Given the lack of research on employees with disability embeddedness in organizations, this study aims to investigate the mediating effects of organizational climate between leader-member exchanges and employees with disabilities’ job embeddedness. A survey involving 282 employees with disability working in public and private Malaysia sectors was performed to test the study hypotheses. Furthermore, the study results were analysed using the structural equation modelling (SEM) AMOS mediation analysis and indicated partial mediating effects between the leader-member exchange, organizational climate, and employees with disabilities’s job embeddedness. As individuals with disability possessed different aptitudes that necessitated diverse management initiatives from supervisors, the reciprocal advantages gained from employee with disability-supervisor relationships and organizational climates should be duly considered. The consideration proved essential in influencing employees with disabilities’ work experiences and employee retention in organizations. It is hoped that these findings will enhance supervisors’ understanding on the impact of leader-member exchange as well as organizational climate in strengthening a high-quality relationship with the employees with disability which simultaneously will boost their job embeddedness.
Performance of hotel operational managers is crucial in delivering quality service to customers.Prior studies claimed that balanced scorecard (BSC) measures can clarify managers' roles to improve their performance.Thus, this study examines the relationship between the BSC measure, role clarity, and managerial performance in the Malaysian hotel sector.This study also investigates the mediating effect of role clarity between the BSC measures and managerial performance.475 questionnaires were distributed to managers of 3-, 4-, and 5-star hotels in Malaysia.Analysis from Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) found a significant relationship between the BSC measures and role clarity.Role clarity has a significant impact on managerial performance.The results also found that role clarity partially mediates the relationship between the BSC measures and managerial performance.These results provide information to policymakers on the importance of BSC measures to stimulate positive behaviour through role clarity for managers to deliver quality service.
In accordance with Islamic sharia, zurri waqf (family waqf) has been used as an instrument for estate planning and family inheritance. The issue of abandoned property management has yet to be fully resolved, and zurri waqf is one option for the estate distribution. In Malaysia, the State Religious Council is the administrator of zurri waqf practices. The implementation, on the other hand, is minimal and not proactive. Hence, the objective of this study is to identify the practice of zurri waqf implementation in Malaysia. This study employs a qualitative interview method with eight respondents. This study discovered that the practice of zurri waqf implementation is at a passive level, but the improvements can still be made. For instance, the rectification in the management procedures can be done as zurri waqf assets have the potential for economy development and ongoing benefit to the family and society in general. The findings of this study in terms of restructuring the existing procedures according with the experts’ suggestion such as lineage restrictions on beneficiaries and appointment of zurri waqf consultants may aid in the proactive implementation of zurri waqf as well as the preservation of Muslims' equity in strengthening the economic stability of the family and society in general.
The pandemic's negative impact on SMEs' performance have been particularly felt as a result of changes in consumer behavior.Therefore, strategic actions are required to accelerate the growth of SMEs in the postpandemic era.Based on the Dynamic Capabilities Theory, the aim of this study was to analyze the effect of financial technology, innovation, business strategy, and market orientation on the business performance of SMEs in Riau Province, Indonesia.Using purposive sampling, survey data was collected from a sample of 123 SME owner-managers.Data analysis using partial least squares structural equation modeling showed that financial technology, innovation, business strategy, and market orientation significantly affect the business performance of SMEs.SME owner-managers use financial technology to make new breakthroughs through innovation, implement more diverse business strategies, and improve market orientation.The findings suggest that long-term digital technology development strategies are required as a platform for SMEs to grow.
Identification is a sense of belonging to particular social groups with similar characteristics or similarly perceived role identities.The strength of an individual's identification is context-dependent and can influence an individual's behavior according to certain expectations.Despite abundant research on board oversight roles, little is known about why board members behave in certain ways due to a lack of literature from a socio-behavioral perspective.This paper explores how identification with social groups and role identities among the government board of directors (GBOD) influence their human capital and board roles.The results, derived from semistructured interviews of twelve government officials who were appointed to the boards of Malaysian State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) as government representatives, indicate that different identifications, such as the role of government board of director, corporate director, or both, and identification with the SOE could lead to different perceptions of the importance of human capital and influence their contributions in boardrooms.This study provides empirical evidence for the corporate governance literature from a socio-behavioral perspective and helps government agencies and regulators understand the reasons behind GBOD behavior.Selecting board members based on their human capital may be inadequate, and board members may need training to help them identify their roles and responsibilities as government representatives on the board.
