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Fulltext Skills and Technology in Producing Capable and Productive Work Force

AKMAL NOR WAJIHAH BINTI AHMAD

Trends in Undergraduate Research, 2018;1(1):0-0.
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Technology is a tool that influences today’s lifestyle especially in the employment sector. The use of technology in employment may help in increasing the worker’s appraisal. The efficiency can be measured based on the increase of the productivity and the acceptance in using this system to help in upgrading the quality of the product output. It also assists in communication, increasing the worker’s integrity, productivity and the spread of information.

Matched MeSH terms: Employment
Fulltext An overview of optical fiber sensor applications in liquid concentration measurements

Hazura Haroon, Siti Sarah Khalid

Journal of Advanced Review on Scientific Research, 2017;36(1):1-7.
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This paper provides a qualitative overview of different Optical Fiber Sensors (OFS),
which play important role in the field of sensors due to their excellent
characteristics, spontaneous response and easy handling system. The current
state of the art of optical fiber technology is reviewed, namely based on its main
characteristics and sensing advantages. In addition, the working principle of OFS
and their applications are discussed, particularly for sensor employment.

Matched MeSH terms: Employment
Fulltext Manipulating microbending losses in single mode optical fiber for pressure sensing

Wan Maisarah Mukhtar, Nur Auni Marzuki, Affa Rozana Abdul Rashid

Journal of Advanced Research in Applied Sciences and Engineering Technology, 2017;9(1):14-21.
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This paper reports the effect of microbending losses in single mode optical fiber
for pressure sensing system application. Several types of periodical corrugated
plates were fabricated, namely cylindrical-structured surface (Plate A) and
rectangular-structured surface (Plate B) with thicknesses of corrugated parts
were varied at 0.1 cm, 0.2 cm and 0.3 cm. Laser sources with excitation
wavelengths of 1= 1310 nm and 2= 1550 nm were launched at the first end
of the fiber. The values of losses were recorded by using an optical power
meter. It was clearly seen that the microbending losses were polynomially
increased with the increment of applied pressure and the thicknesses of
corrugated parts of Plate A and Plate B. The maximum microbending losses of
1.5185 dBm/kPa was resulted as SMF was coupled with corrugated plates B
with thicknesses of 0.3cm by using excitation wavelength of 1550nm. These
values reduced to 0.7628 dBm/kPa and 0.4014 dBm/kPa as the thicknesses
were decreased to 0.2cm and 0.1cm respectively. In comparison with a plain
plate which acted as a reference indicator, the maximum percentage of
microbending losses was obtained as 74.29 % for Plate A and 95.02 % for Plate
B. In conclusions, we successfully proved the ability of SMF as a pressure sensor
by manipulating the microbending losses experienced by the fiber. The
employment of 1550nm of laser wavelength results better sensitivity sensor
where the system able to detect large losses as the pressure applied on the
corrugated surfaces.

Matched MeSH terms: Employment
Fulltext Detection of Cattle Using Drones and Convolutional Neural Networks

Rivas A, Chamoso P, González-Briones A, Corchado JM

Sensors (Basel), 2018 Jun 27;18(7).
PMID: 29954080 DOI: 10.3390/s18072048

Multirotor drones have been one of the most important technological advances of the last decade. Their mechanics are simple compared to other types of drones and their possibilities in flight are greater. For example, they can take-off vertically. Their capabilities have therefore brought progress to many professional activities. Moreover, advances in computing and telecommunications have also broadened the range of activities in which drones may be used. Currently, artificial intelligence and information analysis are the main areas of research in the field of computing. The case study presented in this article employed artificial intelligence techniques in the analysis of information captured by drones. More specifically, the camera installed in the drone took images which were later analyzed using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to identify the objects captured in the images. In this research, a CNN was trained to detect cattle, however the same training process could be followed to develop a CNN for the detection of any other object. This article describes the design of the platform for real-time analysis of information and its performance in the detection of cattle.

Matched MeSH terms: Employment
Fulltext Interlinked motivation model to use mobile Crowdsourcing platforms among low-income citizens

Mahmod, M., Na’in, N., Ahmad, R., Chit, S.C., Habbal, A.

Pertanika Journal of Science & Technology, 2017;25(110):99-108.
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Crowdsourcing is an initiative implemented by the Malaysian government to support its National Key Result Area (NKRA) agenda to improve the lives of citizens with low household income in the B40 group. Crowdsourcing activities are done on mobile crowdsourcing platforms that enable workers to perform micro tasks at any time for a fixed payment. However, without active and constant participation from the crowd, this initiative might not be successful. This paper describes a preliminary study in identifying motivation factors for participating in mobile crowdsourcing platforms. This study identified intrinsic and extrinsic motivation factors that can attract crowds to participate in mobile crowdsourcing platforms. Technology efficacy factors that interlink with motivation factors were also identified in this study. The preliminary study employed the qualitative method where in-depth interviews were conducted among 30 crowdsourcing participants in Peninsular Malaysia. The findings of this study are the basis for a motivation model that can attract crowdworkers from among the B40 group of household-income earners to participate in crowdsourcing to procure and perform available micro-tasks. The findings will also help improvise mobile platforms for crowdsourcing.

