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Proceedings computer science, 2023
I enjoy reading this acticle. It is interesting and paint a good picture of the sharing economy. ... more I enjoy reading this acticle. It is interesting and paint a good picture of the sharing economy. The author have used the relevant theories to explain the context and it is well-written. I would suggest the author to state the context focus of the study, i.e., e-hailing and p-hailing as the author been using Uber, Go-Jek and etc.
Journal of Contemporary Issues and Thought/Journal of contemporary issues and thought, Feb 21, 2023
E3S web of conferences, 2022
Construction safety continues to be one of the issues that draw the attention of the public. This... more Construction safety continues to be one of the issues that draw the attention of the public. This study aims to investigate the factors to improve awareness towards workplace safety and hazards among the China construction companies in Malaysia. Quantitative research method was adopted in this study. Self-administered questionnaire was extended to 79 workers in China construction company in Malaysia with the use of purposive sampling. Statistical Packages for the Social Sciences (SPSS) and Partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) were used to test the hypothesized relationships. The results show perception and compliance of workers are positively related to the awareness of workplace safety and hazards. On top of that, the study present diverse perspectives towards awareness of workplace safety and hazards by examining the perception and compliance of the workers in the China construction companies in Malaysia. Moreover, high awareness was found to be a significant mechanism leading to lower accidental rates in construction. However, construction projects are getting more in quantity and getting bigger in scale all over the country, future research should consider more factors and include more construction companies. In overall, this study highlights the essential role of workers' perceptions and compliance in raising their safety and hazards awareness in reducing accidental rates in the construction industry.
Global Business and Management Research: An International Journal, 2017
The main objective of this research paper is to examine the role of Internal Corporate Social Res... more The main objective of this research paper is to examine the role of Internal Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the professional service industry. Professional service industry was used as the contextual background as it is often hit by the issue of high turnover. This research paper capitalizes on Stakeholder Theory and Social Exchange Theory to investigate and explain the role played by Internal CSR in professional service industry turnover intention. Design/methodology/approach: Quantitative method by way of questionnaire survey was employed to gauge the respondents' perceptions on the effect of Internal CSR practices. Multistage sampling and judgmental sampling are adopted. The data obtained was analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). Findings: Internal CSR practices are found to have a role to play in the professional service industry. Internal CSR practices could make a difference in employees' turnover intention. This positive outcome is explained by the mediating roles of organizational commitment and job satisfaction, along with the direct relationship between Internal CSR practices and turnover intention. Besides, it was observed that the degree of Internal CSR practices is varied among the professional firms. Most of the firms are found to have implemented Internal CSR practices in the aspects of career opportunity, employee well-being, family friendly policy and organizatio na l justice. Practical implications : The findings provide insights to the professional service firms on the manifestation influence of Internal CSR practices to curb turnover intention issue in the professional service industry.
Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility, Nov 29, 2021
The year 2020 began with a glimpse into the darkness with the onset of the worldwide COVID‐19 pan... more The year 2020 began with a glimpse into the darkness with the onset of the worldwide COVID‐19 pandemic. An invisible, threatening virus has forced many countries to practice restricted movement and impose lockdowns for the sake of their citizens’ safety and well‐being. In response, many business organizations have implemented various remote‐work arrangements. These arrangements have spurred the use of digitalization strategies and have landed many employees in the vulnerable virtual workplace. With employees facing all these uncertainties and vulnerabilities, their commitment to their workplace could come into question. At the same time, organizations facing tremendous challenges are searching for committed employees to navigate through this turbulent time. From a strategic management perspective, organizations could revisit their internal core competencies to prevail through internal corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices. Meanwhile, the rapidly growing pace of digitalization could further augment organizations’ survival and resilience. This research paper showcases the empirical outcomes of the promising match between internal CSR practices and digitalization strategy; and employees’ organizational commitment during times of crisis. The results reveal that internal CSR practices positively stimulate employees’ organizational commitment, while digitalization strategy intercedes in the nexus between internal CSR practices and affective commitment. The empirical outcomes shed light on business organizations and their ability to take a frugal approach in turbulent times.
