The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of performance appraisal on job performance focusing on the role of Motivation in the governmental sector in Qatar. While many organiza-tions consider performance appraisal (PA) an important tool to measure and evaluate employees’ performance, PA can be used as an effective tool to maintain the capabilities and effectiveness of the workforce. In general, PA can be a crucial tool to motivate employees and leverage their job performance and thus can be considered as a competitive advantage over rivals. This paper has identified main factors of PA from the previous pieces of literature and prioritized the most influencing factors affecting PA such as purpose (PAP), criteria (PAC), leadership (PAL), and methods of evaluations (PAE) on employee’s motivation as well as their relationships with job performance. Besides, the study sought to fill the literature gap on the performance management field in the context of Qatar for future research. In the course of this study, descriptive research design was adopted in the form of a survey. The survey was distributed, and 294 responses were collected. The conclusion of the finding was that the PAP and PAE had impacts on employee’s motivation and job performance, while PAC and PAL did not. In addition, the findings illustrate a positive correlation between employee’s motivation and performance. Human Resource managers of organizations may use findings to better support employees’ motivation and performance.

The main objective of this study was to assess the role of corporate social responsibility on tourism and hospitality in Vietnam. To accomplish this, we conducted a field survey and analysis on 886 tourism and hospitality in Vietnam over a 6-month period. The results show that corporate social responsibility helped businesses improve corporate reputation, increase customer satisfaction and improve financial performance of Vietnam tourism and hospitality. Customer satisfaction and corporate reputation had a statistically significant positive impact on the financial performance of these businesses. However, corporate reputation and customer satisfaction did not play a full mediate role in the relationship between corporate social responsibility and financial performance. Finally, we examined the moderate role of foreign ownership and size in the relationship between corporate social responsibility and financial performance, showing that both foreign ownership and firm size had a moderate role on the relationship between corporate social responsibility and financial performance. With the more percent of foreign owned, the implementation of corporate social responsibility, the stronger the impact on the financial performance, the less percentage of foreign owned, which means the implementation of corporate social responsibility had positive impact but less intense. The greater size of enterprises, the more corporate social responsibilities and the better financial performance. In contrast to the smaller businesses, the more corporate social responsibility, the worse financial performance. At the same time, we proposed several solutions to improve the corporate social responsibility for tourism and hospitality in Vietnam.

This paper aimed to evaluate the factors affecting quality management (QM) through the quality management system according to ISO 9001 standards of Vietnam businesses. The authors surveyed on 200 manufacturing and technology enterprises that apply ISO 9001 quality management in Hanoi and Da Nang and HCMC. Factors affecting the effectiveness of quality management under ISO 9001 include five elements: (1) Management commitment; (2) Staff involvement; (3) Cooperation of customers and suppliers; (4) Consultants; and (5) Quality management document system. Research results show that the above factors had positive impacts on the effectiveness of the quality management system (QMS). The study has given a number of solutions for businesses that have been and will apply QMS in accordance with ISO 9001 with appropriate adjustments to promote the efficiency of the system.

The aim of this study is to examine the effects of training and job promotion on work motiva-tion and their implications on employee job performance. The study is accomplished in the Environment of the South Lampung Regency National Education Office on 215 respondents. The research design uses a quantitative survey method and data analysis is based on the structural equation model (SEM) with Amos 24. The results of the study show that (a) training and promotion had a positive and significant effect on work motivation, (b) training, promo-tion and work motivation had a positive and significant effect on job performance but (c) work motivation did not play any significant role in mediating the effect of training and job promotion for job performance. While job promotion had a more dominant direct effect than training in improving employee job performance, efforts to improve employee job performance will be more productive by providing job promotions to employees. Another effort is to provide opportunities for employees to attend training regularly. With job promotion and training, work motivation will increase, and the impact is that employee job performance will increase.

The industrialisation and urbanisation have made goods affordable and quickly to obtain. These create hyper-consumption where we use to buy more than what we need, and so fast discard the things that we buy. Access-based consumption is a trend that gains more popularity in today’s society, in which consumer can have access to new and various items without having to own them. One of the access-based consumption is renting, and this concept has been applied in many sectors such as fashion, property and recently it has been applied in items for children since more Millennials are living in limited space and they need to choose which product to own. The study aims to investigate the relationship between perceived risk, frugal shopping, perceived enjoyment and attitude toward renting items for children. The online questionnaire was administered to 100 participants. The results show that psychological risk affects attitude negatively, perceived enjoyment influences on attitude positively, and frugal shopping has some impact on perceived enjoyment and attitude positively. Marketing strategies are suggested for renting business owners by embracing the enjoyment feeling from renting. It is important to promote the benefit of getting new items regularly without having to buy them more often and the benefit of playing and using items beyond their usual shopping budget.

