Shift & night work – the positive impact, challenges and action to deal with it

Shift work means work that takes place on a schedule of employee outside the normal hours eight at morning until at five at evening. Well, it involves day and night shifts, which is whether in an early morning shifts, and rotating shifts. In Malaysia, shift work happens usually to the health care workers, precision production and repair workers, machines operator, and aviation workers and so on. Especially in manufacturing, employees tend to make sure machines run twenty-four hours per day rather than buying more machines to operate on a day shift

What is the best practice in domestic inquiry?

Before we go through what is the best practice of domestic inquiry in Malaysia, we have to get ourselves more familiar with the meaning of best practice and domestic inquiry. A best practice is a type of method or strategy universally accepted as preferable to any alternative since it produces results superior for those attained through other means or because it is becoming a typical way of acting. Such as a standard way of implementing and practice domestic inquiry in the work environment. Best practices are an easy solution to obligatory federal norms to retain quality and based on personal-assessment or performance analysis. Some counselling firms spend significant time in the region of best practice and offer pre-made formats to institutionalize business process documentation. Now and again, a best practice is not pertinent or is improper for a specific association’s needs. This assignment will define what particle was required to enhance and maintain the best practice of domestic inquiry to protect the rights at work

Child labour: the case study in Bangladesh

Child labour involves of person that age below than 17 years old. Child labour often happen in poor countries such as Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, the issue of child labour might be the biggest issue. Bangladesh come up with Bangladesh Labour Act (BLA) that did not allow any person age below from fourteen years old to work (Nawshin et al, 2019). One of the aim or purpose of this act is to prevent teen workers in order to get the proper payment of any work. This is because when organization use child labour, they might be paid at lower rate because children usually do not have much responsible in their family compared to teen workers. This indirectly cause an economic matter in a family

The role of Halal awareness and Halal certification in influencing Malaysian intention to purchase Halal food and non-food products in Johor / Khadijah Maulad Bahrol and Nor Fasihah Supangat

This research is implemented to study about purchase intention towards factors that influence Malaysian customer in Johor area to buy Halal product. The study aimed to identify the major factors that influent purchasing Halal product such as Halal awareness, Halal certification, product quality, marketing promotion and also brand. The study was done within the area in Johor. The study was conducted at Syarikat Air Johor Holdings SdnBhd which located at Johor Bahru and Batu Pahat and around those particular areas. The sample size for this study is 100 of the respondents who walking around the area. Data obtained using two methods which are primary and secondary data. Respondents been asked to answer the questionnaires that contain the factor of influencing purchase intention of Halal product in Johor. Data are analyzed using Reliability Test, Chart, and Frequency Table through SPSS program. The sampling technique that has been used in this study was non-probability sampling techniques which is convenience sampling. The result shows that Halal certification is the major factor of influencing customer to purchase Halal product compared to other factors

Fundamental of collective bargaining in industrial relation

Bargaining plays a vital role in the economic process and it has received large attention in the economic literature. Industrial relation is a field that studies about the employment relationship which it’s an interrelation between the employer and employee or the organization and the trade union. Collective bargaining is defined as the dispute between the employer and employee where this dispute can be settled through discussion and negotiation where both parties can come to a mutual agreement and also as one decision (Edmund Heery, Nicholas Bacon, Paul Blyton & Jack Fiorito, 2010). Usually the trade union represent the employee’s interests towards the employer which the employee belongs to the trade union as well. The collective bargaining is usually about the wages scales, working hours, healthcare and safety and also training. Collective bargaining is adapt more easily when the employees demand meets the employers flexibility and easier when the firms boundary is changed accordingly. In collective bargaining wages is a topic that’s regularly being discussed or negotiated between the employer and employee (Arun, 2000; Sinha, 2000)

The effectiveness of organisation disciplinary actions at workplace

Discipline is a presence of laws and actions that are introduce to establish and monitor a matter accordingly. Idris & Alegbeleye (2015) noted that some academics view discipline as good behaviour and adhere to laws and regulations while others view discipline as a form of punishment that brings fear also disgrace when wrongly engaged in wrongdoing

Model of conflict management

The origin of contention idea is proportional to the historical backdrop of mankind. The event of contentions in each condition in which human is available appears to us as ordinary. The subject of the contention, particularly beginning from 1970's has been the focal point of fascination of authoritative life especially in the USA and the world. Indeed, one of the outcomes that makes individuals pitiful and the other one that causes workforce misfortunes and time loss of the associations has prompted nations to set up associations and has driven the associations to go to effectively to preparing so as to limit these issues (Dağlı & Sığrı, 2014)

Artificial intelligence (AI)

“Artificial intelligence” is a synthetic term which – due to its suggestive potential – has caused many misunderstandings and false expectations. Its origin can be traced back to the year 1956. This year was important in many aspects. For example, the book “Automata Studies” came out, compiling now famous articles in the field of cybernetics (Shannon & McCarthy, 1956). Since the first appearance of the words “artificial intelligence”, usually associated with John McCarthy’s 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project, interest in the topic and research into the development of intelligent machines has seen several ups and downs

Knowledge management models

Knowledge is basic in regular work. Everybody realizes how to complete his work and this learning can be reused later in comparative undertakings by embracing this information to another circumstance. The universally useful of Knowledge Management (KM) is to make learning usable for more than one individual, for example for an association in general; that is, to share it. New learning put together perspectives with respect to associations recommend that it is information that holds association’s together (Brown & Duguid, 1998)

Cause and effect consequences of industrial dispute

The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 came into existence in April 1947. It was enacted to make provisions for investigation and settlement of industrial disputes and for providing certain safeguards to the workers. Some of workplace relationships invariably involve conflict or disputes. Some of this dispute will be processed through the machinery or conciliation or arbitration and will be settled by Industrial Relations. What is a “trade dispute”? The definition of a trade dispute was contained in the Trade Dispute Act (1906