Sabarudin Zakaria

Multimedia University | mmu · Faculty of Management

The education system of modern society can be understood as an institution whose functions include its capacity to reproduce its host society, both economically and culturally [1]. Higher institution of learning is no more seen as a place of mass production of graduates willingly believes that they are now ready to perform their duties. The newly d...

Increasing numbers of private universities in Malaysia has caused a great competition and expectation that forces the education providers to offer synergy and value-added services to their students. High expectation form students, financial constraint, countless job responsibilities and 'education as business' orientation adopted by private univers...

This study seeks to understand how transformational leadership affects R&D culture in Malaysian universities. Purposive sampling was used and 128 questionnaire surveys were collected from six Malaysian universities that are ranked in the 200 Asian Universities in year 2009 by the QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd. Overall findings show that transformatio...

The dynamism in the environment in which banks operate in has prompted many banks to implement transformation programs towards change in moving from product-centric to a customercentric policies complemented by other business models. However, such response to a change initiative may not always end positively. The objective of this study is to highl...

In order to achieve students of top quality consistent with industry requirement, higher learning institutions are expected to create an increased interest in quality learning environment, especially in teaching. The goal of teaching is to improve students' learning by maximizing opportunities for learning and understanding in every lesson apart fr...

Human resource refers to the stock of productive skills and technical knowledge embodied in labor. It is tangible in nature. Many early economic theories refer to it simply as labor, one of the three factors of production, and consider it to be a fungible resource --homogeneous and easily interchangeable. The goal of human resource management is to...

As students in the private higher institutions of learning (HILs) become more discerning about the quality learning environment, especially in teaching, the HILs are striving to create a learning environment that can produce graduates of top quality. Apart from the teaching process itself, the goal of teaching is to improve students' learning by ma...

This study aims to understand consumer preference relating to the fast food in Malaysian market. Moreover, this paper seeks to investigate the trend and pattern of fast food consumption and the importance of various factors affecting the choice of fast food among Malaysian consumers. Findings suggest that expenditure for fast food mostly goes to fr...

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of age and tenure upon organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and organizational commitment (OC) in the context of higher learning institution in Malaysia. A survey method has been carried out to collect the data by using self - administered questionnaire to the academic staffs of a public un...

Outcome-based education (OBE) is seen as means of measuring the students’ achievements on one hand and the lecturers’ accountability on the other. This paper examines issues important for the understanding of and challenges in implementing OBE. It addresses a range of issues related to the meaning of the term “outcome-based education”. It defines k...

There is an increasing demand by both internal and external factors for organizational leadership to respond to challenges that call for change. The dynamism in the environment in which banks operate in has prompted many banks to implement its transformation program. However, such response to a change initiative may not always end positively. The o...

In current competitive business world, it is visible that education should be fundamentally beneficial to both students and their educators. However, in order to achieve degrees of top quality which is consistent with industry requirement, higher institutions are required to have an increase interest in creating a conducive learning environment. Co...