Dr. Md. Aftab Anwar

The pattern and scope of business are changing frequently these days. Smart managers play various creative roles to deal with this rapid change and development. Continuous innovation and generation of new ideas are now adding value to the strategic business management. Thus, it seems that fresh ideas and new intelligence are needed to help managers to manage better, and leaders to lead more effectively. Spiritual intelligence plays a significant role in helping the managers and employees to deal with this dynamic change in the business environment. Spiritual intelligence is defined as understanding the meaning and context of our behavior and action that makes mindful choices rather than enchaining us to respond reflexively to life’s demands. It has an influence over individual behavior that will have an effect on individual work performance. This conceptual paper analyzes the nature of relationship existing between spiritual intelligence and employee performance mediated by organiza...

In today’s competitive business environment, most organizations are trying to excel by outsmarting others through all means resulting in many cases of violations in ethical standards and moral values by organizational leaders. The recent episodes of such corporate scandals and ethical violations give testimony to this effect. There is an urgent need to include more ethics related courses and training programs in universities and in corporate programs. Although some research has been done on the effects of work ethics and organizational commitment in the western hemisphere, no empirical study was found to have conducted in the dynamic Asia-Pacific region, particularly in the service industry. This research attempted to bridge the research gap by identifying the nature of relationship existing between ethical behavior and employee performance as well as by identifying the mediation effects of commitment to job. The study was conducted on employees working in services sector companies ...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between consumption values (CV), destination cues (DC), nostalgia and attitude in the selection of destination for educational tourism, and the mediating effect of destination image (DI). Design/methodology/approach The research applied descriptive statistics, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation modelling techniques. The study tested the reliability and validity of the measurement model through CFA, Cronbach’s α and inter-correlation analyses. This research applied the structural equation model to examine the relationship between the research variables using 250 foreign students. Findings The results of data analysis support the stated hypotheses. All the direct relationships were significant and positive. However, DI found a partial mediating role among the relationships. Theoretical and practical implications are also discussed. Research limitations/implications From this research the touri...

The spotlight of this study is to examine the attributes and essential elements of millionaire’s mind programming and to utilize a contemporary psychological method to evaluate consciousness that enhance entrepreneurial performance through entrepreneurial motivation among the entrepreneurs in Malaysia. The premise of this point of convergence is to know which elements of an entrepreneurial mind programming are deficient and to have the capacity to concoct thoughts that can be utilized to enhance these lacking for entrepreneurial success. The study represents a significant positive relationship between millionaire’s mind programming and entrepreneurial performance mediated by entrepreneurial motivation. The findings of the results also confirm that millionaire’s mind programming is an important factor among other factors that have influenced over entrepreneurial motivation. The outcome of the study will help the training and development authorities to take necessary steps to outline ...

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to test a conceptual model that takes into account both edu-tourists’ perception and perceived service quality in explaining purchase intention of academic degrees from the foreign universities. Design/methodology/approachThe study is based on an empirical examination with applying multivariate data analysis. The data were collected through survey questionnaires and analysed by using structural equation modelling procedure. FindingsThe survey result discovered that the relationship between perceived service quality and edu-tourist’s satisfaction was significant and positive. The relationship between edu-tourist’s satisfaction and intention to purchase was also significant and positive. Meanwhile, edu-tourist’s satisfaction partially mediates the relationship between their perceived service quality and intention to purchase. Nevertheless, this research also explored that the edu-tourist’s satisfaction plays a significant mediating effect in between...

Purpose The aim of this study is to develop a spiritual intelligence scale from an Islamic perspective. In addition, this research explores the relationship of spiritual intelligence from an Islamic perspective with emotional intelligence among the students of higher learning institutions in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 250 students from different higher learning institutions in Malaysia. Findings The findings of the study show the relationships of spiritual intelligence from an Islamic perspective and emotional intelligence. Statistically significant relationships were found between four dimensions of spiritual intelligence from an Islamic perspective (e.g. transcendental awareness, meaning of life, patience and forgiveness) and emotional intelligence. Originality/value The contribution of human intelligence in the development higher learning institution is remarkable. Most research found on spiritual intelligence is from traditional and Western pe...

This paper traces various strategic ideas for creation of knowledge to attain competitive
advantage by organization. Knowledge (both implicit and explicit) is created through
dynamic interactions among individuals, the organization, and the environment. The key
factors create tacit or implicit knowledge and are practical experience through application
of talents, transformation through conversation, escapes observation and evaluation of various
actors and forces in a particular situation, embedded in stories and narratives, held within
self through understanding and judgments, through experiment, using insights and understandings
of individuals and their judgments and so on. Extracting knowledge from within
the employees, creation of knowledge culture, interaction among virtual teams, connection
between knowledge and organizational learning, encouraging communication, face-to-face
and synchronous conversation, apprenticeship and training, contacting expert, sending email,
transcribing talks, team intersection are the major options for the creation of explicit
knowledge. However, in utilizing these strategic options, manager should maintain cohesion
among all the variables and a consideration of contingency to make the knowledge
creation process a fruitful one.