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Over the years, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has increasingly received its attention. However, in a past practice of many organisations, the focus with regard to CSR had always been closely linked toward the external CSR. Previous literature reviews also revealed that most researchers have focused on external CSR aspects resulting in less attention being focused on the concept of internal CSR. Currently, Malaysia has faced many human resources issues such as high turnover, job dis...

The fall of Enron, WorldCom and recent fraud scandal of Toshiba and Wells Fargo scams has shaken public confidence toward corporation. In Malaysia, similar cases take place in local corporations such as PKFS, Perwaja steel and fraud scandal in Bank Rakyat which received public crowd attention. It is seen that there is no endless end for fraud issues. Corporate fraud and misconducts remains a constant risk that posing serious threat to the corporation and the country as a whol...

This study examines the association between directors’ remuneration, board independence, directors’ educational level and firm performance of 100 Malaysian listed family firms. Data has been collected through annual reports in Bursa Malaysia’s database from 2013 till 2015 with a total sample data of 300. The results indicated that the performances of family-owned companies' were influenced by the implementation of corporate governance in their management processes. Hence, the result...

In Malaysia, the number of women directors on corporate boards has slowly growing and improved. The ‘30% Club’ introduced by Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak, the Prime Minister of Malaysia, is an initiative to increase the presence of women directors on the corporate boards. However, this aspiration is still far away to be achieved. As the growing numbers of literature acknowledged the importance of women directors in enhancing the company’s performance, either financially o...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a buzzword in the recent business literature. There is a lot of studies have been done to identify the potential benefits offered by CSR in terms of favorable behaviors of stakeholders including customers, employees and investors as well as improving overall business performance. However, the research on the benefits of CSR in shaping favorable employee behavior is less emphasized. This research aim is to study the employee‘s percepti...