Zainudin Awang

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• B.Sc (Stats), M.Sc(Stats), PhD (Marketing)
• Professor at Sultan Zainal Abidin University

Supposed we are working with the following model (Figure 1). In this model, supposed the researcher is interested to carry out the following analysis: 1) To determine whether Job Attitude mediates the relationship between Skills & Training and Career Advancement. 2) To measure the effect size for every single path in the model 3) To measure the med...

Solid waste management success progressively relies on leaders' dedication to trash diversity, collection, transportation, treatment, and disposal. Environmental pollution has been studied as a predictor of SWM, and most research has found a positive link. Nevertheless, most studies did not conduct initial assessments to develop useful measurement...

COVID-19 forces the educational sector to be implemented via online. However, students faced problems to have a good platform for their online learning. Facebook is one of the platforms used for informal learning. Numerous studies have explored the features in the Facebook learning environment but lacked studies on the correlation between the featu...

Background Graduate nurses commonly experience the transition phase and are required to adapt quickly to their new workplace, as it is a prerequisite for a successful transition. However, workplace adaptation is extremely challenging and may affect nurses’ future career prospects if not managed properly. Therefore, we aimed to determine the factors...

Knowledge is increasingly a valuable asset that transfers among nations. This trend has led to challenges in producing the best graduates and competition among organizations to retain these talents. These global trends require skilled and highly productive employees. The Malaysian education sector is no exception to these changes, as academic funct...

The universities education in the past focused on producing human capital but today due to the changes of globalisation, they need to focus on infusing values and include training that can give advantages to the industry and society at large. Hence, this study examines the effect of self-efficacy on work engagement of academic staffs of public Univ...

Background The health care landscape is evolving rapidly due to rising costs, an aging population, and the increasing prevalence of diseases. To address these challenges, the Ministry of Health of Malaysia implemented transformation strategies such as the Casemix system and hospital information system to enhance health care quality, resource alloca...

Despite the global success of various sectors in technological innovation to achieve sustainable organizational development, less is applicable in the waste management industry. Therefore, the current research looks at the effects of technological innovation, and landfill resources on sustainable organizational development. Employed a quantitative...

Objectives This study aims to address the significant knowledge gap in the literature on the implementation of Casemix system in total hospital information systems (THIS). The research focuses on validating a quantitative instrument to assess medical doctors’ acceptance of the Casemix system in Ministry of Health (MOH) Malaysia facilities using THI...

G" field is a mature field that has been producing for 30 years from 4 platforms. 90% of the wells are on gaslift. Well integrity issues including tubing leaks are common because of corrosion on account of contaminants (CO2 60% and H2S 10 to 100 ppm) and erosion due to sand production. These problems are observed particularly in older wells, which...

BACKGROUND The health care landscape is evolving rapidly due to rising costs, an aging population, and the increasing prevalence of diseases. To address these challenges, the Ministry of Health of Malaysia implemented transformation strategies such as the Casemix system and hospital information system to enhance health care quality, resource alloca...

There are still limiting factors in achieving success in organizational development, despite various studies that have demonstrated the beneficial effects and ways of achieving OD through the assessment of strategies in various studies. To address these issues, the researchers conducted empirical studies highlighting numerous crucial measures to co...

Purpose of the Study : With exploratory factor analysis (EFA), this study aimed to create a valid and trustworthy survey instrument to gauge self-directed learning. With the ultimate goal of promoting lifelong learning skills, this research endeavors to create a foundation upon which doctoral students can build not only their dissertations but als...

Objective The transition phase is a common custom experienced by graduate nurses, who are required to adapt quickly to their new workplace as it is a prerequisite for a successful transition. However, workplace adaptation is very challenging and may affect nurses’ future career prospects if not managed properly. Therefore, this study aimed to ident...

Home is a basic human need. Every year, the government is responsible for enacting a more sustainable and inclusive housing policy to ensure the adequate provision, quality and affordable housing to meet the needs of the growing sustainable communities. The aim of the current research is to analyse affordability as a mediator in the relationship be...

Kajian ini bertujuan untuk menilai efikasi kendiri guru sebagai pengantara (mediator) dalam hubungan antara kepimpinan transformasi pengetua dan pengintegrasian ICT dalam kalangan guru sekolah menengah di negeri Sabah. Kajian kuantitatif ini melibatkan 497 responden dalam kalangan guru di negeri Sabah. Analisis menggunakan kaedah pemodelan persamaa...

