34 research outputs found

    Exploring Rewards Systems and Turnover Intention among Malaysian Private University Academics: The Role of Continuance Commitment as a Mediator

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    This research employed an empirical approach in overviewing the relationship between five independent variables namely, remuneration, work-life balance, supervisor support, and employee recognition and the intention of turnover by means of employees' continuance commitment. The study comprises a total of 331 academics from the four private universities that were selected. This study utilized a structured survey to collect data, drawing on publicly available literature to inform the survey's design. Building upon a comprehensive review of existing literature, the survey instrument was tailored to address the specific research objectives of this study, incorporating modifications as deemed necessary. The analysis presented in this chapter offers a detailed examination of both the measurement and structural models employed in the study. The measurement model rigorously assessed the reliability and validity of the measurement instruments, ensuring that indicators met established criteria for accuracy and precision. Subsequent Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analyses revealed that neither direct nor mediated paths achieved statistical significance, indicating a lack of empirical support for the hypothesized relationships among the variables under investigation. This comprehensive evaluation provides valuable insights into the methodological rigor of the study and highlights avenues for future research exploration

    Does Leverage Matter To Market Spread ?

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    Securitization includes the transfer of illiquid resources to investors where such exchange is supported by the issuance of obligation securities called Asset-Backed Debt Securities (ABS) through a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV). The under-utilisation of bonds or the absence of enhancement of the firm credit portfolio resulted in financial difficulties being faced by companies during the financial crisis in 1997. The fundamental focus in this investigation is on the determinants of primary market spread on RMBS, CMBS and ABS, and this study intends to inspect 12 years of information, from 2004 to 2016. Past examinations have left gaps in this area of research. The research objectives are the investigation of the determinants that incorporate domestic macroeconomic variables. The exploration will adopt a quantitative technique in investigating the information gathered, which is focused on pools Ordinary Least Square (OLS) and panel data. Regarding the primary market spread in Malaysia, factors such as debt to equity showed significance in the primary market spread in the control models, and originators may want to consider this economic issue before issuing securitized products

    Mediating Effect Of Expected Service Relationship Between Audit Service Quality And Customer Satisfaction: A Study Of Malaysian Venture Capital Firms

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    The scandal of Arthur Andersen and Enron should be a crucial lesson for audit firms concerning failure in audit service quality. Nevertheless, there are none of the audit firms can guarantee that the audit firms will maintain forever, and one of them will make no mistakes. The contention for audits for big audit firms as synonymous with quality audit has become questionable. The universal objective of the study was to analyze the cause and effect of expected service between audit service quality and customer satisfaction for Malaysian venture capital firms registered with KLSE. The study employed a descriptive study design and entailed the 65 listed venture capital firms as the population, because of the small member. Raw data were collected by the use of a structured questionnaire by use of drop and pick later. The collected data were analyzed first by use of descriptive statistics; correlation analysis was done to establish the mediating effect of the expected service relationship between the dependent and independent variables, and lastly, a regression analysis was executed on the model to test the hypotheses. The study supposes and expects that only two out of five audit quality dimensions (i.e., Assurance, Empathy, Reliability, Responsiveness, and Tangible) were statistically significant related to customer satisfaction. Thus the two characteristics of tangibility and responsiveness have a substantial impact on customer satisfaction. The research will be meaningful to the management of the venture capital firms and the audit firms alongside the academics who may want to pursue the subject further

    Agricultural trend and economic growth in Malaysia: An analysis / Mohamad Idham Md Razak, Nor Azizah Mohammad Amin and Faridah Pardi

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    Generally, an increased in productivity is a key to a healthy and flourishing the economy. Consequently, the trend in productivity, economy wide, is one of the most closely watched of our common economic performance indicators. Hence agriculture, in particular, has been a very successful sector of the Malaysian economy in terms of productivity growth. Agricultural productivity growth has been an important source of Malaysian economic growth throughout the years, but the year after independent has seen an even faster growth in agricultural productivity. It generated approximately 39.3 percent to the economic growth. However, due to several factors in example productivity, marketing, technical, institutional and social problems, the contribution keep decline. This study describes the contribution of the agricultural production to the economic growth from the year 1977 2006 by using the secondary data. The study also discussed factors that have affected productivity trends by applying technical information about the econometric approaches to measures the relationship of each variable by using the unit root test, co integration test and causality test. The results showed there is no co integration between each independent variable and dependent variable except for rubber. This study helps to enhance the current research about the agricultural production and economic growth by providing more advanced econometrics information

    A study on work stress that influence work life balance: discussion / Aini Qamariah Mohd Yusof ... [et al.]

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    Work stress has becomes a common problem that faced by employees in many organizations regardless any industry that they involves today. Work-life balance and stress go hand in hand. What seems to matter in this regard is the importance workers place on balance in their lives and the effectiveness of work place policies and practices in supporting them to achieve this goal. This paper focuses on the work life of both employers and employees’ and also suggests how work life-balance has to be achieved. The employers needs to frame polices that would minimize the work load of employee without affecting the productivity of the organisation, for achieving successful work-life balance. Workload, role conflict and interpersonal relationship at work are the factors that the researcher emphasized in this study. The researches need to find out what are the relationships these factors with stress as well as affecting work life balance. 80 of questionnaires were distributed randomly as a sample and the technique that will be used is convenient sampling technique in order to get relevant and significant data

    The Dimensions Of Work Stress Among Expatriates In Government Link Corporation – An Overview

