السلام فی القرآن الكريم

It goes without saying that peace has been a hot issue in the past; it is, still, a vital topic of discussion today, and it seems to continue to draw the attention of people in the future. We witness wars and destructions in several parts of the world. This has led to killings of millions of people, left innumerable number of families broken and displaced millions of people. We need to address it earnestly. The author of this dissertation has specified this topic with reference to the Holy Qur’ān, because being the book of Allāh Almighty, it means to us as the final constitution, the ultimate torchlight for our guidance, and a great blessing to the whole world. Peace means to be free from the calamities in this world and in the hereafter. Usually, peace is used to imply an opposition to war and violence between the nations. Peace is a virtue and it means absence of evil, and, therefore, it is always praiseworthy. The author of this paper deals with this topic by dividing it into six sections. These are, ‘The Peace’ as one of the divine names of Allāh Almighty; Peace equals good; Peace is praiseworthy; Peace in the sense of conciliation and security; Peace in the sense of customary Islamic salutation; and Refutation of the objection that Islām was spread by sword.

Human Capital, Organization Performance and Moderating Role of Social Capital: Evidence from Banking and Education Sectors

In today’s fast changing environment, where the globalization is taking place everywhere, it is a challenge for organizations to be remaining competitive in market. Human capital is one of biggest source of competitive advantage for organizations that cannot be easily imitated by other organizations while other capitals like structural or financial capital can be copied easily. In todays’ era, the pace of interest in human capital, social capital and organizational performance is gaining momentum around the globe. Impact of human capital on organizational performance has been tested. Mediating role of social capital in between human capital and organizational performance has also been tested; but moderating role of social capital in between human capital and organizational performance is still under-examined phenomenon. Therefore, this thesis provides an original contribution to the existing literature. This study contributes to the existent literature by investigating the impact of human capital on job satisfaction, career satisfaction and life satisfaction of employees which are important indicators of organizational performance in service sector of Pakistan; especially banking and education industry. Moderating role of social capital in between human capital and organizational performance is also tested. Data has been collected through structured questionnaire and interviews from faculty memberofuniversities, and officer grade rank employees of banking industry from five major cities of Punjab, Pakistan. Different statistical tools such as Correlation analysis, Confirmatory factor analysis, Structural Equation Modeling and Hierarchical Regression Analysis have been applied for analyzing the data. The findings of the study provided considerable support for the hypothesized relationships between overall human capital and organizational performance. Regarding moderating effects, the results provided strongsupport for hypothesis that social capital does moderate the relationship between human capital and organizational performance. This thesis opens new horizons of future research.The findings have significant implications for service sector.