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Abstract - Contribution of Organizational Learning and Market Orientation on Business Unit Performance Mediated by Job Satisfaction at Dairy Cattle Milk Cooperatives in East Java, Indonesia
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Abstract: Dairy cattle milk cooperatives in East Java has been threatened to be failure in achieving the target of Milk Self-Capacity By 2020. The reason of this failure threat is low productivity among dairy cattle milk entrepreneurs. Productivity is closely related with performance of dairy cattle milk business units, but this performance is affected by factors such as organizational learning, market orientation and job satisfaction. The objective of this research is to understand the contribution of organizational learning and market orientation on business unit performance through mediation of job satisfaction. This research is designed to use quantitative approach. The causal relationship across research variables is examined with Structural Equation Modeling-Partial Least Squares (SEM-PLS). Research population is 52 dairy cattle milk cooperatives in East Java. Sampling method is simple random sampling, and after using this sampling to populaton, it results in a sample of 46 cooperatives. Data are collected through questionnaire. Questions on questionnaire are made and processed with Software SmartPLS Version 3.27. Research has given some results: (1) Organizational Learning and Market Orientation have a positive contribution to the increase of Job Satisfaction; (2) Organizational Learning and Market Orientation do not have a positive contribution to the increase of Business Unit Performance; and (3) Job Satisfaction has a positive contribution to the increase of Business Unit Performance at dairy cattle milk cooperatives in East Java. Keywords: Organizational Learning, Market Orientation, Job Satisfaction, Business Unit Performance. |
Abstract - The Impact of Governance on Income Inequality in Ten Asian Countries
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Abstract: This study utilizes panel data analysis over the 1996 to 2015 period to investigate the impact of governance quality (including democratic quality and technical quality) on income inequality in ten Asain countries, classified as “advanced economies” and “emerging market and developing economies”. The empirical results show that the impacts of democratic quality and technical quality on income inequality are significantly negative within “emerging market and developing economies”. However, for the “advanced economies”, the effects of democratic quality and technical quality on income inequality are nonsignificantly positive and significantly positive, respectively. These findings imply that promoting good governance is useful to reduce income inequality for “emerging market and developing economies” but the effect may not be effective for “advanced economies. Keywords: Income Inequality, Governance, Panel Data Analysis. |
Abstract - Can Stronger Family Connections Alleviate the Adverse Effects of Unemployment on Happiness? Evidence from Asian Countries
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Abstract: This study aims to investigate whether and how the family connection is critical to alleviate the negative effect of unemployment on people’s happiness by employing the World Values Survey data set regarding people in Chinese culture-related regions for empirical work. Empirically, we found family connections constitute a crucial factor in determining people’s happiness level. Except for living with parents, other family variables are positively significant in the happiness determination equation. Taking related measurements for family connections in the happiness determination equation is important in reducing estimation bias. Moreover, family connection reduces the fear of being unemployed and psychological losses from recession due to the worsening of job opportunities in economy. Stronger family connections can facilitate overcoming the stress and fear of being unemployed during recessions. Among the family-related variables, considering family important is of the largest marginal effect in alleviating the adverse effects of unemployment on happiness. This finding is robust among various age cohorts and between genders and among different model specifications. However, the ability of family connection to alleviate the adverse effect of unemployment on the happiness level of an unemployed worker is supported less by the data. We found that certain types of family connections might diminish the happiness of unemployed people, although the regression results are of no statistical significance. Those types of family connections include living with parents and considering family a crucial part of life. Keywords: Family connection, unemployment, happiness, Asian countries. |
Abstract - The Impacts of Working Conditions and Employee Competences of Fresh Graduates on Job Expertise, Salary and Job Satisfaction
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Abstract: This study explores the factors that have critical impacts on job expertise and further analyses on how the jobs affect salary and job satisfaction. Job seekers consider the working conditions when seeking jobs. However, he/she will acquire an ideal job or not, it depends on his/her employee competences. The former is his/her job demands and expectations and the latter is the ability he/she has. These two factors determine his/her job expertise which further influences the salary and job satisfaction. The data are collected from those new graduates who entering the workforce from Taiwan's universities in 2009 and structural equation modeling is applied for data analysis. Three findings are presented. First of all, the correlation coefficient is 0.40 which indicates strong relationship when it comes to the relation of employee competences and working conditions. Secondly, employee competences have significantly positive impacts on job expertise, salary and job satisfaction. However, working conditions have significantly negative impacts on salary. Finally, job expertise has significantly positive impacts on salary and job satisfaction but salary has no significant impacts on job satisfaction. Keywords: Working conditions, employee competences, job satisfaction, labor market, structural equation modeling (SEM). |
