Anees J. Ali

Universiti Sains Malaysia | USM · School of Management

Population growth is very high and is not balanced with the availability of jobs, resulting in uncontrolled poverty. Until now, unemployment is still a crucial problem for the Indonesian government. With minimal levels of education and skills, these job seekers have to compete with each other. This condition ultimately became the trigger for mass l...

Background: Workers with Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) are more likely to put in more effort and go above and beyond what is required of them. Workers who accept the company's aims and values and step up their efforts to work hard for the company's advantage, and are proud of their company, the employee's willingness to take on a role t...

In the era of the global economy, cross-border business activities are widespread, including the urbanization of citizens abroad, one of which is a member of the Pertubuhan Masyarakat Indonesia (PERMAI) on Penang Island Malaysia both as expatriates, students, entrepreneurs, and as a workforce in Malaysia which has an impact on increasing foreign ex...

The level of competency and skills possessed by an individual determines the scope of growth opportunities available to that individual both within and outside of the organization. They can advance their careers and achieve success because of it. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role that individual participation plays in competency...

The role of marketing in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has a unique characteristic compared to conventional marketing in large organizations. This research is focused on the apparel industrial entrepreneurs in the city of Bandung. This research intended to examine the impact of entrepreneurial and relationship marketing on business perf...

This study aims to determine empirical evidence of the effect of financial inclusion and financial technology (fintech) on the behavioral finance of MSMEs. This study uses a quantitative method with a positivist paradigm approach. The population of this study is all MSMEs in Indonesia. The sample used in this study is 205 respondents (MSME owners)...

Palm oil mill effluents (POME) not only abuse environment and causing harm to river and streams but also putting near by communities in danger due to severe health issues such as toxic infections, digestion disorder and skin diseases. Thereby, the present study intends to explore the organizational awareness and how it could be helpful to address t...

This study aims to explore the benefit of introducing the accounting and finance knowledge for micro and small business enterprises, in particular during the time of the coronavirus disease 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected the micro and small enterprises. A large number of industries faced the risk of lower sales, which in turn bad...

Abstrak: Perkembangan dari teknologi informasi dan komputer mengakibatkan akses informasi menjadi sangat mudah. Oleh karenanya, generasi muda yang saat ini akrab dengan penggunaan tekonologi informasi dan komputer tersebut menjadi sangat optimal menggunakannya untuk berbagai keperluan, termasuk investasi. Tujuan dari pengabdian masyarakat yang dila...

The crude oil waste such as POME is huge destruction to the surrounding community and causes greater harm unleashing several skin issues, toxic infections, and digestion disorders. The issue attracts the attention of scholars; hence, the present study attempts to build an understanding of organizational awareness and how it could solve the stated i...

Drawing upon the resource-based view and the situated learning theory, this study examined the effect of green human resource management (HRM) practices on the firm environmental innovativeness. The moderating role of organizational innovative culture on the relationship between green HRM and firm environmental innovativeness was also assessed. A s...

Change is an inevitability where currently the business world is exposed to the Covid-19 Pandemic, Industrial Revolution 4.0. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the needs of the majority of society today and how entrepreneurs can survive and expand their businesses in an era of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. Referring to the...

One of the things that has always been a problem in society and requiring special attention is drug abuse. Drugs (short for Narcotics, Psychotropic and other dangerous Addictive Substances) are materials/substances which, when entered into the human body, either physically or Oral/drink, inhaled, or injected, can change thoughts, moods or feelings,...

The purpose of implementing this community service program is to improve the ability of prospective professional accountants to communicate well. Through this effort their communication skills and professionalism can be improved. Thus, this community service program can be seen as an effort to improving the ability of millennials accountant to hone...

Malaysian graduates, both undergraduates and postgraduates are having some difficulties in getting employed upon their graduation. This issue has been a debate since many years ago especially in the Covid-19 pandemic, jobs less offered in the market for the graduates to grab. This research looks at a few less prominent factors of employability amon...

God created humankind certainly with purposes: as a noble being and caliph on earth with given uniqueness of potential and strength. Humankind is gifted with brain to think, the act of thinking is basically the act of asking, the act of asking is searching for the answers, and searching for the answers is the root of looking for the truth. If we ex...

In Indonesia, the millennial generation is the generation that dominates the population. This is a promising target market for companies or producers of personal care products. This research focuses on the attitudes of the millennial generation towards halal personal care products. The method used is quantitative research with primary data taken fr...

