Safiah Omar

• Doctor of Philosophy in Business Management
• Professor (Associate) at University of Malaya

Evidence that career adaptability may prevent intention to leave raised a concern for researchers to identify the factors that may have the influence on the particular construct. Study on culture in organization specifically in the area of individualism-collectivism was chosen for this exploratory study in order to assess the potential influence th...

Career adaptability has been identified as one of the skills needed for individual who works in ICT industry due to fast and consistent technological upgrading. Individualism-collectivism has been studied by many researchers in cross-cultural to assess certain research constructs including work behaviours. This study assessed whether the relationsh...

Adaptability was found to be one of the important aspects for employees in order for them to survive in their career especially to those in the ICT industry. The ICT work nature involved with consistent work changes, intensive creative thinking, and advanced technological upgrading. Although organizations supposed to encourage career adaptability a...

Happiness among students has long been forgotten due to the emphasis of achievements which increase the stress level that led to drop out, unmotivated, and giving up. Motivation of the students in learning science was being emphasized in this study, while associating it with their level of happiness. This exploratory study identifies whether motiva...

PUBLIC INTEREST STATEMENT This scholarly work focuses on exploring the significance of psychological capital and work happiness for work performance among non-academic university employees. The importance of this topic lies in the fact that employees’ performance and well-being are essential for organizational success, and the role of psychological...

Purpose Guided by the conservation of resources theory, this study aims to present a comprehensive framework examining leadership, Guanxi, work-family conflict and work engagement. It specifically explores how group-level transformational leadership influences individual-level Guanxi and work-family conflict and how these factors, in turn, impact w...

Everyone is working hard to be successful in his/her career and life overall as well. However, that requires an individual to be more ethical, committed, and self-contented towards his/her expected goal. Hence, this study aims to explore the influence of Islamic work ethics (IWE) on academics' career success (ACS), besides the role of psychological...

This study examined the role of initiative climate as a resource caravan passageway in engaging employees and developing a proactive frontline service workforce to identify the mechanisms whereby scarce resources efficiently yielding the desired outcomes can help organizations improve productivity and gain competitive advantage, thereby helping cla...

Purpose: Though employee job engagement has been one of the few most proliferated organizational concepts during the last two decades, evidence on how to achieve an engaged workforce is unclear. The purpose of this study was to contribute to the engagement literature by investigating the role of interpersonal leadership in developing job engagemen...

Entrepreneurship has attracted enhanced attention in the twenty-first century. Entrepreneurial schemes vary the production and service sectors of a country's economy and lead it to increase its revenues and materialize speedy growth and development. However, the current Saudi regime has allowed enhanced social space to females, and a new social env...

The purpose of this Online Teaching and Learning Guideline is to assist academic staffs and all related stakeholders in implementing online teaching and learning effectively. The guideline has three (3) main sections: Online Teaching and Learning Design; Online Teaching and Learning Delivery; and Online Teaching and Learning Assessment. Each sectio...

The alarming rate of global climate change has greatly affected the ecosystem. Frequent flooding, extreme heat and increased wildfires are among the major environmental problems caused by extreme change in weather patterns. [n their response towards addressing this problem, leaders around the world have started adopting the 2030 Sustainable Develop...

This study aims to explore how dynamic entrepreneurship would contribute to an organisation’s innovative capabilities. Using samples from the Malaysian Light Emitting Diode (LED) manufacturing industry, this study conducted semi-structured interviews with four local companies, involving 17 respondents holding various designations and levels. Data c...

Purpose This paper aims to examine the impacts of corporate entrepreneurship, national policies and supply chain collaboration on the innovativeness of manufacturers of light emitting diode (LED) in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach The data were collected by using questionnaire survey from the manufacturers involved in the various echelon of...

The success in academics' career need to be promoted through the increasing of academicians' career adaptability (CAA). Hence, this study aims to investigate the mediating effect of career adaptability (CAA) on the relationship between psychological capital (PsyCap) and academics' career success beside the antecedent role of PsyCap for both CAA and...

The Alarming rate of global climate change has greatly affected the ecosystem. Frequent flooding, extreme heat, and increased wildfires are among the major environmental problems caused by extreme change in weather patterns.

The current study addresses the gap in how context and individual differences help in developing a proactive workforce in the hospitality industry. Based on the model of proactive motivation and self-determination theory, this study investigates the simultaneous impact of interpersonal leadership and learning goal orientation through the mediating...

While previous research has improved our knowledge of how leadership influences employee behavior, the role of potential processes and contingencies in this relationship remains relatively unexplored. In the current study, based on the Self-determination Theory (SDT), we intend to contribute to this research by investigating whether employee engage...

Most people seek success in their career due to the prominent role of career in shaping their lifestyle from the first day they started working with organization. However, some people feel unsuccessful in their career. Hence. themain purpose of this study isto investigate the mediating role of psychological capital (PsyCap) between protean career o...

Most people seek success in their career due to the prominent role of career in shaping their lifestyle from the first day they started working with organization. However, some people feel unsuccessful in their career. Hence. the main purpose of this study is to investigate the mediating role of psychological capital (PsyCap) between protean career...

Most people seek success in their career due to the prominent role of career in shaping their lifestyle from the first day they started working with organization. However, some people feel unsuccessful in their career. Hence. themain purpose of this study isto investigate the mediating role of psychological capital (PsyCap) between protean career o...

As online business opportunities continue to grow, development of entrepreneurship capabilities of women is seen as a complement to economic growth. Owing to the increasing benefits of online business, equipping women entrepreneurs and providing them with an enabling business environment is no longer seen as issues relative to human rights or socia...

Studies on intention to leave are important to distinguish between stayers and leavers in the organization. This article assesses whether career adaptability and work happiness can be the factors that may have influence on intention to leave among ICT professionals in Malaysia. Samples consist of 393 participants who work in ICT related companies a...

The existence of learning organization culture has been proven to influence growth and development of an organization. This study explores the level of learning organization culture and its associations with organizational performance, and organizational innovativeness among academics in a Public Institution of Higher Education in Malaysia (PIHE)....

The study on career commitment is important in employment retention issues. It was regarded that professional employees are committed to their profession more than the organization itself. This study evaluates the level of career commitment among 303 ICT professionals located in Peninsular Malaysia and investigates whether it has any influence on t...

The transformation of Public Institutions of Higher Education (PIHE) in Malaysia to become competitive at the international level brings up the need to improve the organizational performance level among the academicians. This comes together with the development and implementation of organizational innovativeness in the education industry. This arti...

Cultural values of individual particularly on individualism-collectivism have influence on various beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors in many countries. This study, explores the possible relationships that these cultural aspects might have on attitude and behavior within the workplace. Specifically, the constructs of positive organizational behaviou...

Study on work happiness is important in individual especially in organization settings since the positive psychology movement started in the year 2000. This study assessed several factors that can contribute to maximize the quality of work performances. It was found that the existence of positive emotions at work contributed to reducing the employe...

The existence of learning organization culture has been proven to influence growth and development of an organization. This study explores the level of learning organization culture and its associations with organizational performance, and organizational innovativeness among academics in a Public Institution of Higher Education in Malaysia (PIHE)....

The findings of the study indicate that the employees perceived the organizational climate of their organization to be at a moderate level. The mean values for the components of the organizational climate ranged from the lowest of 3.38 to the highest of 3.77 of the 5-point Likert scale. Continuance commitment appears to be the lowest of the three c...