Business Process Management Journal, Oct 25, 2022
PurposeThis research is set to assess the achievement of digital economy through digitalization a... more PurposeThis research is set to assess the achievement of digital economy through digitalization adoption (DA) among Small Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). For more insightful findings, a comparison between the service-based and non-service-based industries was performed. Besides, it endeavours to identify the important and performing dimension of the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework. The purpose of this paper is to address these issues.Design/methodology/approachQuantitative approach through purposive sampling technique was used to collect data from the SMEs. Variance-based structural equation modeling was adopted to assess the model and multi-group analysis (MGA) was executed to examine the difference between the two classified industries. For the identification of the dimension, Importance-Performance Map Aanalysis (IPMA) was carried out.FindingsTechnology and organization recorded significant positive influence on digitalization adoption but not environment. Digitalization adoption between the two classified industries shows divergent results. IPMA concur the importance and performance of the technology and organization dimension, in which SMEs shall focus on for digitalization adoption.Research limitations/implicationsThis is cross sectional research and data were collected at a single time frame. Hence, the result is a state-or-art finding. Assuming that if there are changes in government policies, the results may differ. Besides, there are other possible groupings that could affect the results in which is not covered in the present research.Practical implicationsThe findings imply that the DA amongst SMEs has yet to achieve its full spectrum, which indicates Malaysia has yet to fully embrace digital economy. Nevertheless, DA is the fundamental for a successful digital economy.Social implicationsThis research provides the general public an overview that SMEs are adopting digitalization with various degree. This specifies that the society is paving towards digitalization with the SMEs actively adopting more digital technologies.Originality/valueThe novelty of this research arises from the utilization of the TOE framework to link to the achievement of the national digital economy. Additionally, current research adopted a rigorous approach to investigate the issue by using MGA, the hierarchical component model (HCM) and IPMA for holistic findings.
Asian journal of social sciences and management studies, 2016
Contents 1. Introduction .
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller eBooks, Jul 8, 2009
The research explores Organisational Conflict Diagnosis and Resolution that helps to establish th... more The research explores Organisational Conflict Diagnosis and Resolution that helps to establish the present of organisational conflict and followed by appropriate resolution. This research was carried out in a local economic institution by selecting a department as the research technique.It discuss about the constructives and dysfunctional organisational conflict. Participant observation is selected to collect the data. An observational form is constructed which incorporated the sets of variables in acquiring the data. It explicates the research findings and tagged some proposed interventions. The research also presents practical proposed interventions. The suggested interventions consist of strategic intervention, technostructural intervention, human resources intervention and human process intervention. These suggested interventions are supported by credential literatures reviews.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jan 25, 2016
The five dimensions of internal CSR namely health and safety, work life balance, training and dev... more The five dimensions of internal CSR namely health and safety, work life balance, training and development, workplace diversity and compensation and benefit was used to measure the level of employee's emotional attachment towards the organization. There are a total of 220 sets of questionnaire being distributed to employees who work in Klang Valley regardless of their industry. However, there are only 156 set of questionnaire is usable for analysis. From the analysis, it represented that most of the respondents in this study are degree holder who fall under the age group of 21 to 30. Findings obtained indicated that compensation and benefit is the strongest predictor in affecting employees' perception on organizational affective commitment followed by health and safety and workplace diversity. On the other hand, work life balance and training and development were found to be not having any relationship with organizational affective commitment when other variable (health and safety, workplace diversity, compensation and benefit) is added into the model. Several practical suggestions are forwarded to help improve the study on organizational affective commitment in near future.
This paper aims to review the birth of smart living society by using an inductive approach. A mul... more This paper aims to review the birth of smart living society by using an inductive approach. A multi-level analysis is proposed to explore the effort to achieve smart living society by examining Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework. A detailed framework is developed to illustrate the utilization of multi-level analysis in TOE. This inductive bottom-up reasoning intends to materialize a smart living society in a holistic digital economy in Malaysia and to study in detail each element embedded in the framework. A preliminary survey was conducted and it revealed that tools currently used by firms, most required no or low maintenance cost.
Australian journal of career development, Apr 1, 2022
This research sought to investigate how academics with a protean career attitude perceived succes... more This research sought to investigate how academics with a protean career attitude perceived success in their academic career. The role of perceived employability was examined by distinguishing between external and internal employability perceptions. Data from 288 academics working in Malaysian universities were collected and analysed using structural equation modelling. The findings revealed that a protean career attitude had no significant direct relationship with career success; rather, it had an indirect effect on success via perceived employability. Both external and internal perceived employability fully mediated the relationship between protean career attitude and career success, with perceived external employability having a stronger direct and mediating effect on academic career success. This study suggests that academic staff depend upon external employment opportunities to pursue success in academia. The implications of study findings are discussed, along with limitations and future research directions.
European Business Review, Jun 3, 2020
Asian journal of social sciences and management studies, Feb 1, 2016
Contents 1. Introduction .
