Journal of Mental Health and Social Rehabilitation

Social Entrepreneurship an Effort to Eradicate Poverty

Muhammad Saad Saleem — 2024-06-29

The term social entrepreneurship is used to refer to the rapidly growing number of organizations that have been created for the benefit of society. Social entrepreneurs have created models for efficiently catering to basic human needs that existing markets and institutions have failed to satisfy. Social entrepreneurship combines the resourcefulness of traditional entrepreneurship with a mission to change society. Social entrepreneurship offers insights that may stimulate ideas for more socially acceptable and sustainable business strategies and organizational forms. Because it contributes directly to internationally recognized sustainable development goals, social entrepreneurship may also encourage established corporations to take on greater social responsibility. Akhuwat is an organization established to contribute to society in several dimensions that are associated with economic and social aspects. The mission of Akhuwat is to reduce poverty in the country. The paper will argue that social entrepreneurship ventures such as Akhuwat are able to overcome the hurdles to socio-economic and sustainable development in poor countries by building necessary infrastructure, creating social capabilities to respond to economic opportunity and discovering and creating the conditions for scaling up and for financial viability. Thus, this paper will highlight the impact of Akhuwat in reducing poverty and enhancing economic and social status of the beneficiaries of Akhuwat.

Motivational Antecedents in Call Center Industry

Hamid Saeed — 2024-06-29

To make the employees perform their task in the most efficient manner has always been tough for the management. To achieve this goal, management is required to have proper understanding of various factors that encourage motivation in employees. Since the last decade, there is rapid increase in a trend of call center industry in Pakistan. Nowadays, numerous foreigner businesses have outsourced their customer services and tele sales in developing countries like Pakistan. This study is intended to highlight all those factors that play an important role for encouraging motivation level of employees in Call Center Industry of Lahore. This research discusses the effect of Autonomy, Justice, Rewards and Recognition and Training on Employees motivation in the selected industry. To conduct the study, primary data is collected, and statistical tests are applied to measure the relationship between our supposed dependent and independent variables.

Correlation Between Covid-19, Anxiety and Work Values Among University Students

Nagatheesan V Marimuyhu — 2024-06-29

There is a lot of nature in career choice decisions and other spheres of life due to global shifts in available career opportunities that occurred after the 2020 recession due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The purpose of this study is to understand how students’ work attitude and professional orientations have been influenced by anxiety and the COVID-19 pandemic. To achieve this, it will be necessary to employ a quantitative research method as detailed below. Consequently, the hypothesis that will inform this study regarding the effect of anxiety and the pandemic influence on work values decisions. The outcomes will contribute to information about the consequences of fear and the epidemic on work values and career choices among college students. Some of the recommendations of the study will be in the form of recommendation to policymakers, university administration as well as the career counsellors

The Influence of Social Media Addiction on Academic Procrastination

Achmad Robbi Fathoni — 2024-06-29

Academic procrastination is a behavior exhibited by students involving the delay in starting or completing tasks for irrational reasons. This can negatively impact students' academic performance and mental health. Academic procrastination is caused by several factors, one of which is social media addiction. This study aims to determine the effect of social media addiction on academic procrastination. The participants in this study were 134 eighth-grade students from SMPN. Data collection in this study utilized a social media addiction scale. The results showed that social media addiction does not affect academic procrastination (p-values > 0.05).

Social Media Addiction as a new form of addiction. Is it true?

Hidayati Hidayati — 2024-06-29

Social media is a product of technology that brings significant impact to spread information and connect people around the world and entertainment. As a result, users can access various information easily. In other hand, by using media social excessively lead to dependency that has appears numbers of symptoms that similar with addiction such as impairment in daily functioning (conflict), emerge negative emotions if unable to access social media (withdrawal), having trouble to decrease social media usage (relapse and reinstatement) and social media usage dominates in daily life (salience). However, it is very premature to determine that dependency to social media as a kind of addiction due dependency to social media can be declined without clinical intervention. One of the reasons for declining social media usage is caused by burnout which indirectly pushes the users to keep away from social media. Even though the negative impact from media social usage can not to be ignored due excessive access bring negative consequences to mental health.

Servant Leadership and Innovative Work Behavior Among Civil Servants

Novia Christine Feoh — 2024-06-29

Public sector organizations vision is what prompts civil servants to engage in innovative work environment in order to enhance quality of public service. Servant leadership considered as leadership style that consistent within public sector values to help others, thus employees encouraged to engage in innovative work behavior if they find purpose and meaning in their work. This study aims to examine the role of work meaningfulness as a mediator in the relationship between servant leadership and innovative work behavior of civil servants Data collection for the study was conducted online involving 270 civil servants from various fields. Participants were recruited by purposive sampling method. Instrument of this study consist of the Servant Leadership Behavior Scale-6 (SLBS-6), Innovative Work Behavior Scale and The Work and Meaningful Inventory (WAMI). The data analysis in this study using Simple Mediation Analysis. The results showed that work meaningfulness significantly had a mediating effect on servant leadership on innovative work behavior (β = 0.523; p < 0.001). These results demonstrated that having employees' meaningful experiences during working would increase the role of contextual factors (servant leadership) toward innovative work behavior of civil servants.