A project meeting is an event in which stakeholders communicate amongst themselves to meet expectations in the projects by follow up, update, and get feedback.It is a platform for the team to communicate in any projects to serve the purpose of the meeting.As there is a limited study from the literature on the time performance of the project meeting, it is important to determine whether the impact of the project meeting contributes significantly to project time performance or leads to time waste and affects the project time performance.This qualitative study investigates the most significant factors that impact the project meeting to project time performance.Data analysis was obtained from interviews with twenty-seven project managers in the construction industry among local property developers based in Klang Valley, West Malaysia.The study using nvivo technique of analysis revealed most of the project managers agreed scheduling project meetings will improve time performance.The study also proposed guidelines for project meetings incorporating insightful general elements of meetings and time monitoring by incorporating project time spend and analysis of time spent that will assist the project manager to manage meetings efficiently.The findings revealed most of the project managers agreed that the presence of guidelines for meetings helps to guide meetings efficiently and enhance time project performance.
The important role played by energy markets has concerned investors regarding the market's behaviour and interconnections when seeking asset diversification strategies, which has become critical in financial analysis.This study aimed to identify price bubbles in energy futures markets and asset co-movements with the crude palm oil futures market (FCPO).This study utilised five futures indices from January 2, 2001, to October 30, 2020.Three methods were employed to explain the behaviour of the energy futures markets: The Generalized Supremum Augmented Dickey-Fuller (GSADF) test, the wavelet power spectrum technique and the wavelet coherence method.The findings from the GSADF test revealed that all energy future markets indicated the presence of asset bubbles, which were influenced by geopolitical events and speculation.The study also demonstrated the presence of periods of high volatility across multiple horizons, which occasionally occurred around the same period as explosive price behaviour.The results of the wavelet coherence method showed that the FCPO market had high co-movement with the Brent crude oil (BRENT) and heating oil (HOIL) markets and, to a lesser extent, with the natural gas (NGAS) and light sweet crude oil (WTI) markets.By linking the GSADF and wavelet approaches, the present study showed how energy price bubbles, their volatility, and co-movements with the FCPO market were related in the presence of geopolitical events and speculation.The present study's findings have suggested strategies regulators and investors can use to manage investment risk and portfolio diversification.
Small and Medium Enterprises are seen as firms that contribute to the national economy and are even the dominant type of enterprise in Malaysia.However, human capital and entrepreneurial orientation are often linked to SME performance issues.Specifically, this study aims to determine the effect of entrepreneurial orientation as a mediator on the relationship between human capital and SME performance.Research data was obtained from 200 questionnaires and analysed using regression analysis.The results of the study found that entrepreneurial orientation acts as a mediator in the relationship between human capital and firm performance.Therefore, SME entrepreneurs need to be given appropriate guidance to improve their entrepreneurial orientation.Through appropriate and effective training from the parties involved, SMEs can provide innovative, creative and proactive human capital in the face of business competition.The parties involved need to work together to provide effective training for that purpose.
Numerous studies have examined social media's impact.Citations or analyses of social media influential networks involved in sponsored ads still need to be made available.There is little knowledge of articles in this area, and researchers need comprehensive information.This limits knowledge and citation, and journal selection guidelines.This study analyses academic research on social media's impact on sponsored ads using bibliometric citations and network analysis.The bibliometric analysis uses the PRISMA and VOSviewer to analyse WOS database articles.About 150 papers with 5115 citations examined social media influence in sponsored ads, peaking in 2020.Journal of Business Research, Leeflang, University of Groningen, and the US had the most citations."Social media" and "social media marketing" is used most, while "influencer marketing" is used least.This study helps researchers and the journal's editorial board track authors' social media influence in sponsorship advertisement research.This study helped the publishing industry by revealing investigator journal selection trends.
The purpose of this study is to examine the influences of causal attributions of airline service failure on the behavioral intention to fly again with the same airlines in the future.Drawing on the Causal Attribution Theory, the failure attribution is posited to be explained by three core factors identified as controllability, stability and locus of control.In this study, all the direct relationships between the three failure attributions and behavioral intention are expected to be mediated by brand attitude.Purposive sampling was employed as the sampling technique and questionnaire survey has been used to collect the data from 518 respondents.The PLS-SEM was used to test all hypotheses via Smart-PLS.The findings showed that only controllability exhibited direct effect on behavioral intention, whereas locus of control as well as stability affected behavioral intention indirectly through brand attitude.The results also revealed that brand attitude played the roles as full mediators in the links between both stability and locus of control, and behavioral intention.In this regard, a service recovery plan, including an effective marketing communication strategy, must be developed in order to mitigate the effects of controllability attribution as perceived by affected passengers.