Matched MeSH terms: Employment
Fulltext Evaluation of residential satisfaction towards building maintenance at Rumah Selangorku Damai Utama

Mohd Aliff Farhan Musa, Rafizah Musa

Journal of Advanced Research Design, 2018;46(1):23-29.
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Low-cost high rise housing project is developed to provide a chance for low-income
citizen to own a house at a lower market price. Each low-cost high-rise residential
building possesses its own building management body where one of its duties is to
manage residential area after the strata title has been issued to the purchaser. The
study was carried out to evaluate the level of satisfaction among residents of one lowcost
housing area towards the maintenance activities administered by the building
management body. This research employed mixed-method approach; quantitative and
qualitative, as it able to capture accurate data from both residents and the building
management body. This study concluded that the residents of Rumah Selangorku
Damai Utama are mostly leaning towards dissatisfaction with the building and facilities
maintenance services provided by the building management body.

Matched MeSH terms: Employment
Fulltext Organizational commitment among public employees: a case study in a public university

Mohamed Fajil Abdul Batau, Ahmad Shah Pakeer Mohamed

Malaysian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2016;1(2):9-16.
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This study examines the factors that influence organizational commitment among public employees in
residential colleges in the University of Malaya. A total of 100 employees representing 12 colleges
responded to the questionnaires that were designed to measure their motivation and level of
commitment. The data obtained were analyzed using correlation, analysis of variance and regression
analysis were used in order to achieve the objectives of the study. The findings of this study indicated
that there are significant and positive relationships between all factors (employment compensation,
training and development, career development and management support) with organization
commitment. Furthermore, the findings also showed a directional relationship between independent
and dependent variables by which the public employees at the colleges have positive commitment to
the organization when the management provides attractive training and development, career
development and good management support. In addition, the findings indicated that career
development was the most dominant factor influencing organizational commitment followed by
training development and job compensation. However, management support factor does not affect the
organizational commitment among public employees compared to the other factors.

Matched MeSH terms: Employment
Fulltext The acceptance of eTPP reporting system by using TAM model

Mohd Hafizan Musa, Ahmad Kamalrulzaman Othman, Rusnani Mohamad Khalid, Yusnita Sokman, Wan Mohd Farid Wan Zakaria

Journal of Academia Universiti Teknologi MARA Negeri Sembilan, 2018;6(1):8-20.
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Technological innovations are significant in human and professional life. A new online correction and
prevention system called eTPP to replace old traditional system has introduced new major changes in
the reporting process. Therefore, this study was carried out to determine the level of user's acceptance
towards eTPP and to investigate the factors that influence user's behavioural intentions to use eTPP in
UiTM Cawangan Johor, Kampus Segamat. A Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was employed
as a conceptual framework to investigate the factors that influence users' acceptance to use eTPP. To
test the model, data were collected from 44 respondents from various departments in UiTM
Cawangan Johor, Kampus Segamat. Questionnaires were distributed to collect primary data from the
respondents about their acceptability of eTPP. The results were presented through multiple regression
analysis and supported by mediating analysis (Preacher and Hayes, 2008; Baron and Kenny, 1986),
whereby it showed consistent mediating result with the regression result. The overall finding of the
study showed that the perceived ease of use was the main factor influencing eTPP acceptance among
the users.

Matched MeSH terms: Employment
Improvement on the innovational outlier detection procedure in a bilinear model

Mohamed I, Ismail M, Yahya M, Hussin A, Mohamed N, Zaharim A, et al.

Sains Malaysiana, 2011;40:1123-1127.

This paper considers the problem of outlier detection in bilinear time series data with special focus on BL(1,0,1,1) and BL(1,1,1,1) models. In the previous study, the formulations of effect of innovational outlier on the observations and residuals from the process had been developed and the corresponding least squares estimator of outlier effect had been derived. Consequently, an outlier detection procedure employing bootstrap-based procedure to estimate the variance of the estimator had been proposed. In this paper, we proposed to use the mean absolute deviance and trimmed mean formula to estimate the variance to improve the performances of the procedure. Via simulation, we showed that the procedure based on the trimmed mean formula has successfully improved the performance of the procedure.

