Generolo Jono Žemaičio Lietuvos karo akademija

The basic objective of the present study is to examine the mediating role of employee loyalty among organizational leadership, organizational culture, employee empowerment, human relational values and profitability of the firm. Moreover, the present study also examined the direct impact of organizational leadership, organizational culture, employee empowerment, human relational values on employee loyalty and the effect of loyalty on profit as well. The researcher used a survey method to collect data from the employees of the cement industry of Indonesia. The valid response rate of the study was 80.5%. For the analysis of the data, the researcher used Smart PLS-3. The findings of the study revealed that organizational culture plays a mediation role between organizational leadership, organizational culture, employee empowerment, human relational values and profitability of the firm. Moreover, loyalty has a significant positive impact on firm profitability and organizational leadership, organizational culture, employee empowerment, and human relational values significantly impact employee loyalty. The present study fills the gap of limited HR studies to enhance organizational profit. The findings of the study are helpful for the policymakers to use these HR strategies to retain customers for a longer period of time.

The objective of this research is to acquire empirical evidence regarding the influence of firm size, firm leverage, firm age, audit quality, female directors, profitability, board size, audit committee size and board meeting towards earnings management of nonfinancial companies listed in Indonesia. Methodology/technique: the population under this research is non-financial companies listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange (IDX) from 2014 to 2017. The samples were obtained secondarily are then selected through a purposive sampling technique by defining the sampling criteria. There were 127 non-financial companies listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange which resulted in 508 data sets being available throughout the research. This research also uses hypothesis testing as part of the data analysis. The outcome of this research suggests that firm leverage, audit quality and profitability have an effect on earnings management for stable financial results. Meanwhile, firm size, firm age, female director, board size, audit committee size and board meeting do not have an effect on earnings management in non-financial companies listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange.

The paper highlights theoretical and practical approaches to the development of a sustainable type of tourism in the region. The concept of “sustainable tourism development” has been clarified, the relationship between its components on the basis of the author’s approach has been identified, which allows finding its most promising segment – international cruise tourism. The paper also discusses the optimization model for the development of international tourism in a region. Among the main segments that influence the development of cruise tourism in the region, sea, river and expeditionary cruises are considered. The profitability of the segments that affect the sustainable development of international cruise tourism in the region has been calculated.