Occupational safety varies across countries and industries.This study therefore conducts a Systematic Literature Review to suggest the direction for future work and to identify the effect of safety on individual and organizational outcomes.Articles between 2010-2021 were extracted and screened and a total of 70 articles was reviewed.The findings indicated that safety is essential for individual and organizational outcomes.Safety practices can improve on employee performance, satisfaction, commitment and engagement.They also exert critical impact on organizational outcome such as organizational justice, HRM practice, organizational culture, and organizational identification.In the context of safety compliance and safety practice, and safety performance, the important variables are leadership style and total quality management (TQM).Together with occupational safety, these variables can predict individual and organisational outcomes.Safety at workplace should be a concern for all stakeholders, and this can be observed through implementing effective leadership and establishing safety culture.
This study unravels the relationship between hedging practices and company value by considering whether the relationship can be moderated by foreign currency risk (FX risk) and Shariah-compliant status.The motivation behind the research is to examine the impact of the implementation of Financial Reporting Standards (FRS) 7 and 139 which has improved disclosure on FX risk management.The majority of listed companies in Malaysia are Shariah compliant, therefore hedging practices need to be refined when they are implemented using conventional FX derivatives that involve usury.Thus, the study objectives are examining the relationship between hedging practices and company value, and to examine the moderating effect of FX risk and Shariah-compliant status on the relationship.The study employs the generalized method of moments on 250 Malaysian non-financial listed companies from 2010 to 2018.The results show that hedging practices is positive and significant related to firm value, and that FX risks and Shariah-compliant status moderate the relationship.To ensure that companies accurately record FX risk, the Malaysian Accounting Standards Board must tighten up firm accounting reporting.From this, investors can benefit from seeing the significance of FX risk to hedging strategies and firm value.In addition, FRS need to be improved so that reporting of hedging practices consistent with the Shariah screening process.
The unresolved tax compliance dilemma gives a signal of consideration/ requirement of additional factors that will influence tax compliance, such as a governance-based approach.This paper investigates the association between governance quality and tax compliance, with tax morale as a mediator.Two dimensions of governance quality were considered: political stability and the rule of law.A quantitative survey of 592 salaried and selfemployed taxpayers in East Malaysia was conducted.Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) was used to analyse the data.Theoretically, the present research contributed to knowledge by supporting the significant role of tax morale in the mediation association between the rule of law and tax compliance.Tax compliance can also be improved when taxpayers have high tax morale.Practically, the findings aid policymakers and governments that an ideal governance mechanism via a stable political environment is crucial to increasing tax compliance.Nevertheless, the government's approach to enforcing an effective rule of law was viewed as a more promising strategy for boosting the morale of taxpayers.
In innovation adoption, potential adopters are expected to rely on the brand name of the innovation to determine its quality level.Because risks are involved in most innovation adoption, dependency appears between the consumer and the brand.With little attention being put to analyze brand trust in consumer brands and diffusion studies, this study conceptually proposes an innovation characteristic model which includes brand trust as the new innovation characteristic and mediates existing characteristics to adoption intention in the existing literature.Certain private label products are also selected as the innovation subject herein and are expected to draw retail practitioners' attention to the importance of brand management.Retailers' efforts are deemed worthless if retailers do not pay attention to brand trust, which is the underlying cause of private label failure in developing markets.The empirical results herein are expected to aid in augmenting the influence of brand trust on any innovation adoption and further highlight the importance of brand management for retail and private label brands.
This study aims to explore the challenges and the implementation of lean practices by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia. It was conducted as a multiple-case study based on six companies that participated in the Lean Transformation Project (LTP) organized by the Malaysia Productivity Corporation (MPC). Data were collected through a combination of observation, document analysis, and semi-structured interviews. The findings revealed significant improvements in the companies after participating in the LTP. These improvements included enhancing material handling processes through proper labeling and arrangement of materials. This study provides valuable insights for academics and practitioners on the impact of lean practices on operational activities in SMEs, particularly in the Malaysian context. It highlights the significance of lean principles in driving positive changes in companies, focusing on improving process outputs and outcomes.
