This study aimed to analyze the effect of employee satisfaction on employee performance, and the moderating role of organizational commitment in Jordanian Islamic banks. This study was conducted using a self-administered questionnaire distributed among employees from four different Islamic banks in Jordan. A total of 303 responses were collected and analyzed using SPSS and partial least square. A significant relationship was found between employee satisfaction and employee performance. There was also a significant effect of the moderating role of organizational commitment on the relationship between employee satisfaction and employee performance. One potential reason to support this relationship is that individuals who are satisfied with their performance tend to be happier and need a commitment from the organization to improve their work performance. The finding from correlation analysis shows that implementing the idea of organizational commitment illustrates the role that it plays in achieving employee satisfaction while doing their desired work. On the other hand, this suggests that increased organizational commitment in Jordanian Islamic banks increases employee performance significantly, which can enable each bank's management to achieve its targets, missions, and visions. The study is useful for the banking sector, financial institutions and other organizations in any country that seek improvements in employee performance.

The study on knowledge management is in waning trend, which caters less interest in scholars to discuss recently. The area that received widespread attention previously has unlikely be-come an old-fashioned term which perceived as less important among few organizational re-searchers. Looking to the trend, the researcher takes an evaluative step to examine whether Knowledge Management is still relevant for organizations nowadays by studying the impact of knowledge management on organizational business performance. The study was conducted in 2016 and it was involved companies in electrical and electronic sector located in Malaysia. In this study, knowledge management was formed from three elements including knowledge acquisition, knowledge sharing and knowledge utilization. A total of 287 questionnaires were collected from electrical and electronic companies in Malaysia. The finding shows that among all those three knowledge management elements, only knowledge acquisition and knowledge utilization were still relevant to organizational business performance in Malaysia nowadays, whereas knowledge sharing was perceived to be less important. The findings of this study provide insight into the importance of knowledge management in organizational business performance.

Brand engagement is relatively a new concept in marketing. The objective of this research study is to unearth the relationship between brand engagement and customer-based brand eq-uity drivers; brand personality, brand experience, and brand affect. The data was collected from 426 automobile customers in Pakistan through multi-stage cluster sampling technique. The PLS-SEM analysis of the data supported the relationships between brand equity drivers and brand engagement and the mediating role of brand affect. Brand experience, brand personality, and brand affect emerged significant predictors to brand engagement behavior of the automobile customers. It is recommended for the brand managers to design marketing plans that emphasize the pleasant brand experience which results in brand affect, ultimately leading to brand engagement behavior.

This paper intends to inspect the potential organizational culture moderating influence on the relation between trainer and social support and training effectiveness. The research model was established based on the theory of social cognitive (SCT), which involves training and organizational antecedents. We distributed 382 questionnaires, the returned questionnaires were on-ly 155, and only 128 ones were valid. The hypotheses were assessed by SPSS version 23.0. The study examines training effectiveness and its determining factors. The results disclose that trainer, social support and organizational culture were associated with the nature of positive and significant type with training effectiveness. The findings represent that organizational culture had a partial significant and positive moderating effect on training effectiveness. This paper proposes to identify training effectiveness and its determining factors in the Bahraini public sector generally and local employees specifically. This is because there are limited similar studies in the perspective of Bahrain; therefore, the existing study presents abstract and practical implications for additional consideration for practitioners and administrators.

This paper aims to model the social, economic and environmental (SEE) impacts of Pondok Tahfiz in Kelantan. The basic principle of a sustainable development paradigm lies in three aspects; namely social, economic, and environmental. These aspects guide the management of human use of resources so that any development project may yield the greatest sustainable benefits or positive impacts to present generations while maintaining the ability to meet the needs of future generations. Pondok tahfiz is the orthodox Islamic school institution that focus on Islamic education learning. Presently, the institution is highly demanded among Mus-lim Malaysian as they believe the institution provides some benefits in future. The three as-pects of SEE are commonly used as dimensions for measuring impacts of sustainable devel-opment of Pondok tahfiz. Through this, SEE is able to acquire indirect and direct impacts of education institute towards social, economy and environment. The findings indicate that all the dependent variables provide a significant impact towards sustainable development of pon-dok tahfiz. However, the economic development provides less impact for the sustainable development.

