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The impact of economic literacy on organizational performance

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This study investigates the influence of lecturers_ economic literacy on their organizational performance either directly or indirectly via commitment, teamwork, knowledge/skills and attitude. The basic theoretical framework consists of lecturers_ economic literacy as independent variable and lecturers_ organizational performance as dependent variable while knowledge/skills, teamwork, attitude and commitment as intervening variables. Five main hypotheses and fifteen specific hypotheses were posited and tested. The study was based on a survey design and the time horizon was cross sectional with minimal researcher_s interference. The survey was carried out in 4 educational departments selected randomly from 7 clustered polytechnics out of 21 polytechnics in Malaysia. The final number of participants for this study was 28 departments. The sample size comprise of 200 respondents of the total population. The research hypotheses represented a conceptual model of performance. The model hypoth.....

Article Published 2012 59 hits Available

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Takaful and conventional insurance in Malaysia: an overview

Fatimah Muhammad Abdul Karim

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In this paper the status of takaful and insurance in shari_ah and their operational mode were examined. To arrive at these findings and the discussions in this paper, reference was made to papers presented at various Islamic finance conferences, views and fatwas made by Islamic scholars and to some extent the sayings of Allah (S.W.T) and Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w) as carried in the Qur_an and Hadith, respectively. The basic concept of both takaful and insurance are viewed by many scholars as the same, in that the main objectives of both is that of providing protection against loss of properties and livelihood explained in Islam as `ikhtiar_. It is unanimously agreed that the differences between the two forms of insurance is the mode of operating them. While takaful is based on Shari_ah compliant principles for example paying premiums on the basis of tabarru and devoid of interest, it was identified that conventional insurance contains 3 Shari_ah non-compliant elements namely; gharar (unc.....

Article Published 2012 77 hits Available

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Stock price and energy price: a disaggregate analysis

Norasibah Abdul Jalil

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This paper investigates the impact of oil price on the stock returns of eight economic sectors namely; Construction (CON), Consumer (CSU), Finance (FIN), Industrial (IND), Plantation (PLN), Property (PRP), Services (SER), and Mining (MIN). By employing the Augmented Capital Asset Pricing Model (A-CAPM), two tests were conducted. The first tests on symmetric relationship while the second detects the presence of an asymmetric relationship. The estimated results from Test 1 documented insignificant results in all sector analyses. These findings signified that the stock returns were not exposed to oil price shocks. The estimated results of Test 2 indicated the presence of one significant result in industrial (IND) analysis. In particular, the returns of the IND sector were negatively exposed to change in oil price, and it was more significant during periods of oil price increased. In other word, the event of oil price increased significantly reduced the returns of the IND sector. Keywords.....

Article Published 2012 65 hits Available

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Perbandingan antara ragam hias gunungan pada mihrab dan mimbar di Acheh dan di Tanah Melayu

Harleny Abd Arif

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Tujuan utama kajian adalah untuk mengenalpasti perbandingan antara ragam hias gunungan pada mihrab dan mimbar di Acheh dan di Tanah Melayu. Melalui penyelidikan ini, ragam hias gunungan subjek kajian telah dilakar semula dengan aplikasi perisian Adobe Ilustrator CS3. Satu kerangka Jadual Komponen Ragam Hias Gunungan Mimbar telah diterjemahkan untuk memudahkan proses menganalisis data secara kajian perbandingan. Kerangka jadual tersebut terdiri daripada komponen motif bunga mahkota, secara bunga, dan daun yang dipaparkan lakaran visual. Dapatan kajian mendapati, motif teratai amat dominan diserlahkan pada bahagian bunga mahkota gunungan. Justifikasi daripada kajian ini diharapkan dapat melestarikan seni ukiran dalam usaha memperkaya khazanah budaya di Alam Melayu. Selain menyumbang kepada perkembangan bahan dan kandungan dalam konteks ragam hias, kajian ini sesuai dijadikan rujukan oleh pengkaji budaya yang berhasrat untuk menjalankan penyelidikan dalam bidang ini. Maklumat yang diperol.....

