http://ir.library.sust.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/56 2026-05-08T06:26:45Z 2026-05-08T06:26:45Z Rana, Md. Masud http://ir.library.sust.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/sust/248 2025-08-19T05:48:43Z 2022-11-01T00:00:00Z

ROLE OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE ON PERFORMANCE– A STUDY ON LISTED MANUFACTURING COMPANIES IN BANGLADESH Rana, Md. Masud This study highlights corporate governance practices in Bangladeshi manufacturing companies and the fundamental aim is to understand the corporate governance application & its effects on firm performance. This study argues that corporate governance components like the Board of Directors, audit committees, external audit firms, and institutional ownership play a significant role on firm performance for the Bangladeshi manufacturing companies. The objective of this research is to determine the impact of corporate governance on firms’ performance of publicly listed companies in Bangladesh on their accounting performance and market performance e.g. return on assets (ROA), return on equity (ROE) and Tobin’s Q. More precisely, this study focuses on the scenario of the corporate governance environment of the listed manufacturing companies in Bangladesh. Secondly, this research finds the effect of corporate governance practices on the firm performance of the listed manufacturing companies in Bangladesh. Eventually, the present researcher examines the effect of family control firms on firm performance. Using a sample of 100 manufacturing organizations listed under the DSE over the eight -year period from 2013 to 2020. The present researcher mainly addresses the Two-step system GMM in our empirical study. However, the researcher employs traditional panel estimation processes, i.e., Pooled OLS (POLS), Fixed Effects, and Random Effects, to justify our dynamic panel estimated results. The result reveals that corporate governance variables, i.e. BS, IDB, DUAL, BM, IMAC, NACM, QMAC, ACS, BNAF, IW all are favorably related with firm performance. In introduction chapter, background of the study has been discussed along with the significance of the study, statement of the problem, research question and objectives of the study. An overview of the corporate governance environment in Bangladesh has been shown in chapter two. Meanwhile, Chapter three covered in the literature review which focused on conceptual literature review, theoretical literature review and empirical literature review to identify the importance of corporate governance, and research gap. Chapter four discussed the research framework and hypotheses development where the present researcher used alternative hypotheses based on the independent variables. Chapter five discussed the research methodology where the entire research plan has been presented. Chapter six discusses data analysis and result-based on data examination. In Chapter seven, an overall discussion has been presented on the findings along with iiilimitation of the study, research contribution, suggestions for future research, and finally conclusion. Originality: A range of measures of corporate governance mechanisms and firm performance variables are used, as a departure to keeping to the traditional system of prior studies instead of the single measuring framework. For the goal of analysis, numerous statistical tools such as GMM model, fixed effects, random effects and other approaches are employed. Moreover, a large number of manufacturing companies and years were selected as a sample. Keywords: Corporate governance (CG), Firm performance, Board of Directors, Audit Committee, Audit firm, Institutional ownership. Ph.D DISSERTATION ON "ROLE OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE ON PERFORMANCE– A STUDY ON LISTED MANUFACTURING COMPANIES IN BANGLADESH".

2022-11-01T00:00:00Z CHOWDHURY, SAKUFA http://ir.library.sust.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/sust/221 2025-07-21T06:08:27Z 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z

IMPACT OF RETAINING EXPERT EMPLOYEES ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON PRIVATE COMMERCIAL BANKS (PCBs) IN BANGLADESH CHOWDHURY, SAKUFA Over the past few decades, retaining expert employees has become progressively more significant in the financial institutions, especially in the private commercial banks (PCBs) in Bangladesh. There are extensive ranges of research exist to explore and study the proper utilization of these expert employees to improve the quality and performance of the organization in the process sustaining and developing the organization. This investigation inspects how retention affect the overall performance of the organization and also the determinants of the retention program and the impact of it. This study claims that knowledgeable, skilled, abled employees have substantial influence on the performance within and outside the organization. The stability of the business organization depends largely on the retention of skilled and stable employees of the organization. If the employees are changed frequently, it has a great negative impact on the organization‟s performance. It efforts to uncover the factors of retention and how these factors have prime influence in retaining employees, interacting them with organizational environment which is crucial for the betterment of enhancing the performance of the quality organization. Previous research have not addressed this interacting theme. This study argues that when there is an association among retention of employees and trained them for the organization with benefits, there is a likelihood that the quality and the performance of the organization would be improved. Proposed conceptual framework or model consists of five factors, each has a direct relationship with the employee retention and on the other hand, employee retention has direct impact on three basic components in role performance, organizational citizenship behavior and turnover intention consequently their impact on organizational performance. Again employee retention has direct impact on organizational performance. The phenomena has been explored using a quantitative research. The data are collected from significant stakeholders, employees of the PCBs in Bangladesh. The survey has been conducted with executive employees of the private commercial banks. Microsoft Excel 16, SPSS 23.0, and Smart PLS software are used to collect, organize, and analyzed all the quantitative data systematically. To enrich the theoretical foundations of this research, retention strategy literature is examined. The practices of retaining expert employees have not improved in line with the vii expectations that is one of the gaps in the existing literature. Objectives can act as a benchmark to evaluate the outcome of the study. All the relevant theories are applied to explain the findings. Study found, contemporary practices of retention in the organizations are partial and relatively weak. It also reveals that for retaining experts in the organizations need to identify the determinants which motivate them to be in the job and also help to find the ways how to utilize them in an optimist way. Lastly, it is found that retaining expert employees directly supports to the positive work performance of the organization. It has been concluded that retaining expert employees add directly to heighten quality and stable performance of the organization. The study's implications for relevant approaches and theories are also considered. Furthermore, new research directions are identified. In fulfillment of the requirement of Master of Philosophy, School of Management and Business Administration

