International Journal of Management and Business Studies

International Journal of Management and Business Studies ISSN 2167-0439 Vol. 15 (1), pp. 001-008, January, 2026. Available online at www.internationalscholarsjournals.org © International Scholars Journals

Full Length Research Paper

Impact of Role Overload and Senior Support on the Mental Well-being of Bank Staff in Quetta City Pakistan

Nadeem Malik

Commerce Department University of Balochistan Pakistan. E-mail: [email protected].

Accepted 18 November, 2025

Stress is a universal element and persons from nearly every walk of life have to face stress. Stress can have negative impacts on both the employee and the organization. Actually, in this research paper it was checked that what the impact occupational stress produced upon employees. The study describes the occupational stress in public and private banks. A randomly selected sample of 200 employees from private and public banks shows that occupational stress is found higher among private bank employees compared to public bank employees. Among different occupational stress variables role over load, role authority, role conflict and lack of senior level support contribute more to the occupational stress. Bank employees cannot afford the time to relax and "wind down" when they are faced with work variety, discrimination, favoritism, delegation and conflicting tasks.

Key words: Occupational stress, pubic bank employees, private bank employees, employees’ health, increased competition, organizational behavior.
 

International Journal of Management and Business Studies ISSN 2167-0439 Vol. 15 (1), pp. 001-007, January, 2026. Available online at www.internationalscholarsjournals.org © International Scholars Journals

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The Impact of National Culture on Economic Productivity and Competitiveness

Herciu Mihaela*, Ogrean Claudia and Belascu Lucian

Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, Romania.

Accepted 18 October, 2025

The 21st century offered new challenges for the national economy. One of the most controversial aspects of globalization was the worldwide spread and dominance of the American culture. The cultural dimensions that characterize a nation had a major impact on national competitiveness, although in the globalization age the nations are tending to lose their own identity and culture. Competitiveness always was the motive which generates economic growth through productivity. The multicultural dimension of the world is a well-known and acknowledged fact. It is manifested both inside the borders of a nation, and outside them, and there are certain nations which are called „immigration countries” in which an own culture is impossible to bring into the debate, rather a conglomerate of cultures. The main idea of the paper was to identify the impact and the link, with the help of CORREL index, between cultural dimensions – power distance, individualism, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance measured by Geert Hofstede – and national competitiveness of a country measured by World Economic Forum through global competitiveness index (GCI). The results exhibited a significant impact of cultural dimensions on national competitiveness.

Key words: national competitiveness, cultural dimensions, power distance, individualism, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance.
 

International Journal of Management and Business Studies ISSN 2167-0439 Vol. 15 (1), pp. 001-009, January, 2026. Available online at www.internationalscholarsjournals.org © International Scholars Journals

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A Framework for Virtualizing New Product Development: A Modified Stage-Gate Approach

Nader Ale Ebrahim*, Shamsuddin Ahmed and Zahari Taha

Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, 50603 Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Accepted 09 November, 2025

In today’s dynamic marketplace, manufacturing companies are under strong pressure to introduce new products for long-term survival with their competitors. Nevertheless, every company cannot cope up progressively or immediately with the market requirements due to knowledge dynamics being experienced in the competitive milieu. Increased competition and reduced product life cycles put force upon companies to develop new products faster. In response to these pressing needs, there should be some new approach compatible in flexible circumstances. This paper presents a solution based on the popular Stage-Gate system, which is closely linked with virtual team approach. Virtual teams can provide a platform to advance the knowledge-base in a company and thus to reduce time-to-market. This article introduces conceptual product development architecture under a virtual team umbrella. The paper describes all the major aspects of new product development (NPD), NPD process and its relationship with virtual teams, Stage-Gate system finally presents a modified Stage-Gate system to cope up with the changing needs. It also provides the guidelines for the successful implementation of virtual teams in new product development.

Key words: Modified stage-gate system, virtual product development, conceptual model.

International Journal of Management and Business Studies ISSN 2167-0439 Vol. 14 (6), pp. 001-015, June, 2025. Available online at www.internationalscholarsjournals.org © International Scholars Journals

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Pathways to Macroeconomic Stability in Malawi: Addressing Imbalances and Implementing Reforms 

Mark Lungu

An economist at the Reserve Bank of Malawi
E-mail: [email protected]

Accepted 24 March, 2025

This paper uses a score board to determine the sources of macroeconomic imbalances in the Malawi economy during the period 2003 to 2014. The study employs a scoreboard to capture and assess macroeconomic imbalances. The design of the scorecard is based on the European monetary Union (EMU), developed under the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure (MIP) in September 2011. From the external sustainability side, Malawi has high external position vulnerabilities which are depicted in sources of imbalances in the economy namely the persistent current account deficit, Net international Investment Position (NIIP) deficit, unfavorable terms of trade as evidenced by the low export market share and unstable Real Effective Exchange rate (REER). From the internal sustainability perspective, sources of macroeconomic imbalances include volatile gross domestic product, unstable prices, high government domestic debt, low private sector credit, high unemployment and low capacity utilization.

Keywords: Macroeconomic, Exchange rate, Policy, Utilization, Imbalances.
 

International Journal of Management and Business Studies ISSN 2167-0439 Vol. 14 (6), pp. 001-012, June, 2025. Available online at www.internationalscholarsjournals.org © International Scholars Journals

Full Length Research Paper

Social Capital and Human Well-being in Rural Poverty: Insights from the Alabama Black Belt Region

Buddhi Raj Gyawali1*, Rory Fraser2, James Bukenya1 and Swagata “Ban” Banerjee1

1Department of Agribusiness, P. O. Box 323, Alabama A&M University, Normal, AL 35762, Alabama, USA.
2Center for Forestry and Ecology, P.O. Box 323, Alabama A&M University, Normal, AL 35762, Alabama, USA.

Accepted 5 April, 2025

This paper examines the relationship between human well-being and forms of community capital in the eight Black Belt counties in the west- central region of Alabama. This region is one of the poorest in the United States with high proportion of African- American populations. Cross-sectional spatial regression models were estimated using the data from the U.S. Population and Economic Census, Geographic Information System, and satellite imageries of 2000. The results indicate that geographic space is highly segregated in these counties and African Americans are less likely to be found in areas high in built, natural, and political capital. Service-providing entities such as financial, industrial, and social capital are located more in urbanized centers. The results suggest that social capital is strongly correlated with human well-being. The findings provide spatially-explicit empirical insights and suggest targeting rural development policies to create more social capital and address specific needs of the region, especially of African-American populations.

Key words: African Americans, census data, land cover, proximity, rural, social capital, spatial.
 

International Journal of Management and Business Studies ISSN 2167-0439 Vol. 14 (5), pp. 001-009, May, 2025. Available online at www.internationalscholarsjournals.org © International Scholars Journals

Review

Fighting the Shadow Economy: An Examination of Tax Amnesty Policies and Their Impact on Revenue Generation

Melikaoui Mouloud

Faculty of Economy and Business and Management Science, Bordj-Bou-Arrerudj University- Algeria. Email: [email protected]

Accepted 16 November, 2024

Given some successful international experiences in the use of tax amnesty programs to adjust the shadow economy, such as Ireland, Belgium, and Italy, this paper examines the subject of tax amnesty as one of the tax approaches to adjust the shadow economy and fight against tax evasion, increase revenue taxes of the state in the short term, and expand the tax base in the long term. 

Keywords:Tax Amnesty, Shadow Economy, Tax Evasion, Tax Punishments, International Experiences.
JEL Classification Code: D78. H26. H2. O5. O19