Recently, high profile scandals and financial crises in the United States, Europe and East Asia, have brought corporate governance issues to the forefront in developing countries, emerging markets and transitional economies. These scandals shake the integrity of accounting information and resulted in a drop in investor confidence. This has made companies need to achieve significant progress to the corporate governance perform in order to recuperate the investors’ confidence of financial reporting quality.
2. EFFECT OF CONFLICT MANAGEMENT STYLES ON MANAGERS’ BURNOUT AT GOVERNMENTAL GUIDANCE SCHOOLS IN TEHRAN, IRAN
Aida Mehrad, Mohammad Hossein Tahriri Zangeneh, Farimah Dokoushkani and Asbah Razali
Conflict management assumed as an effective and basic item that can perform satisfaction and dissatisfaction results on managers at governmental guidance schools. The results show that all of these elements depend on manager decisions and their performance at work environment. One of these unpleasant effects among managers is burnout at governmental guidance schools. The aim of present study is to examine relation between conflict management styles with managers’ burnout at governmental guidance schools i
3. ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AGAINST THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN
FROM THE HUMAN RIGHTS PERSPECTIVE
Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Islamic Republic of Iran has always exposed to various international sanctions due to different reasons and excuses. They put Iran under different sanctions directly or indirectly through international organizations, under the pretext of creating an international order. As matter of fact, they pursue their own foreign policy goals and use sanctions as a means to achieve those goals. Economic sanctions is one of the sanctions type that have been imposed on Iran since the
4. PERCEPTIONS OF AFGHANISTAN STUDENTS ON THE USE OF ONLINE TOOLS FOR LEARNING
Online technology plays a significant role in higher education especially in assisting teaching and learning. In Afghanistan, to move towards student-centered and technology-driven learning, the Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) encourages all universities to use technology to facilitate teaching and learning. This study, therefore, attempts to measure Afghanistan university students’ perceptions of online tools utilization on their learning. A survey questionnaire was distributed to 217 students, and 3
5. ESTABLISHING A CONSUMER ANIMOSITY MODEL: MODERATING EFFECTS OF COUNTRY IMAGE, WORD OF MOUTH AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
This study aims at examining the moderating effects of country image, word of mouth and corporate social responsibility on effect of consumer animosity. International marketers have to be aware of the negative effect of consumer animosity on purchase intention. The purpose of this study is to investigate different marketing strategies of the product from animosity country could whether moderate local consumer animosity, such as setting up a better country image, enthusiastic in CSR activities, and implement
6. SMOKING AND VAPING E-CIGARETTE CONJECTURES, REALITIES AND IMPLICATIONS
It has been said that e-cigarettes are the new “evil weed” because they are being used by more young people now and they contain nicotine which entices people to smoke and perhaps get “hooked” on much stronger nicotine tobacco products. This article explores the realities and intense debate arising from the introduction and rapid growth of the e-cigarette. The authors examine the laws that apply, or could apply to e-cigarettes. The implications of the emergence of e-cigarettes are discussed; and app
7. THE SYSTEM OF SENSE-CREATIVE CONTEXT AS A FACTOR OF SELF-REGULATION IN LEARNING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Using sense-creative technologies in teaching English as foreign language (EFL) is becoming a burning issue in the modern classroom due to challenges that University graduates face in real life. The concept of life-long learning is an evident response to these challenges. The study warrants close scrutiny and reveals the concept of "sense-creative context" as a factor of self-regulation in learning a foreign language. This paper shows methods underpinning sense-creative and communicative technologies, such
8. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF HOUSING WELFARE AND RESIDENTIAL SATISFACTION
Nowadays, residents’ satisfaction and its relationship to housing design is an important concern for psycho-sociologists. In the current study, the importance of the welfare aspects of housing was considered in a residential context. Residents in Farhangian neighborhood in Bandar Abbas, a port city in southern coast of Iran, responded to a self-developed questionnaire. It was about the access to educational, recreational, and public services in their neighborhood; plus, the existence of various architectu
9. EFFECTS OF EDUCATIONAL INDICATORS ON STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE IN THE SULTANATE OF OMAN
