Employees are very important part of any organization. Their attitudes and behaviors at work can either enable organizations to cultivate and accomplish superior performance or close it operations. So, understanding those attitudes and behaviors of employees and what factors affect them is very crucial for any organization. Better understanding of attitudinal and behavioral issues will help resolve problems of low commitment, less job satisfaction, turnover intentions and many more managerial dilemmas. This thesis examines the impact of Psychological Contract on and attitudinal and behavioral responses of employees. This thesis also investigates the Antecedents of psychological contract included personality, organizational culture and work- family conflict. Attitudes and behaviors of the study include organizational citizenship behavior, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, job insecurity, stress, turnover intentions and knowledge sharing. Close - ended questionnaires were distributed among 600 males and females of public and private banks, universities and hospitals of Hyderabad and Jamshoro districts. The data was analyzed through multivariate analysis of variance and hierarchical regression. The findings showed that older employees formulate relational whereas, young employees formulate transactional psychological contract. It was established in this study that personality is a predictor of the psychological contract and psychological contract fulfillment. Organizational culture is also a significant contributor of the psychological contract and psychological is contract fulfillment. The empirical findings confirmed that conflict among work and family responsibilities can be very harmful for relational and transactional psychological contract. Psychological contract fulfillment also decreases as a result of clash in work and family responsibilities. Relational psychological contract, transactional psychological contract and psychological contract all had impact on attitudes (organizational citizenship behavior, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, job insecurity and stress) and behaviors (turnover intentions and knowledge sharing) of employees. No difference in formulation of relational psychological contract among male and female employees was found. Relational psychological contract was more persistent in public sector employees as compared to private sector employees. This study will help managers resolve attitudinal and behavioral problems of low commitment, less job satisfaction, turnover intentions and many more managerial dilemmas in the context of psychological contract. This study will assist in solving these problems and will help managers to modify and upgrade their selection and appraisal procedures to hire employees who form ‘relational psychological contract, who show attitudes (i.e. be more commitment, more satisfaction) and behaviors (i.e. lower turnover intentions) that are beneficial for organizations as they increase overall organizational performance.
مولانا سیداصغر حسین صد حیف کہ آسمانِ علم و عمل اور فلکِ شریعت وطریقت کاایک اورکوکبِ درخشندہ ٹوٹ گیا یعنی حضرت مولانا سیداصغر حسین صاحبؒ المعروف بہ میاں صاحب نے ۸؍ جنوری۴۵ء کوبمقام راندیر ضلع سورت انتقال فرمایا۔انا ﷲ وانا الیہ راجعون۔ حضرت میاں صاحب ؒ ان بزرگوں میں سے تھے جن کو بے تامل مادر زاد ولی کہا جاسکتا ہے۔ علوم ظاہر وباطن دونوں کے جامع تھے۔ دارالعلوم دیوبند میں تعلیم پائی، آپ کاشمار حضرت شیخ الہند ؒکے ارشد تلامذہ میں تھا۔دارالعلوم دیوبند سے فارغ التحصیل ہونے کے بعد مختلف مقامات میں بسلسلۂ تعلیم وتدریس مقیم رہے۔ان مقامات میں جونپور کواس لحاظ سے خاص امتیاز حاصل ہے کہ حضرت مرحوم کاقیام وہاں قدرے ممتدرہا اور وہاں کے مسلمانوں نے آپ کے وجود سے بہت کچھ فیضِ ظاہری و باطنی حاصل کیا۔ اب سالہاسال سے دارالعلوم دیوبند میں حدیث کے استاذ اعلیٰ تھے۔تفسیر کی بھی بعض اونچی کتابیں (تفسیر ابن کثیر وغیرہ) آپ کے درس میں رہتی تھیں، حدیث کی مشکل ترین کتاب سننِ ابوداؤد ہمیشہ آپ ہی کے یہاں رہتی تھی اورحق یہ ہے اس اہم کتاب کی عقدہ کشائی آپ جس فنی حذاقت سے فرمایا کرتے تھے وہ آپ ہی کاحصہ تھا۔حدیث کے علاوہ فقہ میں خصوصاًاوردوسرے علوم دینیہ و الٰہیہ میں استعداد پختہ اورنظر وسیع رکھتے تھے۔ درس میں بولتے کم تھے مگر جوبات فرماتے تھے نہایت جچی تلی اورٹھوس ہوتی تھی۔حضرت الاستاذ علامہ سیدمحمد انورشاہ صاحبؒ اپنے حلقۂ درس میں آپ کی ذہانت وفطانت کی داد دیا کرتے تھے۔ فرمایا کرتے تھے میاں صاحب’’فقیہ النفس ‘‘ہیں ۔علاوہ بریں آپ اردو زبان میں تصنیف وتالیف کاشگفتہ اور سلجھا ہوامذاق بھی رکھتے تھے۔’القاسم‘ اور’الرشید‘ کے دورِ قدیم میں دونوں میں علمی ودینی مباحث پرمضامین لکھتے تھے۔ان کے علاوہ چھوٹی بڑی متعدد کتابیں اور مستقل رسالے بھی تصنیف کیے ہیں جو چھپ کرملک میں شائع اور...
