31 research outputs found
Conceptualizing the impact of leader-member Exchange in non-profit and religious organisations: the case of waqf institutions in Malaysia / Sharfizie Mohd Sharip, Marinah Awang and Ramlee Ismail.
Full text linkWhile a great discussion on past research done to investigate the impact on Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) in producing the positive outcome of the management, relatively little research has been done conducted to
examine the link between LMX to the effectiveness of the management particularly in a religious based non-profit organization in a Malaysia setting. Meanwhile, a discussion on LMX of the non-profit organisation is not explicitly religious based as the discussion on Malaysia institution, and specifically among non-profit organisation religious
based is lacking. Thus, the objective of this study to address the issue of communication among leader-member via LMX theory and to propose potential effect to the effectiveness of the management particularly in a
religious based non-profit organisation, specifically in Waqf institutions in the Malaysian setting
Pendidikan dewasa: satu kajian kes terhadap program pemulihan di rumah pengasih / Marinah Awang and Syed Jamal Abdul Nasir Syed Mohamad
No full textKajian ini adalah bertujuan untuk meninjau dengan lebih dekat lagi tentang program-program yang dijalankan di Rumah PENGASIH. Tumpuan utama kajian ini adalah untuk melihat cara bagaimana institusi Rumah PENGASIH mengendalikan program pendidikan terhadap orang dewasa yang merupakan klien utama institusi tersebut
Keselamatan dan kesejahteraan pelajar sekolah menengah di daerah Kanowit, Sarawak
No full textKajian ini bertujuan untuk menentukan hubungan antara konstruk keselamatan dengan kesejahteraan pelajar sekolah menengah dalam daerah Kanowit, Sarawak. Sampel kajian terdiri daripada 160 responden pelajar harian di sekolahsekolah menengah dalam daerah Kanowit. Soalselidik kajian terdiri daripada beberapa instrumen yang telah diubahsuai daripada KPM (2002), Konu dan Lintonen (2006)Sufean dan Norlia (2006)MDS3 School Climate Survey (2014). Dapatan kajian menunjukkan konstruk keselamatan pelajar sekolah menengah di daerah Kanowit adalah berada di tahap tinggi (min=3.31) manakala konstruk kesejahteraan pelajar berada di tahap sederhana (min=2.87). Terdapat hubungan yang signifikan antara konstruk keselamatan dengan kesejahteraan pelajar iaitu nilai Pearson r ialah (p=0.000)=0.529 dengan nilai p?0.05. Implikasi kajian menunjukkan bahawa konstruk keselamatan perlu dilaksanakan dengan berkesan di sekolah bukan sahaja untuk mewujudkan sekolah selamat tetapi juga untuk meningkatkan kesejahteraan dalam kalangan pelajar. Justeru itu, pengurusan keselamatan di sekolah perlu dilaksanakan dengan cekap dan berkesan agar kesejahteraan pelajar sentiasa terpelihara
Hubungan persekitaran fizikal bilik darjah dan kesejahteraan dan keselesaan pembelajaran dan pengajaran
No full textKajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti hubungan persekitaran fizikal bilik darjah dengan tahap kesejahteraan dan keselesaan pengajaran dan pembelajaran pelajar di sekolah menengah Zon Kampar, Perak. Kajian ini melibatkan 196 responden daripada pelajar tingkatan empat daripada empat buah sekolah menengah di Zon Kampar, Perak. Instrumen kajian adalah borang soal selidik. Data kajian dianalisis secara statistik deskriptif menggunakan kaedah frekuensi, peratusan dan min. Manakala data statistik inferens diuji menggunakan Korelasi Pearson. Kaedah ini digunakan untuk menentukan hubungan persekitaran fizikal bilik darjah dengan tahap keselesaan pengajaran dan pembelajaran pelajar. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa hubungan tahap persekitaran fizikal bilik darjah dengan keselesaan pengajaran dan pembelajaran adalah tinggi. Dapatan kajian juga menunjukkan terdapat hubungan yang signifikan pada tahap tinggi di antara persekitaran fizikal bilik darjah dengan keselesaan pengajaran dan pembelajaran pelajar di sekolah. Kajian ini mencadangkan agar aspek fizikal haruslah diutamakan supaya pelajar dapat menjalankan proses pengajaran dan pembelajaran dengan penuh kepuasan dan mendapat keselesaan dalam proses pembelajaran
Pendekatan keselamatan dan kesejahteraan pelajar untuk sekolah-sekolah di Malaysia