Nowadays, customer awareness on environment friendly products is getting improved and there is an increase trend on green marketing strategy. The carried-out strategy has an objective of improving the customer care and purchasing intention on environment friendly products. Reviewing the issue of customer behavior, this study aims to review the correlation among green advertising, green brand image and customer green awareness on environment friendly products and their impacts to purchase intention. The study was conducted through a survey among 102 customers of Supermarket in Bandung City who have experience on friendly products. Data from the customers were obtained through a questionnaire, tabulated and processed by path analysis using SmartPLS. In order to emphasize research result, the research hypothesis test was conducted. Research finding explains that green advertising was assessed to be important by the customer and it can improve the customers’ green awareness. On the other hand, it is stated that there was an impact of green awareness on improving customer purchasing intention on the environmentally friendly product. This study is useful for the supermarket in Indonesia particularly in understanding customer behavior to the environmentally friendly product. So, the implementation of the marketing strategy is more precise. Besides, this study can be an input for the Indonesian Government in implementing a regulation associated with the global warming issue through research on environmental friendly product.

In this article, the impacts that moral intelligence has on green purchasing intentions in Jordan was investigated based on three moral theories (Utilitarianism, Deontology, Virtue Ethics), as well as the theory of Planned Behavior. Furthermore, four key areas of moral intelligence (compassion, forgiveness, responsibility and integrity) were discussed. A questionnaire was used to obtain the necessary primary data from 191 customers in Jordan. To analyze the results, partial least squares structural equation modeling was carried out. It was concluded that the four key aspects of moral intelligence (compassion, forgiveness, responsibility and integrity) positively impact green purchasing intentions. This research has practical significance in the fields of green marketing and moral intelligence, especially with regard to the dimensions of compassion, forgiveness, responsibility and integrity. These dimensions can thus serve as a guide for improving customers’ green purchase intentions in future. Moreover, the research is important for investigations into individual and company-based environmental sustainability.

The current paper was a quantitative study examining the mediating role of E-WOM when it comes to content marketing and its connection with green purchasing intentions in Jordan. The underpinning theory in this study was the social communication (SC) theory. A survey questionnaire was used to collect relevant data, after being distributed to the general managers. Overall, 202 questionnaires were used in this paper's data analysis, and the outcomes were investigated through partial least squares structural equation modeling. The results of the analysis denoted that the E-WOM controlled the relationship of content marketing with green purchasing intentions. As a result, this paper offers practical findings that companies in Jordan could boost customer intention to purchase green products, by achieving word of mouth and presenting suitable marketing content.

The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) on differentiation strategy. In this study, the components of EO are innovativeness, proactiveness and risk-taking. On the other hand, differentiation strategy indicates the product, process, market and brand differentiation. The study uses survey questionnaire for data collection. The data are collected from Muslim entrepreneurs of the apparel industry from Bangladesh. The study uses 339 data to conduct the research. After data collection, SmartPLS is applied for quantitative analysis to examine the effect of EO on differentiation strategy. The study indicates a positive and significant effect of innovativeness, proactiveness and risk-taking (EO) on differentiation strategy. Among the three components of EO, proactiveness is found the most significant component on differentiation strategy followed by innovativeness and risk-taking.

This study aims to examine the influence of HRM practices (employees’ empowerment, job security, and employees’ participation) and employees’ satisfaction on intention to leave and the mediating role of employees’ satisfaction from the perspective of faculty members in private universities in Kuwait. The survey questionnaire was gathered from 261 faculty members who were working in four private universities in Kuwait. The study used the software SmartPLS (version 3.2.8) to test the study hypotheses. The findings indicate that HRM practices (employees’ empowerment and job security) and employees’ satisfaction had negative effects on intention to leave, and employees’ satisfaction partially mediated the relationship between HRM practices (employees’ empowerment and job security) and intention to leave. Future studies may include other samples as public universities or other sectors in Kuwait such as the education sector or health care sector.