Jornal of Management, Economics and Industrial Organization

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Authors: Inayath Ahamed S B, Dinesh Elango

This novel study examines the relation of work-life balance with different job resigning approaches. The core objective of this study is to explore the impact of job enlargement, job rotation and job enrichment on the work-life balance of banking professionals. A structured questionnaire used for collecting data from top management of banking professionals. The sample size is 300 and out of 300 samples, 259 (86.3%) had responded about their experiences towards redesign approaches with work-life balance. The work-life balance considered as a dependent variable and job enlargement, job rotation and job enrichment is taken as independent variables. The multiple regression model used to analyze and explore the significant relation between work-life balances and job enlargement, job rotation and job enrichment. The findings of the study established that there is a positive correlation between two approaches of job resign namely job enrichment and job enlargement and work-life balance and a negative correlation between job rotation and work-life balance.

24-36.

Authors: Somvixay Chanthavong

Financial system plays a key role in allocating the investment fund from household savings to the corporate sector, and increases the risk sharing among individuals and the firms. The understanding of timely financial market participation is hence crucial, particularly in the country that is on the journey of graduation from the least developed country, called Lao People’s Democratic Republic. This research therefore focuses on prescribing the transition of financial system by providing the story of financial development evolution from first independent period and present direction. This pioneer article aims to create the clear understanding on how the Lao financial institutions have been formed up periodically, and what the principal strategies are presented from government in responding to the economic change of the nation. As the result, we find that the financial system in Laos seems to have impressive growth during the transition period, while the foreign branches have mostly covered and been large size in term of total assets comparing to other bank categories. This identifies a significant challenge for local banks in regard to the competition condition. Hence, we recommend considering more proper strategies on foreign own banks aiming to utilize their asset to financial intermediation as well as prevent them from having too large market power.

48-62.

Authors: Louie Giray

In any work setting, work values play an indispensable role in the success of an employee. Similarly, in the arena of education, the success of a teacher in his or her endeavor can be attributed on work values. The current study, which employs a descriptive research approach, builds on existing scholarly investigation on work values in the education industry by (1) assessing the work values of 155 secondary school teachers in Taguig City, Philippines; and (2) examining whether there is a significant difference between the work values and demographic variables. Results show that (1) all the work values—discipline, creativity, orderliness, patience, decisiveness, and achievement—are generally very much practiced; and (2) there is no significant difference between work values and each demographic variable. In light of the conclusions, schools should aid inspire secondary school teachers in developing their work values to improve oneself personally and professionally which can influence the performance of the school as a whole. It is also encouraged to broaden the subject matter's purview by expanding it to the regional and national levels.