This paper is mainly to study implementation of organizational culture in enhancing business competitiveness. Culture is seen as a soft system tool that reflects beliefs that are able to drive business performance in an international environment. Today, culture is a part of instrument to measure organizational readiness in managing business in an international environment. The research is focused on evaluatiny organizational culture in international-scale hotel in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. International-scale hotels are faced with differences in the nature of employees and customers, so management needs to develop a culture type as a strategy to encourage business competitiveness. The research applies Denison’s organizational culture model with four dimensions: involvement, consistency, adaptability, and mission. Sample includes 248 working people at four star hotels with various positions, that is managers, supervisors and employees. The results of the study found that international hotel chains have the power to carry out internal alignment as a strategy to increase competitiveness through employee empowerment programs, team orientation, skills development, and alignment of work values. The results of the study illustrate the importance of internal and external dimension consistency for international business competitiveness.

BACKGROUND: The spread of COVID-19 around the world has caused many undesirable effects on human health. The pandemic forced the employees to resort to Remote Work (RW)/Work from Home (WFH) according to the nature of the jobs. Consequently, organizations, business process and results are affected and organizational and commercial activities are significantly reduced. OBJECTIVE: This study investigates the impact of work stress and organizational climate on employee performance in the context of WFH in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic in micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). METHOD: This study used a purposive sampling strategy and determined using the Slovin equation and equals 95 employees in marketing, business restructuring and finance. The Partial Least Square (PLS) approach and and the SmartPLS version 3.0 software for data analysis processing procedures for hypothesis testing were used. RESULTS: The results revealed that the organizational environment has a negative and significant effect on job stress. Furthermore, job stress had a negative impact on employee performance and the organizational climate had a favorable and considerable impact on employee performance. CONCLUSION: The lower the level of work stress, the higher the employee performance, and vice versa. Organizational climate has a positive and significant effect on employee performance, which means that the organization’s climate is conducive, so the employee performance will increase and vice versa.

This study aimed to highlight the view of educators on the teachers’ willingness to change in adapting to online learning due to the Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID -19) pandemic. The sudden shifting required readiness to facilitate both synchronous and asynchronous learning interactions. The results of previous studies on the dissatisfaction with the online learning quality during the pandemic triggered this study. Teachers preferred to use task-based learning and resisted incorporating technology in the learning process. The limited literature provided a study gap investigated in the present study. Therefore, the real-time virtual focus group discussions were carried out to obtain viewpoints about teachers’ willingness to change in which 31 participants, including teachers, principals, and supervisors, shared their viewpoints. Moreover, dynamic discussions were conducted through brainstorming using Mentimeter, collecting viewpoints via zoom poll, and discussion engagements in the primary and breakout rooms. Content analysis revealed three categories: willingness to learn, try, and be open. The result provided novelty essential as a new perspective and proposed possible solutions to address the problems shifting from regular to online learning in Indonesia. Finally, this study recommends future investigation of teachers’ willingness to change as a new concept of professional development in establishing quality learning.

Research aims: This research aims to analyze the mediating role of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) on the effect of passion and empowerment on teachers' job performance.Design/Methodology/Approach: Respondents in this research were Muhammadiyah elementary school teachers in Ngampilan and Wirobrajan Districts. This research used nonprobability purposive judgment sampling with the number of respondents as many as 51 teachers. Statistical tests and data processing were then carried out utilizing the Partial least Square (SmartPLS) 3.0.Research findings: The research found that passion had a positive and significant effect on organizational citizenship behavior. This research also revealed that organizational citizenship behavior and empowerment positively and significantly affected job performance, while passion was significant toward job performance with partial mediation of organizational citizenship behavior.Theoretical Contribution/Originality: OCB serves as a mediating variable in this analysis, while in previous studies, these variables were not mediated by OCB.Practitioners/Policy Implications: As a result, the principal must enable teachers to be flexible in their teaching and learning activities. Teachers must also be active in voluntary activities outside of teaching and learning that can enhance their abilities and skills to improve their performance.Research Limitations/Implications: The study was only performed at Muhammadiyah elementary schools in Ngampilan and Wirobrajan Districts. Therefore, the collected data had a low degree of normality.

Islamic business ethics is the implementation of the basic principles of Islamic-based business, which the Al-Qur'an and As-Sunnah guide. This study will explain online business practices in Indonesia by observing an Islamic perspective. This study uses a qualitative strategy by investigating Islamic business ethics in online business practices in Indonesia through information and document data collection in the form of reputable online media news. Data were analyzed and managed using Nvivo plus 12; then, conclusions were drawn. The aim of this study is achieved by finding that there are still many ethical violations in online business practices from a religious perspective. The findings also reveal that Islamic values are rarely used in business implementation because some violations occur not based on the intention of worship and are not based on Islamic principles such as At-Tauhid, Al-Amanah, As-Sidq, Al-Adalah, At-Ta'awun, Al-Maslahah, At-Taradi, and Al-Akhlaq Al-Karimah. This also proves that online business practices are still oriented to worldly aspects. The implication of the results of this study explains that doing business activities from an Islamic perspective contains principles that comprehensively govern ethics. So that the purpose of doing business is not solely for the interests of worldly welfare but the welfare of the ukhrawi in the pleasure of Allah SWT, and the benchmarks are al-Qur'an and al-Hadith