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Attracting Multinational Companies' Regional Headquaters to Greater Kuala Lumpur: Case Study of Investkl
Get PDFThis research is on InvestKL Corporation Sdn Berhad which focuses on attracting Multinational Corporations (MNCs) to set-up regional headquarters (RHQs) and regional hubs (RHs) in cities and conurbations like Greater Kuala Lumpur (Greater KL) and is much awaited by governments, city halls, investment promotion agency (IPA) both local and foreign, investment banks and consultants to name some. The primary objective of this study is to identify the critical success factors (CSFs) deployed by InvestKL to attract global MNCs to set-up regional headquarters (RHQs) or regional hubs (RHs) in Greater KL using a qualitative research case study methodology with InvestKL leadership team providing the primary data through semi-structured interviews supplemented by three publications as secondary data – InvestKL Annual Reports, Success Stories of MNCs and Investing in Malaysia Guide by global management consultants. The findings from this research is important, firstly to fill a theoretical gap in this field since no similar research has been published so far , secondly to develop a research framework to identify the critical success factors in attracting MNCs to set-up regional headquarters in cities and finally to better understand the dynamics and operations of MNCs who intend to set-up RHQs and RHs abroad and what are the CSFs required to meet their needs and related key lessons, best practices, issues and challenges. The results and findings of this study will be invaluable to IPAs aspiring to participate in this MNC attraction activity and contribute to economic prosperity of cities through investments and job creation
Turnover Intention in Manufacturing Industry: SEM-PLS Analysis.
Get PDFThis study intends to examine the influence of hygiene factors and motivation factors of Herzberg’s Two Factors Theory on turnover intention among the shop floor
employees in manufacturing organizations. Quantitative research design has deployed with survey questionnaires in this study and the respondents’ data were analyzed with Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 21 (SPSS) and Smart PLS software. The results of the study found that motivational factors are critical in between the hypothesized relationships to shop floor employees’ turnover intention. From the hypothesis modelling,
the research concluded that the shop floor employees’ turnover intention was influenced by salary, co-worker, advancement and work itself. This study opts to give insight information to the management in manufacturing organizations. Further, this study provided discussion and implication from the findings and suggestions for future research
Social Connectedness, Self-Directed Practices and Soft Skills among Selected Malaysian Higher Learning Institutions
Get PDFStudents of Higher Learning Institutions (HLI) have been found to be lacked of soft skills attainment, which have been viewed as important requirements for employment, personal well-being and life-long learning. To counter this issue, the programme standard by the Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA) had included the general courses in the curriculum known as the ‘Kemahiran Insaniah’ (KI), the term generally used in Public HLI or ‘Matapelajaran Pengajian Umum’ (MPU) for Private
HLI. This study believes that students’ connectedness with the campus lecturers,
campus students, and off-campus community were associated with the attainment of
social skills, professional values, and social responsibility. A quantitative research was adopted by using multiple choice questions measuring student learning outcomes selected and survey questionnaires on social connectedness and self-directed practices.
A total of 682 Diploma respondents were selected from ten stratified locality of Public and Private higher learning institutions in Malaysia. Data were collected and analysed using the SPSS and PLS-SEM. Findings indicated that 91% respondents were able to demonstrate good social responsibility, followed by 75% with good professional
values and 64% with good social skills. Partial least square regression analysis results showed that campus lecturers connectedness had a positive significant relationship with professional values (β= 0.17). Campus students connectedness had a positive significant relationship with social skills (β= 0.19), and social responsibility (β= 0.20). Off-campus community connectedness showed a negative significant relationship with social skills (β= -0.13) and professional values (β= -0.12). In addition, self-directed practices (mediator) increased the relationship strength from β= 0.17 to 0.21, between the campus lecturers connectedness and professional values. Besides, this study also showed that there was a significant difference between Public and Private HLI for social skills (t= 4.10) and professional values (t= 8.58). The implication of this study
highlighted the dominant influence of campus lecturers connectedness in nurturing professional values among the students. Future studies may be required on the different
types of collaboration with the off-campus community connectedness to further justify the negative reactions given in terms of social learning relations. Theoretically, connectedness in the environment aspect concurred with the social learning theory that reciprocally determines the changes between practice and behaviour
Examining Organizational Culture and Employee Performance: The Case of the Auditor General's Office, Zambia
Get PDFThis study investigated the influence of the Annual Performance Appraisal System (APAS) on employee performance in the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) of Zambia. Specifically, the study focuses on whether organizational culture has an effect on employee performance in the OAG despite the implementation of the Annual Performance Appraisal System. The study used a mixed method approach to collect and analyse data. The results of the study showed that organizational culture can influence employee performance despite implementation of an annual performance appraisal system. The implications of the results reiterate the value of re - designing the APAS so that it takes into account factors such as organizational culture that currently affect its influence on enhancing employee performance in the OAG
Improving Organization Effectiveness in Manufacturing Through Lean Initiatives in Configure-To-Order (CTO) Production of Efficient Customer Delivery
Get PDFOrganizational effectiveness and operational efficiency have become significantly importance in the manufacturing industry. ‘Lean’ initiatives involve execution and evaluation, the former benchmarking Six Sigma is Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC), and the latter involves three criteria of key performances indicators, viz., the lean principle assessment framework (internal), cost-related matters (external), and customer expectations. Both these processes are directed at improving manufacturing process to gain a potent momentum in mass customization: CTO production. The objective of this research is to explore how mass customization, specific to CTO production, can adopt ‘lean’ to improve manufacturing process performance levels for organizational effectiveness, thereby increasing business competitiveness, and focusing on the manufacturing process of CTO work efficiency-quality product delivery at the factory floor level. The case study approach is employed to investigate how the ‘lean’ approach can improve the CTO manufacturing process. This research contributes to knowledge in the area of production and operations management, in particular: (a) highlighting the importance of ‘organization and customer values’ through ‘lean’ improvements to its results; and (b) mapping performance measurement relationship which extends to the sustainability, commitment and shared configured-processes results of quality end-product delivery to satisfied customers
Technology Readiness and Usability of Office Automation System in Suruban Areas.
