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Papers by Ajitha Angusamy
Jurnal Komunikasi: Malaysian Journal of Communication
Multiculturalism has always been an integral part and aspect of Malaysian culture, with its ethni... more Multiculturalism has always been an integral part and aspect of Malaysian culture, with its ethnic complexities. Multicultural identity is a significant predictive factor in assessing intercultural communication competence. Cultural competencies are essential in today’s businesses. This research is a systematic attempt to look into the antecedents of these constructs in Malaysian educational contexts given the growing importance of educators’ involvement in society's integration. Multicultural factors complement Intercultural communication skills, and this has an impact on the development and effectiveness of organisations/institutions as well as success and performance at work. These attributes are surprisingly underrated in their careers. The role of multicultural identity in determining intercultural communication competency is addressed using Amiot et al. (2007) and Barrett et al. (2013) indicators, respectively, using the structural equation modelling. Therefore, 350 respon...
Journal of Information Technology Management (JITM), 2023
The rapid growth and advancement of electronic devices and technologies in the FinTech industry e... more The rapid growth and advancement of electronic devices and technologies in the FinTech industry empower new innovative products and services. The covid-19 pandemic could have a devastating effect on Malaysia's economy, but it has offered additional opportunities for the E-wallet segment of the Fintech business to thrive. The E-wallet segment of FinTech is one of the latest innovations that is currently growing as there is a need for contactless payments during the pandemic situation. The main objective of the study is to examine the factors affecting e-wallet adoption among young adults in Malaysia. A sample of 200 responses was analyzed using Smart PLS 3.0. The findings revealed that the factors of "performance expectancy", "effort expectancy", "compatibility", and "social influence" have a positive and significant impact during the pandemic; however, the factor of "facilitating conditions" has no significant impact on the adoption of the E-wallets. The study substantiates the key and important variables of adoption in order to develop and evolve E-wallet providers' existing services. Particularly, due to the increasing importance of e-commerce, E-wallet service providers are urged to focus on the system's interoperability, which encourages individuals or customers to use the strategy. They should include unique features that allow customers to accept the service, trust its benefits and feel comfortable using the technology. The study is useful to the E-wallet providers to improve the existing services. The findings also guide the companies offering E-wallets to enhance the usage and adoption of their services.
Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research
Women play a critical role in the economic and social well-being. Therefore, measuring life satis... more Women play a critical role in the economic and social well-being. Therefore, measuring life satisfaction of women is important to see their view of life. Life satisfaction measures the overall satisfaction in life. The aim of this study is to determine whether there are differences in life satisfaction among working women in Malaysian from the perspectives of demographic characteristics. The measure of life satisfaction was based on the Life Satisfaction Scale. Purposive random sampling method was used to choose the sample. The analysis is based on responses of 302 working women. Independent t-test and one-way ANOVA is used to the test the variables. Overall, the life satisfaction of the working women was found to be moderate in the study. The results of the study found significant differences in life satisfaction with regards to marital status, age, occupation, income, spouse’s education and spouse’s income. However, ethnicity, education, spouse’s age, spouse’s occupation and numbe...
The growth of online shopping is changing the how businesses operate. It has caused an interested... more The growth of online shopping is changing the how businesses operate. It has caused an interested on how customers can be satisfied through this mode of shopping among the marketing and research world. Generation Y is the generation that has grown with the information technology phenomena. They are a group who is comfortable and has a high motivation to shop online. Therefore, the current study focuses on factors affecting customer satisfaction in online shopping among Generation Y. This study investigates whether the four factors (privacy and security, perceived risk, trust and ease of use) affects customer satisfaction. Questionnaire was used as the method of data collection. The respondents are those referred as Generation Y. Multiple regression analysis is used as the statistical analysis method to test the hypotheses. The result indicates that all the four factors tested affect customer satisfaction in online shopping among Generation Y. This study sheds light on the major fact...