The research explores the direct and indirect effects of reward, personality and job satisfaction on teacher’s organizational commitment in Public Vocational High Schools in Bogor City, West Java, Indonesia. Data for this study was collected quantitatively through a survey, in-volving a proportionate randomly selected sample of 154 teachers, by using a questionnaire. Path analysis supported by descriptive statistics was employed to analyze the data. The results confirm that reward, personality and job satisfaction had significant direct effects on organizational commitment; reward and personality had significant direct effect on job satisfaction; reward and personality had significant indirect effects on organizational commitment by me-diating job satisfaction. Therefore, a fit research model found about the effect of reward and personality on organizational commitment by mediating job satisfaction with research settings on vocational high school in Indonesia. This model cannot only be used as a reference by researchers and practitioners in developing models of organizational commitment that are in accordance with their respective conditions, but can also be further developed and expanded into studies and projects to develop organizational commitment which is more complex and comprehensive by adding variables and other relevant dimensions.

This research provides an analysis and evaluation of consumer purchasing behavior using green electronic marketing of vehicles diversification into new markets, focusing on Electrical Vehicles (Ev) and Hybrid Vehicles (Hv). The world has been making remarkable efforts to make everything green and cleaner by the help of the advanced technology, including transportation. The technology especially the E marketing, social media, etc. focuses on orienting people to believe that hybrid and electrical vehicles generate less pollution, will save money and reduce dependence on natural sources of fuel. This research aims to inspect the relationship between Stimuli Factors, Electrical Vehicles’ (Ev) and Hybrid Vehicles’ (Hv) Consumers and Response Purchase Decisions (S-O-R), in addition to inspect the moderation effects of Psychological Inputs on S-O-R relationship in Vehicle industry of Jordan. The current research used quantitative method to gather accessible data from the sample of the study. Variables used in this study include HVs & EVs consumers, Stimuli factors (marketing inputs, external environment) and positive psychological inputs and response purchase decisions. Partial Least Squares (PLS) approach as a statistical method was used to analyze the data. Results indicate that all the relations had a positive significant, except the interactional relationship be-tween Stimuli factors which includes marketing inputs, external environment, and positive psychological inputs, affect response purchase decisions. In other words, the mediation (HVs & EVs consumers) shows valuable change for the prediction of response purchase decisions while, moderated effect of psychological inputs did not make change.

Organizational cynicism is one of the key factors that should be monitored in an organization since it is largely due to organizational reasons and it can be expressed that some of the most important reasons are human resources management (HRM) practices and organizational justice concepts. Although there are some researches on the bilateral relations of these variables with each other, in the literature, no study that examined the relationships and effects be-tween these three concepts, at the same time, has been observed. Therefore, this study focuses on the relationship between perceived HRM practices and organizational cynicism with the mediating role of perceived organizational justice. In this study, descriptive approach was applied and to test the research model; a quantitative method and questionnaire-based survey were conducted. The survey data were collected from the employees across local administra-tions (municipalities) in a developing country, Northern Cyprus, by using convenience sampling method. In order to test the conceptual framework, SPSS v24, Hayes Process v3.4 and Amos v22.0 Programs were used. In this context, in SPSS program, exploratory factor analyses and linear regression analysis were performed. Besides, Amos Program was used for confirmatory factor analyses. In addition, Hayes Process analysis was applied to determine the mutual relationships between variables and the direct and indirect effects between each other. According to the results of the analysis, it is observed that the perceived organizational justice mediates the relationship between perceived human resources management practices and organizational cynicism. In other words, the results proved that effective application of contemporary HRM approaches boosts the perception of organizational justice and at the same time helps to reduce organizational cynicism and also high perceived organizational justice reduces organizational cynicism. In addition, in this study, the scale developed by Singh (2004), which was widely used in the measurement of HRM practices in the literature, was further developed by the addition of work conditions, and at last it has been transformed into a more comprehensive scale that can be used in both public and private sectors. Thus, it has been made more appropriate for today's HRM practices and theory. Consequently, this study contributes to the relevant theoretical literature and has some important implications for managers.

Drawing on upper echelon theory, this study investigates the impact of CEOs’ (chief executive officers) demographic characteristics on corporate environmental performance (CEP) in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We hypothesized that CEO characteristics, including gender, age, basic educational level, professional educational level, political connection, and ethnicity, affect SMEs’ environmental performance. Using the cross-sectional data analysis of 810 Vietnamese SMEs, this study provides evidence that female CEOs and CEOs’ educational level (both basic and professional) are positively related to the probability of CEP. We also find that based on the role of institutional environment on CEP, political connections had a negative effect on CEP in the context of Vietnam. Another finding is that SMEs with chief executives from ethnic minority groups show a higher level of the probability of corporate environmental performance than companies operated by Kinh chief executives. Since CEP is an essential dimension of corporate social responsibility, a strategic decision for SMEs, it is crucial for the company to select appropriate CEOs based on their demographic characteristics.

This paper examines the impact of financial constraints on the development of Vietnamese firms driven by Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth at the firm level. The effects of financial constraints by FCIf index on TFP growth of 97,860 firms are estimated by applying Dynamic Panel Data model over the period 2012-2017. The results show that there was a negative correlation between FCIf and labor productivity growth and TFP growth in all industries. While FCIf index is increased by 0.1, TFP growth of firms is reduced by 3.71%. The results also show that there was an inverse relationship between FCIf index, and the size of value added and assets of firms. Firms operating in manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade, and private firms face the biggest financial constraints.