Ikramul Hasan is an Assistant Professor at Independent University, Bangladesh. He holds a Ph.D. in Management, with specialization in Knowledge Management, from Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei. He received his M.B.A. and B.B.A. degrees in HRM and Finance from the School of Business, Independent University, Bangladesh. Dr. Hasan has 8 years of working experience in the field of academia, research and organizational activities (includes teaching, research grant and R Address: Brunei Darussalam
Covid-19 has emerged with inevitable changes in societies around the world. Organizations face di... more Covid-19 has emerged with inevitable changes in societies around the world. Organizations face difficulties in both pandemic and post-pandemic situations, engaging people towards producing knowledge to remain competitive. Knowledge is deemed to be a crucial asset for organizations. Quality knowledge contribution among employees can provide a competitive advantage by enabling them to serve their clients in a more advanced and well-organized manner. Despite this, research on knowledge management activities in service organizations in South Asia, specifically in Bangladesh, is limited. This study is motivated to explore the post-pandemic scenario of a developing country based on the service sector. The study aims to understand the relationship between gamification and employee knowledge contribution with a diverse group response highlighting gender aspects in the context of Bangladesh. The study employs a quantitative method, gathering data from various service sector employees through a questionnaire survey. This study develops a research model relating organizational gamification activities (rewardability and competition) and quality knowledge contribution. The results confirm the impact of rewardability and competition on employee quality knowledge contribution, with the multi-group analysis based on gender showing disparities between male and female responses. Male responses found a significant relationship between gamification and quality knowledge contribution with both activities. In contrast, female responses are insignificant considering competition regarding quality knowledge contribution. The study result produces a unique context related to Bangladesh's service sector as the first initiative to the best of our knowledge. The study recommends modifications in service organizations to foster an environment that promotes quality knowledge contribution in day-today transactions. It will also enhance issues related to women's empowerment and the quest for new approaches the organization may rethink to remain competitive. Therefore, the study's findings can provide research pleas to the policymakers, academics, and practitioners and will explore diversity in similar economies related to the service sector.
Shaping the behavior of the employees determines one of the crucial duties of the organizations. ... more Shaping the behavior of the employees determines one of the crucial duties of the organizations. Mobilizing power and getting commitment from individuals is the foundation for effective organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). This research aims to focus on the key factors influencing OCB in the banking industry in Bangladesh. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data. A questionnaire survey was used to collect data from different banks operating in Bangladesh. The result reveals that critical aspects of social power, e.g., reward, legitimate, expert, and referent power, confirm their influence on organizational commitment (OC). In contrast, coercive power fails to connect with OC towards OCB. However, this paper also successfully brings them together to describe their linkage through mediation by OC and to quantify the relationship. Furthermore, similar research can be extended to banks operating in other developing countries having the same economic status.
BACKGROUND Managing human resources is the most typical job for an organization to ensure a compe... more BACKGROUND Managing human resources is the most typical job for an organization to ensure a competitive advantage. Human resource management supplies competitive intelligence because it assists employees in facilitating the success of an organization. Kusluvan et al. (2010) argued in their study that the efforts of the employees are the fundamental factors to ensure sustainable competitive advantage, quality assurance, and organizational performance in service organizations. Organizations try their best to deliver quality customer service, where interpersonal communication plays a significant role in customer satisfaction. Customers usually revel in interpersonal interaction with employees to choose their preferred services. Hartline and Jones (1996) also supported this fact and found employee behavior a prerequisite factor for the ultimate sale. To facilitate excellent service, organizations need to understand the expectations of the peoples. Research showed that a healthy workplace pursues a soothing environment where the physical, psychological, social, and organizational conditions confirm togetherness to achieve an agreed vision (Bentley et al., 2012). On the other hand, workplace bullying poses a negative impact on the organizational environment, and employees feel a threat in their everyday working lives. Moreover, a poor working environment works like a typical antecedent for bullying and confirms in anxiety, depression, absenteeism, and turnover among the employees (Hogh et al., 2011; Leymann, 1996). It also influences organizational practice adversely, which may hamper the organizational understanding incompetently to develop insights and information among the employees to deliver the expected services to their clients. However, having this backdrop, it is noteworthy to find to what extent individuals are involved in bullying in the different organizations and how far they are happy with their work environment. There is a huge opportunity to earn more from the service sector since it has remained untapped, and the firms need to be competitive in innovative ideas.
