Workplace deviant behavior is an action performed voluntarily by an individual and harms the
organizational norms and affects individual, organization or both. Therefore, it is a priority to the
organization to understand and look at the workplace deviant behavior issue because different
individual and environment will cause differences in how an individual behaves. Understanding the
terms, factors, typologies and effects of deviant behavior will enable organization to draw the
rehabilitation plan so deviant behavior will be curbed from the beginning. Overcoming workplace
deviant behavior will result in positive impact to the organization management and financial and will
lead to positive and conducive environment at the workplace.
The mediation of moral disengagement is seldom used as a mechanism in determining the relationship
between abusive supervision and deviant behavior. Integration of Moral Disengagement Theory, Social
Exchange Theory and past research findings, a model is developed which shows abusive supervision
will increase possibility of individual involved in deviant behavior which directly will affect individual
or organization or both. This model shows how the integration obtained from the literature review
between variables which are abusive supervision, moral disengagement and deviant behavior are able
to explore and give understanding towards individual’s deviant behavior in an organization. This
understanding will help organization to conduct an intervention to overcome deviant behavior issue in
an organization.
Various claims have been made about the extinction of Malay Reservation Land in the country. Before
independence, the land depreciation was due to the acquisition of land by the British colonial
government for mining, opening of new villages during the communist threat and the mortgage and
sale activities by the Malay landowners to non-Malays. After independence, land depreciation linked
with the acquisition of land by the government through the Land Acquisition Act, 1960. This study is a
content analysis study involving material derived from the secondary source text and earlier research
findings. Emphasis is given to analyze the statistical size of Malay Reservation Land in the country.
Results show that the allegations regarding the depreciation trend of the Malay Reservation Land is
inaccurate and misleading. While the analysis of the size of the Malay Reservation Land found that the
actual percentage of Malay Reservation Land in 2009 was 30.13 percent instead of 11.83 percent as
claimed. The percentage grew steadily in 2013 to 31.85 percent. The analysis also found that there was
confusion about the actual size of Malay Reservation Land in the country.
The multiple ownership status of the Malay Reservation Land (MRL) has existed since its
establishment by the British colonialist through the Malay Reserves Enactment 1913. The main factor
of the multiple ownership status was due to the continuous process of land inheritance from generation
to next. This situation has given negative implications in the development of the land. This article
discusses the issue of developing the multiple ownership of Malay Reserve Land. Data collection is
conducted by semi-structured interview to the Perak Tengah District Officer and a number of
landowners involved in MRL’s multiple ownership. The qualitative data analysis shows that the
multiple ownership of the MRL can trigger social relationship problems among land co-owners and
subsequently create problems to develop them. It is proposed that co-owners be more tolerant and
willing to develop their land in joint venture scheme or develop individually through the process of
land partition. In order to resolve the difficulty of obtaining financing, landowners must ensure that the
development project is competitive and implemented within the local development zone.
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.
At present, social protection system is a requirement for those involved in all sectors of employment
such as pensions to Government employees and Employees Provident Fund (EPF) to private sector
workers. The primary basis of the system is to provide protection to address poverty, financial
assistance and future guarantees. However, no structured social protection system was introduced to
the informal sectors workers in Malaysia such as farmers and others. The purpose of this study is to
examine the level of knowledge and acceptance of social protection systems among farmers in the
Muda Agricultural Development Authority (MADA). This study involved 573 respondents covering 4
regions within the MADA area. In conclusion, this study will examine the level of knowledge and
acceptance of farmers on social protection systems in their communities.
Kemajuan negara dan perkembangan bangsa adalah berdasarkan sistem pendidikan yang diamalkan. Pendidikan yang baik dapat melahirkan generasi yang bertanggungjawab dan menghargai kehidupan. Hal ini telah mencetuskan Wawasan Pendidikan Negara yang merupakan inti pati kepada Wawasan 2020. Usaha menyemai nilai murni dan perubahan pendidikan dalam kalangan pelajar kini turut terletak di bahu guru. Sifat kepimpinan yang terdapat pada guru amat penting dalam pembentukan wawasan pendidikan terutama gaya kepimpinan yang digunakan terhadap pelajar. Berdasarkan hala tuju yang telah digariskan, guru perlu menggunakan gaya kepimpinan yang diamalkan secara menyeluruh bagi memastikan segala aktiviti atau strategi yang dirancang mengikut hala tuju tersebut. Peranan seorang guru dalam membentuk wawasan ini juga membantu memberi kefahaman kepada guru dalam segala tindak tanduk yang perlu dilakukannya bagi mencapai Wawasan Pendidikan Negara
Entrepreneurship showed an increase in the popularity of business education, engineering education,
universities and educational institutions. All students who engage in entrepreneurial education has the
potential to develop their entrepreneurial skills and knowledge. However, the majority of
entrepreneurial education program focused on the exploitation of existing opportunities and assume
that these opportunities have been identified. Research on entrepreneurship also shows that efficiency
is often ignored or receive little attention while teaching entrepreneurship. This article was developed
to assist in improving the understanding of the concept of learning which supports entrepreneurship
and the development of entrepreneurial competence.
