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The excessive body fat has become one of the major health concerns in childhood populations. The energy imbalance resulting from high-energy intake and low energy expenditure of the children has been reported as contributing to the development of overweight and obese children. This study attempts to examine the relationship of parental behavior, food environment and societal influences on the prevalence of child obesity in Kuala Lumpur. Cross-sectional survey design was employ...

It is well known that, employment is an important need to the most individuals. It provides income, social connection and feeling of societal connection and self-worth. For ex-offenders, employment has a positive effect on desistance from further crime and their reintegration to the society. Rapid changes in the industrial sectors such as in the field of technology, manufacturing, marketing and information technology have contributed towards a competitive borderless world. Consequently, th...

Gender and Leadership style are one of the topics that attract many researchers from the various field of study especially in psychology and management to explore it in deeper. This dissertation presents an overview of the study on gender differences in leadership style and how employees try to accept them through masculinity and femininity perspective. Four objective have been analyzed used a Korabiks and Ayman Gender and Leadership perspective. A set of questionnaire was distributed to 3...

The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of trainee characteristics towards the effectiveness of transfer of training. The study was conducted in UiTM Shah Alam. Ultimately, this study is aiming to predict the relationship between trainee characteristics and transfer of training. Generally, according to Newstron (1984) and Wexley & Latham (1981), transfer of training can be defined as the degree which an employee who’s going to the training program effectively apply the kn...

Nowadays, People start to aware about satisfaction in their work and at the same time,most of the organization try to adapt with the modern environment that bring changingin their organization. Because of that, there is need to address the question whetheremployees are satisfied with their job even resistance to change exists. Researcher hasshort listed three (3) multidimensional view of resistance to change founded fromliterature review that may influence individual re...