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Fulltext Workplace bullying: time to understand its roots

Khalib AL, Ngan HU

Malaysian Journal of Community Health, 2006;12(1):0-0.

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Workplace bullying has drawn greater attention in the last one and half decades. Despite its recognition by many organizations and countries, it is still rife. Why is that so? Could it be that the root of the problem has not been addressed? Or, could it be due to difficulties and resistances in embarking preventive and control measures. In this paper, we will examine the possible causes of workplace bullying based on a proposed model. In depth discussion of the personal and organizational factors are made while the work group and societal factors are dealt with in brief. In summary, the root of workplace bullying is multi-factorial. Understanding the complexity and subtlety of workplace bullying is pertinent in the effort to prevent or curtail it.

Matched MeSH terms: Organizations

Winner's curse, size effect and bandwagon effect in explaining the under-pricing phenomenon of Malaysian IPOs

Yong, Othman

CREAM : Current Research in Malaysia (Penyelidikan Terkini di Malaysia), 2013;2(1):101-120.

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This study examines the issues of winner's curse, size effect and bandwagon effect in explaining the under-pricing phenomenon of Malaysian IPOs, for the period from January 2001 to December 2008. The average initial return for the Malaysian private placement IPOs (a proxy for informed investors) is significantly lower than that of the non-private placement IPOs (a proxy for uninformed investors), which gives support to the winner's curse hypothesis, where uninformed investors demand a higher initial return in the absence of informed investors. Using listing board as proxy for size of companies, we find that the smaller the company, the higher the average initial return, thus giving support to size effect, where investors usually demand higher initial return for smaller companies due to their higher perceived risk. The study also finds that the presence of a large number of informed investors as compared to uninformed investors in an IPO exercise will result in an increase in demand for that particular stock in the secondary market, which gives support to the bandwagon effect.

Matched MeSH terms: Organizations

Fulltext What health management topic frequently appeared in the New England Medical Journal (NEMI)? : a systemic review

Khalib, A.L., Nirmalini, R.

Malaysian Journal of Community Health, 2008;14(2):31-35.

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Introduction : It is no doubt that the success of any health organization depends so closely on its managerial functions. To achieve this, the leader or manager as the core strategist of its organization must in all time be updated with the latest evidence-based information so that he or she can be easily operationalized his or her management function in more effective and sustainable manners. It depends largely on scientific literatures that published relevant articles within this scope. Unfortunately, management topics related to health care system is scattered published and this has indirectly affect manager to access the latest scientific documents.
Methods : We examined the practice of well known international journal in health care namely New England Medical Journal (NEMJ) on its role in propagating latest health management topics to its prospective clients.
Results : The result showed that a total of 31% health management topics were published throughout 2007 out of 1140 articles appeared. Of these, about 33% were confined to general health administration. The remaining articles were related to healthcare delivery practices (24%), medical ethics and legal matters (17% each), and manpower issues and training (9%).
Conclusion : Focus on managerial related articles relatively low as compared to clinical and other evidence-based medicine that clearly dominated health management issues.

Matched MeSH terms: Organizations

WHO partograph cuts complications of labour and childbirth

Safe Mother, 1994 Jul-Oct;?(15):10.

PMID: 12345820

Matched MeSH terms: Organizations

Unsung heroes in the South

Panos Institute

WorldAIDS, 1991 Nov.

PMID: 12285096

Matched MeSH terms: Organizations

Unesco in Asia and the Pacific: 40 years on

UNESCO. Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific

Bull Unesco Reg Off Educ Asia Pac, 1986 Nov.

PMID: 12342774

Matched MeSH terms: Organizations

Fulltext Typologies and Psychological Profiles of Child Sexual Abusers: An Extensive Review

Lim YY, Wahab S, Kumar J, Ibrahim F, Kamaluddin MR

Children (Basel), 2021 Apr 25;8(5).

