Effect of Leadership Style Toward Organizational Performance: A Case Study of Royal Malaysian Navy

National security is one of the important aspects that Malaysian’s government was extremely concerned. Each year, certain amount of budget is allocated for national defence security purposes either for purchasing new equipments or providing training and development for the military. Many of the officers in military are sent to higher education learning institution to gain knowledge for themselves in order for them to build up their personal characteristic and better manage their followers. As a result, this research will provide depth insight to the importance and effects of transactional and transformational leadership style to the organizational performance. Primary data are collected through semi structured interviews with randomly chosen ship commanding officers. Meanwhile secondary data are collected from various sources such as from Royal Malaysian Navy Inspection Team’s report regarding the performance score of each chosen ship commanding officer. Results obtained shows that the combination of transactional and transformational leadership style’s characteristic achieved higher performance scores. Therefore, Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) should recognize the leadership style which best fit for ship commanding officers in order to improve the organizational effectiveness, efficiency and performance

Keperluan Personal Dan Profesional Guru Matapelajaran Kemahiran Hidup

The objective of the study is to identify the level of personal and professional needs and also to determine its relationship with job dimension, job environment, students and professionalism dimension. The job dimension being studied were salary, coworkers, current job, promotion, supervision, while dimension of students covering student's academic and discipline, and for the professionalism dimension related to professional image and development. Differences of level of needs according to gender, ages and salary were also studied. Sample of survey consisted of Kemahiran Hidup teachers from twelve selected secondary schools located in Sungai Petani, Kedah Darul Aman. They needed to gve responses on 45 items in the questionnaire. Statistic explanation in the form of percentage (%) and inferential statistic whch are 2 ways t-test, one-way ANOVA (F-test) and Pearson Correlation (r) used to analyze the data using the Statistical Packages for the Social Sciences 10.0 (SPSS) program. Result of this study showed strong and significant positive relationship exists between level of needs with salary, current job, promotion, supervision, job environment, students dimension, professional image and development. Relationship between level of needs with co-workers, students' academic and discipline is significantly moderate relationship. The result of t-test showed there is no significant difference between level of needs with male and female teachers. The result from one-way ANOVA showed that there exist significant differences between levels of needs with level of salary but otherwise with the level of ages. 80.2% of respondents gave responses at highest order of the personal needs on aspect that current job as teacher is secured. 51.O% respondents gave statement that the lowest order of personal needs is chances for promotion. From the point of professional needs, 77.1% respondents have achieved highest order in the professional image that is in the way of feeling proud towards professional. 32.3 % respondents cited that professional needs at the lowest level in professional development is the funding to improve professionalism

Buoffant cap

Bouffant cap is safety product like a loose cap net that can secured around the head with an elastic. This product is usually used in cleanrooms, food service and medical field. According to Personal protective equipment, frequently referred to as "PPE," is equipment worn to minimize exposure to risks causing severe injuries and accident in the workplace. These accidents and diseases may lead from chemical, radiological, physical, electrical, mechanical or other dangers in the workplace. The personal protective equipment should be designed for safety, can maintain cleanliness and also reliable fashion. It should be comfortably to wear and safely covered

The emerging sociocultural issues during Kelantan River Basin flood disaster: an Ngos perspective

This paper explores the various issues emerged during the Kelantan river basin flood disaster using a qualitative research approach. The methodological approach was based on a focus group discussion held with non-governmental organization (NGOs) representatives who relate their experiences during the flood at Kelantan River basin in 2014. The interviews were transcribed verbatim and content analyzed and the primary findings identified some sociocultural aspects from their flood disaster management experiences. The issues emerged from the qualitative data that specifically related by the informants based on their experiences in terms of preparedness, planning and deployment of personnel and resources. The study ha d identified a total of 50 issues related to the disaster which were later the med into 5 dimensions. The dimensions were categorized into victims’ attitude, their religious background, the existing infrastructure and nature, as well as their political background and issues related to social media and communication. Some of the sociocultural issues highlighted could assist in the identification of best practices and could also be a good lesson learned exercise for future mitigation of a similar disaster in Malaysia

Pengetahuan sebagai elemen tanggungjawab manusia menurut perspektif Islam

Dapatan terdahulu telah menunjukkan pengetahuan ialah satu daripada elemen tanggungjawab manusia. Kaitan antara pengetahuan dan tanggungjawab telah terbukti dengan penjelasan kerangka dalam pemikiran Islam dan undang-undang Islam. Objektif utama makalah ini adalah untuk memahami asas pengetahuan dalam agama Islam dan mengenal pasti justifikasi pengetahuan yang dapat mengesahkan tanggungjawab manusia. Kajian ini menggunakan penulisan klasik dan terkini dalam pelbagai disiplin terutamanya dalam pemikiran dan undang-undang Islam. Metode kajian yang digunakan ialah kaedah induktif untuk memahami pandang para cendekiawan Islam terhadap tanggungjawab pengetahuan, kaedah deduktif juga digunakan untuk mengumumkan pandangan-pandangan ini dan mengenal pasti prinsip Islam berkaitan tanggungjawab pengetahuan. Di samping itu juga, kajian ini memberi tumpuan pada kaedah perbandingan dengan membandingkan pelbagai pandangan agar dapat melihat persamaan dan perbezaan dalam kalangan cendekiawan Islam. Kajian ini menemukan asas pengetahuan dalam agama Islam yang bersandarkan ‘ilm daruri. Dengan ‘ilm daruri, pengetahuan manusia dapat dijustifikasi agar mengenalpasti tanggungjawab manusia. Kajian ini juga mendapati asas memahami baik dan buruk menunjukkan kaitan antara pengetahuan agama dan pengetahuan akal. Baik dan buruk ini merupakan asas penjelasan kepada justifikasi pengetahuan sebagai satu darimada elemen tanggungjawab dalam Islam

