This article aims to give a fresh insight into the non-linear relationship between unemployment, governance, and poverty in Pakistan. For the purpose, the study utilizes data from 1984 to 2016 by employing a nonlinear ARDL co-integration approach. The findings provide an insight that poverty responds asymmetrically due to positive or negative shocks in unemployment and governance. Moreover, the results suggest that applying linear models on poverty modelling may mislead the inference. The findings of the study imply that the policymakers and academicians must consider nonlinear behaviour of poverty for better policymaking.

In this study an attempt has been made to solve a problematic phenomenon regarding how a decentralised environment mediates the effect on supply chain performance (SCP) -by taking various dimensions of knowledge management (KM) -specifically in the dairy sector of Lahore, Pakistan. This study also explores the relationship between KM practices and SCP in the presence of a general system theory; the theory claims that every system is has sub-parts, and every sub-part is surrounded by other sub-parts. Decentralisation has a mediating role which influences the relationship between KM practices and SCP in the dairy sector of Pakistan. A self-administered questionnaire was developed, and data were collected through a random sampling of 355 supply chain members of different dairy organisations in central Punjab. The data was analysed by AMOS software and through structure equation modelling (SEM). The underlying study reveals that the hypothesis is accepted, that decentralisation mediates the relationship between KM practices and SCP at a 1% level of significance; it also reveals that KM practices (with the exceptions of knowledge creation and knowledge sharing) have a direct relationship with SCP. Meanwhile, statistical analysis also indicates that KM practices (with the exception of knowledge creation) have a significant positive relationship with decentralisation at the 1% significance level.

Role of employee commitment is always been accepted as an active catalyst for improving organizational satisfaction. In this research employee satisfaction is taken as dependent variable and employee commitment is employed as independent variable, whereas employee performance is used as moderating variable. Sample for this study is selected from employees working in various private and public organizations of major cities of Lahore, Faisalabad and Karachi. Data is collected through close-ended questionnaire and statistically analyzed through SPSS by applying descriptive statistics and t-test, results revealed that the there is a moderate level of interdependence between these variables. So we will reject alternate hypothesis and accept null hypothesis.

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Employee commitment has always been a hot debate for increasing the organizations' productivity and profits.Employees can be more committed by the way of their job enrichment. Employee commitment and job enrichment are interrelated. More the jobs of the employees are enriched, the more they will be committed. The more the employees are committed, the more they will improve the productivity and the profits of the organizations. Based upon the data collected from four big cities of Pakistan, it was recognized that if the jobs of the employees of the organizations are enriched, their commitment level will be increased positively and that will increase their productivity level in public sector as well as in private sector organizations.