PMID: 33922985 DOI: 10.3390/children8050333

Child sexual abuse is a public health issue that has been associated with a variety of negative health outcomes. Child sexual abusers constitute a heterogeneous population of individuals. This review lays out an overview of the current understanding of typologies and psychological profiles of child sexual abusers. Typologies of child sexual abusers in general and online child sexual abusers are reviewed to summarise the existing knowledge. Psychological traits including personality traits, cognitive distortion, empathy, and impulsivity are examined to provide a wider perspective of the psycho-criminogenic factors of child sexual abuse. Although past research on child sexual abusers has provided insights into the organisation and classification of different types of child sexual abusers, the classification of these typologies has drawn widespread criticisms. In this review, we discuss the challenges and limitations pertaining to the existing typologies and studies related to the psychological profile of child sexual abusers.

Matched MeSH terms: Organizations

Fulltext Transmission lines modelling based on RLC passive and active filter design

Ahmed Qasim Turki, Nashiren Farzilah Mailah, Ahmed H. Sabry

Pertanika Journal of Science & Technology, 2017;25(102):235-242.

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This paper presents a transmission line (TL) modelling which is based upon vector fitting algorithm
and RLC passive filter design. Frequency Response Analysis (FRA) is utilised for behaviour prediction and fault diagnosis. The utilities of the measured FRA data points need to be enhanced with suitable modelling category to facilitate the modelling and analysis process. This research proposes a new method for modelling the transmission line based on a rational approximation function which can be extracted through the Vector Fitting (VF) method, based on the frequency response measured data points. A set of steps needs to be implemented to achieve this by setting up an extracted partial fraction approximation, which results from a least square RMS error via VF. Active and passive filter design circuits are used to construct the model of the Transmission line. The RLC design representation was implemented for modelling the system physically while MATLAB Simulink was used to verify the results.

Matched MeSH terms: Organizations

Fulltext Transformation of Industrial Relations in Malaysia: The effectiveness on Management of Occupational Safety and Health

NUR FARHANNA SADON

Trends in Undergraduate Research, 2018;1(1):0-0.

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The occupational safety and health of workers are aimed to protect employees.. Safety at workplace is a crucial aspect in a company’s organization. Safety in workplace is important in guaranteeing the worker’s wellbeing. The Malaysia Government has taken the required steps by introducing the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 on 25th of February 1994. The responsibilities in enforcing Occupational Safety and Health Act is given to the Occupational Safety and Health Department (OSHD) which is under the Ministry of Human Resource.

Matched MeSH terms: Organizations

Training course on code implementation

Allain A, De Arango R

Mothers Child, 1992;11(3):6-7.

PMID: 12288850

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Fulltext Toward the formation of a Companion Animal Parasite Council for the Tropics (CAPCT)

Traub RJ, Irwin P, Dantas-Torres F, Tort GP, Labarthe NV, Inpankaew T, et al.

Parasit Vectors, 2015 May 13;8:271.

PMID: 25963851 DOI: 10.1186/s13071-015-0884-4

This letter advises the imminent formation of the Companion Animal Parasites Council for the Tropics (CAPCT). The CAPCT consists of region-specific (e.g., Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Caribbean, Africa) experts comprising academics, veterinarians, parasitologists, physicians and allied industry partners that will work together to inform, guide and develop best-practice recommendations for the optimal diagnosis, treatment and control of companion animal parasites in the tropics, with the aim of protecting the health of pets and that of the public.

Matched MeSH terms: Health Planning Organizations

Threat Upon Entry: Effect of Coworker Ostracism on Newcomers' Proactive Behaviors During Organizational Socialization

Liu P, Zhang Y, Ji Y, Wu S

Front Psychol, 2021;12:545478.

