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Firstly, I would like to welcome all the readers, authors, editorial team and management of Pakistan Biomedical Journal (PBMJ) to this new journal in Biomedical Sciences. It is an intenational peer-reviewed, open-access journal that merges the basic and clinical research for the better outcome in terms of diagnosis and therapeutics. This approach will update and upgrade the existing knowledge among the researchers and clinicians, regarding the patient care and practice as well as understanding of underlying mechanisms of diseases. The ultimate beneficiary is patient and community as a whole. PBMJ is led by an outstanding Editorial Board comprising of national and international members with multidisciplinary research background. Our goal is to promote the basic and clinical research, health and disease perspectives. We receive original studies, review articles, case reports, systemetic reviews on medical, biomedical, basic and therapeutic research. We welcome scientific contributions from all over the world. It is the need and demand of the recent world scenario to focus on biomedical research. In the current world, basic and medical science cannot be considered as two separate and independent entities. There should be coherent efforts to unveil the basic understandings of pathologies at physiological, cellular and molecular level. Furthermore, the therapeutic strategies should also be explored on regional and global levels, by keeping in mind the different genetic makeups and considering the individual identities. It leads to the field of ‘personalized medicine’. There are many other recent therapeutic regimens such as regenerative medicine, exosomes, gene silencing and gene editing technologies. The world has also advanced in diagnostic modalities. Much focus has been emphasized on rapidness, accuracy and cost-effectiveness of these techniques. Imaging, scanning, histopathological, biochemical and hematological techniques have been much advanced than before. World has been changing rapidly in medical profession. Hence, it is important to be aware of these advancements worldwide and also to share the health related researches at local level. We hope this new journal will be a good addition in this perspective of sharing the recent knowledge, advancements and create awareness among masses.
This study aims to investigate the mediating role of perceived organizational support between HRM practices (recruitment & selection, training & development, performance appraisal, career planning and compensation), and organizational commitment. The topic was selected after preliminary study of the existing literature with a view to extract the broader theoretical model of issue. From this mini-research, a conceptual model was initially extracted to represent the issue with leading variables of human resource management practices, perceived organizational support and organizational commitment. Both secondary and primary data was used to explore the topic and examine the relationships between different research variables. The secondary data was collected from the existing research on the issue while field survey using questionnaire was applied to collect primary data for the testing of research model. The data were collected from employees of the selected six public/private sector banks in southern region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. In total 225 questionnaires were distributed into the respondents and 218 questionnaires were returned. The study has used a number of different statistical techniques such as factor analysis, correlation analysis, mediation regression analysis, one way ANOVA and t-test for analyzing the data. The results show that all human resource management practices and perceived organizational support were positively and significantly correlated with organizational commitment. Both of these variables also predict the organizational commitment verifying the cause and effect relationship between independent and dependent variables. In addition, perceived organizational support when treated as mediator showed partial mediation between (recruitment & selection, training & development, career planning, compensation) and organizational commitment. Full mediation has been established between performance appraisal and organizational commitment. The demographic variables, designation, qualification, experience, gender and marital status were also tested for examining mean differences among the groups. The findings of this study have multiple implications for the banks, policy makers and future researchers based on the results.