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Since 1996, the Research and Development (R&D) sector in Malaysia has received greater policy attention than before. Despite fiscal and non-fiscal incentives provided to support the growth of this sector, the level of R&D measured in terms of R&D outputs (i.e. number of patent) is still dismal which is mirrored in the overall performance of local R&D companies. Many studies have investigated factor which influence the performance of organizations. The present study attempts...

This research examined how employees in Malaysian GLCs perceived employee involvement, as well as their attitude towards organizational change. In addition, the relationship between employee involvement, psychological empowerment, and attitude towards organizational change was also examined. A mediation model was derived to further test whether psychological empowerment mediated the relationship between employee involvement and attitude towards organizational change. A convenience sample o...

In a competitive world, higher education institution must move at the right pace in response to the fast changing global higher education landscape. one important concept of the rtheory for this study is that transformational leadership. One important concept of the theory for this study is that transformational leaders can be developed. A large body of research related to leadership effectiveness and successin planning emphasised the importance of leadership development. This explores the...

The Malaysian government system is divided into three levels, namely the federal government, the state governments and the local governments. The local government is deem the closest to the people. In recent decades, there is a worldwide decline of the trust for the governments by the citizens. However, the level of trust by citizen is different across the three levels of government which are the federal government, the state governments and the local governments. In additio...

Drug treatment and rehabilitation programmes are one of the strategies of the government to combat drug addiction problems particularly in Malaysia. The fast changing trend of addiction in terms of multidrug user, various evidence-based treatment, and rehabilitation implemented in drug treatment centre has raised the issues of the effectiveness of the programmes. This study was designed to examine the effectiveness of the implementation of drug treatment and rehabilitation pr...