A linguistic analysis of effective speeches

Recent decades have witnessed the usage of the English language as an effective medium for various communicative functions including disseminating information and conveying messages. This study explored linguistic devices that have contributed towards effective speeches of a prominent speaker, Dr. Zakir Naik. Content analysis on three speeches by Dr. Zakir Naik was employed. This study investigated sentences or phrases in Dr. Zakir Naik’s speeches containing linguistic features. Findings indicate that Dr. Zakir Naik mainly employed linguistic features namely rhetorical question to gain support from his audience, repetition to emphasize important information, stir audience’s emotion and make message more memorable while Islamic English to maintain the Arabic terms in the English language due to the absence of equivalent English words. The findings of this exploratory study provide essential theoretical implications for future speakers to deliver effective speeches

Digital Halal Logistics: The Perspective of Food Delivery Riders

Abstract. The growing awareness of Halal compliance in today’s community shows the importance of Halal on the quality of products manufactured worldwide. Hence, it is crucial to ensure that the concept of Halal extends to the entire supply chain, from the farm to the consumer. Most research covers manufacturing and procurement, leaving Halal-compliant distribution and logistics open to a number of research opportunities. We conduct an investigation into digital Halal logistics from the perspective of the individual food delivery riders, focusing on the operational level of the supply chain. The extensive reliance on Internet-enabled smart phones and the growing popularity of food delivery have created an increasing number of job opportunities for delivery riders, mainly on motorcycles. However, there is a question around whether or not this delivery process is Halal compliant, given that the riders face many challenges in ensuring an acceptable quality of service. This study investigates how the riders perceive Halal compliance in the food delivery industry, and provides suggestions for the implementation of digital Halal at various operational checkpoints. Keywords: Digital logistics, Halal logistics, supply chain management, delivery riders

Halal tourism research bibliometric analysis in Scopus, ProQuest and Ebscohost / Mohd Nasir Ismail ...[et al.]

With the emerging and increasing interest toward halal product and services, a variety of halal based research can be found in online databases. Halal tourism in research is a quite recent topics in journal articles. Halal tourism subtopics has evolved into many subtopics such as halal culinary, halal destination, halal friendly hotel, halal lodging and halal tourism supply chain. With the use of bibliometric analysis and using Scopus analyzer and VOSviewer, this paper attempts to analyse and visualize research output made in the topic of halal tourism. Data are citations from Scopus, ProQuest and Ebscohost databases using 'halal tourism' as keyword. The data corpus are set for research articles in English and the date range set for 1987 to 2019. Total data collection is 383 citations. This paper aims to discover the subject relation of halal tourism research topics in Scopus, ProQuest and Ebscohost. From this research, related topics of halal tourism can be identified and analysed. Authors and journals of halal tourism would also be analyse

Analysis of stevia extract and compare active functional group with other artificial sweetener; aspartame and sucralose

Sugar is very important for everyday use especially for humans as food and drinks as additives. Among all types of sweeteners; sucrose, aspartame and sucralose are widely used in foods and beverage industries. For instance; gum, yoghurt, diet soda, reduced-fruit juices and more products [1]. There are many artificial sweeteners and natural sweeteners in the market used as a sugar substitute

Ammonium (NH4+): Nitrate (NO3-) ratio and its relation to the changes in solution pH, growth, mineral nutrition and yield of tomatoes grown in nutrient film technique

The effects of NH4+ NO3- ratio on growth, water uptake, solution pH, mineral nutrition and yield of tomatoes were investigated using the nutrient film technique. There were six NH4+ NO3- ratios: 0:100 with and without pH control; 12.5:87.5, 25:75, 37.5:62.5 and 50:50 without pH control. There was an increase in pH of the nutrient solution with 0:100 and 12.5:87.5 ratios, but the pH decreased with 50:50 ratio. Higher NH4+ NO3- ratio reduced leaf and root growth. The reduction in leafand root growth could be attributed to reduction o fplant water uptake. Fruit fresh weight was reduced and the percentage of blossom-end rot increased with higher ratio of NH4+ NO3- in the solution. Increased ratio of NH4+ NO3- increased N content and decreased Ca content in all the plant tissues. P, K and Mg content decreased in leaf tissue with increasing NH4+ NO3- ratio