Journal of Intercultural Communication
Multiethnic groups coexist in a typical Malaysian university setting. Cultural patterns are expre... more Multiethnic groups coexist in a typical Malaysian university setting. Cultural patterns are expressed through communication facilitating better understanding between diverse cultural groups. Intercultural communication competence based on ethnicity is explained by employing structural equation modelling using Barrett and colleagues' (2013) indicators of attitude, knowledge and skills. These three constructs are hypothesized to explain intercultural communication competence and its effect on well-being and performance. Purposive sampling via a self-administered survey involved 288 Malaysian educators from higher education. The findings confirm that both endogenous constructs -- well-being and team performance -- can be used as predictive factors to assess intercultural communication competence.
Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry, Aug 4, 2021
SMART Journal of Business Management Studies, 2015
In the current competitive environment, companies need to be highly efficient in meeting customer... more In the current competitive environment, companies need to be highly efficient in meeting customer demand at lower operational costs. As a result, companies are compelled to seek various ways to enhance their operations. Researchers realised that optimization of various departments separately would not guarantee overall optimization. This led the Researchers to focus on the effect of integrated approach and proven significant cost reduction on the overall operational costs. This paper provides a review on coordinated models in the literature and the role of heuristic approaches to solve such coordinated models. The review found that genetic algorithm plays a vital role in solving complex coordinated problems. The article also identifies the areas that are rarely addressed in coordinated models and genetic algorithms.
SMART Journal of Business Management Studies, 2014
The growth of e-commerce has seen rapid changes and developed higher expectations among retailers... more The growth of e-commerce has seen rapid changes and developed higher expectations among retailers and consumers. This is more evident in today's fast growing age of technology-oriented products which demand constant enhancement. The study is aimed at understanding the significant influence of perceived enjoyment, perceived satisfaction, perceived usefulness and perceived service quality factors on the consumers’ behavioural intention on e-commerce adoption in Malaysia. This study was based on four hypotheses which were tested to identify their significant level of influence on the dependant variable, the consumers’ behavioural intention. The findings and analysis were based on secondary data references and primary data were collected through an administered questionnaire to 500 respondents. This study confirms that consumers look at enjoyment, satisfaction, usefulness and service quality as having significant influence on their behavioural intention in the e-commerce industry.
International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 2018
This research deals with a scheduling problem for parallel machines environment to minimize total... more This research deals with a scheduling problem for parallel machines environment to minimize total weighted tardiness with the consideration of sequence dependent setup times and release dates. There are two research questions that need to be addressed: 1) How to allocate jobs on machines ? 2) How to sequence jobs on each machine? Therefore, this research aims to find an efficient solution method that answers the research questions with the goal of minimizing the total weighted tardiness with the presence of sequence dependent setup times. Due to the complexity of the problem at hand, the authors have developed genetic algorithm to find a solution to this problem. Furthermore, various dispatching rules were used to enhance the performance of the genetic algorithm in terms of the total weighted tardiness value.
2012 IEEE Business, Engineering & Industrial Applications Colloquium (BEIAC), 2012
A hybrid genetic algorithm is proposed to solve a coordinated production and transportation probl... more A hybrid genetic algorithm is proposed to solve a coordinated production and transportation problem. The problem considered is a mixed integer linear programming problem, which coordinates the production planning of finished products and intermediate products in a process industry, also consists of transportation between the facilities that produces intermediates and finished products. The results obtained by GA are then compared
International Journal of Business and Management, 2013
An attempt was made to determine which job events are perceived as significant sources of stress ... more An attempt was made to determine which job events are perceived as significant sources of stress in police work. The Police Stress Inventory was developed based on the interviews with police staff and experts in police administration for this study. The questionnaire was administered to a random sample of 220 police personnel. The respondents rated the job situations as least stressful (0%) to most stressful (100%). They consider the organizational and social aspects of their job are more stressful especially round the clock duty, lack of time for family, political pressures from outside and inadequate facilities. Results indicate that stress is due more to organisational factors than to physical hazards on the job. Efforts should be made by police administration to take corrective measures such as changes within organization and improving training programs. Efforts should be made by police administration to take corrective measures such as changes within organization and improving training programs.
