Nursing staff that had been assigned duties for the residents including provide personal care, as... more Nursing staff that had been assigned duties for the residents including provide personal care, assisting with activities and medications, serving meals, and completing resident’s laundry and housekeeping. Sometimes, too many responsibilities by taking care of residents may lead to working extra hours. Due to this, nursing staff will experience frequent changes in their working shifts, resulting into extended overtime and working at days off that may result into turnover. Turnover may lead into potential negative health outcome for nursing home residents in nursing staff payment (salary, wages and other beneficiation) are disproportionate compare to their working hours. It is because of nursing home nurses are the lowest paid employees in healthcare labour force. Understanding turnover in nursing homes are important because it can influence the operation of a nursing home. The purpose of this paper is to identify the characteristics that contribute to the staff turnover by developing a conceptual framework for staff development in retaining the staff in a nursing home. Four characteristics that have been identified which are people, program, process and rewards.
This thesis aims to develop a Theoretical Framework for Conserving Cultural Values of Heritage Bu... more This thesis aims to develop a Theoretical Framework for Conserving Cultural Values of Heritage Buildings in Malaysia from the perspective of Facilities Management. It proposes the establishment of Cultural Values of Heritage Buildings (CVHB) and Facilities Management (FM) in sustaining the physical condition, authenticity, and integrity of heritage buildings in Malaysia. The linkages between CVHB and FM will help to produce guidelines for conserving CVHB from the FM perspective (CVHB-FM) at the initial phase of conservation in Malaysia. The thesis adapted the Critical Realist approach in understanding the world by distinguishing the reality from factual and empirical, and recognising the social structures in the phenomenon. The research process “onion” was adapted to achieve the goal of the thesis. A Case-Study was conducted based on Malacca’s World Heritage City. A single holistic embedded approach was employed from the three levels of conservation practitioners who were strategic,...
International Journal of Education, Psychology and Counseling
The pandemic COVID-19 has transformed traditional face-to-face learning into online learning. Imp... more The pandemic COVID-19 has transformed traditional face-to-face learning into online learning. Implementation of online education is vital to stop the spread of the virus. Nevertheless, despite the advantages offered by online learning, it also presents challenges to students living in rural areas. The present study aims to explore the insight of online learning among rural students. Therefore, this study explores qualitative insight to obtain in-depth knowledge of online learning in rural areas. This study conducted an online survey with 21 students in rural areas. The qualitative content analysis produced four relevant themes of online learning: easy-to-find information, internet disruption, lack of focus, and difficult understanding. This study contributes to online learning literature in a rural area context.
Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Environment Management
Sustainability has long been discussed in many perspectives considering its importance to our liv... more Sustainability has long been discussed in many perspectives considering its importance to our lives. The practices embedded in Sustainability must consistently be done to achieve the goals that have been set in the Sustainability Development Goals (SDG) especially to fight a climate change and to create the sustainable cities and communities. To practise sustainability successfully, people should be aware and have a better understanding of sustainability issues and practices. Thus, this paper intends to look at the trends and issues in the awareness and perception towards sustainability. A conceptual paper in nature, this study reviewed past research works which included the perception and awareness of sustainability. This paper gathered study patterns and accessed the findings from multiple previous studies. Based on the findings, the awareness of sustainability was found to sustainability principles among the society. Education is recognised to have played a significant role of in...
Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development, 2019
The aims of study to examine the relationship between job demands, job resources and job stress a... more The aims of study to examine the relationship between job demands, job resources and job stress among staff in nursing home. The data collected from staffs that work in Malaysian private nursing home including nurses, medical attendance and caregivers. The data has been analyzed through descriptive statistic, correlation analysis and linear regression. The results revealed that there is a negative relationship between job resources and job stress and there is a positive relationship between job demand and job stress. Increase in job demands will affect employees’ mental and physical and it leads to health problems as well as exhaustion of energy. In contrast, job resources foster employee engagement and extra-role performance.
Since the world was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis that began in December 2019, many industr... more Since the world was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis that began in December 2019, many industries have been affected, including the franchise industry in Malaysia. Thus, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a great impact on business survival. Direct effects can be seen in reduced income, job losses, changes in customer preferences, and business relationships between franchisors and franchisees. Some franchises have had to close their operations, and others still struggled to survive during the pandemic crisis. In addressing this situation, the role of government is crucial in supporting the resilience of these franchisor entrepreneurs in an increasingly worrisome situation around the world. However, the existing literature that focuses on the role of government in developing countries such as Malaysia is still poorly understood. In addition, a study of the Malaysian franchising industry during the pandemic crisis is still inadequate, especially concerning the government’s role in the s...