2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Akter , Mst. Bilkis http://ir.library.sust.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/sust/220 2025-07-21T09:52:30Z 2015-06-01T00:00:00Z

TOURISM DESTINATION BRANDING: A STUDY ON SYLHET Akter , Mst. Bilkis ABSTRACT Bangladesh is trying to grasp benefits of tourism industry through essential development and promotional activities. This beautiful country is enriched with the longest natural unbroken sandy sea beach of the world with three world heritage sites like Shatgombuj Mosque, Sompur Bihar, and world’s largest mangrove forest Sunderbans. Sylhet is one of her beautiful regions filled with huge natural and historical resources. Sylhet is adorned with eye-catching tea estates, mighty rivers, hills and mountains, waterfalls, and different parks. Development of tourism industry contributes to the economy as well as creates huge employment opportunities. For this reason, central and regional efforts are being noticed to develop and promote this promising sector. In spite of having mentionable tourism resources and potentiality, why Bangladesh or her different prospective zones is not getting desired success–is a significant question. With other issues ‘poor brand image’ has been identified as a critical factor in several studies. In this case, greater Sylhet region is fairly ready to be branded strongly and to attract domestic and international tourists. By considering the geographic significance, identified research gap, and passion of the researcher have encouraged to conduct the study titled “Tourism Destination Branding: A Study on Sylhet”. This study attempted to explore answer of the core issues of branding Sylhet as a destination like (i) What are the key factors of branding Sylhet as a tourism destination? (ii) What are the main challenges of such branding? (iii) How those challenges can be addressed to convert it into an attractive tourism destination? In this purpose, the research objectives were to (a) explore the tourism potentiality of Sylhet region as a tourism destination; (b) measure the tourists’ satisfaction on Sylhet as a destination; (c) identify the factors that affect branding Sylhet as a tourist destination; (d) find out the challenges of branding Sylhet as a tourist destination; and (e) recommend some policy suggestions for effective branding of Sylhet as a destination. The researcher has purposively chosen Sylhet as the study area. The population of the study is all of the visitors and tourists who travel different tourist spots of Sylhet region throughout the year. To conduct the study, data have been collected from three different groups. Firstly, four experts were selected for in-depth interview based on judgment. In the second step, total 100 tourists were interviewed randomly based on a structured questionnaire. Data collection venues were selected based on the popularity iv (mostly traveled) of the tourist spots. During the interview, probability sampling technique was preferred to get more representative opinion. Finally, a focus group discussion (FGD) was conducted to enrich the findings and recommendations of the study. Total nine participants have contributed on different aspects of tourism potential, challenges, required initiatives and so many relevant issues. Their opinions have been accumulated to draw conclusion in the study findings and recommendations. Secondary data have also been used where required. Collected survey data were processed with the help of software. Experts’ views and opinion of the FGD participants have been analyzed qualitatively. The overall attitude of the tourists has been found positive toward Sylhet as a tourism destination. Factors relating to the tourism infrastructure; leisure and recreation facilities have scored lower. On the other factors they have shown satisfaction which indicates the potentiality of Sylhet as a tourism destination. Five key dimensions were selected to determine the image of Sylhet. In the 5.0 point scale, tourism resources has scored 3.4375; Tourism environment is 3.3968; Tourism infrastructure is 2.754; Leisure and recreation facilities are 2.8529; and Overall factors are 3.3774. Mean score of these variables is 3.16372 which indicate the positive attitude toward this destination. Out of 34 attitudinal questions 21 has been considered positively and 13 items negatively by the respondents. Among them, six factors have scored very poor which are treated as the key challenging factors. Those are (i) Accommodation facilities close to the tourist spots; (ii) Adequate scopes of hunting/fishing/swimming during tour; (iii) Availability of quality restaurants near the tourist spots; (iv) Number of museum, zoo, and similar attractions (v) Access to the information of tourist spots and relevant services; and (vi) Transportation systems to the tourist spots from the district headquarters. To accelerate the pace of converting Sylhet into an attractive tourism destination, integration among the different levels of government bodies is highly required. Prioritization of tourism sector, integrating the schemes among the responsible organizations, introducing transportation services to the major tourist spots, accommodation and foodstuff services in the spots, offering safe and clean destination, access to information and recreational services, providing useful information etc have been recommended in the study. A dissertation submitted to the Department of Business Administration, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet as partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Marketing

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