PMID: 33889103 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.545478

Extant literature has underlined the importance of newcomer proactive socialization to the organization. However, the effect of coworker ostracism on newcomers' proactive behaviors has not been noticed. Drawing on the conservation of resources (COR) theory, we proposed a model exploring how coworker ostracism impacted newcomers' proactive behaviors via the mediation of psychological availability. Through an empirical study with a sample of 263 newcomers and three waves of longitudinal data, we found that coworker ostracism had a negative effect on newcomers' information seeking and guanxi developing. In addition, emotional intelligence enhanced the negative effect of coworker ostracism on newcomers' psychological availability and the indirect influence of coworker ostracism on newcomers' proactive behaviors via psychological availability. Important theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Matched MeSH terms: Organizations

The transition to harm reduction: understanding the role of non-governmental organisations in Malaysia

Narayanan S, Vicknasingam B, Robson NM

Int J Drug Policy, 2011 Jul;22(4):311-7.

PMID: 21300533 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2011.01.002

The transition of drug policy from prohibition to harm reduction has never been easy. The deeply entrenched belief in prohibition shared by policy makers and religious leaders provided little room for alternatives, and change came only slowly. The non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Malaysia played a pivotal role in effecting such a change. Understanding how they did so may be instructive for other similarly placed countries.

Matched MeSH terms: Organizations

The relationship between work-life balance, the need for achievement, and intention to leave: Mixed-method study

Dousin O, Collins N, Bartram T, Stanton P

J Adv Nurs, 2021 Mar;77(3):1478-1489.

PMID: 33314305 DOI: 10.1111/jan.14724

AIMS: To examine the mediating role of employee well-being on the relationship between work-life balance practices, the need for achievement and intention to leave among nurses in Malaysia.

BACKGROUND: Work-life balance practices are associated with employee perceptions of the need for achievement and well-being which subsequently influence their intention to leave the organization. This study contributes new knowledge to nursing studies on work-life balance in an Asian and Islamic society where the expectations for women are to focus on family rather than career.

DESIGN: A cross-sectional, explanatory mixed methodology.

METHODS: This is a two-phase study conducted between 2015-2017 with 401 nurses in East Malaysia. In Phase 1, researchers surveyed 379 nurses to test eight hypotheses and in Phase 2 researchers interviewed 22 nurses to explore the results of Phase 1.

RESULTS: Phase 1 revealed job satisfaction mediates the relationship between work-life balance practices (e.g. flexibility and choice in working hours, supportive supervision), financial success, and intention to leave. However, life satisfaction and money as a motivator did not mediate such relationships. Phase 2 identified four important factors that cast light on survey results: working conditions of Malaysian nurses; inadequate compensation in the public healthcare sector; team-based practices; and pressure on senior nurses in both administrative and clinical roles.

CONCLUSION: This is one of the first studies to investigate work-life balance issues among nurses in Malaysia. Outcomes of this study extend the debates on work-life balance and employee well-being in an Asian Islamic social context.

IMPACT: The use of flexible working arrangements and collectivist teamwork approaches, improving compensation and employment benefits and eliminating the 'time-based job promotion' policy may help to mitigate work-life balance issues and intention to leave among nurses in Malaysia.

Matched MeSH terms: Organizations

Fulltext The relationship between task characteristics and employee engagement

Rowena Gloriana, George, Victoria, Jonathan, Florianna Lendai, Michael

Trends in Undergraduate Research, 2020;3(1):1-6.

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The objective of this study is to identify the relationship between task characteristics (variety of skills, task identity, task significance, autonomy, feedback) and employee engagement. The study was conducted in a healthcare service in Sabah, Malaysia. A self administered questionnaire was used to collect data by using convenience sampling. A total of 78 respondents participated in the study. Data was analyzed using Spearman Correlation. The results revealed a significant and positive relationship between task characteristics (variety of skills, task identity, task significance, autonomy, feedback) and employee engagement in the studied organization. This has important implications to employers. It is recommended that managers, human resource development (HRD) practitioners and supervisors provide employees with more challenging tasks, autonomy and feedback from time to time. Moreover, work designs should include how the tasks may improve employee identity and significance.

Matched MeSH terms: Organizations

The relationship between migration and development in the ESCAP region

Skeldon R

Popul Res Leads, 1991.

PMID: 12317488

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Fulltext The political economy of infant and young child feeding: confronting corporate power, overcoming structural barriers, and accelerating progress

Baker P, Smith JP, Garde A, Grummer-Strawn LM, Wood B, Sen G, et al.