Matched MeSH terms: Employment
Suffering doubly: How victims of coworker incivility risk poor performance ratings by responding with organizational deviance, unless they leverage ingratiation skills

Azeem MU, De Clercq D, Haq IU

J Soc Psychol, 2021 Jan 02;161(1):86-102.
PMID: 32544025 DOI: 10.1080/00224545.2020.1778617

Building on conservation of resources theory, this study investigates the relationship between employees' exposure to coworker incivility and their job performance ratings, while also considering the mediating role of their deviant work behaviors and the moderating role of their ingratiation skills. Results based on multisource, three-wave data from employees and their supervisors in Pakistani organizations show that disrespectful coworker treatment diminishes employees' performance evaluations, because they seek purposefully to cause harm to their employing organization, as a way to vent their frustrations. This mediating role of organizational deviance is mitigated to the extent that employees have a greater ability to ingratiate with others though. This study accordingly identifies a key mechanism - deviant work behaviors that undermine organizational well-being - through which coworker incivility leads to negative performance consequences, and it reveals how organizations can subdue this process by honing pertinent personal resources within their ranks.

Matched MeSH terms: Employment
Working after cancer: in-depth perspectives from a setting with limited employment protection policies

Kong YC, Rauf N, Subramaniam S, Bustamam RS, Wong LP, Ho GF, et al.

J Cancer Surviv, 2021 10;15(5):706-712.
PMID: 33094415 DOI: 10.1007/s11764-020-00962-z

PURPOSE: A considerable proportion of individuals who are diagnosed with cancer are at a working age. We aimed to gain an in-depth understanding of the challenges, and arising needs related to working after cancer in a setting with limited employment protection policies.
METHODS: Focus group discussions were conducted with cancer patients who were diagnosed at least 1 year prior to recruitment, and either had paid work, were self-employed, currently unemployed, or currently retired (N = 66).
RESULTS: Three main themes were identified: (1) loss of income: While some participants were entitled for a 1-year cancer-specific sick leave, many other participants recounted having insufficient paid sick leave, forcing them to take prolonged unpaid leave to complete treatment; (2) dealing with side effects of cancer and its treatment: The need for workplace accommodations was highlighted including flexible working hours, lighter workloads, and dedicated rest areas to enable patients to cope better; (3) Discrimination and stigma at workplace: Some participants mentioned being passed over on a promotion, getting demoted, or being forced to resign once their cancer diagnosis was disclosed, highlighting an urgent need to destigmatize cancer in the workplace.
CONCLUSION: In settings with limited employment protection policies, a cancer diagnosis severely impacts the working experiences of patients, leading to financial loss. Urgent interventions and legislative reforms are needed in these settings to address the unmet employment needs of cancer survivors.
IMPLICATIONS FOR CANCER SURVIVORS: This study may facilitate planning of local solutions to fulfill the unmet employment needs following cancer, such as return-to-work navigation services.

Matched MeSH terms: Employment
Fulltext A railway rescheduling model with priority setting

Shuib, A., Alwadood, Z.

Pertanika Journal of Science & Technology, 2017;25(2):649-660.
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This paper presents a mathematical approach to solve railway rescheduling problems. The approach assumes that the trains are able to resume their journey after a given time frame of disruption whereby The train that experiences disruption and trains affected by the incident are rescheduled. The approach employed mathematical model to prioritise certain types of train according the railway operator’s requirement. A pre-emptive goal programming model was adapted to find an optimal solution that satisfies the operational constraints and the company’s stated goals. Initially, the model minimises the total service delay of all trains while adhering to the minimum headway requirement and track capacity. Subsequently, it maximises the train service reliability by only considering the trains with delay time window of five minutes or less. The model uses MATLAB R2014a software which automatically generates the optimal solution of the problem based on the input matrix of constraints. An experiment with three incident scenarios on a double-track railway of local network was conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed model. The new provisional timetable was produced in short computing time and the model was able to prioritise desired train schedule.

Matched MeSH terms: Employment
Decomposing the trade-environment nexus for Malaysia: what do the technique, scale, composition, and comparative advantage effect indicate?

Ling CH, Ahmed K, Binti Muhamad R, Shahbaz M

Environ Sci Pollut Res Int, 2015 Dec;22(24):20131-42.
PMID: 26300360 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-015-5217-9

This paper investigates the impact of trade openness on CO2 emissions using time series data over the period of 1970QI-2011QIV for Malaysia. We disintegrate the trade effect into scale, technique, composition, and comparative advantage effects to check the environmental consequence of trade at four different transition points. To achieve the purpose, we have employed augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) and Phillips-Perron (PP) unit root tests in order to examine the stationary properties of the variables. Later, the long-run association among the variables is examined by applying autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach to cointegration. Our results confirm the presence of cointegration. Further, we find that scale effect has positive and technique effect has negative impact on CO2 emissions after threshold income level and form inverted U-shaped relationship-hence validates the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis. Energy consumption adds in CO2 emissions. Trade openness and composite effect improve environmental quality by lowering CO2 emissions. The comparative advantage effect increases CO2 emissions and impairs environmental quality. The results provide the innovative approach to see the impact of trade openness in four sub-dimensions of trade liberalization. Hence, this study attributes more comprehensive policy tool for trade economists to better design environmentally sustainable trade rules and agreements.