Smart Health, Mar 1, 2023
Social Responsibility Journal, Jan 27, 2021
Purpose This research aims to examines the impact of micro-level corporate social responsibility ... more Purpose This research aims to examines the impact of micro-level corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices on employee engagement within the public accounting firm setting. Design/methodology/approach This research uses a quantitative approach with a survey instrument as the data collection tool. A total of 269 complete responses were collected from employees working in the public accounting firms. Micro-level CSR practices were analysed with a hierarchical component model (HCM) in partial least square structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) to examine the influence of such practices on employee engagement. A predictive performance metric was applied to assess the out-of-sample prediction. Findings This study uncovers a positive and significant relationship between micro-level CSR practices and employee engagement. Furthermore, the PLSpredict results indicate that the current model possesses high predictive power with all indicators in the PLS-SEM analysis demonstrating lower root mean squared error (RMSE) values compared to the naïve linear regression model benchmark. Research limitations/implications While the methods applied in this analysis are at the frontier of CSR research, the present study has not explored the heterogeneity amongst groups of respondents and size of accounting firms. Sampling weight adjustment for the purposes of representativeness was not used in the current research. These could be the subject of future work in this area. Practical implications These research findings shed light on the positive manifestation effect of micro-level CSR practices at firm level as well as individual level. Through micro-level CSR practices, firms can reap the benefits of enhanced employee engagement, which leads to productive workforce while also facilitating increased employees’ intrinsic job satisfaction. Social implications Micro-level CSR practices address the needs of the millennium workforce, whereby employees are no longer solely focussed on pay checks as their compensation. Employees are seeking out employers whose CSR practices appeal to their social conscience. Micro-level CSR practices meet the needs of the contemporary workforce yet enable companies to attract and retain skilled employees. Originality/value The originality of this research is attributed to the vigorous statistical analysis by the use of HCMs and PLSpredict in PLS-SEM context for the assessment of predictive performance. Also, micro-level CSR practices are conceptualised in HCM for parsimonious purpose.
The prominent researcher of Micro-level CSR in Malaysia.
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Proceedings computer science, 2023
I enjoy reading this acticle. It is interesting and paint a good picture of the sharing economy. ... more I enjoy reading this acticle. It is interesting and paint a good picture of the sharing economy. The author have used the relevant theories to explain the context and it is well-written. I would suggest the author to state the context focus of the study, i.e., e-hailing and p-hailing as the author been using Uber, Go-Jek and etc.
Journal of Contemporary Issues and Thought/Journal of contemporary issues and thought, Feb 21, 2023
E3S web of conferences, 2022
Construction safety continues to be one of the issues that draw the attention of the public. This... more Construction safety continues to be one of the issues that draw the attention of the public. This study aims to investigate the factors to improve awareness towards workplace safety and hazards among the China construction companies in Malaysia. Quantitative research method was adopted in this study. Self-administered questionnaire was extended to 79 workers in China construction company in Malaysia with the use of purposive sampling. Statistical Packages for the Social Sciences (SPSS) and Partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) were used to test the hypothesized relationships. The results show perception and compliance of workers are positively related to the awareness of workplace safety and hazards. On top of that, the study present diverse perspectives towards awareness of workplace safety and hazards by examining the perception and compliance of the workers in the China construction companies in Malaysia. Moreover, high awareness was found to be a significant mechanism leading to lower accidental rates in construction. However, construction projects are getting more in quantity and getting bigger in scale all over the country, future research should consider more factors and include more construction companies. In overall, this study highlights the essential role of workers' perceptions and compliance in raising their safety and hazards awareness in reducing accidental rates in the construction industry.
Global Business and Management Research: An International Journal, 2017
The main objective of this research paper is to examine the role of Internal Corporate Social Res... more The main objective of this research paper is to examine the role of Internal Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the professional service industry. Professional service industry was used as the contextual background as it is often hit by the issue of high turnover. This research paper capitalizes on Stakeholder Theory and Social Exchange Theory to investigate and explain the role played by Internal CSR in professional service industry turnover intention. Design/methodology/approach: Quantitative method by way of questionnaire survey was employed to gauge the respondents' perceptions on the effect of Internal CSR practices. Multistage sampling and judgmental sampling are adopted. The data obtained was analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). Findings: Internal CSR practices are found to have a role to play in the professional service industry. Internal CSR practices could make a difference in employees' turnover intention. This positive outcome is explained by the mediating roles of organizational commitment and job satisfaction, along with the direct relationship between Internal CSR practices and turnover intention. Besides, it was observed that the degree of Internal CSR practices is varied among the professional firms. Most of the firms are found to have implemented Internal CSR practices in the aspects of career opportunity, employee well-being, family friendly policy and organizatio na l justice. Practical implications : The findings provide insights to the professional service firms on the manifestation influence of Internal CSR practices to curb turnover intention issue in the professional service industry.
Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility, Nov 29, 2021
The year 2020 began with a glimpse into the darkness with the onset of the worldwide COVID‐19 pan... more The year 2020 began with a glimpse into the darkness with the onset of the worldwide COVID‐19 pandemic. An invisible, threatening virus has forced many countries to practice restricted movement and impose lockdowns for the sake of their citizens’ safety and well‐being. In response, many business organizations have implemented various remote‐work arrangements. These arrangements have spurred the use of digitalization strategies and have landed many employees in the vulnerable virtual workplace. With employees facing all these uncertainties and vulnerabilities, their commitment to their workplace could come into question. At the same time, organizations facing tremendous challenges are searching for committed employees to navigate through this turbulent time. From a strategic management perspective, organizations could revisit their internal core competencies to prevail through internal corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices. Meanwhile, the rapidly growing pace of digitalization could further augment organizations’ survival and resilience. This research paper showcases the empirical outcomes of the promising match between internal CSR practices and digitalization strategy; and employees’ organizational commitment during times of crisis. The results reveal that internal CSR practices positively stimulate employees’ organizational commitment, while digitalization strategy intercedes in the nexus between internal CSR practices and affective commitment. The empirical outcomes shed light on business organizations and their ability to take a frugal approach in turbulent times.
Business Process Management Journal, Oct 25, 2022
PurposeThis research is set to assess the achievement of digital economy through digitalization a... more PurposeThis research is set to assess the achievement of digital economy through digitalization adoption (DA) among Small Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). For more insightful findings, a comparison between the service-based and non-service-based industries was performed. Besides, it endeavours to identify the important and performing dimension of the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework. The purpose of this paper is to address these issues.Design/methodology/approachQuantitative approach through purposive sampling technique was used to collect data from the SMEs. Variance-based structural equation modeling was adopted to assess the model and multi-group analysis (MGA) was executed to examine the difference between the two classified industries. For the identification of the dimension, Importance-Performance Map Aanalysis (IPMA) was carried out.FindingsTechnology and organization recorded significant positive influence on digitalization adoption but not environment. Digitalization adoption between the two classified industries shows divergent results. IPMA concur the importance and performance of the technology and organization dimension, in which SMEs shall focus on for digitalization adoption.Research limitations/implicationsThis is cross sectional research and data were collected at a single time frame. Hence, the result is a state-or-art finding. Assuming that if there are changes in government policies, the results may differ. Besides, there are other possible groupings that could affect the results in which is not covered in the present research.Practical implicationsThe findings imply that the DA amongst SMEs has yet to achieve its full spectrum, which indicates Malaysia has yet to fully embrace digital economy. Nevertheless, DA is the fundamental for a successful digital economy.Social implicationsThis research provides the general public an overview that SMEs are adopting digitalization with various degree. This specifies that the society is paving towards digitalization with the SMEs actively adopting more digital technologies.Originality/valueThe novelty of this research arises from the utilization of the TOE framework to link to the achievement of the national digital economy. Additionally, current research adopted a rigorous approach to investigate the issue by using MGA, the hierarchical component model (HCM) and IPMA for holistic findings.
Asian journal of social sciences and management studies, 2016
Contents 1. Introduction .
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller eBooks, Jul 8, 2009
The research explores Organisational Conflict Diagnosis and Resolution that helps to establish th... more The research explores Organisational Conflict Diagnosis and Resolution that helps to establish the present of organisational conflict and followed by appropriate resolution. This research was carried out in a local economic institution by selecting a department as the research technique.It discuss about the constructives and dysfunctional organisational conflict. Participant observation is selected to collect the data. An observational form is constructed which incorporated the sets of variables in acquiring the data. It explicates the research findings and tagged some proposed interventions. The research also presents practical proposed interventions. The suggested interventions consist of strategic intervention, technostructural intervention, human resources intervention and human process intervention. These suggested interventions are supported by credential literatures reviews.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jan 25, 2016
The five dimensions of internal CSR namely health and safety, work life balance, training and dev... more The five dimensions of internal CSR namely health and safety, work life balance, training and development, workplace diversity and compensation and benefit was used to measure the level of employee's emotional attachment towards the organization. There are a total of 220 sets of questionnaire being distributed to employees who work in Klang Valley regardless of their industry. However, there are only 156 set of questionnaire is usable for analysis. From the analysis, it represented that most of the respondents in this study are degree holder who fall under the age group of 21 to 30. Findings obtained indicated that compensation and benefit is the strongest predictor in affecting employees' perception on organizational affective commitment followed by health and safety and workplace diversity. On the other hand, work life balance and training and development were found to be not having any relationship with organizational affective commitment when other variable (health and safety, workplace diversity, compensation and benefit) is added into the model. Several practical suggestions are forwarded to help improve the study on organizational affective commitment in near future.
