Volume 05, Issue 01: December, 2022
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Item A Multivariate Analysis of the Efficacy of Management Development Programs Conducted in Luxury Hotels of Bangladesh(CIU Journal, 2022-12-01) Kazi Nazmul Huda1, Moslehuddin Chowdhury Khaled2, Tamgid Ahmed Chowdhury3Management Development Program (MDP) has not been a serious focus in hotel industry in many countries despite their emphasis on skilled management in tourism and hospitality sector. This study aims to explore the effectiveness of the MDP in Bangladesh where tourism is a major source of employment. Data were collected from the mid-level managers of 36 star-rated luxury residential hotels. Exploratory Factor Analysis was used to identify the most effective determinants of MDP and to rank them based on their loading values. Four factors of MDP namely Organizational Development, Leadership Development, Individual Motivation, and People Management were revealed. MDP of the sample hotels were found very effective in developing self-management ability and rising moral of the employees. However, improvement of innovation and creative skills is suggested through promoting a collaborative culture. Research work on MDP is not very common in the residential hotel industry and is also rare in the tourism context of the developing country Bangladesh. This paper helps to fill the gap.Item An Auteurist Assessment of Rabindranath Tagore’s Works on Screen(CIU Journal, 2022-12-01) Shah Ahmed1Rabindranath Tagore is and remains the most adapted author in Bengali and South Asian cinema at large. Although almost all great authors whose works are frequently adapted for cinema have been recognized in adaptation studies, the film adaptations of Tagore’s works have not been the given deserving critical attention. Through a systematic analysis of the historical documents, records and other sources that contain piecemeal information about ‘Tagore films’– some of which are on the verge of oblivion and most remain critically unexamined – this archival research attempts to revive them for critical focus and theoretical examination, and contextualise them in academia. Identifying the directors’ creative role behind critical acclaim and spectatorial acceptance, I argue that it is not the textual fidelity, but the directorial creativity that guarantees the success to adaptation of Tagore on screen. Thus, in distinguishing the adaptations works as either successful or unsuccessful from the prism of the auteur theory, the paper finally holds that filming a text arbitrarily is far from vindicating art or guaranteeing success; an exertion of the director’s esthetic exhilaration makes the films transcend the philological medium, and the film becomes a visual art. It is believed that research professionals will have fresh perspectives from this study to re-evaluate Tagore films from a wide range of critical and theoretical interests.Item An Evaluation of Legal Education in Bangladesh(CIU Journal, 2022-12-01) Abu Hena Mostofa Kamal1, Mazharul Islam2, Mohammad Belayet Hossain3This paper criticizes Bangladeshi legal education and claims its failure to create court-ready practitioners. Bangladeshi law schools are expected to reform their pedagogy to better prepare students for practice, develop professionalism, and expose them to justice concerns. This article offers a candid analysis of the issues plaguing Bangladesh’s legal education system, pinpointing the specific causes of its ineffectiveness during the previous four decades. Providing ideas on how to solve these challenges and enhance the quality of legal education based on the findings of multiple surveys that were administered to students enrolled in a number of different law schools, this paper concludes that it is essential for educational institutions to modify their teaching methods in order to generate competent professionals who are able to satisfy the requirements of legal practice and advance the rule of law in society.Item Factors Influencing English Speaking Performances of Bangladeshi Private University Engineering Students(CIU Journal, 2022-12-01) Md. Morshedul Alam1, Salma Sarmin2, Asiqur Rahman3This paper is an attempt to address the influencing factors of speaking skills of tertiary-level learners in engineering studies. The data were collected from sixty students and nine teachers teaching at a number of Bangladeshi private universities – International Islamic University Chittagong, Southern University Bangladesh, and Chittagong Independent University. The researchers followed mixed methods to analyze and generate data. The students were chosen from the freshers of Engineering faculties of the mentioned universities who were involved in different speaking activities such s storytelling, performing presentations, debate, problem-solving, situational conversation, question answering and extempore speech. This research, the topic of which is apparently controversial, explores the learners’ English-speaking competence as well as the influencing factors such as fluency, pronunciation, grammatical range and accuracy, and lexical resources. The major findings of the study include certain challenges in speaking skills such as Anglophobia, lack of an English-speaking environment, syntactic and morphological limitations, lack of lexical resources, and intonation issues in pronunciation. This paper will understandably contribute to the syllabus design and material development of teaching speaking skills to tertiary-level students of Engineering studies in particular.Item Marginalized Minority Voice in the Partition of India: A Study of Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice-Candy-Man(CIU Journal, 2022-12-01) Kazi Md. Siful Aspea1The popular history and the grand narratives of the partition of India are constructed mainly around the communal riots, violence, and the deeply rooted animosity between Hindus and Muslims. This animosity is seen as one of the main reasons for the partition. The popular history and the grand narratives of the partition mainly constructed to serve the nationalistic purposes of the two countries, India and Pakistan. Therefore, it is evident that the popular history and the narratives are serving the purpose of the majority population of the respective counties, Hindus and Muslims. But in British India, besides these two major religious communities, there