Purpose: The goal of this paper is to investigate the antecedent of employee performance (EP) through perceived organizational support (POS), as well as the moderating role of job satisfaction (JS) on the connection between POS and EP among employees of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Northwest Nigeria, using social exchange theory (SET) and organizational support theory (OST).Design/methodology/approach: This research employed a survey design, using SMEs employees in Northwest Nigeria as the research unit of analysis. Purposive sampling was used in this research, with standardized questionnaires used to obtain data from 1750 employees of the targeted SMEs within the region. This study’s hypotheses were tested using partial least square–structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM).Findings: The findings of this research stated that POS has a substantial effect on EP, while JS moderates the association between POS and EP.Practical implications: The study offers practical insights for SMEs in Northwest Nigeria, aiding in resolving employee issues and providing actionable strategies for management. Understanding the dynamics of perceived organizational support, job satisfaction and employee performance enables proactive measures to improve organizational effectiveness, fostering a positive work environment and enhancing competitive edge.Originality/value: This study innovates existing literature by exploring how perceived organizational support affects employee performance in small and medium-sized enterprises in an emerging economy. It introduces PLS-SEM, emphasizing job satisfaction’s pivotal role as a moderator. This provides valuable guidance for SMEs to boost employee performance and formulate effective HR strategies, advancing organizational behavior and management research.

This study examined the mediating role of corporate social responsibility practices and the nexus between the operational excellence of competitive strategies, and performance, for Islamic banks operating in Pakistan. Particularly, two competitive strategies, namely, the cost-sensitive strategy and the differentiation strategy were considered. This study employed a structured questionnaire to collect the data from 512 respondents (361 from fully-fledged Islamic banks, FFIBs, and 151 from Islamic window banks, IWBs). A partial least square–structural equation modeling approach was employed to test the hierarchal component model. As a robustness check, the Gaussian copula approach was used to address the endogeneity issue, and the Partial least square prediction-oriented segmentation approach was adopted to explore the unobserved heterogeneity. The findings showed evidence of complementary partial mediation between competitive strategies and bank performance, channeled through operational excellence. However, corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices partially mediated the relationship between cost-sensitive strategy and bank performance. This study is worthwhile for managers, policy makers and regulatory authorities concerned with religiously conscious corporations.

The main aim of this research study is to determine effect related to risk management practices on bank’s performance in presence of managerial expertise. Expertise and low overheads known to be an advantage on competitors in market. In this study, we propose to use the managerial expertise as competitive force to drive forward the ventures in the industry. Banking known to be intensely competitive industry in the business globe. It greatly requires the risk management and performance enhancement managerial expertise. Random method utilized for data collection through summated scale on five Liker point. Data collected from 70 operational managers, branch managers, and senior risk managers of the bank. This study utilized reliability analysis, correlation and regression analysis by using SPSS v.26. Results illustrated that effective risk management practices significantly influence performance of banks with moderating role of expertise based on managerial capabilities. This study prone with some limitation foremost inadequate sample size and cross-sectional study which influences on the generalization of study, root cause of small sample size is limited number of banks in Azad Kashmir. Moreover, this study recommends to bankers need to pay attention on risk management practices as well as managerial expertise to improve performance of banks and achieve competitive advantage by using that managerial expertise.

Solid waste management is one of the serious issues of the local authorities that should be needed to mainly address in developing nations due to the increasing generation of waste. There is a gap exist between developed and developing countries that develop countries are working for green environment and developing countries are not taking serious action. The waste management causes a high financial burden on the municipal budget as the huge expenditure related to managing it, lack of knowledge over a different number of factors that are concerned to the different stages of waste management and its links necessary to enable the overall handling functioning of the system. The objective of this research was to know that generating rate of solid waste in Mirpur city. It is an exploratory research. A mixed methods methodology is used in our research i-e qualitative and quantitative to assess the stakeholders and the factors influencing the performance of waste management in the cities. Data is collected from reviewing literature, existing databases of the municipality, semi structured interviews with municipal officials and questionnaire applied to stakeholders. Descriptive and inferential statistic methods were used to draw conclusions. The outcomes of the research are a set of factors that reveal the most important causes for the failure of the system. The information provided by this research is very useful for current and future planning, upgrading or implementing new waste management strategies in Mirpur city. In Pakistan people usually consider that waste management is the responsibility of local authorities not individual. In Pakistan, unmanaged solid waste is the most serious and important factor which causes health disorder and environmental problems, also which expenses the government and each household spend millions of their earnings on health care. This paper focuses on the solid waste generated by households in Mirpur city. This research focuses on generation rates of solid waste in different subsectors of household in Mirpur city. There is no such research done before this on waste generation. As expected, total waste generated by household significantly increase with increase in member of household. Whereas, waste generated by individual decreases with increase in household size.