Bank tries to provide ease of service by utilizing information technology for safe and appropriate services in the transaction. The Bank also provides ease of service in the aspect of flexibility, efficiency, and simplicity. Customers do not need to come to the bank and wait for the long queue with e-banking. E-banking products have a wide range of derivative products, including one of the latest products in the form of mobile banking that is known as M-banking. Mobile banking is one part of the e-banking which is a banking information service via the new wireless offered by the bank using mobile technology to support smooth and ease of banking activities. Based on the above presentation, researchers are interested in researching the measurement of technology of e-banking by customer at State Bank using UTAUT to achieve competitive advantage. Respondents in this research were 834 and data analysis techniques were performed using SEM-PLS. The results show that expectancy performance enhancement, Effort Expectancy, Social Influence, Condition and Security Facilitating will cause Enhancement Behavior Intention Behavior Use directly and indirectly, which means that if we want to upgrade Behavior Intention and Use Behavior, we need to increase this variable. This study gives important implications for the promotion of Use Behavior Intention Behavior through the acceptance of the technology of e-banking customers of the governmental banks in Jakarta.

The use of celebrity endorsements is one of the most popular strategies used by companies today. Celebrities can bring product advantages through advertising and go beyond the complexities of competitive advertising communications. The company invests a large amount of money to get the attention of consumers and gain a competitive position in the market. The purpose of this study is to explore the effect of celebrity trust on the credibility of advertisements, brands, and companies, then the influence between the credibility of advertisements, brands, and companies, and will also explore the role of gender and age as moderating variables. The study used a quantitative method, the sample was taken based on purposive sampling in Jakarta and used the artist with the most followers as the object of research who endorsed food and beverage companies. The results of this study explain that there is a significant influence between celebrity trust on all credibility, gender and age managed to moderate the influence of celebrity trust on credibility. This study provides input to managers and food and beverage companies in using endorsements on Instagram social media as their marketing strategy, especially for companies that have a market share of young people in accordance with the characteristics of the respondents in this study.

This paper presents an overview on recent studies on the role of gender in corporate governance. We study the recent works on the relationship between gender and firms’ financial performance as well as the relationship between gender and firms’ interest in global warming. According to our survey, it appears that firms with the presence of females had more concerns on green gas effects than other male oriented corporations did. Moreover, according to our survey, when a female member joins the board of directors, most investors consider this as a positive signal for profitability. In other words, it appears that the presence of female contributes to firm’s financial performance.

This study examines the role of gender on entrepreneurial marketing (EM) and Bangladeshi Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) performance relationship. A self-administered questionnaire was conducted. A total of 220 owners of SMEs in Bangladesh were selected randomly as respondents from the list of active SMEs in Dhaka and Narayanganj city. The data were analyzed by using SEM-AMOS package 25.0. This study finds that there was a significant and direct effect of entrepreneurial marketing on firm performance. In addition, there was a significant effect of gender as a moderating variable in this relationship. At the corporate level, this study provides insights for the SMEs in making decisions related to gender and firm performance. The implications of the above findings are discussed.

This study aims to investigate the effects of demographic characteristics, including gender, marital status, level of education and age on adherence to religious values among young people in city of Shahin Dezh and Takab, located in province of West Azerbaijan, Iran in 2014. The study has accomplished between two groups of Turk and Kurd with the population of 85,000 and 89,000, respectively. The study uses a sample of 20 and 30 people from Turkish and Kurdish tribes, respectively, and uses t-student test as well as regression analysis to examine different hypotheses of the survey. The results show that there was a meaningful difference among various variables of gender, marital status, education level and age in adherence to religious values among the youth who live in this city.

Job satisfaction plays an important role on increasing business productivity and efficiency. This paper presents an empirical investigation to study the relationship between job satisfaction and employees’ personal characteristics including gender, marital status, etc. The proposed study designs a questionnaire and distributes it among 244 out of 800 employees who worked for cement industry in Iran. The data are analyzed using different statistical tests such as t-student and analysis of variance. The results indicate that while there was not any meaningful relationship between gender and job satisfaction there was some meaningful relationship between marital status and job satisfaction.

Job satisfaction plays an essential role on having happy society since people may have better lives when they fully satisfied with their jobs. In this paper, we present an empirical study to investigate the effect of marital status as well as educational background on job satisfaction. The study performs the study among university employees of Khomeinishar branch located in province of Esfahan, Iran and all questions are designed in Likert scale of 1-5 based on Brayfield & Rothes Index of job satisfaction. Using a sample of 100 people, the study first uses Kolmogrov-Smirnov test and verifies that all data are normally distributed (?=5%). The survey also finds that there is no difference between female and male employees in terms of job satisfaction (?=5%). In addition, the study confirms that marital status has no significance on job satisfaction (?=5%).

We present a social work study on relationship between parenting styles and career aspirations as well as psychological well-being among third year high school female students in city of Khomeinishahr, Iran during the year of 2012. The study selects a sample of 300 students from 1260 female students who were enrolled in third year high school education, randomly. The study uses the Baumrind’s questionnaire on parenting style, which consists of 30 questions which equally measure three parenting styles including authoritarian, indulgent and authoritative in Likert scale. The survey also uses Gottfredson’s questionnaire to examine occupational aspirations. The study examines whether there is any relationship between parenting style from one side and three personal characteristics including gender, career aspiration and wishes type on the other side. Using Chi-Square technique, the survey examines three hypotheses and the results confirm all three hypotheses of the survey.

This paper presents a study to investigate the effect of university education on leadership capacity of both male and female management students of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. The data were collected from the first and the last year students using classified sampling method. The results of 116 questionnaires analyzed using SPSS software indicate that university education had a different effect on both male and female students' leadership capacity. Comparing the results of this study with other countries shows that the role of culture should be considered as an effective factor, while evaluating and comparing students' leadership capacity among communities.

The Indigenous Ghanaian woman entrepreneur, this study found exhibits many similarities with their counterparts in other countries in terms of their personality traits. However, they differed in other aspects such as their educational backgrounds and modes of entrepreneurial skills acquisition. Through their entrepreneurial activities the women have made substantial contributions to the economic growth of Ghana in terms of innovation, job creation, and reduction in poverty and unemployment. Using a survey methodology, this study concludes that to succeed as a female entrepreneur in Ghana, one requires some specific knowledge, skills and attitudes.