The purpose of this paper is to explore factors affecting career success of graduate students from Ho Chi Minh City Open University in Vietnam. By employing mixed research method with qualitative and quantitative techniques, we first conducted in-depth interview with 20 graduate students to find out factors that can affect their career success, and then quantitative data was collected with a survey of 436 graduate students in Vietnam. We employ Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) with Smart PLS 3.2 software to analyze the collected data. The finding suggests that individual competences, working experience, personal networks and organizational structure were crucial factors that influence objective career success, while individual aspirations and personal networks were important factors for subjective career success. The paper provides important implications for organizations and educational institutions to enhance career success of their workers.

This research aims at examining the mediating of product innovation on the relationship between employee development and marketing capacity on product innovation of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Hanoi. After 4 months of collecting data, the author received 350 responses and 311 responses left after refining. The findings from the research indicate that employee development and marketing capacity did not only directly but also indirectly affect competitive advantages via product innovation. The findings provide enterprises with important implications for improving competitive advantages from marketing, human resources and product innovation perspectives.

In this competitive environment for the survival of the organization, it is essential to retain competent workforce, and keep them well aligned with organizational objectives. Turnover of employees creates panic situation and unnecessary burden of high recruitment cost. The present study identifies the relationship between job embeddedness and turnover intention. The survey of 119 employees was conducted in Saudi Arabia. The study found no significant relationship between job embeddedness and turnover intention. Negative correlation was found between turnover intention with respect to age and experience of employees. It clearly states that as the employees gain experience, their turnover intent decreases. Age is also an important factor of turnover intention. It was found that older employees showed less turnover intent in comparison to younger employees. The results will provide insights to organization for making effective strategies to keep employees embedded with their jobs and help in reducing turnover intent and actual turnover.

This research aims to improve a methodic for evaluation of economy’s competitiveness through theoretical-methodological substantiation, forming and calculation of integral indices of innovative technological competitiveness across the regions of a country. The relevance and indispensability of reinforcement of economy’s competitiveness on innovative technological foundations are also substantiated. Available methodical approaches in economic literature and competitiveness rankings and indices used by leading international economic organizations, namely in innovations and high technology domains, are generalized. Authors’ methodic of calculation of integral index of economy’s innovative technological competitiveness is suggested. Integral indicators of provision of innovative technological activity with resources, innovative technological activity and efficiency of innovative technological activity across regions (on the example of Ukraine) are calculated for 2009-2018; conclusions regarding the preconditions, capacity and availability of tendencies of innovative technological activity in oblasts (regions) of the country are made. The paper explains that each of the components of innovative technological competitiveness of the country’s economy had almost equal input in forming of its integral index – provision with resources, capacity and efficiency of innovative technological activity. In the first place, it is an additional argument in favor of the model’s reliability, and in the second place, it brings into the fore the importance of public policy in terms of improvement of resources maintenance of innovative and technologically active companies, boosting of innovative technological activity and increasing of its efficiency and contribution to general economic growth of the country. Strategic priorities of state policy of reinforcement of the economy’s innovative technological competitiveness are substantiated.

The purpose of this research was to determine the factors affecting the career choice of students in Tourism in Danang City, Vietnam. The survey adopted some questionnaire from the existing literature, distributed among 350 randomly chosen participants and managed to collect 300 properly filled ones. Cronbach’s Alphas were well above the desirable level and confirmed the overall survey. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was implemented to reduce the important factors into six groups and multiple regression analysis (MRA) was executed in order to measure the effects of each group on the career choice. The survey results show that the career choice of students in Tourism was due to career opportunities, belief in self-capacity, culture, intellect and the imposition of others.

The objective of the study is to investigate the mediating role of the productivity of the banks sector in Jordan based on the relationship between human resources and strategic performance from the point of view of the senior management managers and functional unit managers (human resources, marketing, finance and accounting). Human resources were measured through human resource activities. The population of the current study represented all the commercial banks in Jordan, the total number of which is 26. A survey questionnaire is prepared based on the published literature, and the data are collected from 371 respondents from the targeted banks. The necessary tests to ensure reliability and validity are performed using SPSS. The results indicate that human resources positively affected strategic performance and productivity. The findings also revealed that productivity positively mediated the relationship between human resources and the commercial banks' strategic performance.

This study aims to determine the effects of different factors influencing on civil service intentions to conduct whistleblowing. The factors include attitudes toward whistleblowing, organizational commitment, personal cost of reporting, wrongdoer, ethical environment, gender, and ethnicity. We conduct survey on 135 employees who work for financial audit institutions in Central Java Province of Indonesia. The results of the study indicate that attitude, organizational commitment and ethnicity had positive effects on whistleblowing intentions, while retaliation views and violator status had a negative effect on the intention of doing whistleblowing. However, the ethical environment and gender did not affect the intention of civil servants to do whistleblowing. It can be concluded that in the formation of intentions to conduct whis-tleblowing, there is a need for existence of self-control from various limitations.

This paper examines the factors affecting human resource for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Vietnam by using survey data from labors who worked in SMEs in Thai Nguyen, Vietnam. It then empirically examines the relationship between human resource development and a range of factors, using Exploratory Factor analysis and Multivariate regression analysis. The results indicate that six factors were more strongly affected SMEs human resource development in Industry 4.0 such as SMEs human resource development policy, System of training and vocational institutions, The development of science and technology, State and provincial policies for human resource development for SMEs, Business manager and Individual employee. In Vietnam, State and provincial policies for SMEs human resource development is the most influential factor on human resource development in Industry 4.0.

This study aims to determine the effect of financial education, financial literacy, and financial behaviour from teacher’s perspective. Primary data were obtained using questionnaire to measure all variables by surveying 96 teachers of senior high school and vocational school in Greater Jakarta, Indonesia. Due to the different scales in measuring the variables, data were analysed using Structural Equation Model-Partial Least Square. The findings conclude that there was a positive relationship between financial literacy and financial behaviour, but financial education had an insignificant effect on financial behaviour and financial literacy.

The objective of this investigation was to identify the current organizational culture of the financial system of the province of Huancayo and the culture that they wanted, to serve as a complement to the traditional indicators of the sector. The Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI) was practiced on 412 workers from 16 financial institutions. It is a quantitative, non-experimental and descriptive study.