This study explores how spiritual leadership through its effects on individuals’ spiritual well-being enhances employee engagement and augments employees’ organizational commitment. The research conducted a general survey of 207 millennial employees in China, which was tested using partial least squares (PLS) structural equation modeling. The results suggest that employee engagement was significantly influenced by spiritual leadership. In addition, the results demonstrate that organizational commitment was influenced by the sequential intervening effects of employee well-being and work engagement. Both the explained variance (R2) and the effect size of exogenous variables on endogenous variables (ƒ2) showed moderate-to-high effects, supporting the predictive ability of this PLS spiritual leadership model. This study suggests that young workers’ engagement and commitment to their work and organizations are roused when the organization and its leaders satisfy workers’ higher-order humanistic needs. This is accomplished when employees’ socio-psychological resources, such as spiritual well-being, are enhanced through spiritual leadership, which can be augmented by organizational climates that embrace young workers’ “whole” selves. This study expands our understanding of the role that spiritual leadership plays in not only motivating organizational commitment but, more importantly, in engaging employees in their work roles.

Many startups fail, and we still do not know why. It is the purpose of this study to know if a relationship exists between business model innovation and startup, and whether networking and competitive advantage can improve their relationship. We hypothesized that business model innovation relates to startup and that networking and competitive advantage significantly enhance the relationship between business model innovation and startup. Fifty-one respondents participate in this study. The partial least square statistical technique is used to analyze the data. This analytical technique is appropriate for parametric analysis for such a sample size. The null hypothesis that no relationship exists between business model innovation and startup is rejected. The null hypothesis that networking and competitive advantage is not related to business model innovation is also rejected. However, the null hypothesis that there is no direct relationship between networking and startup is accepted; the association is not direct but indirect. The null hypothesis that no direct association between competitive advantage and startup is rejected. There is a negative association between competitive ad-vantage and startup. Both networking and competitive advantage improve the relationship between business model innovation and startup. However, they must be used with caution.

This study aims to examine the factors affecting public investment results in educational institutions in Vietnam. The study uses exploratory factor analysis (EFA) as well as regression estimate to determine the factors. The results show that factors affecting public investment results include public investment management, human resources to carry out public investment activities and to organize public investment, economic conditions, legal policies and natural conditions. These factors have different levels of influence on the results of public investment in educational institutions in Vietnam. From the results of that study, the authors propose recommendations to enhance the results of public investment activities at educational institutions in Vietnam.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of implementing ISO 9001: 2015 on the performance of manufacturing companies in Indonesia. Data collection is accomplished by online questionnaire via google form and data processing is performed using partial least square with the Lisrell program. Respondents of this research include 210 top management of Indonesian industries implemented ISO 9001:2015 and they are selected by the snowball sampling method, where each respondent helps distribute questionnaires to other respondents. The results of this study show that the organization had significant effect on employee performance, leadership had significant effect on employee performance and planning had significant effect on employee performance. In addition, support had significant effect on employee performance, operation had significant effect on employee performance, performance evaluation had significant effect on employee performance and finally, improvements had significant effect on Employee Performance.

Employee satisfaction is significant when it comes to define organizational success, particularly in the service industry. The need to enhance employee satisfaction is critical because it is the key to better business operations as it increases long-term employee productivity and retains profitable customers. The purpose of this study is to observe and test practically the relationship between employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction. The study discusses five employee variables that impact on customer satisfaction, namely, communication and rewards as well as employee loyalty, retention and commitment. A set of hypotheses were then developed theoretically and tested practically using the SEM-PLS approach. In conclusion, it was found that customer satisfaction had a causal relationship with employee satisfaction and an understanding of the employees’ satisfaction role was extremely important in this context. The paper also discusses further findings from the study as well as suggests future related research areas.

This paper aimed to verify the relationship between Administrative Entrepreneurship, Imitative Entrepreneurship, and Acquisitive Entrepreneurship on Small business entrepreneurship with the intermediate role of Entrepreneurs. 310 questionnaires were obtained from Small business entrepreneurship in Jordan. The researchers used five points Likert scale questionnaires adapted from the literature. The results of the PLS-SEM indicated that the Acquisitive Entrepreneurship and Imitative Entrepreneurship had a significant impact on the creativity of the Small business entrepreneurship, while Administrative Entrepreneurship demonstrated an unimportant relationship with creativity. The results also highlight that Entrepreneurs mediated the relationship between Imitative Entrepreneurship and employee creativity, however, no mediation effect was found on Administrative Entrepreneurship and Acquisitive Entrepreneurship with creativity.

The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of applying the principles of Good Corporate Government on the quality of alms services and measure the effect of these service standards on the compliance and satisfaction of alms services for alms payer (muzzaki). The method used in this research is Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) model measurement test with simple random sampling technique and the data is processed using AMOS 22 software. The benefit of this research is to find out whether the application of the principles of Good Corporate Government is able to influence compliance and muzzaki satisfaction in paying their alms obligations so that alms management organizations can find out what factors need to be considered in optimizing their participation in fulfilling their alms obligations with full awareness.

This study aims to analyze the role of women and the strategic dimensions in accelerating poverty reduction. In the midst of the pandemic situation Covid-19 caused many medium and large businesses that experienced a downturn. Micro businesses began to grow amid the economic difficulties faced by the community to be able to survive. The role of women in accelerating the poverty reduction through the management of micro businesses is a top priority for sustainable development. This research is located in Buleleng Regency, Bali Province and uses quantitative methods. Primary data sources were obtained using questionnaires sent to respondents. The data analysis method uses multiple linear regression. The population consists of micro-enterprises managed by women in 2019 of 246 businesses. The selecting samples method is based on convenience sampling and the entire population was sampled in this study. The results in this study indicate that financial literacy and women empowerment had positive and significant effects on women performance in micro-businesses. Interest in using e-commerce had no effect on women’s performance in micro businesses. Without the use of e-commerce, it is believed that women in micro-businesses will be increasingly left behind by other business actors, and age matters in association with technology and competition between other business actors which will be tighter to have an impact on performance and sustainability of the business.

This article aims to identify the drivers of the life satisfaction and happiness according to basic demands explored in motivational theories and the inclusion of the need for association participation. Structured questionnaire was directly delivered to 454 poor families living in nine districts of Can Tho. The data was processed by using SmartPLS with partial least squares (PLS) technique. The study found that existence needs, growth needs and needs of association participation can mostly explain the model which remarkably contribute to the literature of life satisfaction and happiness. In addition, the needs for association participation and life satisfaction positively affect people’s life happiness. In order to improve the living standards of local people, the government should clearly understand what residents really target to in life and fundamental demands of survive and self-development should be carefully considered and supported by the local authority and private organizations.

An entrepreneurial mindset requires a solid foundation of various components. These compo-nents may possibly affect the entrepreneurial mindset and intention of the entrepreneurs either negatively or positively. Hence, to analyze such effect, this study attempts to examine the association among entrepreneurial education and the components of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), i.e., social norms, attitude and self-efficacy, and their effects on the Community College of Abqaiq students’ entrepreneurial intention. The structural equation modeling based on partial least square (PLS) was employed for analyzing the data of the study. The findings confirmed that the entrepreneurship education construct had a significant effect on attitude towards entrepreneurship. Furthermore, there was a statistically significant positive effect of attitude and self-efficacy on entrepreneurial intention. Finally, social norms did not disclose any significant effect on entrepreneurial intention.