International Journal of Mobile Communication , 2021
This study aims to identify the factors that determine the willingness to use online messaging se... more This study aims to identify the factors that determine the willingness to use online messaging services (OMS) in the context of a collective societal country. The measurement model includes six latent variables related to the respondents' perceptions associated with perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived monetary value, perceived enjoyment, word of mouth (WOM) and intention to use. Primary survey was conducted with a structured questionnaire on a sample of 300 respondents. Partial least square technique was used to test the hypotheses. The results indicate that the aforementioned perceptual factors have significant relationship with WOM which also acts as mediator. Proposed model in this study is expected to overcome the limitations of existing technology adoption theories by adding an extension to technology acceptance model by including WOM. Findings of the study add nuance to the understanding of the policymakers and practitioners regarding motivation behind using internet-based online messaging services.
This study explores the leadership (transformational, transactional, distributive, and servant le... more This study explores the leadership (transformational, transactional, distributive, and servant leadership) effects on organization effectiveness. To analyze data and test the hypotheses, this research used structural equation modeling (SEM). A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from the 100 different DSE (Dhaka Stock Exchange) listed organizations in Bangladesh to do the organizational survey. Based on SEM outcome over the organizational context analyzed, this study concluded that transformational, distributive, and servant leadership significantly influenced organizational effectiveness. However, transactional leadership failed to associate with organizational effectiveness. The result of this also confirms the gender association between transactional leadership and organizational effectiveness as moderator. The findings provide novel and significant insights to the organizations to understand the leadership role to ensure their organizations’ effectiveness. This study’s outcome also creates an opportunity to extend further research in other countries with bigger samples to draw a general conclusion. Finally, this paper gives a plea to the practitioners and offers valuable examples of how organizations can use the leadership role to ensure organizational effectiveness.
PurposeThis paper aims to examine the influence and applications of both the technology acceptanc... more PurposeThis paper aims to examine the influence and applications of both the technology acceptance model (TAM) and the diffusion of innovation (DOI) model on the intention to use advanced mobile phone services (AMPS) among Bangladeshi users. It also seeks to examine the moderating role of attitude towards use in the AMPS research model.Design/methodology/approachThis is a quantitative study. A questionnaire was developed from previous studies and data were collected from young people between 18 and 31 years of age in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Regression was employed to test the hypotheses.FindingsThe results indicate that perceived usefulness and compatibility are key factors for using AMPS, while other factors such as perceived ease of use and complexity are not as significant. Findings also confirm that attitudes towards use play a moderating role between perceived usefulness/complexity and intention to use AMPS.Research limitations/implicationsFuture research is required as this paper f...
This study explores the leadership (transformational, transactional, distributive, and servant l... more This study explores the leadership (transformational, transactional, distributive, and servant leadership) effects on organization effectiveness. To analyze data and test the hypotheses, this research used structural equation modeling (SEM). A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from the 100 different DSE (Dhaka Stock Exchange) listed organizations in Bangladesh to do the organizational survey. Based on SEM outcome over the organizational context analyzed, this study concluded that transformational, distributive, and servant leadership significantly influenced organizational effectiveness. However, transactional leadership failed to associate with organizational effectiveness. The result of this also confirms the gender association between transactional leadership and organizational effectiveness as moderator. The findings provide novel and significant insights to the organizations to understand the leadership role to ensure their organizations’ effectiveness. This study’s outcome also creates an opportunity to extend further research in other countries with bigger samples to draw a general conclusion. Finally, this paper gives a plea to the practitioners and offers valuable examples of how organizations can use the leadership role to ensure organizational effectiveness.
