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    Citizen’s Trust in Army in Nepal, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka: A Comparative Study
    (Department of Public Administration, 2019) Adhikari, Surya Bahadur
    This thesis entitled “citizen’s trust in army in Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka: A Comparative Study” is an important milestone in the literature of citizen’s trust in public institutions in army in Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri-Lanka. Citizen’s trust is the sources ofpower in democratized setting. Good governance is the fullest expectation of citizens in newpublic management. Government has varieties of institutions and army is one of them.Citizen’s trust is paradigm of military profession. Citizen’s trust in armed force is essential phenomenon to validate military expenses and even existence. Citizen’s trust is water and military is a fish and trust in military is like blood in abody. So citizen’s trust is imperative and it is bedrock of military profession. The primaryduty of army is to provide safety and security but without safety and security nodevelopment, peace and prosperity is imagined. The citizen’s trust is varied from one countryto another. This is always changeable from time to time based on the functional performanceof military institutions. Trust is one simple thing but it can quickly change everything. Trustis indeed significant for longterm purpose with meeting strategic goal and objectives of state.Strategic partner perceive that he or she is not in the risk even in the risky and uncertain situation because of trust and confidence. The armed forces in Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri-Lanka are leading security forces and have amandate to protect the country and citizens for the purpose of prosperous country and happycitizens.Military service is also citizen-made society within society. This citizens are those whose character, competence, and commitment exemplify the exhibitions through the armyethic by the selfless sacrifice of life approach for the further betterment of country andcitizens. Citizens’ trust is varied from one country to another and is always based on their performance of armed forces. This study has applied research methodology properly. The secondary data has been used forthe quantitative analysis and interview was conducted on the basis of judgmental samplingfor qualitative analysis. After chi-square test through SPSS,P value is less than 0.05 percentwhich means there is no significant difference. So the null hypothesis is accepted and alternative hypothesis is rejected. So it has been proved that citizen’s trust in armed forces in Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri-Lanka is varied.
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    Mediating effect of employee positive mood in the relationship between employee job satisfaction and employee performance in Nepal Electricity Authority
    (2023) K.C., Bharat; Mahendra prasad Shrestha
    ABSTRACT This study preliminary examines the mediating effect of employee positive mood in the relationship between employee job satisfaction and employee performance. This study also compare the job satisfaction among technical and non-technical officers in NEA. Philosophical foundation of this research is based on positivist research paradigm. Based on the philosophical foundation, this research has used quantitative research approach and descriptive cum explanatory research design. Using simple random sampling method, the responses were collected from 320 officer of NEA through close-ended structured questionnaire based on five point Likert’s scale. The collected data were organized, analyzed and tabulated using Microsoft Excel and SPSS software. Both descriptive and inferential statistic has used to meet the objectives of this study. In order to test the mediating effect, regression analysis has done based on Baron and Kenny model. For further confirmation of mediating effect, Hayes Process is also used. Summated mean based on five point Likert’s scale is used to find the job satisfaction, employee performance and positive mood of officer. This study revealed that employee job satisfaction and employee positive mood is correlated and correlation coefficient between them is 0.36. Correlation coefficient between job satisfaction and employee performance is 0.35. Also, employee positive mood and employee performance is correlated and correlation coefficient between employee positive mood and employee performance is 0.73. Similarly, employee job satisfaction has positive impact in mood of the employee and employee positive mood has positive impact in employee performance. It has also found that direct and indirect effect both were statistically significant. As a whole, this study has concluded that employee positive mood partially mediates the relationship between employee job satisfaction and employee performance. This study also shows that job satisfaction of technical officer in NEA is slightly higher than the non-technical officer and technical as well as non-technical officer both are less satisfied with pay and incentives provided by NEA as compared to working environment, job security and interpersonal relationship. Based on this fact, it can be concluded that officer of NEA are more satisfied with non-monetary factor rather than monetary factor provided by NEA. This study also conclude that performance and mood of officer in NEA is good as their respective mean is greater than point 4. Finding from this research is applicable for academician, practitioner as well as policy makers.