This study seeks to investigate the association between organizational culture and employees' commitment in the Jordanian hotel sector. The data that were gathered from 248 hotel employees, were about the respondents' organizational culture and its impact on the employees' commitment. Data were collected using the Organizational Culture Index (Wallach, 1983) [Wallach, E. J. (1983). Individuals and organizations: The cultural match. Training & Development Journal,37, 29-36.], and Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (Mowday et al. 1982) [Mowday, R.T., Porter, L.W. and Steers, R.M. (1982). Employee-Organization Linkages: The Psychology of Commitment, Absenteeism and Turnover. Academic Press, New York.]. De-scriptive statistics were reported, and hypotheses testing using SmartPLS3 was used. Generally, and with some unexpected outcomes, organizational culture was found to be significantly associated with organizational commitment. It was confirmed that bureaucratic and supportive culture were the predictable dimensions of commitment, while innovative culture was found to be an unpredictable dimension of commitment. This study provides useful managerial implications and contributes to the existing pool of knowledge on the relationships be-tween organizational culture and organizational commitment. Different aspects and context of these variables were tested to provide a wider and more comprehensive understanding on the factors which affect organizations and employees.

In recent years, the Malaysian Ministry of Tourism has been increasingly investing for the development of homestay destinations, which have a deeply positive and sustainable socio-economic impact on rural communities. Tourists who visit these less-trodden areas of the country in turn have an opportunity to experience its diverse cultural heritage in a more inti-mate and personable way. The purpose of this study is to identify the factors that contribute to tourists’ satisfaction with the service they received at Homestay Banghuris in Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia. A total of 80 tourists willingly participated in a research questionnaire distributed at the homestay. They were selected by the simple random sampling method. The study examined the relationship between service quality and tourist satisfaction and realize that there were positive and meaningful relationship between service quality and customer satisfaction.

This study aims to investigate the impact of job competencies in achieving team work collaboration in Jordanian industrial companies. The study population includes all 6 Jordanian industrial companies at Aljezah distract, Jordan. A random sample of the employees including managers, deputies, assistants and sector managers is selected from the Jordanian industrial companies with the population of 130 individuals. To achieve the study objectives, the researcher uses quantitative, descriptive and analytical methods through several statistical tools to test the study hypotheses. The results show that competencies, knowledge, skills and atti-tudes, among the employees of Jordanian industrial companies played essential role in achieving the team work collaboration. The study also finds significant differences on the effects on team work collaboration dimensions; including culture differences, time differences and language on job performance. The researcher recommends the organizations to enhance job competencies in the Jordanian industrial companies to improve the performance of the businesses by acquiring appropriate knowledge and skills in achieving the team work collaboration.

The purpose of this paper is to identify the extent of adaptation of information technology in the process of knowledge conversion at the King Abdullah University Hospital. The study develops a model that explores the information technology (IT) adaption with knowledge con-version process (SECI). A questionnaire-based survey is designed to test the aforementioned model based on dataset of 265 doctors at King Abdullah University Hospital. The model and posited hypotheses are tested using SPSS. The results indicate that information technology influences significantly on all knowledge conversion processes. Managements of different organizations are recommended to start planning for the career of their companies by considering successful employees’ plans that enhances performance. Organizations managements and researchers in the Arab region and the world are recommended to increase research in career path planning. The use of information technology in health institutions, has great importance for the assessment of the information, because of the sensitivity of work in these institutions, which also reflected positively in increasing the knowledge in these institutions to enhance thinking and innovation skills. The results of the current study might help the hospital identify the technologies that aid doctors in the processes of knowledge conversion.

Mutual fund industry in India has been rapidly growing during the past few years. Presently, most investors prefer to invest on mutual funds as compared with direct investment in stock market because they realize this sector as safe heaven or more beneficial. The present study focuses on distinctive major factors moving the financial investors in adoption of mutual funds. Questionnaire with twenty variables and statements is developed while taking into account the recommendation of experts of the sphere and the responses from the investors collected based on the five Likert scale on the variables. Demographic profile of the investors is elaborated with frequency distribution and the results and discussion are made on with the help of factor analysis. The validity of the data is checked through Cronbach’s Alpha and pre-analysis confirmation for judging the correctness of the whole sample for sphericity is checked through Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin test.