No full textKeselamatan adalah satu keadaan yang selamat dan bebas daripada bahaya termasuk kecederaan dan risiko. Keadaan sekolah yang selamat dapat melahirkan budaya sekolah yang responsif serta dapat mengoptimumkan pembelajaran sosial, perkembangan emosi dan intelek pelajar. Walaupun premis sekolah ini dianggap sebagai premis yang mempunyai risiko rendah namun ia tidak bermakna sekolah adalah bebas daripada kemalangan dan kecederaan. Suasana persekitaran sekolah yang selamat dapat membentuk emosi yang positif kepada pelajar dan seterusnya meningkatkan kesejahteraan diri pelajar dalam jangka yang panjang. Terdapat pelbagai pendekatan yang digunakan oleh para sarjana untuk memahami mengenai keadaan keselamatan dan kesejahteraan seperti teori kebajikan sosiologikal dan model kesejahteraan pelajar, model USDOE, program bersepadu sekolah selamat dan model sekolah selamat. Tujuan kertas konsep ini ialah untuk meneroka model-model tersebut dan mencadangkan satu pendekatan yang lebih holistik bersesuaian dengan konteks persekitaran sekolah-sekolah di Malaysia
Knowledge Management in Malaysian Secondary Schools: Implications of the "Smart School" initiative
No full textKnowledge management is a response to the growing realization of knowledge as the deliverer of organizational success. Because much attention has been given to the private sector, knowledge management initiatives in educational settings seem to be lacking. Considering that knowledge activities – capturing, creating, sharing, applying and storing – are important activities in education, particularly schools, the failure to fully appreciate the potential of managing knowledge within education is surprising. A review of the literature suggests that factors such as management, technology and culture contribute differently to managing knowledge in many organizations. The management factor, for example, was a catalyst in providing a conducive work environment, whereas technology provides the mechanism as an enabler for knowledge management initiatives. Culture was important for the knowledge context and could play a significant role in the uptake of managing knowledge.
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between these contextual factors – management, technology and culture – and the knowledge activities. The study took place in Malaysian secondary schools and highlighted the Smart School Project as one of the seven flagships of Malaysia Multimedia Super Corridor. A mixed method approach was used as a strategy of inquiry in order to explore the knowledge management contextual factors in relation to knowledge activities. The quantitative method focused on collecting data based on a survey instrument. There were 1313 respondents and Smart Schools and non Smart Schools participated in responding to the questionnaire. As for the interview method, the study focused on 21 individuals who were purposely selected based on their special implementation roles in the schools – school principals, information technology coordinators and teachers. The survey data were analysed by using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software. There were three types of statistical application used, namely the descriptive statistics, the t-test and regression, whereas the interview data were analysed manually by looking and searching for noticeable patterns to be connected to the research framework.
The findings suggest that although there is no explicit knowledge management system used in managing knowledge in the educational sector, there are a lot of elements and positive practices of knowledge management already in place that could help schools to develop and encourage activities such as knowledge sharing. As far as the contribution of the contextual factors to knowledge activities, technology was an important instrument in all of the knowledge activities, but it was certainly not the only or the most prominent one. The culture factor played a more significant role in all knowledge activities particularly when knowledge sharing was considered as a social and spiritual obligation in the communities of practice. Despite this, there were also barriers in the uptake of knowledge management initiatives in schools which seemed to limit knowledge activities due to time constraints and teacher workload
Quality of Malaysian teachers based on education and training
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the quality of teachers based on education and training provided under new reform policies in Malaysia affects their earnings outcomes. The study conducted a benefit and returns analysis guided by human capital theory.
