Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review

Restructuring and organisational change leads managements to organise and re-plan their ability to recharge their firm’s batteries to arise against external crisis. Nevertheless, organisation redesign drains financial resources and offset the firm’s directions lead to series errors and internal confusion. Addressing the situation during pandemic on orient insurance company as one of many companies in Sultanate of Oman been raid by the serious environmental shifts. The research will take place taking workers opinions from various departments on the restructuring process and their satisfaction inside the firms. The study hand down the company’s restructuring attempts. The pandemic pushed managers to work under pressure establishing new restructuring procedures and receive unexpected reactions inside the company. However, the current condition blinds and blur management visions to an illusion state stops identifying other companies experience implementing different restructuring techniques revealed in earlier scholarly researches.

Absenteeism is famous for being difficult to comprehend, and forecasting the exact pattern of it after numerous research efforts is yet unachievable. COVID has brought new dimensions to this concept as work-life has witnessed an unusual style of operations. The manufacturing industry also suffered during this period in terms of productivity and administrative control over employees. This study attempts to find out the determinants of employee absenteeism considering demographic variables and COVID-related factors during unusual and unexpected COVID 19 in a steel manufacturing plant in Odisha. Based on a literature review of absence, a consolidative model is established while merging demographic with COVID-related factors to predict absence patterns. The statistical analysis specified that construct absenteeism is significantly correlated with service length, type of work, age of the employee, and marital status. An important finding is that absenteeism is related to corvid-related factors both positively and significantly. Lastly, with the help of regression analysis, it is revealed that service length and level of education are proven to be significant in predicting employee absenteeism at the workplace during the COVID pandemic.

The purpose of this research is to test and analyze the influence net income, operating cash flow; company size on dividend policy in finance companies has been conducted at PT. Pro Car International Finance. The independent variables in this research are net income, operating cash flow and company size, while the dependent variable in this research is the dividend policy as measured using Dividend Payout Ratio (DPR). This research using primary data and secondary data. Primary data uses data directly collected from companies in the form of financial statements at Pro Car International Finance from 2008-2017, while secondary data is data that has been arranged in the form of written documents obtained from companies, previous literature and from the internet. The technique of analysis data used is multiple linear regression analysis, hypothesis testing and classic assumption tests using tools that is SPSS version 22. The results of research obtained show that partially net income and operating cash flow has effect on dividend policy, while company size does not has effect on dividend policy. The variable ability of net income, operating cash flow and firm size in explaining dividend policy is 72.6%.