This study focuses on the effect of globalization on university ranking and current developments and challenges that HEIs face in the global higher education market. It provides detailed information about the origins of international ranking systems, diversification of university rankings and strategic planning of higher education institutes. Moreo...

Abstrak Saat ini banyak ibu rumah tangga memiliki bisnis sampingan yang sesuai dengan keterampilan dan hobi mereka. Adapun tujuan dari bisnis sampingan tersebut adalah untuk membantu kebutuhan keuangan rumah tangga mereka. Penelitian sebelumnya telah menunjukkan bahwa ibu rumah tangga yang juga pengusaha perempuan memiliki kontribusi yang signifik...

Social entrepreneurship is defined as activities created by an innovative social value to achieve societal needs and financial sustainability. It is a business concept that involve conducting business that does not emphasis much on profit but for the benefit of mankind. Special Social Entrepreneur @Higher Education (SSEHE) is a programme mastered b...

The growth rate of women entrepreneurs is increasing. This is the most flexible business that can be carried out by women because the main work as a wife and mother can be carried out simultaneously. Women don't need to work outside the home. But the problems that occur there are still women who are not yet entrepreneurs, some are not smoothly runn...

The aim of this socialization is to increase the usage of mobile banking and internet banking applications by micro and small entrepreneurs in the Kemayoran Night Market community. The method used through socialization is related to the benefits and ways of utilizing mobile and internet banking to micro and small entrepreneurs. Grounded along with...

The internationalization of higher education over the last two decades has transformed the education sector into a globalized, interconnected knowledge-based society. Higher education institutions and national governments have been compelled to pay more attention to academic relations and knowledge exchange opportunities with partners in other coun...

This article is discussing about experiences of conducting AFLES (ASEAN Future Leaders Summit), which started in 2013 with the collaboration between Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) and Prince of Songkla University, Thailand (PSU). AFLES is an action-packed summit meant for ASEAN youth with exciting forums, discussions, lectures, team-work, outdoor...

Globalization has a profound impact on the higher education institutions to build graduates capable to work and compete in the fourth industrial revolution. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region is no exception to this movement. The students graduated from overseas gain a global exposure through intercultural competencies in the...

Purpose The present study aimed to examine how four dimensions of EI influenced organizational commitment and job performance among employees, particularly in pharmaceutical industry. Design/methodology/approach A total of 235 participants involved from the pharmaceutical companies in Punjab, Pakistan. SPSS for Windows was used for initial stati...

Foreign students are highly concerned with food safety and food handling knowledge as they are presumably involved in perilous eating behaviors, which exposing them to the risk of foodborne diseases. The present cross-sectional study aimed to evaluate the awareness and practices regarding food safety and food handling among the foreign students of...

The digitisation is prompting education, particularly higher education at a very fast pace. Higher education institutions (HEIs) are in imperative need to implement modern technologies to stay digitally relevant and differentiate them as a digital leader. Though many universities have specific digital plans and strategies, yet implementation of the...

The digitisation is prompting education, particularly higher education at a very fast pace. Higher education institutions (HEIs) are in imperative need to implement modern technologies to stay digitally relevant and differentiate them as a digital leader. Though many universities have specific digital plans and strategies, yet implementation of the...

These foreign students are highly concerned with food safety and food handling knowledge as they are presumably involved in perilous eating behaviours, which exposes them to the risk of foodborne diseases. The present cross-sectional study aimed to evaluate the awareness and practices regarding food safety and food handling among the foreign studen...

The digitisation is prompting education, particularly higher education at a very fast pace. Higher education institutions (HEIs) are in imperative need to implement modern technologies to stay digitally relevant and differentiate them as a digital leader. Though many universities have specific digital plans and strategies, yet implementation of the...

p> Purpose – The purpose of this study to overview the trends of higher education globally, within Asia Pacific Region and specially in Pakistan. Most importantly, current study highlights the strengths and opportunities as well as weakness and threads of Pakistan’s higher education system by proposing a SWOT analysis of higher education internatio...

p>Prior research has reflected various conceptualizations of internationalization in higher education and offered various perspectives on its activities and practices which in result have produced different pragmatic outcomes. In the 21st century, higher education institutions (HEIs) are progressively mobile as well as globally competitive and in r...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships between work values (cognitive, instrumental, social, and prestige), communication satisfaction (informational and relational), and employee job performance (task and contextual) in the context of international joint ventures (IJVs) in Iran. Design/methodology/approach – Validated...

