47 articles in this issue
Muhammed Yusuf
This paper examined the claims for validity and reliability of parent-grandparent as educator questionnaire (PGEQ). The PGEQ is a multi-dimensional instrument which is capable of reliably measuring parents and grandparents’ religious thought, superstition... see more
Khairol Anuar Ishak
The organizations have shifted from transactional to relational approach in maintaining their relationship in inter-organization partnerships and collaborations. The concept of relationship quality (RQ) evolved from relational marketing theory, and provid... see more
Tey Lian Seng,Quah Chee Heong
This paper aims to classify firms with international joint ventures into distinctive grouping with respect to their degrees of inter-partner fit. It applies cluster and discriminant analysis on the dimensions associated to inter-partner fit amongst Malays... see more
Nor Aziza Abdul Aziz,Abdullah Haji Abdul Ghani,Hasnizam Shaari
This paper discusses contributing factors pertaining to the ethical behaviour of Takaful agents in Malaysia. Perspective of sales, selling pressure and the level of competitiveness are identified as factors, influencing ethical behaviour of Takaful agents... see more
Yasid .,Fikri Farhan,Yuli Andriansyah
This paper is aimed to investigate the factors affecting the awareness of Muslim students towards halal food products. The variables used are religious belief, self-identity and media exposure as the independent variables and costumers’ awareness as the d... see more
Syed Sibtain Kazmi,Arslan Rafi,Muhammad Hassan
This particular research study aims at exploring the role of benefit realization management on two dimensional model of project success. Is there any relation between BRM practices and project success? The population of the current research study is the t... see more
Ghazal Bargshady,Ali Chegeni,Shayan Kamranvand,Seyed Mojib Zahraee
The link between agile supply chain dimensions and business performance in the Iranian service industry is assessed in this study. A questionnaire covering important agility criteria identified in the literature was designed and administered to a sample o... see more
Adunola Oluremi Oke,Parinda Kamolshotiros,Oluwamayowa Yewande Popoola,Musibau Akintunde Ajagbe,Olusola Joshua Olujobi
Currently, consumers pay more attention to their health; there is a growing awareness of health benefits of healthy drinks such as the green tea. Green tea is a popular healthy drink that helps prevent many deadly diseases. There are increasing numbers of... see more
Norazlina Mohd Yasin,Farzana Quoquab,Suzilawati Kamarudin
The literature on the firm growth among University Spin-off Company has been widely studied in the strategic management literature and the technology transfer practice over the last 15 years. While many studies put emphasis on the firm’s resources, yet ho... see more
Lomendra Vencataya,Ashley Keshwar Seebaluck,Deveshika Doorga
operational performance with reference to the four star hotels of Mauritius. A questionnaire was designed and administered to the managers of the four star hotels of Mauritius. The main conclusion of this study corresponds to those of previous... see more
Siti Nisrin Mohammed Anis,Amran Mohammed Rasli,Noor Hazarina Hashim
Human capital and employees’ performance are recognized as the premium key resource for organisational competitiveness. However, changes in global finance and organisations are affecting many organisations, including public sectors. Albeit changes, employ... see more
Naima Bibi
Even though considerable recognition of women at organizations, quantity of females at managerial positions (middle level and top management level) is increasing, but still too female percentage has a minor increase now a days as they were in the pa... see more
Suresh Ramakrishnan,Sanil S. Hishan,Abu Saim Mohammad Shahabuddin,Malini Kanjanapathy
Rapid industrialisation in the developing countries has contributed to an increase in natural disasters. Rise in the losses due to disasters is an indicator of non-sustainable development. Although in Malaysia the natural forces have been mainly lia... see more
Abdullah Waleed Almudallal,Syaharizatul Noorizwan Muktar,Norhani Bakri
This research tries to highlight on how Knowledge Management (KM) will act as a good tool to connect all the University’s Stakeholders such as: students, teachers, researchers, business and external entities, with work processes and technologies. Today, t... see more
Abdullah Waleed Almudallal,Norhani Bakri,Syaharizatul Noorizwan Muktar,Majed M. El-Farra
This paper focuses on bridging the theoretical and empirical approaches of KM key enablers in the Palestinian public sector, which are essential to facilitate and ensure a successful implementation of KM; these key enablers are: Organizational Culture, Le... see more
Muhammad Umair Javaid,Ahmad Shahrul Nizam Isha,Zulkipli Ghazali,Naseebullah Langove
The psychosocial stressor has become a prevailing phenomenon around the globe and is the major factor contributing towards the poor health and unsafe acts (leads to accidents) of the workers. These stressors at plant turnaround maintenance process are the... see more
