Various nations across the globe plunged into an international pandemic during the first quarter of 2020. Millions of employees across every industry were thrust into new working arrangements as businesses attempted to cope with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and shelter in place orders. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has systemically changed the workplace of most businesses. Many employees started to work from home for the first time in 2020, and as the new year unfolds that reality could be the new norm. Business leaders face the challenge of ensuring their workforce is effective, efficient, and happy through a consistent corporate culture and support. The research will focus on how organizational leaders can continue to manage remote workers by focusing on motivation, communication, and job satisfaction in the new era of Zoom. Using a collective approach, this article provides insights into ways to manage virtual teams and increase job satisfaction of virtual employees as a way for businesses to maintain the competitive advantage achieved through superior workforce. This article will attempt to integrate various themes in literature published since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic providing recommended best practices for managing newly virtual employees and teams.

This paper examines the views of managers of the 250 largest Malaysian companies about the determinants of corporate cash holdings. Responding managers support the view that the primary cause for a firm’s cash balances is the accumulation of internally generated cash flows, not the issuance of new securities; that firms will generally hold more cash to prevent underinvestment when there is greater uncertainty in future cash flows; to avoid the risk of financial distress; and to ensure the ability to invest in new projects when internally-generated cash flows exhibit high levels of volatility. They also express support for an optimal trade-off approach to cash holdings.

This study examines the 1977 United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and its recent re-interpretation by the U.S. Department of Justice. The original motivation for and concerns about the legislation are examined with particular attention to the two competing regulatory approaches at the time of the congressional debate: (1) the Criminalization Approach and (2) the Disclosure Approach. The example of the prosecution of General Cable is a primary application of the Criminalization Approach and its implications for companies that do business outside the United States. A timeline is provided of General Cable’s attempts to survive an increasingly competitive global cable marketplace and the subsequent history of the company is provided, with the conclusion that the DOJ used a new and little-advertised change in interpretation of a thirty-year old law to effectively destroy an established American company and oversee the sale of its assets to a European conglomerate.

This study undertakes a systematic review to gain insight into existing empirical studies on the field of ambidexterity, to synthesize and categorize the antecedents, outcomes and moderators of ambidexterity and develop suggestions for future research. Based on a systematic literature review of 92 articles published in 46 peer-reviewed academic journals from 2000 to 2020, various research perspectives were synthesized into a comprehensive framework of ambidexterity. We developed a conceptual model of ambidexterity grounded in selected theoretical lenses to advance our understanding of the different antecedents, moderators, and outcomes of ambidexterity. ? fine-grained understanding of ambidexterity is presented that contributes to management literature by synthesizing ambidexterity published research findings and identifying the mechanisms of effective ambidexterity. This study is valuable when aiming to map the development of the ambidexterity field over time and improve organizational performance.

This study sought to establish the effect of COVID-19 containment strategies on human resource management practices in ISO 9001:2015 certified firms in Kenya. The study adopted descriptive research design in obtaining data from 139 senior management staff. Key findings after analyzing 110 responses are that in 93.6% of the firms, the pandemic had affected Human Resource systems, practices and procedures (mean response 3.9). In 70.2% of the firms, the respondents indicated that current human resource policies do not adequately support remote working by employees (Mean response 2.4), while in 70.9% of the firms, offsite working had negatively affected employees’ productivity (mean response 3.1). In 72.4% of the firms, the management had provided adequate COVID-19 training to all staff (mean response 3.3), while in 64.5% of the firms, working from home had not enhanced safety and mental wellbeing of employees during lockdowns (mean response 3.3). The findings suggest that ISO 9001:2015 certified firms in Kenya are facing people management challenges during the pandemic, hence non-optimization of the human resource factor. The study concluded that there are outstanding knowledge gaps, though it is evident that the pandemic has affected working practices in ISO 9001:2015 certified firms in Kenya, with implications on economic recovery post COVID-19. The study recommends review of human resource policies except those mandated by law. The policy review should promote safety at workplaces, catering for medical costs, training on executive leadership and skills development to support remote working and psychological wellbeing of employees. Future research opportunities include establishing how work context in remote locations influence employee behavior and actions. The expected study output upon successful implementation of the given recommendations is enhanced performance of ISO 9001:2015 certified firms in Kenya.