Faris Said Saleh AL-Farsi, Nurul Sima Mohamad Shariff
This study attempts to investigate the effect of educational indicators and on the 12th grade students’ performance in Sultanate of Oman. The data is collected from Data Resource System (DRS) at the department of statistics, and the Educational Evaluation System (EES). The multiple linear regression is performed to study the effects of the predetermined of educational indicators such as class size, school size, school type, student/teacher ratio, teacher/class ratio and student gender on the students’ p
10. DOCTRINE OF IMPRACTICALITY UNDER THE LAW OF CONTRACT: AN OVERVIEW OF ITS DEVELOPMENT
Fatemeh Etemadnia, Dr. Anowar Zahid, Dr. Jady Z. Hassim
Sanctity of contract is one of the fundamental principles of contract law. According to this principle, none of the contracting parties can refuse to perform their obligations. However, this principle has some exceptions. One of the exceptions is the doctrine of impracticability, which allows the parties total or partial exemption from their obligations or postponement of the contract given unexpected circumstances or issues. This proposed paper will give an overview of the development of the doctrine of im
11. JUSTIFICATIONS FOR THE DOCTRINE OF EXCUSE FROM CONTRACT: AN OVERVIEW OF THE POSITION UNDER AMERICAN LAW AND IRANIAN LAW
Fatemeh Etemadnia, Dr. Anowar Zahid, Dr. Jady Z. Hassim
The doctrine of impracticability of contract and other similar doctrines are known as the doctrine excuse from contract. It is an exception to the principle of sanctity of contract, which is a primary principle of contract law. There are four theories that justify this exception. They are the theories of Implied Term, Good Faith, Unjust Enrichment and Abusing Rights. This paper is an attempt to overview these underlying theories with particular reference to US and Iran.
12. IDENTIFICATION OF CRITICAL LEVEL OF ASSETS BY USING ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS FOR WATER ASSETS MANAGEMENT
The management of a water asset is becoming more complicated and demanding, not only to keep the water asset in good condition but also in an optimal manner. To overcome these challenges water asset should be managed according to the critical level of each asset that is determined base on the identified critical criteria for each asset hierarchy. The main purpose of this study is to identify the critical level of each asset by using analytic hierarchy process (AHP). The research methodology consists of a se
13. ROLE OF INTEREST RATE IN ATTRACTING THE FDI: STUDY ON ASEAN 5 ECONOMY
This paper is concerned with the foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow and its determinant in ASEAN 5. The analysis is based on the data over the years, 1986 to 2012 using Vector Auto regression (VAR) Technique. The objective is to analyze the relationship of (FDI) inflow and interest rates (IR). The finding suggests that interest rates of Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia have negative relation with foreign
14. THE INNOVATIVE INTEGRATION AND INCITEMENT OF SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENT
This research is an invaluable part of “The Innovative Integration and Incitement of Socially Responsible Investment”. This phase aims to review the socially responsible investment studies, to construct the socially responsible investment framework and to analyze the important factors that influence socially responsible investment behavior. 424 samples were gathered from recent investors and prospective investors in Thailand via online and face to face questionnaires.
Socially responsible investment is
15. ANTIDISCRIMINATION LAWS AND THE GLOBAL WORKPLACE: COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EQUAL RIGHTS THEORY FOR WOMEN
The globalization of business, communications, the economy, and culture create both a climate and increased opportunities to consider workplace law beyond our borders. Many of the major human rights instruments such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which contains a catalog of important rights for workers including the right to work, just and favorable workplace conditions, an adequate standard of living, equal pay, a safe and he
16. ADVERTISING DESIGN: THE USE OF PRINT ADS (POSTER) IN CAMPAIGN DESIGN TOWARDS THE CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE PREVENTION
Nur Faizah Binti Mohd Pahme, Norfarizah Binti Mohd Bakhir, Ahmad Sofiyuddin Bin Mohd Shuib
This study is a design research on the advertising design, which is concentrating on posters as the medium in child sexual abuse prevention campaign. The topic has been chosen based on the deficiencies of method service and information, particularly in terms of advertising based on the issue. The main problem occurred is lack of print ads (poster) towards child sexual abuse prevention’s campaign. Besides the visual used in the print ads do not give any impact to the society. The overall goal of the study