The world is rapidly changing and becoming even advanced with the existence of technologies. One ... more The world is rapidly changing and becoming even advanced with the existence of technologies. One of the major changes is the evolvement of traditional payment methods to electronic payment systems (EPS). EPS, which was accepted globally when e-commerce was introduced, has provided many benefits to its users. Individual’s life has been enhanced as EPS provides ease in payment and is less-time consuming. Irrespective of innovations in e-payment methods, studies reveal that e-payment usage rate is lower in developing countries. Among the existing literature, very few studies focus on the consumers’ point of view. In this paper , a research model is proposed to examine the effect of transaction procedures, technical protection and usability of EPS on the perceived security and perceived trust of EPS, and also the effect of perceived security and perceived trust on the usage of EPS is studied .The model is evaluated empirically and the findings reveal that transaction procedures, technical protection and usability of EPS have a significant impact on the perceived security and perceived trust of EPS. Perceived security and perceived trust of EPS are found be significant factors of EPS usage. The study is useful for companies and businesses that would like to enhance their payment system through electronic transactions. Findings suggest that managers should focus on providing the best in transaction procedures, technical protections and usability in order to enhance the perceived security and perceived trust EPS, which in turn will have a positive impact on the EPS usage
Marital satisfaction is an important component of family success and personal growth. The role of... more Marital satisfaction is an important component of family success and personal growth. The role of women has gained importance in the economic and social field in line with the nation’s progress. This study examines the factors influencing the marital satisfaction of Malaysian women. The factors include occupational status (working or non-working) , the type of family (nuclear or joint), place of settlement (urban or rural), age, race, education, occupation, personal income, number of children, spouse education, spouse occupation, spouse income. The study adopted survey research design and the data was collected from 200 women in Malaysia. The independent samples t-test was used to test the differences in marital satisfaction in terms of occupational status (working or non-working), type of family (nuclear and Joint) and place of settlement (urban and rural) of the married women. The results indicate that marital satisfaction differs significantly between the working and non-working ...
In this research, coordination of production planning of finished products and intermediate produ... more In this research, coordination of production planning of finished products and intermediate products in a chemical process industry is studied. The company consists of two manufacturing facilities one of which produces finished products and the other producing intermediates products with similar production environment. There is a transportation between the two facilities. The problem is formulated as a mixed integer linear programming problem. The decisions include lot sizes of both finished product and intermediates, inventory, batch sizes, regular hours, over time hours utilized, number of trips between the facilities and amount of intermediates shipped in drums. The objective is to minimize the total cost involved. The mathematical developed is attempted to solve using CPLEX solver. Since the MIP solver is unable to provide a solution for a larger problem instances, a real coded problem specific constraint based genetic algorithm that can deal with the industrial size problem enc...
International Journal of Engineering & Technology
This research deals with a scheduling problem for parallel machines environment to minimize total... more This research deals with a scheduling problem for parallel machines environment to minimize total weighted tardiness with the consideration of sequence dependent setup times and release dates. There are two research questions that need to be addressed: 1) How to allocate jobs on machines ? 2) How to sequence jobs on each machine? Therefore, this research aims to find an efficient solution method that answers the research questions with the goal of minimizing the total weighted tardiness with the presence of sequence dependent setup times. Due to the complexity of the problem at hand, the authors have developed genetic algorithm to find a solution to this problem. Furthermore, various dispatching rules were used to enhance the performance of the genetic algorithm in terms of the total weighted tardiness value.
