Volume 16, December 2019
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Item HRM practices and performance management in public service organizations in Bangladesh: An empirical study((CRP), International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh,, 2021-03-22) Khan, Mohammad Aktaruzzaman; Hoque, Nazamul; Shahabuddin, A. M.This paper assesses the effects of HRM practices on the management performance of public service organizations as public service is believed to safeguard the national property for allocating goods and services timely, and reasonably to the inhabitants of the country especially in a developing country like Bangladesh. The question circling whether the HR practices in public service are sincere for equal and equitable distribution of products and services effectively. In doing so, this study investigated the effectiveness of HR practices and methods on the performance management of public service. The study, through a mixed-method approach, conveniently surveyed a sample of 142 respondents and interview drawn from seven key informants of two Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) cadre from Chittagong, the second-largest city of the country. The study shows the differences in the effects of HRM practices that employee training positively and commensurate compensation negatively predict employee performance, respectively, however, performance appraisal feedback is not a significant predictor. The study drawn the implications for HRM practices in BCS organization and encouraged future scholars to further examine these differences.Item Traditional Shalish system for rural dispute resolution in Bangladesh: An analytical study of its structure and operational mechanism((CRP), International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh,, 2021-03-22) Hoque, Muhammad RafiqulThis study aims at exploring the structure and operational mechanism of Shalish-a traditional rural dispute resolution system in Bangladesh. It seems that this dispute resolution system, being very informal and flexible in nature, has no organized structure and operational mechanism. However, this paper aims to critically investigate the situation. Based on observation of a number of Shalish events in a rural area of the country and extensive discussion with some Shalishkars and disputants, this qualitative study finds that the system is well structured and its operational mechanism is quite effective, albeit with some limitations. It is recommended that a local Alim (Islamic Scholar) should be included in all Shalish to ensure shari’ah related issues like some family and inheritance related disputes. Shalishkars need to be trained and upgraded in their experiences and qualities through workshops, seminars in respect of legal, moral and shari’a issues.Item Islamic culture and globalization: Challenges and responses((CRP), International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh,, 2021-03-22) Ullah, Md. CholemThis paper is a humble endeavor to look at the relationship between Islam and globalisation from cultural perspective. The paper explores the nature of Islamic culture and its interaction with the west as part of the fundamental factors of how the west employ the policies against Islam in the most inhumane form. Now, western powers have been propagating against Islam. It is thus significant to analyze the role of ummah in this milieu of cultural globalisation for preparedness in shaping and constructing the course of globalisation in the coming days. This paper seeks to explain how will ummah meet challenges facing Islam as a cultural participator in globalisation where Islam is attributed with terrorism and other allegations, albeit is not Islamic at all and will never been part of the Islamic teaching and culture.Against this backdrop, Islam's future and its culture depend on Muslim ummah’s ability and their uncompromising mindset- not to integrate modernity and western culture into Islam but to make the new global order that can infuse religious norms like solidarity, community and identity.Item Nexus between foreign direct investment, foreign aid, foreign remittance and economic growth in Bangladesh: Analysis of association((CRP), International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh,, 2021-03-22) Zobair, Shah Asadullah Mohd.This study aims at exploring time series data of economic growth indicator and foreign inflow of fund to Bangladesh to investigate the nature of impact of such fund inflows on economic growth. In this regard data has been collected from World Bank data base for a period ranging from 1976 to 2017. The analysis is conducted by using the ARDL approach. The study identified foreign direct investment as a crucial external factor for growth of Bangladeshi economy. But another two mentionable ways of fund inflow such as foreign aid and remittance are found to play negative role in this regard. Along with these findings, this study recommends that the competent authority of Bangladesh should focus on creating more investment friendly environment to attract and ensure continual of foreign investment. Additionally, the study also claims for proper action to ensure effective use of policy and rules to make the best use of foreign aid and ensure enhanced capital formation of the foreign remittanceItem Does trade openness cause economic growth in Bangladesh?((CRP), International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh,, 2021-03-22) Khanom, SharminaAbstract Bangladesh has followed a restrictive trade policy immediately after its liberation. But the system was proven wrong, and gradually it opened up its market to others and started to improve its foreign trade. This paper investigates the impact of trade openness on Bangladesh's economic growth using annual time-series data for the period from 1972-73 to 2015-16. The paper uses such econometric tools as unit root test, cointegration test and error correction model to investigate the relationship between the variables. This study revealed a positive association between export and GDP but the opposite relation between import and GDP and recommended to enhance export earnings.Item Black empowerment and Afro-American values in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye((CRP), International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh,, 2021-03-22) Karim, SajjadulAbstract The Bluest Eye of Toni Morrison is extraordinarily significant, as it addresses the different sides of American literature, and the lives of the Afro-American people. Although the conventional theological aspects of white culture can negatively influence other characters of Morrison, it is Pecola whose life appears to be increasingly defenseless against the impulses of the individuals who have accepted the Western custom. In a democratic country, people generally have the same value, but there are still prejudices in the concepts of beauty and worthiness. The search for freedom, black identity, the nature of evil and the robust voices of African-Americans have become themes for African-American literature. Folklore covers the history of black and white interaction in the United States and also summarizes the feelings expressed in protest literature1. Morrison argues that the survival of the dark ladies in a white dominated society depends on loving their own way of life and dark race and rejecting the models of white culture or white excellence. This article attempts to examine The Bluest Eye from the perspective of empowerment of blacks and African American and their value system.