The Impact of TQM Factors on Employees Job Satisfaction

The key element to a successfully business continuance is the implementation of Total Quality Management but however if not properly implemented or used it can lead to a failure. The theory behind Total Quality Management is sound so the problems that can be generated from the usage and implementation must come from another important source. This source is the leadership and employees of that particular organization. The leadership or management of an organization and the employees can greatly impact the final outcome of a Total Quality Management implementation. Just how Total Quality Management can give impact on organizational leadership and employees on their job satisfaction is a topic that is often not considered well until a Total Quality Management project and issues begin to arise. From the literature, five antecedents of employee job satisfaction are identified. The variables measured are "employee participation", "teamwork, "recognition and rewards", "organizational culture" and "education and training". This research seeks to investigate the employees' perception on the Total Quality Management factors and its impact on job satisfaction in a manufacturing facility. A total of 120 questionnaires were distributed, 98 questionnaires were returned and useable representing 82 percent response rate. The Pearson correlations test results showed that "educational and training" is the top influential factors in determining employees' job satisfaction. On the other hand, "employee participation" is the second significantly that influenced job satisfaction followed by "teamwork and "organizational culture". Lastly, "recognition and rewards" suggests that employees need to be monitored in order to have a better job. The findings could prescribe potential implications for top management to review their TQM programs. Managers must, therefore, consider these factors in all TQM initiatives

Decision Support System in Flood Management

The objective of the research is to study the usage of Decision Support Systems for Flood Mitigation (DSSFM). The main objective of the project is to explore the extensive integration of Decision Support System and Geographical Information Systems in DSSFM. A prototype in DSSFM is developed to combine the application of Decision Support System and Geographical Information Systems. Its main function is to identifY any flood-prone areas in Ipoh, Perak. From the flood identification process, the user will identifY and take proactive measures to prevent damages occurred from the flood.ln addition,it renders informed decision making for the authorities in managing flood mitigation effectively. As there are few applications and software that is used in GIS, the student need to identifY how DSS elements are used in the related field and produce a prototype that combine DSS and GIS related data for the flood mitigation project

Civil adoption: laws in peninsular Malaysia / Norsidah Akashah

My main research and study are based mainly on the Civil Adoption Laws in Peninsular Malaysia namely : 1. Adoption Act 1952 2. Registration of Adoption Act 1952 Chapter one gives a brief legal history of adoption laws in England which was later implemented in the Straits Settlements as the adoption of Children Ordinance 1939* Later a Bill of the Adoption Act 1952 was introduced which was based upon the United Kingdom Act 1950 and which incorparated the 1959 Adoption of Children Ordinance to make one statutory provision applicable throughout the federation. This bill formed the backbone of the acts as they exist today. Wherelse chapter 2 mainly discusses the enforcement of both the acts namely the Adoption Act 1952 and the Registration of Adoption Act 1952. It also discusses briefly the procedure in court and the Registry Office for the adoption of children in Peninsular Malaysia. The third chapter is about a discussion on how adoption orders are made; who can adopt and be adopted. The consent requirement and dispensation of consent. Jn the fourth chapter, lays down the preliminaries to be satisfied before and after the adoption orders are made, inter alia, custody of the child, notice to the welfare department, appointment of guardian ad litem and functions of the court. The power of cour

Evaluation of a passive cooling system for embedded thermoelectric generator in concrete shingles for Renewable energy

This project explores the application of Thermoelectric Generator (TEG) on concrete shingles with improvements by the introduction of a passive dual heatsink system. Driven by an internal convection in the roof to cool the cold side of the TEG equipped with a double-sided heatsink; one embedded in the concrete shingle and the other exposed to ambient air to be cooled. The project collects two main data, temperature, and power, as the performance matrix. Detailing the temperature data with three sample location, shingle, TEG, and ambient samples. Power in the form of voltage and current readings from the TEG. Mounted on a test platform that simulates residential roof structure sloped at 30 , with National Instruments Data Acquisition (NI DAQ) unit as the data logger. Compared to a previous system of a single heatsink located only on the underside of the shingle. The resulting comparison details an improvement of 0.735 mW/m o 2 and TEG thermal efficiency of 0.88 % with a 2.3 °C TEG delta. Improving the power generation from 0.23 nW to 2.38 µW at 45 °C

The implementation of information strategies to support sustainable procurement

In our research context, sustainable procurement can be seen as a process to reduce damage to the environment by integrating certain aspects into making procurement decisions, such as value for money throughout the whole life cycle and being of benefit to society and the economy. This research has found more than one way of interpreting the ‘sustainable system’, for example, ‘green-friendly’ versus remaining effective in the long term. Sustainable procurement requires specific information to support the procurement process. The study reported in this thesis aimed to investigate the type of information needed in order for organisations to make correct sustainable procurement decisions. From these findings, information architecture for sustainable procurement in UK universities has been derived. While the initial focus has been on the information needed to make informed decisions in purchasing sustainable information technology (IT) equipment, it is believed that the framework would also be more widely applicable to other types of purchases. To ensure that these findings would support the university aspiration in terms of sustainability practices, a goal-context modelling technique called VMOST/B-SCP was chosen to analyse the sustainable procurement strategy in order to evaluate the alignment of IT strategy and its business strategy. A goal-context model using VMOST/B-SCP was produced to evaluate the procurement strategy, with this validated by procurement staff. This research helps to improve the way that goals and context are identified by integrating another technique, namely, social network analysis (SNA) to produce actor network diagrams. The VMOST/B-SCP technique is transferrable to the mapping of action strategies. The findings from goal-context modelling show that a goal-context model is not static: it changes as external circumstances and organisational priorities change. Most changes to the strategy occurred where external entities on which the change programme depended did not act as planned. The actor networks produced in our version of VMOST/B-SCP can be used to identify such risks. This research was pioneering in its use of VMOST/B-SCP in examining a business change while it was actually taking place rather than after it had been completed (and thus needed to accommodate changes in objectives and strategies). In addition, the research analysed a system with some IT support but where human-operated procedures predominated. The original B-SCP framework used Jackson’s problem frames which focus on possible software components: in our scenario, SNA-inspired actor diagrams were found to be more appropriate