Asian Journal of Social Science
Cultural diversity, which poses both challenges and opportunities in a multicultural education se... more Cultural diversity, which poses both challenges and opportunities in a multicultural education setting, necessitates recognising factors that promote multicultural identities of educators to maximise multicultural attitudes for their wellbeing and performance. This study employs structural equation modelling to examine the determinants of multicultural identities from the perspective of the cognitive-developmental model of social identity integration (CDMII) framework. Categorisation, compartmentalisation, and integration were hypothesised to explain multicultural identity and its effect on well-being and performance. Purposive sampling via survey method involved 288 educators from Malaysian Universities. The findings confirmed that multicultural identity constructs have direct and significant relationship with well-being and well-being has direct and positive relationship with the performance of multicultural team.
International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals
Emergence of new professions and novel approaches to work contribute to newer causes of occupatio... more Emergence of new professions and novel approaches to work contribute to newer causes of occupational stress. The current study focuses on one such emergent group namely, the software development professionals. An attempt has been made to examine the role of self-efficacy, collective efficacy and perception of control in the study of occupational stress. The data was collected from 156 software development professionals in India. Variables such as self-efficacy, collective efficacy and perception of control using multiple moderated regression revealed that these variables moderate the negative consequences of stress with respect to work exhaustion, organizational commitment and intent to turnover but not with respect to job satisfaction. The results indicate that self-efficacy and collective efficacy have to be strengthened in order to mitigate the negative consequences of stress. The knowledge pertaining to causes of stress can empower individuals and organizations to plan effective...
International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals
Emergence of new professions and novel approaches to work contribute to newer causes of occupatio... more Emergence of new professions and novel approaches to work contribute to newer causes of occupational stress. The current study focuses on one such emergent group namely, the software development professionals. An attempt has been made to examine the role of self-efficacy, collective efficacy and perception of control in the study of occupational stress. The data was collected from 156 software development professionals in India. Variables such as self-efficacy, collective efficacy and perception of control using multiple moderated regression revealed that these variables moderate the negative consequences of stress with respect to work exhaustion, organizational commitment and intent to turnover but not with respect to job satisfaction. The results indicate that self-efficacy and collective efficacy have to be strengthened in order to mitigate the negative consequences of stress. The knowledge pertaining to causes of stress can empower individuals and organizations to plan effective...
Jurnal Komunikasi: Malaysian Journal of Communication
Multiculturalism has always been an integral part and aspect of Malaysian culture, with its ethni... more Multiculturalism has always been an integral part and aspect of Malaysian culture, with its ethnic complexities. Multicultural identity is a significant predictive factor in assessing intercultural communication competence. Cultural competencies are essential in today’s businesses. This research is a systematic attempt to look into the antecedents of these constructs in Malaysian educational contexts given the growing importance of educators’ involvement in society's integration. Multicultural factors complement Intercultural communication skills, and this has an impact on the development and effectiveness of organisations/institutions as well as success and performance at work. These attributes are surprisingly underrated in their careers. The role of multicultural identity in determining intercultural communication competency is addressed using Amiot et al. (2007) and Barrett et al. (2013) indicators, respectively, using the structural equation modelling. Therefore, 350 respon...
Journal of Information Technology Management (JITM), 2023
The rapid growth and advancement of electronic devices and technologies in the FinTech industry e... more The rapid growth and advancement of electronic devices and technologies in the FinTech industry empower new innovative products and services. The covid-19 pandemic could have a devastating effect on Malaysia's economy, but it has offered additional opportunities for the E-wallet segment of the Fintech business to thrive. The E-wallet segment of FinTech is one of the latest innovations that is currently growing as there is a need for contactless payments during the pandemic situation. The main objective of the study is to examine the factors affecting e-wallet adoption among young adults in Malaysia. A sample of 200 responses was analyzed using Smart PLS 3.0. The findings revealed that the factors of "performance expectancy", "effort expectancy", "compatibility", and "social influence" have a positive and significant impact during the pandemic; however, the factor of "facilitating conditions" has no significant impact on the adoption of the E-wallets. The study substantiates the key and important variables of adoption in order to develop and evolve E-wallet providers' existing services. Particularly, due to the increasing importance of e-commerce, E-wallet service providers are urged to focus on the system's interoperability, which encourages individuals or customers to use the strategy. They should include unique features that allow customers to accept the service, trust its benefits and feel comfortable using the technology. The study is useful to the E-wallet providers to improve the existing services. The findings also guide the companies offering E-wallets to enhance the usage and adoption of their services.
Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research
Women play a critical role in the economic and social well-being. Therefore, measuring life satis... more Women play a critical role in the economic and social well-being. Therefore, measuring life satisfaction of women is important to see their view of life. Life satisfaction measures the overall satisfaction in life. The aim of this study is to determine whether there are differences in life satisfaction among working women in Malaysian from the perspectives of demographic characteristics. The measure of life satisfaction was based on the Life Satisfaction Scale. Purposive random sampling method was used to choose the sample. The analysis is based on responses of 302 working women. Independent t-test and one-way ANOVA is used to the test the variables. Overall, the life satisfaction of the working women was found to be moderate in the study. The results of the study found significant differences in life satisfaction with regards to marital status, age, occupation, income, spouse’s education and spouse’s income. However, ethnicity, education, spouse’s age, spouse’s occupation and numbe...
The growth of online shopping is changing the how businesses operate. It has caused an interested... more The growth of online shopping is changing the how businesses operate. It has caused an interested on how customers can be satisfied through this mode of shopping among the marketing and research world. Generation Y is the generation that has grown with the information technology phenomena. They are a group who is comfortable and has a high motivation to shop online. Therefore, the current study focuses on factors affecting customer satisfaction in online shopping among Generation Y. This study investigates whether the four factors (privacy and security, perceived risk, trust and ease of use) affects customer satisfaction. Questionnaire was used as the method of data collection. The respondents are those referred as Generation Y. Multiple regression analysis is used as the statistical analysis method to test the hypotheses. The result indicates that all the four factors tested affect customer satisfaction in online shopping among Generation Y. This study sheds light on the major fact...
Journal of Intercultural Communication
Multiethnic groups coexist in a typical Malaysian university setting. Cultural patterns are expre... more Multiethnic groups coexist in a typical Malaysian university setting. Cultural patterns are expressed through communication facilitating better understanding between diverse cultural groups. Intercultural communication competence based on ethnicity is explained by employing structural equation modelling using Barrett and colleagues' (2013) indicators of attitude, knowledge and skills. These three constructs are hypothesized to explain intercultural communication competence and its effect on well-being and performance. Purposive sampling via a self-administered survey involved 288 Malaysian educators from higher education. The findings confirm that both endogenous constructs -- well-being and team performance -- can be used as predictive factors to assess intercultural communication competence.
Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry, Aug 4, 2021
SMART Journal of Business Management Studies, 2015
In the current competitive environment, companies need to be highly efficient in meeting customer... more In the current competitive environment, companies need to be highly efficient in meeting customer demand at lower operational costs. As a result, companies are compelled to seek various ways to enhance their operations. Researchers realised that optimization of various departments separately would not guarantee overall optimization. This led the Researchers to focus on the effect of integrated approach and proven significant cost reduction on the overall operational costs. This paper provides a review on coordinated models in the literature and the role of heuristic approaches to solve such coordinated models. The review found that genetic algorithm plays a vital role in solving complex coordinated problems. The article also identifies the areas that are rarely addressed in coordinated models and genetic algorithms.
SMART Journal of Business Management Studies, 2014
The growth of e-commerce has seen rapid changes and developed higher expectations among retailers... more The growth of e-commerce has seen rapid changes and developed higher expectations among retailers and consumers. This is more evident in today's fast growing age of technology-oriented products which demand constant enhancement. The study is aimed at understanding the significant influence of perceived enjoyment, perceived satisfaction, perceived usefulness and perceived service quality factors on the consumers’ behavioural intention on e-commerce adoption in Malaysia. This study was based on four hypotheses which were tested to identify their significant level of influence on the dependant variable, the consumers’ behavioural intention. The findings and analysis were based on secondary data references and primary data were collected through an administered questionnaire to 500 respondents. This study confirms that consumers look at enjoyment, satisfaction, usefulness and service quality as having significant influence on their behavioural intention in the e-commerce industry.
