Knowledge sharing framework for Sustainable Value Planning in Malaysian public construction projects / Faudzi Muhammad

Malaysia is pursuing the status of a high-income nation by the year 2020. In tight economic conditions, the government has to improve the value of public spending through increasing its sustainability with the lowest possible investment. Although construction projects contribute to the country’s economic growth and fulfil social needs, they also contribute to environmental deterioration. Besides that, construction projects in Malaysia are criticised for low productivity and failure to achieve client satisfaction. Due to these reasons, the government has introduced the Green Growth concept to promote sustainable development for public projects and Value Management (VM) to improve the projects’ value for money. Value Planning (VP) is the front end of VM, conducted during the early project planning stage. Due to various advantages of integrating sustainability considerations during the early stages, VP is the best platform to achieve value for money and project sustainability at the same time. Sustainable Value Planning (SVP) is a concept that integrates both value for money and sustainability targets in a single mechanism. Effective knowledge sharing is the key driver for SVP. Despite the recognition of the importance of effective knowledge sharing within VP, its contribution in nurturing sustainability integration into the practice remains unclear. Thus, this study is conducted with the aim of developing the Knowledge Sharing Framework For Sustainable Value Planning. This framework explains the constructs involved and their relationships during the SVP in the context of knowledge sharing for Malaysian public construction projects. This study was conducted based on the philosophy of pragmatism and adopted the abductive approach

Two Dimensional Plane, Modified Symplectic Structure and Quantization

Noncommutative quantum mechanics on the plane has been widely studied in the literature. Here, we consider the problem using Isham's canonical group quantization scheme for which the primary object is the symmetry group that underlies the phase space. The noncommutativity of the configuration space coordinates requires us to introduce the noncommutative term in the symplectic structure of the system. This modified symplectic structure will modify the group acting on the configuration space from abelian $\mathbb{R}^2$ to a nonabelian one. As a result, the canonical group obtained is a deformed Heisenberg group and the canonical commutation relation (CCR) corresponds to what is usually found in noncommutative quantum mechanics.Comment: 5 pages. Submitted to Jurnal Fizik Malaysi

Strategic planning practices, entrepreneurial orientation, environmental uncertainty and internationalization of small and medium enterprises

The understanding on factors contributing to internationalization of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia is still lacking, and that the SME contribution to the country’s export is still small compared to those neighbouring countries and most of the developed countries. Therefore, the objective of this study is to empirically test the relationships between strategic planning practices, entrepreneurial orientation, and environmental uncertainty on the internationalization of SME’s in Malaysia. This study emanated from the fact that there is limited study in this area and more research should be conducted especially in the context of Malaysia. Based on the theoretical consideration a model was proposed and hypotheses were developed. Survey questionnaires were used in the data collection and a total of 250 useable responses were received from the exporting SMEs in Malaysia. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM) was employed in the data analysis. The findings revealed that strategic planning practices and entrepreneurial orientation have significant and positive relationships with the internationalization of SMEs. The results further found the moderating role of environmental uncertainty in the relationships between strategic planning practices and internationalization as well as between entrepreneurial orientation and internationalization of SMEs. These findings also support the resource based view which emphasizes the importance of internal capability of a firm as an influenced driver in achieving export performance and competitive advantage. Thus this study sheds some light on an understanding and evaluation of the relationship between strategic planning practices, entrepreneurial orientation and environmental uncertainty on the internationalization of SMEs in Malaysia. Finally, the study concludes with some theoretical and practical implications as well as the limitations and directions for future researc

RANCANGAN 5S PADA UD USAHA BERSAMA JAYA GRESIK

Abstrak - Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk membantu UD Usaha Bersama Jaya menjadi lebih produktif dengan membuat perancangan yang lebih baik daripada sebelumnya. Badan usaha tersebut memiliki kekurangan terkait dengan 5S yaitu: Seiri, Seiton, Seiso, Seiketsu, dan Shitsuke. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode pendekatan rancangan yang bersifat kualitatif yaitu: metode 5S. Hasil rancangan 5S yang telah dibuat menunjukkan bahwa adanya perbaikan dari badan usaha. Badan usaha menjadi lebih baik daripada sebelumnya dan dapat meningkatkan produktifitas perusahaan. Kata kunci: Seiri, Seiton, Seiso, Seiketsu, Shitsuke Abstract - This study aims to help UD Usaha Bersama Jaya become more productive by making design better than before. This business entity has a deficiency associated with 5S: Seiri, Seiton, Seiso, Seiketsu, and Shitsuke. This research uses a qualitative design approach that is: 5S method. The result of the 5S design that has been made indicates that there is improvement of the business entity. Business entities become better than before and can improve the productivity. Keywords: Seiri, Seiton, Seiso, Seiketsu, Shitsu

Valuation of Fatal and Non-Fatal Injuries Due to Motorcycle Accidents in Malaysia

