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    Career Planning and Performance of Academic Professionals of Higher Education in Bangladesh
    (University of Rajshahi, 2024) Sheikh, Md. Imran; Ali, Md. Borak; Nuruzzaman, Md.
    Career planning has traditionally been defined as the process of evaluating personal strengths, values, and aspirations, setting up goals and objectives, determining the steps required to achieve them, and compiling this information into a written career plan that will be reviewed and updated on a regular schedule. Since the previous few decades, it has been one of the fastest-growing sectors of human resource management. The overall objective of the study was to examine the impact of career planning phenomena on the performance of academic professionals. This study aimed to explore the key dimensions of career planning for academic professionals. Besides, this study intended to assess the effect of career planning dimensions on the job satisfaction of academic professionals. Again, another purpose of the study was to examine the effect of career planning dimensions on the performance of academic professionals. In addition, this research wanted to measure the effect of job satisfaction on the performance of academic professionals. Moreover, this study was also designed to assess the mediation effect of job satisfaction between career planning dimensions and the performance of academic professionals. Furthermore, the present study also tried to examine the moderating role of motivation on the relationship between job satisfaction and the performance of academic professionals. The study employed a post-positivist research paradigm to address the issues underlying the career planning and performance of academic professionals in various job satisfaction and performance-related activities after carefully assessing the ontology, epistemology, methodology, and axiology of all four study paradigms. Therefore, this study used a mixed-methods approach as the outcome of one method complementing another method. Thus, this research employed a qual→QUAN-based approach as it belongs to the category of mixed-methods. The planned research was primarily qualitative, but the researcher would supplement its findings with quantitative data. For the qualitative study, the researcher conducted 21 in-depth interviews to collect the data for this study. The qualitative data was processed and analyzed with the help of NVivo 12 Pro software. Then, content analysis was performed for data analysis with the help of an interpretive phenomenological approach. After the completion of the qualitative study, a total of 459 respondents were used to analyze the quantitative data through the help of semi-structured questionnaires. The quantitative data was processed and analyzed by using the IBM SPSS 26 application program; the measurement model and structural relationship were analyzed with the help of SmartPLS version- 3.2.9. Thus, this study used a PLS-based SEM technique for quantitative data analysis. Besides, mediation and moderation effects were analyzed with the assistance of PROCESS macro in IBM SPSS 26. Therefore, the G*Power 3.1.9.2 software is utilized to conduct an analysis of the effectiveness of the research model.
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    Perceptions of University Students in Bangladesh towards the Challenges and Benefits of Online Classes: A Qualitativ e Approach
    (East West University, 2023-12-31) Bhadra, Samir; Uddin, Md. Shawan; Ali, Mir Mokaddesh; Sheikh, Md. Imran; Sultana, Niger
    The purpose of this study is to investigate the perceptions of students regarding the challenges and benefits of online classes based on their online classes’ experiences particularly during pandemic COVID-19. Following the interpretive research paradigm and cross-sectional design, this research is qualitative in nature. Using a semi-structured questionnaire the researchers conducted 30 in-depth interviews of the 23 public and private university students who are attending their classes virtually during the pandemic. The collected data was analyzed following a content analysis approach to evaluate the relationship among the ideas, the interview data, and the theoretical context. This study finds that in developing countries like Bangladesh, the online class system is a relatively new concept, so the participants face some difficulties such as low internet connection, electricity support, teachers’ capacities, and lack of institutional support as well as their technological engagement. As such participants face challenges that they do not learn as well as they would in regular classes. Moreover, the participants must comprehend the contrasts between traditional and online classrooms in order to improve their competence. However, participants are taking e-learning for extra advantages due to COVID-19 pandemic in order to reduce detachment from education and session gap. This study will be helpful to the policy-makers to develop proper rules to cope with such difficult situations, particularly when it comes to delivering communicative education to students particularly in a crisis situation.