The aim of this study was to explore and develop instruments for measuring technostress among primary school teachers in Malaysia. The researchers adapted 28 items from previous study and modified the statement to suit current study. Then the items statement was translated into Malay language to suit the local setting. The instruments underwent exp...

Critical reading is a crucial skill that students should acquire upon completion of higher education to obtain employment opportunities. However, their level of critical reading skills has been reported to be unsatisfactory. This study aims to address this issue by developing and validating an instrument that examines the factors that influence stu...

A long-established approach, Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) is used to validate measurement models of latent constructs. Employing CFA can be useful for assessing the validity and reliability of such models. The study adapted previous instruments and modified them to suit the current setting. The new measurement model is termed NENA-q. Explorat...

the use of total quality management practices aims to improve the organization's efficiency and competitiveness. Implementing TQM practices is fraught with challenges, especially in developing countries. It is important to improve the efficiency of organizations and workers as well as the quality of production, improve operational effectiveness, pr...

Original Research Article The tourism industry faces many challenges and competitive environments that impact tourists' behavior. Understanding these factors is crucial for Pakistan to maintain its standing as one of Asia's most attractive tourist destinations. Following the literature, destination image and perceived value can impact tourist satis...

The purpose of this study is to create and validate a tool for measuring constructs in the context of asset misappropriation among Malaysian public sector employees. The instrument was adapted from a prior study and adjusted to meet the needs of the present study. The target audience consists of public sector employees in the Malaysian Accountant G...

Industry 4.0 technologies, designed to optimize efficiencies, are indisputable change agents for sustainability. In the context of financial technology (FinTech), the burgeoning question concerns how to create FinTech natives from the COVID-19-pandemic-induced adoption and realize FinTech’s impact on sustainability? Thus, this study had the followi...

Changing work trends in the globalized environment have not only affected small and medium enterprises’ growth but also its turn into enormous challenges for small and medium enterprises. Small and medium enterprises have been categorized as one of the highest risks industry due to their unique nature, weakness, and capabilities. This paper aims to...

Workplace safety becomes a concern for most countries globally, particularly in a high-risk industry like a manufacturing organization. Thus, such organizations call for different safety leadership in the context of the organization. Therefore, this study aims to design a safety leadership to describe and provide empirical support of the relationsh...

Objective: The aim of this study is to develop and validation Malay language of family member's satisfaction with decision making (15 items) during their stay at the intensive care units.Design: A cross sectional study was conducted among 196 respondents. The self-administered FS-ICU comprises of four domains with a total of 15 items. Materials and...

The idea of Happiness at Work is drawn from psychology and economic studies. It is often considered as a synonym with ‘wellbeing’ and defined as a state characterized by a high level of life satisfaction, a high level of positive emotions, and less negative emotions. This research aims to validate the Happiness at Work scale in the Indonesian conte...

This study aims to examine the influence of supportive leadership on occupational stress, safety behaviour and safety compliance of workers working in Indah Water Konsortium Sdn. Bhd. (IWK) Malaysia. Moreover, the study intends to investigate the mediational role of occupational stress and safety behaviour. Supportive leadership negatively influenc...

In order to ensure that the Islamic bank is staying competitive, job performance plays a significant role to ensure that the organization could be successful in the future. This study was designed to investigate the effect of psychological empowerment (PE), Knowledge sharing (KS) on job performance (JP) among employees working in Islamic banking se...

Policy implementation requires the act of translating the goals and objectives of policy into actions. Policy implementation is a difficult process because how policy actors and implementers act on the policy on a large scale may decide whether it succeeds or fails. There is a growing recognition that policies do not succeed or fail on their own, b...

Effective communication skills at the workplace are acknowledged as a highly sought skill by employers among university students. However, an incongruity between employers’ expectations and students’ actual communication skills has been highlighted. An imperative subset of communication skills is oral presentation skills, which are found to be unsa...

This article examines the issues and the conceptual basis in the operationalized definition of safety knowledge. The importance of safety knowledgeemphasizes the mediation role of safety knowledge in the indirect link between safety climate and safety performance assessment in small and medium enterprises and the functional nature of content validi...

Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) is always recognized as the method of choice across research fields when involving multiple construct, observed variables and relationships. However, there are a very few studies had investigated the SEM efficiency on producing the construct correlation. Thus, the Monte Carlo simulation was conducted on two diffe...

The hospitality industry has been expanding globally, and it is a highly competitive industry. It is often regarded as one of Jordan's most important economic fields. The hotel business is service-oriented, which means that people are involved in the delivery of services. In this context, satisfied employees delivering high service job performance...