Knowledge management literature exhibits that to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage over... more Knowledge management literature exhibits that to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage over competitors int he modern economy, an organization must be able to generate new knowledge by using its knowledge base resources. This article investigates the relationship between knowledge management practices (Acquisition, Conversion, Application and Protection) and organizational effectiveness in commercial banks operating in Bangladesh. A knowledge management process model is developed from the previous literature and tested. Interestingly. the result indicates that knowledge management practices have significant influence over organizational effectiveness.
The contemporary integration policies (Community Cohesion Agenda [CCA]) of the United Kingdom hav... more The contemporary integration policies (Community Cohesion Agenda [CCA]) of the United Kingdom have been criticized for their foundational weaknesses, conceptual inadequacies, myopic views with regard to the complexity of the issue, lack of evidence, and so on. Vast majority of the studies conducted to verify this discourse have been done in the line of theoretical arguments of diversity management rather than exploring their connections to a target community in reality. This study aims at establishing a linkage between the growing theoretical arguments of the integration discourse with empirical data in light of the policy framework of the CCA. We have selected the fastest growing Bangladeshi community of the CCA-adapted Aston City of Birmingham as the representative group of the ethnic minority communities of the United Kingdom. Qualitative data collection approach has been followed, where primary in-depth interviews were conducted on various policy actors, social workers, faith le...
Handbook of Research on Managerial Practices and Disruptive Innovation in Asia
Human Resource Management plays an essential role for attaining organizational goals. Nowadays, p... more Human Resource Management plays an essential role for attaining organizational goals. Nowadays, practitioners, researchers, and academicians around the world are emphasizing to transform and reshape the practice of human resource. However, very few research works have been done in the area of Transformational Human Resource Management (T-HRM). Hence, the aim of this chapter is to propose an integrated framework of T-HRM and organizational efficiency. In light of that, this study has proposed potential factors of the T-HRM. Secondly, this study presented positive effect of the factors of T-HRM on organizational efficiency management. Concept of knowledge management has introduced as a potential mediator, and ICT and organizational alignment has presented as a potential moderator of this study. Finally, knowledge of this study will provide better insights on T-HRM for ensuring organizational efficiency.
Innovative Management and Business Practices in Asia
Innovating products or services are not an emerging issue rather a reality in today's marketp... more Innovating products or services are not an emerging issue rather a reality in today's marketplace. Organizations are relentlessly chasing innovation to compete with their rivals. Considering these phenomena, literature from the different management studies suggest that to being mechanistic it would better to become organic in its operation. The organic structure of the firm also highlights teamwork as a priority to become successful. This study illustrates the effects of team dynamics and mediating effects of organizational learning on organizational innovativeness. By proposing the conceptual model, the chapter presents different practical implications to the practitioners, researchers, and academicians connected to the industry and can be a source for future research Bangladesh and other developing economies to develop different insights.
Bangladeshi RMG accounts for the second-largest apparel manufacturer and exporter after China. Th... more Bangladeshi RMG accounts for the second-largest apparel manufacturer and exporter after China. The readymade garment (RMG) industry is considered as the backbone of Bangladesh’s economy and is one of the key core drivers as far as the strength of the GDP is concerned. The key features of the RMG industry determines three assumptions firstly, that the RMG hub is a strong buyer-driven production chain; secondly, RMG thrives in this part of the world because of greater availability and accessibility of “cheap” labor pool, low wages and reluctance to unionization; thirdly, that the relations between the State and industry are governed to some extent by clientelism. Over the last decades, the growth of the sector has been spectacular. Currently, there are more than 5,000 garment manufacturing firms operating in Bangladesh. The RMG sector is accountable for creating employment for more than 4 million people. The garment industry of Bangladesh has very significant contributions to the country’s development process in terms of foreign earnings, employment opportunities, women empowerment and bringing various other social changes. Despite all of these success and holistic development thanks to the RMG sector there are grey areas which are seldom looked at by the garment owners and policy makers, health and safety procedures are hardly given importance by the policy makers and parties associated to this industry. The working conditions in RMG factories have been repeatedly characterized by the Western media as prone to the workers due to the occurrence of violence and intense workload (Bajaj, 2010; Ethirajan, 2012; Yardley, 2012).
