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Employability skills may implicate and reflect the employment opportunity especially among the new graduates. This study aims to compare the performance of employability skills among new business graduates in Malaysia base on stakeholder perceptions; they are the employer, academician and new graduate. Besides, is to identify if there is any significant difference between their opinions. Three sets of questionnaires were established to evaluate employability skills; they are basic, applied, interpersonal and 21st-century skills. The result revealed that stakeholders rated the performance of new graduate high and interpersonal skill is the most performed. The result also revealed that they speak in a different language in which specific skills is the most important than the others. Accordingly, recommendations and limitations highlighted in this study. Contribution/ Originality:This study contributes to the existing literature that provides practical evidence on the role of employers, academicians, and graduates in the employment opportunity. Besides, to offer the stakeholders some clear picture on current employability skills gap that links directly to the performance and sustainability of organization and country as the whole.

Over the past two centuries, labour productivity (LP) measured has long been synonymous with productivity measured in manufacturing quantitative features reflecting to its economic dominance. While manufacturing continues to be critical for economic growth, the world has evolved into a service-based economy that is more customer-focused, labourintensive, and interactive in nature. The dominance of quantitative LP measure is not comprehensive enough to capture soft service factors in the service industry, as it is not solely concerned with quantity but relies heavily on labour quality. Unfortunately, the qualitative LP measure is still under-researched. Therefore, this paper aims at developing measurement scales for a conceptual model of qualitative LP measurement (QLPM) and its strategic outcomes. To validate the model, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were performed. This paper offers the authenticity of qualitative LP, which shifts away from the dependency on quantitative LP measure into a more comprehensive measurement that captured the importance of qualitative factors of LP in the service industry.

This paper aims to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labour market in ten ASEAN countries, namely Brunei, Lao PDR Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Myanmar, Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand. A flu virus first detected in China later affected neighbouring Southeast Asian countries. Although the pandemic has varying implications and at varying levels, it has a negative impact on the ASEAN economies. The labour market is affected as economic activities came to a halt when ASEAN governments-imposed lockdowns or restricted movement. Job losses continue to escalate amid the pandemic, vulnerable workers such as those working in informal sectors, self-employed workers, gig workers, migrant workers, and micro, small and medium enterprises are facing a tough labour market and also at risk of losing livelihood due to lockdown. Post-COVID-19, ASEAN region sees the need for collective action to build the economy, leveraging on technology and digital trade. The pandemic may reshape ASEAN’s digital landscape in the labour market especially on the way work is done in the future.

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