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The latest issues on authorizing the dividend policy, if they do not pay cash dividends to the shareholders, companies were bound to the risk being punished. It is not only a dividend policy on profits that warrants attention. Some listed companies with huge cash piles are also stingy in distributing them. The existence of MCCG 2017 hints dividend policy ignorance is a silent problem that should not be ignored by the board as it is part of the governance of the organization. Therefore, cor...

Customer perspectives on CSR were always seen to be ignored by Companies when deciding the practices and activities to be conducted. Eventhough there are increasing number of study pertaining to CSR, it usually focus on the reporting issues and the concern of shareholders. In this study, the objective include 1) To identify the consumer’s satisfaction level in CSR 2) To examine the relationship between CSR practices (economic, legal, ethical and philanthropic) and customer satisfaction.3) ...

The lack of awareness on the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Malaysian Public Listed Companies (PLCs) and the pressure by the shareholder towards CSR are becoming growing concern. The dilemma of some companies which are focussed solely on the shareholder profit maximization lead to the failure of enhancement on the business activities and performance in a long run. There is an urgency to identify, on the shareholder’s involvements for the purpose to evaluate the pressure put by th...

Ethical issue is arising nowadays despite of many efforts to prevent unethical conducts. Even though guidelines and policies are presented, ethical issues keep on arising. The numbers of cases have been increasing from year to year and what makes it more upsetting is that most of the convicted individuals are consist of young people. The integrity of the youth has been faded away and it is really worrisome. Malaysia needs to have adequate people with ethical awareness and ethics education....

The intense and continues changes in working environment lead the companies in Malaysia to gain and conquer the competitive advantages in order to compete well with other competitors in the market and with effective utilization of Human Resource Management in the aspect of its functions, companies will able to gain the advantages not only in terms of human capital, as well as increase in performance in general including the financial performance. In additions, according to Cyert and March ...