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- Effect of Employee Commitment on Firm Performance:A Research in the Sportswear Industry of Bangladesh
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1 Department of Business Administration, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, BD
1 Department of Business Administration, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, BD
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ANVESHAK-International Journal of Management, Vol 6, No 2 (2017), Pagination: 106-118Abstract
The study investigates the influence of employee commitment on organizational performance in the sportswear industry of Bangladesh, which is a sub-industry of readymade garments industry. The study also tries to identify the major factors and their effects on the employee commitment and firm performance. Descriptive research methodology was adopted in this study. A five-point numerically scaled Likert-Type questionnaire and interview techniques were used to assemble primary data and hypotheses were tested on the basis of collecting data for conducting the study. The study reveals that there exists a significant relationship between employee commitment and firm performance. Furthermore, willingness to support productivity and desire to develop the organizational performance of the employees has the significant impact on firm performance. This study will help the managers to formulate plans in an integrated and comprehensive way for creating commitment among the employees for the improvement of firm performance.Keywords
Employee Commitment, Firm Performance, Sportswear Industry, Bangladesh.
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- Impact of Microcredit Program on Women Entrepreneurship in Bangladesh:Experience from Society for Social Service
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1 Department of Business Administration, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, BD
1 Department of Business Administration, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Tangail, BD
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ANVESHAK-International Journal of Management, Vol 7, No 2 (2018), Pagination: 211-223Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to explore and measure the influence and impact of microcredit program on women entrepreneurship in developing countries like Bangladesh. The research used 150 questionnaires from women borrowers financed by Society for Social Service, a microfinance institution of Bangladesh. Logistic regression model is used to analyze the results of the study. Under the microcredit program, women borrowers are served with credit and other facilities that influence them for starting and managing their business. Therefore, a huge conversion of economic condition- from ultra-poor (2.7%), poor (55.3%), and middle class (42%) to micro entrepreneur (92.7%), and small and medium entrepreneur (1.3%) is one of the indicators of success of microcredit program. Findings of this study indicate that amount of microcredit significantly impacts the women entrepreneurship, if other factors remain unchanged. Training facilities, supporting environment, tenure of business, capital, and family savings are also considered to be the factors that affect the women entrepreneurs. In this study, only one microfinancing institution is taken as sample firm, therefore care is required when generalizing the results. This paper will give proper guidelines to investigate the area of microcredit in developing countries and facilitate to form the base of future research in the issue of microcredit and women entrepreneurship.Keywords
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