SAJMS - South Asian Journal of Management Sciences

Contribution of Linkedin on Recruitment and Selection

Research Article

Linkedin has become one of the most known social networking portals in terms of global professional connections, networking, job postings, hiring and much more in relevance to employment opportunities. This research was an attempt to identify the utility of Linkedin on selection and recruitment. Also, this study has taken the employer’s and the prospective candidates for job and employees’ [...]

Transportation Outsourcing and Supply Chain Performance: A study of Pakistan’s Pharmaceutical Industry

Research Article

Recent times have witnessed that transportation outsourcing of logistics functions is a key business strategy to augment the feat of supply chain performance. Heap of empirical literature showed significant impact of transportation outsourcing on effectiveness and efficiency of supply chain management of firms. This paper investigated the impact of transportation outsourcing on supply chain performance for the 30 pharmaceuticals companies [...]

Impact of Job Satisfaction on Turnover Intentions in the Pharmaceutical Industry of Karachi

Research Article

This research endeavors a study to interrogate the possible impact of Job Satisfaction on Turnover Intention in the pharmaceutical industry operating in Karachi. 29 item questionnaires were used to collect the data and data was collected from the employee of pharmaceutical industry of Karachi; for the sample of 282. Multiple Regression Analysis and Principal Component Factor Analysis were applied to [...]

Improving Reverse Logistics of Used Lubricant Oil for Re-Refining

Research Article

Recycled used lubricant oils offers the benefits of recovering base oils prevents environment from harmful uses and protects the environment from disposal of used lubricant oils. It also promises to save billions of dollars of new base oil used in formulating new lubricant oils. It is argued that failure to ensure return of used lubricant oil and poor reverse logistics [...]

Autocorrelation in economic indicators before and after Natural Disaster

Research Article

This study investigates the autocorrelation in economic indicators of Pakistan before and after Natural disaster in the light of variables, which includes GDP (deflator), Inflation (CPI), Money supply (M2), Remittances and Net export (X-M). This study considers the data for the period of 1989-2009. In this study, data has been divided into two sets; first having a data for the [...]

Level of Satisfaction of Working and Non-Working Women in Relation to their Socio-economic Conditions and Education

Research Article

The study aims at examining the satisfaction level of women with their socioeconomic conditions and education, based on survey data relating to 262 married females. It is suggested that education enables women to earn, resulting a higher level of satisfaction. Another important predictor in the study is social class of women, which plays an important role in their satisfaction level. [...]

A Comparative Study on Bank’s Profitability before, during and after Crises

Research Article

The purpose of this research is to examine the outcome of liquidity crunch on bank profitability. Comparison of bank’s profitability has been done for a panel of 30 Pakistani banks over the period of 2003 to 2010. Focus has been kept on total bank profits and its components: Gross Profit, ROE and ROA. Three eras have been selected as [...]

Retail Business Owners Preference: Why not Formal Financing?

Research Article

Finance is a basic need to run a business and the need of external financing is also required during the business cycle, expansion, growth etc. In this research, Retail Business Owners (RBO’s) were being questioned to find out the reasons for their preference on informal financing rather on formal financing. Karachi was the sample population to investigate the rational [...]