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Browsing by Author "Menassa, Elie, Ph.D."

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  • Assessing employees' engagement in a health care context : the case of nursing and administrative department at Albert Haykel Hospital 
    Bou Farraa, Nicole (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2018-12)
    Purpose –The purpose of this thesis is to assess employees’ engagement in the nursing and administrative departments at Albert Haykel Hospital. Design/methodology/approach –Deductive in nature, this thesis uses a questionnaire survey to examine the extent to which the elements of engagement vary with demographic variables of the respondents as well as the existence of a significant linear relationship between them. The analysis of any variation and relationship is manipulated through the use of descriptive and inferential statistical methods. Findings –The results of this study show a variation ...
  • The audit expectation gap in the Lebanese commercial banking sector 
    Lara Nabil, Ghafary (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2014)
    Purpose - The purpose of this thesis is to attempt to investigate the potential existence of an Audit Expectation Gap (AEG) in the Lebanese Commercial Banking Sector and assess the understanding of bank employees of the standards of internal audit as promulgated by both the Institute of Internal Audit and the Lebanese Central Bank. Design/methodology/approach - Deductive in nature, this thesis uses a questionnaire survey to examine the existence of a significant AEG in different areas of audit. Findings - The thesis finds evidence that an AEG exists in the areas of fraud detection and ...
  • Communication and job prospects in Lebanon : a multidimentional perspective 
    El Hadi, Rina Georges (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2014)
    Purpose - This research attempts to assess the perceived impact communication has on job prospects in Lebanon utilizing the theories of persuasive communication, heuristic-systematic processing, and halo effect. The topic is studied from both the job interviewer and the job interviewee's perspectives, for it focuses on communication during job interviews. Design/methodology/approach - Deductive in nature, this paper uses descriptive and inferential statistical methods. In order to collect data from both parties involved in job interviews, survey questionnaires targeting job interviewees are ...
  • Corporate social responsibility: the case of microinsurance in Lebanon 
    Badr, Viola Karim (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2013)
    Purpose- This research attempts to assess the merits of the stakeholder/legitimacy theory on one side and the economic/decision usefulness theory on the other side, in explaining the perception of the Lebanese insurance managers about a potential introduction of microinsurance in their respective portfolio of insurance products. The study is conducted from a corporate social responsibility perceptive using socio-political theories, in particular, the stakeholder and legitimacy theory and the economic theories that include agency and decision usefulness theories. Design/methodology/approach- ...
  • Exploring the relation between strategic openness, alignment, and employee engagement : the case of Bank of Beirut 
    Chahda, Elie (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2019)
    Purpose – This research attempts to unveil the plausible relations that may exist between internal strategic openness, perceived alignment, and engagement, as well as scrutinize how each may vary between employees of different demographic characteristics at microlevels of an organization. Design/methodology/approach – Employing a mixture of deductive and inductive reasoning approaches, this study poses six research questions and quantitatively tests twenty four hypotheses using a sample of 216 employees working in core banking functions at Bank of Beirut. Findings – The findings show that ...
  • The impact of Lebanese life factors on credit card spending : the case of CSCBank SAL 
    Aoun, Elie (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2017)
    Purpose: This research attempts to analyze the impact of demographic factors and card ownership characteristics of Lebanese people on credit spending, and to investigate how total spending varies with respect to the selected variables. Design/methodology/approach: Deductive and quantitative in nature, this study relies on a sample of 2,169 cardholders over a period of sixteen years (2000-2016), and tests nine research hypotheses relating demographic factors and card owner ship characteristics to total spending per client “TSC”. Findings: The findings show that gender, income, settlement method, ...
  • An investigation into withdrawing from M&A deals : evidence from the United States 
    Balmanian, Alvart Garabed (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2018)
    Purpose: This study investigates whether managers withdraw from a M&A deal once they observe a negative cumulative abnormal return. Moreover, it assesses whether their decision changes with respect to factors such as the listing status of the firm, its macro industry, and target size. Design/methodology/approach: Using a sample of 767 M&A US deals over the period 2005-2014 and applying an Event Study methodology, Cumulative Abnormal Returns (CAR) are calculated and introduced in a Logit model to assess the above mentioned matter. Findings: Results show that managers do listen to the market ...
  • The Lebanese business case for green economy and corporate social responsibility and a CSR decision making model 
    El Haddad, Pierre (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2014)
    Purpose - This paper has two purposes; attempting to identify a CSR decision making model and exploring the perception of Lebanese business leaders on Green Economy, CSR and their inter-relationships. Design/methodology/approach - Qualitative and Deductive in nature, this paper uses 14 semi-structured and the thematic analysis framework to describe the perception of Lebanese business leaders in the exploratory study, and to test the developed proposition of the CSR decision making model in the conceptual research. Findings - The findings provide evidence to confirm the CSR decision ...
  • The perceived merits of management by wandering around : a research intervention at Albert Haykel Hospital 
    Bou Farraa, Nathalie (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2018-12)
    Purpose –the purpose of this thesis is to study the perceptions of the nurses and administrative employees at Albert Haykel Hospital concerning a “Management by Walking Around” program applied at that hospital and check whether the elements of management by walking around vary with the demographics of the respondents. Design/methodology/approach –Deductive in nature, this thesis uses descriptive and inferential statistical methods. A survey questionnaire was distributed to the employees of the nursing and administrative departments at Albert Haykel Hospital to study their perceptions regarding ...
  • Risk tolerance and behavioral attitudes : a case study of Lebanese institutional investors 
    Daou, Marie (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2016)
    Purpose: This research identifies the determinants of the investment risk tolerance of the Lebanese institutional investors and investigates whether the behavioral conduct and the investment personal risk tolerance of the Lebanese institutional investors vary with respect to their demographic characteristics and profiles and other chosen variables. This paper also tries to identify the characteristics that make an investor rational in the decision –making. Design/ methodology/ approach: Deductive in nature, this research uses questionnaires collected from 129 Lebanese institutional investors ...