While traditional word of mouth is used in small groups of people, electronic (Word of Mouth- eWoM) is considered one of the most influential informal media among consumers, businesses, and the population at large. We present how eWoM can be measured easily and economically, during a crisis period. For this purpose, we use a case study of the Greek airline “Aegean Airlines”, in order to investigate what kind of sentiment dominates among users and therefore the type of eWoM that is spreading especially through the central hubs of the company’s social network on Twitter. By performing text and sentiment analysis on the tweets text, we observe that even with the extreme measures in effect due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the general sentiment for Aegean remains positive over time. Moreover, we further highlighted the top users by frequency and context of tweets (influencers) regarding the airline and examined how they affect the spread of the eWoM, positive or negative, and what this means for the company’s reputation. In conclusion, we argue that a substantial percentage of users are exposed to positive eWoM regarding Aegean, and therefore, it is more likely that those users might choose it for their future trips, and recommend it to others, further strengthening its brand name.

This study aims to examine the impact of motivation on employee performance. A quantitative approach is used, with data collection methods, interviews, and a questionnaire. A Likert Scale was implemented, as a main instrument for collecting necessary data, and employees answered a distributed questionnaire. Key findings state that motivational factors have a significant positive impact on employee performance. Therefore, motivation corresponds to high employee performance. Additionally, this study describes the significance of a code of ethics in conducting a valid motivation mode. The implications of the work emphasize that there is a need to enhance employee performance through motivation, without bias or discrimination.

This research compares the cycle of quality as a strategic imperative to what has been going on with sustainability. As a proxy for quality, TQM grew quickly as a way to differentiate a company within an industry, but declined almost as fast. A strategy based on sustainability has grown at nearly the same rate. Does sustainability show any aging as a differentiator and what would be the signs that it did? Data are derived from annual reports, specifically the CEO’S voice in the letter to shareholders, to estimate the popularity of these two recent strategic shifts. It is too early to conclude sustainability as a strategy has peaked but signs similar to the TQM demise are readily evident.

This paper presents the managerial and high level legal insights from the Faculty Development Program (FDP) held at ICFAI Law School, Hyderabad, India. The important teacher competencies, best practices of teaching, mentoring, important traits of students, learning aspects, best practices in listening are discussed. Online Dispute Resolution, Good Governance, Public Policy and Economics, and Tax Policy are also discussed in this paper. Typical qualities of a Mentor, Characteristics of Mentoring, and The Process of Mentoring are discussed. The paper concludes with The World-2030 goals and its relation to management.

In todays intensely dynamic market environment, an organizations consistency and timeliness of business knowledge is a matter of survival or bankruptcy. Organizations may benefit greatly from business intelligence applications. It can help companies remove a lot of guesswork, improve coordination and collaborative planning across roles and lines of business, and make it possible for businesses to react even faster to improvements in financial markets, consumer tastes, and supply chain processes. According to experts, the need of business intelligence is going to become so common that a BI icon will appear on every desktop. Market intelligence, like word processing apps, has become an integral component of an organizations information infrastructure, and nearly all end users will use it. According to Gartner Dataquest, the world industry in 2005 was worth 2.3 billion dollars, with an annual growth rate of 8.2 percent from 2005 to 2007. It is expected that business intelligence will expand its scope to reach all, which will include all businesses of all sizes we will demonstrate that the Romanian industry is responding to this development as well.

Climate change is a global issue and therefore, concerted global efforts are required to address this issue. Despite the USA (United States of America) being one of the biggest historical as well as the current emitter of greenhouse gasses, the USA has been a dragger in global climate negotiations and agreements. In this study, an attempt has been made to explore the division of political parties in the USA at the national level on their stated belief towards anthropogenic climate change. Statements of House of Representatives and Senators given in their respective houses on climate change from 1999 to 2017 have been studied, analyzed and categorized between “Believer” and “Skeptic”. Division of Believer and Skeptic has been studied along Party lines. Based on this study, conclusions have been drawn as to how major political parties are aligned on the issue of anthropogenic or human-induced climate change.