Attitude towards rural library services among youths in Malaysia

This study aims to discover the attitude towards rural library services among youths in Malaysia. In addition, it considers the individual factors that might influence attitudes towards the services offered. This is a correlational study in nature, and uses a developed questionnaire to obtain the data needed. A total of 400 respondents among rural youths from 16 selected rural libraries in four states of Peninsular Malaysia were chosen. Based on the analysis performed, it can be concluded that rural youths have a favorable attitude towards the services offered by local libraries. Moreover, further analyses show that the frequency of attending rural libraries has a positive relationship with attitude towards rural library services. A number of recommendations have been highlighted, and it is hoped that these will help concerned parties in constructing an effective strategy for developing rural libraries in Malaysia

Factors Explaining The Variation of Quality of Life Among Employees In The Malaysian Public Sector

Abstract: There is a general concern over the quality of life (QOL) decline among employees in the public sector which may adversely affect their performance. In view of this concern, there is a greater need to gain an improved understanding of what factor influence QOL with the view of finding a more integrative model for explaining the variation of QOL. Thus, a dependence model with four factors was proposed. The four factors examined were physical & financial, human, social, and natural capitals. Enter regression method was used to determine to what extent the research data fit the proposed model. The findings revealed that all the four factors considered were significance in explaining quality of life of the employees suggesting that the proposed model was fully supported by the research data. Among the four factors studied, physical and financial capitals make the strongest contribution in explaining variation of QOL, followed by natural capital and social capitals. Human capital was the smallest indicating that it made a smaller contribution compared to the other capitals

Religiosity element in young Muslim profesional accountability

Accountability issues have attracted worldwide discussion, particularly with respect to the contribution of Western scholars. In addition, the existing theories failure to assess the suitability of the existing accountability issues, lead the higher probability to evaluate the accountability in religiosity (Islamic) view which are holistic (syumul). Therefore, this paper reviews the relevant of religiosity element in influencing the young Muslim professional performance in the workplace. It also intend to the existence of various negative elements in the young Muslim professional’s accountability. A number of discussions have been highlighted and it is a hope that it can contribute fresh ideas to the existing literatures

Applying diffusion of innovation theory and unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) on farmers’ use of communication technology

The study is focused on the use of communication technology in agricultural development.It is inevitable for the farmers to utilise the communication technology, which is a well known innovation, in order to get hold of various agricultural information that could help them to heighten the quality and quantity of agricultural products.Innovation is the implementation of ideas, products, practices, and services that adds the value to individuals (Rogers, 2003).The Malaysian farmers are merely way behind in terms of utilizing communication technology, which have prompted the researchers to look at this phenomenon in greater depth. The aim of this study is to help more farmers to use communication technology, henceforth naturally increases the number of knowledgeable and informative farmers.Based on Diffusion of Innovation Theory and Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Techology (UTAUT), this study observes the effectiveness of the combination of these two theories specifically on the use of communication technology among farmers. The construct of innovation characteristics includes relative advantages, compatibility, trialibility, complexity, and observability, whereas the construct of technology acceptance includes effort expectation, performance expectations, social influence, and facilitating situation. A total of 398 malaysian farmers were involved in this study as the respondents. The result shows that the use of communications technology such as interactive media and social media, can largely be utilised by the farmers, as the use and the acceptance of communication technology have increased.A linear regression test has shown the effect on the Diffusion of Innovation Theory and UTAUT is at 10.2 variance changes.Thus, the combined use of these 2 theories suits effectively to be the foundation to investigate the use of the communication technology among farmers.This model can be improved or further modified for future research to identify other factors that could play a role in the use and acceptance of innovation, especially among farmers