Does your Appraisal System Work? Can Appraisal System work as a method of retaining human power and work as a strategy for building culture? Each year, employees and their immediate bosses enter into an elaborate gaming exercise called the annual performance appraisal. Most of it is form filling, and yet every company goes through the ritual. It's time to reappraise appraisal systems. Appraisal systems require constant rejuvenation and renewal. If appraisal systems have to serve development purposes without creating any insecurity or defensiveness we need to learn to treat employees with a shade ...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to identify to what extent employees are engaged at work using five significant independent variables despite the financial, economic and pandemic crises that Lebanon is going through today. Design/methodology/approach – The study is survey-based, questionnaires are distributed to the frontline bank employees and the data will be collected from Byblos Bank branches across Lebanon. The sample for the study will include 205 Byblos Bank staff (Including managers and employees). The study will be conducted as a positivist approach. Findings – The study results ...

The shipping industry is a major determinant of the Lebanese trade and service sector. Shipping agencies are now aware that their employees are ever more important in sustaining competitive advantage. Provided by adequate front-line assistance, employees can greatly influence customers’ impressions about the shipping company. This study assessed the relationship between each construct of the role stressors – role ambiguity, role conflict and role overload – and job satisfaction for non-managerial employees. Role ambiguity is a state of misunderstanding a person has about his/her role’s expectations. ...

Purpose -- the objective of this thesis is to empirically test the level of interdependence across commodity markets in terms of return volatility spillover, namely, corn, wheat, soybeans and soybeans oil, and to uncover the impact of macroeconomic announcements on the measurement of integration among those commodities. This will help us to investigate the extent to which different agricultural commodities can be considered as an asset class and to determine whether portfolio diversification across different agricultural commodities can still lead to risk reduction benefits, in light of the ...

Purpose -- the purpose of this thesis is to investigate employees' resistance to change in the specific case of system automation. The research attempts to deduct the managerial practices that can be implemented to overcome such resistance. Design/methodology/approach -- for data collection purposes, a quantitative questionnaire was distributed among randomly selected participants who have been through a change in software/systems during their employment period. The study's epistemology is positivism, the ontology is objectivism and the research approach is deductive. Findings -- the result ...

When investors access to financial institutions' services, they usually look for a financial partner who will ensure their belongings' safety, respect their privacy and deserve their trust. Unfortunately, in light of the recent financial market collapse, proofs have been found that many of these institutions were worthy of their clients' trust.The blunt reason behind that fact has been their lack of ethics. Due to the abscence of financial advisors' honesty, integrity and transparency, many investors, at the international scale, saw their properties being wiped out, without understanding the ...

Establishes in 2001, PowerMeMobile, a mobile solution and service provider segment its activity under three main divisions, Solutions, Value-Added services (VAS) and Retail Messaging, commonly known as Bulk SMS business. In the past two years, PowerMeMobile focused on escalating its position as a key Solutions and VAS partner to mobile network operators. PowerMeMobile's flagship product is MessageManager, a platform designed for mobile operators to enable PC-to-Mobile messaging. This helped PowerMeMobile to gain lot of expertise and become recognized as reliable solution provider and messaging ...

Purpose - This research aims to explore the various factors that impact the job satisfaction of employees working in NGOs operating across the Lebanese territory. Moreover, this thesis will study the relationship between demographics, salary, promotion opportunities, relationship with colleagues, relationship with supervisors, work environment, meaningfulness, and job autonomy with job satisfaction. The purpose is for these findings to be useful for business owners and organizational leaders in understanding how to make sure that all the previously listed aspects work to improve the job ...

Purpose - Transition to a green economy in the Lebanese water sector requires a paradigm shift from the current embedded practices in the society. The aim of this thesis is to provide valuable information to policy makers on the Lebanese consumer's awareness, current practices and they key factors that affect their willingness to engage in water conserving actions. Design/methodology/approach - A survey was conducted to examine current water consumption practices, behaviors and key drivers of water conservation intentions of Beirut-Mount Lebanon residents. Findings - The findings showed ...

Purpose - This research attempts to analyze the impact of various factors on the decision of Lebanese companies to outsource the recruitment function and on the relationship between the Recruitment Service Provider (RSP) and the client firm. Design/Methodology/Approach - This study relies on a sample of 206 HR Professionals and General Managers who either outsource their recruitment function or not. This research is deductive and quantitative in nature, and it tests 19 hypotheses using principle component analysis and regression analysis. Findings - The fmdings show that there are 11 different ...