Steganography Detection and Analysis of Hidden Data in Images

Steganography is the art of hiding the information that is going to be sent from one party to another. Information can be hidden into image, text, audio or video. Steganography allowed communication to happen without other people notice there is transmission of message except the intended party. This project is to develop a program that can detect the presence or absence of the steganography in an image. The program is developed using Matlab. It is developed based on the existing algorithms which is Pairs Analysis, introduced by Fridrich et a!. We tried to write a simple embedding Matlab code to embed random message in the tested images. From the result that we got for each of the image with embedded message, we find the distribution graph for cover image and stegogramme. Threshold can be set up by calculating the overlapped area between the two distribution graphs. We plot the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) graph in order to calculate the best and most accurate point to be set as threshold. Once we have set up the threshold for the cover image and stegogramme, the program will be tested on the images produce by the chosen steganography software, which is S-Tools and InfoStego. Both steganographic softwares are for spatial domain, which hide the secret message in the least significant bit (LSB) of image bits. For the output, our program is expected to produce histogram or graph that will detect the presence of the secret message in the cover image. This detection algorithm also produces the number of bitflips in the embedded image. The program should be able to estimate the length of the embedded message in percentage. The type of images used in this project are bmp,gif and jpeg format. They are comprised of natural images such as people, flowers, building, landscape and so forth

Decision Support System in Flood Management

The objective of the research is to study the usage of Decision Support Systems for Flood Mitigation (DSSFM). The main objective of the project is to explore the extensive integration of Decision Support System and Geographical Information Systems in DSSFM. A prototype in DSSFM is developed to combine the application of Decision Support System and Geographical Information Systems. Its main function is to identifY any flood-prone areas in Ipoh, Perak. From the flood identification process, the user will identifY and take proactive measures to prevent damages occurred from the flood.ln addition,it renders informed decision making for the authorities in managing flood\ud mitigation effectively. As there are few applications and software that is used in GIS, the student need to identifY how DSS elements are used in the related field and produce a prototype that combine DSS and GIS related data for the flood mitigation project

Fire risk assessment of low cost high rise residential buildings in Kuala Lumpur: A case study

Low cost high rise residential buildings have had the highest number of fire incidents compared to other types of buildings in Malaysia. This study aims to determine the fire risk status of low cost high rise residential buildings in Kuala Lumpur through a fire risk assessment (FRA) approach. The study forms the exploratory pliase of a wider research to develop a fire risk indexing (FRI) methodology for low cost high rise residential buildings in Kuala Lumpur. On-site fire audits were performed on three (3) selected low cost high rise residential buildings in the Pantai area of Kuala Lumpur using a 10-item FRA checklist. The results showed that all 10 FRA criteria recorded multiple issues ranging from the presence of multiple ignition and fuel sources to inadequate or vandalized firefighting equipment to lack of training of occupants on fire risk and safety. Further analysis showed that the fire risk status of the observed buildings was ‘high’ A need for immediate intervention measures to improve the fire safety credentials of the observed case study buildings wras established. Recommendations include reconsidering the design layout of rooms, improving active and passive fire safety protection systems, and training of occupants to improve their awareness on fire safety. © 2017, University of Malaya. All rights reserved

Critical success factors of medical waste management implementation in healthcare facilities in Nigeria: A case study

Medical waste management (MWM) in developing countries such as Nigeria continue to lag in the development and implementation of successful MWM programs. The concentration of research on management practices, waste generation and characterization, disposal practices implies very little attention has been given to understanding the factors that are critical to implementing successful MWM programs. The aim of this study is therefore to identify critical factors of MWM success in developing countries, and assess the recognition and implementation of these factors toward achieving MWM goals in healthcare facilities (HCFs) in Benue State, Nigeria. This study adopted a case study approach. Factors critical to MWM success were identified from literature and validated through key informant interviews conducted across four (4) case study HCFs. The study found that, training, sensitization and awareness was considered the most critical factor, followed by environmental legislation in compliance with international environmental rules/regulations; and specific and elaborate regulations with regard to medical waste. The third most critical factors were financing and investment; infrastructure; and adequate and efficient workforce. It was found that implementation of the critical factors at the HCFs was poor. Issues contributing to poor implementation include lack of awareness on existing medical waste management guidelines; lack of enforceable national policy or regulation on medical waste management; inadequate finance among others. This stresses the need for increased participation at both internal (HCF), and external (ministry) levels in creating awareness on the risk potential of medical wastes and existing guidelines to encourage acceptable practices, and enactment of specific legislation dealing with MWM. © 2017, University of Malaya. All rights reserved

An Information Infrastructure For Sustainable IT Procurement: A Suitable Case For Actor-Network Theory?

The use of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) is assessed as a means of understanding the context of the information architecture needed to support sustainable procurement practices. The Higher Education (HE) Institutions within the UK public sector have been the subject of central government initiatives to fulfil the UK’s international obligations to reduce carbon emissions. This has included measures to introduce sustainability criteria into procurements decisions, which require staff to make decisions informed by the sustainability characteristics of the products available. This could include a wide range of data about the whole supply chain of a product, which could involve many different organisational entities. Previous research, particularly on the evolution of inter-organisational information infrastructures, suggested ANT as a research approach. The particular features of ANT that seemed to be particularly supportive of the understanding of the issues of IT sustainable procurement are presented along with examples of their application to the problem domain