This study is a survey to identify the formation of leadership skills through teaching practice.
Leadership skills consist of three basic skills of technical skills, interpersonal skills and conceptual
skills. The study also examined the relationship between the formations of leadership skills with the
course of study and identifies the differences in formation of leadership skills during teaching practice
conducted in rural schools and urban schools. The study was conducted through survey method by
using questionnaires. Meanwhile, the population involved were students of Faculty of Education,
UTM. Analysis of the findings of this study is using SPSS 17.0 by descriptive and inferential. The
results of this study show that the formation of leadership skills through teaching practice is high at
85.4%. For inferential statistical results showed there was no significant relationship to formation of
leadership skills with the course of study and there was no significant difference in relationship between the formation of leadership skills through teaching practice conducted in rural schools and
urban schools. In conclusion, all the elements of leadership skills can be formed and developed through
teaching practice and will be improved from time to time. Meanwhile, there was no significant
relationship to the formation of leadership skills through teaching practice with the course of study and
with the different of teaching practice location.
The existence of the gap between the expectation of culinary students and the realities of the job
market has led the students to face the obstacles to entering or continuing their career in the same
industry. As such, entrepreneurship is one of the best approaches in educating culinary students to
prepare for any possible after graduation. However, there are no guidelines for determining and
measuring the entrepreneurial level of culinary students. Therefore, this research aims to identify the
elements of entrepreneurship in culinary. The results of this research is a culinary entrepreneurial
framework. Side of this research is to build a measurement instrument of culinary entrepreneurship
level and to produce culinary entrepreneurship profiles for culinary students. This research uses
qualitative method in the first phase through document analysis and interviews with graduates and
culinary entrepreneurs. At the end of the study, it will acquire a culinary entrepreneurial framework
that is also used to produce an entrepreneurship measurement instrument in the second phase of
research.
Logistics development of Malaysian Armed Forces (ATM) involving the Malaysian Army (TDM),
Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) and Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) have been developed since
1957. Since the 1990s, ATM has been through the process of modernization which is can seen through
the rapid and strong capabilities in logistics aspect. Defense policy development has involved the
development of the logistical aspects of ATM. Purchasing of defense equipments such as the most
modern warship in Armed Force in 1990, Scorpene submarines, fighter aircraft which is used by the
developed countries such as the MiG-29, FA/18 Hornet and Sukhoi 30MKM, battle tanks from Poland
and so on with the transfer package technology is essential to ensure that the principle of self-reliance
defense ATM can be achieved. This process has force the government to allocate a large amount of
money in providing modern logistics equipments so it can be used to the maximum by the defense forces. In fact, the development of the defense and Malaysian Armed Forces (ATM) also growing
along with the development of technology, defense policy, doctrine of current world logistics. However
the logistics development has raised questions because of the capabilty of logistic and Malaysian
Armed Forces (ATM) itself which are caused various accidents and issues affecting ATM.
This article describes the development process of the National Defence Policy (NDP), which is
executed by the Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF) and government. In this chapter, it will touch on the
early development of the international political developments during and after the Cold War (1991),
the Southeast Asian region and threats that affect the development of the defense. In addition, this
paper describes the development process of the Malaysian defense policy adopted since 1957 to 2010.
The NDP formed since 1957 involves various aspects such as the importance of the region to Malaysia,
the concept of defense and the principle of national defense. This article clarify in detail on the aspects
as set out in the NDP in particular the principle of self-reliance defense, principal of regional
cooperation defense and the principle of the foreign aid defense. In addition, this paper also describes
the implementation of a number of defense strategies implemented by MAF as resistant barring
defense, forward defense, diplomacy defense, and total defense. To fine-tune the process of national
defense developmet, this chapter also will look on the efforts and development process by all branches of service of MAF which are Malaysian Army (MA), Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) and Royal
Malaysian Air Force (RMAF).