International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 2018
This research deals with a scheduling problem for parallel machines environment to minimize total... more This research deals with a scheduling problem for parallel machines environment to minimize total weighted tardiness with the consideration of sequence dependent setup times and release dates. There are two research questions that need to be addressed: 1) How to allocate jobs on machines ? 2) How to sequence jobs on each machine? Therefore, this research aims to find an efficient solution method that answers the research questions with the goal of minimizing the total weighted tardiness with the presence of sequence dependent setup times. Due to the complexity of the problem at hand, the authors have developed genetic algorithm to find a solution to this problem. Furthermore, various dispatching rules were used to enhance the performance of the genetic algorithm in terms of the total weighted tardiness value.
2012 IEEE Business, Engineering & Industrial Applications Colloquium (BEIAC), 2012
A hybrid genetic algorithm is proposed to solve a coordinated production and transportation probl... more A hybrid genetic algorithm is proposed to solve a coordinated production and transportation problem. The problem considered is a mixed integer linear programming problem, which coordinates the production planning of finished products and intermediate products in a process industry, also consists of transportation between the facilities that produces intermediates and finished products. The results obtained by GA are then compared
International Journal of Business and Management, 2013
An attempt was made to determine which job events are perceived as significant sources of stress ... more An attempt was made to determine which job events are perceived as significant sources of stress in police work. The Police Stress Inventory was developed based on the interviews with police staff and experts in police administration for this study. The questionnaire was administered to a random sample of 220 police personnel. The respondents rated the job situations as least stressful (0%) to most stressful (100%). They consider the organizational and social aspects of their job are more stressful especially round the clock duty, lack of time for family, political pressures from outside and inadequate facilities. Results indicate that stress is due more to organisational factors than to physical hazards on the job. Efforts should be made by police administration to take corrective measures such as changes within organization and improving training programs. Efforts should be made by police administration to take corrective measures such as changes within organization and improving training programs.
The world is rapidly changing and becoming even advanced with the existence of technologies. One ... more The world is rapidly changing and becoming even advanced with the existence of technologies. One of the major changes is the evolvement of traditional payment methods to electronic payment systems (EPS). EPS, which was accepted globally when e-commerce was introduced, has provided many benefits to its users. Individual’s life has been enhanced as EPS provides ease in payment and is less-time consuming. Irrespective of innovations in e-payment methods, studies reveal that e-payment usage rate is lower in developing countries. Among the existing literature, very few studies focus on the consumers’ point of view. In this paper , a research model is proposed to examine the effect of transaction procedures, technical protection and usability of EPS on the perceived security and perceived trust of EPS, and also the effect of perceived security and perceived trust on the usage of EPS is studied .The model is evaluated empirically and the findings reveal that transaction procedures, technical protection and usability of EPS have a significant impact on the perceived security and perceived trust of EPS. Perceived security and perceived trust of EPS are found be significant factors of EPS usage. The study is useful for companies and businesses that would like to enhance their payment system through electronic transactions. Findings suggest that managers should focus on providing the best in transaction procedures, technical protections and usability in order to enhance the perceived security and perceived trust EPS, which in turn will have a positive impact on the EPS usage
Marital satisfaction is an important component of family success and personal growth. The role of... more Marital satisfaction is an important component of family success and personal growth. The role of women has gained importance in the economic and social field in line with the nation’s progress. This study examines the factors influencing the marital satisfaction of Malaysian women. The factors include occupational status (working or non-working) , the type of family (nuclear or joint), place of settlement (urban or rural), age, race, education, occupation, personal income, number of children, spouse education, spouse occupation, spouse income. The study adopted survey research design and the data was collected from 200 women in Malaysia. The independent samples t-test was used to test the differences in marital satisfaction in terms of occupational status (working or non-working), type of family (nuclear and Joint) and place of settlement (urban and rural) of the married women. The results indicate that marital satisfaction differs significantly between the working and non-working ...