The study was conducted to examine some of the important questions raised by both the religious scholars and the proponents of the Enlightenment movement. The purpose of the study was to interpret enlightenment in Western and Islamic context and to examine the impact of western enlightenment on contemporary Pakistani society in the light of Islamic teachings. The study was quantitative in nature. Survey was conducted to probe into the perceptions of the Pakistani people regarding impact of western enlightenment on various aspects of contemporary Pakistani society. The sample of the study was 1000 people from four provincial headquarters of Pakistan including male and female from urban and rural areas of the provincial capitals. Two research instruments were developed by the researcher based on review of the related literature. First was a questionnaire named WEBI, Western Enlightenment Beliefs Inventory; second was a checklist named WEKAPC, Western Enlightenment Knowledge, Attitude and Practices Checklist. Results showed that most of the respondents were of the view that western enlightenment exerted significant influences on their thinking, lifestyles, and education, culture, media and social practices. Majority of the respondents thought that western enlightenment emphasized on tolerance, cultural harmony, equality, social justice and independent thinking. Gender-wise comparisons indicated that male respondents were more positive towards western enlightenment than the female respondents. It was recommended that Pakistani society needs to be made aware of the philosophy of western enlightenment and Islamic values which are characteristics of western enlightenment movement. There is need to initiate interfaith dialogue to understand socio-cultural dynamics of a Muslim society and a western society.
The purpose of present study was to investigate the prevalence and psychological correlates of social anxiety disorder among university students. The research was carried out in three phases, in first phase social anxiety disorder was identified in university students, in second phase socially anxious students personality traits and perceived parenting styles was identified, and in third phase non anxious students personality traits and parenting styles were assessed for comparison purpose. A total sample of 500 students in which 250 were male and 250 were females ranging in age 17-25 years with educational background of 1st year to M.sc final year were selected randomly from different rural and urban universities. It was hypothesized that Social anxiety will be high among female students as compared to male students. Parenting style of parents of socially anxious students would be overprotective and rejecting as compared to non-anxious students. Students belonging to rural areas would have more social anxiety as compared to students belonging to urban areas. Liebowitz social anxiety scale, Rosenberg selfesteem scale, introversion scale, shyness scale, and measure of parental style were used to assess social anxiety disorder, self-esteem, introversion, shyness, and perceived parenting style. T-test, chi-square and one way Anova was applied on the result to investigate the significant differences between the two groups. Results confirmed hypotheses; it was found that social anxiety disorder is more among female students and students belonging to rural areas. It was also concluded that socially anxious students rate their parenting style as over control and rejecting. Social anxiety disorder affects personality traits such as shyness, self-esteem, and introversion.