Lancet, 2023 Feb 11;401(10375):503-524.

PMID: 36764315 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01933-X

Despite increasing evidence about the value and importance of breastfeeding, less than half of the world's infants and young children (aged 0-36 months) are breastfed as recommended. This Series paper examines the social, political, and economic reasons for this problem. First, this paper highlights the power of the commercial milk formula (CMF) industry to commodify the feeding of infants and young children; influence policy at both national and international levels in ways that grow and sustain CMF markets; and externalise the social, environmental, and economic costs of CMF. Second, this paper examines how breastfeeding is undermined by economic policies and systems that ignore the value of care work by women, including breastfeeding, and by the inadequacy of maternity rights protection across the world, especially for poorer women. Third, this paper presents three reasons why health systems often do not provide adequate breastfeeding protection, promotion, and support. These reasons are the gendered and biomedical power systems that deny women-centred and culturally appropriate care; the economic and ideological factors that accept, and even encourage, commercial influence and conflicts of interest; and the fiscal and economic policies that leave governments with insufficient funds to adequately protect, promote, and support breastfeeding. We outline six sets of wide-ranging social, political, and economic reforms required to overcome these deeply embedded commercial and structural barriers to breastfeeding.

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Fulltext The mediating role of procedural justice on the relationship between job analysis and employee performance in Jordan Industrial Estates

Khtatbeh MM, Mahomed ASB, Rahman SBA, Mohamed R

Heliyon, 2020 Oct;6(10):e04973.

PMID: 33083583 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04973

Job analysis and employees' perception of justice have a significant influence on employee performance within an organization. This study examined the relationships between job analysis, job performance, and procedural justice among local employees in Jordan Industrial Estates. The literature demonstrated gaps in knowledge regarding the relationships between these variables in developing countries, which are intended to be filled by this study. The study drew from the pay model and equity theory. Data were collected with a survey questionnaire from 690 Jordanian employees working in three industrial estates. The data were analyzed through structural equation modelling (SEM) using SPSS and AMOS software tools. The results indicated to a significant positive relationship between job analysis and job performance, job analysis and procedural justice, and a positive relationship between procedural justice and job performance. Also, it is found that procedural justice mediates the relationship between job analysis and job performance. It is expected that the results of this study would have an impact on employee's performance through the fair implementation of one of the human resources practices, namely, job analysis, and thus organizational performance. Also, it contributes to the body of knowledge and supports the mediating role of procedural justice in decisions taken within the organization.

Matched MeSH terms: Organizations

The landscape of research on smartphone medical apps: Coherent taxonomy, motivations, open challenges and recommendations

Hussain M, Al-Haiqi A, Zaidan AA, Zaidan BB, Kiah ML, Anuar NB, et al.

Comput Methods Programs Biomed, 2015 Dec;122(3):393-408.

PMID: 26412009 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2015.08.015

To survey researchers' efforts in response to the new and disruptive technology of smartphone medical apps, mapping the research landscape form the literature into a coherent taxonomy, and finding out basic characteristics of this emerging field represented on: motivation of using smartphone apps in medicine and healthcare, open challenges that hinder the utility, and the recommendations to improve the acceptance and use of medical apps in the literature.

Matched MeSH terms: Organizations

Fulltext The interplay between the civil society and the private sector, especially for resource mobilization

Abraham, Martin

ASM Science Journal, 2012;6(1):67-70.

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The pursuit, initiation and establishment of multi-stakeholder partnerships, including with the private sector, is often a critical component of attaining and achieving the success and sustainability of many projects the world over. However, the soliciting and securing of socially, economically and environmentally constructive engagements between the private sector on the one hand, and the NGOs, CBOs and local communities on the other hand, is in reality much easier said than done. Notably, since most private sector corporations undoubtedly tend to leave behind various "ecological footprints", differing only in their size and depth, stemming from their respective forms and functions, and their ensuing impacts and implications. The interplay between the civil society and the private sector, especially for resource mobilization. (Copied from article).

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