An Impacts of Urban expansion on the Livelihood of Farming Community in Peri-Urban Areas of Dessie Town Using GIS and Remote Sensing Techniques

Jemal Tefera Abebe — 2020-12-06

The high rate of urbanization coupled with population growth and migration has caused changes in land use and land cover in Ethiopia. Therefore, understanding and quantifying the spatio- temporal dynamics of urban land use and land cover changes and its driving factors requires lu/lc map integrated with socio economic data. Therefore, the objective of this study was to assess the impact of urban sprawl on farming Communities over the last 30 years of Dessie town. This study used Remote Sensing and Geographic Information system for quantifying urban land use and land cover change dynamics. Socio economic data was used to analyze the impacts and factors of urban sprawl on prei urban farming communities. Three dates of Landsat image data of the 1988, 2006 and 2018 were used to produce land cover map in general and urban expansion map in particular .Digitization, image differencing and post-classification comparison change detection methods were employed. In addition to this, socioeconomic data were used in explaining the drivers of urban expansion in the study area. The results showed that during the last 30 years, built up area increased from 1088.19ha in 1988 to 3826.5hain 2003 and 6091.12 ha in the year 2018. The annual rate of built up area cover change between 1988 and 2003 was 182.52ha/year. The socioeconomic factors like population growth, rural-urban migration, and reclassification of land is the major driving forces for the observed built up area increment. Therefore, in order to reduce the problem national and regional government policies in terms of urban expansion and other responsible body should get considerable attention for urban planning to reduce the rate of those factors. Like that of improving vertical expansion rather than horizontal.

The Effect of Justice Perception on Employee’s Motivation of the Public Sector Organizations in Pakistan

Nagina Gul — 2020-12-06

Organizational behavior has long been a point of discussion in the areas of management and public administration. Being an integral part of Human Resource Management public service motivation(PSM) has been having a direct effect on the employees’ behavior. An employee with high levels of motivation is considered a good fit for public sector organizations because of their service-oriented values. The current study explores the positive relationship between justice perception and employee’s motivation within the public-sector universities of Pakistan. It further explains organizational commitment plays an important role in the relationship between justice perception and employee motivation. Applying the theoretical lens of Perry’s (2000) process theory and Adam's (1965) Equity theory of organizational justice to examine their views on employee motivation, performance, and commitment. Theoretical and practical implications for adaptive public sector leaders and employee responses are discussed. However, a survey method was employed to assemble 488 usable questionnaires from faulty/administrative members of public sector universities of Pakistan. The findings indicate that the relationship between justice perception and employee’s motivation is statistically significant and positively correlated. Structural equation modeling (SEM) has been used for hypotheses testing. This study will be among few studies that have highlighted the importance of interaction effect of organizational commitment strengthens the relationship between justice perception and employee’s motivation.

Journal of Higher Education Service Science and Management (JoHESSM)

An Impacts of Urban expansion on the Livelihood of Farming Community in Peri-Urban Areas of Dessie Town Using GIS and Remote Sensing Techniques

The Effect of Justice Perception on Employee’s Motivation of the Public Sector Organizations in Pakistan