The aim of the study is to examine the effect of the readjustment of repatriate children on their home country. There are many antecedents that are related to repatriate children's readjustment. However, individual-related factors specific to the repatriate children are the main focus of the present study. For repatriate children, we found that sat...

This study examines the relationship between NGOs’ socio-economic and training programmes and their beneficiaries’ coping capacity during natural disaster. The global climate change has unequivocally turned Bangladesh into the most vulnerable country in Asia. NGOs are the most active force supporting community welfare programmes dealing with the vu...

This study examines the relationship between NGO programmes and their clients’ educational development. NGOs play a very significant role with a view to achieving their development goal. Developing countries consider education as the key aspect for their socio-economic development. The study focuses on this perspective and asks the relationship bet...

Although microcredit is considered the main vehicle for increasing the income of the poor and alleviating poverty in Bangladesh, it is now well recognised that more than this is needed to reach the ultra poor in rural areas. Consequently, almost half of the Bangladesh population is in some way linked to non-governmental organizations' development p...

Interracial issues are critical to sustain a harmonious interethnic relationship among diversified ethnic population especially in the South East Asian region. Interethnic conflicts, difficulties, anxiety and uncertainties occurred due to people's lack of awareness or insensitivity to the cultural clues of different cultural frame of references (va...

Education is a key aspect for the socio-economic development of developing countries; in one view, the other view regards education per se as valuable because education is human right. The study focuses on the former perspective and examined the relationship between NGOs" training programmes as measured by the Kirkpatrick"s training evaluation mode...

The issues of research required in the field of bio medical engineering and externally-powered prostheses are attracting attention of regulatory bodies and the common people in various parts of the globe. Today, 90 percent of prostheses used are conventional body powered cable-controlled ones which are very uncomfortable to the amputees as fairly l...

Intercultural conflict is stipulated due to unwillingness to compromise or the different ways of life orientation. Unawareness to the different cultural cues or frame of references caused resistance, rejection or separation which jeopardizes a harmonious interethnic relationship. The present study was aim to validate a scale to determine the extent...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of six variables: strategic focus; monitoring continuous improvement development; integration of continuous improvement; management of continuous improvement; involvement/engagement and learning; and knowledge sharing, on sustainability of continuous improvement capabilities in the c...

The main purpose of the article is to increase understanding in evidence the multiplicative effects of personality dimensions on creativity. Using five-factor inventory (NEO-FFI) as input model of individuals� creativity, the authors identified that among personality dimensions are synergistically related to creative performance. Among a sample of...

Communication cues play an important role in the development of satisfaction within an organization.Communication in most of the related studies has been considered as a one-dimensional construct, while thepresent study specifically proposed formal and informal communication as predictors of communicationsatisfaction. Furthermore, although literatu...

This study was carried out to examine the relationship between resistance to change among the first-line managers and first line managers’ competence, perceived cost and benefits of the change, and the level of involvement in change. Attempts were also made to determine the influence of demographic factors (i.e. age, marital status, gender and educ...

The rapid growth of radio broadcasting business in Indonesia imposes specific challenges on the development of competitive advantage.The radio stations are applying excellent and unique elements such as speed, mobility,learning ability,and individual or team work capabilities.It is an important source of competitive strength for radio station organ...

The main purpose of the article is to increase understanding in some personal characteristics affecting creative performance among Indonesian radio station managers' leadership context. Using creativity-relevant personal characteristics and motivation as input model, the authors identified that both of these two variables are positively related to...

The present study examined the influence of family and parental work factors, personality, and attachment on the intercultural adjustment of expatriate children and adolescents (N=104). Children from families high in cohesion exhibited higher levels of adjustment than children from low cohesive families. Expatriate work satisfaction was significant...

The present study examined the relation of demands and social support, and positive and negative Work-Home (WHI) and Home-Work interference (HWI) with the subjective well-being of expatriates. Moreover, we were also interested in crossover effects of expatriate interference to the subjective well-being of their spouses. In a questionnaire study amo...

The adaptation of expatriate families to a host country seems crucial to successful fulfilment of international business assignments. The present study focused on personality, family characteristics and characteristics of expatriates’ work life as determinants of the intercultural adjustment of expatriate spouses. Among a sample of 247 expatriate s...

Summary The intercultural adaptation of expatriate spouses and children is quite a new topic. There is little research has been carried out in this field and one of the objective of the present thesis is to fill in the gap in the literature. We have developed an intercultural adaptation model for both expatriate spouses and children in order to stu...