The aim of this research is to investigate the impact of empowering leadership on organizations outcomes with the mediating role of work engagement, personal group fit and personal job fit. In addition, the study chooses the employee proactive personality as a moderator between empowering leadership and organization outcomes. The study selects a sample of 280 employee of Business park co, a company located in Jordan. To collect the necessary data, the questionnaire was published. The results provide an important relationship between employment leadership and organization outcomes. Also, empowering leadership is emphatically affecting the empowering leadership through work engagement with aberrant impact of person job fit and person-group fit. The results also indicate proactive personality expanded empowering leadership direct impact on person-job fit and person-group fit and circuitous impact on work engagement.

This study aims to cast the light on the impact of lean manufacturing on performing Jordanian public shareholding industrial companies listed in ASE. Data were collected and developed through a questionnaire built on the basis of previous studies. The number of companies that answered the questionnaire questions was 38 companies out of 45 companies, which means that the percentage of the study sample reached 84.44% of the study community. The results showed that lean manufacturing has an impact on the performance in its three dimensions; namely operational, financial, and the environmental. The improvement of operational, financial and environmental performance, as a result of applying lean manufacturing method was optimized to 9.2%-11.8%. In fact, the pharmaceutical industries were the most sectors that apply the lean manufacturing method, followed by food industry companies and then chemicals companies, which were the lowest sector that applies lean manufacturing method.

The paper was designed with the purpose of discovering the relationships among legal environment, corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices and business success. Data collection from 869 companies was processed with quantitative methodology; all of the respondents were identified to be working at the managerial level in Ho Chi Minh City and Binh Duong Province, Vietnam. The empirical outcomes indicated that legal environment significantly affects business success directly and indirectly the mediation of CSR practices; economic CSR, philanthropic CSR, legal CSR and environment CSR. Ethical CSR was excluded from the proposed model after exploratory factor analysis. By developing the awareness of CSR and encouraging Vietnamese corporates to practice on CSR activities, this study contributes to the local business’s further growth for better business performances as well as for the overall benefit of the society. Moreover, suggestions for future researches are also recommended to extend the related topics.

The study identified factors affecting the income of migrant households in Trieu Son district, Thanh Hoa province. To achieve this goal, in this study we surveyed 385 migrant households in the study area. The analysis of the multivariate linear regression model has identified three factors that have significant impacts on household income, including (i) the number of migrants, (ii) Number of activities income generation activities, (iii) Destination of migrants. On this basis, the study offers some meaningful solutions to improve income and ensure the lives of migrant households in Trieu Son district, Thanh Hoa province in the near future.

The primary objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between Human Resources Management Practices (HRMP) and Job Engagement with mediating role of Psycho-logical Capital (PsyCap) in Telecommunications companies in Jordan (Zain, Orange, Umniah). The researcher relied on descriptive analytical method to analyze and classify the data to achieve the objectives of the study and to identify the variables of the study. A total of (270) questionnaires are sent out to the top and middle management of Jordanian telecom companies in Amman (Zain, Orange, Umniah), 9 questionnaires are excluded, as they were not valid for statistical analysis. The number of questionnaires analyzed are 261 (96.7%). The results showed that there was an impact of the dimensions (Jobs analysis and description, Selection and recruitment, Training, Performance appraisal) on Job Engagement and Psychological Capital. Also, the results indicate an impact of Psychological Capital on Job Engagement and there is a partial impact of the Psychological Capital, that is, there is an impact of Human Resources Management Practices through the moderator variable (Psychological Capital).

The objective of this study is to study the effect of technical quality in improving the performance of the university and to know the relationship between them. To achieve this goal, a questionnaire was designed and distributed among 213 academic scientific department heads who were working for five Iraqi universities and the results were analyzed using SPSS version 23. The results showed the effect of technical quality in improving performance in Iraqi universities. There was also a positive correlation between technical quality and performance while the results indicated a weak academic program. From the results of the research, we suggest some treatments.

Generally speaking, the severe financial constraints of the municipalities on the one hand, and the inefficiency of state investment companies on the other hand, affirm the necessity of private sector participation in the efficiency of providing services to cities. The performance of the private sector in comparison with the public sector has its own properties and characteristics, the most important of which are high performance and access to diverse resources. Valuable international experience in the field of municipalities’ utilization of private sector capacities to implement urban services projects confirms this issue. The present study was conducted aiming to apply fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making technique (FMCDM) in formulating and prioritizing strategies for developing economic participation in urban management of Ahvaz Metropolis. The main research approach was developmental-applied, descriptive, analytical, and survey research. Based on the SWOT analysis, identifying and evaluating the current situation were done and then, according to the identified criteria, four strategies were developed. Finally, using FDEMATEL technique, strategies were prioritized. The research results show that the strategies such as doing pathological study in Ahvaz municipality investment; designing and providing investment packages; increasing the positive interaction with the executive and necessary devices with the participation of other interested organizations for the promotion of services and performing tasks based on laws, regulations and guidelines delegated to the municipality; forecasting the incentive system to reduce the risk of projects; providing Cadastre and GIS; designing a database of investors and urban projects; setting up an in-vestment facilitation team with the participation of departments related to the municipality; and identifying regular investment capacities related to inherent duties of the municipality are among the most important strategies in developing economic participation in Ahwaz Metropolis.

The purpose of this article is to make an assessment on infrastructure development efficiency based on Data envelopment analysis (DEA) method. The proposed method allows assessing the level of current infrastructure conditions which provides production and social dimension of its stable development. The article substantiates the necessity of conducting an analytical assessment of infrastructure development level which identifies its weaknesses and determines potential of improving its performance indicators. An integral assessment of transport infrastructure efficiency is proposed. To assess the problems of infrastructure development provision, a comparative analyses and ordering the objects according to growth or decrease of the indicators is performed. The results of the research allow discovering the causes of harmful phenomena in the system of management and development, and identifies major trends and prospects of development.

This article concentrates on extending a theoretical framework by exploring employees’ willingness to report unethical issues under the effects of ethical leadership, public service motivation, peer relationship, affective commitment, and fairness. By using structural equation modeling to analyze data collection from 320 public servants in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, the results demonstrate that all the mentioned factors are positively correlated with willingness to report unethical issues in the context of the public sector, except for public service motivation. The findings open a potential path for future investigation of affective commitment and fairness as mediators that help to stimulate the behavioral reports of misconduct at workplaces. The new findings expand the literature in the public sector and suggest possible solutions to promote an energetically ethical environment.

The aim of this research is to investigate the repurchase intention of online customers at e-commerce merchants. The study investigates three factors; perceived risk, perceived usefulness, and online trust through collecting samples from 128 college students in the Online Learning program in Jakarta. The analysis technique used is SEM-PLS, with the guidance of the SmartPLS 3.0 program. The results of the study confirm that perceived risk had a negative effect on online trust and repurchase intention. Perceived usefulness has a positive impact on online trust and repurchase intention. Lastly, online trust influences repurchase intention in e-commerce merchants.