and energy efficient electronic products. Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling are used to analyse the collected data using Smart PLS software version 2.0M3. The analysis reveales that functional value, social value, conditional value, corporate image value and perceived consumer effectiveness are positively and significantly correlated with green purchase behaviour. Besides, a significantly positive relationship is found among functional value, social value, conditional value, corporate image value and perceived consumer effectiveness. Perceived consumer effectiveness mediates the relationship between functional value, social value, epistemic value, corporate image value and green purchase behaviour. It is also found that ecoknowledge moderates the relationship between perceived consumer effectiveness and green purchase behaviour. The research findings provide some theoretical contributions to the literature and provide insight into consumers' green purchase behaviour towards environment-friendly and energy efficient electronic products. The findings of this study also have a lot of insightful managerial implications, especially for the industry, policy makers and the government.
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    Effects of islamic leadership and ethical administrative practive towards masjid performance in Lagos Nigeria
    (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2022)
    Abdulhadi Alade Tihamiyu-Eniafe
    The general aim of this research is to examine the effect of Islamic Ethical Administrative Practice of Imams on the Islamic Leadership Antecedents, including general cognitive ability, motivation to lead, personality traits, and religiosity behaviour towards Masjid Performance in Islamic community of Lagos State, Nigeria. This research utilized Islamic human resource management and resource-based theory as the underpinning theories. Based on this, the research formulated four overarching objectives. Considering these objectives, the study employed a cross-sectional quantitative survey and analysed final 310 questionnaires using Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling technique. The findings showed that all the factors of this research had a significant effect on Masjid Performance, except personality traits. Overall, this research concluded that effective and efficient implementation and utilization of an organization’s intangible resources with the adoption of Islamic Ethical Administrative Practice of Imams will enhance Masjid Performance. This research provides important practical insights to the Chief Imams and other practitioners on how to come up with policies to improve Masjid Performance as enshrined in the Holy Qur’ān, Sunnah of Rosulullah/the Prophet Muhammad (SAW)’s method, and to encourage people towards Masjid performance with respect to attendance, participation in activities, and funding of Masjid. This research recommends the effectiveness of Islamic Ethical Administrative Practice of Imams in promoting efficiency in Masjid Performance by imbibing the general cognitive ability, motivation to lead, and religiosity behaviour. Finally, the research contributes to the body of knowledge by providing a conceptual framework that academic communities and future researchers can beacon at to study the performance of Masjid and other similar organizations based on the variables of this study which previous researchers have not paid attention to.
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    HRM practices and organizational performance in Mutah University in Jordan
    (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2014)
    Mohammadnoor Khaled M. Alqudah
    This study was conducted to examine the effect of HRM practices towards rganizational performance in Mutah University in Jordan. A total of 350 sets of questionnaire had been distributed and 332 questionnaires could be used for coding, analyzing and hypotheses testing. Data for all the study variables were collected through self-administered survey questionnaires and analyze using SPSS version 22.0. A total of six hypotheses were formulated and the results showed that all hypotheses are supported. The results indicated that: (1) recruitment and selection is significantly (B= .114) related to organizational performance, (2) training and development is significantly (B= .235) related to organizational performance, (3) pay systems is significantly (B= .131) related to organizational performance, ( 4) manpower planning is significantly (B= .129) related to organizational performance, (5) quality circle is significantly (B= . 121) related to organizational performance, ( 6) performance appraisal is significantly (B= .232) related to organizational performance. The finding indicates that, there are positive effects of Human Resource Management practices on organizational performance.
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    A comparative study of the effects of the selected economic and financial market variables on stock market returns of Malaysia and Bangladesh
    (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2020)
    Fatima Ruhani
    Malaysia and Bangladesh are two Asian countries that have some common aspects of religion and history. Both countries have growing capital markets in line with their economies. In light of this background, a comparative analysis is conducted in this study on the basis of the stock market return. The effects of selected economic and financial market variables are examined, and a comparative study is then conducted between the two markets on the basis of these effects. This study is aimed at finding the relationship of stock market return and selected economic and financial market variables grounded by the arbitrage pricing theories. The Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) is used to examine the effects of financial market variables (market capitalization, earning per share, price-earning multiples, dividend yield, and trading volume) on the stock market returns for both countries. The economic variables used in this study are interest rate, exchange rate, GDP and trade openness. This study incorporates secondary data from 2005 to 2016. Random effect panel data models are used for the analysis of the effects of economic variables. The regression result of the financial market variables and stock market return shows that, except for trading volume, all the selected financial market variables play significant roles in the stock market returns for both countries. The regression result of economic variables and stock market return shows that, except for the interest rate and trade openness, all the selected economic variables play a significant role in explaining stock market return for both of the countries. The comparative study on the basis of the effects of financial market variables was conducted using the panel data analysis method. The result shows that in Malaysia, both economic and financial market variables have more effects on the stock market return than that of in Bangladesh. The outcome of this study can contribute by helping the domestic and global investors formulate strategies to minimize their risks. Also, policy administrators may use the outcomes of this study to inform the micro and macro-level policy formulation. Moreover, the present study will contribute to filling the gap in knowledge concerning the new release of factors affecting stock market return and the comparative study of two capital markets.
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