Thesis Published 2014 90 hits Available

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Kesan penggunaan Model Pentaksiran Prestasi (Model ForPS) dalam pengajaran dan pembelajaran sains

Eftah Moh @ Haji Abdullah

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Kajian ini bertujuan mengukur kesan Model Pentaksiran Prestasi Bagi Pengukuhan Pengajaran Sains (ForPS) bagi topik "Matter" dalarn kalangan pelajar tingkatan satu. Keberkesanan model telah diukur dengan menggunakan Ujian Pemaharnan Konsep Sains, Ujian Sikap Terhadap Pengajaran dan Pembelajaran Sains dan Ujian Kemahiran Proses Sains Bersepadu. Kajian ini menggunakan kaedah Kuasai Eksperimen dengan reka bentuk Kumpulan Kawalan Tidak Serupa melibatkan Ujian Pra dan Pos bagi Kumpulan Eksperimen (Model ForPS) dan Kumpulan Kawalan, manakala temu bual dan pemerhatian pula hanya digunakan di peringkat akhir kajian bagi menilai tahap kemahiran menyiasat empat orang pelajar yang dipilih secara persampelan bertujuan. Seramai 136 orang pelajar tingkatan satu telah dipilih secara rawak dari empat buah sekolah Menengah Harian dalarn Daerah Kinta Utara di negeri Perak. Model ForPS terdiri daripada empat peringkat utama iaitu Fasa 1: Dorongan, Fasa 2: Penemuan, Penerokaan dan Kreativiti, Fasa 3: Cadan.....

Thesis Published 2011 93 hits Available

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Principals’ leadership styles, students’ motivation and academic achievement in Malaysian secondary schools

Norlia Mat Norwani

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Principals_ management and leadership were perceived as the main factors to ensure school effectiveness and had significant impact on students, not directly but indirectly. The purpose of this study was to assess relationship between leadership styles of principals_ and students_ motivation levels with academic achievements of students in secondary schools in the Serian district of Sarawak. A questionnaire that contained 41 items was used to collect data from 302 samples. The descriptive findings of the study showed that 48.4% of the samples lived in families consisting of six and more family members and 81.8% of the families had an average monthly income of less than RM1,000 which was within the national rural poverty level. Analyses conducted showed that the principals favored transactional and transformational leaderships with means of 17.93 and 17.82 respectively. The Pearson Correlation analyses showed there were significant relationships between principals_ leadership styles and .....

Article Published 2012 90 hits Available

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Teaching higher order thinking skills in medical assistant education : An evaluation of curriculum management and development

Elengovan Varutharaju

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This case study research aims at giving a description of whether the written curriculum and the operational curriculum provides scope and opportunity for the development of higher order thinking skills among students enrolled in Medical Assistant Training Program. The study proceeds with an evaluation of curriculum coherence between the written and operational curriculum on the infusion of higher order thinking skills by using Stake Countenance Model. The nature of problem evolves around the inability of fresh graduates to function in real life situations that leads to questioning the effectiveness of the training model which presents a gap between the learnt and written curriculum. The study explores the curriculum's content for the infusion of higher order thinking skills, whilst lecturers' understanding, planning and delivery of higher order thinking skills is done through interview, content analysis of the instructional plan and observation of classroo.....

Thesis Published 2009 93 hits Available

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Optimal monetary policy and the external variables: evidence from ASEAN-3

Pei, Tha Gan

Article Published 2012 66 hits Available

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Learning through traumatic life events in leadership development

Khuan, Wai Bing

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In Malaysia_s life long learning effort and policy to help working adults, a leadership development program was designed to help beginning and incumbent headteachers upgrade their knowledge and skills. While accomplishing this program in Sultan Idris Education University, many of the adult learners encountered critical incidents of life and death that could make or break their spirit and learning ability. The main purpose of this study was aimed at exploring the critical incidents of life and death that shape headteachers_ learning abilities in completing the first degree of management education. A critical incidents research paradigm was used. The data used in this exploration was collected mainly through self-reflective assignment and in-depth interviews from headteachers who had rose above life situations such as difficult child birth, battling cancer, Parkinson disease, accidents, kidnapping and other critical incidents while being adult learners. The research result yielded severa.....

Article Published 2012 68 hits Available

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Islamic stock market and macroeconomic variables: a comparison analysis

Mohd Yahya Mohd Hussin

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This research will focus on the relationship between the development of stock market and macroeconomic variables in Malaysia. Generally, the purpose of this research is to observe this relationship in the Malaysian context. In order to achieve the objective, Vector Auto Regression (VAR) estimation method was applied on the created research model. The variables involved in this research were the FBM Emas Shariah index (FBMES) used as proxy for Islamic stock market, FBM Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (FBMKLCI) used as proxy for conventional stock market, Industrial Production Index (IPI), Consumer Production Index (CPI), Aggregate Money Supply (M3), Islamic Inter Bank Rate (IIR), Treasury Bill Rate (TBR) and Exchange Rate of Malaysian Ringgit-United States Dollar. This research utilised monthly data from January 2007 to December 2011 taken from authorized sources. The findings showed that stock prices in Malaysia (Islamic and conventional) are co-integrated with the selected macroeconomic .....

Article Published 2012 68 hits Available

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