The impact of enterprise risk management practices on malaysian public higher educational institution performance: a literature review

Presently, all organizations are facing by various types of risk. The risk can be occurred anywhere and to anyone. Therefore, they need to manage risk properly to reduce cost and other consequences. Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) was introduced many years ago and currently implemented by many countries as well as organizations due to positive impact especially in their performances. In Malaysia, it was first implemented around ten years ago and the organizations are recommended to use it as a tool or basis to recover any potential risks. There are many factors drive to ERM adoption in organizations that gave big impact on their performances. A part of that, the aim of this paper is to construct a conceptual framework that describes the relationship between factors or drivers to ERM adoption and ERM impact on performance. This relationship will moderate by two other factors which are quality of Board of Directors (BOD) and quality of internal audit. The area of this paper will be focus on Malaysian Public Higher Educational Institution (IPTA) which is only five institutions will be selected as respondents. The selection of these institutions was made based on top five ranking university in Malaysia. The potential respondents among higher and middle level management were identified and they will answer a set of questionnaire and the data will be analyze using Statistical Package for Science Social (SPSS) and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The expected finding from this paper is there are positive significant relationship between both independent and dependent variables moderated by both parties which is BOD and internal audit

Individual characteristics influencing employee innovative behavior with reward as moderator in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Today's organizational success are highly related to the value of competitive advantage through innovation. Innovation is one of the vital elements that contribute to the growth, competitiveness and survival of organizations in a world full of change. Supporting literatures proves that organizations becomes more innovative when they boost up and capitalize on their employee's ability to innovate. One of the factors affecting innovation through individual is individual characteristics. Perceived by certain moderating agent, employee's individual characteristic has important implication on how they react in innovative behavior. At the same time reward is said to play a vital role in boosting positive innovative behavioral among employees. This study aims to study on the individual characteristics of UTM Registrar Department employees and its effect on innovative behavior with rewards as the moderating factor