A conceptual framework on the role of road safety management intervention in overcoming road accident

Road accident is a critical problem faced by most countries around the world. Literature showed that human factors contribute the most with 80% of the road accidents in Malaysia. Traffic violation behaviour is one of the human factors leading to the road accident causation. To overcome the drivers' traffic violation behaviour and reduce the accident involvement statistics, the Malaysian government has implemented road safety management intervention of soft enforcement approaches (road safety campaign, education and training) and hard enforcement approaches (penalty, surveillance, fines and tickets). The objective of this paper is to investigate the effectiveness of road safety management intervention through the implementation of soft and hard enforcement approaches in overcoming the road accident involvement. Literatures demonstrated inconsistent findings on the effectiveness of the soft and hard enforcement approaches, which further suggest these variables as the moderators for this study. This study will be conducted on young drivers within the age of 18 to 25 years old who have been involved in road accident within the past 12 months. The research finding will provides the answer for accident involvement among young drivers and further confirms the effectiveness of road safety intervention in Malaysia

Ranking measures for sustaining quality excellence practices: An empirical investigation

Organizations regardless of their size and sector need to measure and review their quality performance strategically and tactically for gaining a competitive advantage. The primary purpose of this paper is to empirically identify and analyze the measures perceived as important for assessing business excellence practices within the United Arab Emirates context. Eight factors with a total of 52 practice sub-factors have been identified and derived from an extensive literature review followed by expert’s panel assessment. A selfadministered questionnaire survey is conducted to confirm the adaptability of the proposed measured with 138 companies from different sector and business. The SPSS software was employed to perform the required statistical analysis of the data collected from surveys. Based on analysis, five factors including 29 sub-factors have proposed as excellence practices measures for assessing business excellence practices. The proposed measures then become the main constructs and basis for developing a self-assessment tool in the future research

Environmental factor and road accident: a review paper

Road accident is a predominant agenda that keep increases over the years. It has been also reported as among the death contributors worldwide, which requires an urgent respond from all countries around the world. Therefore, to overcome this issue, a comprehensive understanding on the reasons behind the occurrence of road accident is required. This review paper aimed to investigate the determinants of road accident specifically on the environmental factors. A systematic review process was conducted through five academic databases of Emerald, ScienceDirect, Scopus, Web of Science and Wiley Online Library. A total of 2462 findings were identified through database searching process. After several screening and reviewing processes, a total of 45 studies were included in this review. The results of the review indicated that bad/adverse weather and night time driving were the most common environmental factors contributing to road accident. Based on the findings, appropriate countermeasures can be outlined to curb these issues

Sustained quality award status in developing country: a study on the Dubai quality award recipients

Quality has been regarded as one of the most important factors for achieving competitive advantage with an emphasis on excellence. Achieving excellence through quality award is a challenging task, but sustaining this achievement is even more challenging. Given the importance and benefits of continuously practicing with a quality award to organizations, very limited empirical research has been carried out especially in organizations in developing countries. This study attempts to reduce this knowledge gap by focusing exclusively on organizations that have received a Dubai Quality Award in the United Arab Emirates. The main purpose of this research is to identify those critical factors perceived as crucial for sustaining quality award status. To achieve this purpose, a structured questionnaire survey was carried out to elicit the opinions of quality managers from 138 quality award organizations about the importance of critical factors and their current practices. Survey results indicated that eight factors as the most critical factors to sustain quality award status. The results of this paper can be used by quality managers to prioritize the implementation of the proposed critical factors for long-term sustainability towards higher quality levels

Developing students graduate attributes in service learning project through online platform

This paper describes an e-Service Learning approach to Network Cabling Infrastructure and Wifi project. Engineering undergraduate students enrolled in an ICT Community Service course have been installing network including cabling and wireless networking technology for low cost primary and secondary school. This study demonstrates the basic component of service learning (academic content, community experience and reflection) concurrent with the five phase of service learning. The purpose of this study is to identify students' teamwork competency, students graduate attributes competency and students' perception of e-service learning. Virtual meetings and online reflection activities incorporated before, during and after service learning to ensure students have the potential to articulate students service experience, academic concepts, and reflection in an organize manner. Feedback from students may assist course developer and content developer to better understanding of students' challenges in engaging the e-service learning platform

Understanding learners' persistence and engagement in Massive Open Online Courses: a critical review for Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Massive Open Online Courses are a model which has become one of the major investment and development initiatives taken by the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) in the area of Open Education Resources (OER). Despite a lack of research into its effectiveness and assessment of its outcomes, many educational institutions have been competing with each other to implement and deliver the courses in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). With the exponential growth of online learning courses in MOOCs, varieties of subjects can now be studied by anyone, for free. Even though MOOCs have attracted an abundance of learners to enroll, yet many have withdrawn from the courses, causing a great concern for MOOCs developers. MOOCs learners' engagement has been suggested as one of the greatest weaknesses in online education, which causes high dropout rates in history, making it a worldwide issue that has not been tackled. Accordingly, the purpose of this research was to examine learners' persistence and engagement in MOOCs. The researchers utilized the data logging features of the OpenLearning platform to document seven online courses created by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. The descriptive data revealed a high number of incomplete tasks and a low number of viewed contents, indicating poor user participation. The results of the descriptive study would be used to improve the MOOCs model

Individual characteristics influencing employee innovative behavior with reward as moderator in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Today's organizational success are highly related to the value of competitive advantage through innovation. Innovation is one of the vital elements that contribute to the growth, competitiveness and survival of organizations in a world full of change. Supporting literatures proves that organizations becomes more innovative when they boost up and capitalize on their employee's ability to innovate. One of the factors affecting innovation through individual is individual characteristics. Perceived by certain moderating agent, employee's individual characteristic has important implication on how they react in innovative behavior. At the same time reward is said to play a vital role in boosting positive innovative behavioral among employees. This study aims to study on the individual characteristics of UTM Registrar Department employees and its effect on innovative behavior with rewards as the moderating factor