This paper aims to develop a Staff Development Framework in Nursing Homes (SDF- NH) to improve st... more This paper aims to develop a Staff Development Framework in Nursing Homes (SDF- NH) to improve staff and organisational effectiveness in Nursing Homes in Malaysia. Expert Interviews with five Nursing Homes were conducted via purposive sampling and analysed by Content Analysis. The results indicates that the SDF-NH integrates: (a) people, which are qualified staff, and development of attitude, skills, knowledge (ASK) and performance for the effectiveness of service delivery; (b) programme; which include training and motivation programme, practical courses, and job rotation as the practices; (c) process, is the strategy of continuous improvement of people and programme in the Nursing Home; (d) funds, are the government financial supports to assist the NHs; and; (e) rewards, are one of the incentives to retain staff services.
There is an alarming concern among educators and parents about children who cannot read but more ... more There is an alarming concern among educators and parents about children who cannot read but more seriously about those who can read but do not have the motivation to read. The study investigated 245 undergraduates’ level of reading motivation and their reading strategies use when they read academic texts. This study aims at finding the connection between reading motivation and reading strategy, to discover the differences between male and female students’ reading motivation and reading strategy and the relationship between variables such as program of study and family’s income. The results showed that the undergraduates’ reading motivation was of moderate level and they mostly use the cognitive reading strategy instead of the metacognitive reading strategy. There seemed to be a connection between the undergraduates’ reading motivation and the reading strategy used. The results indicated that their motivation to read had an influence on the use of the reading strategy. Though female ...
Inflation is one of the most substantial elements in the analysis of a country’s economy. It desc... more Inflation is one of the most substantial elements in the analysis of a country’s economy. It describes the general increment of the price of goods and services in a country. The interaction between inflation and economic growth are closely related. A high inflation rate would bring a negative impact on a country. Economists agreed that price stability is a prerequisite for a country’s rapid growth and important for a balanced development mechanism. Great economic decision can be made with a good forecasting values associated with low forecast errors. This research aimed to identify the best model in forecasting inflation using the Consumer Price Index (CPI) data as an indicator of inflation. Three models were considered based on univariate and multivariate time series. Models based on the fixed parameter and the time-varying parameter were also considered. The best model chosen is based on out-of-sample forecasting framework starting from January 2009 until December 2012, while the ...
Nursing staff that had been assigned duties for the residents including provide personal care, as... more Nursing staff that had been assigned duties for the residents including provide personal care, assisting with activities and medications, serving meals, and completing resident’s laundry and housekeeping. Sometimes, too many responsibilities by taking care of residents may lead to working extra hours. Due to this, nursing staff will experience frequent changes in their working shifts, resulting into extended overtime and working at days off that may result into turnover. Turnover may lead into potential negative health outcome for nursing home residents in nursing staff payment (salary, wages and other beneficiation) are disproportionate compare to their working hours. It is because of nursing home nurses are the lowest paid employees in healthcare labour force. Understanding turnover in nursing homes are important because it can influence the operation of a nursing home. The purpose of this paper is to identify the characteristics that contribute to the staff turnover by developing a conceptual framework for staff development in retaining the staff in a nursing home. Four characteristics that have been identified which are people, program, process and rewards.
This thesis aims to develop a Theoretical Framework for Conserving Cultural Values of Heritage Bu... more This thesis aims to develop a Theoretical Framework for Conserving Cultural Values of Heritage Buildings in Malaysia from the perspective of Facilities Management. It proposes the establishment of Cultural Values of Heritage Buildings (CVHB) and Facilities Management (FM) in sustaining the physical condition, authenticity, and integrity of heritage buildings in Malaysia. The linkages between CVHB and FM will help to produce guidelines for conserving CVHB from the FM perspective (CVHB-FM) at the initial phase of conservation in Malaysia. The thesis adapted the Critical Realist approach in understanding the world by distinguishing the reality from factual and empirical, and recognising the social structures in the phenomenon. The research process “onion” was adapted to achieve the goal of the thesis. A Case-Study was conducted based on Malacca’s World Heritage City. A single holistic embedded approach was employed from the three levels of conservation practitioners who were strategic,...
International Journal of Education, Psychology and Counseling
The pandemic COVID-19 has transformed traditional face-to-face learning into online learning. Imp... more The pandemic COVID-19 has transformed traditional face-to-face learning into online learning. Implementation of online education is vital to stop the spread of the virus. Nevertheless, despite the advantages offered by online learning, it also presents challenges to students living in rural areas. The present study aims to explore the insight of online learning among rural students. Therefore, this study explores qualitative insight to obtain in-depth knowledge of online learning in rural areas. This study conducted an online survey with 21 students in rural areas. The qualitative content analysis produced four relevant themes of online learning: easy-to-find information, internet disruption, lack of focus, and difficult understanding. This study contributes to online learning literature in a rural area context.
Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Environment Management
Sustainability has long been discussed in many perspectives considering its importance to our liv... more Sustainability has long been discussed in many perspectives considering its importance to our lives. The practices embedded in Sustainability must consistently be done to achieve the goals that have been set in the Sustainability Development Goals (SDG) especially to fight a climate change and to create the sustainable cities and communities. To practise sustainability successfully, people should be aware and have a better understanding of sustainability issues and practices. Thus, this paper intends to look at the trends and issues in the awareness and perception towards sustainability. A conceptual paper in nature, this study reviewed past research works which included the perception and awareness of sustainability. This paper gathered study patterns and accessed the findings from multiple previous studies. Based on the findings, the awareness of sustainability was found to sustainability principles among the society. Education is recognised to have played a significant role of in...
Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development, 2019
The aims of study to examine the relationship between job demands, job resources and job stress a... more The aims of study to examine the relationship between job demands, job resources and job stress among staff in nursing home. The data collected from staffs that work in Malaysian private nursing home including nurses, medical attendance and caregivers. The data has been analyzed through descriptive statistic, correlation analysis and linear regression. The results revealed that there is a negative relationship between job resources and job stress and there is a positive relationship between job demand and job stress. Increase in job demands will affect employees’ mental and physical and it leads to health problems as well as exhaustion of energy. In contrast, job resources foster employee engagement and extra-role performance.
Since the world was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis that began in December 2019, many industr... more Since the world was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis that began in December 2019, many industries have been affected, including the franchise industry in Malaysia. Thus, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a great impact on business survival. Direct effects can be seen in reduced income, job losses, changes in customer preferences, and business relationships between franchisors and franchisees. Some franchises have had to close their operations, and others still struggled to survive during the pandemic crisis. In addressing this situation, the role of government is crucial in supporting the resilience of these franchisor entrepreneurs in an increasingly worrisome situation around the world. However, the existing literature that focuses on the role of government in developing countries such as Malaysia is still poorly understood. In addition, a study of the Malaysian franchising industry during the pandemic crisis is still inadequate, especially concerning the government’s role in the s...
This paper aims to develop a Staff Development Framework in Nursing Homes (SDF- NH) to improve st... more This paper aims to develop a Staff Development Framework in Nursing Homes (SDF- NH) to improve staff and organisational effectiveness in Nursing Homes in Malaysia. Expert Interviews with five Nursing Homes were conducted via purposive sampling and analysed by Content Analysis. The results indicates that the SDF-NH integrates: (a) people, which are qualified staff, and development of attitude, skills, knowledge (ASK) and performance for the effectiveness of service delivery; (b) programme; which include training and motivation programme, practical courses, and job rotation as the practices; (c) process, is the strategy of continuous improvement of people and programme in the Nursing Home; (d) funds, are the government financial supports to assist the NHs; and; (e) rewards, are one of the incentives to retain staff services.
There is an alarming concern among educators and parents about children who cannot read but more ... more There is an alarming concern among educators and parents about children who cannot read but more seriously about those who can read but do not have the motivation to read. The study investigated 245 undergraduates’ level of reading motivation and their reading strategies use when they read academic texts. This study aims at finding the connection between reading motivation and reading strategy, to discover the differences between male and female students’ reading motivation and reading strategy and the relationship between variables such as program of study and family’s income. The results showed that the undergraduates’ reading motivation was of moderate level and they mostly use the cognitive reading strategy instead of the metacognitive reading strategy. There seemed to be a connection between the undergraduates’ reading motivation and the reading strategy used. The results indicated that their motivation to read had an influence on the use of the reading strategy. Though female ...
Inflation is one of the most substantial elements in the analysis of a country’s economy. It desc... more Inflation is one of the most substantial elements in the analysis of a country’s economy. It describes the general increment of the price of goods and services in a country. The interaction between inflation and economic growth are closely related. A high inflation rate would bring a negative impact on a country. Economists agreed that price stability is a prerequisite for a country’s rapid growth and important for a balanced development mechanism. Great economic decision can be made with a good forecasting values associated with low forecast errors. This research aimed to identify the best model in forecasting inflation using the Consumer Price Index (CPI) data as an indicator of inflation. Three models were considered based on univariate and multivariate time series. Models based on the fixed parameter and the time-varying parameter were also considered. The best model chosen is based on out-of-sample forecasting framework starting from January 2009 until December 2012, while the ...
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