Policy makers often struggle with the question of what is the appropriate monetary value to be associated with reduced fatalities. As a result, a disproportionate number of road safety projects were abandoned in favor of other types of projects as they all conlpetc for a limited amount of public funds. This is the motivation for carrying out this research the main objective of which is to evaluate of the value of statistical life (VOSL) of fatal and non-fatal injuries among motorcyclists in Malaysia in an attempt to overcome the lack of reliable estimates of accident. The study utilizes extensively two surveys namely the valuation survey amongst motorcyclists covering 6 constituents within the Seremban Municipality in the state of Negeri Sembilan and the epidemiology survey of hospitalized non-fatal injuries amongst injured motorcyclists at Seremban Hospital to develop the Injury Scale Descriptor. Apart from using descriptive statistics, the inferential statistics have been utilised to test the reliability and stability on the estimated values. Results from the valuation survey passed all the criteria of the construct validity especially the critical scope test. Multiple regression analyses showed statistically significant relationships between WTP and vital variables of income, age, accident experience and riding purpose. A unique variable of race was also found to be significantly related to WTP. Upon control for the effect of inter-country variation in income, the mean values of statistical life (VOSL) have been found to be approximately RM1.1 million and RM77,000 per non-fatal injury. After considering GDP growth, the suggested estimate to reflect the benefits 'of road safety in public policy analysis for year 2004 is RM1.3 million and RM92,400 for fatal and non-fatal injury respectively This study recommends the need for further research on other cost elements to complement the human cost in the effort to establish the comprehensive road accident costs. Other valuation methods should also be conducted in similar valuation studies to fortify the present human cost estimates. Finally, after the successful estimate of intangible benefits (human cost) of road safety, it is strongly recommended that research on other infrastructure investment benefits be undertaken. Only then, can proper Cost Benefit Analysis method become the instrument in evaluating Suture investments of transport infrastructures

The impact of social media usage and addiction among student / Siti Maheran Mohd Faudzi

The social network, which is one of the key indicators of the technology era, attracts all levels while virtual worlds over real life through the applications it offers. Especially young people show high interest in social media that is an extension of Internet technology. Social media addiction is increasing worldwide. This study aims to examines impact of academic performance in social media addiction among social student. Based on data obtained by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC, 2016), shows that Malaysia’s broadband penetration rate reaches almost 78 percent. The study also found that those who are still in school spend the most time online, which is 20.9 hours a week. This this study. The two theories, the diffusion of innovations theory and the process virtualization theory posited that impact social media usage and addiction towards academic performance in student university

Problem Report Management System of IT Department, Ministry of Information - Research in Workflow Concept.

This project is aimed to study on current problem of problem reporting process in Ministry of Information and to propose a new system that will automate the current system. As a mean to keep this procedure orflow ofworks unchanged orsuitable with the current condition, the studyon workflowprocess is very important. The scope of reasearch will focus on current workflow and define the problems and diffilculties resulted from it. Then a new workflow will be designed to be a new Problem Report Management System (PRMS) that uses helpdesk system as a tool. The project starts with research and analysis and finally a working prototype will be developed to simulate the proposed system. The research will cover the aspect of workflow management of current system. Then the analysis will be focused on developing a new system that uses the new wrokflow that expectedly will save the time and more structured. This includes how the Knowledge Management System (KMS) and Short Messaging System (SMS) will smooth the flow of work and become more effective

Factors that cause non-performing loan in microfinance at Bank Simpanan Nasional Kelantan / Nik Zatil Aqmar Nik Faudzi

Danny Yap (2010) reported that, the non-performing loans ratio (NPLs) in Malaysia is expected to come under pressure this year (2011) as the country faces a more challenging global and domestic environment. Thus, this research was conducted to study the factors that cause to non-performing loan (NPL) in Microfinance at Bank Simpanan Nasional Kelantan. The objective of this research is to determine the factors that cause non-performing loan (NPL) and the relationship between the independent variables (the unpredictable crises among borrowers, the operation management, the analysis on credit scoring and the attitude of borrowers) and dependent variable (Non-Performing Loan). The researcher has distributed the questionnaire to the staff at Bank Simpanan Nasional Kelantan especially who have been involved in Micro Finance/ Micro Credit. The Pearson Analysis is used to measure the strength of the association between two variables. The result indicate that the strength of association between IV1 (r = 0.934) and IV4 (r = 0.948) are very high and very strong and that the correlation coefficient are very highly significantly different from zero (p<0.01). Hence, the result above has answered the objective of the research. Several actions will be taken by the bank onto NPL borrowers either do litigation; LOD, NOT, Summon, or Judgment. The NPL borrowers also suggested to do reschedule and refinancing (R&R), Workout Proposal, Capitalize, or Write-off to lighten the NPL borrower’s burde