This research paper aims to examine the impact of social media advertisement attributes, including informativeness, trust, and irritation, and internet users’ motivational factors; namely investigation, customization, opportunity seeking, interaction, and entertainment on individuals' attitude towards advertisements over social media sites in Jordan. A conceptual research model was proposed based on the relevant literature to be empirically tested. Data was collected using an online questionnaire survey administered to 256 participants. Hypotheses were tested using single and multiple linear regression analyses. Results show that advertisement design factors along with internet users’ motives were all significant factors affecting the attitude towards advertisements on social media sites with entertainment, interaction and informativeness had the highest impact. Based on the research findings, recommendations were reported for academicians and practitioners. Limitations and promising areas for further research were discussed.

This paper aims at examining the influence of strategic leadership on increasing ethical prac-tices within pharmaceutical organizations in Jordan. Variables of strategic leadership include work environment, leader's traits, leadership style and strategic leaders' performance. The study designs a questionnaire and distributes it among (277) employees and leaders within pharmaceutical organizations in Jordan. The results of the study indicate positive influence of strategic leadership on ethical practices among individuals and employees in the organization. Results also indicate that leadership performance maintained the strongest effect on ethical stands attributed from strategic leadership which gives an indication that a good performance strategic leadership is probably more influential on ethical practices and decision making in pharmaceutical organizations. The study recommends that organizations within pharmaceutical industry should pay extra attention to aspects that are related to increase employees' awareness towards ethics in leadership and business.

The research aims to empirically verify the role of adaptive capability in its contribution to marketing performance, with product innovation as a mediating variable. This research was conducted in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) located in Central Java, Indonesia. A number of 253 questionnaires were distributed and adequately filled. Statistical analysis was conducted by using structural equation modeling with Smart-Partial Least Squares (PLS). The results show that the adaptive capability was positively related to product innovation, but not significant to marketing performance. Furthermore, our findings show that product innovation had a significant effect on marketing performance and it fully mediated the relationship between adaptive capability and marketing performance. These findings offer implications regarding how adaptive capability enhance marketing performance through product innovation in SMEs.

Green brand equity becomes increasingly important in green marketing. Increased green brand equity may promote customer’s purchasing behavior. This paper investigates the relationship between green brand equity and its driving forces, namely, green trust, green brand image and green satisfaction. The study uses a questionnaire-based survey to obtain data from university students who had some experience of purchasing green items in Ho Chi Minh City. A structural equation modeling approach is used to confirm the proposed hypotheses. The results indicate that green trust and green brand image positively affected green brand equity. Moreover, the association between green brand equity and green brand image is partially mediated by green trust. It is also found that the association between green brand equity and green satisfaction was partially mediated by green trust. Thus, activities to promote green trust, green satisfaction, and green brand image are useful in improving green brand equity.

This research aims to recognize the impact of servant leadership on organizational citizenship behavior in Jordanian Islamic Banks where job satisfaction is a mediating variable. The research sample is selected from three Jordanian Islamic Banks operating in Jordan. The sample selected 168 people for the current research based on a random sample technique. The results indicate that there is a positive correlation between servant leadership and organizational citizenship behavior. There is also a significant impact of the servant leadership on the organizational citizenship behavior and a significant impact of servant leadership on the organizational citizenship behavior through job satisfaction at the Jordanian Islamic Banks.

The objective of this paper is to assess the factors affecting the lawyers’ motivation in Vietnam through the Emotional Intelligence factor and the factors affecting Lawyer’s performance. To accomplish this goal, we conducted a survey for half a year and analyzed data on 960 lawyers, then used SPSS 22 and Smart PLS 3.0 software to analyze the data. The results show that all six factors positively impact Emotional Intelligence. Emotional Intelligence both positively and positively impact Lawyer’s Motivation and Lawyer’s Performance. At the same time Lawyer’s Motivation has a statistically significant positive impact on Lawyer’s Performance. Finally, the results of multi-group testing between male and female lawyers are statistically different. From the research results, we propose a few solutions to improve motivation and work efficiency for lawyers in Vietnam.

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.

Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play a vital role for the development of any economy. Mul-tiple studies with respect to various aspects and dimensions of SMEs have been undertaken. Some of the problems faced by SMEs from the side of the employees include performance management issues, employee issues like strikes, go slow tactics, and so on. However, studies that explore the issues as perceived by employers are scarce. The present research is undertak-en to find out the various human resource issues as perceived by employers. Data for the present study was collected from 60 SMEs. The organizations belonged to various sectors. Factor Analysis was performed to identify the factors. The analysis identified two factors as perceived by employers regarding human resource issues in SMEs. The reliability and validity of the factors were also assessed, which was found to be sufficiently high. A few suggestions for further research are also presented.

This study investigates the mechanism by which customers’ affective and cognitive states drive their behavioural intentions towards upscale restaurants. With stimulus-organism-response (SOR) theory as a backbone, two competing mediation scenarios; one-step versus two-step mediation are examined. A dataset of 425 conveniently selected valid responses was used to test the models. Structural equation modelling shows that customer behavioural intentions were better explained by a cognitive-affective mediated model than by one-step mediated model. The results of hypotheses testing reveal the significance of restaurant design in enrichening customers’ cognitive experience, thus, eliciting their affective states, which ultimately affect their behavioural intentions. This paper shows the applicability of the cognitive theory of emotions in explaining restaurant design-customer behavioural intentions relationship. The results also provide insights for restaurant operators on how the design characteristics of their restaurants can be best utilised to encourage positive customer responses. Discussion, conclusion and future work are also provided.

The study aimed to identify the extent of Jordanian costumers' satisfaction with electrical appliances' after-sale services offered by both LG and Samsung companies. The researcher used the analytic descriptive approach for data collection from the primary resources through developing a questionnaire for the purposes of this study. The sample of the study included 400 clients for L.G and Samsung companies. The results of the study indicate a relationship be-tween after-sale services offered by both companies and consumers' satisfaction. In addition, there was a relationship between quality guarantee certificate offered by LG and Samsung companies for electrical appliances and consumers' satisfaction. In light of the results, the study recommended with the necessity of the existence of a specialized team within the com-pany to offer maintenance services, offering financial compensations in case there is a technical error with any product or substituting the product.