Innovating products or services are not an emerging issue rather a reality in today's marketp... more Innovating products or services are not an emerging issue rather a reality in today's marketplace. Organizations are relentlessly chasing innovation to compete with their rivals. Considering these phenomena , literature from the different management studies suggest that to being mechanistic it would better to become organic in its operation. The organic structure of the firm also highlights teamwork as a priority to become successful. This study illustrates the effects of team dynamics and mediating effects of organizational learning on organizational innovativeness. By proposing the conceptual model, the chapter presents different practical implications to the practitioners, researchers, and academicians connected to the industry and can be a source for future research Bangladesh and other developing economies to develop different insights.
Why banks should be concerned about incorporating environmental, social and governance (ESG) crit... more Why banks should be concerned about incorporating environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria in the lending process? What is the motivation? This study aims to find the motives for considering environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria in bank lending process. A primary survey has been conducted to know the current status and motivation for incorporating ESG factors in investment decisions. Sample comprised 30 private commercial banks (PCBs) operating in Bangladesh. Data collected were analyzed with graphs, descriptive statistics, and regression analysis. Findings of the study indicate that banks are mostly considering basic environmental, social and governance factors set by regulators qualitatively. They are lagging behind in considering the advanced ESG criteria needed for sustainable and efficient credit risk management. Based on motivation for incorporating ESG factors, it was found that banks pioneering in incorporating ESG factors in lending decisions are co...
The research followed a qualitative approach where in depth interviews, secondary researches and ... more The research followed a qualitative approach where in depth interviews, secondary researches and relevant policy documents were used as main sources of data.
Covid-19 has emerged with inevitable changes in societies around the world. Organizations face di... more Covid-19 has emerged with inevitable changes in societies around the world. Organizations face difficulties in both pandemic and post-pandemic situations, engaging people towards producing knowledge to remain competitive. Knowledge is deemed to be a crucial asset for organizations. Quality knowledge contribution among employees can provide a competitive advantage by enabling them to serve their clients in a more advanced and well-organized manner. Despite this, research on knowledge management activities in service organizations in South Asia, specifically in Bangladesh, is limited. This study is motivated to explore the post-pandemic scenario of a developing country based on the service sector. The study aims to understand the relationship between gamification and employee knowledge contribution with a diverse group response highlighting gender aspects in the context of Bangladesh. The study employs a quantitative method, gathering data from various service sector employees through a questionnaire survey. This study develops a research model relating organizational gamification activities (rewardability and competition) and quality knowledge contribution. The results confirm the impact of rewardability and competition on employee quality knowledge contribution, with the multi-group analysis based on gender showing disparities between male and female responses. Male responses found a significant relationship between gamification and quality knowledge contribution with both activities. In contrast, female responses are insignificant considering competition regarding quality knowledge contribution. The study result produces a unique context related to Bangladesh's service sector as the first initiative to the best of our knowledge. The study recommends modifications in service organizations to foster an environment that promotes quality knowledge contribution in day-today transactions. It will also enhance issues related to women's empowerment and the quest for new approaches the organization may rethink to remain competitive. Therefore, the study's findings can provide research pleas to the policymakers, academics, and practitioners and will explore diversity in similar economies related to the service sector.
