Abdullah Osman

• Professor (Associate) at Abu Dhabi University

This study investigated personality factors as predictors of workplace deviance behavior among civil servants in Pekanbaru, Indonesia. Using cross-sectional survey method, data were conducted to 263 civil servants from various departments and Agencies in Pekanbaru by using questionnaires. The instrument for data collection includes the Big Five Inv...

This study investigated the interaction effect between openness to experience (one of the personality traits) and perception of organizational politics on workplace deviant behaviour. This research was conducted by collecting 263 responses from the civil servants in Pekanbaru, Riau. Applying the latest PLS 3.0 analysis tools the results of this res...

The purpose of this study is to investigate empirically the influence of personality traits to workplace deviant behavior among civil servants in Pekanbaru, Indonesia. Using cross-sectional survey method and stratified proportionate random sampling data were conducted to 263 civil servants from various departments and Agencies in Pekanbaru by using...

Internet shopping is a phenomena that is growing rapidly nowadays. A peep into the exponential growth of the main players in this industry indicates there is still a large reservoir of market potential for e-commerce. The conveniency of online shopping rendering it an emerging trend among consumers, especially the Gen Y. The prevalence of online sh...

This study aimed to identify factors on youth for intention to buy online shopping in Malaysian Public University. The factors were attitude, subjective norm and website usability. The present study also attempted to explore whether consumer prefer the online retailer of attitude, subjective norm also the website design can influence them or not. I...

The study of SMEs and E-commerce is acquiring much attention from academicians and practitioners as SMEs play a vital role in generating vast amount of nation's revenue at present day. Therefore, the contribution of SMEs to economic development in spite of their scarce resources needs intense and passionate study so as to examine the factors which...

This paper investigates the individual factors in the organization that influence the organizational performance of Secondary School teachers in Northern State of Malaysia. With the work influence, sense of community and individual spirituality as independent variables, this paper examines how these factors influence the organizational performance...

Many researchers have found that there are intention to quit among professional employees in Malaysia due to the salary they obtained since 1990's as there are great changes in economic status and social lives that made the citizens become choosy when comes to search jobs. This study aimed to identify factors that determine financial institution of...

Young consumers spend most of their time online in comparison to the working adults due to their great potential of buying power as well finding that online shopping is more convenient. The objective of this study is to investigate factors determining online purchase intention among the university students whereby variables such as attitude, subjec...

The aim of this study is to describe the proliferation of knowledge-based workers in the high-tech industries in Malaysia. A total of 1,000 firms representing production and manufacturing sectors of the country's knowledge-based economy were selected from the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturer's list by using the stratified random sampling techni...

The Fisheries Act 1985 is the current legislation regulating the fishing industry in Malaysia. However in terms of occupational safety and health at the workplace, the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act 1994 are applicable to all the fishing operations in Malaysia. The activities of fishing on vessels are exposed to lots of hazards due to uns...

Electronic commerce (E-commerce) which is a practice of buying, selling, transferring, or exchanging goods, information or service by means of internet has established in 1994 and until now hordes of organizations have exploited the internet to handle the information and fit in e-commerce into their business processes. This study analyses the relat...

Volunteerism is as old as human civilization itself and it exists in various forms and dimensions. Volunteering intention is gaining attention among the university students. The aim of this research is to study the key drivers of volunteering intention among undergraduate students in Malaysia. Several factors such as perceived behavioural control,...

The aim of this study was to identify the impact of transformational leadership in administrative creativity in industrial companies (Mining and Extraction). To find out these aims, a total number of 176 of employees who were of high and central management levels of industrial companies (Mining and Extraction) took part in this research. For the sa...

Electronic commerce is gaining attention among the university students. The aim of this research is to study the key drivers of online shopping intention among undergraduate students in Malaysia. Several factors such as perceived convenience, website attractiveness, perceived riskiness and initial trust were analyzed. The number of respondents cons...

This study analyzes the relationship between the green purchasing behaviours, product quality and financial performance of plastic industry. A company’s green purchasing behaviours can be measured by four independence variables; i) identified as environmental concern, ii) environmental attitudes, iii) social influence and iv) company image. A produ...

This study aimed to identify the impact of transformational leadership in administrative creativity in industrial companies (Mining and Extraction). to achieve the objectives of the study, a questionnaire was designed to collect data and distribute it to Staff Through the poll Views a simple random sample of (176) of Staff in managerial levels: Sup...

In this globalization era, the Internet has become an important tool for web browsing, social networking and even making online purchases. In Malaysia, few studies have examined the influence of perceived usefulness and trust on the online shopping behavior of consumers. Thus, the current study intends to investigate whether perceived usefulness an...

This paperaimed toexamine the strategic planning of human resources (HR)in the Government Ministry in the Kingdom of Jordan. It investigated the factors that affect strategic planning in Jordanian ministries. The study population, which consisted of employees in the HR departments in 23 Jordanian ministries, comprised 166respondents. To achieve the...