Sobia Bano,Md Akhir Mohd Sharif
Metrosexual is a phenomenon of 21st century, which has challenged the traditional masculinity. Metrosexual is an affluent urban male, who spends a lot of their income on personal grooming. They are concerned about their appearance and are aware of all lat... see more
Shahid Ali,Azmi Mohd Shariff
Over the past three decades safety culture studies have bridged many gaps by developing specific existing culture models to workplace environment. But there is still no consensus over the core factors of safety culture, methods and improvement strategies.... see more
Kamaal Allil,Mohammed Naved Khan
The extent of adoption of mobile services in India has not progressed as expected. In this backdrop, the present research investigated factors affecting intention to adopt mobile services. Using researcher controlled sampling, data was generated from stud... see more
Chong Mahn Ling,Yuen Yee Yen,Wendy Teoh Ming Yen
Effective cross-border knowledge transfer can help to improve the competitiveness of the multinational companies, improve production process or product development, lower the operation cost, reduce errors, and improve profitability. However, cross-border ... see more
Asrar Ahmed Sabir,Ahmad Shahrul Nizam B. Isha
The oil and gas sector plays a vital role in the economic development of Malaysia. The transportation of oil and gas product is a sensitive issue because a minor negligence of a tanker truck driver can cause a serious accident of heavy loss and fatality. ... see more
Siti Nisrin Mohd Anis,Noor Hazarina Hashim,Amran Md Rasli
Marketing and market orientation are well–known subjects within the field of librarianship. Despite the nomological similarity between the terms, both are distinct in conceptualisation. Most librarians are actually referring to the total implementation of... see more
Naseebullah Langove,Ahmad Shahrul Nizam B. Isha,Muhammad Umair Javaid
The technological revolution has escorted diverse roles with deleterious effects, which in turn triggers stress. Role stressors are comprehensively conceptualized as two distinctive variables, role conflict and role ambiguity. In literature, studies have ... see more
Muhammad Latif Khan,Rohani Salleh,Mohamad Abdullah Bin Hemdi
The purpose of this study is to develop a conceptual framework for theoretical background explaining about the expected relationship between protean career attitudes and organizational commitment with moderating role of organizational career management wi... see more
Ndanusa Mohammed Manzuma-Ndaaba,Yoshifumi Harada,Abd Rahim Romle,Abdul Shukor Shamsudin
The encroachment of marketing theories in to education services through up some research challenges resulted in different models. However, previous focuses were more on student’s satisfaction, leaving out retention which has been adjourned to save cost, e... see more
This study propose a synergy of behavioral relationships in line with researchers observation that application of marketing theories in education services needs more strategic exploration. The cognitive behavior which is rational, the affective behavior w... see more
Hishan S. Sanil,Suresh Ramakrishnan,Mohammed Alwethainani,Abdul Ghafoor Kazi,Muhammad Siddique
The study considered the apparel companies based in India to determine the SCM techniques applied by these businesses as well as the benefits and difficulties encountered with its application thereby analysing the effectiveness of the Supply Chain Managem... see more
Muhammed Yusuf,Mohammed Y. M. Mai,Maria Salih
Persisting writing on grandparents' enthusiasm towards grandchildren’s development shows that numerous grandparents take part in raising their grandchildren at a young age and preparing them for a better future. Grandparents motivate their grandchildren t... see more
Khatijah Mohammed Saad,Mazlisa Mohamed Isa,Fadilah Yurani,Muhammad Zaffwan Idris
The purpose of this paper is to provide a review on the PKS HELP as a programme developed under the Centre of Technology (COT) of Polytechnic Ibrahim Sultan through its collaboration with industries project. Final semester students diploma in graphic desi... see more
Azman Hasan,Sharifah Nurulhuda Tuan Mohd Yasin,Mohd Fauzi Mohd Yunus
Mechatronics is the combination of Mechanical engineering, Electronic engineering, Computer engineering, Software engineering, Control engineering, and Systems Design engineering in order to design, and manufacture useful products. Mechatronics is a multi... see more
R. Nagaraja,S. Girish
The stages followed in buying decision process vary across the consumer group. The reason for this variation is due to the change in demographic features of the consumers, occupational changes, and knowledge derived through education, disposable income an... see more
Suresh Ramakrishnan,Sanil S. Hishan,Malini Kanjanapathy
ABSTRACT:A well planned and implemented Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs could give any company a competitive advantage over its competitors. However, the way it is communicated to its stakeholders will be one of the deciding factors. This s... see more