There is a great deal of evidence that method bias is really sure influences item validities, measurement error, correlation and covariance between latent constructs and thus leading the researchers to erroneous conclusion due to inflation or deflation during hypothesis testing. To remedy this, the study provides a guideline to minimize the method...

This paper offers a theoretical framework for studying the effects of financial factors, i.e. leverage, growth, bankruptcy, tax, and other variables on Takaful (Islamic insurance) demand. Data were collected from three Takaful operators and the financial reports from the Companies Commission of Malaysia (SSM), including 278 small and medium-sized e...

The value of Partial Least Squares Path Modeling (PLS-PM) in management research has now been acknowledged, although the PLS-PM was developed for a reason. First, the PLS-PM was developed as an alternative to Covariance based Structural Equation Modeling (CBSEM) when exploratory research is conducted. As far as this method concerned, many researche...

Critical reading was named a key aspiration in the Malaysian Education Blueprint (2015-2025) and is an essential skill students must acquire. However, an increased number of students was reported to demonstrate poor critical reading performance at the workplace. Thus, Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) was utilised to examine students’ beliefs criti...

In this study, an instrument for measuring system quality was examined for analyzing the acceptance of the e-learning system in higher education in Jordan. This study thereby obtained twenty-four system quality items from prior studies and different industries and these were modified according to the e-learning industry. The items were validated by...

This paper explored the reliability of an instrument to evaluate organizational performance (OP) of the SMEs sector in Jordan employing Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA). The paper used EFA and is different from other studies with regard to Total Quality Management (TQM) practice as a mediator between Entrepreneurial characteristics and OP. We appl...

This study examines the effect of financial literacy, saving attitudes, social influence, and goal clarity on the retirement planning construct. In addition, it investigates how the public demographic profile moderates these relationships. The questionnaire approach was utilized to collect data by adopting and customizing the measurement scale from...

The aim of this study is to measure the reliability and validity of the Family Satisfaction in the Intensive Care Unit (FS-ICU) Malay language version of family member's satisfaction with care (19 items) during their stay at the intensive care units. A cross sectional study was conducted among 196 respondents. The self-administered FS-ICU comprises...

To develop and authenticate the instrument for inclining the "Subliminal messages" in marketing and associated behavior among consumers is the purpose of this study. Rigorously suggested methodology in literature for instrument development was used to develop and validate the instrument. Sample size for data collection from respondents is 870 in cu...

No doubt, subliminal message has catapultic effect on consumer's mind. To understand the neuromarketing terminology with behavioural incorporation is the main purpose of this research. Numerous research Eras has departed to forming or eradicating the dilemma of subliminal messages but still contradictory among consumer's and marketers. In particula...

Employee-organization relationship is most debatable and interested phenomena of organizational behavior research stream. This study aims to investigate the influence of perceived organizational politics on organizational citizenship behavior under the lenses of social exchange theory. This study also propose that perceptions of social exchange not...

Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) includes measurement and structural model for hypothesis testing. The results yielded from structural model is unlikely to be valid if a poor loading of an indicator is selected. The impact of these erroneous result on standardized loading is disregard. Thus, knowing how poor loading can affect the validity of mea...

This study investigates consumer repurchase behavior and purchases regret in the context of a Steadily Increasing Discount (SID) strategy. A quantitative research approach based on a full-scaled administrative survey is adopted in the framework of the regret theory. Mall intercept technique is used to collect the cross-sectional data from responden...

The sustainability of organizations is increasingly reliant on the involvement, loyalty, and, more importantly, the commitment of their employees. Organizational commitment (OC) is extensively studied in management literature as a predictor of employees’ job performance (JP). Several studies discovered a positive correlation between OC and JP among...

Purpose Knowledge hoarding is an emerging issue among multiracial employees engaged in public sector higher educational institutes (HEIs) of Islamabad, Pakistan. By considering knowledge-sharing barriers, this study aims to examine the knowledge sharing behavior (KSB) of ethnically diverse public sector staff in perspective of well-known theory of...

The aim of this study is to develop a scale for assessing the policy implementation performance of public primary school leaders in Malaysia. The “Implementation Leadership Scale (ILS)” by Aarons, Ehrhart and Farahnak (2014) and part of the “Teacher’s Competency Scale” by Ghafar (2015) were adapted and customised to suit the context of the study in...

Purpose of the study: Quality of work life (QWL) is vital for all establishments to continue to hire and retain highperformance workers. However, from the review of previous literature on QWL, little is known about the dimensions that constitute high QWL among academics. Therefore, this study aimed at contributing to the literature by conducting a...

