http://sjcmss.iba-suk.edu.pk:8089/SIBAJournals/index.php/sijmb <p><strong>Sukkur IBA Journal of Management and Business (SIJMB)</strong> is a semi-annual research journal published by <strong>Sukkur IBA University</strong>, Sindh Pakistan. SIJMB is dedicated to serving as a key resource to provide practical information for the people associated with business, management, and economics research at a global scale.<br><strong>Sukkur IBA Journal of Management and Business – SIJMB</strong> has been recognized by the&nbsp;<strong>Higher Education Commission of Pakistan in the "Y" Category</strong>.</p> en-US <p>The SIJMB holds the rights of all the published papers. Authors are required to transfer copyrights to journal to make sure that the paper is solely published in SIJMB, however, authors and readers can freely read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of its articles and to use them for any other lawful purpose.</p> <p><img src="/SIBAJournals/public/site/images/ahmedwaqas95/CC_BY-NC11.png" alt=""><br>The SIJMB is licensed under&nbsp;<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License</a>.</p> sijmb@iba-suk.edu.pk (Dr. Faheem Gul) sijmb@iba-suk.edu.pk (Imtiaz Ahmed) Thu, 30 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0100 OJS 3.3.0.8 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://sjcmss.iba-suk.edu.pk:8089/SIBAJournals/index.php/sijmb/article/view/1293 <p>In the 21^st century, scholars have had a lot of debate about the penetration&nbsp;of talent management that’s lead to quality education and research in universities. Modern institutions are under a lot of pressure to change, stay competitive and scarcity of talent management in the context of non-western countries such as Pakistan. This has resulted in the emergence of talent management. The aim of this research was to assess the impact of talent management on the competency development in public universities of K.P.K Pakistan. In this research, distributed questionnaires were 475, in which 378 were the usable questionnaire, and 79.57% response rate were calculated for the required study. The results depicts that there is positive relationship among the variables. Regression analysis confirms that talent management has a significant impact on employee competency development. Moreover, the results obtained through multiple hierarchical regression showed that talent management has a positive and significant impact on competency development. Further, it was also confirmed that organizational culture has a insignificant moderating impact on the relationship of Competency development and talent management. The findings have significance for researchers and academics in terms of aligning talent management strategies with organizational strategic goals and developing employee engagement standards in order to overcome the challenges of implementing talent management techniques at public universities of K.P.K.</p> <p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Talent management, Organizational culture, Competency development.</p> Dr.Sher Zaman Khan, Dr. Mahad Jehangir, Muhammad Haseeb Qureshi Copyright (c) 2023 Sukkur IBA Journal of Management and Business http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 http://sjcmss.iba-suk.edu.pk:8089/SIBAJournals/index.php/sijmb/article/view/1293 Sat, 30 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100 http://sjcmss.iba-suk.edu.pk:8089/SIBAJournals/index.php/sijmb/article/view/1057 <p><em>The pair trading strategy under portfolio construction is one of the profitable strategies</em><em>. This is first ever study to observe the pair trading strategy using Islamic Index KSE firms. Distance approach is applied in this study by taking firms under KMI-30 Islamic index by using daily data from year January 1, 2012 to year December 31, 2019. </em><em>These firms are divided into three subcategories, high-cap, mid-cap and low-cap.</em><em> After formation of pairs, trading algorithm under various parameterizations is used to observe the profitability. The study concluded with positive and significant returns of top 3, 5, 7 and 10 pairs for each category. In addition, this study also witnessed with positive returns after risk adjustment of market factor for the top 3, 5, 7, and 10 pairs of Islamic index’s firms. </em><em>These results are accordance with theories of mean revision and market neutrality. The study is contributing to the literature regarding the profitability of pair trading in Islamic Indices firms in Pakistan. Policy </em><em>Implication for Islamic fund managers and investors is recommended. </em></p> Muhammad Khalid Sohail, Tanveer Illahi, Rehana Farhat, Sidra Gazali, Maheen Kiran, Shahab Aziz Copyright (c) 2024 Sukkur IBA Journal of Management and Business http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 http://sjcmss.iba-suk.edu.pk:8089/SIBAJournals/index.php/sijmb/article/view/1057 Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0100