A conceptual framework for organizational attractiveness among Malaysian millennial jobseekers aimed at the aftermath of COVID-19

Attracting superior talent from the job market is a crucial task for the organization. Due to the technological paradigm-shifting in the direction of Industrial revolution 4.0, tech-savvy millennials are the organization's dominant priority to gain a competitive advantage. Scholars predict that the ongoing COVID-19 is likely to change millennial's job preferences. On the other hand, in this economic climate, where young people are at an amplified risk of being jobless, organizations must play a vital role in providing jobs and attract young entry-level millennial jobseekers. Millennials have unique expectations from employers, thus selective about organizations to join. Understanding the millennial job seeker's perception is imperative for the organization to create an "attractive employer" image. However, very little is known about the factor attracting entry-level millennial jobseekers towards an organization from literature. Consequently, the present study identifies four factors, corporate social responsibility, perceived work environment, individual value, and organizational reputation, which have organizational attractiveness. The study develops a conceptual model of organizational attractiveness utilizing social identity theory and signaling theory. Further, this concept will empirically be tested and validated in the future

Factors influencing organizational attractiveness among millennial job seekers: a study on students in Malaysian research universities

This study aims to empirically examine the influence of corporate social responsibility, perceived work environment, individual value, organizational reputation on organizational attractiveness among entry-level millennial job seekers of Malaysian research universities. The present study employs a quantitative method and commences a cross-sectional data collection via an online questionnaire where the research instruments were adopted from literature. A total of 400 (91%) usable responses could be retained for further analysis. Using SPSS software for data analysis, descriptive statistics, factor analysis, and ANOVA findings were measured. This study bridges the literature gap on entry-level job-seeking millennials' perspectives in the Malaysian context. The study provides insight into organizational attractiveness amid the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, provisions understanding on employee's perception about the organization to managers and policymakers. The present study contributes theoretically to developing the conceptual model that can be further expanded and examined. Millennial job-seeking employee attraction in Malaysia is an under-explored research area that has been empirically tested in this study. The pandemic is likely to impact the employer branding concept from an employee's perspective. Therefore, the study finding provides preliminary insight to managers, policymakers, and government in proclaiming effective recruitment, employer branding, and talent acquisition policies accordingly

Blockchain adoption readiness assessment framework for health professionals of Malaysian public hospitals

Healthcare professionals are the primary user of health information technology, therefore, before introducing blackchin as an underlying mechanism to Electronic Health Record (EHR), it is vital to understand their readiness to adopt it. The most influential factors of health professionals blockchain technology adoption are largely unknown from the existing literature. A limited number of studies provides a conceptual framework that can be further extended, empirically tested to develop understating in this regard particularly in developing country context like Malaysia. To fill such gaps current study, conducts a literature review to provide an compressive framework compiling the influential factors. The finding hypothesizes that the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), the Norm Activation Model (NAM), and the initial trust factors directly influences the adoption intention while, trust also plays a mediating role between those relationships. A future study will be conducted to empirically test and validate the conceptual framework that has been proposed. The framework can be extended and tasted in other developing country context