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    The Due to rapid increase of competent and professional managers, the Malaysian Conglomerate Companies (GLC), under Khazanah Nasional Berhad had forced to hire professional employees from other countries that called expatriates. GLC is who are linked with Malaysian’s Government linked companies such as UEM Group, Sime Darby, Petronas and also Celcom Axiata Berhad. The purpose of this research is to identify the factors and the level of work stress among expatriates in Celcom Axiata Berhad. To date, Celcom Axiata Berhad is among the largest telecommunication organization in Malaysia. Celcom Axiata Berhad want to maintain it competitiveness in the market therefore it would hire professional managers from others countries to manage certain operations. The author is using non-probability sampling technique, where 50 questionnaires over of 60 populations were distributed to the respondents who are the expatriates in Celcom Axiata Berhad. The author measured the dependent variable of work stress and three independent variables which are workload, role conflict and interpersonal relationship at workplace. The findings are interpreted by using Pearson Correlation Analysis, descriptive analysis, regression and hypothesis testing. The findings in Pearson Correlation Analysis showed all the independent variables are having significant relationship to work stress, as the dependent variables. Therefore, the entire hypothesis is accepted. The author is suggesting several options in order to reduce the work stress such as the expatriates should learn to prioritize their work according to their importance. Keywords: Work Stress, GLC, Role Conflict, Workloa

    Factors Influencing Unemployment among Graduates in Malaysia – An Overview

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    The purpose of this study was to determine the significance factors that influence unemployment among graduates in Malaysia. The variables consists job mismatch, English proficiency and employability skills are stated as independent variables for this study. The respondents were 150 employers and workers in Malaysia. The finding showed that job mismatch, English proficiency and employability skills have influence on unemployment among graduates in Malaysia. All variables show positive relationship towards the unemployment among graduates. This study refers to primary data and also secondary data for supporting the sampling technique. Meanwhile, the researcher use questionnaire as the method to collect all the data from sample respondents in accomplishing the research objectives. While the data for this study was analyzed using multiple statistical procedures: mean point value, standard deviation, and correlation analysis. The result of the study presented in this research agrees that job mismatch; English proficiency and employability skills influenced unemployment among graduates. This study can be seen as a foreword to a more detailed study to be carrying by future research on the issue of unemployment among graduates in Malaysia. Keywords: Unemployment, Job Mismatch, Proficienc

    The impact of energy consumption based on fossil fuel and hydroelectricity generation towards pollution in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand

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    This study investigated the effects of energy consumption (ENY) based on fossil fuels and alternative energy with hydroelectricity as its proxy upon pollution, aside from ascertaining if the correlation between income and pollution determined the presence of Environmental Kuznets curve (EKC). In addition, the functions of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows and trade openness (TO) were probed into so as to generate more precise outcomes of EKC hypothesis. Hence, in order to fulfil the objectives outlined in this study, the Bound estimation method was utilized to examine three developing nations of the Association of South East Asian Nation (ASEAN), which are Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand. The main finding of interest retrieved from this paper refers to the EKC hypothesis reflective of Malaysia and Thailand. It was discovered that hydroelectricity favourably lowered the release of carbon emissions in the case of Malaysia, while it insignificantly influenced environmental degradation for Indonesia and Thailand. On the other hand, as anticipated, per capita energy use displayed a significant long-run effect in raising the levels of carbon emission in Indonesia and Thailand. Meanwhile, the FDI inflows seemed to improve the environmental quality only in Malaysia, while deepening in TO among ASEAN-3 nations appeared to successfully minimize issues related to environmental degradation in these countries

    Application of Bayesian fuzzy regression analysis and model selection on Hedonic Pricing Strategy / Mohamad Idham Md Razak … [et al.]

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    In the following prototype it has been suggested a Bayesian approach to fuzzy clustering analysis - the Bayesian fuzzy regression. Bayesian Posterior Odds analysis is employed to select the correct number of clusters for the fuzzy regression analysis. In this study, we use a natural conjugate prior for the parameters, and we find that the Bayesian Posterior Odds provide a very powerful tool for choosing the number of clusters. The results from a Hedonic Pricing Strategy experiment and two real data applications of Bayesian fuzzy regression are very encouraging. Recent developments in econometric modelling have emphasized a variety of non-linear specifications. Parametric examples of these include various regime-switching models (the threshold and Markov switching autoregressive models): threshold autoregressive (TAR) models, self-exciting threshold autoregressive (SETAR) models, smoothing threshold autoregressive (STAR) models, and various others. In addition, non-parametric and semi-parametric models are widely used, though the well-known "curse of dimensionality" can place some limitations on their use with multivariate data. The use of fuzzy clustering analysis in the context of econometric modelling is a rather new approach within the class of nonlinear econometric models

    Examining Relationships between Employees’ Attributes and Act of Whistleblowing

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    The purpose of this study is to examine the connection between employees’ attributes and the act of whistleblowing. The study was conducted at Penang Port Sdn Bhd by using quantitative method and purposive sampling data gathering. A total of 117 employees from Penang Port Sdn Bhd participated in the survey. The data gathered was processed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 25. The results indicate a positive correlation between all variables of whistleblowing. The findings highlight that only two characteristic which is attitudes towards whistleblowing and internal control, have a meaningful association with the act of whistleblowing. Alternate hypotheses (H1) are accepted for hypotheses 1 and 2 but rejected for hypotheses 3. The implications of the findings for the organization are examined, as well as future study directions
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