Shaping the behavior of the employees determines one of the crucial duties of the organizations. ... more Shaping the behavior of the employees determines one of the crucial duties of the organizations. Mobilizing power and getting commitment from individuals is the foundation for effective organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). This research aims to focus on the key factors influencing OCB in the banking industry in Bangladesh. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data. A questionnaire survey was used to collect data from different banks operating in Bangladesh. The result reveals that critical aspects of social power, e.g., reward, legitimate, expert, and referent power, confirm their influence on organizational commitment (OC). In contrast, coercive power fails to connect with OC towards OCB. However, this paper also successfully brings them together to describe their linkage through mediation by OC and to quantify the relationship. Furthermore, similar research can be extended to banks operating in other developing countries having the same economic status.
BACKGROUND Managing human resources is the most typical job for an organization to ensure a compe... more BACKGROUND Managing human resources is the most typical job for an organization to ensure a competitive advantage. Human resource management supplies competitive intelligence because it assists employees in facilitating the success of an organization. Kusluvan et al. (2010) argued in their study that the efforts of the employees are the fundamental factors to ensure sustainable competitive advantage, quality assurance, and organizational performance in service organizations. Organizations try their best to deliver quality customer service, where interpersonal communication plays a significant role in customer satisfaction. Customers usually revel in interpersonal interaction with employees to choose their preferred services. Hartline and Jones (1996) also supported this fact and found employee behavior a prerequisite factor for the ultimate sale. To facilitate excellent service, organizations need to understand the expectations of the peoples. Research showed that a healthy workplace pursues a soothing environment where the physical, psychological, social, and organizational conditions confirm togetherness to achieve an agreed vision (Bentley et al., 2012). On the other hand, workplace bullying poses a negative impact on the organizational environment, and employees feel a threat in their everyday working lives. Moreover, a poor working environment works like a typical antecedent for bullying and confirms in anxiety, depression, absenteeism, and turnover among the employees (Hogh et al., 2011; Leymann, 1996). It also influences organizational practice adversely, which may hamper the organizational understanding incompetently to develop insights and information among the employees to deliver the expected services to their clients. However, having this backdrop, it is noteworthy to find to what extent individuals are involved in bullying in the different organizations and how far they are happy with their work environment. There is a huge opportunity to earn more from the service sector since it has remained untapped, and the firms need to be competitive in innovative ideas.
International Journal of Mobile Communication , 2021
This study aims to identify the factors that determine the willingness to use online messaging se... more This study aims to identify the factors that determine the willingness to use online messaging services (OMS) in the context of a collective societal country. The measurement model includes six latent variables related to the respondents' perceptions associated with perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived monetary value, perceived enjoyment, word of mouth (WOM) and intention to use. Primary survey was conducted with a structured questionnaire on a sample of 300 respondents. Partial least square technique was used to test the hypotheses. The results indicate that the aforementioned perceptual factors have significant relationship with WOM which also acts as mediator. Proposed model in this study is expected to overcome the limitations of existing technology adoption theories by adding an extension to technology acceptance model by including WOM. Findings of the study add nuance to the understanding of the policymakers and practitioners regarding motivation behind using internet-based online messaging services.
This study explores the leadership (transformational, transactional, distributive, and servant le... more This study explores the leadership (transformational, transactional, distributive, and servant leadership) effects on organization effectiveness. To analyze data and test the hypotheses, this research used structural equation modeling (SEM). A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from the 100 different DSE (Dhaka Stock Exchange) listed organizations in Bangladesh to do the organizational survey. Based on SEM outcome over the organizational context analyzed, this study concluded that transformational, distributive, and servant leadership significantly influenced organizational effectiveness. However, transactional leadership failed to associate with organizational effectiveness. The result of this also confirms the gender association between transactional leadership and organizational effectiveness as moderator. The findings provide novel and significant insights to the organizations to understand the leadership role to ensure their organizations’ effectiveness. This study’s outcome also creates an opportunity to extend further research in other countries with bigger samples to draw a general conclusion. Finally, this paper gives a plea to the practitioners and offers valuable examples of how organizations can use the leadership role to ensure organizational effectiveness.
