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Recent Trends and A Future Direction of Malaysia's Climate Change Law Program
Get PDFClimate change is a critical global issue that is predominantly caused by human activities. To equip students in higher education institutions (HEIs) with the necessary knowledge and skills to play an active role in mitigating the effects of climate change, HEIs need to incorporate climate change-related programs into their teaching curricula. These programs should emphasize law and policy, enabling students to become environmentally aware and motivated to act. The Climate Change Institute (Institut Perubahan Iklim or IPI) at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia is among several (HEIs) in Malaysia offering a master's program in Climate Change (Coursework), with a specialization in Environmental Science and Earth Science. This paper aims to analyse the structure of existing climate change programs at both public and private HEIs in Malaysia. Desk research is conducted to gather various information from the available structures involving seven public universities and two private universities in Malaysia which offer 24 environmental-related programs both in undergraduate and postgraduate studies. The findings were analysed by a constant comparative approach that is guided by the key themes of the study. The finding shows that all universities that offer law programs do not have climate change postgraduate law programs offered at their faculties. Other faculties, should they have such a similar program, are more related to sciences, engineering, technology and management. This paper concludes by providing insights into the key features of recent trends in the offering of climate change postgraduate law programs in Malaysia. Accordingly, the findings of the study would serve as a significant guide for the development of any new climate change policy and law programs in the future in line with United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal SDG13 on climate action which focus on Target 13.3 in improving education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning. The new climate change postgraduate law program will also contribute to the sustainability of climate action, particularly in capacity building of the people on teaching delivery methods of climate change policy and law, protecting the planet, promoting prosperity, maintaining peace and establishing connections and partnerships in the teaching methods, such as global learnin
The Perspective Classification of Balanced Scorecard with Ontology Technique
Get PDFThe competition among Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), such as universities, worldwide is crucial. It is imperative for universities to maintain high-quality education and achieve and maintain their world ranking. Therefore, they must utilise performance management tools in their performance improvement efforts. The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is a quality tool for performance management in universities that helps them to enhance, increase, and maintain their overall performance and ranking. When their strategy changes, the performance indicators must be revised and rearranged in accordance with the BSC form. The information needed for decision-making cannot be immediately available because there are delays in updating the performance management system. This creates a gap between performance improvement in HEIs and the BSC. To eliminate this gap, the question we need to answer is how to automatically upload the updated BSC perspectives into the performance management system to streamline the decision-making automatically. This paper aims to present the Perspective Classification of Balanced Scorecard with Ontology (PCBSC-Onto) framework for automatically classifying performance indicators into BSC’s four perspectives using an ontological approach to support the dynamic capability of the management system’s performance. The balanced scorecard ontology and performance indicator ontology created through this research were applied in the PCBSC-Onto framework. The experiment’s results are based on the performance indicator data of a university in Thailand, and it presents how this framework and its algorithms contribute to increasing performance management ability in the HEI context. The accuracy rate of the PCBSC-Onto framework is 82.97% when compared to the accuracy of the modified Delphi method. The results reveal the accuracy of the proposed ontologies and algorithms on the data from the case stud
Structural Analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting: The Case of Moroccan Firms
Get PDFIn business landscape, companies attempt to meet stakeholders’ expectations by publishing their corporate social responsibility (CSR) information in specific reports. In fact, CSR reports encompass a set of information related to companies’sustainable actions, approaches, and motivations. CSR reporting readability is an important issue to handle at the corporate level in order to leverage companies’ sustainable disclosure. This article investigates CSR reporting to identify specific categorizations and structures related to published CSR information of listed stocks. Mixed research methods are applied to a sample of 58 Moroccan companies that have the CSR label. First, content analysis was conducted for each organization’s CSR annual report. Second, multiple correspondence analysis was conducted to detect specific associations and structures in CSR reporting. Our findings highlight that companies communicate more concisely and completely when
they perform social actions based on a value creation approach and under normative motivations. The results shed light on companies’ awareness of integrating CSR dimensions into their corporate disclosure. This study contributes to the literature by highlighting the extent to which CSR reporting structures could be used as indicators of the complexity and readability quality of companies’ sustainability reporting. It could serve as a tool to assess companies’ social and environmental engagement and reputatio
Lean Six Sigma Approach for Simultaneous Quality Improvement of Courses in Higher Education Institutions During Covid-19 Pandemic
Get PDFThe purpose of this study is to assess whether Lean Six Sigma can improve the quality of teaching-learning processes in hgher educational institutions during the Covid-19 pandemic. The integration of e-learning technologies with lean six sigma (LSS). DMAIC stands for five phases of sig sigma project: define, measure, analyze, improve, and control was applied to implement quality assurance in the teaching-learning process. Action research was adopted in 30 courses of a particular engineering programme. The methodology was applied as a course improvement tool, and the challenges encountered during the implementation were also studied. The LSS DMAIC methodology could successfully improve the quality of various courses simultaneously through online mode during the Covid-19 pandemic. The adopted methodology could assist in effectively responding during the present stage of uncertainty and provide stakeholders with guidelines to deal with the post-pandemic era. In terms of practical implications, this study discusses a new approach to improving the quality of the teaching-learning process in higher educational institutions. The LSS DMAIC is applied with the help of online educational and social media platforms for the simultaneous improvement of courses in a particular engineering programm
Persepsi Risiko dan Tingkah Laku Pengguna Terhadap Pembelian Secara Dalam Talian di Lembah Klang (Risk Perception And Consumer Behavior Towards Online Purchases in the Klang Valley)
Get PDFPeningkatan pembelian secara dalam talian merupakan salah satu kesan daripada penularan wabak Covid-19 di Malaysia. Walaupun ia memudahkan urusan kehidupan harian, namun ramai yang beranggapan bahawa pembelian secara dalam talian merupakan suatu aktiviti yang berisiko. Oleh itu, kajian ini dijalankan bagi melihat hubungan antara persepsi risiko dengan tingkah laku pengguna terhadap pembelian secara dalam talian. Responden kajian ini seramai 392 orang dan kesemua responden telah menjawab soal selidik secara dalam talian. Namun, hanya 373 borang soal selidik yang lengkap diterima dan boleh digunakan. Data daripada soal selidik ini dianalisis menggunakan kaedah analisis regresi berganda. Hasil analisis mendapati bahawa risiko kewangan mempunyai hubungan negatif yang signifikan dengan tingkah laku pengguna terhadap pembelian secara dalam talian di Lembah Klang. Risiko produk dan risiko penghantaran pula mempunyai hubungan positif, manakala risiko masa tidak signifikan. Hasil kajian memberikan input kepada syarikat e-dagang dan penjual dalam talian untuk menambah baik perkhidmatan mereka. Ia juga dapat membantu untuk mengenal pasti risiko yang mungkin menjadi ancaman kepada perniagaan mereka dan mengambil tindakan mitigasi bagi mengurangkan kemungkinan
dan impak, sekiranya risiko yang dikenal pasti itu berlak