Purpose The rationale for the postgraduate supervision measures for higher education by the call for universities to adopt a systematic practice in postgraduate supervision through new supervisors' exposure to creative ways of monitoring. This paper aims at understanding, improving and validating the content of behavioral supervision measures using...

Purpose: This study intends to determine the importance of Supportive Leadership in the sewerage operation industry since the nature of work itself, together with workload and pressure, has resulted in severe occupational stress among the workers; consequently, it would translate into poor work commitment. Methodology: The random sample was obtaine...

Purpose of the study: The objective of this study is to examine the mediation effect of ESC on the relationship between climate constructs and intention to Safety in small and medium enterprises. Methodology: A structured self-administrative questionnaire was distributed to the employee of the small-medium enterprise in Peninsular Malaysia using si...

Purpose of the study: The main objective of this study was to examine the effect of climate emergence (i.e., work ownership, Islamic work ethic, and employee safety climate) on the intention of safety behavior. Methodology: The research framework was developed based on the Theory of Planned Behavior and Social Exchange Theory. Stratified random sam...

Purpose: This study intends to highlight the importance of Employee Commitment as a bridge between Transformational Leadership and Employee Performance in the construction companies. Methodology: The respondents were selected randomly from the list of construction workers registered with the construction firms in Jordan. The selected respondents we...

Purpose of the study: This study aims to develop and validate the instruments measuring financial Literacy construct. Methodology: The pilot study randomly sampled some 100 school-teachers using a self-administered questionnaire. The Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) procedure has explored the usefulness of measuring items and determined the dimens...

Purpose Taking higher educational institutes (HEIs) operating in Islamabad metropolitan, and Pakistan as research context, the purpose of this paper is to identify the antecedents of knowledge sharing behavior (KSB) and to check their causal effect in perspective of culturally diverse academic staff. In addition, the authors suggest certain policie...

Rural agripreneurships are vital in economic progress of a developing country like Bangladesh. As a result, agriculture remains the foremost sector of Bangladeshi economy and which has acted a key role in slashing poverty of Bangladesh from 82% in 1972, to 18.5% in 2010, to 13.8% in 2016, and below 9% in 2018 with over 87% of rural household's inco...

Generally, impulse buying indicates purchasing a product which was not planned in advance or purchased suddenly. Hence, the unplanned instant purchase of a product by a customer is known as impulse buying. Numerous researches have been conducted on impulse buying behavior in the western countries, but a very limited study has been done in emerging...

Employee in small manufacturing enterprise (SMEs) industry suffer high rates of industrial accident than large company as refl ected eight times more fatal accidents and 50 % of injuries more likely to occur. With the rising importance of the SMEs, ensuring high levels of safety in SMEs remains a signifi cant issue. This study was undertaken to exp...

The purpose of this paper is to propose a conceptual framework and to model the causal relationship of Transformational Leadership on Employee Commitment. A comprehensive review of the literature on Transformational Leadership and Employee Commitment was conducted to accomplish the objectives of this examination. This empirical study employed a des...

Safety climate evaluation is increasingly recognized as an important factor in the Small Medium Enterprise improvement. One of the most frequently used and rigorously validated instruments to measure safety climate is the generic safety climate questionnaire. This study presents the validation of the small manufacturing enterprise version of th...

Technology is one of the dominated factors in the current innovation era. Hence, technology application is transforming conventional business into technopreneurship or technology based business and which play a key role in the GDP of a country. Moreover, to improve small and medium-sized enterprises' (SMEs) performance, marketing strategies play a...

One of the most important factors that affect the decision-making process is the Information system (IS) in any given institution. Accordingly, IS in any institution is closely matching the heart role in a human body. The aim of this research is to perform instrument validation through Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA). The questionnaire used in th...

nternational Conference on Business and Management 2019 (ICBM2019) with the theme of "Reforming Business Management Towards IR 4.0". The conference aims to bring together leading academicians, researchers, scholars and students to exchange and share their experiences and researches on all aspects of business and globalization. It provides a premier...

This research provides a framework to examine the mediating effects of student satisfaction on the relationship between organisational image, service quality and students' loyalty in higher education institutions in Kano State, Nigeria. The study set to utilised students from public higher Institution in Nigeria as unit of analysis where questionna...

In Malaysian, the education sector has become very significant in transforming Malaysia into a high-income country. Therefore, the emphasis on the higher institutions has increased while the jobs of academics have become increasingly demanding and challenging. The jobs of Malaysian academics are increasingly challenging because of the requirement o...