Matched MeSH terms: Employment
Fulltext The Influence of Teachers' Management Efficiency and Motivation on College Students' Academic Achievement under Sustainable Innovation and the Cognition of Social Responsibility after Employment

Tan C, Yi L, Haider A, Kwen L, Mamnoon R, Li K, et al.

J Environ Public Health, 2022;2022:1663120.
PMID: 36060872 DOI: 10.1155/2022/1663120

Teachers' management effectiveness can reflect the comprehensive ability and effective evaluation of the teaching management objectives of the school and can also reflect the effectiveness management of the school to a certain extent. In the environment of sustainable and innovative development, the rapid development of education has made improving the management efficiency and motivation of university teachers became the key direction of university management. In order to study the impact of teachers' management efficacy and motivation on college students' academic achievement and postemployment social responsibility cognition under sustainable innovation, this study compares the impact of teachers in different periods on students and analyzes the changes of teachers in different periods on students. Finally, it is concluded that teachers' management efficiency and motivation under sustainable innovation can promote students' employment achievement and social responsibility cognition, improve the teaching quality of colleges and universities, and provide high-quality talents for the country. The educational concept of sustainable innovation is conducive to improving teachers' independent innovation and realizing the educational function of cultivating students' personalized development in colleges and universities.

Matched MeSH terms: Employment
Safety management implementation drivers for construction projects: a structural equation modelling approach

Abu Aisheh YI, Alaloul WS, Alhammadi SA, Tayeh BA

Int J Occup Saf Ergon, 2023 Dec;29(4):1358-1367.
PMID: 36177998 DOI: 10.1080/10803548.2022.2131123

The construction industry is one of the hazardous fields due to its exceptional environment. Therefore, this work aimed to assess the essential drivers needed for employing safety management in the Palestinian construction industry. The drivers for safety management were recognized from earlier literature, where the questionnaires were dispersed to professionals from construction projects. The exploratory factor analysis (EFA) technique was then performed to contextually adjust the identified drivers. The results showed that safety management drivers could be categorized into three constructs: management, awareness and policy. In addition, partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) was performed to generate the safety management driver's model. The results indicated that management drivers were vital drivers for adopting safety management. The study's findings would act as a reference for construction stakeholders to decrease danger and enhance the construction project's success via implementing safety management drivers.

Matched MeSH terms: Employment
Relationships among perceived career support, affective commitment, and work engagement

Poon JM

Int J Psychol, 2013;48(6):1148-55.
PMID: 23406464 DOI: 10.1080/00207594.2013.768768

This study sought to test the predictive effects of perceived career support and affective commitment on work engagement. It was hypothesized that perceived career support would relate positively to work engagement and this relationship would be transmitted through affective commitment. Survey data were collected from 115 full-time employees enrolled as part-time graduate students in a large public university in Malaysia. Multiple regression analysis yielded results indicating that the relationship between perceived career support and work engagement was mediated by affective commitment. This finding suggests that employers can promote employee work engagement by ensuring employees perceive their organization to be supportive of their career and increasing employees' level of affective commitment.

Matched MeSH terms: Employment/psychology*
Making women's voices heard: technological change and women's employment in Malaysia

Ng Choon Sim C

Gend Technol Dev, 1999 Jan-Apr;3(1):19-42.
PMID: 12179935
Matched MeSH terms: Employment*
Assertiveness among Japanese, Malaysian, Filipino, and U.S. white-collar workers

Niikura R

J Soc Psychol, 1999 Dec;139(6):690-9.
PMID: 10646304

The author investigated modes of self-expression as they reflect the quality of assertiveness among Japanese, Malaysian, Filipino, and U.S. white-collar workers. The author collected respondents' answers to a questionnaire consisting of 33 items involving assertiveness related to modes of expression typical of the Japanese people. Several modes of expression considered specific to the Japanese people--styles of group-oriented behavior, younger people's courtesy toward older people, and the deference of the individual to group consensus--were also found among the Malaysian and the Filipino respondents. These behaviors were in contrast to those observed among the U.S. respondents.

Matched MeSH terms: Employment*
Brief report. Social self-concept of educated employed and educated unemployed women

Bala M

Int J Soc Psychiatry, 1998;44(1):71-4.
PMID: 9574853
Matched MeSH terms: Employment/psychology*; Unemployment/psychology*
Women's labour force participation and socioeconomic development: the case of Peninsular Malaysia, 1957-1970

Hirschman C, Aghajanian A

J Southeast Asian Stud, 1980 Mar;11(1):30-49.
PMID: 12336488
Matched MeSH terms: Employment*

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