PurposeThis paper aims to examine the influence and applications of both the technology acceptanc... more PurposeThis paper aims to examine the influence and applications of both the technology acceptance model (TAM) and the diffusion of innovation (DOI) model on the intention to use advanced mobile phone services (AMPS) among Bangladeshi users. It also seeks to examine the moderating role of attitude towards use in the AMPS research model.Design/methodology/approachThis is a quantitative study. A questionnaire was developed from previous studies and data were collected from young people between 18 and 31 years of age in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Regression was employed to test the hypotheses.FindingsThe results indicate that perceived usefulness and compatibility are key factors for using AMPS, while other factors such as perceived ease of use and complexity are not as significant. Findings also confirm that attitudes towards use play a moderating role between perceived usefulness/complexity and intention to use AMPS.Research limitations/implicationsFuture research is required as this paper f...
This study explores the leadership (transformational, transactional, distributive, and servant l... more This study explores the leadership (transformational, transactional, distributive, and servant leadership) effects on organization effectiveness. To analyze data and test the hypotheses, this research used structural equation modeling (SEM). A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from the 100 different DSE (Dhaka Stock Exchange) listed organizations in Bangladesh to do the organizational survey. Based on SEM outcome over the organizational context analyzed, this study concluded that transformational, distributive, and servant leadership significantly influenced organizational effectiveness. However, transactional leadership failed to associate with organizational effectiveness. The result of this also confirms the gender association between transactional leadership and organizational effectiveness as moderator. The findings provide novel and significant insights to the organizations to understand the leadership role to ensure their organizations’ effectiveness. This study’s outcome also creates an opportunity to extend further research in other countries with bigger samples to draw a general conclusion. Finally, this paper gives a plea to the practitioners and offers valuable examples of how organizations can use the leadership role to ensure organizational effectiveness.
Knowledge management literature exhibits that to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage over... more Knowledge management literature exhibits that to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage over competitors int he modern economy, an organization must be able to generate new knowledge by using its knowledge base resources. This article investigates the relationship between knowledge management practices (Acquisition, Conversion, Application and Protection) and organizational effectiveness in commercial banks operating in Bangladesh. A knowledge management process model is developed from the previous literature and tested. Interestingly. the result indicates that knowledge management practices have significant influence over organizational effectiveness.
The contemporary integration policies (Community Cohesion Agenda [CCA]) of the United Kingdom hav... more The contemporary integration policies (Community Cohesion Agenda [CCA]) of the United Kingdom have been criticized for their foundational weaknesses, conceptual inadequacies, myopic views with regard to the complexity of the issue, lack of evidence, and so on. Vast majority of the studies conducted to verify this discourse have been done in the line of theoretical arguments of diversity management rather than exploring their connections to a target community in reality. This study aims at establishing a linkage between the growing theoretical arguments of the integration discourse with empirical data in light of the policy framework of the CCA. We have selected the fastest growing Bangladeshi community of the CCA-adapted Aston City of Birmingham as the representative group of the ethnic minority communities of the United Kingdom. Qualitative data collection approach has been followed, where primary in-depth interviews were conducted on various policy actors, social workers, faith le...
Handbook of Research on Managerial Practices and Disruptive Innovation in Asia
Human Resource Management plays an essential role for attaining organizational goals. Nowadays, p... more Human Resource Management plays an essential role for attaining organizational goals. Nowadays, practitioners, researchers, and academicians around the world are emphasizing to transform and reshape the practice of human resource. However, very few research works have been done in the area of Transformational Human Resource Management (T-HRM). Hence, the aim of this chapter is to propose an integrated framework of T-HRM and organizational efficiency. In light of that, this study has proposed potential factors of the T-HRM. Secondly, this study presented positive effect of the factors of T-HRM on organizational efficiency management. Concept of knowledge management has introduced as a potential mediator, and ICT and organizational alignment has presented as a potential moderator of this study. Finally, knowledge of this study will provide better insights on T-HRM for ensuring organizational efficiency.