The main purpose of this study is to understand the financial status of urban poor community in Kuala Lumpur and factors affecting their personal well-being. The sampling size of this research is 1,064 respondents chosen by using systematic sampling method. The data was obtained by using selfadministered questionnaires and the data being analysed by descriptive analysis meanwhile and multi regression analysis. The results shows that the urban poor community in Kuala Lumpur are having a moderate level of financial literacy possess a less effective financial behaviour, experiencing a high financial strain and adapting a moderate level of personal well-being. Besides that, the results also indicates that the financial literacy has no influence on personal well-being of the urban poor community, meanwhile financial behaviour has a positive influence and financial strain has a negative influence on the personal well-being of the urban poor community. The findings of the study suggest the government and non-government organisation such as Economic Planning Unit ((EPU), Kuala Lumpur City Hall (KLCH or DBKL), Central Bank of Malaysia (BNM), Credit Counselling and Debt Management Agency (CCDM or AKPK), Federation of Consumer Association (FOMCA) to make an inclusive effort and approach to improve the personal well-being of the urban poor. By understanding more about the financial status of the urban poor community, it is hoped to help them to become financial prudence and in the long-run could lead them into a good decision making while facing conflicts in financial issues and maintain a good quality of life. It is important to ensure the urban poor consumers have better financial management skills which lead them to make the right decision in order to enhance their personal well-being.
Previous studies approved that not all lesson activities are suitable for gifted and talented students.
This study is designed to identify what are the proper musical activities that can fill the needs of gifted
and talented students in Malaysia. The research sample is among gifted and talented students from the
whole Malaysia who are studying in Pusat PERMATApintar Negara. Result in this study may be used
as reference for educators who want to teach music on gifted and talented children, so that educators
may choose the right and effective activities to implement on those children. Therefore, the researcher
collects data using Focus Group Discussion Techique,and Indepth Interview on gifted and talented
children who had experienced music in formal class. Observation is also conducted in music classes in
Pusat PERMATApintar Negara to identify their behavioral on the musical activities conducted. Result
reveals that all the students believe the most proper musical activities are playing musical instruments, performance, music theory and singing. Teachers may attract students’ attention by using interactive
learning apparatus, relates theory and practical, and justify the importance of music study.
This study is designed in qualitative form which focuses on musical coordination skill that is sing and
clapping rhythm simultaneously in meter . The researcher used one of music teaching method which
is Dalcroze Approach as an intervention in this study. Dalcroze Approach is a method which relates
musical concepts with movement. Research sample is among Year 4 students aged 10 years old from
different sex and race. Data have been collected through observation and interview. A comprehension
exam is conducted as a supplementary data collection. Findings show the students have achieved good
result in music coordination skill after the implementation of the Dalcroze Approach. Observation
revealed that all the students have increase their coordination skill in singing and clapping the rhythm simultaneously. Interview which is conducted on students found 60 percent of them are very confident
to do the skill as well. The result of comprehension exam shows 73 percent of students score A which
can be described as excellent. Researcher wish to have further study in developing the music
coordination skill by improving the intervention of the study.
Previous studies shows that to do two musical skills simultaneosly is not easy. This is more difficult
when it been taught to children. However, the Dalcroze Eurhythmics Approach is believed can ease the
children to coordinate the musical skills to present a good musical performance. This is a pilot study
involving sample of 31 children from a primary school in Putrajaya divided into 19 boys and 12 girls.
Respondents’ achievement were analysed after 12 sessions of intervention for three months. Result
shows the mean score of the coordination singing and playing kompang is 61.7 with standard division
12.47. There are 3 students scored Grade A, 10 scored Grade B, 13 scored Grade C, 4 scored Grade D
and one student failed with Grade E. Because 30 students have passed the test, the reasearcher come up with the solution that the Dalcroze Eurhythmics Approach is relevant to be taught to increase children
coordination skill which is sing and play percussion simultaneously.
The role of individual healthy behaviors like physical activity, nutrition and stress management on reduction of rate of disease mortality and morbidity is well known. The aim of this study is to determine healthy lifestyle in lecturers employed in School of Quantitative Sciences, University Utara Malaysia, in 2019. Materials and Methods: The participants of this cross-sectional study were 66 lecturers in School of Quantitative Sciences, selected via random sampling method. The data collection was performed using a questionnaire including demographic healthy lifestyle questions. Analysis of the data was performed through Software Statistical Analysis System Enterprise Guide (SAS EG) version 7.1. Results: The mean age of the subjects was 42.68 ± 1.37 years and, BMI mean was 24.13 ± 0.86. 92.42% of them were married and 7.58% also were single. Conclusion: According to the results, planning for lecturers in School of Quantitative Sciences for receiving information about healthy lifestyle on weight control and nutrition are important.