In this research, coordination of production planning of finished products and intermediate produ... more In this research, coordination of production planning of finished products and intermediate products in a chemical process industry is studied. The company consists of two manufacturing facilities one of which produces finished products and the other producing intermediates products with similar production environment. There is a transportation between the two facilities. The problem is formulated as a mixed integer linear programming problem. The decisions include lot sizes of both finished product and intermediates, inventory, batch sizes, regular hours, over time hours utilized, number of trips between the facilities and amount of intermediates shipped in drums. The objective is to minimize the total cost involved. The mathematical developed is attempted to solve using CPLEX solver. Since the MIP solver is unable to provide a solution for a larger problem instances, a real coded problem specific constraint based genetic algorithm that can deal with the industrial size problem enc...
International Journal of Engineering & Technology
This research deals with a scheduling problem for parallel machines environment to minimize total... more This research deals with a scheduling problem for parallel machines environment to minimize total weighted tardiness with the consideration of sequence dependent setup times and release dates. There are two research questions that need to be addressed: 1) How to allocate jobs on machines ? 2) How to sequence jobs on each machine? Therefore, this research aims to find an efficient solution method that answers the research questions with the goal of minimizing the total weighted tardiness with the presence of sequence dependent setup times. Due to the complexity of the problem at hand, the authors have developed genetic algorithm to find a solution to this problem. Furthermore, various dispatching rules were used to enhance the performance of the genetic algorithm in terms of the total weighted tardiness value.
Asian Journal of Social Science
Cultural diversity, which poses both challenges and opportunities in a multicultural education se... more Cultural diversity, which poses both challenges and opportunities in a multicultural education setting, necessitates recognising factors that promote multicultural identities of educators to maximise multicultural attitudes for their wellbeing and performance. This study employs structural equation modelling to examine the determinants of multicultural identities from the perspective of the cognitive-developmental model of social identity integration (CDMII) framework. Categorisation, compartmentalisation, and integration were hypothesised to explain multicultural identity and its effect on well-being and performance. Purposive sampling via survey method involved 288 educators from Malaysian Universities. The findings confirmed that multicultural identity constructs have direct and significant relationship with well-being and well-being has direct and positive relationship with the performance of multicultural team.
International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals
Emergence of new professions and novel approaches to work contribute to newer causes of occupatio... more Emergence of new professions and novel approaches to work contribute to newer causes of occupational stress. The current study focuses on one such emergent group namely, the software development professionals. An attempt has been made to examine the role of self-efficacy, collective efficacy and perception of control in the study of occupational stress. The data was collected from 156 software development professionals in India. Variables such as self-efficacy, collective efficacy and perception of control using multiple moderated regression revealed that these variables moderate the negative consequences of stress with respect to work exhaustion, organizational commitment and intent to turnover but not with respect to job satisfaction. The results indicate that self-efficacy and collective efficacy have to be strengthened in order to mitigate the negative consequences of stress. The knowledge pertaining to causes of stress can empower individuals and organizations to plan effective...
International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals
Emergence of new professions and novel approaches to work contribute to newer causes of occupatio... more Emergence of new professions and novel approaches to work contribute to newer causes of occupational stress. The current study focuses on one such emergent group namely, the software development professionals. An attempt has been made to examine the role of self-efficacy, collective efficacy and perception of control in the study of occupational stress. The data was collected from 156 software development professionals in India. Variables such as self-efficacy, collective efficacy and perception of control using multiple moderated regression revealed that these variables moderate the negative consequences of stress with respect to work exhaustion, organizational commitment and intent to turnover but not with respect to job satisfaction. The results indicate that self-efficacy and collective efficacy have to be strengthened in order to mitigate the negative consequences of stress. The knowledge pertaining to causes of stress can empower individuals and organizations to plan effective...