This study aims at investigating the impact of the IFRS (15) on the quality of accounting information in terms of relevance and faithful representation. To achieve the study objectives, a questionnaire is designed and distributed randomly on the study sample which includes (100) of external auditors of the Big Four audit companies in Jordan using the descriptive analytical approach. The study hypotheses are tested through the Simple Regression Test and the One Sample T- Test. The study results indicate a statistically significant impact of the implementation of the IFRS 15 on improving the quality of accounting information from the perspective of external auditors at the Big Four audit companies in Jordan. Moreover, the study finds that there is a statistically significant impact of the implementation of the IFRS 15 on improving the relevance and faithful representation of accounting information included in the reports. Moreover, the study findings also show that Jordanian companies face statistically significant difficulties for the implementation of standard 15 when preparing their financial statements. The researchers have also reached many recommendations; the most important of which suggest to inform investors and other decision makers of the results of the study to help them rationalize their investment decisions and raise their awareness about IFRS 15.

The aim of this study was to study the relationship between knowledge management in its operations; including knowledge generation, knowledge sharing, knowledge usage and business intelligence; including OLAP, data mining on the performance of organizations in the branches of the Housing Bank in Irbid, Jordan. A total of 126 questionnaires were distributed to the sample of the study. A multiple regression analysis was used to test the hypotheses of the study. The study concludes that there was a positive relationship between the knowledge management processes and the performance of organizations. Moreover, the components of business intelligence had positive impacts on the performance of organizations. The results have some enormous implications for the banking sector of Jordan.

Time management is very important for human being and organizations and it is a precious asset for achieving desire performance and accomplish duties. Fresh water is also another important valuable resource on the earth. Water provides many benefits for organizations, nature, human and plays an important role for development of economies. The aim of this study is to identify the effects of time management strategies on employee performance in Yarmouk Water Company in Jordan. In this study, time management strategies consists of five factors; namely fulfillment obligations strategy, time organizing strategy, utilization of resources, time planning strategy and priorities status strate-gy. The study population consists of 66 directors and heads of departments working for Yarmouk Water Company in Jordan. The study sends a designed questionnaire in Likert scale to all the popu-lation, manages to receive 62 and by excluding incomplete questionnaires 57 questionnaires are ana-lyzed representing approximately 86% of the survey. Using some statistical tests, the study indicates that all five factors; namely fulfillment obligations strategy, time planning strategy, utilization of the resources, time organizing strategy and priorities status strategy of resources positively influence on employee performance. There is also a positive altitude from study sample towards time management strategies. As recommendation, the employees must distinguish between important and unimportant tasks, the employees should determine the goals before starting the work, the managers must delegate some tasks to subordinates, and the employees pay attention to complete their work on time, The researcher recommends conducting further studies about the impact of time management strategy on employees’ performance efficiency from the view of customers perspective.

The aim of this study is to identify the impact of adopting and using electronic collaboration tools on knowledge management processes at the Generations For Peace (GFP) Organisation in Jordan. To achieve the objectives of this study, the researchers used an analytical descriptive method by developing a questionnaire consisting of (46) items. A comprehensive survey was adopted for the study and 300 questionnaires were distributed among the study population consisting of GFP Arabic-speaking staff. 281 questionnaires were returned (93.6% of the study sample) and 267 were suitable for analysis. The researchers used SPSS to analyse the data. As part of the study’s results, deficiency, on the one hand, was found in the use of electronic links among individuals. Furthermore, the researchers found a drawback in GFP’s use of strategies that reduce bureaucracy at work. Another deficiency was found as well in encouraging informal meetings at GFP among staff to exchange work-related views. But on the other hand, knowledge management processes were highly scored; the highest score was given to ‘knowledge storage’ followed by ‘knowledge generation’, ‘knowledge application’ and lastly ‘knowledge sharing’.

The aim of this study is to investigate the factors influencing the performance of the industrial small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Jordan. The factors include financial, management, marketing, technological and government policy and regulations. A qualitative method is employed by adopting a descriptive questionnaire research design. The data of the study are gathered from the employees who work at the industrial SMEs in Jordan. The results show that there were positive and signifi-cant relationships between all mentioned factors and the performance of SMEs, which indicate that when these factors are improved, the performance will also be improved. However, the economic factors have negative effects on the performance of SMEs.