Design/methodology/approach
The study used survey research methods to investigate human capital formation in the teaching profession using teachers’ qualifications, benefits and private rate of returns as key variables in the estimation.
Findings
Earnings and experience levels were highly correlated with teachers’ education levels, as suggested by human capital theory. The private rate of returns in earnings for each additional year of schooling of teachers was found to lie between 3 and 4 per cent per year. Discrepancies were apparent in teachers’ qualifications and licensure levels regionally and at academic levels, as expected. These correlated with earning levels.
Practical implications
Improvements in teachers’ salary and employment opportunities will attract higher quality graduates to the teaching profession. Teachers’ annual earnings in Malaysia are comparable to other public sector and private professional jobs in the nation but lag far behind those of the world’s top education systems. Increasing teachers’ earnings will attract better qualified teachers. Policymakers could address these issues.
Originality/value
This paper demonstrates the utility of economic analyses in terms of earnings returns, to evaluate the Malaysian policy of upgrading teachers’ qualifications as a mechanism to improve the overall quality of schooling. Such studies are rare but needed to understand the benefits and returns of policy-driven teacher education and training investments. This study provides new evidence of schooling returns using a recent, national data set.
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An Empirical Study of Knowledge-Management Contextual Factor in the Emergence of Information Communication Technology in Schools
Full text linkInformation technology in schools aggressively emerged in the late 1990s to reinvent the teaching and learning process in Malaysia. Schools no longer existed merely for the purposes of traditional teaching and learning but were needed to enhance their knowledge activities so as to be able to cope with the rapid changes that were taking place. The objectives of this study are to determine the contribution of knowledge contextual factors to the knowledge activities, with particular reference to the emergence of information technologies in schools, and to evaluate progress with respect to knowledge activities in school education. The research is designed around questionnaires based on a knowledge-management conceptual framework administered to random samples of teachers in information technologyfacilitated schools and regular schools so as to be able to make comparisons. Interestingly the fi ndings show that the information technology under the “ICT Facilitated school†is not a key factor contributing to knowledge sharing among the teachers. The fi ndings also provide evidence that culture is the most important factor relating to a knowledge activity. Knowledge friendly, motivating staff , committ ed leadership, openness and mutual trust are some examples of positive school culture, whereas management factor remains crucial in facilitating learning and sharing among teachers.
Keywords: Knowledge management, school, culture, management, technology
An Empirical Study of Knowledge-Management Contextual Factor in the Emergence of Information Communication Technology in Schools
No full textAn Empirical Study of Knowledge-Management Contextual Factor in the Emergence of Information Communication Technology in Schools
No full textInformation technology in schools aggressively emerged in the late 1990s to reinvent the teaching and learning process in Malaysia. Schools no longer existed merely for the purposes of traditional teaching and learning but were needed to enhance their knowledge activities so as to be able to cope with the rapid changes that were taking place. The objectives of this study are to determine the contribution of knowledge contextual factors to the knowledge activities, with particular reference to the emergence of information technologies in schools, and to evaluate progress with respect to knowledge activities in school education. The research is designed around questionnaires based on a knowledge-management conceptual framework administered to random samples of teachers in information technologyfacilitated schools and regular schools so as to be able to make comparisons. Interestingly the fi ndings show that the information technology under the “ICT Facilitated school†is not a key factor contributing to knowledge sharing among the teachers. The fi ndings also provide evidence that culture is the most important factor relating to a knowledge activity. Knowledge friendly, motivating staff , committ ed leadership, openness and mutual trust are some examples of positive school culture, whereas management factor remains crucial in facilitating learning and sharing among teachers.
Keywords: Knowledge management, school, culture, management, technology
