The impact of economic growth on child labour in developing countries

Child labouring in developing countries constitutes an alarming proportion of the entire workforce and international organizations and NGOs have suggested ways to curb this problem. This study empirically investigates the relationship between child labour and economic growth in a cross-section of (67) countries over time. A dynamic system GMM approach was adopted and the growth child labour Kuznet curve as presented by Kambhampati &Rajan, (2005) was established. The results shows that economic growth initially increase child labour but as growth is sustained over time, child labour tend to decline in developing countries. This findings suggest serious commitment by governments of the developing countries to promote long term growth in order to curtail the menace of child labour

The Impact of Economic Growth on Child Labour in Developing Countries

Child labouring in developing countries constitutes an alarming proportion of the entire workforce and international organizations and NGOs have suggested ways to curb this problem.  This study empirically investigates the relationship between child labour and economic growth in a cross-section of (67) countries over time. A dynamic system GMM approach was adopted and the growth child labour Kuznet curve as presented by Kambhampati &Rajan, (2005) was established. The results shows that economic growth initially increase child labour but as growth is sustained over time, child labour tend to decline in developing countries. This findings suggest serious commitment by governments of the developing countries to promote long term growth in order to curtail the menace of child labour. Keywords: Child Labour, Economic growth, system GM

Relationship between Openness to Experience and Perception to Political Organizations to Workplace Deviant Behavior

This study aims to determine the relationship that exists between openness to experience (one of the personality traits) and perceptions of organizational politics to workplace deviant behavior. Research was conducted by collecting 263 responses from the civil servants in Pekanbaru, Riau. Applying the latest PLS 3.0 analysis tools the results of this research identified positive correlation between openness to experience and perception of the political organization to workplace deviant behavior. The perception of the organization politics has managed to moderate the relationship between openness to experience deviant behavior in the workplace.&nbsp

Relationship between Openness to Experience and Perception to Political Organizations to Workplace Deviant Behavior

This study aims to determine the relationship that exists between openness to experience (one of the personality traits) and perceptions of organizational politics to workplace deviant behavior. Research was conducted by collecting 263 responses from the civil servants in Pekanbaru, Riau. Applying the latest PLS 3.0 analysis tools the results of this research identified positive correlation between openness to experience and perception of the political organization to workplace deviant behavior. The perception of the organization politics has managed to moderate the relationship between openness to experience deviant behavior in the workplace.&nbsp

The role of the language of unity at higher education institution: Malaysian experience

AbstractMalaysia, a multiethnic and multilingual country, has implemented a new language policy which made the Malay language as the national language and with the aim of uniting the Malaysians. While English, declared as the second language of the country, is seen as language of globalization and business. With the policy, the Malay language becomes the medium of instruction and also takes an important role in promoting national unity and integration among Malaysians of diverse ethnic groups and languages in schools and most institutions of higher education. Therefore, this paper presents the findings of an ongoing research conducted at a public university, with the aim of investigating the role of the Malay language at the university in enhancing unity. In order to achieve the aim of the study, the following questions are seen as vital –Does the Malay language function as the unifying factor and the tool for interaction in the education system especially in higher education institutions? Does the use of languages other than the Malay language hinder unity and integration? Data were obtained from a questionnaire administered on university undergraduates. The preliminary findings reveal that the Malay language promotes unity and the usage of different languages does not hinder unity and integration. Suggestions and recommendations for ways to improve unity among students will also be discussed

Pengaruh Kepribadian Big Five Personality Kepada Penyimpangan Perilaku Di Tempat Kerja

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menyelidiki secara empiris pengaruh ciri-ciri kepribadian dari big five personality kepada penyimpangan perilaku di tempat kerja dikalangan pegawai negeri yang ada di Kota Pekanbaru, Indonesia.  Sebuah survei dengan menggunakan cross-sectional data dilakukan kepada 263 PNS dari berbagai kantor dan instansi di Pekanbaru  dengan  menggunakan kuesioner. Data dianalisis dengan menggunakan Smart PLS 3 digunakan untuk pengolahan data. Temuan menegaskan pentingnya mengambil ciri-ciri kepribadian menjadi pertimbangan selama proses perekrutan pegawai untuk meminimalkan penyimpangan perilaku di tempat kerja. Penelitian ini memberikan kontribusi pada peran penting dari ciri-ciri kepribadian pekerja dalam  meminimalkan penyimpangan perilaku di tempat kerja

Interdiscursivity of pedagogic discourse in the ESL classroom in primary school

The analysis of pedagogic discourses in the classroom can reveal a great deal about teachers’ interpretation and implementation of the curriculum. Studies by previous scholars have mainly described pedagogic discourses at the surface level but neglected addressing its relevance to the curriculum. As a result, discourse practices underlying pedagogic discourses are neither identified nor explained at the fundamental level. The study reported here was carried out to identify and interpret the practices of interdiscursivity in pedagogic discourse and to relate these discourse practices to the demands of curriculum implementation. Data comprising six recordings of pedagogical discourse during ESL teaching and learning sessions in four primary schools in the state of Kelantan, Malaysia was analysed using the discursive practice dimension. Results reveal five types of discourse used by teachers in the classroom, namely requirement, argumentation, notification, description, and narration. However, only one type of discourse was used by the students in the classroom that is, responding. Overall, teachers were found to dominate the pedagogic discourse in the classroom. This indicates that the demand of the current curriculum for a student-centred classroom culture does not seem to have been implemented. This study is expected to provide a new dimension in pedagogical discourse analysis, specifically for teachers

Stemming Hausa text: using affix-stripping rules and reference look-up

Stemming is a process of reducing a derivational or inflectional word to its root or stem by stripping all its affixes. It is been used in applications such as information retrieval, machine translation, and text summarization, as their pre-processing step to increase efficiency. Currently, there are a few stemming algorithms which have been developed for languages such as English, Arabic, Turkish, Malay and Amharic. Unfortunately, no algorithm has been used to stem text in Hausa, a Chadic language spoken in West Africa. To address this need, we propose stemming Hausa text using affix-stripping rules and reference lookup. We stemmed Hausa text, using 78 affix stripping rules applied in 4 steps and a reference look-up consisting of 1500 Hausa root words. The over-stemming index, under-stemming index, stemmer weight, word stemmed factor, correctly stemmed words factor and average words conflation factor were calculated to determine the effect of reference look-up on the strength and accuracy of the stemmer. It was observed that reference look-up aided in reducing both over-stemming and under-stemming errors, increased accuracy and has a tendency to reduce the strength of an affix stripping stemmer. The rationality behind the approach used is discussed and directions for future research are identified