Osaro Aigbogun,Zulkipli Ghazali,Radzuan Razali
This study examines the impact of Halal logistics on supply chain resilience. The study is underpinned by the Agency theory. Halal logistics was studied as an Agent of governance and control in the multiple Principal-Agent model that exists in a typical s... see more
Gafar Olanrewaju Yusuf,Inda Sukati,Ifu Andenyang
The present paper is primarily aimed at determining the influence of internal marketing on customer orientation of Nigerian banks’ employees. It specifically seeks to determine the impact of internal marketing practices on customer orientation of Nigerian... see more
Mazlina Mustapha,Punitha A/P Subramaniam
Entrepreneurship is claimed as an important element to stimulate growth and development of most countries. It is also posited that female entrepreneurs took part and played a vital role in the economic development and helped to stabilize the economy parti... see more
Muhammad Hassan,Arslan Rafi,Syed Sibtain Kazmi
The purpose of this study is to extensively identify the impact of variables that tend to make the customers into advocates. Today companies have to focus on customers more frequently and consistently than they focus on advertisements and promotions becau... see more
Norazryana Mat Dawi,Ahmad Jusoh,Khalil Md Nor,Muhammad Imran Qureshi
Pay TV industry has been experiencing a considerably high growth rate in terms of revenues and subscribers Technological advancement in pay TV services industry inflicts the demands for higher service quality for competitiveness and business success. The ... see more
Rosman Bin Md Yusoff,Abdul Ghafoor Kazi,Muzammil Muhammad Khan Arisar,Farhan Jamil,Sanil S. Hishan
This study reveals the detailed conceptualization of integrity, ethics, freelancing, entrepreneurship, and role of integrity in the success of freelance and entrepreneurship. The paper is supported through conceptual review of an existing literature. It i... see more
Abdul Sami,Ahmad Jusoh,Mastura Mahfar,Muhammad Imran Qureshi,Muhammad Muddassar Khan
The concept of public value is very important for public sector organization and it is considered that there is no more important topic in public administration and public policy than public value. The underlying principle of the pubic value concept is th... see more
Abdul Sami,Ahmad Jusoh,Muhammad Imran Qureshi
attention from the public Administrators and researchers. Public value is considered as the contribution of an organization to the society. Citizens pay taxes to the government and in return they demanded benefits, respects and extra care of their rights ... see more
Rosman Mohammed Yusoff,Abdul Ghafoor Kazi,Muhammad Muddassar Khan
Sustainable Livelihoods Index (SLI) is most commonly used tool to assess the livelihood assets at disaster hit area. The objective of this study was to operationalize the construct of livelihood and formulate its scale by testing its psychometric properti... see more
Ahmad Ali Harasis,Amran Rasli
The study emphasises on extending a model about personality attributes as a moderator on the relationship between contentment and the persistent utilisation of electronic banking services (e-banking). Furthermore, the recommended model expounds the depend... see more
Rosman Bin Md Yusoff,Amina Imran,Muhammad Imran Qureshi,Abdul Ghafoor Kazi
Literature identified employee empowerment under the socio-technical context can help to enhance sustainable manufacturing performance (SMP). However, few studies have attempted to empirically test the relationship between the employee empowerment and SMP... see more
Farhan Jamil,Kamariah Ismail,Muhammad Siddique,Muhammad Muddassar Khan,Abdul Ghafoor Kazi,Muhammd Imran Qureshi
The purpose of this study is to review the literature of business incubators particularly in developing countries context. The extensive literature in developing countries like China, India, Malaysia and Pakistan supports the concept of business incubator... see more
Mehwish Iftikhar,Muhammad Umer Shahid,Muhammad Hamza Shahab,Mehvish Mobeen,Muhammad Imran Qureshi
The paper aims to clarify the relationship between organizational citizenship behavior, psychological empowerment, affective commitment and turnover intensions along with mediating effects of variables. Main purpose of the study is to analyze the organiza... see more
Nasir Mehmood,Ungku Norulkamar Bt. Ungku Ahmad,Sobia Irum,Muhammad Ashfaq
Understanding attitudes and behaviors at workplace develop organizational knowledge and capabilities to increase quality of services and help in retaining competent and skillful employees. The present study aims to investigate the relationship between job... see more
Muhammad Yasir,Noor Azmi Mohamad
This study intends to review a scholarly research on several leadership approaches and its development. This study also provides a comparison of ethical leadership with servant, authentic and transformational leadership styles in the perspective of ethics... see more