Get PDFReadiness and usability issues are important attributes of an information system (IS) success. Currently, IS studies that have been assessing the issues in suburban areas are still limited. The purpose of this study was to measure the above-mentioned phenomena by combining the readiness and usability models. The proposed model consisted out 10 constructs with 25 indicators. The four constructs were from the readiness model and the six ones were the usability model. The 89 samples were collected using an online survey based on purposive random sampling. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) method with SmartPLS 3.2.8 was used for analyzing the data. The findings may have contributed to the IS research field, in terms of the readiness and usability issues on the IS use in
a suburban area in Indonesia
AeU Insights - Webinar 1: New Learning in the New Normal
No full textIf necessity is the mother of inventions, and given the plethora of pessimism, AeU proposes to consider a few encouraging possibilities to resolve the new learning via virtual learning. It is not as simple as using Zoom, Skype, Webex or Face Time, etc as new ways of on-line learning, but requires the articulation of innovative pedagogical skills and the deeper understanding of the learners, who are digital savvy than the instructors
AeU Insights - Webinar 5: Harnessing Talent in the New Normal
No full textHarnessing Talent during post COVID-19 is important and crucial topic to be discussed in this new normal period. The new normal brings out the new needs of manpower in term of their attitude, skills and competencies in digital economy
New Norm of Covid-19: The Impact on Higher Education.
No full textProfessor Emeritus Dato' Dr. Hassan Said, the Vice Chancellor of AeU, for being selected as the Keynote Speaker in International Conference on Environmental and Technology of Law, Business and Education: Post COVID 19- 2020 on 26 September 2020
Pengurusan Hidupan Liar Dalam Kawasan Pembanunan Empangan Di Hutan Simpan Seluyut
Get PDFMatlamat utama kajian ialah untuk mengenalpasti kaedah pengurusan hidupan liar yang lebih strategik dimana boleh diamalkan oleh pihak berwajib di kawasan Hutan Simpan Seluyut yang akan ditebang sebahagiannya untuk pembinaan empangan bekalan air mentah bagi menampung kegunaan kawasan Industri Petroleum Pengerang. Secara khususnya kajian ini dibuat bertujuan untuk meninjau kaedah pengurusan hidupan liar di kawasan pembangunan iaitu: mengenalpasti spesis hidupan liar yang menghuni kawasan Hutan Simpan Seluyut; mengkategorikan spesis yang telah dikenalpasti sebagai penghuni hutan Seluyut mengikut keutamaan di dalam pelan pengurusan yang dirangka; dan menyediakan satu rancangan strategik pengurusan hidupan liar di kawasan Hutan Simpan Seluyut. Bagi mencapai matlamat yang telah ditetapkan, kajian ini menggunakan kaedah kajian kualitatif, yang melibatkan pemerhatian umum dan spesifik berkenaan kehadiran jenis-jenis hidupan liar di dalam dan juga sekitar Hutan Simpan Seluyut. Kaedah mewujudkan kumpulan fokus telah dilaksanakan dengan sejumlah responden yang terdiri daripada penduduk kampung bersempadan hutan tersebut, pegawai-pegawai daripada agensi pihak berkuasa yang terlibat dan juga ketua-ketua masyarakat yang dikategorikan sebagai pihak berkepentingan. Hasil data yang diperolehi telah dirangkum dan dianalisis menggunakan kaedah-kaedah yang sepadan dengan kajian secara kualitatif.Hasil kajian yang dijalankan di Hutan Simpan Seluyut ini dapat menghasilkan satu “blueprint” – kaedah pengurusan hidupan liar di kawasan pembangunan secara umum sebagai asas awal yang boleh dibuat penambahbaikan kemudiannya. Dalam kajian ini dapat mengenalpasti kaedah pengurusan Sebelum, Semasa dan Selepas pembukaan hutan yang perlu di ambil tindakan. Penemuan utama yang dianggap penting kepada kajian dalam membantu PERHILITAN Johor ialah kejayaan membina senarai hidupan liar yang terdapat di dalam Hutan Simpan Seluyut mengikut kategori spesis utama. Dengan ini kos untuk operasi mitigasi hidupan liar dapat dikira dengan lebih tepat, mencukupi dan berjalan dengan lancar bergantung kepada hidupan liar yang akan diselamatkan untuk ditangkap dan dipindahkan ke hutan yang lebih luas. Manakala sistem arah tebangan hutan serta pemasangan portable pagar elektrik juga dapat dibincangkan dengan pihak berkepentingan bagi membantu mengurangkan konflik hidupan liar di kawasan sempadan penduduk. Pelaksanaan aktiviti penguatkuasaan juga amat penting dilaksanakan bagi membenteras pemburuan haram sepanjang proses pembangunan kawasantersebut.Disyorkan supaya agensi yang berkaitan mewujudkan garispanduan penyediaan pelan Pengurusan Hidupan Liar dengan menekankan pengembangan dan pemantapan teori pengurusan hidupan liar serta memberi perhatian kaedah-kaedah pengurusan yang dilaksanakan dalam kajian ini untuk mengurus hidupan liar secara cekap dan berkesan pada masa akan datang di kawasan pembukaan hutan bagi tujuan pembangunan