were also other religious and ethnic minority communities. The voice of these communities is muted and marginalized in the state-endorsed official history and the grand narratives of the partition. The Sikhs and the Parsis are two such communities along with many others. Bapsi Sidhwa, in her novel Ice-Candy-Man (1988), has tried to project the voice and anguishes of these two religious minority communities. In light of Ice-Candy-Man, this paper examines the involvement of the Parsi and the Sikh communities in the dynamics of the partition, and how their voice is disregarded and marginalized in the partition process.Item Marketing of Financial Services: The South Asian Perspective(CIU Journal, 2022-12-01) Robaka Shamsher1, Mohammad Nayeem Abdullah2, Rahat Bari Tooheen3The intense competitive and challenging business environment is compelling the financial service providing companies to revitalize their marketing stratagem. This study was conducted on the South Asian (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) financial markets through analyzing the marketing of financial services. For the purpose of this study, four industries namely banking industry, mutual fund industry, insurance sector and pension funds of South Asia were taken into consideration. The analyses of these four industries highlighted how South Asian countries market their financial services. A proposed research model was developed in this study to identify the relationship between corporate image, customer satisfaction, trust and customer loyalty within the financial province of South Asia. The theoretical model, represented in this study (Figure 1), shows an integrated interpretation of the variables and associations for the South Asian financial sectors. The analyses attempt to contribute in the literature through analyzing the marketing theme into the financial sector from a comprehensive perspective. Future researchers are directed to conduct statistical analysis to examine this model by exploring the causal relationships between the research constructs.Item Muslim Sahitya Samaj (1926-1938): The Origin and Evolution of an Intellectual Organization in Dhaka(CIU Journal, 2022-12-01) Shahadat H. Khan1The Muslim Sahitya Samaj is a modern literary organization that began in Dhaka in the 1920s and lasted twelve years. It typically promoted research, published journals, and held scheduled meetings where essays were presented and discussed. Contrary to many other literary organizations in Bengal’s intellectual history, the Sahitya Samaj launched a more powerful vocal movement of buddhir mukti or “Emancipation of Intellect,” meaning rationalism under universal (not specifically Islamic) ideals of 'freedom of thought' and 'liberation of expression.' It was the most unique and striking expression among some twentieth-century Bengali-speaking Muslims before Indo-Pakistani independence. If historians argue that Ram Mohan Roy and Rabindranath Tagore, two stalwarts of the Bengal Renaissance, were inspired by “British Orientalism,” then the radical, rational humanist Bengali-speaking Muslim intellectuals were inspired by British Orientalism through Roy and Tagore. Why did this movement begin in Dhaka? This paper argues that Dhaka city in the 1920s fulfilled some significant infrastructural growth and development crucial for the rise of a classy intellectual group who, through networking, were pioneering the origin and evolution of such a vast organization, Muslim Sahitya Samaj, that launched the emancipation of intellect movement.Item The Future of RMG Industry of Bangladesh Confronting COVID-19 and Industry 4.0: A Thematic Analysis(CIU Journal, 2022-12-01) Iffat Ishrat Khan1, Sung Yong Kang2, Myung Moo Lee3, Syed Manzur Quader4This research attempts to bring out the industry insights regarding the extent of the COVID-19 pandemic on Bangladesh’s readymade garments (RMG) industry, looming challenges of preparing the industry for the immensely challenging Industry 4.0 revolution, and the industry’s preparedness to overcome these challenges and sustain. Using the thematic analysis method, the information was collected through in-depth interviews with 29 factories selected by stratified purposive sampling. The research reveals a number of recommendations and policy suggestions from the respondents. Having high value added and sophisticated RMG products in export basket, facilitating relevant logistical supports, arranging required capital for factory up-gradations and necessary training of the workers, reducing import duty and taxes on raw materials, implementing a one price policy, continuing the production facilities at the factories safely have come out as some of the crucial strategies to confront the challenges, accelerate growth, and increase profit.Item The Impact of Social Support and Work-family Enrichment on the Well-Being of Female Bankers in Bangladesh(CIU Journal, 2022-12-01) Rashid Ahmed Chowdhury1This study investigates the mediating role of work-family enrichment (WFE) in the relationship between work social support and employee well-being. Data were collected from female bankers in three different waves over four months. The study applied the structural equation modeling to test the proposed hypotheses. The findings revealed a direct influence of both the coworker support and the supervisor support on WFE and work stress. Whereas the supervisor support only influenced work satisfaction, and intention to leave, WFE significantly predicted work stress, work satisfaction, life satisfaction, and turnover intentions. WFE fully mediated the role of the coworker support on work stress and work satisfaction. Similarly, WFE fully mediated the role of the supervisor support on work stress, work satisfaction, and intentions to leave. However, WFE demonstrated a partial mediation on the role of the coworker support on life satisfaction and turnover intentions, and the role of the supervisor support on life satisfaction. Findings imply the importance of increased coworkers and supervisory collaboration and cooperation in the workplace where women bankers could contribute to the banking service process efficiently by sharing their experiences emanating from work and family demands. This study, believably, contributes to the field by investigating the mechanism in which WFE mediates the relationship between work-social support and well-being.