In line with the advance in technology and the increasing demands for better services, the market for credit card has shown tremendous growth performance,. The genuine usage of credit card in the form of convenience has diverged to associate with overspending, irresponsibility, revolving liability and bankruptcy. This infers that the possession of credit cards has brought upon a change in consumers’ usage behaviors. Thus, this study aims to determine the academicians’ credit card usage behaviors in a private tertiary institution in Malaysia. The dependent variable is usage behavior and the independent variables that serve as attributes are personal attitude, spending and repayment patterns. Meanwhile, the moderating variable in this study is gender. Data obtained via questionnaire were keyed into Statistical Packages for Social Science (SPSS) version 22.0 to generate descriptive statistics such as the demographic profile of respondents and inferential analysis such as independent s.....

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Due to differences in opinions and goals, disagreement within the board of directors is common in corporate world. Conflicts in the boardrooms can occur not just between groups of shareholders trying to acquire controlling interest in a company, but also between executive and non-executive directors who represent different stakeholders. Reputation damaging effects model predicts that boardroom tussle events have negative influence on stock returns, whilst the concentration of ownership and control that followed after the tussles can reduce agency problem and positively influence stock returns. This research includes all the 30 events of boardroom tussles involving 10 public listed companies over the period from year 2014 to year 2017 that are announced in Bursa Malaysia website as the sample. This research applies paired-sample compare means ttest method with hypothesized mean difference value of zero to determine whether cumulative abnormal return (CAR) is significant over various eve.....

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The uncertain knowledge on level of wellbeing among older adults has attracted an increasing number of public, political and scientific attentions. Wellbeing has been described as a state of equilibrium or balance that can be affected by life events or challenges. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between socially productive activities and subjective wellbeing among rural elderly in Perak. A descriptive research methodology was adopted for this research. A broad range of productive factors (such as voluntarism and paid work) and measures of wellbeing (such as self-rated health and life satisfaction) shall be analysing in t-test and Pearson correlation analysis. Information needed are obtained sing a cross-sectional design method across rural districts in Perak. Questionnaires survey was distributed to 480 older adults age from 50 t0 75+. This paper found out that there are no significant different between paid work and self-rated health and life satisfaction,.....

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Al-Hayat Relief Foundation was established as a non-governmental organization (NGO) about seventeen years ago purposely to alleviate poverty among Nigerian Muslims. The organization claims to have adopted Islamic framework of financing. This paper assessed the economic and social impacts of the foundation on its members. It also examined the extent by which the foundation complies with the principles of Islamic economic system. Three hypotheses were designed to assess the variables and the Shariah compliance programmes of the foundation. The paper adopted a descriptive research survey method. A self-developed questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection. Descriptive analysis was used to analyze the data collected from the responses to the questionnaire. Using SPSS 2011 version package, Pearson’s correlation analysis was used for the verification of null hypotheses. The findings revealed that the foundation contributes meaningfully to the economic and social well being of.....

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During the teaching practice, assessment of pre-service teachers’ performance by the institution supervisors and school mentors are the key elements during their placement. The goal of this paper focuses on the assessment methods used nowadays to evaluate the preservice teachers during teaching practice. This article adopted the narrative overviews’ method which also known as a unsystematic narrative review that comprehensively syntheses previously published article journal on teaching practice assessment method. From the literature that has been studied, the were two categories of assessment methods and eight type of assessment methods that can be used to evaluate pre-service teacher during teaching practice. Discussion of the strengths and limitations of each assessment methods for teaching practice during will be discussed in the final part of this paper. This article has the potential to contribute to the field of education. Specifically, this research will contribute to the as.....

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Transforming life and the environment can be a burden factor amongst teacher trainees. Some of them failed to control and to deal with these burdens. In the field of education, teacher trainees encounter various challenges in the learning process. Hence, failure to control their state of emotions, thoughts and behaviors has caused teacher trainees to face problems with high pressure and low coping ability. Various methods of counseling modules have been highlighted, but the problem of high pressure and low coping ability amongst teacher trainees still exist. Thus, with the requirements of the module of spiritual coping strategies (MSDTK) should be applied among teacher trainees. Spiritual features are believed to form human emotions, thoughts and behavior. Nonetheless, the country is still lacking with spiritual coping strategies module (MSDTK). This paper discusses the impact and the needs of the spiritual coping strategy module among teacher trainees in addressing the problems of str.....

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Learning Introductory Programming has always been challenging to computer science and information technology undergraduates and such problems, most notably comes from the lack of metacognitive awareness. Other important factors are multiple intelligences, gender, and motivation in using learning tools can also have a huge impact on learning the subject matter. A survey study was carried out with the aim to investigate the relationship among metacognitive awareness, gender and multiple intelligences towards perceived motivation of the students in learning using multimedia tools. 103 fresh undergraduates were recruited to participate in the survey. The data analysed using Pearson correlation and multiple linear regression analysis. The result showed that the correlation between metacognitive awareness and motivation in using multimedia tools was significant, positive, and moderately strong. These finding suggest that students with higher metacognitive awareness will be highly motivated i.....

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This paper depicts how a conceptual framework for teacher clinical experience and induction was formulated in a five-year research programme funded by the Malaysian Ministry of Education. The framework is an outcome of research idea conceptualization, which is meant for the development of a teacher clinical experience and induction model. It depicts specific analytical propositions that shape the key concepts associated to teacher education, which in turn illustrates how these concepts relate to each other and forms the conceptual framework. This paper also demonstrates how relevant middle range theories support the personal, professional and contextual dimensions of clinical experience in teacher education. The theorysupported framework was enriched by five evidence-based guiding principles, leading to the creation of a provisional model that can direct the administration and supervision of trainee teachers when they undertake clinical experience and induction in actual schools..

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Malaysia is targeting to becoming a develop nation by 2020. However, income disparity between the developed and less developed states in Malaysia has persisted for more than 50 years without any sign of narrowing the gap in the future. Despite the various Malaysia Development Plans for the past several decades, regional disparity between states remains. Thus, the objective of the present paper is to address the question whether the less developed states, namely; Kedah, Kelantan, Pahang, Perlis, Sabah, Sarawak and Terengganu are catching-up with the more richer state of Selangor. Using annual data for the period 1970 to 2013, by employing the error-correction model our results suggests that there is cointegration and thus, imply convergence between less developed states and Selangor. Our catch-up analyses suggest that there is narrowing of disparity between Selangor and the less developed states. In this respect, the state government has an important role to play in enhancing growth by .....

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The main objective of this study is to examine the relationship between performance based pay management (i.e., communication and participation) and procedural justice. A survey methods were used to collect selfreport survey of employees in currier service company. The SmartPLS path model analysis revealed two main findings: first, communication was significantly correlated with procedural justice. Second, participation was significantly correlated with procedural justice. These findings demonstrate that the ability of managers to properly implement performance based pay management may invoke feelings of procedural justice among employees in the organization. This study provides three important implications: first, this study may serve great potential for understanding the effect of communication and, participation in strengthening perception of procedural justice among employees in the organization. Second, the survey questionnaire used in this study had satisfactorily met the standar.....

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