Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics

1-16

Authors: Sanjee Udari SAMARANAYAKE, Toshihiko TAKEMURA

In this article, we investigated the relationships between organizational commitment, trust in peers and management and employee change readiness. The effects of demographic factors such as gender, age, and working experience on employees’ organizational commitment, trust in peers and management and their change readiness were also examined. We conducted a cross sectional questionnaire survey to collect data from a sample of 185 randomly selected employees in an export oriented business firm in Sri Lanka. Pearson Productmoment Correlation test was used to test the strength and direction of the relationships in the hypotheses. A Multiple analysis of variance (MANOVA) was employed to analyse the relationships between demographic variables and the three main variables concerned. This article unveiled that organizational commitment and trust in peers and management were significantly and positively correlated to employee readiness for organizational change. The article also revealed the significant association of certain demographic factors with trust in peers and management and employee readiness.

33-46

Authors: Rıfat KARAKUS

The main purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of accounting variables on systematic risk of firms. By using data of 58 companies from BIST-100 Index for the period between 2006 and 2015, panel data analysis is employed. The results of the study indicate a statistically significant and positive effect of asset size, asset turnover, previous term equity to total debt and previous term cash ratio on systematic risk. On the other hand, negative influence of profitability, equity to total debt, cash ratio and previous term debt to total assets on systematic risk is detected. Also the study determines that consumer price index, previous term beta and previous term GDP per capita affects the systematic risk negatively and increase the explanatory power of the model significantly.

71-88

Authors: Oualid ABIDI, Halil ZAIM, Dina YOUSSEF, Houshang HABIBNIYA, Alper BARAN

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the Diversity Management implementation in Kuwaiti context and try to reveal its effects on human resource management practices. Data was collected through questionnaires from a variety of companies in the service sector in Kuwait. Convenient sampling method is applied. Among the questionnaires distributed 354 useful ones from 87 different companies were considered. An exploratory factor analysis (EFA) with varimax rotation is used to determine the underlying dimensions of HRM and DM. Furthermore, a regression analysis is used to measure the effects of diversity management on HRM. The major findings of this study are as follows: first, there is a positive significant relationship between Diversity Management policies and Human Resources Management practices. The “ability to manage people from different backgrounds” have the most significant effect on HRM practices, followed by “Ability to work in harmony with people from different cultures” component, then “Avoidance of discrimination” component.

105-124

Authors: Obaid Ur REHMAN

The purpose of the study is to recognize the factors influencing non-performing loan in banking system of South Asian region for the period of 1999-2015. Generalized method of moment (GMM) is used to grasp the hetero nature of data at variant countries and apply impulse response function for robustness of results. The study results reveals that NPL is influenced by both macroeconomic indicators and bankspecific variables (although the bank-specific variables found to be low explanatory power due to their time variant indulgence, which marginally surge the within explanatory impact of every group while diminishes the between influence in the fixed effect estimations). The analysis indicates that NPL response to macroeconomic determinants is more significant in the post crisis period than pre crisis period. The scenario is suggesting that the level of NPL adversely affecting the economic recovery system in South Asian region.