This paper aims to review the birth of smart living society by using an inductive approach. A mul... more This paper aims to review the birth of smart living society by using an inductive approach. A multi-level analysis is proposed to explore the effort to achieve smart living society by examining Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework. A detailed framework is developed to illustrate the utilization of multi-level analysis in TOE. This inductive bottom-up reasoning intends to materialize a smart living society in a holistic digital economy in Malaysia and to study in detail each element embedded in the framework. A preliminary survey was conducted and it revealed that tools currently used by firms, most required no or low maintenance cost.
Australian journal of career development, Apr 1, 2022
This research sought to investigate how academics with a protean career attitude perceived succes... more This research sought to investigate how academics with a protean career attitude perceived success in their academic career. The role of perceived employability was examined by distinguishing between external and internal employability perceptions. Data from 288 academics working in Malaysian universities were collected and analysed using structural equation modelling. The findings revealed that a protean career attitude had no significant direct relationship with career success; rather, it had an indirect effect on success via perceived employability. Both external and internal perceived employability fully mediated the relationship between protean career attitude and career success, with perceived external employability having a stronger direct and mediating effect on academic career success. This study suggests that academic staff depend upon external employment opportunities to pursue success in academia. The implications of study findings are discussed, along with limitations and future research directions.
European Business Review, Jun 3, 2020
Asian journal of social sciences and management studies, Feb 1, 2016
Contents 1. Introduction .
Smart Health, Mar 1, 2023
Social Responsibility Journal, Jan 27, 2021
Purpose This research aims to examines the impact of micro-level corporate social responsibility ... more Purpose This research aims to examines the impact of micro-level corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices on employee engagement within the public accounting firm setting. Design/methodology/approach This research uses a quantitative approach with a survey instrument as the data collection tool. A total of 269 complete responses were collected from employees working in the public accounting firms. Micro-level CSR practices were analysed with a hierarchical component model (HCM) in partial least square structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) to examine the influence of such practices on employee engagement. A predictive performance metric was applied to assess the out-of-sample prediction. Findings This study uncovers a positive and significant relationship between micro-level CSR practices and employee engagement. Furthermore, the PLSpredict results indicate that the current model possesses high predictive power with all indicators in the PLS-SEM analysis demonstrating lower root mean squared error (RMSE) values compared to the naïve linear regression model benchmark. Research limitations/implications While the methods applied in this analysis are at the frontier of CSR research, the present study has not explored the heterogeneity amongst groups of respondents and size of accounting firms. Sampling weight adjustment for the purposes of representativeness was not used in the current research. These could be the subject of future work in this area. Practical implications These research findings shed light on the positive manifestation effect of micro-level CSR practices at firm level as well as individual level. Through micro-level CSR practices, firms can reap the benefits of enhanced employee engagement, which leads to productive workforce while also facilitating increased employees’ intrinsic job satisfaction. Social implications Micro-level CSR practices address the needs of the millennium workforce, whereby employees are no longer solely focussed on pay checks as their compensation. Employees are seeking out employers whose CSR practices appeal to their social conscience. Micro-level CSR practices meet the needs of the contemporary workforce yet enable companies to attract and retain skilled employees. Originality/value The originality of this research is attributed to the vigorous statistical analysis by the use of HCMs and PLSpredict in PLS-SEM context for the assessment of predictive performance. Also, micro-level CSR practices are conceptualised in HCM for parsimonious purpose.
Journal of Social Science Studies, Jun 19, 2015
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has gained increasing attention and popularity since the la... more Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has gained increasing attention and popularity since the last decade. There are many CSR debates arise since then. These debates were shaped by trends and fundamental changes of the political, social, and economic spheres of life. Tracing back, the precursor to CSR was topic of charitable giving, which had been in existence since 1980s. Todate, CSR has evolved to a business concept that had been accepted widely. Business corporations are focusing on CSR due to tremendous pressures from the society. Presently, CSR approach has emerged from focusing on the shareholders to stakeholders due to the acknowledgement of the crucial roles of stakeholders in every organisation. Stakeholder management and CSR is a relational affair. Stakeholder theory involves list of critical stakeholders namely employees, suppliers, customers, media, local communities,