Kertas konsep ini bertujuan untuk membincangkan mengenai kepimpinan instruktional dalam kalangan Penyelia Pendidikan awal kanak-kanak dan kepuasan kerja guru Tabika/Taska KEMAS. Dalam era globlalisasi yang pesat dengan pembangunan teknologi alam maya, pemimpin dan peneraju pendidikan awal kanak-kanak perlu mempunyai kompetensi seiring dengan tranformasi pendidikan yang telah dirancang. Kepimpinan instruktional dalam kalangan Penyelia Operasi Pendidikan Awal Kanak-kanak Jabatan Kemajuan Masyarakat KEMAS perlu di implementasikan untuk mencapai tahap kepimpinan optimum yang selaras dengan Standard Kualiti Prasekolah Kebangsaan. Kajian tinjauan ini dilaksanakan bagi tujuan untuk mengenalpasti tahap kepimpinan instruksional Penyelia Operasi Pendidikan Awal Kanak-kanak dan hubunganya dengan kepuasan kerja, Pemaju Masyarakat Tabika/Taska (guru) KEMAS. Seramai 24 orang Penyelia Operasi Pendidikan awal Kanak-kanak dari 24 Parlimen dan 240 Pemaju Masyarakat Tabika/Taska KEMAS di Sabah akan dipilih dalam kajian ini. Seterusnya kajian ini memberi implikasi bahawa pengaruh tahap kepimpinan Penyelia Operasi Pendidikan Awal Kanak-Kanak dan kepuasan kerja Pemaju Masyarakat Tabika/Taska amat penting untuk memastikan halatuju pendidikan awal kanak-kanak di Jabatan KEMAS.
The crime of human trafficking is a phenomenon that practically affects every part of the world. The
crime is generally influenced by various political as well as socio-economic factors. Oftentimes,
victimization, causal factors, and policy response receive the most attention in human trafficking
studies, while other aspects like the market system or supply and demand in human trafficking are
given little focus. Hence, the objective of this paper is to analyze the market system and the intrinsic
elements that influence the supply and demand in human trafficking, with a reference to the case study
of Sabah, Malaysia. The qualitative data for this paper were obtained through personal observation and
interviews with public officials from the government enforcement agencies like the Royal Malaysian
Police, Immigration Department of Malaysia, as well as former traffickers, ex-victims, and
academicians. Besides, various reports from the government, non-governmental organizations, and
news media helped to collate and provide a comprehensive analysis of the subject matter. Using
perspectives from the economics of crime, this paper examined the macro and micro-level factors that
regulate the supply and demand in human trafficking. The findings suggest that the supply of trafficked
labour in Sabah is influenced by macro-level factors like globalization, unequal economic
development, demographic factors, and domestic conflict, while the demand for trafficked labour is
amplified by the factors such as consumers, exploiters, socio-culture, and the state. These elements are
essential in regulating the market system of supply and demand in human trafficking. An inclusive
understanding of supply and demand in human trafficking is important as it has implications for
knowledge development as well as policy responses to disrupt the market forces that sustain the crime.
Kajian secara deskriptif ini bertujuan untuk mengenalpasti tahap penjanaan aplikasi strategi kemahiran pemikiran sejarah melalui aktiviti analisis sumber-sumber dokumen teks sejarah. Seramai 55 orang murid Tingkatan Empat yang berbeza tahap pemikiran kritis terlibat dalam kajian ini. Soal selidik kemahiran pemikiran sejarah dan ujian pemikiran kritis yang diadaptasi merupakan instrumen kajian ini. Dapatan kajian ini menunjukkan bahawa tahap penjanaan aplikasi strategi kemahiran pemikiran sejarah melalui aktiviti analisis sumber-sumber dokumen teks sejarah berada pada tahap tinggi. Selain itu, murid berpemikiran kritis tinggi mempamerkan tahap yang lebih tinggi berbanding dengan murid berpemikiran kritis rendah. Kajian ini diharapkan dapat dijadikan sumber rujukan kepada guru-guru dalam merancang kaedah pengajaran yang inovatif selaras dengan pelaksanaan strategi pembelajaran abad ke-21 dalam pendidikan sejarah.