The Covid-19 pandemic has opened up the landscape for the advantages of work from home (WFH) and adapting oneself in performing tasks.Leadership style and work autonomy also have the potential to assist employees to adapt the flexible work environment.Therefore, the purpose of the study is to examine the effect of WFH, work autonomy and humble leadership on adaptive performance as well as its moderating effect.Self-determination theory is referred to as an underlying theory to identify the extent to which work autonomy and humble leadership may assist employees to be more motivated in performing work from home.The Partial Least Square (PLS) technique was used to test the hypothesized relationships among variables using the 200 responded data.The results of this study indicated that the WFH, job autonomy and humble leadership influenced adaptive performance and employees with high job autonomy and perceived high humble leadership strengthen the relationship between WFH and adaptive performance.The study sheds new light on the theoretical contribution that the extensive of work autonomy and the influence of a humble leadership style has improved adaptive performance even when working from home.Whereas in practice, organizations need to equip supervisors with a humble leadership style and expand work autonomy to strengthen employee performance regardless of where they work.
Companies are increasingly looking for sales professionals.However, most university students are hesitant to consider sales as a prospective job option after graduation.Understanding the determining factors that influence graduates' willingness to work in sales in Malaysia is critical in persuading more students to engage in sales career and restoring market demand for sales employment.Thus, this study investigates the relationship between perceptions of sales-related skills, perceptions of sales careers, and perceptions of how others view salespeople and the intention to pursue sales career among students in Malaysia's universities.The effect of feelings towards selling as a mediator is also explored.The study analyses data from 276 business undergraduates using a structural equation modeling approach.The research findings indicate that perceptions of sales-related skills, perceptions of sales careers, and perceptions of how others view salespeople have positive impacts on intention to pursue sales career.There was also evidence that shows feelings towards selling influence intention to pursue sales career directly and indirectly.This study adds to the body of knowledge regarding sales education and provides universities practical insights into the factors determining student intentions to pursue sales jobs.
Ability, Motivation and Opportunity (AMO)-enhancing is essential for the effective implementation of corporate environmental citizenship.However, previous studies neglect the link between AMO-enhancing HRM practices and corporate environmental citizenship.This has motivated the paper studies the influence of AMO-enhancing HRM practices on corporate environmental citizenship via the mediating role of organizational ethical climate.This study employed a quantitative approach in the form of survey questionnaires.Survey questionnaires were collected from 200 construction companies and analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM).The results revealed that ability and opportunity-enhancing HRM practices were found to positively influence corporate environmental citizenship.Motivation-enhancing HRM practices were insignificant in this regard.Similarly, organizational ethical climate did not prove to mediate the relationship between AMO-enhancing HRM practices and corporate environmental citizenship.Therefore, construction companies should invest heavily in ability and opportunity-enhancing HRM practices to pursue corporate environmental citizenship.Instead, construction companies can abandon motivation-enhancing HRM practices and organizational ethical climate if they have limited funds to improve corporate environmental citizenship.Ultimately, policy makers should use these findings to create strategies as guidance for the construction industry to achieve corporate environmental citizenship.
Cybersecurity, as a security management requirement, is essential to understanding data security in higher institutions.This study aims to explore the role of cybersecurity in the performance of Malaysian higher education institutions through semi-structured qualitative interviews with 10 cybersecurity risk management officers from 10 public universities.The data were analysed using thematic analysis to identify the themes and sub-themes that revealed the strengths and deficiencies of the current cybersecurity frameworks.Results showed that cybersecurity implementation is considered a successful innovation in Malaysian universities and has contributed to protecting the data of students and staff, which in turn allowed the universities to improve their reputation.This study contributed significantly to the understanding of the performance and applicability of cybersecurity in universities.It showed the efficient use of resources, identification and detection of risk exposures, and improved cybersecurity communication between the technical team and top management are essential for a good decisionmaking process.
Religion is no longer isolated from secular activities, including business.Many scholars hold that religious identity plays a vital role in a person's decision whether or not to be an entrepreneur.However, government favouritism for a particular religion could hinder entrepreneurialism amongst believers of other religions.To provide empirical evidence of it, this study examines whether the level of religiosity affects the entrepreneurial intention of individuals, and whether government favouritism influences the entrepreneurial intention of individuals in 'preferred versus non-preferred' religions.We tested our hypotheses using Entrepreneurial Student Survey (ESS) 2018-2019 data from 316 university students in Malaysia, analysed through ordered logit regressions.From the analysis, we found that government favouritism towards Islam has no effect on the entrepreneurial intention of Muslim students, nor does it discourage non-Muslim students from becoming entrepreneurs.Instead, the results show that entrepreneurial intention is strongly influenced by students' religiosity, regardless of the religion.In sum, this research suggests that the contemplation of entrepreneurship is determined by individual religiosity, not the institutional predisposition for religious groups.In terms of the policy implications, it is a strong signal for religious leaders to preach and promote entrepreneurship among their believers.