Innovative Management and Business Practices in Asia
Innovating products or services are not an emerging issue rather a reality in today's marketp... more Innovating products or services are not an emerging issue rather a reality in today's marketplace. Organizations are relentlessly chasing innovation to compete with their rivals. Considering these phenomena, literature from the different management studies suggest that to being mechanistic it would better to become organic in its operation. The organic structure of the firm also highlights teamwork as a priority to become successful. This study illustrates the effects of team dynamics and mediating effects of organizational learning on organizational innovativeness. By proposing the conceptual model, the chapter presents different practical implications to the practitioners, researchers, and academicians connected to the industry and can be a source for future research Bangladesh and other developing economies to develop different insights.
Bangladeshi RMG accounts for the second-largest apparel manufacturer and exporter after China. Th... more Bangladeshi RMG accounts for the second-largest apparel manufacturer and exporter after China. The readymade garment (RMG) industry is considered as the backbone of Bangladesh’s economy and is one of the key core drivers as far as the strength of the GDP is concerned. The key features of the RMG industry determines three assumptions firstly, that the RMG hub is a strong buyer-driven production chain; secondly, RMG thrives in this part of the world because of greater availability and accessibility of “cheap” labor pool, low wages and reluctance to unionization; thirdly, that the relations between the State and industry are governed to some extent by clientelism. Over the last decades, the growth of the sector has been spectacular. Currently, there are more than 5,000 garment manufacturing firms operating in Bangladesh. The RMG sector is accountable for creating employment for more than 4 million people. The garment industry of Bangladesh has very significant contributions to the country’s development process in terms of foreign earnings, employment opportunities, women empowerment and bringing various other social changes. Despite all of these success and holistic development thanks to the RMG sector there are grey areas which are seldom looked at by the garment owners and policy makers, health and safety procedures are hardly given importance by the policy makers and parties associated to this industry. The working conditions in RMG factories have been repeatedly characterized by the Western media as prone to the workers due to the occurrence of violence and intense workload (Bajaj, 2010; Ethirajan, 2012; Yardley, 2012).
Innovating products or services are not an emerging issue rather a reality in today's marketp... more Innovating products or services are not an emerging issue rather a reality in today's marketplace. Organizations are relentlessly chasing innovation to compete with their rivals. Considering these phenomena , literature from the different management studies suggest that to being mechanistic it would better to become organic in its operation. The organic structure of the firm also highlights teamwork as a priority to become successful. This study illustrates the effects of team dynamics and mediating effects of organizational learning on organizational innovativeness. By proposing the conceptual model, the chapter presents different practical implications to the practitioners, researchers, and academicians connected to the industry and can be a source for future research Bangladesh and other developing economies to develop different insights.
Why banks should be concerned about incorporating environmental, social and governance (ESG) crit... more Why banks should be concerned about incorporating environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria in the lending process? What is the motivation? This study aims to find the motives for considering environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria in bank lending process. A primary survey has been conducted to know the current status and motivation for incorporating ESG factors in investment decisions. Sample comprised 30 private commercial banks (PCBs) operating in Bangladesh. Data collected were analyzed with graphs, descriptive statistics, and regression analysis. Findings of the study indicate that banks are mostly considering basic environmental, social and governance factors set by regulators qualitatively. They are lagging behind in considering the advanced ESG criteria needed for sustainable and efficient credit risk management. Based on motivation for incorporating ESG factors, it was found that banks pioneering in incorporating ESG factors in lending decisions are co...
The research followed a qualitative approach where in depth interviews, secondary researches and ... more The research followed a qualitative approach where in depth interviews, secondary researches and relevant policy documents were used as main sources of data.
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