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Training and Development has always been a driving force for enhancing the teachers’ productivity and performance. A training and development program provided by the employer is a sincere effort to provide opportunities to the employees to be acquainted with the variety of skills, information, attitude and conduct. With the ever-growing needs of modern education system, the education industry has to become more techno savvy, dynamic and updated. There is always requirement of skillful and talented manpower to take up this education industry to the heights of international standards. The primary objective of this research paper is to investigate the impact of staff training and development on their productivity and performance in classroom teaching and in their administrative work as well. It can also be viewed as on their overall productivity. The data collected was through structured questionnaire. 58 teachers were interviewed through the questionnaire. Statistical Software (SPSS Version 16) was used for analyzing the data. The study concludes that there exist positive and strong relations between training and development and productivity of the teachers of Kurdistan. The study further concluded stating positive correlation between productivity and other independent factors like Skills, Expertise, Morale, Enhancement, Potential, Job Knowledge and Proficiency. Technical/Technology training is the most suitable training program for the teachers of this region.

This study investigates how corporate governance affects the financial reporting quality of selected banks in Iraq, focusing on the role of IFRS adoption. The research collected data from 298 questionnaires distributed among diverse private banks, including IS Bank, Vakif Bank, RT Bank, Cihan Bank, Bank of Iraq, and TD Bank. Sobel analysis was used to analyze the mediation between variables. The results demonstrate that IFRS adoption plays a positive mediating role in the relationship between corporate governance and financial reporting quality in private banks. The study highlights the practical benefits of implementing strong corporate governance practices and adopting IFRS, such as improved reporting quality, regulatory compliance, better decision-making, and enhanced reputation. Private banks in Iraq can utilize these findings to enhance their financial performance and reputation by shaping their accounting and governance policies. The research paper provides original insights into the positive impact of corporate governance on financial reporting quality while considering the mediating influence of IFRS adoption, making it a valuable contribution to the research community.

In this globalized scenario, the overall performance of the manufacturing industries is the backbone of the development of the countries’ economies. In this research, the authors’ main objective of the study is to segment the manufacturing industries by using the triangular interval-valued fuzzy TOPSIS Method and find out the factors determining its performance. The researchers have collected the data from 350 manufacturing industries located in Puducherry, India. They applied a Simple Random sampling method by using a structured questionnaire from manufacturing industries. To analyze the data, the researchers used software packages like Excel, SPSS and LISREL 8.72. The researchers applied Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Triangular Interval-Valued Fuzzy TOPSIS Method, Chi square and Correspondent Analysis to conclude the result. Based on the factors loadings of the items, the contribution made by the items in respect of Performance may be ranked as Sales growth, Market share, Profit margin and Return on investment. With the help of Triangular Interval-Valued Fuzzy TOPSIS Method researchers segmented the manufacturing industries into three groups and by using the Chi square analysis the researchers found that the five demographics characteristics like Number of years in Business (Company), Scale of industry, Kind of manufacturing, Number of employees and location of the production plant of the respondents and these are significantly associated with segmenting the manufacturing industries and determine the performance of manufacturing industries.

Due to unprecedented innovation in information and communication technology, customers interact more with telecommunication service providers. Customer satisfaction is the extent of customer psychological sense and expectation towards a particular product or service. Satisfaction is a core to business success where corporates strive to fulfil them in the competitive market, where customers have more options. The lack of understanding of customer expectations created a gap between telecommunication companies operating in Kurdistan Region and subscribers. The current study intends to understand factors affecting customer satisfaction among telecommunication service companies in Kurdistan Region. It also identifies the customer’s critical factors concerning telecommunication services. Convenience sampling has been used to investigate the impacts of service quality, service attitude, value-added services, and price on customer satisfaction. The result revealed a significant and positive relationship between all independent variables except for the value-added services found to have a significant but reverse impact on customer satisfaction. The negative impacts of value-added services on customer satisfaction rely on the fact that roaming services, money transfer, reward points, and easy recharge are not concerns for customers compared to the price, quality of networks, and connectivity. The study signifies that nourishing customers by telecommunication companies in Kurdistan Region improve their market share and creates competitive value and uniqueness. This study highlights that competitive advantage and uniqueness offers more customer-oriented services to mobile subscribers and could be perceived as a precondition to the survival of operating firms. In return, the general public delivers cheaper and more reliable services with improved connectivity and internet service at a competitive price.

Purpose: To developed and introduced a measurement scale that may be useful to assess the competitive priorities practices in the manufacturing industries. The objective is to investigate the competitive priorities domains’ implementation and its defining measurement items emphasizing manufacturing industries in the Union Territory of Puducherry.Design/methodology/approach: The essential information has been gathered from 350 manufacturing firms by utilizing very much stretchered polls; most part of the data was gathered from best dimension working people like Operations Managers, General Managers and Directors. For analyzing the data the researchers used SPSS and LISREL 8.72 software packages. To find out the result the researchers applied Confirmatory Factor Analysis in this research work.Findings: From the six domains analyzed the result shows that Delivery plays an important role as it occupies the first rank among the domains in competitive priority. Next to Delivery, the majority of the firms fasten more importance to Quality as it ranks second. Cost is ranked as third, while Know-how is ranked as fourth, Flexibility is ranked as fifth and Customer Focus is ranked as sixth.Practical implications: Based on the existing recommendations on scale development literature, authors developed the measurement scale. This measurement scale is helpful for both academicians and practitioners. In this research work authors used the measurement scale to measure the competitive priorities domains.Originality/value: The research paper explains about the manufacturing industries situated in Union Territory of Puducherry. The researchers developed the measurement instrument of competitive priorities practices based on six domains namely quality, cost, delivery, flexibility, customer focus, and know-how. This research work gives innovative literature by recommendations and validating a measurement scale for the competitive priorities. The result reveals that the manufacturing enterprises in the Union Territory of Puducherry.