Developing civil servants’ affective commitment to share knowledge: a case of public organization cost reduction

The present study is designed to propose values for developing civil servants’ affective commitment to share knowledge in the workplace.The proposed values are faith, sincerity, trusting belief, trusting intention and emotional trust.The researchers have applied cross-sectional survey research to validate the framework.It is found that faith and sincerity influenced the development of civil servants’ affective commitment to share knowledge in the workplace significantly.The practical implications are the discovery of theoretical, personal, and workplace practical best practices for the establishment of strategies to reduce operational costs in the public organization

Determining technical, allocative and cost efficiencies of rice farmers in Kedah, Malaysia using data envelopment analysis

This study estimates technical, allocative, and cost efficiency using cost DEA model under both constant return to scale (CRS) and variable returns to scale (VRS) respectively using survey data of 70 rice farmers from Kedah, Malaysia.In case of cost efficiency only 4.29% of the farmers were 100% technically efficient under CRS while it is increased into 16.90% under VRS. The average technical, allocative and cost efficiencies were estimated at 0.28, 0.878 and 0.255 respectively under CRS while they were increased into 0.61, 0.883 and 0.533 respectively under VRS