Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences

Micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) have grown into Indonesia's economic backbone. MSMEs also account for over 60% of GDP and 97% of domestic labor. Conversely, women own and manage 64.5% (or 37 million) of Indonesia's MSMEs. People's life, particularly the economy, have profited from information technology and its numerous derivatives, such as search engine platforms, social media, and e-commerce sites. Data, information, and digital assets are emerging as new forms of wealth. MSMEs may profit from social media by obtaining access to new information and ideas that can help them become more productive. Few studies have been conducted on the association between E.O. and social media learning, particularly among female entrepreneurs. This research aims to examine social media learning. It also intends to investigate the impact of gender on social media learning. Gender will also be investigated as a moderating element in enhancing social media learning in the study. The Rasch model analysis and structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis were used in the study. After analyzing the measurement model, it was discovered that the entrepreneurial orientation significantly influences social media learning among Indonesian MSMEs, especially women entrepreneurs. Gender also has a significant impact on social media learning. Gender, on the other hand, is not significant as an E.O. moderator in improving social media learning among Indonesian MSMEs. The study provides implications for an effective method, using social media learning, to develop a large proportion of women entrepreneurs in Indonesia. Therefore, the study delivers originality to the ongoing discussion in the academic literature about social media learning, entrepreneurial orientation, and gender perspective in entrepreneurship development.

Keywords: social media learning, gender, women entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial orientation.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.55463/hkjss.issn.1021-3619.60.83

Global indices influence the movement of several indices in other countries. The market capitalization of global indices has a fluctuating effect on the ups and downs of indexes in other countries. The phenomenon of the study is that Indonesia has a profitable capital market with a gap in index growth during the pandemic, which is slower than the world index. The novelty of this study is that the Indonesian pandemic and the world index influence the Indonesian index was conducted through secondary data by tracing references from books, journals, and electronic media. This study analyzes the relationships of the American Dow Jones index, the Hang Seng index, and the Japanese Nikkei index and the Jakarta Composite Index. The research approach is carried out quantitatively. The methodology used is multiple linear regression, with classical assumption tests, including heteroscedasticity, multicollinearity, and normality. The analysis is carried out by partial, simultaneous quantification and the magnitude of the variables studied. This study gives implications to the investors to choose the right strategy and approaches. Novelty in this study is combining the movement of the world index with macrofactors that can be seen in the SBI and the IHSG rupiah exchange rate.

Keywords: capital market, Covid-19, Dow Jones, Hang Seng, Nikkei, Jakarta Composite Index.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.55463/hkjss.issn.1021-3619.60.82

Digital competence for teaching is the set of values, abilities, skills, and attitudes that allow the proper implementation of the teaching-learning process during online education. This study analyzed digital teaching competence in professors from two different university contexts concerning sociodemographic and academic variables in June 2021. This research had a quantitative approach, classified as non-experimental, analytical, and cross-sectional. The population comprised 79 professors from the Faculty of Health Sciences, National University of Chimborazo, Ecuador, as well as 35 from the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Granada, Spain. The data were collected using the Online Tutor Functions and Competencies Scale. There were statistically significant differences in the specific competence related to socialization activities regarding the university where the participants were teaching (p = 0.018) and experience as a professor (p = 0.028). Results of the global competence indicated significant differences according to the time of experience in teaching and preferred teaching modality. A significant association was established between the variables related to academic components and the global competence for digital teaching. The R² values indicated a low level of goodness of fit, with a higher percentage favoring the forecast level. The preferred teaching modality had a significant predictability value, but its odds ratio showed that it did not condition the state of global competence for digital teaching. The study innovated using binary logistic regression to analyze the predictive capacity of specific dimensions regarding digital competence in higher education settings.

Keywords: digital competence, higher education, digital teaching.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.55463/hkjss.issn.1021-3619.60.81

The study assessed the exploitation of casual workers in the Nigerian financial sector, with a specific reference to banks in the Sokoto megalopolis. The objective of the study was to examine the working condition of utmost casual staff in these banks. The study was explicatory and employed a qualitative exploration design; for the purposes of the study, a total of five banks were used as a sample, accounting for 70% of the banks in Sokoto metropolitan. Fifty respondents (casual/contract workers) were purposefully picked from the 171 casual staff members of the selected banks by random sampling to form a sample of the population. Using a key informant interview guide, five management staff members, one from each selected bank, were also interviewed. The study found that the salaries to casual staff in the bank is not commensurate to the work executed, Business Solution enterprises were the major agents in the exploitation of casual workers of banks in Nigeria and these BSFs are possessed by the top directors of the banks; denoting double exploitation, casual staff are being deprived of certain social benefits, allowances, and social security of jobs. The study recommends the perpetration of the transnational labor laws and making of laws to check the casualization of labor in fiscal institutions, that government should ensure strict compliance with the labor laws, and unionization was explosively recommended as a move toward negotiating the rights of casual staff, among others.

Keywords: casual, business solution firms, exploitation of workers, workers’ performance.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.55463/hkjss.issn.1021-3619.60.80

Purposes of the study are: (1) to develop novel approaches to competency-based learning management that are combined with activities that improve the competences of students in practice teaching professional experience and (2) to examine the outcomes of the integration of efforts to improve the competency of students in practice teaching professional experience with the transfer of competency-based learning management innovation. The sample group consisted of 50 members of the Faculty of Education of Phetchabun Rajabhat University in Thailand. Third-year-level pre-service student teaching practicum experience during the second semester of the academic year 2022 is achieved by a straightforward lottery draw. The study's methodology is research and development, and its tools include knowledge examinations, assessments for creating learning management systems, and interviews. Developing innovative learning management strategies based on competency-based work was discovered to be linked with curriculum analysis, student analysis, and competency-based learning management systems, which is the most suited. The research findings sparked innovation in competency-based learning management that was integrated with the workplace; students who had knowledge and skills of creating a competency-based learning management plan that was connected with their work were deemed to have practiced teaching professionally, after learning more than the required amount, a competency-based learning management system that is connected with work is created. Before embracing the innovation of competency-based learning management connected with work, teachers should look at how to use learning management plans to manage teaching and learning in a straight line while leveraging the research findings, promoting the learning management model should take the position of instructors who are in charge of organizing various learning activities to reach the desired goal.

Keywords: upgrading the potential, competency-based learning management innovation integration, enhancing students’ ability.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.55463/hkjss.issn.1021-3619.60.79